Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 751 ｜ Biden’s Absurd State of the Union Address

00:00:00.000 President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union last night. Some funny things happened,

00:00:05.120 some bizarre things happened, and some sad and really frustrating things were said as well.

00:00:10.680 We will get into all of it, as well as what I thought was an incredible GOP response today.

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00:00:30.000 All right, guys. Happy Wednesday. Halfway there. And today, we get to talk about the State of the

00:00:40.640 Union that our beloved Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden delivered last night. You know, I have to say,

00:00:48.500 I was watching it. I watched maybe like the last 30 minutes. It was that long that it had already

00:00:53.440 been going on for about 30 minutes by this time I decided to tune in. And it was very boring. It was

00:00:59.640 very difficult to watch, but it kind of got spicy in there. I don't know if you guys saw any clips

00:01:04.980 circulating on Twitter or on Instagram, but Republicans were standing up and speaking out

00:01:12.300 and screaming and yelling in some cases. So it kind of made it exciting. Honestly, I know some people

00:01:18.780 might have criticism of that. I kind of like, I kind of like that spirit. I kind of like the,

00:01:24.340 the raucousness and the excitement that comes with kind of the back and forth because there

00:01:31.320 are some points when Biden even like responded to that. And we'll get into that today. So the

00:01:36.900 State of the Union, obviously, is not very good. Like you're feeling it, right? You're feeling it in

00:01:42.840 your pocketbook, which affects everything. Inflation is affecting you. The supply chain is affecting you.

00:01:49.140 Even just post COVID, things still don't seem normal. Things seem slower. They seem smaller.

00:01:56.040 They seem lower quality in a lot of ways. Travel seems more stressful. Incompetence in places where

00:02:02.720 we don't want incompetence seems to be thriving, whether it's the kind of service that you get,

00:02:07.280 or even all these stories that we keep seeing about airplanes almost crashing into each other on

00:02:12.420 the runways. It just, you wonder, all right, are we ever going to get back to this place of

00:02:19.440 excellence and competence that America used to be? Because we valued those things. So things just

00:02:25.460 don't really feel good. Even if things are going well in your personal life, things are harder,

00:02:30.620 I think, for a lot of people than they were before. But it's the job of the president of the State of

00:02:35.000 the Union, despite all of these things, to make you feel like things are going well,

00:02:38.600 and that he, his administration, and his party are putting things on the right track.

00:02:43.740 That's not just the Democrats that do that. That's also Republicans. It's not really

00:02:47.960 delivering a State of the Union. It's really saying, here are all of the things that my

00:02:55.500 administration has done and done well, and not even necessarily an accurate depiction of those

00:03:00.780 things, but here's how we want to present them to you so you think that things are going well,

00:03:04.780 and here are all of the things that we're going to deliver you. So it's really about kind of

00:03:10.640 bolstering hope and enthusiasm for this president and his particular party. It's not actually to give

00:03:18.040 an accurate rendering of the State of the Union. Even when they present, okay, here are the problems

00:03:23.140 that we're looking at as a country, they kind of do that just to say, oh, I understand that this is

00:03:29.160 a problem and we're going to address it. But as we'll talk about today, Republicans kind of called

00:03:34.000 him out in real time on some of those things. So we're going to play some clips and I'll respond

00:03:39.200 to them. I'll fact check some of the things that he said, and I will play some things that I kind

00:03:45.340 of thought were funny as well. And a lot of people were talking about on social media. We're not going

00:03:49.820 to go in chronological order. We are going to go in order of what I want, of the things that I want

00:03:55.800 to talk about, the things that I have the most enthusiasm about. Okay, before we get into it,

00:04:00.900 someone tweeted this, we fact checked it. And so it's correct. Tom Elliott, he tweets these kinds

00:04:06.840 of facts and different news clips a lot. He said actual State of the Union. So this just gives us

00:04:12.080 context that we're setting up here. Inflation, 14.5%. Now I've heard Joe Biden say in the past that

00:04:18.920 inflation was here when Trump was president. Inflation was at like 1.4% or something like that

00:04:23.980 when Trump was president. So not exactly true. Inflation, 14.5% deficit, $1.6 trillion debt.

00:04:30.880 $31.5 trillion. I will say Republicans and Democrats have contributed to that.

00:04:36.180 States debt, $1.2 trillion debt to GDP, 120%. Debt per taxpayer, $246,000 unfunded liabilities,

00:04:44.940 $181 trillion annual fentanyl deaths, $108,000. That's insanely tragic and incredible. And he'll

00:04:54.260 actually note that as we'll talk about in a minute. 2022 migrant border crossings, $2.76 million.

