Joe Biden delivers a State of the Union address that had a lot of people outside the U.S. Capitol chanting and heckling. The response from outside of the Capitol building was interesting to say the least... Joe Biden is right about one thing, and that's that Russia is a threat to the United States. But what does that have to do with the Ukraine crisis? And what does it mean for the future of our relationship with Russia and Ukraine? And why is it so important that the President and Vice President speak out about this in a foreign country that is trying to take us back from the brink of civil war? And how can we stop Putin from doing what he's doing to us in Ukraine? What can we do to stop Putin and make sure we don't get sucked into the maelstrom that he's creating in Ukraine, and why we need to stand up to him? And what should we do about it? And is it a good thing that we're not going to stop him from doing it in the future, because he's going to get us into another war with Russia, and we're going to have to pay the price for it? And why do we have to be so angry at him for it and why does it matter? and how should we be mad at him and what he s going to do it and why should we about it ? at the future? if we don t do anything about it, and how does he s got a plan to stop Russia or not Putin s to stop us from doing anything in Ukraine and Ukraine s in the first place? in a country that s s to help us with Ukraine in America s a country in Europe s at us in any way? or what s he s doing in response to our country? to us and we should be doing us to us s with our country s ? and so on and so much more! and much more ... and more in this episode of Firebrand! Firebrand on the Firebranding Tweet Me! Tweet me . and let me know what you thought of it! Timestamps: and your thoughts on this episode & what you think of it & your reaction? .
00:03:11.000That was the scene outside the State of the Union at the U.S. Capitol last evening as Joe Biden delivered the address on the state of the nation, or really the state of his political life and political campaign.
00:03:22.000It certainly had 2024 contest energy more so than a true update as to what was going on with the country.
00:03:29.000Kimberly on Facebook says she can't tell what's worse, the yelling or the whispering.
00:03:39.000We are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And thank you for tuning in from South Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts, Washington State.
00:03:50.000I'm going to be breaking down the State of the Union, what the signals and tells are, the various things that That Joe Biden mentioned in his remarks and I thought it was noteworthy that we invited Biden to give the State of the Union and he did, I guess, as to the Union of Ukraine.
00:04:08.000The guy gets there and rather than talking about America first, He launches into this big explanation about Ukraine.
00:04:18.000And when you start the State of the Union speech by saying, it is democracy that is at issue.
00:04:24.000I'm here to give a speech about democracy.
00:04:26.000And I'm starting with a country that just canceled its presidential elections.
00:04:31.000And oh, by the way, here, a bunch of Biden's allies are trying to take Trump off the ballot.
00:06:45.000I thought this was interesting because Trump is going to be able to present in contrast with Joe Biden four years where Vladimir Putin didn't invade anyone.
00:06:54.000When Donald Trump was president, even the dictators were on their best behavior because Trump was not predictable.
00:07:00.000And here you have Joe Biden Creating moral hazard in Europe by saying the United States will forever float the cost of this war.
00:07:36.000Remember, for all the criticism folks want to lodge at Mike Johnson, he at least said to the administration, there's not going to be more Ukraine money if you're not able to answer the questions about what it is we're trying to win there.
00:07:48.000And there's a lot of divergence of opinion on that, even between the United States and Ukraine.
00:07:53.000Joe Biden also had a lot to say about COVID. Remember, that thing that caused us to lock up the country, destroy lives, impact mental health, drive people deeper into addiction, depression.
00:08:04.000We did all that for something the CDC now says.
00:08:07.000You can just wait until 24 hours after your fever subsides to return back to social contact.
00:09:55.000That's what America does. - We're back live.
00:10:04.000I'm not entirely sure that the claim that the COVID vaccine is going to cure cancer is going to particularly age well.
00:10:10.000We continue to discover more and more vaccine injuries that the government is working alongside big pharma to cover up.
00:10:17.000And so I don't know that that's a comeback so much as yet another setback that is compounded by the poor decisions we made to extend liability protections to these vaccine manufacturers during the CARES Act.
00:10:30.000Now, Kimberly on Facebook, I'm sorry, Patricia on YouTube says the best part of the night was MTG yelling.
00:10:36.000That's a sentiment I've heard from a lot of people.
00:10:38.000Kim on Rumble says Mike Johnson's way better than Kevin McCarthy, but...
00:10:42.000Disappointed he was nodding way too much.
00:10:45.000I thought Mike Johnson had dismissive energy around some of the claims that Biden was making, kind of rolling his eyes, nodding, certainly more disrespectful, I should say, than Nancy Pelosi ripping up President Trump's speech, which actually, as it turns out, is a crime and super frowned upon.
00:11:02.000So when things are looking bad for Democrats, you can always rely on them to return to the The traditional scare tactic that they use around Social Security and Medicare.
00:11:12.000That's how they get seniors to vote against, at times, their own interests, the interests of the country, even the long-term health of those very programs.
00:11:20.000Joe Biden did not spare comment on Social Security and Medicare last evening.
00:12:37.000King saying, let this man rest in peace in a nursing home.
00:12:40.000Why drag him out to give the State of the Union?
00:12:43.000And Dixie on Getter wanting to know why Hunter Biden was not sitting in the family section.
00:12:48.000I don't know if he got the invite here.
00:12:50.000He certainly got the invite when we were asking him questions in his deposition regarding These bribes masquerading as business transactions.
