Mar032022

Episode 498 – The Bologna is Going to Fly Tonight

The State of the Union is happening tonight and, coincidently, a miracle has happened.

And let’s take a look at Biden’s pick.

 

This Isn’t Going Away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State of the Union Tonight!

The State of the Union is tonight and I am actually looking forward to this one. Things are so bad here that I can’t imagine the lies that are going to come out of Old Joe’s mouth. Here’s what I think is going to come out of this speech:

  • The economy:
    • He will talk about six million new jobs that he created.
    • He will talk about the increase in pay.
    • He will talk about inflation.
  • He will talk about the war in Ukraine and how he unified Europe.
  • His Supreme Court pick and social justice.
  • Of course, climate change.
  • He will declare victory against COVID.
  • And all the problems we are facing will be Trump’s fault.
  • He will also try to blame the Russia/Ukraine war.

Things he will not talk about:

  • The border crisis.
  • Afghanistan.
  • The China/Taiwan spat.
  • The deficit, which he increase by $7 trillion.
  • He won’t talk about our debt to GDP being at 119%.
  • He will not bring up Build Back Better.

I do not expect this to be a long speech. Normally they can go from 90 minutes to 2 hours. I wouldn’t be shocked if this only went about 45 minutes. When it starts, it will be way past Old Joe’s bed time.

 

Fractured

But that’s when the fun just begins. There are going to be about a billion responses to the speech.

Gov. Kim Reynolds from Iowa will give the response for the Republicans.

But that’s not it. The Left has decided to respond to the State of the Union.

  • Rashida Tlaib will represent the far Leftists of the party.
    • You can guarantee a lot of social and racial justice.
    • She will praise Joe Biden.
    • She will go after Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for not voting for Build Back Better.
  • Congress Colin Allerd from Texas will represent the Black Caucus.
    • He will talk about racial justice.
    • Equity.
    • Justice reform.
    • And, probably, defunding the police.
    • You know this is going to be a thing since lynching was banned today…again.

Normally, this doesn’t happen. The President makes his State of the Union address, there is a response from the opposition party, night over.

I think this is done for a few reasons:

  • Joe Biden can’t say much about social justice, racism and defunding the police. He’s suppose to be unifying the country.
  • Joe Biden can’t pat himself on the back much. Things are just not great right now.
  • Joe Biden can’t say much of anything for a long time. This is not going to be a two hour speech.
  • The Democratic party is fractured.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-democrats-and-one-republican-are-now-scheduled-to-respond-to-bidens-state-of-the-union

 

Speaking of Which

The science has decided that the China virus has been defeated. The White House, which is the science, has sent out the memo and all of the Democratic states and cities have decided to end the mandates right when Biden is about to declare victory against COVID. Forget that red states have been open for over a year and never really had any issues with the China virus, it all the Democrats.

  • According to the Wall Street Journal: The CDC noted, if the local level is low-risk, people should “[w]ear a mask based on your personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk”; if it is medium risk, immunocompromised or people at high risk for serious illness should speak with their health care provider about additional measures, like mask-wearing “or respirators indoors in public.” The agency added, for medium-risk areas, “If you live with or have social contact with someone at high risk for severe illness, consider testing yourself for infection before you get together and wearing a mask when indoors with them.”
    • So they think people should make their own decisions.
    • What took so long?
  • Masks aren’t required when on the floor of Congress though a negative test is required. That’s one of the reasons that Republicans aren’t showing up to the speech.
  • Washington D.C. has dropped the mandates.
  • New York has dropped the mandates with New York City dropping the mandates this week.
  • California has ended all mandates. Schools will not need masks by March 11.
    • I guess March 11 is the exact day the virus goes extinct.
    • Schools are pushing back.

Some things:

  • We knew this was going to happen.
  • Biden needs to pivot in some policy tonight and COVID seems like it is the only one he can.
  • The science has not change.
    • Infections and hospitalizations have not changed much. I look at them daily.
    • The only thing that has changed is most people are either vaccinated, caught the virus or both.
    • I’m probably going to have this podcast pulled for this.
  • This whole China virus thing has been political. It was never about the science. The sudden end of the pandemic before the State of the Union is proof of that.
  • Yes, I’m being cynical.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-mask-requirement-dropped-ahead-of-bidens-state-of-the-union-address
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-updates-mask-guidance
https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-ends-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-workers-prepares-for-return-to-office
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-to-end-statewide-mask-mandate-for-schools-nyc-expected-to-follow
https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-state-of-the-union-miracle-cruz-mocks-white-house-dropping-mask-requirement-hours-before-bidens-sotu

 

Supreme Court Pick

So Joe Biden nominated a a Supreme Court nominee. And, of course, Democrats are racist and sexist so he nominated a black woman. Let’s listen to Old Joe introduce his pick:

I can’t pronounce her name either. But, then again, I didn’t nominate her. He should have probably should have practiced a little bit before her introduction press conference.

Her name is Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Some things about her history:

  • To get to her court positions, she had to be approved by Congress. Though a Leftist, she flew through Congress.
  • She has a very outgoing and friendly personality.
  • The American Bar Association, a Leftist organization, said she was “unanimously qualified”.
  • She does not have a lot of legal writings so her positions are not really in the open. But we know.
  • Working as a public defender from 2005 to 2007, Jackson was assigned to represent Khi Ali Gul, an Afghan detained in Guantanamo Bay in 2003 and released by President Obama in 2014 when she was no longer involved in the case.
  • As Politico noted, “several of Jackson’s rulings were overturned by a higher court, including those on Trump’s attempt to fast-track deportations and executive orders constraining government unions’ power.”
  • One overturned case involved an ordered expansion of the Department of Homeland Security’s definition regarding which non-citizens could be deported, while another involved orders relating to the collective bargaining power of federal employees.
  • “In 2019, Congress was battling with Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn about whether he should testify to the House Judiciary Committee,” The Washington Post explained. “The case came before Jackson, who soundly rejected McGahn’s arguments that he had immunity from testifying.”
  • She has been light on crime and sentencing.

This is not a big deal even though she is a rabid Leftist. She’s just replacing another Leftist and the court still holds a 6-3 Conservative majority.

But she will be on the court for 30 years and she will easily get through the nomination process.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-brags-he-picked-scotus-nominee-with-strongest-credentials-jordan-peterson-logically-destroys-that-argument
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ketanji-brown-jackson-five-things-to-know-about-bidens-scotus-pick
https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-to-nominate-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-supreme-court-report