America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - STATE OF THE UNION

00:00:00.000 I don't think you guys are getting audio, right?

00:00:03.000 Let me see if I can fix that.

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00:00:24.000 I'm gonna check the live chat right now.

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00:00:50.000 Alright, you know what?

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00:02:04.000 I know I've been criticized for saying this, but I'm not changing my view.

00:02:08.000 We're going to make sure the supply chain for America begins in America. 0.91

00:02:12.000 The supply chain begins in America.

00:02:18.000 We've already created... Echo now.

00:02:26.000 We've already created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs without this law, before the law kicks in. 0.75

00:02:33.000 With this new law, we're going to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs across the country.

00:02:37.000 And I mean all across the country.

00:02:39.000 Not just the coast, but through the middle of the country as well.

00:02:42.000 That's going to come from companies that have announced more than $300 billion in investment in American manufacturing.

00:02:50.000 Yeah, okay, the audio's not good, okay?

00:02:54.000 Oh, that's why, okay.

00:03:14.000 Jobs pay an average of $130,000 a year, and many do not require a college degree.

00:03:20.000 Because we work together, these jobs where people don't have to leave home to search for opportunity.

00:03:35.000 It's just getting started.

00:03:38.000 Think about the new homes, the small businesses, the big, the medium-sized businesses.

00:03:43.000 So much more that's going to be needed to support those 3,000 permanent jobs and the factories that are going to be built.

00:03:52.000 Talk to mayors and governors, Democrats and Republicans, and they'll tell you what this means for their communities.

00:03:59.000 We're seeing these fields of dreams transformed to the heartland.

00:04:02.000 But to maintain the strongest economy in the world, we need the best infrastructure in the world.

00:04:08.000 Folks, as you all know,

00:04:17.000 We used to be number one in the world in infrastructure.

00:04:21.000 We've sunk to 13th in the world.

00:04:24.000 The United States of America, 13th in the world in infrastructure, modern infrastructure.

00:04:30.000 But now we're coming back because we came together and passed the bipartisan infrastructure law, the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eishower's interstate highway system.

00:04:44.000 You know, I actually support Joe Biden.

00:04:49.000 I don't.

00:04:50.000 We've funded over 20,000 projects, including major airports from Boston to Atlanta to Portland.

00:04:57.000 Projects that will put thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, our bridges, our railroads, our tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed internet all across America.

00:05:08.000 Urban, rural, tribal, and folks just getting started.

00:05:19.000 And I mean it sincerely.

00:05:20.000 I want to thank my Republican friends who voted for the law.

00:05:26.000 And my Republican friends who voted against it as well.

00:05:30.000 But I'm still, I still get asked to fund the projects in those districts as well, but don't worry.

00:05:35.000 I promised I'd be a president for all Americans.

00:05:38.000 We'll fund these projects.

00:05:40.000 And I'll see you at the groundbreaking.

00:05:41.000 Look,

00:05:50.000 This law... This law will further unite all of America.

00:05:56.000 Projects like Brents Bend Bridge in Kentucky over the Ohio River.

00:06:00.000 What?

00:06:00.000 Built 60 years ago.

00:06:02.000 Badly needed repairs.

00:06:03.000 One of the nation's most congested freight routes, carrying $2 billion worth of freight every single day across the Ohio River.

00:06:12.000 And, folks, I've been talking about fixing it for decades, but we're really finally going to get it done.

00:06:17.000 I went there last month with Democrats and Republicans, and from both states, to deliver a commitment of $1.6 billion for this project.

00:06:30.000 And while I was there, I met a young woman named Sarah, who's here tonight.

00:06:36.000 I don't know where Sarah is.

00:06:37.000 I don't know.

00:06:37.000 Is she up in the box?

00:06:39.000 Sarah, how are you?

00:06:41.000 Well, Sarah, for 30 years... For 30 years... Average ironworker.

00:06:48.000 She told me she'd been a proud member of the Ironworkers Local 44, known as... Known as the Cowboys in the Sky.

00:06:48.000 I learned.

00:07:00.000 The folks who built...

00:07:06.000 I can't see live chat on my screen.

00:07:09.000 Sarah said she can't wait to be 10 stories above the Ohio River building that new bridge.

00:07:14.000 God bless her. 1.00

00:07:16.000 That's pride.

00:07:17.000 And that's what we're also building.

00:07:19.000 We're building back pride.

00:07:21.000 Look, we're also replacing poisonous lead pipes that go into 10 million homes in America.

00:07:28.000 400,000 school and child care centers.

00:07:32.000 So every child in America

00:07:34.000 Every child in America can drink the water instead of having permanent damage to their brain.

00:07:39.000 Look, we're making sure that every community in America has access to affordable high-speed internet.

00:07:55.000 No parent should have to drive by a McDonald's parking lot to help them do their homework online with their kids, which many thousands are doing across the country.

00:08:05.000 And when we do these projects, and again I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it, we're going to buy America. 0.85

00:08:12.000 We're going to buy America. 0.97

00:08:14.000 Folks.

00:08:21.000 And it's totally, it's totally consistent with international trade rules.

00:08:27.000 Why America has been the law since 1933, but for too long, past administrations, Democrat and Republican, have fought to get around it.

00:08:35.000 Not anymore.

00:08:37.000 Tonight, I'm announcing new standards require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America.

00:08:47.000 Okay, based?

00:08:48.000 Made in America.

00:08:50.000 I made it.

00:08:54.000 This is so awesome.

00:08:59.000 Lumber, glass, drywall, fiber-optic cable.

00:09:04.000 And on my watch, American roads, bridges, and American highways are going to be made with American products as well.

00:09:09.000 Folks, my economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten.

00:09:16.000 So many of you listening to me tonight, I know you feel it.

00:09:21.000 So many of you felt like you've just simply been forgotten.

00:09:24.000 True.

00:09:25.000 I'm making upheaval over the past four decades.

00:09:27.000 Too many people have been left behind and treated like they're invisible.

00:09:33.000 Maybe that's you watching from home.

00:09:35.000 Remember the jobs that went away?

00:09:37.000 You remember them, don't you?

00:09:38.000 Yeah.

00:09:39.000 The folks at home remember them.

00:09:41.000 You wonder whether the path even exists anymore for your children to get ahead without having to move away.

00:09:49.000 Well, that's why... I get that.

00:09:52.000 That's why we're building an economy where no one's left behind.

00:09:57.000 Jobs are coming back.

00:09:59.000 Pride is coming back.

00:10:01.000 Because of choices we made in the last several years.

00:10:05.000 You know, this is, in my view, a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives at home.

00:10:13.000 For example, too many of you lay in bed at night like my dad did.

00:10:20.000 Staring at the ceiling, wondering what in god names happens if your spouse gets cancer.

00:10:28.000 Or your child gets deadly ill.

00:10:30.000 Look at this guy.

00:10:31.000 Or something happens to you.

00:10:34.000 Are you going to have money to pay for those medical bills?

00:10:36.000 Or are you going to have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it?

00:10:40.000 I get it.

00:10:42.000 I get it.

00:10:43.000 Look at the size differential between McCarthy and Kamala.

00:10:45.000 Is that real or is she just slouching?

00:11:12.000 Many of you in this chamber do, and in the audience.

00:11:16.000 But every day, millions need insulin to control their diabetes, so they can literally stay alive.

00:11:23.000 Insulin's been around for over 100 years.

00:11:26.000 The guy who invented it didn't even patent it because he wanted it to be available for everyone.

00:11:30.000 It cost the drug companies roughly $10 a vial to make that insulin.

00:11:36.000 Packaging and all, you may get up to $13.

00:11:40.000 But Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, $400 to $500 a month, making record profits.

00:11:49.000 Not anymore.

00:11:50.000 Not anymore.

00:12:09.000 So many, so many things that we did are only now coming to fruition.

00:12:17.000 We said we were doing this, and we said we passed the law to do it, but people didn't know because the law didn't take effect until January 1 of this year.

00:12:25.000 We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month.

00:12:27.000 I like how he says 30.

00:12:29.000 People are just finding out.

00:12:38.000 I'm sure you're getting the same calls I'm getting.

00:12:41.000 Look, there are millions of other Americans who do not or are not on Medicare, including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes that need this insulin to stay alive.

00:12:54.000 Let's finish the job this time.

00:12:55.000 Why is he still wearing a mask?

00:12:56.000 Let's cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35.

00:12:58.000 Hey, Dalton in chat.

00:13:03.000 Wow, everybody's in chat.

00:13:09.000 Folks, the big pharma's still gonna do very well, I promise y'all.

00:13:16.000 I promise you, they're gonna do very well.

00:13:19.000 This law also caps and won't even go into effect until 2025.

00:13:25.000 Out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare at a maximum of $2,000 a year.

00:13:31.000 You don't have to pay more than $2,000 a year, no matter how much your drug costs are.

00:13:36.000 Because you know why?

00:13:37.000 You all know it.

00:13:39.000 Many of you, like many in my family, have cancer.

00:13:43.000 You know the drugs can range from $10,000, $11,000, $14,000, $15,000 for the cancer drugs.

00:13:51.000 If drug prices rise faster than inflation, drug companies are going to have to pay Medicare back the difference.

00:13:57.000 We're finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices.

00:14:05.000 Bringing down prescription drug costs doesn't just save seniors money, it cuts the federal deficit by billions of dollars.

00:14:19.000 By hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:14:22.000 These prescription drugs are drugs purchased by Medicare to keep their commitment to the seniors.

00:14:32.000 Well, guess what?

00:14:33.000 Instead of paying $400 or $500 a month, you're paying $15.

00:14:37.000 That's a lot of savings for the federal government.

00:14:40.000 And by the way, why would we want that?

00:14:43.000 Now, some members here are threatening, and I know it's not an official party position, so I'm not going to exaggerate, but threatening to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:14:55.000 As my coach, that's okay.

00:14:58.000 That's fair.

00:15:00.000 As my football coach used to say, lots of luck in your senior year.

00:15:03.000 I don't get it.

00:15:08.000 Make no mistake!

00:15:10.000 If you try anything to raise the cost of Brazilian jobs, I will veto it.

00:15:23.000 I'm pleased to say that more Americans have health insurance now than ever in history.

00:15:29.000 A record 16 million people are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act.

00:15:34.000 And thanks to the law I signed last year, saving millions are saving $800 a year on their premiums.

00:15:42.000 And by the way, that law was written and the benefit expires in 2025.

00:15:49.000 So my plea to some of you, at least, in this audience, let's finish the job and make these savings permanent.

00:15:55.000 Expand coverage on Medicaid.

00:16:05.000 Look, the Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change.

00:16:13.000 Ever.

00:16:17.000 Lower utility bill.

00:16:19.000 What if I were here?

00:16:20.000 What if this was me?

00:16:21.000 That's actually how you're supposed to pronounce Missouri.

00:16:24.000 It is pronounced Missouri.

00:16:49.000 New electric grids that are able to weather major storms and not prevent those forest fires.

00:16:55.000 Roads and water systems will withstand the next big flood.

00:16:59.000 Clean energy to cut pollution and create jobs in communities often left behind.

00:17:02.000 We're going to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBEW workers.

00:17:14.000 We're helping families save more than a thousand dollars a year with tax credits to purchase electric vehicles and efficient appliances, energy-efficient appliances.

00:17:25.000 Historic conservation efforts to be responsible stewards of our land.

00:17:31.000 Let's face reality.

00:17:33.000 The climate crisis doesn't care if you're in a red or blue state.

00:17:37.000 It's an existential threat.

00:17:40.000 We have an obligation, not to ourselves, but to our children and grandchildren to confront it.

00:17:45.000 I'm proud of how America, at last, is stepping up to the challenge.

00:17:51.000 We're still going to need oil and gas for a while.

00:17:53.000 But guess what?

00:17:55.000 No, we do.