00:05:02.920 Hmm, that seems to go hand in hand with the fentanyl part. Average federal salary, $91,000.

00:05:09.960 Oh, interesting. And yet standing ovation count throughout this speech was 86. So I mean,

00:05:16.980 that's just a small picture of the State of the Union. That's not even looking at like the moral

00:05:20.780 and cultural decay that we talk about on a daily basis on this show. That's just part of it. That's

00:05:25.500 just what you're feeling in your pocketbook. And then he also brags in the speech about how he's

00:05:29.520 going to raise taxes. It will end up being on everyone. He claims it's only for people making

00:05:35.240 $400,000. But we'll talk about that more later. All right. Let's start with this first clip.

00:05:41.020 Um, and this has nothing to do with the speech. This doesn't even have to do with Joe Biden.

00:05:47.180 This has to do with the good doctor, Jill Biden, and her greeting towards the second gentleman. Is

00:05:56.920 that what you call him? Second man. So first lady, second gentleman. So this is Kamala Harris's

00:06:00.980 husband, who has his own last name, Douglas Emhoff. They greeted each other. And a lot of people were

00:06:07.360 talking about how weird this was. So let me play you. And by the way, if you're listening to this,

00:06:14.660 you need to watch this on YouTube. You're not going to get the full effect if you're not watching this

00:06:17.980 on YouTube. All right. Let me, let me show you this interaction before the speech started. Here we go.

00:06:23.820 Okay. So I wish that we could like, I wish that we could stop and just freeze frame that and zoom in.

00:06:31.440 Actually, I'm going to ask if we have some pictures, if you're watching on YouTube, some pictures that

00:06:36.140 people were circulating on Twitter to put those up. I mean, it was like a full on lip lock. All right.

00:06:43.720 I mean, they greeted each other and there we go there. I mean, that looks so weird. So I understand

00:06:49.760 that some people kiss when they greet each other, like they kiss on the cheek or maybe even a light

00:06:57.340 pack on the lips. Maybe if you're family, I am not a part of that culture. Please. Unless you are my

00:07:06.120 husband or one of my children, do not ever try to kiss me on the cheek or anything. When you're

00:07:14.220 greeting me, I just find that very uncomfortable personally. But this was like a lip lock. I am

00:07:20.940 talking like one lip on top of the other, like dovetailing each other. That was weird. So I'm not

00:07:28.960 saying that anything is going on here behind the scenes. That's not what I'm implying. I'm just saying

00:07:35.060 that this was weird and don't do this. So a lot of people were talking about that. So I wanted to

00:07:42.120 just, I just wanted to set that up. That's how this whole evening started with this makeout sesh

00:07:46.180 between the second lady and the second gentleman. Interesting dynamic we've got going on there. 1.00

00:07:52.000 All right. And then Biden, Joe Biden, he starts out the speech with a gaffe because it wouldn't be a

00:08:00.580 speech by the president of the United States if he did it. I'm sorry, but it's just true. It's true.

00:08:05.960 Okay. We can all just own that at this point, no matter what side of the aisle that you're on.

00:08:10.320 He's old and old people do things like this. And so I guess it just comes naturally. So here he is 1.00

00:08:16.220 introducing Chuck Schumer.

00:08:18.800 Okay. So he is the majority leader. He is the majority leader, not the minority leader.

00:08:44.180 Congratulations on being the minority leader. Would you be excited about that if Democrats were

00:08:48.620 in the minority and Senate and just don't say anything that goes off the teleprompter? You

00:08:54.840 know, sometimes Trump would get in trouble too, and he would go off the teleprompter, not gaffed like

00:08:58.620 that. But, you know, he would say things extemporaneously that would be like, whoa,

00:09:02.760 got to rein it in for the state of the union. But Biden just in general doesn't really know

00:09:07.040 what's going on. So it would be best of him to just stick to the script. So he doesn't say

00:09:11.980 silly things like this. All right. And we've got another example. This is one of a few examples, 0.79

00:09:17.320 sadly, of Joe Biden last night of saying something that we're just everyone is left saying,

00:09:23.020 huh? If you try anything to raise the cost of receiving jobs, I will veto it.

00:09:31.160 Oh, no, Republicans, don't do that. Don't raise the cost.

00:09:34.840 Don't do it. I know that you've been threatening all day, every day to put forth your bill for

00:09:44.220 raising the price of. But he is telling you, clearly, do not do that. Someone should actually,

00:09:54.800 someone in Congress should present a bill to raise the price of and see what Joe Biden does.

