By: Wes Thomas, Vice President of Winthrop University College Republicans
Many Americans watched the State of the Union address President Joe Biden delivered on March 1 to the sound of crickets and his own voice; the least-watched of any president’s first State of the Union address in no less than 30 years, according to a New York Post article.
Americans did not watch, Republicans did not attend, and the Democrats who attended could only be pitied as they showed off their rehearsed applause and chants, acting more like attendees to a football game than American politicians.
If you did not watch the State of the Union, you missed out on a lot, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “Applause Line” Pop n’ Lock and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Missed My Cue” Mambo, as well as the most incoherent series of sentences ever to be connected: a speech so beyond parody that it could only come from a mind unable to tell left from right.
Anyone who watched the State of the Union surely became dizzy as Biden performed a FitnessGram PACER test between the moderate right and far left.
“Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay an additional penny in new taxes. Nobody,” Biden said immediately after condemning the tax cuts of the Trump administration and immediately before declaring that he will, in fact, raise taxes, specifically on “corporations” and “the wealthiest Americans.”
“By the end of this year, the deficit will be down to less than half what it was before I took office,” Biden brazenly said before listing his myriad of costly policies, and especially the so-called Build Back Better plan, which is estimated to cost up to or over $5 trillion over 10 years, adding no less than $3 trillion to the deficit.
Without cutting costs, this money does not and cannot exist, especially with inflation on the rise, according to reporter Eric Boehm. But Biden will end inflation by simply instructing businesses to stop inflating, without realizing that inflation is not a creation of the market but a reaction. His increased taxes and the implementation of a $15 national minimum wage would only drive prices up as businesses cope with the increased cost of providing their goods and services.
And let’s not forget Biden’s cries to “fund the police,” where he pretends that the last two years of radical racial politics did not occur and that he and the vice president were not complicit in it, such as when Kamala Harris promoted bail funds for violent rioters in 2020.
But the most egregious was Biden’s revisionist history regarding Ukraine, which could only be a deliberate lie. In early December, Texas Senator Ted Cruz warned Biden and the Democratic Party that their refusal to sanction the Nord Stream 2 oil pipeline would increase Russian aggression, but Biden would not listen.
And though he and his administration spoke with great sound and fury about sanctions and consequences, it was revealed to signify nothing in late January, when Biden all but permitted a “minor incursion,” according to an article from CNN.
Now, the presidents of both Ukraine and Finland have explicitly blamed Biden for the current conflict, and yet he has the gall to suggest that he has built a strong global coalition to prepare for this moment, when he has done nothing of the sort.
However, he has built a global coalition. All the world is now together in believing that the state of the union is weak: a consensus that American leadership is inept and incapable of wielding the power they possess, and, in barely a year, have created a world safe for tyranny. Whether it be the failures in Afghanistan or Ukraine, Biden has revealed his Midas touch of rot and despair for all to see.
The State of the Biden administration is weak, and Americans know it, which is why he has one of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded, rivaling Trump’s approval after Jan. 6. But he is right to say that we will be stronger next year because by then, there will be a Republican Congress to prevent even more disastrous policies from befalling the American people.