00:17:58.000 But there's so much more to do.

00:18:01.000 We've got to finish the job.

00:18:03.000 And we pay for these investments in our future by finally making the wealthiest and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share.

00:18:13.000 Just begin.

00:18:15.000 Hey, that's our girl, Ilhan Omar. 0.86

00:18:19.000 07's in chat for Ilhan Omar.

00:18:23.000 I'm a capitalist, but pay your fair share.

00:18:26.000 I think a lot of you at home, a lot of you at home agree with me and many people that you know, the tax system is not fair.

00:18:34.000 It is not fair.

00:18:36.000 True, the poor need to pay more.

00:18:40.000 Hey, I pay my fair share, and then some.

00:18:44.000 The idea that in 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in America, the Fortune 500, made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal taxes?

00:18:59.000 Zero?

00:19:01.000 Folks, it's simply not fair.

00:19:04.000 But now, because of the law I signed, billion-dollar companies have to pay a minimum of 15%.

00:19:08.000 God love them. 15%.

00:19:14.000 That's less than a nurse pays! 1.00

00:19:21.000 Let me be crystal clear.

00:19:23.000 I said at the very beginning, under my plans, as long as I'm president, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in taxes.

00:19:32.000 Nobody, not one penny.

00:19:35.000 But let's finish the job.

00:19:37.000 There's more to do.

00:19:38.000 We have to reward work, not just wealth.

00:19:44.000 Pass my proposal for the billionaire minimum tax.

00:19:48.000 You know, there's 1,000 billionaires in America.

00:19:51.000 It's up from about 600 at the beginning of the term.

00:19:54.000 But no billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or firefighter.

00:19:59.000 I mean, think about it.

00:20:01.000 I mean, look.

00:20:14.000 I know you aren't enthusiastic about that, but think about it.

00:20:18.000 Think about it.

00:20:20.000 Have you noticed Big Oil just reported its profits?

00:20:23.000 Record profits.

00:20:25.000 Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis.

00:20:33.000 Nice.

00:20:33.000 Ukraine tie.

00:20:34.000 I think it's outrageous.

00:20:36.000 Why?

00:20:37.000 They invested too little of that profit to increase domestic production.

00:20:41.000 And when I talked to a couple of them, they said, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil wells and all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them?

00:20:49.000 I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade.

00:20:53.000 And that's going to exceed and beyond that.

00:20:57.000 We're going to need it.

00:20:59.000 Production.

00:21:02.000 If they had, in fact, invested in the production to keep gas prices down.

00:21:05.000 Instead, they used record profits to buy back their own stock.

00:21:09.000 Rewarding the CEOs and shareholders.

00:21:12.000 Corporations ought to do the right thing.

00:21:15.000 That's why I propose we quadruple the tax on corporate stock buybacks and encourage long-term investments.

00:21:24.000 They'll still make considerable profit.

00:21:29.000 Let's finish the job and close the loopholes that allow very wealthy to avoid paying their taxes.

00:21:34.000 Instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers, I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by $114 billion by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.

00:21:47.000 That's being fiscally responsible.

00:21:52.000 In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion, the largest deficit reduction in American history.

00:22:06.000 Under the previous administration, the American deficit went up four years in a row.

00:22:11.000 Because those record deficits, no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor.

00:22:19.000 Nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one.

00:22:29.000 True.

00:22:30.000 They're the facts.

00:22:30.000 Check it out.

00:22:31.000 True.

00:22:34.000 Check it out.

00:22:35.000 He's right.

00:22:36.000 It was the COVID stimulus.

00:22:37.000 How did Congress respond to that debt?

00:22:39.000 They did the right thing.

00:22:40.000 They lifted the debt ceiling three times without preconditions or crisis.

00:22:44.000 They paid American bills to prevent an economic disaster in the country.

00:22:50.000 So tonight, I'm asking the Congress to follow suit.

00:22:53.000 Let's commit here tonight to the full faith and credit of the United States of America, who will never, ever be questioned.

00:23:02.000 Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage.

00:23:05.000 I get it.

00:23:07.000 Unless I agree to their economic plans.

00:23:10.000 All of you at home should know what those plans are.

00:23:14.000 Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.

00:23:21.000 I'm not saying it's the majority.

00:23:26.000 Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office.

00:23:31.000 State of the Union.

00:23:32.000 I'll give you a copy. 0.99

00:23:33.000 Oh, look at this clown. 0.99

00:23:35.000 Look at her. 0.99

00:23:37.000 That means Congress doesn't vote.

00:23:40.000 Well, I'm glad to see you.

00:23:41.000 And I tell you, I enjoy conversion.

00:23:46.000 You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away.

00:23:50.000 Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's a majority of you.

00:23:53.000 I don't even think it's even a significant... But it's being proposed by individuals.

00:24:00.000 I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you.

00:24:06.000 Look, folks. 0.90

00:24:10.000 Women are out of control. 1.00

00:24:17.000 Biden is wrong.

00:24:18.000 I don't think there are any Republicans suggesting to eliminate Medicare. 0.92

00:24:25.000 But these women are so obnoxious. 1.00

00:24:32.000 So, folks, as we all apparently agree, 0.94

00:24:36.000 Social Security and Medicare are lifeline for millions of seniors.

00:24:57.000 Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they started.

00:25:01.000 So tonight, let's all agree, and apparently we are, let's stand up for seniors.

00:25:13.000 Stand up and show them.

00:25:15.000 We will not cut Social Security.

00:25:18.000 We will not cut Medicare.

00:25:22.000 Those benefits belong to the American people.

00:25:24.000 They earned it.

00:25:24.000 And if anyone tries to cut Social Security, which apparently no one's going to do, and if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I'll stop them.

00:25:33.000 I'll veto it.

00:25:35.000 I'm not going to allow them to be taken away.

00:25:39.000 Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

00:25:40.000 But apparently it's not going to be a problem.

00:25:43.000 Next month, when I offer my fiscal plan, I ask my Republican friends to lay down their plan as well.

00:25:50.000 I really mean it.

00:25:51.000 Let's sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together.

00:25:55.000 Let's do that.

00:26:01.000 Wow.

00:26:01.000 McCarthy applauding bipartisanship.

00:26:04.000 Nice.

00:26:07.000 I can tell you.

00:26:08.000 Wow, he really just is that much taller than her.

00:26:10.000 The plan I'm going to show you is going to cut the deficit by another $2 trillion.

00:26:13.000 And I won't cut a single bit of Medicare or Social Security.

00:26:17.000 In fact, we're going to extend the Medicare trust fund at least two decades, because that's going to be the next argument.

00:26:22.000 How do we make keep it solvent, right?

00:26:24.000 Well, we'll not raise tax on anyone making under 400 grand, but we'll pay for it the way we talked about by making sure that the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share.

00:26:35.000 Look, look, look, here's the deal.

00:26:38.000 Here's the deal, Jack.

00:26:40.000 They're not just taking advantage of the tax code.

00:26:42.000 They're taking advantage of you, the American consumer.

00:26:45.000 Here's my message to all of you out there.

00:26:46.000 I have your back.

00:26:49.000 We're already preventing Americans from receiving surprise medical bills.

00:26:52.000 Stopping $1 billion surprise bills per month so far.

00:26:58.000 We're protecting seniors' life savings.

00:27:03.000 By cracking down on nursing homes that commit fraud, endanger patient safety, prescribe drugs that are not needed.

00:27:10.000 Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get a hearing aid over-the-counter without a prescription.

00:27:17.000 Look, capitalism without competition is not capitalism.

00:27:26.000 It's extortion.

00:27:28.000 It's exploitation.

00:27:30.000 Last year, I cracked down, with the help of many of you, on foreign shipping companies that were making you pay higher prices for every good coming into the country.

00:27:39.000 I signed a bipartisan bill that cut shipping costs by 90 percent, helping American farmers, businessmen, and consumers.

00:27:45.000 Let's finish the job.

00:27:48.000 Pass the bipartisan legislation to strengthen antitrust enforcement and prevent big online platforms from giving their own products an unfair advantage.

00:27:58.000 Ah, yeah, okay.

00:28:00.000 Faced?

00:28:07.000 My administration is also taking on junk fees.

00:28:10.000 Those hidden surcharges too many companies use to make you pay more.

00:28:14.000 For example, we're making airlines show you the full ticket price up front.

00:28:20.000 Refund your money if your flight is cancelled or delayed.

00:28:24.000 We've reduced exorbitant bank overdrafts by saving consumers more than 1 billion dollars a year.

00:28:32.000 What's an overdraft fee?

00:28:34.000 I don't know what that is.

00:28:35.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:35.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:37.000 I don't know what that is.

00:28:39.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:40.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:41.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:42.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:44.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:46.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:47.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:48.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:50.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:50.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:52.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:54.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:55.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:28:56.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:28:59.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:29:00.000 I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket.

00:29:01.000 I don't even look at the prices.

00:29:02.000 I

00:29:03.000 Not anymore.

00:29:05.000 We've written a bill to stop it all.

00:29:06.000 It's called the Junk Fee Prevention Act.

00:29:10.000 We're gonna ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.

00:29:15.000 Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts.

00:29:23.000 The idea that cable, internet, and cell phone companies can charge you $200 or more if you decide to switch to another provider.

00:29:33.000 Give me a break.

00:29:35.000 Let's go.

00:29:36.000 This is my president.

00:29:36.000 Let's go!

00:30:03.000 You know what?

00:30:05.000 That's the Junk Free Prevention Act, so companies stop ripping us off.

00:30:05.000 Go on.

00:30:10.000 For too long, workers have been getting stiffed, but not anymore.

00:30:15.000 We're beginning to restore the dignity of work.

00:30:18.000 For example, I should have known this, but I didn't until two years ago.

00:30:24.000 30 million workers have to sign non-compete agreements with the jobs they take.

00:30:30.000 30 million.

00:30:32.000 So a cashier

00:30:34.000 at a burger place can't walk across town and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more.

00:30:41.000 It just changed.

00:30:43.000 They just changed it because we exposed it.

00:30:45.000 That was part of the deal, guys.

00:30:47.000 Look it up.

00:30:48.000 But not anymore.

00:30:49.000 We're banning those agreements so companies have to compete for workers and pay them what they're worth. 0.96

00:30:57.000 There's not a whole lot in here for me, though.

00:30:59.000 It sounds like a lot of stuff for, like, poor people and, like, burger flippers and firefighters and nurses, but what about, like, business owners and, uh, rich people?

00:31:07.000 No.

00:31:07.000 No, they don't.

00:31:08.000 No.

00:31:25.000 Let's guarantee all workers have a living wage. 0.86

00:31:29.000 No.

00:31:29.000 Let's make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family medical leave, affordable childcare.

00:31:37.000 No, it's too many days off.

00:31:40.000 That's going to enable millions of more people to go and stay at work.

00:31:44.000 And let's restore the full child tax credit, which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room.

00:31:52.000 What about an in-cell tax credit?

00:31:53.000 To the lowest level in history.

00:31:55.000 And by the way, when we do all these things, we increase productivity.

00:31:59.000 We increase economic growth.

00:32:01.000 So let's finish the job and get more families access to affordable, quality housing.

00:32:07.000 Let's get seniors who want to stay in their homes the care they need to do so. 0.97

00:32:11.000 Let's give more breathing room to millions of family caregivers looking after their loved ones. 1.00

00:32:17.000 Pass my plan so we get seniors and people with disabilities the home care and services they need.

00:32:24.000 And support the workers who are doing God's work.

00:32:30.000 These plans are fully paid for and we can afford to do them.

00:32:30.000 Like me?

00:32:35.000 Restoring the dignity of work means making education an affordable ticket to the middle class.

00:32:40.000 You know, when we made public education, 12 years of it universal, in the last century, we made the best educated, best paid, we became the best educated, best paid nation in the world.