00:10:04.840 All right. So this was about mid towards maybe the last third or so of the speech,

00:10:19.440 where he announces his support, reiterates his support and Democrats support for Roe v. Wade,

00:10:28.100 which, of course, as we know, was the constitutional decision back in 1973 that said the poisoning and

00:10:35.760 the dismembering of living babies inside the womb is a constitutional right that cannot be completely

00:10:42.200 banned by the states. It can't even be fully, fully restricted by the states. And there is a limit on

00:10:50.300 the restrictions that states can put on abortion because the Supreme Court decided it's a constitutional

00:10:55.100 right. Obviously, the Dobbs decision last year overturned that. As the Supreme Court rightly said,

00:11:01.700 no, it's not a constitutional right. States can decide what they want to do, whether they want to ban it,

00:11:06.180 whether they want to restrict it, whether they want to allow it all the way. But it is not a constitutional

00:11:11.160 right that should be guaranteed. Obviously, Democrats disagree with that. They believe that it should

00:11:16.680 be a right, I guess, a right given by our creator to be able to kill children simply because they exist

00:11:26.300 inside the womb. So here is Biden and the Democratic Party celebrating that gruesome reality.

00:11:34.280 Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v. Wade and protect Roe v. Wade.

00:11:46.680 Give every woman a constitutional right. The Vice President and I are doing everything

00:11:52.160 to protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient safety.

00:11:59.340 But already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.

00:12:03.100 Make no mistake about it. If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.

00:12:08.080 Standing ovation. Standing ovation. Cheers. Applause. Celebration. From the Democratic Party,

00:12:18.320 from the Vice President that you saw there over the brutal killing of living children.

00:12:25.620 All right. I mean, obviously, you can only kill something that's alive. Democrats seem to forget

00:12:31.740 that as they say abortion somehow mysteriously is not killing. We're talking about human beings.

00:12:36.260 We're talking about human beings made in the image of God. At the end of the speech,

00:12:40.680 Joe Biden says, you know, we're all created in God's image. We should be able to live in dignity.

00:12:45.120 Oh, except for the babies that you think should be poisoned legally, subsidized by the taxpayer

00:12:50.900 without restriction. And he is calling on Congress to pass a law that would allow abortion through all

00:13:00.060 nine months without restriction. We're talking about people here. We're talking about vulnerable,

00:13:05.680 defenseless human beings that can recognize their mother's voice, that can recognize light,

00:13:12.320 that are squirming, kicking. They have their own unique DNA. This is not a parasite. This is not an

00:13:17.740 organ. This is not some kind of subhuman species. We are talking about living human beings in the womb

00:13:26.840 that the entire Democrat Party doesn't just think should be legal to murder, but they also think that

00:13:33.940 that murder is worth celebrating. Abortion, whether it's in the first, second, or third trimester, 1.00

00:13:38.280 is always brutal. It is always murder. It is always killing. It is always torture. It is always

00:13:45.340 violence of literally the most vulnerable, the most marginalized class of human beings in existence.

00:13:54.120 Unborn children. I'm sorry, but like I will repeat, I do not know how a Christian in good 1.00

00:14:00.260 conscience could vote for this party. There is no moral equivalent on the Republican side.

00:14:05.580 You could say, oh, I don't like how Republicans cut welfare, or you don't like how they deal with

00:14:09.920 immigration, or you don't think they're compassionate enough on X, Y, Z. There's no moral equivalent. 1.00

00:14:14.940 I understand you're not liking those things. I'm not saying that the Republican Party is perfect. I

00:14:18.560 certainly don't think that by any means. I actually think that they're not conservative enough on a lot of

00:14:22.900 issues. I'm not saying that all Republicans are Christians, but I am saying it is really, 0.93

00:14:29.080 really difficult to square being a Christian with voting Democrat. In fact, I don't think that you

00:14:34.840 can logically, biblically do it. I mean, Christians can be wrong. I'm not saying that you are not saved

00:14:40.460 if you vote Democrat. I don't think a precursor to being saved is voting Republican by any means.

00:14:46.800 But you have a really, really difficult time aligning biblical values with Democrat values.

