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The last two words really sum up this whole election cycle (and in truth, the previous two also)

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He started lying at around 9:15 pm and by my watch didn't stop until around 10:30. There were so many whoppers he could open a Burger King franchise. But these aren't "lies" like Trump tells (which are actually exaggerations or partially, mostly or completely true) but bald-faced opposite-of-truth lies. Like the "15 million NEW jobs created" (we're STILL below the number of jobs pre-Covid). Or "I cut ONE TRILLION DOLLARS from the deficit in my first year!" (He signed the $1.9 Trillion America Rescue Plan supplemental in March 2021 and since his FIRST budget to Congress in 2022 didn't include THAT additional spending, he claims he CUT spending - Good Lord, what a whopper!). And when you add in the $800B extra spent on the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act, he set inflation on fire.

While SOTUs have become more "campaign speeches" in the modern era (since Clinton, but a brief hiatus when GWB was president), this speech dropped all pretense. Perhaps it is because his opponent for reelection is already known, but I wouldn't have expected much different even if Trump hadn't sewn up the nomination. It's a disappointment because the SOTU is constitutionally mandated and is supposed to present the entirety of government to the American people - not serve as a campaign event.

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A very good article, but you missed on the most important (and sickening) aspect of this speech. There wasn't a mention of the actual state of the Union. Instead, we got an unbridled campaign stemwinder. Our Constitution doesn't require the State of the Union be a speech and for decades, presidents just sent Congress a letter describing how the Union was faring. It's probably time to return to that tradition.

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To borrow a word that you previously used about his speech, his brazenness is staggering. It is scary how half of the country believes his bullshit.

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Thanks for taking one for the team by watching it, Peter. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I would just scream at the TV if I watched. I noticed all the paid Democrat shills and MSM (but I repeat myself) were gloating and calling it the greatest speech in history. Forget FDR, Churchill, Lincoln, or MLK; those dullards never gave a speech like Bully Boy. Obviously their exuberance was really a giant sigh of relief that he aced his elderly man test, but they can't really be oblivious to the fact that Biden can't possibly survive being shot up with stimulants on a daily basis, can they?

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