00:32:52.000 But the rest of the world's caught up.

00:32:54.000 It's caught up.

00:32:55.000 Jill, my wife, who teaches full time, has an expression.

00:33:00.000 I hope I get it right, kid.

00:33:02.000 Any nation that out-educates us is going to out-compete us.

00:33:06.000 Any nation that out-educates is going to out-compete us.

00:33:09.000 Folks, we all know 12 years of education is not enough to win the economic competition of the 21st century.

00:33:15.000 If you want to have the best educated workforce, let's finish the job by providing access to preschool for 3 and 4 years old.

00:33:28.000 Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from.

00:33:39.000 Let's give public school teachers a raise. 1.00

00:33:41.000 No.

00:33:44.000 No, I disagree with that.

00:33:53.000 We're making progress.

00:33:56.000 By reducing student debt, increasing Pell Grants, or working in middle-class families.

00:34:01.000 Let's finish the job and connect students to career opportunities starting in high school, provide access to two years of community college, the best career training in America, in addition to being a pathway to a four-year degree.

00:34:15.000 Let's offer every American a path to a good career, whether they go to college or not.

00:34:23.000 And folks,

00:34:26.000 Folks, in the midst of the COVID crisis, when schools were closed and we were shutting down everything, let's recognize how far we came in the fight against the pandemic itself.

00:34:41.000 While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people and the ingenuity of medicine, we've broken the COVID grip on us.

00:34:50.000 COVID deaths are down by 90%.

00:34:53.000 We've saved millions of lives and opened up our country.

00:34:56.000 We opened our country back up, and soon we'll end the public health emergency.

00:35:02.000 But that's called a public health emergency.

00:35:07.000 But we'll remember the toll and pain that's never going to go away.

00:35:12.000 More than a million Americans lost their lives to COVID.

00:35:15.000 A million.

00:35:17.000 Families grieving.

00:35:19.000 Children orphaned.

00:35:21.000 Empty chairs at the dining room table constantly reminding you that she used to sit there.

00:35:29.000 Remembering them, we remain vigilant.

00:35:32.000 We still need to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments.

00:35:38.000 So Congress needs to fund these efforts and keep America safe.

00:35:41.000 And as we emerge from this crisis stronger,

00:35:46.000 We're also got a double down on prosecuting criminals who stole relief money meant to keep workers and small businesses afloat.

00:36:07.000 Before I came to office, you remember, during that campaign, the big issue was about inspector generals.

00:36:14.000 We're good to go.

00:36:34.000 Now let's triple the anti-fraud strike force going after these criminals, double the statute of limitations on these crimes, and crack down on identity fraud by criminal syndicates stealing billions of dollars, billions of dollars from the American people.

00:36:47.000 And the data shows that for every dollar we put into fighting fraud, the tax rate gets back at least 10 times as much.

00:36:58.000 It matters.

00:36:59.000 It matters.

00:37:00.000 Look, COVID left us scars.

00:37:04.000 Like the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic.

00:37:09.000 Right.

00:37:10.000 We have an obligation to make sure all people are safe.

00:37:12.000 COVID caused more crime.

00:37:14.000 Public safety depends on public trust, as all of us know.

00:37:17.000 But too often, that trust is violated.

00:37:20.000 Joining us tonight are the parents of Tyree Nichols.

00:37:24.000 Ah!

00:37:25.000 That's a big one.

00:37:25.000 Welcome.

00:37:36.000 You know, in fairness, he probably did die unfairly.

00:37:39.000 Had to bury Tyree last week.

00:37:42.000 It was unjust.

00:37:46.000 As many of you personally know, there's no word to describe the heartache or grief of losing a child.

00:37:52.000 But imagine, imagine if you lost that child at the hands of the law.

00:37:58.000 Imagine having to worry whether your son or daughter came home from walking down the street, playing in the park, or just driving a car.

00:38:07.000 Most of us in here have never had to have the talk.

00:38:12.000 The talk that brown and black parents have had to have with their children.

00:38:16.000 Beau, Hunter, Ashley, my children.

00:38:19.000 I never had to have the talk with them.

00:38:22.000 I never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away.

00:38:28.000 Don't fight them.

00:38:29.000 Don't reach for your license.

00:38:31.000 Don't reach for a gun or a knife.

00:38:32.000 Keep your hands on the steering wheel.

00:38:33.000 Do not try to kill the police.

00:38:35.000 Imagine having to worry like that every single time.

00:38:38.000 Imagine having to worry. 0.96

00:38:40.000 Kill guard in the car.

00:38:42.000 Here's what Tyree's mother shared with me when I spoke to her. 0.57

00:38:44.000 The kid might strike the cops.

00:38:46.000 When I asked her how she finds the courage to carry on and speak out.

00:38:49.000 The faith of God, she said her son was hope.

00:38:53.000 Keep doing too much.

00:38:54.000 A beautiful soul and something good will come of this.

00:39:01.000 Imagine how much courage and courage that takes.

00:39:03.000 It's up to us.

00:39:05.000 To all of us.

00:39:07.000 We all want the same thing.

00:39:09.000 Neighborhoods free of violence.

00:39:11.000 Law enforcement of enforcement who earns the community's trust.

00:39:16.000 Just as every cop when they pin on that badge in the morning has a right to be able to go home at night, so does everybody else out there.

00:39:24.000 Our children have a right to come home safely.

00:39:30.000 Equal protection under the law is a commitment we have with each other in America.

00:39:41.000 We know police officers put their lives on the line every single night and day.

00:39:46.000 And we know we ask them, in many cases, to do too much to be counselors, social workers, psychologists, responding to drug overdoses, mental health crises, and so much more.

00:39:56.000 In one sense, we ask much too much of them.

00:39:59.000 I know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people, the vast majority.

00:40:04.000 But they risk... And they risk their lives every time they put that shield on.

00:40:22.000 But what happened to Tyree in Memphis happens too often.

00:40:25.000 We have to do better.

00:40:27.000 Give law enforcement the real training they need.

00:40:31.000 Hold them to higher standards.

00:40:34.000 Help them succeed in keeping us safe.

00:40:37.000 We also need more first responders and professionals to address the growing mental health and substance abuse challenges.

00:40:43.000 More resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime.

00:40:47.000 More community intervention programs.

00:40:50.000 More investment in housing, education, and job training.

00:40:56.000 All this can help prevent violence in the first place.

00:41:00.000 When police officers or police departments violate the public trust, they must be held accountable.

00:41:11.000 With the support of the families of victims,

00:41:21.000 Civil rights groups and law enforcement.

00:41:23.000 I signed an executive order for all federal officers banning chokeholds, restricting no-knock warrants, and other key elements of the George Floyd Act.

00:41:35.000 Let's commit ourselves to make the words of Tyler's mom true.

00:41:39.000 Something good must come from this.

00:41:42.000 And all of us.

00:41:42.000 Something good.

00:41:51.000 All of us.

00:42:04.000 Wow, look at her. 0.97

00:42:08.000 Folks, it's difficult, but it's simple.

00:42:10.000 All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this moment.

00:42:15.000 We can't turn away.

00:42:16.000 Let's do what we know in our hearts.

00:42:20.000 We need to do.

00:42:22.000 Let's come together to finish the job on police reform.

00:42:26.000 Do something.

00:42:27.000 Do something.

00:42:29.000 That was the plea of parents who lost their children in Uvalde.

00:42:31.000 I met with every one of them.

00:42:34.000 Do something about gun violence.

00:42:36.000 Thank God.

00:42:37.000 Thank God we did.

00:42:40.000 Passing the most sweeping gun safety law in three decades.

00:42:48.000 That includes things like that the majority of responsible gun owners already support.

00:42:54.000 Enhanced background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds.

00:42:57.000 Red flag laws keeping guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others.

00:43:02.000 But we know our work is not done.

00:43:05.000 Join us tonight as Brandon Say, a 26-year-old hero.

00:43:11.000 Brandon put his college dreams on hold to be at his mom's side.

00:43:15.000 His mom's side when she was dying from cancer.

00:43:22.000 And Brandon...

00:43:30.000 Hey, what did this guy do?

00:43:31.000 Brandon now works at the dance studio, started by his grandparents.

00:43:34.000 Oh.

00:43:35.000 Two weeks ago.

00:43:36.000 He's a dancer.

00:43:36.000 During the Lunar New Year celebrations, he heard the studio door close, and he saw a man standing there pointing a semi-automatic pistol at him.

00:43:47.000 He thought he was going to die, but he thought about the people inside.

00:43:52.000 It's only when you bow, Bert.

00:44:20.000 I led the fight to do that in 1994.

00:44:26.000 In ten years that ban was law, mass shootings went down.

00:44:30.000 After we let it expire in the Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.

00:44:35.000 Let's finish the job and ban these assault weapons.

00:44:39.000 And let's also come together on immigration.

00:44:42.000 Make it a bipartisan issue once again.

00:44:50.000 We now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border, arresting 8,000 human smugglers, seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several months.

00:45:03.000 We've launched a new border plan last month.

00:45:07.000 Unlawful migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that.

00:45:15.000 But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts.

00:45:19.000 If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border.

00:45:33.000 And a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, those on temporary status, farm workers, essential workers.

00:45:41.000 Here in the People's House, it's our duty to protect all the people's rights and freedoms.

00:45:47.000 Congress must restore the right.

00:45:56.000 Congress must restore the right.

00:45:59.000 I was taken away in Roe v. Wade.

00:46:01.000 And protect Roe v. Wade.

00:46:08.000 Give every woman a consolation.

00:46:11.000 Look at Kamala. 0.65

00:46:12.000 She's trying to look like a normal person.

00:46:15.000 Look at Kamala. 0.65

00:46:16.000 She's trying to look like a normal person.

00:46:36.000 Let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.

00:46:46.000 This is where his mouth goes.

00:46:52.000 Our strength is not just the example of our power, but the power of our example.

00:46:58.000 Let's remember the world's watching.

00:47:01.000 I spoke in this chamber one year ago, just days after Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal attack against Ukraine.

00:47:08.000 A murderous assault, evoking images of death and destruction Europe suffered in World War II.

00:47:15.000 Putin's invasion has been a test for the ages, a test for America, a test for the world.

00:47:24.000 Would we stand for the most basic of principles?

00:47:27.000 Will we stand for sovereignty?

00:47:28.000 Will we stand for the right of people to live free of tyranny?

00:47:31.000 Will we stand for the defense of democracy?

00:47:36.000 For such defense matters to us because it keeps peace and prevents open season on would-be aggressors and threatens our prosperity.

00:47:47.000 One year later, we know the answer.

00:47:51.000 Yes, we would, and we did.

00:47:54.000 We did.

00:47:59.000 Nice face.

00:48:22.000 Our ambassador is here.

00:48:24.000 We're united in our support of your country.

00:48:28.000 Will you stand so we can all take a look at you?

00:48:33.000 Thank you.

00:48:34.000 Because we're going to stand with you as long as it takes.

00:48:53.000 Our nation is working for more freedom, more dignity, more peace.

00:48:57.000 Not just in Europe, but everywhere.

00:48:59.000 Before I came to office, the story was about how the People's Republic of China was increasing its power, and America was failing in the world.

00:49:08.000 Not anymore.

00:49:11.000 We made clear, and I made clear in my personal conversations, which have been many, with President Xi, that we seek competition, not conflict.

00:49:20.000 But I will make no apologies

00:49:22.000 Ha! 0.89

00:49:23.000 Did you hear?

00:49:23.000 Marge!

00:49:40.000 Modernizing our military to safeguard stability and deter aggression.

00:49:46.000 Today, we're in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world. 0.94

00:49:52.000 I'm committed to work with China where we can advance American interests and benefit the world, but make no mistake about it.

00:50:08.000 As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country, and we did.

00:50:20.000 Look, let's be clear.