00:14:55.760 Democrat values cheer on the mutilation of children through gender confusion. They cheer 1.00

00:15:01.780 on the mutilation of children through abortion. And it's just not possible to, in good conscience,

00:15:10.280 follow the creator of life who knits babies together in their mother's womb and vote for that. 0.86

00:15:16.660 And I think while Christians can be wrong, we're wrong on a lot of things, and that doesn't mean

00:15:23.280 that we're not saved, that God will have to eventually sanctify you out of that. Maybe that

00:15:28.260 doesn't mean that you ever vote Republican. I'm not saying that, but I don't think that you can vote

00:15:32.780 Democrat and continue to be a faithful Christian the entirety of your life. Like, I think that God will

00:15:41.000 eventually, if you're a true believer, sanctify you out of that wrong belief, certainly in your

00:15:45.140 support of abortion. You cannot be pro-choice and a Christian forever. Like, God will, like, 0.97

00:15:52.160 something's got to give. God will eventually, if you are a true believer, sanctify you out of that.

00:15:57.020 The erroneous belief that children do not deserve, for some reason, the legal protection against

00:16:04.320 murder? I mean, it's logically inconsistent, it's morally repugnant, and it's just biblically

00:16:09.840 impossible. So eventually, like, he will sway you out of that evil belief. And it's going to be

00:16:17.800 really hard, I think, to vote for the party that openly cheers for that. It's just really sick 0.88

00:16:22.840 and dark stuff. And they're not, by the way, they're not at all ashamed of this. They actually

00:16:30.780 posted a few Democrat Congress people, Congresswoman Madeline Dean. She tweeted a photo of herself

00:16:36.740 wearing a pen saying, um, abortion. It's just a big abortion pen. I say the word, I wear the word.

00:16:43.680 She said, abortion is healthcare. Abortion saves lives. Actually, abortion kills a person. Every 0.78

00:16:48.960 time. Abortion kills a person. And then we've got Senator Ed, um, uh, Ed Markey. He also, uh, wore the

00:16:57.940 pen and is provided by Planned Parenthood. So they're not hiding it. Like, this is what Planned Parenthood

00:17:05.840 is about. People say, oh, this is only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does. All right. Well,

00:17:12.160 you know, raping, torturing, and murdering people was probably only 3% of Ted Bundy's life. 0.97

00:17:18.060 All right. Okay. You're still a murder mill. And they're not even hiding that this is what they're 0.98

00:17:23.200 really about. Essentially, they're not about the mammograms, which I'm not even sure that they

00:17:27.520 really provide. They're not about all of the other so-called healthcare that they say that they

00:17:32.140 provide. They are about dismembering kids. That's what it's about. That's what Planned Parenthood

00:17:38.840 is. And they're funded, by the way, by the government. And Democrats are not hiding that

00:17:44.080 they are celebrating this. And let me just reiterate. This is why I say you should not

00:17:48.300 care what people like this call you. You should not care that people like this question your

00:17:53.860 compassion, question your virtue, question your morality. People who literally cheer on murder,

00:18:00.860 you want them to like you? No, it is an honor for them to hate you. Do not waste your time

00:18:06.500 justifying yourself to people who are applauding the dismemberment of children. Of course they hate

00:18:13.360 you. That is a privilege. Wear that as your badge of honor. And for anyone who says, well, Republicans

00:18:19.740 were wearing, you know, AR-15 pens or something the other day. It's not the same as abortion. An AR-15 0.71

00:18:26.040 can be used in a lot of ways. It can be used for fun. It can be used to defend yourself. It's

00:18:30.680 also a constitutional right, by the way, to be able to own a gun. An AR-15 can be used

00:18:35.960 for good. It can also be used for evil. Abortion can only be used for evil. So it's not the same

00:18:39.940 thing at all. Okay, now we're going to get into some more gruesome stuff that Joe Biden

00:18:44.960 said. Right after this, he talks about, quote unquote, transgender young people and also

00:18:51.920 gets a standing O for this. So here's that.

00:18:54.260 It's also passed the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender

00:19:02.340 young people, can live with safety and dignity. Our strength is not just the example of our

00:19:13.600 power, but the power of our example. Let's remember the world's watching.

00:19:20.640 Okay. Yeah. The world is watching as we mutilate the bodies of children. There's no such thing

00:19:27.140 as a transgender young people or young person. There might be such thing as a confused young

00:19:32.980 person, a distressed young person, a person who either feels confused about their body or

00:19:37.100 who has been convinced that their identity is the opposite of what it is biologically.

00:19:41.840 But to affirm this idea that it's actually possible for a child to be born in the wrong

00:19:46.160 body and they may need to go on something as damaging as puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones

00:19:52.260 or even in some cases get their body parts chopped up. I mean, that is wicked. That is disgusting.

