President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.

That was one of the more interesting SOTU addresses I’ve seen. Personally, I think he said most of the things that needed to be said, and he said them reasonably well. I’m sure he’s going to get some flack for attacking Trump directly (though not by name), but I was frankly glad to see it. Doing otherwise makes it seem like it’s just your typical election/political disagreements, but we’re past that now.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Congressional Republican leaders showcased one of their newest lawmakers through the State of the Union rebuttal, hoping to make a generational contrast with Biden. Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, the youngest Republican woman elected to the Senate, painted a picture of a nation that “seems to be slipping away” and one where “our families are hurting.”

    “Right now, our commander-in-chief is not in command. The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader,” Britt said, speaking deliberately in an address from her home kitchen.

    Dithering and diminished? You just got your clock cleaned by an old guy and you’re stumping for the convicted fraud who can’t remember who is currently the President? The one who thinks magnets are somehow turned off by water? The one who declares loudly they’ll change the state name of Pennsylvania if he doesn’t get enough votes? That one?

    Katie Britt, I didn’t have any expectations - never heard of you before - but whoever wrote that for you stuck you in the woodchipper. Do better. Stop supporting a demented rapist. Stop destroying the rights of women to their own bodies.

    • Hoomod@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Apparently that’s just how she is. She’s a lawyer, married to a retired football player

      If you watch her speech it’s disturbing

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        It was so creepily stepford wives-y.

        She did the Hannibal Lecter “not blinking” thing while alternating between smiles and rage that both never reached her eyes.

        Also, kind of ballsy to ask “are you better off than you were four years ago.”

        Like, yes, my life could be better, but I at least have toilet paper.