00:50:24.000 Winning the competition should unite all of us.

00:50:27.000 We face serious challenges across the world.

00:50:30.000 He has like this Hitlerian energy which I'm really vibing with. 0.99

00:50:33.000 I'm really digging it.

00:51:00.000 The bridges were forming between partners in the Pacific and those in the Atlantic.

00:51:04.000 And those who bet against America are learning how wrong they are.

00:51:08.000 It's never, ever been a good bet to bet against America.

00:51:11.000 Never.

00:51:30.000 When I came to office, most assured that bipartisanship assumed was impossible, but never believed it.

00:51:37.000 That's why a year ago, I offered a unity agenda to the nation as I stood here.

00:51:42.000 We made real progress together.

00:51:44.000 We passed a law making it easy for doctors to prescribe effective treatments for opium addiction.

00:51:49.000 We passed the gun safety law making historic investments in mental health.

00:51:55.000 We launched the ARPA-H drive for breakthrough in the fights against cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, and so much more.

00:52:03.000 We passed the Heath Robinson PACT Act, named after the late Iraq War veteran whose story about exposure to toxic burn kits I shared here last year.

00:52:24.000 I understand something about those burn pits, but there's so much more to do.

00:52:29.000 We can do it together.

00:52:31.000 Joining us tonight is a father named Doug from Newton, New Hampshire.

00:52:37.000 He wrote Jill, my wife, a letter, and me as well, about his courageous daughter, Courtney.

00:52:44.000 A contagious laugh, his sister's best friend, her sister's best friend.

00:52:49.000 He shared a story all too familiar to millions of Americans and many of you in the audience.

00:52:54.000 Courtney discovered pills in high school.

00:52:58.000 It spiraled into addiction and eventually death from a fentanyl overdose.

00:53:04.000 She was just 20 years old.

00:53:07.000 Describing the last eight years without her, Doug said, there's no worse pain.

00:53:14.000 Yet their family has turned pain to purpose, working to end the stigma and change laws.

00:53:21.000 Oh, wow!

00:53:47.000 That is hilarious.

00:53:48.000 You can literally hear her over everybody.

00:54:08.000 Strong penalties to crackdown on fentanyl trafficking.

00:54:11.000 Second, let's do more in mental health, especially for our children.

00:54:15.000 When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we owe them greater access to mental health care at their schools.

00:54:22.000 We must finally hold social media companies accountable for experimenting they're doing, running children for profit.

00:54:30.000 It's time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop big tech from collecting personal data on our kids.

00:54:37.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:54:38.000 Cheat editors online, ban targeted advertising of children, and impose stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us.

00:54:49.000 Third, let's do more to keep this nation's one truly sacred obligation to equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home.

00:54:59.000 Job training, job placement for veterans and their spouses as they come to return to civilian life.

00:55:06.000 Helping veterans afford the rent because no one should be homeless in America, especially someone who served the country.

00:55:26.000 Dennis McDonough is here, the VA.

00:55:31.000 We had our first real discussion when I asked him to take the job.

00:55:34.000 I'm glad he did.

00:55:35.000 We were losing up to 25 veterans a day on suicide.

00:55:41.000 Now we're losing 17 a day to the silent scourge of suicide.

00:55:45.000 17 veterans a day are committing suicide.

00:55:50.000 More than all the people being killed in the wars.

00:55:54.000 Folks, VA is doing everything it can, including expanding mental health screening.

00:56:01.000 Proven programs that recruit veterans to help other veterans understand what they're going through.

00:56:07.000 Get them the help they need.

00:56:10.000 We gotta do more.

00:56:12.000 And fourth, last year Jill and I reignited the cancer moonshot that I was able to start with President Obama asking me to lead our administration on this issue.

00:56:23.000 Our goal is to cut the cancer death rates at least by 50% in the next 25 years.

00:56:29.000 Turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases.

00:56:34.000 Provide more support for patients and their families.

00:56:37.000 It's personal to so many of us, so many of us in this audience.

00:56:42.000 Joining us are Morris and Candice, an Irishman and the daughter of immigrants from Panama.

00:56:49.000 They met and fell in love in New York City and got married in the same chapel Jill and I got married in New York City.

00:56:55.000 Kindred spirits.

00:56:57.000 He wrote us a letter.

00:56:58.000 It's about his little daughter, Ava.

00:57:01.000 I saw her just before I came over.

00:57:03.000 Chocolates.

00:57:04.000 She was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease, cancer.

00:57:09.000 After 26 blood transfusions, 11 rounds of radiation, 8 rounds of chemo, one kidney removed, given a 5% survival rate.

00:57:21.000 He wrote how in the darkest moments he thought, if she goes, I can't stay.

00:57:27.000 Many of you have been through that as well.

00:57:29.000 Jill and I understand that like so many of you.

00:57:32.000 And you read Jill's book describing our family's cancer journey, and how we tried to steal moments of joy where we could with Beau.

00:57:42.000 For them, that glimmer of joy was the half-smile of their baby girl.

00:57:47.000 It meant everything to them.

00:57:50.000 They never gave up hope.

00:57:51.000 Little Ava never gave up hope.

00:57:54.000 She turns four next month.

00:57:58.000 They just found out Ava's beating the odds, is on her way to being cured of cancer. 0.73

00:58:05.000 And she's watching from the White House tonight and she's not asleep already.

00:58:09.000 For the lives we can save... For the lives we can save and the lives we've lost...

00:58:23.000 Let this be a truly American moment that rallies the country and the world together and proves that we can still do big things.

00:58:32.000 Twenty years ago, under the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, he undertook a bipartisan effort through PEPFAR to transform the global fight against HIV AIDS.

00:58:43.000 It's been a huge success.

00:58:45.000 He thought big.

00:58:47.000 He thought large.

00:58:48.000 He moved.

00:58:51.000 I believe we can do the same thing with cancer.

00:58:58.000 Let's end cancer as we know it.

00:59:01.000 Cure some cancers once and for all.

00:59:06.000 Folks, there's one reason why we've been able to do all of these things.

00:59:12.000 Our democracy itself.

00:59:14.000 It's the most fundamental thing of all.

00:59:17.000 With democracy, everything's possible.

00:59:20.000 Without it, nothing is.

00:59:23.000 The last few years, our democracy has been threatened and attacked.

00:59:25.000 Without democracy, nothing is possible.

00:59:28.000 Put to the test in this very room on January the 6th.

00:59:31.000 And then just a few months ago... Hey, that was me.

00:59:34.000 An unhinged, big lie assailed and unleashed a political violence at the home of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives.

00:59:44.000 Using the very same language the insurrectionists used as they stalked these halls and chanted on January 6th.

00:59:51.000 Here tonight in this chamber is the man who bears the scars of that brutal attack, but is as tough and as strong and resilient as they get.

00:59:59.000 Bravo! 0.99

01:00:00.000 That's so ridiculous. 1.00

01:00:02.000 That's crazy. 1.00

01:00:07.000 That's crazy.

01:00:17.000 But such a heinous act should have never happened.

01:00:21.000 We must all speak out.

01:00:23.000 There's no place for political violence in America.

01:00:25.000 So that's how they're gonna re-up the 1-6 thing.

01:00:29.000 Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people.

01:00:33.000 We have to uphold the rule of law and restore trust in our institutions of democracy.

01:00:37.000 We must give hate and extremism in any form.

01:00:41.000 No safe harbor.

01:00:50.000 This must not be a partisan issue.

01:00:54.000 It's an American issue.

01:00:57.000 Every generation of Americans has faced a moment where they have been called to protect our democracy, defend it, stand up for it.

01:01:04.000 And this is our moment.

01:01:07.000 My fellow Americans, we meet tonight at an inflection point, one of those moments that only a few generations ever face, with the direction

01:01:17.000 True.

01:01:34.000 We're facing the test of our time.

01:01:36.000 So true.

01:01:37.000 We have to be the nation we've always been at our best.

01:01:40.000 Optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking.

01:01:43.000 And white!

01:01:44.000 And Christian!

01:01:46.000 Hope over fear.

01:01:47.000 Union over division.

01:01:48.000 Stability over chaos. 0.88

01:01:48.000 And freaking based. 0.88

01:01:50.000 We have to see each other not as enemies, but as fellow Americans.

01:01:54.000 We're good people.

01:01:56.000 The only nation in the world built on an idea.

01:01:58.000 I'm a pretty good guy.

01:02:00.000 The only one.

01:02:08.000 Other nations are defined by geography, ethnicity.

01:02:15.000 But we're the only nation based on an idea.

01:02:19.000 That all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God.

01:02:24.000 A nation that stands as a beacon to the world.

01:02:28.000 A nation in a new age of possibilities.

01:02:32.000 So I've come to fulfill my constitutional obligation to report in the State of the Union.

01:02:38.000 And here's my report.

01:02:40.000 Because the soul of this nation is strong.

01:02:43.000 Because the backbone of this nation is strong.

01:02:46.000 Because the people of this nation are strong.

01:02:48.000 The State of the Union is strong.

01:02:55.000 It really isn't, though.

01:03:10.000 I'm not new to this place.

01:03:12.000 I stand here tonight, having served as long as about any one of you have ever served here.

01:03:19.000 But I've never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of America.

01:03:23.000 Really?

01:03:24.000 We just have to remember who we are.

01:03:26.000 We're the United States of America, and there's nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.

01:03:33.000 God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.

01:03:36.000 All right.

01:03:37.000 Thank you.

01:03:42.000 fifth

01:04:04.000 What are our thoughts?

01:04:04.000 State of the Union 2023.

01:04:07.000 Let's get some comments from the audience.

01:04:10.000 Let's get some super chats.

01:04:11.000 Let's get some... Give me a 1 if you liked it.

01:04:15.000 2 if you hated it.

01:04:19.000 Let's take a quick poll.

01:04:20.000 1 if you thought it was good.

01:04:22.000 2 if you thought it was bad.

01:04:23.000 I was just boring.

01:04:28.000 The State of the Union is always boring, honestly.

01:04:36.000 Strong record!

01:04:42.000 Things that have been passed that he can talk about.

01:04:45.000 Numbers, facts, and figures that he can already talk about.

01:04:48.000 Projecting into the future more things to come that haven't been implemented yet.

01:04:54.000 You brought up the thing that stood out to me, let's finish the job.

01:04:57.000 And then, you know, he brought the tone that I was looking for and he ended his speech in the way he ends

01:05:06.000 It's true, he does do that a lot, which is interesting.

01:05:32.000 Biden says, uh, we're the United States of America.

01:05:36.000 We could do whatever we want, man.

01:05:39.000 And it's interesting because it's, uh, it's become a tautology.

01:05:45.000 Like, why can we do anything because we're the United States?

01:05:48.000 I was like, okay, what does it mean to be the United States?

01:05:53.000 We're the United States.

01:05:56.000 And it's like, at one point it did mean something, but it doesn't anymore.

01:05:59.000 Now it's sort of like just,

01:06:02.000 There's just this momentum to it.

01:06:03.000 It's become like, it's like self-referential.

01:06:08.000 We used to say that the United States was great because we had this government that was created through reason, and we had these people here, we had like a great stock of people, and it was ingenuity, and we had a great system, and took pride in our work, and all, you know, whatever you want to say, and now it's like, well, what is the evidence that we're great?

01:06:29.000 Well, because we are!

01:06:33.000 And the other thing is this, um, it really is like Empire Strikes Back.

01:06:38.000 The entire Biden administration, specifically with the rallying of NATO, it is like the Empire Strikes Back.

01:06:46.000 All these themes, because it wasn't like this under Obama.

01:06:52.000 But Biden is really asserting very strongly this theme of our democracy and democracy in the world against the so-called autocracies because it totally wasn't like that with the last Democratic administration.

01:07:08.000 Under Obama, he was with Raul Castro and they did the Russia reset and things like that.