00:19:59.600 I mean, Joe Biden was affirming this during his campaign too, when he was affirming the idea 0.98

00:20:03.780 of like a transgender eight and 10 year old and he still had a bunch of evangelicals

00:20:09.100 voting for him. Yes, I absolutely think it's right for states to ban these kinds of draconian

00:20:14.580 procedures for young people. Okay. When you're young, you go through a lot of confusion and a lot

00:20:19.620 of insecurity. And this is a social contagion that's happening that young kids are caught up in and they

00:20:24.640 do not have the mental capacity, the emotional capacity to understand what it means to pause your

00:20:29.940 puberty. That has lifelong effects to render yourself sterile, to go on cross-sex hormones, 0.85

00:20:35.940 to change and mutilate your bodies in ways that you will never, ever, ever be able to fully

00:20:41.400 recover from. Of course, the state should protect kids against that. But Joe Biden,

00:20:46.620 the Democrat Party is for it. You saw the standing no. The Heritage Foundation has done a lot of work

00:20:51.740 in looking at this puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and youth suicide. They published this last

00:20:56.240 year in June. And they say in the past several years, the suicide rate among those ages 12 to 23

00:21:00.960 has become significantly higher in states that have a provision that allows minors to receive

00:21:05.380 routine health care without parental consent than in states with such a provision. That's because

00:21:09.860 parents are put in place to protect their kids. The state doesn't do a good job of that.

00:21:14.660 School counselors don't do a good job of that very often when it comes to this kind of thing.

00:21:20.200 That's the parent's job. And when parents are involved in their kid's life because they know

00:21:25.160 what is best for their child, they know their child well, they unconditionally love their child

00:21:29.160 in a way that a state doesn't, that an activist organization doesn't, that a school counselor,

00:21:34.240 that a liberal teacher doesn't, of course, that child is going to fare better. It is actually when

00:21:39.820 these children are removed from their homes, when they are cut off from their parents, and when they

00:21:45.500 are put down this path of changing their bodies and trying to change their identity, that they actually

00:21:50.860 fare much worse. And we've talked about that horrible story of Yaley Martinez,

00:21:56.340 immigrant family out of California. She was removed from her mother's home at the request of the school

00:22:02.320 because she said she wanted to be a boy. Her mom wouldn't go along with it. So she went from group

00:22:06.620 home to group home until she, and she went through with the procedures and with the cross-sex hormones 0.95

00:22:12.860 and all that until she ended up committing suicide. Of course, that's what happens. You're doing something to

00:22:17.440 your body that is not only irreversible, but it can't actually give you what you think that you

00:22:21.600 want, and you're removed from the people that actually love you. And that's evil. And that's

00:22:25.300 what the Democratic Party says that they are for. So again, I am absolutely for states taking measures

00:22:32.240 to protect children against the predation of these organizations and the predation of these

00:22:36.700 doctors, the irreversible damage. It's just too much to bear. And of course, you don't have a right to do

00:22:43.080 it. And I think the state has every right to ban it. All right. We're going to debunk a few other

00:22:48.120 things that Joe Biden said. All right. Biden said a few other things that we're going to debunk. He

00:23:03.560 talked about violence and the problem of violent crime, which is a big issue. He said COVID left other

00:23:10.260 scars like a spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. We also need more

00:23:14.620 first responders and other professionals to address growing mental health and substance abuse

00:23:18.400 challenges, more resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime, more community intervention

00:23:23.860 programs. I'm not sure that any of those programs actually work. He also says we need to ban assault

00:23:29.080 weapons once and for all. Assault weapons are not the issue. If you're looking at the murder rate,

00:23:34.000 the crime rate, the violent crime rate in inner cities, it is because of Democrat policies that allow that

00:23:39.800 kind of recidivism. It's because of the criminal justice, social justice, so-called racial justice

00:23:44.720 programs that basically say, look, we've got to meet certain quotas when it comes to race and we're

00:23:49.760 not going to put these people in jail. Like if you look at all of these terrible violent crime stories

00:23:54.440 that we see in the major cities in this country, they're almost always perpetrated by people that

00:23:59.480 should have been in prison a long time ago because they committed crime after crime after crime,

00:24:05.080 many times violent crimes, and they were let out because of a liberal judge, because of a

00:24:09.660 liberal DA, because they didn't do their jobs, because of course that's what you got to do to

00:24:15.000 meet the standards of social justice. You keep giving people chance after chance after chance,

00:24:19.080 not thinking about the victims and the potential victims. And so he got a lot of pushback for that

00:24:24.220 in the audience. But at least, I mean, he did kind of admit, I don't think he really admitted this,

00:24:31.380 but he did say, okay, COVID lockdowns probably led to some of this spike in violent crime.