00:12:58.000Joe Biden I don't think is going to be running an election on Social Security and Medicare.
00:13:03.000Republicans haven't advanced any program proposal or idea that would harm those programs.
00:13:08.000If anything, we want to ensure their sustainability for the long term for those who rely on them.
00:13:13.000And while there's a lot we can do on Medicaid to block grant that program, to allow states to have the opportunity to be more flexible and to try innovations to lower the cost of health care, we see right now a Medicaid system that is less capable of meeting the needs of the vulnerable we see right now a Medicaid system that is less capable of meeting the needs of the vulnerable because we've plowed so many additional illegal aliens onto So a lot of work to be done on those things.
00:13:40.000But Joe Biden demonstrating the need to draw from a very old playbook because there are not a lot of new innovative plays in there if you're Joe Biden and the economy is failing as it currently is.
00:13:54.000Now, the inflation issue is one that dogs the president.
00:13:57.000Inflation has been skyrocketing It's impacted the family budget of just about every working class family in the country.
00:14:04.000And it's also resulted in changes to how people buy cars, buy homes, and really execute on the principal factors of their lives.
00:14:13.000Joe Biden thinks the answer to inflation is to print more money and give it out.
00:14:31.000I want to provide an annual tax credit that will give Americans $400 a month for the next two years as mortgage rates come down to put toward their mortgages when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space.
00:14:48.000Utilizing the government to plow more money into the economy when you have limited inventory in terms of homes relative to the demand, when you've brought 10 million people across the border illegally, that is inherently inflationary.
00:15:12.000Of course, home prices will continue to rise if we create government programs that subsidize these first-time home buyers.
00:15:17.000And I'm not unsympathetic to the cause, but the right answer is actually to reduce our spending, reduce our debt.
00:15:39.000And by the way, when Joe Biden talks about people who are first-time homebuyers or people who are upgrading their home, what about people who downsize?
00:15:46.000We have a lot of seniors in Florida who are empty nesters, who don't need as much space in retirement.
00:15:52.000Is every Florida retiree going to be subsidizing somebody else's home purchase?
00:16:00.000But it's the type of thing you see floated and it shows a basic misunderstanding of core economic theory.
00:16:05.000There's also a misunderstanding of the border that we see with Joe Biden and we all remember When Joe Biden raised his hand, said he wanted to give free health care to illegal aliens, we remember when he boasted about repealing the Trump policies that were working on the border.
00:16:21.000Now Joe Biden says it's the Republicans to blame.
00:16:24.000Even though we passed bills, even though we supported President Trump's actions on the border, he blames the Republicans for the open border he created.
00:18:52.000You get a guy in his 80s talking and you're going to hear some things.
00:18:57.000The squad like you about had to go and wake them up with smelling salts after Joe Biden talked about that.
00:19:04.000And then there was that passing reference Joe Biden made to the thousands of people who were the victims of crimes of illegal aliens.
00:19:09.000And I don't think that's doing the work for him that he thinks it is.
00:19:12.000Because it only showcases the cost, the collateral damage that their administration is willing to endure in order to keep an open border and get people into the cities, the sanctuary cities, where the folks have been fleeing Because it's too unsafe, because economic conditions are deteriorating, and because the majesty of America's great places does not thrive under the leftist socialist policies that have been visited on places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
00:19:43.000Once incredible places, once centers of innovation and art and growth, and now they look more like the third world.
00:19:51.000Speaking of some of the problems in the third world, we look at Gaza right now as a dire situation.
00:19:58.000And we feel for the people who are starving there, who are having failures of their organs because the only water to drink is salt water.
00:20:14.000Now, of course, we don't want to be giving aid that can be diverted by Hamas to extend the carnage of this conflict.
00:20:22.000But at the same time, it cannot be tenable that there's no ability for Arab countries, not the United States, but for Arab countries, to be able to get true aid vetted, scanned, and cleared safely.
00:20:39.000To the desperate and dying people in Gaza.
00:20:41.000Now, Joe Biden has a different prescription for this.
00:20:44.000Predictably, it's nation building at your expense, your money, your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, building a port in Gaza.
00:20:57.000The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
00:21:01.000Tonight, I'm directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.
00:21:56.000You have hundreds of thousands of people who are desperate and dying.
00:22:01.000It's not a good situation to just drop a contracting crew in and hope everything goes well.
00:22:06.000So you're going to have to have security for them.
00:22:08.000Then you're going to have to have exfil.
00:22:09.000You're going to have to have people planning for any type of extraction that needs to happen for contractors or security personnel if the situation breaks bad very quickly.
00:22:19.000So then that's another feature of what you've got to have.
00:22:38.000The answer is to have these rich Gulf monarchies, Arab countries, facilitate aid into the country and to not have that aid come through the crux of conflict and bombs dropping.
00:22:53.000We hope for better days in Gaza, in Israel, in Judea and Samaria.
00:22:59.000But until then, we cannot allow this to become a tinderbox that spills over into some regional or global war.
00:23:07.000That would not be in America's interests, or Israel's interests, or in the interests of the people who live in Gaza.
00:23:16.000One of the funny comments we had on the live stream was, That folks were happy to listen to me, but if they had to listen to Joe Biden this much in the episode, they were tuning out.
00:23:28.000And, of course, how the other side lays out their argument tells us a lot about how we have to approach the major problems facing the country, and that is indeed what we will do.