01:07:20.000 And now after everything that happened with Trump, it's like the whole neocon deep state has come back together to crush the domestic resistance as well as the rising non-American coalition in the world.

01:07:36.000 And

01:07:57.000 In the Soviet Union, you could say that communism was like a stand-in for the party, for like a particular group of people running a particular institution that wielded power on a global scale.

01:08:09.000 And in the same way, it's like this.

01:08:12.000 It's like, is it really about democracy?

01:08:15.000 Because if it were, the biggest threats to democracy are big tech, massive corruption, those kinds of things.

01:08:25.000 But instead they portray the real threats to democracy, of course, as misinformation, which is really like citizen journalism and dissenting political opinions and things like that.

01:08:40.000 It's actually like the opposite of democracy.

01:08:44.000 So they say democracy, and that's supposed to be a catch-all for openness, freedom, liberalism,

01:08:55.000 But, in fact, it means none of those things, and it doesn't even mean democracy.

01:08:58.000 What it really means is, like, the so-called democratic institutions.

01:09:04.000 What they really mean is the institutions.

01:09:06.000 And what are the institutions?

01:09:08.000 Washington, D.C.

01:09:09.000 It's like the State Department, and it's the Pentagon, and it's the...it's things as they are.

01:09:18.000 It's the status quo.

01:09:20.000 And so Biden is more like a, more than anything, he's just like a cheerleader for the status quo, is what he represents.

01:09:30.000 When he says, we're America, we're a democracy, when he says remember who we are, like remember that we're the United States, it's an appeal to people's sense of

01:09:42.000 America being a great country basically before, basically like before Obama even.

01:09:49.000 Because Obama really created a lot of these problems.

01:09:53.000 Obama comes in with the culture war stuff and it's so divisive and it creates this white lash like Van Jones said, which is true in some sense. 0.92

01:10:03.000 We're good.

01:10:28.000 He's very radical, actually, but in terms of tone, he's a lot more like a Democrat from the 90s.

01:10:34.000 Maybe like more socially liberal, talking about trans stuff, but he's not, he's definitely not woke.

01:10:41.000 At least not in a speech like this.

01:10:43.000 In the State of the Union, in these major policy speeches, he presents himself as more of like a Bill Clinton, more of like a...

01:10:51.000 Centrist.

01:10:53.000 Because he talks about a lot of this, he does talk about a lot of the stuff that Trump does.

01:10:57.000 He's patriotic, he talks about basically protectionism, when he talks about, for example, the CHIP Act, and he talks about Buy American, Hire American, that's straight from the Trump playbook.

01:11:12.000 And he talks about reducing the deficit, and talks about, when he talks about immigration, he talks about border security, but also

01:11:21.000 The border's totally out of control.

01:11:39.000 We're good to go.

01:11:57.000 I don't

01:12:14.000 In the spring and summer, it was the highest monthly numbers for those months ever, like the highest monthly total for the month of May in history, and the highest monthly total for the month of June in history, and then I think recently it was just the highest month ever, period.

01:12:30.000 And so we know that, of course, when you do the State of the Union, it's presented as something that's supposed to be unifying and it's supposed to be an appeal to really everybody.

01:12:41.000 And so that's why it seems more balanced.

01:12:43.000 But, you know, Biden has governed in a way is very radical.

01:12:49.000 But the presentation consistently, and I think Biden does this deliberately, is trying to appeal to kind of like what the 90s were like, basically, even though that's not really the case.

01:13:02.000 And I think it's effective.

01:13:03.000 You know, I don't think that Biden is as unpopular as conservatives think.

01:13:08.000 You know, and I think Scott Greer wrote an article about this in revolt.

01:13:15.000 Conservatives are totally divorced from reality, and the biggest evidence of that, or one of the best examples of that, was they thought there would be this red wave that came from this massive unpopularity of Biden, and it just really wasn't true.

01:13:33.000 And I think that's right.

01:13:35.000 I don't think that Biden is totally unpopular.

01:13:39.000 I don't think that he is somebody that people love, but I also don't think that he's somebody that people hate.

01:13:47.000 In other words, Biden doesn't really activate the conservatives.

01:13:51.000 I don't think that there's so much antipathy towards Biden that it's driving this massive turnout from conservatives and from independents that don't like him.

01:14:01.000 I think that a lot of people think that he's inoffensive and basically acceptable. 0.95

01:14:06.000 Except for, you know, people played up the fuck Joe Biden thing and all that. 0.98

01:14:11.000 I think it's overstated. 0.97

01:14:13.000 It's not to say that it's not out there, but I think it's overstated how much of that there really is.

01:14:18.000 I think that a lot of people, it's sort of like in the same way, in a similar way, there was a shy Trump vote in 2016 of people that supported Trump but didn't want to say it.

01:14:29.000 I don't want to say it's the same thing with Biden, but I do think there are a lot of people who

01:14:37.000 Perhaps they don't want to admit it as maybe more left-wing, or even people that are more right-wing in the middle, or maybe more conservative.

01:14:47.000 I think that they welcome the stability.

01:14:50.000 I think that they welcome the establishment and the regime coming back to power because it's more peaceful.

01:14:58.000 We're good to go.

01:15:13.000 Trump is a resistance figure and to the extent that he's succeeding, the regime is panicking and lashing back out.

01:15:20.000 It's creating a conflict.

01:15:21.000 You know, he's creating tension.

01:15:22.000 It's creating a conflict.

01:15:24.000 And I think there are a lot of people, specifically women, that just didn't like that.

01:15:28.000 And I think that's why they like Biden.

01:15:32.000 So, um, I mean, I find it hard to hate Biden as a guy because he's just like an old school white guy.

01:15:42.000 He seems like an old school white guy who loves his family and seems like a decent person.

01:15:49.000 He's left wing so I don't think he has decent...

01:15:52.000 Positions like him wanting to protect abortion is is abhorrent of course and his position on LGBT and those kinds of things but it's hard for me to hate him because he seems like a Seems like a nice guy seems like he's a little off I also think that the extent to which he's retarded is maybe overstated too I was thinking for a long time that 0.99

01:16:17.000 He was going to become completely incomprehensible and incoherent during the first term, like in short order, but he's hanging on.

01:16:25.000 I mean, he did okay in that speech.

01:16:27.000 He stumbled a little bit, but you know, it's like the guy's 80 years old.

01:16:31.000 So.

01:16:34.000 So, I don't know if I'm just being a contrarian because conservatives are so anti-Biden, have we really come full circle that now I'm like, you know what, Biden's not that bad.

01:16:43.000 I'm not saying that Biden's not that bad, I'm saying on a very narrow way, I think that conservatives have to rethink the strategy here.

01:16:51.000 Because I don't think that Biden is unlikable.

01:16:54.000 And I think that as far as the rhetoric goes, you know, it gets the job done.

01:16:59.000 He's not the most eloquent speaker, but he's got some charisma and he's, he is likable actually.

01:17:05.000 And he's not, he hasn't totally, uh, lost his mind like a lot of conservatives have acted like for the last like five years or, you know, four or three years, whatever it is.

01:17:18.000 So.

01:17:23.000 So I don't know.

01:17:24.000 So I have sort of mixed feelings about the State of the Union.

01:17:29.000 I have mixed feelings about Biden.

01:17:35.000 I mean, of course, he's got to go.

01:17:38.000 You know, we need to have like a Trump or Ye or somebody else win in 24.

01:17:44.000 You know, we need to have a Christian right-wing government and we need to replace this guy because he's just a 1.00

01:17:54.000 Puppet of the regime but

01:18:12.000 Because there's so much going on behind him too.

01:18:15.000 So like, for example, when Marjorie Taylor Greene is jumping up and down like a chimpanzee in the chamber and screaming and hollering about China!

01:18:24.000 And Biden's taking it easy on China!

01:18:27.000 It's like, that is actually just so off-putting to me.

01:18:30.000 It's actually more off-putting to me than Biden.

01:18:32.000 Because Biden actually has a sensible policy towards China.

01:18:36.000 It's like what I said on my show last night.

01:18:39.000 When he says, we want to meet China as a competitor and work with them where we can, but if they provoke us, then we respond, you know, that's actually an appropriate position. 0.97

01:18:49.000 I mean, that's actually rhetoric which is far more in alignment with my position than what the hysterical conservatives are saying on Fox News.

01:19:01.000 Trump and Biden actually probably agree on China.

01:19:04.000 Trump said something similar the other day, which I talked about on my show, but it's frankly, Tucker, and it's Hannity, and it's Fox, and it's the neocons that have the, and Marge, and even people like Alex Jones and others that have this hysterical rhetoric that the chi-coms are taking over everything and Biden won't do anything about it because of Hunter, and it's just like a fever dream. 0.92

01:19:29.000 It's like a,

01:19:30.000 It is a total concoction that was created by cable news that just isn't even real. 0.77

01:19:37.000 You know, Marjorie, I saw she gave a statement for Breitbart earlier tonight before the speech, and she's walking around with her prop, with her balloon, which is just so, like, just clownish.

01:19:48.000 And she said, Americans are telling me that they're terrified. 0.99

01:19:53.000 And it's like, what Americans are afraid of a fucking balloon? 0.99

01:19:56.000 What Americans are afraid of China? 0.99

01:20:00.000 What conservatives think that that's the biggest problem?

01:20:05.000 And specifically for it to be a surveillance issue is crazy.

01:20:11.000 Because the real, as we know, the real surveillance problem in America is the FBI.

01:20:17.000 The real surveillance problem is our own intelligence community and our own DOJ with the Mar-a-Lago raid and all that business.

01:20:26.000 So, what I'm trying to say is, this plays into the problem on the right, which is, since Trump has taken a backseat and he's really not been in the spotlight for the last couple of years, he's been coming back and his messaging has been, I think, getting better, specifically over the last six weeks.

01:20:47.000 But as Trump has taken the backseat and kind of been, not to mix metaphors, but put on the sidelines, you've seen this total resurgence of basically what the GOP was before Trump.

01:20:59.000 You see this revanchist, establishment GOP.

01:21:05.000 And it's led by the people that we were led to believe were supposed to be anti-establishment, or the successors or the inheritors of the Trump legacy.

01:21:17.000 And I'm talking about people like Marjorie, and I'm talking about people like Tucker.

01:21:24.000 Trump is, when he came around in 15 and 16, he was against not just the Dems and the radical left, he was against the whole system.

01:21:34.000 And now that he's not in the equation so much, again up until very recently, and even his messaging was very bad up until very recently, now you have these people that we thought were going to be carrying the torch forward and taking it further than Trump did.

01:21:49.000 And they're taking it backwards!

01:21:52.000 So I'm talking about specifically the Marjories, the Tuckers, that go on their program, and they talk about how China's the real enemy. 0.97

01:22:00.000 That's like how the old GOP used to be.

01:22:02.000 That's like the same hysterics about Russia that the GOP used to have.

01:22:08.000 Because they were the party of anti-Russia hysteria ten years ago.

01:22:14.000 And the same stuff the pro-Israel 0.94

01:22:17.000 Sycophant behavior, the anti-Iran hysteria, as well as this new obsession with the budget and with inflation.

01:22:28.000 Just like before, it really is hardly any different than Paul Ryan's obsession with, like, Ayn Rand and the Freedom Caucus and the fiscal conservatives.

01:22:39.000 But now it's just about inflation.

01:22:41.000 Now it's just about reining in inflation, reining in the budget.

01:22:44.000 And so you have these new people that are leading the charge, and it feels like the Obama conservatives all over again.

01:22:50.000 The Obama era, Fox News, Tea Party, retardation, all over again. 1.00

01:22:57.000 The delusional obsession with the president, who's really not unpopular.

01:23:02.000 You know, the media was able to demonize Trump in a way that Fox News has never been able to demonize a Democrat president.