00:24:38.240 And I think that's true. A paper published in the Criminal Justice Policy Review titled,

00:24:44.140 Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrest and Improve Officer Safety? And they found that

00:24:50.260 crisis response teams training additional resources have no effect on the number of arrests,

00:24:55.960 people with mental illnesses or reductions in officer arrestee or bystander injuries. And we really

00:25:03.860 don't have any data proving whatsoever that any of those proposals that he just put forth would be

00:25:08.880 effective and lowering violent crime. You have to punish violent crime. You have to punish violent

00:25:13.260 crime. I'm not saying there should be no prevention strategies. I'm not saying there should be

00:25:16.940 no programs. I would love programs that reduce recidivism. I don't just want the only option to be

00:25:22.720 to put people in prison forever for petty crimes and just wait around until they commit the big violent

00:25:28.260 crime that murders five people. I do want there to be other systems put in place, but it shouldn't be

00:25:33.740 one or the other. It has to be both and. This whole restorative justice movement that basically says

00:25:39.800 that justice should never be punitive, that it should never involve long-term incarceration. I think

00:25:45.660 that's damaged and actually killed a lot of people. As I say, social justice does kill because it 0.97

00:25:50.660 actually puts the needs and the comforts of criminals over the well-being of the community and victims.

00:25:55.700 Um, and so again, I think that he, he's addressing a problem and he's trying to make it seem like he

00:26:03.360 understands that there's a problem. They're going to do something about it, but the solutions the

00:26:06.800 Democrats put forth to try to help reduce these things, they're never actually effective. Um, now

00:26:13.000 here's what he, um, here's what he talks about that got a big reaction from Republicans. He talks about

00:26:20.620 fentanyl. He talks about the fentanyl overdoses, as I said at the beginning of this, 108,000

00:26:25.700 per year. And this is going up and up many times, accidental overdoses. So people doing cocaine or

00:26:32.820 doing other drugs, they don't realize things are laced with fentanyl. Um, there was this horrible

00:26:37.980 story out of San Francisco of a baby having to go to the hospital because there was literally like

00:26:42.620 fentanyl on the ground where this baby was playing at the park. So obviously this is a huge problem.

00:26:48.300 Fentanyl is coming, uh, it's being made in China. It's coming over through the Southern border.

00:26:53.480 And because we have such a porous Southern border and we have not equipped border patrol to do

00:26:58.360 what they need to do, this problem is only getting worse than Americans are literally dying.

00:27:02.980 So here's Biden talking about the problem with absolutely no solution.

00:27:07.840 Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.

00:27:11.320 So he doesn't actually address what they're saying. They're saying, it's your fault. It's

00:27:32.660 your fault. This is the border again. And then you've got Kevin McCarthy, you know, in the background,

00:27:36.960 Speaker of the house saying, you know, shh, be quiet. And that's kind of what he does. That's what

00:27:41.260 Nancy Pelosi did beforehand. That's kind of their role to say, you know, keep in order. I don't really

00:27:46.360 mind them calling this out though, because it's true, because we understand that the border patrol

00:27:50.620 is unequipped to do their job because they're not well funded and they're not well staffed. He tried

00:27:55.300 to talk about that. He's supporting border patrol, but obviously that's not true. Monthly encounters

00:28:00.140 with migrants at the U S Mexico border remain near record highs because these migrants understand 0.99

00:28:04.880 that Joe Biden, the Democrat party is going to try to get them what they want. I mean,

00:28:08.960 he even talks about in this speech, a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, for these, you know,

00:28:15.540 17 year olds that are coming over illegally, that they were going to get amnesty. Of course,

00:28:20.620 that's going to incentivize these people to come over and to make this dangerous track. We're talking

00:28:26.040 about exacerbating and enabling sex trafficking, drug trafficking, gun trafficking. I mean,

00:28:32.980 all of the most horrific crimes that you can think of the most destructive stuff that you can think

00:28:37.580 of is enabled and exacerbated by not having strong immigration and border policy. And the Biden

00:28:44.840 administration has exemplified that weak border policy really well. The DEA seized over 379 million

00:28:52.880 deadly doses of fentanyl in 2022. That is incredible, incredible. So you see when people are like,

00:29:02.240 oh, border walls are so slacking compassion or deporting people lacks compassion. We should

00:29:09.040 be a sanctuary city. We should protect people from ice. We should just allow people to come in. 0.99