01:23:09.000 They were never able to demonize Obama or Biden in the same way.

01:23:15.000 But it's this like lunatic obsession on Biden.

01:23:18.000 It's the it's this economic conservatism, whether you call it populism or economic nationalism.

01:23:26.000 It's still they're still focusing on that to the detriment or exception of everything else.

01:23:32.000 It's the war hawk.

01:23:34.000 George Bush, cowboy stuff against the axis of evil, which is now China, Iran, and apparently Russia too, if Mitch McConnell's wearing the Ukraine tie.

01:23:47.000 So the point is, when I see a speech like this, it reminds me I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, okay?

01:23:57.000 That's the most important thing in this time right now, in this very confusing, leaderless, transitional period, is to not get caught back up in the game.

01:24:09.000 That's the biggest thing.

01:24:14.000 And let me, let me mute this.

01:24:15.000 The biggest thing is, you watch this speech, you watch this propaganda, and I see so many people falling into this trap of becoming dutiful Republicans again.

01:24:27.000 Trump started this revolution, and people are just so ready to sign back up, and vote in the midterms, and vote for the Republicans, and fight on the budget, and they're gonna hate Biden on command.

01:24:42.000 And like, I'm just not going to do that.

01:24:44.000 I mean, I'm not like a Biden supporter.

01:24:46.000 I'm not a Democrat.

01:24:48.000 But listen, I have about as much antipathy for Biden and love for Biden as I do for Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell.

01:24:56.000 As far as I'm concerned, they're the same.

01:24:58.000 And sometimes they do good things and sometimes they do bad things.

01:25:01.000 But overall,

01:25:02.000 They're part of a completely compromised and corrupt system, and they all have to be replaced.

01:25:08.000 So when Biden says some of these good things, like, hey, we're gonna go after junk fees, and we're gonna go after Big Tech and protect your privacy, that's great!

01:25:15.000 You know, that's terrific.

01:25:18.000 And when he says, buy American, hire American, and China's a competitor, even things like bring down the price of insulin, okay, great. 0.87

01:25:26.000 I'm not one of these lunatic, you know, I hate the Democrats!

01:25:30.000 It's like the Democrat-Republican thing.

01:25:33.000 If that's in your vocabulary, it's like the past 10 years never happened.

01:25:40.000 So... So anyway, that's my thoughts on the State of the Union.

01:25:46.000 It was boring, and...

01:25:51.000 It's interesting because there's no, where's the vision?

01:25:56.000 What could you say based on that speech was the unified vision and theme?

01:26:02.000 That's the problem above all with our country is not only does it not have a leader, but it also doesn't have any sense of a unifying purpose or vision.

01:26:13.000 And it's embodied in the campaigns and the speeches.

01:26:18.000 And you notice this with all the others.

01:26:20.000 I think that's why Trump was successful.

01:26:21.000 Because Trump, whether you're right or left, he was offering actually like a tangible, clear vision.

01:26:30.000 He said, we're going to make America great again.

01:26:33.000 What was the other message?

01:26:33.000 There was no alternative message.

01:26:40.000 We don't even know what the other slogan was.

01:26:42.000 I mean, I do because I was, you know, I'm a political guy, but we don't even remember what the other slogan was.

01:26:47.000 And now that Trump is...

01:26:49.000 We're good.

01:27:11.000 Policy to policy and it's here's a little stuff about cancer and here's a little stuff about junk fees and here's a little thing about insulin and here's a little thing about the border and by the way we're doing something about this and we're gonna do a little of that.

01:27:28.000 And the most that you could get towards the end, I thought they wrapped it up very hastily.

01:27:33.000 There wasn't a lot of rhetoric in here.

01:27:36.000 It was a lot of policy.

01:27:38.000 It was a lot of specificity.

01:27:41.000 There wasn't a lot of flowery, ornate, wasn't a lot of, you know, he didn't really set any themes or anything.

01:27:50.000 It was just a lot of, it was just sort of like a big list.

01:27:54.000 Really, like, in defense of his record, maybe more than anything.

01:27:57.000 You know, there was a little bit of that towards the end about, hey, democracy, we can't do anything without democracy, and everything we can do is cause a democracy, and tied that in with the Capitol, and with the attack on Paul Pelosi.

01:28:09.000 I thought that was very shoddy.

01:28:10.000 I thought that was just, like, poorly written.

01:28:12.000 Just kind of, uh... It was a bit of a reach.

01:28:18.000 And...

01:28:19.000 And so the themes were not really, um...

01:28:24.000 Didn't really have these strong themes.

01:28:26.000 They weren't really expressed well.

01:28:30.000 And so, like I said, he's really, the message is just, let's just keep everything the same.

01:28:36.000 The message is normalcy.

01:28:39.000 The message is, when he says, we're America, remember that?

01:28:43.000 Remember what it was like before?

01:28:45.000 It's like, hey man, we don't need to change.

01:28:48.000 Oh, here we go, we got, what is this now?

01:28:51.000 Oh, this is the Republican response, okay.

01:28:53.000 Hold on.

01:28:59.000 This is worse than the Biden speech.

01:29:01.000 Biden and the Democrats! 1.00

01:29:03.000 That's gay. 1.00

01:29:03.000 China! 1.00

01:29:25.000 America is the greatest country the world has ever known.

01:29:28.000 This is so out of touch.

01:29:29.000 Because we're the freest country the world has ever known.

01:29:33.000 With a people who are strong and resilient.

01:29:36.000 No they're not. 1.00

01:29:37.000 They're fat and stupid. 1.00

01:29:38.000 Five months ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. 1.00

01:29:41.000 Diagnosed with diabetes.

01:29:42.000 It was a hard time for our family.

01:29:43.000 I was diagnosed with obesity.

01:29:44.000 Particularly our kids.

01:29:46.000 Scarlett, Huck, and George.

01:29:49.000 But we kept our faith and persevered.

01:29:52.000 Thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas, a successful surgery, and the grace of God, I am cancer-free.

01:30:01.000 Through it all, I couldn't help but think about my mom.

01:30:05.000 She was 20 years old.

01:30:07.000 That's inspiring.

01:30:10.000 When she was diagnosed with spinal cancer, the doctors told her she might not live, and if she did live,

01:30:18.000 They said she'd never walk again.

01:30:20.000 Wow.

01:30:21.000 And if she did walk, she'd definitely never have children.

01:30:26.000 The daughter she was told she'd never have... Spoiler alert! 1.00

01:30:29.000 ...was just sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas and is speaking to you tonight.

01:30:35.000 She's the governor now? 1.00

01:30:36.000 I didn't know that.

01:30:37.000 Adversity and fear of the unknown can paralyze us, but faith propels us to charge boldly ahead.

01:30:45.000 She is a looker, man.

01:30:47.000 Ha! 0.89

01:30:47.000 Ah. 0.89

01:31:10.000 Yeah, you're really young and hip.

01:31:12.000 Ugh! 0.97

01:31:26.000 Ugh! 0.97

01:31:47.000 It isn't?

01:31:47.000 Wow.

01:32:15.000 I signed executive orders to ban CRT, racism, and indoctrination in our schools.

01:32:21.000 Eliminate the use of derogatory term Latinx in our government.

01:32:26.000 Repealed COVID orders and said never again to authoritarian mandates and shutdowns.

01:32:32.000 Americans want common sense from their leaders.

01:32:35.000 But in Washington, the Biden administration is doubling down on crazy. 1.00

01:32:42.000 These guys are crazy! 1.00

01:32:46.000 Democrats are crazy! 1.00

01:32:50.000 What they're doing over there is crazy! 1.00

01:32:54.000 And the Democrats and Biden, what they're doing over there is damn crazy! 1.00

01:33:01.000 Just like so fucking stupid and retarded! 1.00

01:33:05.000 I'm not- I'm a Democrat, you know? 1.00

01:33:07.000 This is why I'm wearing a blue hoodie, because I'm a Democrat now. 0.94

01:33:13.000 What them there Democrats and Biden is doing over there is freaking crazy, man.

01:33:20.000 Girls and boys don't even know what they're doing. 0.54

01:33:25.000 It's not between conservative and liberal.

01:33:29.000 Are you normal? 1.00

01:33:30.000 Are you a damn crazy lunatic? 1.00

01:33:55.000 fifth of 1.00

01:34:25.000 Beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy.

01:34:43.000 I wanna just live my life in freedom and peace, man.

01:34:47.000 I don't need all this crazy Democrat stuff.

01:34:51.000 Big, big government. 1.00

01:34:52.000 Fuck you. 1.00

01:34:52.000 How about no more big girls? 1.00

01:34:55.000 I'm not worried about big government, I'm worried about big fat girls. 1.00

01:35:13.000 Republicans will not surrender this fight.

01:35:16.000 We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient.

01:35:16.000 Oh, really?

01:35:23.000 Republicans believe in an America where strong families thrive in safe communities, where jobs are abundant and paychecks are rising, where the freedom our veterans shed their blood to defend is the birthright of every man, woman, and child.

01:35:43.000 These are the principles Republican governors are fighting for.

01:35:47.000 And in Washington, under the leadership of Senate Republicans and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we will hold the Biden administration accountable.

01:35:58.000 Down the street from where I sit is my alma mater, Little Rock Central High.

01:36:04.000 As a student there,

01:36:06.000 I don't care.

01:36:07.000 Mike Huckabee's her dad?

01:36:08.000 Heroes!

01:36:35.000 Heroes!

01:36:35.000 Them little blackfellas is heroes!

01:36:38.000 I'm gonna unveil a package.

01:36:58.000 I'm gonna unveil an educational package for you. 0.99

01:37:01.000 That sucks. 0.98

01:37:01.000 Ugh. 0.98

01:37:17.000 Right.

01:37:17.000 Hmm.

01:37:45.000 Her face is so meaty.

01:37:46.000 She's more masculine than me.

01:37:47.000 But, I'm hot.

01:37:48.000 She's more masculine than me, but... That's because I'm hot.

01:37:51.000 You know.

01:38:13.000 She would beat me in an arm wrestling contest. 1.00

01:38:15.000 Probably eat more ribs than me. 1.00

01:38:16.000 With fucking barbecue sauce all over her face. 1.00

01:38:43.000 My husband Brian and I had just cleaned up wrapping paper that was shoved into every corner of our house, thanks to our three kids, when I had to walk out on my own family's Christmas, unable to tell them where I was going that night, because the place I'd be traveling was so dangerous, they didn't want anybody to know that the President was going to be on the ground, even for a few hours. 1.00

01:39:11.000 We boarded Air Force One.

01:39:14.000 In complete and total darkness.

01:39:17.000 There were no lights on the plane.

01:39:20.000 No lights on the runway.

01:39:23.000 Our phones and computers shut down and turned in.

01:39:27.000 We were going completely off the grid.

01:39:31.000 Nearly 12 hours later, in the pitch black of night, we landed in the war-torn part of western Iraq.

01:39:39.000 It was again a similar scene.

01:39:42.000 No lights on the plane.

01:39:44.000 That's craaazy! 1.00

01:40:12.000 And when they did, it was a sight.

01:40:16.000 That's crazy.

01:40:18.000 And a sound I hope I never forget.

01:40:22.000 The room erupted.

01:40:26.000 President Trump!

01:40:28.000 President Trump!

01:40:29.000 Every political party, every demographic you can imagine started chanting in perfect unison over and over and over again.

01:40:42.000 U.S.A.

01:40:43.000 U.S.A.

01:40:44.000 U.S.A.

01:40:46.000 Yes!

01:40:47.000 It was an absolutely perfect picture.

01:40:50.000 It makes our country great.

01:40:52.000 Yes!

01:40:53.000 One of the young soldiers yelled from the back, Mr. President, I re-enlisted in the military.

01:41:01.000 And the president said, and son, I'm here because of you.

01:41:07.000 Shortly after that young soldier came up to me,

01:41:11.000 He said, Sarah, you have a tough job.