00:29:16.680 Louis CK, who was on Joe Rogan the other day, gave some crazy pie in the sky, just honestly disgusting

00:29:24.340 picture of what he thinks open borders should look like because it's not fair that Americans live well

00:29:30.360 and people in South America and Mexico don't. So they should come in. So we all live like them. 1.00

00:29:35.320 Of course, that's what equity is. You bring everyone to the lowest common denominator and make everyone,

00:29:39.940 except for super rich people like him, equally miserable rather than trying to pull people up and 0.58

00:29:44.300 making their lives better, which is what could happen if their own leadership wasn't so corrupt and 0.71

00:29:50.780 they stayed where they were. No one is helped. Actually, no one is helped by coming into America and 1.00

00:29:58.720 drain in America of its resources through illegal immigration. And so it is a wicked, it's a wicked 1.00

00:30:04.900 leader that prioritizes the needs and well-beings of citizens of other countries before the needs and

00:30:09.880 safety and security and well-being and the rights of their own constituents.

00:30:14.960 Okay, Social Security. Biden says that GOP, that they want to take away people's Social Security. He

00:30:36.760 said, some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic

00:30:41.080 plans. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social

00:30:45.740 Security to sunset. So here's how that whole thing went. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair

00:30:51.560 share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I'm not saying

00:30:57.480 it's the majority. Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I'll give you a copy. I'll give you a copy of the proposal.

00:31:12.520 That means Congress doesn't vote. Well, I'm glad to see you. No, I tell you, I enjoy conversion.

00:31:19.820 You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away. Other

00:31:26.180 Republicans say, I'm not saying it's the majority of you. I don't even think it's even a significant

00:31:30.560 but it's being proposed by individuals. I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of

00:31:39.140 you. Look, folks. All right. So he is talking about Republican Rick Scott's 11 point rescue

00:31:50.840 America proposal. He says in number and point number six in the plan, the government reform and

00:31:58.740 debt that all federal legislation sunsets in five years. But if a law is worth keeping, then Congress

00:32:03.640 can pass it again. And so Democrats pointed out that this would affect Medicare and Social Security,

00:32:08.840 even though he doesn't specifically point to that. But that was his particular plan. This is not

00:32:14.380 something that has been taken up with the rest of the GOP. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of

00:32:20.900 Kentucky opposes key parts of the plan, says that that's not part of his agenda. Kevin McCarthy

00:32:26.500 said that Republicans will protect Social Security. It's just not a popular position. It's not a popular

00:32:32.640 position. I don't really blame Democrats for capitalizing on one particular legislator's plan and

00:32:37.940 saying this is what all Republicans want to do. I think Republicans would probably do the same thing

00:32:42.280 as well. But it's simply not true that that is part of the Republican agenda. That would lose that

00:32:49.300 would lose elections, whether or not you think it is a good plan. And there is a lot about Social

00:32:54.540 Security that I think is unfair for the American people, but it's just not a winning issue. And so

00:33:00.740 Republicans are saying, no, that is not what we have ever said that we want to do. And just for

00:33:06.880 anyone who is saying, well, you know, this was so it was so unpolite, it was so wrong of these

00:33:14.720 Republican members to be yelling at Joe Biden. I love how like defensive Joe Biden gets here there and

00:33:19.400 he actually like responds to them. I think that's good. Like he they kind of put him in a position of

00:33:24.600 weakness there. And I kind of like the back and forth. But this happened to Trump, too. This is

00:33:30.200 according to NBC in 2018. Democrats scoffed, booed, groaned at Trump's State of the Union.

00:33:38.520 And the article talks about how the there are there were Democrats who boycotted all together

00:33:44.620 and the Democrats who stood up and who yelled at him and booed during his State of the Union. So

00:33:49.880 please don't say, oh, this is just Republicans. They look so bad. And Democrats are so respectful.

00:33:54.520 The same kind of thing happened under Trump. And NBC even said, even on things that Trump

00:33:59.840 said that would have from any other president gotten bipartisan applause like Democrats booed at

00:34:06.280 it. That's NBC saying that. So that was back in 2018. As far as I know, there were no Republicans

00:34:10.920 who boycotted last night. So let's stop with the your party is disrespectful. Both parties have their

00:34:18.400 raucous members who are going to stand up and say something, whatever. It's just the way that it is.