01:41:14.000 I told him what I do is nothing.

01:41:16.000 You take bombs and bullets.

01:41:19.000 That's a tough job.

01:41:21.000 Wow.

01:41:22.000 And in a moment that I know I'll cherish for the rest of my life, that soldier reached up and he pulled the brave rifle's patch he wore on his shoulder, and he placed it into my hand, a sign of ultimate respect.

01:41:36.000 Wow.

01:41:37.000 And he said, Sarah,

01:41:39.000 We are in this together.

01:41:43.000 Overwhelmed with emotion and speechless, I just hugged him with tears in my eyes and a grateful heart for our heroes who keep us free.

01:41:55.000 That young man and everyone who has served before him, all of those who serve alongside him, and the thousands we know who will be called upon to serve after him.

01:42:08.000 What about the real freedom fighters?

01:42:10.000 Huh?

01:42:10.000 Nobody's talking to me!

01:42:26.000 Listen, I'm not poor and I'm not a soldier.

01:42:28.000 So where's my president?

01:42:30.000 Huh?

01:42:30.000 I'm a change maker.

01:42:56.000 So that sucked. 0.96

01:43:17.000 So that sucked. 0.97

01:43:20.000 I'm a Democrat. 0.96

01:43:21.000 I support Biden more than her. 0.99

01:43:24.000 Why would they pick an ugly girl? 1.00

01:43:26.000 Just being practical here. 1.00

01:43:30.000 Why would they pick a fat ugly girl to give the speech and represent Republicans? 1.00

01:43:37.000 What did I literally just say? 0.99

01:43:39.000 What did I literally... Did... Am I not, like, such a genius?

01:43:42.000 I'm not even really trying here, like, I'm tired, my neck hurts, I didn't even really want to do the stream, I watched a lame speech, I'm half messing with the audio, half watching, and at the end I said, well, I said, here's the problem, I said, it highlights how the Republican Party is reasserting itself, the establishment's reasserting itself, it's the same GOP like it was before Trump,

01:44:07.000 And then we get this hillbilly to come on and say, our heroes in Iraq, our heroes in our freedom, and the bad, the feckless Biden administration showing weakness to our enemies. 0.90

01:44:23.000 It's like, dude, could you be any more fucking out of touch? 0.96

01:44:31.000 Talking about big government? 0.98

01:44:33.000 Nobody cares about that anymore, okay?

01:44:36.000 We live in a big world, okay?

01:44:38.000 It's big business, big pharma, big government.

01:44:40.000 We're not going back.

01:44:42.000 So the best that we could hope for is a competent government that could protect the people's interest, protect the public interest against powerful private interest and against the interest of foreign countries.

01:44:55.000 That's the best you're gonna get.

01:44:57.000 And you want the government to be, uh, you want them to not overreach, you know, okay, you know, you don't want the government to be too whatever, but, you know, the idea that it's like, man, I walk outside the house and I can't catch a break from government regulators, it's like, I don't even know if that's really even true.

01:45:23.000 To be honest with you.

01:45:25.000 Like, when I think of all the problems in my life, of which there are many, like, big government just isn't one of them. 0.89

01:45:32.000 I live in California now, and there's a lot of bullshit that I have to put up with, like, you know, they charge you for a plastic bag, and like, 0.78

01:45:40.000 You have to ask for a stride in and out and all that. 0.98

01:45:43.000 But it's like, this is probably the state where the government is overreaching the most.

01:45:47.000 And I'm not, I'm basically not even affected.

01:45:50.000 In fact, it's the opposite.

01:45:53.000 It's like the crime is out of control here.

01:45:55.000 The homelessness, we need, if anything, we need more government.

01:45:59.000 If anything, we need more armed government soldiers on the street, restricting everybody's freedom to steal and be homeless and all the rest.

01:46:10.000 So, I mean, for that to be the response, Biden gives a speech, and the democracy thing is cringe, okay, but he says, you know, listen, we're gonna go after junk fees.

01:46:21.000 The junk fees... I'm a huge proponent of this.

01:46:24.000 The junk fees thing is brilliant because it's something that is tangible that everybody... And it's one of those things that people think it just has to be that way, but it actually doesn't, and the government could just ban it.

01:46:39.000 And things like that, talking about cancer and talking about junk fees and talking about privacy and big tech, these are all things that actually affect people.

01:46:49.000 And talking about healthcare and immigration and the other issues that he talked about, again, those are things that actually affect people.

01:46:58.000 To go and give a speech and say, hey, we're the rootinest tootinest from big government out of our lives, it just, it's totally, doesn't resonate.

01:47:07.000 It's hollow.

01:47:09.000 And not that I don't agree in some capacity, but it's just not effective rhetoric.

01:47:15.000 And this whole thing about the Democrats are crazy, it's like, uh, I don't think anybody even really believes that, okay? 0.90

01:47:26.000 You know, these Republicans say, oh, you know, the Democrats are crazy, it's like, um, 0.99

01:47:33.000 So are the Republicans. 0.96

01:47:34.000 Like, they think both sides think the other's crazy and probably most people are actually down with, like, transgenders, if you want to know the truth. 1.00

01:47:43.000 The things that we think are crazy, most people think are okay.

01:47:47.000 Most people are totally on board with gay marriage. 0.98

01:47:49.000 Most people are totally on board with trannies. 1.00

01:47:52.000 If you want to take a look at

01:47:55.000 We're good to go. 0.99

01:48:15.000 They don't give a shit about trannies. 1.00

01:48:17.000 If you watch like Nelk, or if you watch Barstool Sports, you watch that kind of stuff. 0.99

01:48:23.000 Even like, um, Andrew Tate. 0.90

01:48:26.000 They don't think trannies are crazy. 1.00

01:48:28.000 They support trannies. 1.00

01:48:30.000 They don't think feminism's crazy. 1.00

01:48:32.000 They're feminists! 1.00

01:48:35.000 It's just like, there's little parts of it that they dispute. 0.92

01:48:39.000 It's little, you know, they're like, well, we just think this goes too far, maybe that goes too far, this one's a lol cow or whatever. 0.99

01:48:46.000 That appeal, and I've said this before, it's like Josh Hawley in that hearing. 0.89

01:48:51.000 It's like Josh Hawley when he was in that Senate hearing with that black professor and she said that like men could get pregnant and he was like wow just wow and it's like yeah no like they run the country and that's what they believe and if you think that to just chortle and say huh them Democrats are crazy it's like well you know

01:49:12.000 The Capitol siege happened and you know Trump Trump's pretty off the wall like it's just not that effective so the the idea that all these uh that that messaging is gonna come across to young people or average people and they're all gonna be like

01:49:29.000 Mm-hmm.

01:49:30.000 Bless their heart.

01:49:31.000 Like, it just isn't like that, man.

01:49:33.000 It just isn't like that.

01:49:34.000 Most people live in cities.

01:49:36.000 Most people have gone to college now.

01:49:39.000 Most people are going to college.

01:49:40.000 That's just normal for most people.

01:49:42.000 So, you know, all these rednecks and evangelical types that are gonna say, huh, bless their heart, what they're doing over there is crazy. 0.89

01:49:50.000 It's like, okay, well, most people don't see it that way.

01:49:54.000 And also, for the people that do think it's crazy,

01:49:58.000 It warrants, actually, a stronger response than to just sort of chuckle about it and say, huh, that's crazy over there.

01:50:06.000 It's like, no, actually, it's deeply immoral and it's deeply corrupt and it's deeply offensive.

01:50:12.000 But that's the thing.

01:50:13.000 Conservatives don't know how to have any strong messaging.

01:50:16.000 You know, the right approach would be to say, hey, you should be offended. 0.99

01:50:22.000 Like, they're raping kids. 0.99

01:50:24.000 This is obscene. 1.00

01:50:26.000 This is depraved. 0.57

01:50:27.000 It is totally immoral.

01:50:29.000 We have totally lost a moral fabric.

01:50:31.000 It's got to stop.

01:50:32.000 The government's got to go in.

01:50:34.000 Like, that should be the messaging instead of this aloof, like, uh, because it's the smug, aloof, you know, like, well, we're not even going to give them reaction.

01:50:44.000 Well, it's just between normal and crazy. 0.98

01:50:46.000 It's like, no, it's fucking not. 0.98

01:50:47.000 It's between good and evil. 0.99

01:50:49.000 It's between normal and them, they're Democrats. 1.00

01:50:52.000 I think they lost their damn minds. 0.99

01:50:54.000 It's like, no, it's between good and evil. 1.00

01:50:56.000 It's between being a Christian and having, uh, being a moral person and being completely amoral or immoral and not believing in God. 0.86

01:51:07.000 So no, it's not, it's not, you know, bless their heart. 1.00

01:51:09.000 I think they lost their damn minds. 1.00

01:51:11.000 It's like, no, they're evil. 1.00

01:51:13.000 They're coming for your kids.

01:51:14.000 You should be offended.

01:51:16.000 You should be mad about it.

01:51:17.000 You should talk about it like that instead of this like, it's between normal and crazy. 0.99

01:51:25.000 You know, while they're eating fucking grits at the gas station. 0.97

01:51:31.000 Anyway, so I didn't like that. 0.99

01:51:34.000 And then this whole thing about the troops.

01:51:37.000 I mean, dude,

01:51:40.000 Like just what?

01:51:42.000 Where does that work except for like a country music concert, man?

01:51:47.000 This like the troops thing?

01:51:49.000 It's like the war's over.

01:51:52.000 Give me a break now with this we flew in

01:51:56.000 And the troops were there, and we said, Merry Christmas, and he took his purple heart and gave it to me.

01:52:04.000 You're the real hero.

01:52:06.000 You're getting shot at for our freedom. 1.00

01:52:09.000 It's like, what the fuck? 1.00

01:52:12.000 I just can't, man. 0.99

01:52:14.000 Like, you know, I'm not a Democrat.

01:52:16.000 I'm certainly not a Republican.

01:52:18.000 And that whole scene is just repellent to me.

01:52:25.000 Marge, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

01:52:27.000 The only—somebody said this earlier today.

01:52:30.000 I think it was—I don't know who said it.

01:52:35.000 I want to give them credit.

01:52:36.000 I think Ali reposted it.

01:52:38.000 I don't know who posted it first, though.

01:52:40.000 But somebody on Telegram said, the GOP's exactly the same.

01:52:43.000 It just got less white and gayer.

01:52:46.000 And it's exactly right.

01:52:47.000 It's like, instead of, like, Rick Santorum delivering that response, or whoever, now it's a girl. 0.94

01:52:55.000 You know, and instead of giving a speech about, like, whatever, well now they're gonna do the thing about the Little Rock Nine.

01:53:02.000 The Little Rock Nine, by the way.

01:53:06.000 That's crazy.

01:53:11.000 So, and it's like, instead of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, you get Marjorie Taylor Greene, and you get, and it's girls instead. 0.99

01:53:22.000 I'm sick of these rootin' tootin' girl power divorcees and their anti-big government, you know, Freedom Caucus, Chapter 2 bullshit. 0.99

01:53:34.000 I'm over it. 0.99

01:53:36.000 I agree more with Biden than with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

01:53:39.000 Biden's speech was way better by far than hers.

01:53:45.000 And he supported abortion in the middle of it!

01:53:47.000 Not that I support abortion, but it's like, you know, that's about as offensive as it gets.

01:53:52.000 And his speech was still, resonated with me more.

01:53:55.000 And he, and I was on there at January 6th, and he was throwing, saying I attacked democracy, and I still like the speech better. 0.95

01:54:03.000 Then Huckabee Sanders talking about the patch on her freaking arm. 0.98

01:54:08.000 Crazy. 0.99

01:54:16.000 Just crazy.

01:54:17.000 So...

01:54:27.000 Yeah.

01:54:29.000 That response was horrible.

01:54:32.000 Why would they pick her?

01:54:33.000 And I love how she says, I'm the youngest governor.

01:54:36.000 It's like, you're 40, man.

01:54:38.000 You're like a 40-year-old, not-good-looking woman. 1.00

01:54:42.000 Did they think?

01:54:43.000 And she kept saying, like, it's time for a new... So canned. 0.96

01:54:47.000 It's time for a new generation.

01:54:49.000 A new generation.

01:54:50.000 He's the oldest president, I'm the youngest governor.

01:54:52.000 He's 80, I'm 40.

01:54:53.000 We need a new generation.

01:54:57.000 Is this the message?

01:54:59.000 Is this the spokesperson that's gonna speak to the new generation? 0.99

01:55:02.000 I'm the fucking new generation. 0.98

01:55:05.000 And I'm supposed to watch this speech by Sarah Huckabee Sanders about big government and our boys over there in Iraq? 0.99

01:55:14.000 And that's supposed to win me over?

01:55:16.000 Man, you know, I love Biden's speech about buying American, hiring American, producing semiconductors and chips and reducing the price of insulin and going after junk fees and not going to war with China.

01:55:30.000 But you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking about our boys over there on Christmas.

01:55:35.000 And big government and Little Rock Nine.

01:55:37.000 And, you know, as a young person, as a fellow young person like her, that just resonated with me.

01:55:44.000 Biden's too old.

01:55:45.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders is definitely, like, cool and hip and young and stuff, like me.

01:55:52.000 How out of touch can you get?

01:55:53.000 Like, who made that decision? 1.00

01:55:56.000 What idiot made that decision? 1.00

01:55:58.000 I'd like to know. 1.00

01:56:04.000 That was brutal. 0.99

01:56:10.000 And that was after they got raped in the midterms. 0.99

01:56:12.000 Like, think about it. 0.99

01:56:14.000 The GOP got raped in the midterms in 2018. 0.99

01:56:16.000 We got raped in 2020. 0.99

01:56:18.000 We got raped in 2022. 0.89

01:56:20.000 Really for like, there was no reason that any of that should have happened. 0.99

01:56:24.000 And then on their 23rd State of the Union, this is kind of like the first thing they could do since the Trump announcement to set the stage for the next cycle, and they trot out Mike fucking Huckabee's daughter. 0.79

01:56:39.000 Mike Huckabee, host of Huckabee on Fox News, who plays the bass guitar at the end of his show. 0.86

01:56:48.000 And they bring out his...

01:56:52.000 Field hockey.

01:56:54.000 Daughter.

01:56:56.000 Big girl.

01:56:57.000 They bring out the big girl to talk about our heroes!

01:57:03.000 Heroes!

01:57:04.000 Like them little blackfellas and our boys over there in Iraq. 0.82

01:57:09.000 This one goes out to our first responders and our boys in uniform.

01:57:16.000 Jeez.

01:57:18.000 The GOP is just turning into a gayer, blacker country music concert. 1.00

01:57:25.000 Back to the country music concert.

01:57:28.000 Back to the farm.

01:57:31.000 Trump brought the GOP to New York, into the future.

01:57:34.000 Trump said, I live at the top of a gold and black palace in New York, and I'm rich and hot and cool, and I'm a celebrity and I'm famous.

01:57:45.000 And my apartment's made out of gold and we're gonna bring America to Mars and buy Greenland? 0.87

01:57:52.000 And they want, they're like, you know, they want to bring us back to the farm in Texas.

01:57:56.000 They want to bring us back to the ranch.

01:58:01.000 Back to a Kenny Chesney concert.

01:58:06.000 Jeez, so horrible.

01:58:08.000 Trump was such a blessing.

01:58:09.000 He was from New York!

01:58:10.000 He was cool.

01:58:12.000 He was from the North.

01:58:18.000 Enough with all this folksy, you know.

01:58:21.000 My mama, my daddy, my daughter, our three kids.

01:58:27.000 Bruh.

01:58:33.000 Don't like it.

01:58:38.000 What do the comments say here?

01:58:41.000 Return to Ram Ranch, yup.

01:58:43.000 Trump brought us gay world order. 1.00

01:58:45.000 Shut up, dummy. 1.00

01:58:48.000 New York City breeds cool-ass people, absolutely. 1.00

01:59:04.000 Good luck in your city without farms.

01:59:07.000 Good. 0.93

01:59:08.000 I'm so glad you're mad. 1.00

01:59:10.000 Fuck you. 1.00

01:59:11.000 I love all the southerners are now getting mad at all the farmers. 1.00

01:59:16.000 Good luck in your city without our farms out here. 0.94

01:59:21.000 Listen, you're cringe.

01:59:22.000 You're cringe. 0.99

01:59:23.000 You're lame. 1.00

01:59:25.000 Yeah, okay, you grow all the food. 0.97

01:59:27.000 Well, without us, it wouldn't be worth living.

01:59:30.000 It wouldn't be worth even having food to live.

01:59:34.000 Because there's nothing going on out there!

01:59:35.000 Except for being boring. 0.99

01:59:39.000 And smug and fucking annoying. 0.99

01:59:42.000 They're like, well, we just do things a little different around here. 1.00

01:59:46.000 Yeah, lamer.

01:59:48.000 Boringer.

01:59:49.000 More boring and lamer and cringe. 0.72

01:59:54.000 Bless your heart, them city slickers just don't understand.

01:59:57.000 Yeah, okay, pal. 1.00

02:00:00.000 I think you have a little cow shit on your fucking pants, so... I think the smugness is maybe unwarranted. 1.00

02:00:07.000 If you're covered in mud and poo.

02:00:11.000 Anyway... I love farmers, but just, uh... You know, listen, they gotta stop with it.

02:00:17.000 We can't... The farm thing is just not...

02:00:21.000 This, this, uh, hill people thing, it just isn't gonna work.

02:00:25.000 Like, we're, we're not gonna win as the hill people.

02:00:29.000 Okay?

02:00:30.000 Nothing wrong with farming, nothing wrong with being a farmer, but, like, this hill people, you know, this smug, arms-folded, uh, you know, whatever, you know, it's just not gonna work, man.

02:00:47.000 We're living in the 21st century, pal.

02:00:56.000 That's your gal there, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 0.99

02:01:00.000 Hero!

02:01:02.000 Our heroes!

02:01:06.000 In Sunday school, Sunday, Sunday school, our heroes!

02:01:14.000 Seriously?

02:01:17.000 I'm voting for Biden.

02:01:18.000 I'm riding with Biden.

02:01:19.000 I'm riding with Biden now.

02:01:21.000 I'm with Paul Town on this one. 1.00

02:01:22.000 I love when you see the Paul Town stream when he was like, your trailer fucking your trash. 1.00

02:01:31.000 That was a great stream. 1.00

02:01:33.000 That was hilarious.

02:01:37.000 That's a big reason why I love Paul Town because he's got the same like he's now he's from New York he thinks New York is better than anywhere so we disagree on that but but I respect it because like you know what New York is the biggest city it is the American metropolis it is the American mega megalopolis okay so I respect it

02:01:59.000 He likes Jay-Z better than Ye, whatever.

02:02:03.000 But I love that about him, that he has an arrogance because he's from a big city and he knows people that kill people and stuff like that.

02:02:10.000 Sounds like Spencer.

02:02:11.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.99

02:02:12.000 Somebody says, holy shit, Dickie Spencer was right all along. 0.96

02:02:17.000 You know, in some ways he might have been, actually. 0.99

02:02:20.000 He might have been.

02:02:22.000 Don't make me pick between Biden and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

02:02:25.000 Don't make me pick between Biden and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 0.87

02:02:30.000 Please.

02:02:31.000 Please!

02:02:32.000 Me and Sarah Huckabee Sanders have nothing in common.

02:02:35.000 I'm Catholic.

02:02:36.000 I'm from Chicago.

02:02:37.000 I'm an extremist.

02:02:39.000 I'm a reactionary.

02:02:41.000 I'm Italian.

02:02:43.000 I have more in common with Biden than I have with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

02:02:48.000 Biden's Catholic.

02:02:49.000 He's from the North. 0.96

02:02:50.000 He's Irish.

02:02:52.000 He's a protectionist.

02:02:54.000 He has this, like, national pride.

02:02:55.000 He believes in big, efficacious government.

02:03:00.000 Like, I have more in common with Biden than I do with these rootin' tootin' types from Arkansas.

02:03:00.000 Okay?

02:03:17.000 So...

02:03:23.000 Same with Marge. 1.00

02:03:24.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders would totally disavow me. 1.00

02:03:28.000 Because she's probably pro-Israel and all that.

02:03:34.000 Alright.

02:03:35.000 Let me take a look at the superchats.

02:03:37.000 We'll see what the superchats say.

02:03:38.000 That was hard.

02:03:39.000 That was a hard watch.

02:03:41.000 Thanks.

02:03:41.000 Another hard watch.

02:03:47.000 And then I gotta go eat.

02:03:48.000 I'm hungry again.

02:03:49.000 I had this small sandwich for lunch.

02:03:51.000 I need more.

02:03:59.000 Let's find out.

02:04:07.000 All right, Alan Akbar says, you're my hero, Nick.

02:04:11.000 You have literally gone through hell just to give us the truth and I love you for it.

02:04:14.000 You're a real hero and I wish you the best. 1.00

02:04:16.000 White ass niggas going hard as fuck forever. 1.00

02:04:18.000 House niggas are included. 1.00

02:04:20.000 Hey, thank you very much, man.

02:04:22.000 Thanks for the big super chat.

02:04:23.000 I appreciate it.

02:04:25.000 I love you too, buddy.

02:04:26.000 Thanks for all the love.

02:04:27.000 Yeah, I did go through a lot of hell just to give you the truth and good content.

02:04:34.000 I was thinking about that today.

02:04:34.000 And it's all worth it.

02:04:37.000 You know, and I was thinking about other people who made other decisions and, you know, they prioritize the money or their career or their YouTube channel, whatever.

02:04:49.000 And it's like, we make money and we maintain channels and things like that to do this.

02:04:56.000 Otherwise, it's not even worth it.

02:04:57.000 If you had the money, if you had the YouTube, if you had all the things that are taken away from you,

02:05:04.000 Without the message.

02:05:06.000 What's the point of it all?

02:05:07.000 Because if I, if I was not saying what I'm saying, if I wasn't doing what I'm doing, I wouldn't be having fun.

02:05:13.000 I wouldn't be having fun.

02:05:15.000 I wouldn't be true to myself.

02:05:18.000 I wouldn't be true to the truth.

02:05:21.000 And so what would be the point of it all?

02:05:24.000 I could never really enjoy it.

02:05:25.000 I couldn't even really enjoy the company.

02:05:27.000 I don't know that I can enjoy the company of people that are not doing that.

02:05:32.000 In public or private?

02:05:51.000 It's like the most interesting, smartest, funniest people are attracted to this.

02:05:57.000 I mean, they're the ones that are touching the third rail.

02:05:59.000 They're the ones that are considered the pariahs.

02:06:02.000 They're the ones that are ostracized.

02:06:05.000 And very quickly, when you get away from the third rail, you just get all these really unremarkable people.

02:06:14.000 So...

02:06:17.000 So yeah, I mean, it's been tough, but wouldn't have it any other way.

02:06:20.000 Alan Akbar says, the will of a single man can change the world.

02:06:24.000 Real.

02:06:25.000 Dr. Datz says, Joe Biden says he's going to replace all the lead pipes in America so children don't experience brain damage.

02:06:32.000 Pans to John Fetterman.

02:06:34.000 Wow, very funny.

02:06:35.000 Well, he actually had a stroke, so it's a little different.

02:06:39.000 Ramen Noodles says, when they pan the camera to the Republicans,

America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - February 08, 2023

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