00:34:23.500 All right. Let's go to Biden talking about taxes. So he said that I think a lot of you at home agree

00:34:33.120 with me that our present tax system is simply unfair. The idea that in 2020, 55 of the biggest

00:34:38.360 companies in America made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes. That's simply

00:34:43.560 not fair. Corporations, it is true that in some years, certain corporations, often those that

00:34:52.100 appear profitable pay zero federal income taxes. That's not due to any like loopholes or anything.

00:34:58.340 There are several legitimate reasons why a profitable corporation may not pay income taxes.

00:35:04.000 And this is from taxfoundation.org. The misconception comes down to a misunderstanding of how corporate

00:35:09.800 income is defined. And then a misunderstanding of how corporate income is taxed. Now, I am not someone

00:35:14.740 though, who prioritizes like corporate tax cuts, or who thinks that there should be loopholes for

00:35:20.680 corporations. I'm not someone who is like going to go to bat for corporations, because I do think that

00:35:26.260 they are very often corrupt entities that work against the interests of the American people. And I

00:35:31.400 actually think Democrats are very often in bed with those major corporations, and also with big tech.

00:35:38.160 But he uses this as the point that the rich people are not paying their fair share.

00:35:43.500 And he categorizes rich not as just these billion dollar companies, but also as anyone making over

00:35:49.580 $400,000 a year. Depending on where you live, that's not necessarily rich. Now, I'm not saying

00:35:55.100 that's not good money. I'm not saying that. But it also, it depends on where you live. $400,000 in LA or

00:36:00.740 New York City is not going to get you very far. And he says in this speech that people who earn

00:36:06.240 $400,000 a year or more are going to pay more in their taxes. But I don't believe it's just those

00:36:12.120 people. I absolutely believe it's going to be people who make under $400,000 too. And by the way,

00:36:19.020 the rich do pay their fair share. The top 1%, so making $540,000 or more, pays 40% of all income taxes.

00:36:30.680 So they make 21% of all income earned, but they pay 40% of all income taxes. The top 2% to 5%,

00:36:42.180 so people making $218,000 a year to $540,000 a year. They make 16% of all income earned,

00:36:52.720 and yet they pay 20% of all income taxes. The vast majority of income taxes are paid

00:37:01.620 by the top 10% of earners in this country. It's actually the bottom 50% that barely pays

00:37:08.700 anything at all in taxes. And it's actually disproportionate to what these high income

00:37:14.760 earners are making, depending on how you define high, just top 10%. But top 10%, I mean,

00:37:20.960 that can include people making $150,000 a year. And again, in somewhere like New York City,

00:37:26.240 that's not necessarily a lot of money. And yet you're paying a lot of money in taxes. So

00:37:30.020 it's simply wrong to say that the rich aren't paying their fair share. They're paying a whole

00:37:34.980 lot of money. Now, okay, to finish out what Joe Biden, how Joe Biden talked about some things and

00:37:43.860 the response that he got, here he is talking about oil. And here's what Republicans have to say

00:37:50.800 about it. And when I talked to a couple of them, they say, well, we're afraid you're going to shut

00:37:54.180 down all the oil wells and all the oil refineries anyway. So why should we invest in them? I said,

00:37:59.780 we're going to need oil for at least another decade. And that's going to exceed and beyond that.

00:38:07.540 We're going to need it.

00:38:10.360 So Republicans are laughing at that because, I mean, he makes the, he makes a good point that,

00:38:14.940 yeah, these investors don't want to invest in oil because they're afraid that Democrats are going to

00:38:19.040 shut down these oil refineries. And he's right, because that's what Joe Biden and his administration

00:38:24.160 has done. He's made it very difficult to drill and to drill in new places. I mean, we have all

00:38:28.480 the oil that we need here in the United States, and he is willing to rely on other countries rather

00:38:33.240 than the oil that we have here for the sake of silly climate purposes. And he says, oh, don't worry,

00:38:39.700 we'll need it for the next 10 years. So you should still invest. And all Republicans die laughing at

00:38:44.540 that because we're going to need oil forever, far longer than 10 years. The fact that he thinks

00:38:50.420 that in 10 years, we're going to be able to replace oil with wind and solar and whatever. I mean,

00:38:56.740 that is insane. If they are able to accomplish that, you are looking at the deaths of billions

00:39:02.280 and billions of people who aren't able to eat, who aren't able to heat their homes. I mean,

00:39:07.420 everything would be affected by trying to transfer out of reliance on oil. So that's why Republicans

00:39:13.800 are laughing there, as they should. So a lot of other things that he talked about,

00:39:19.200 he was basically just kind of complaining about things that he doesn't like, resort fees,

00:39:23.860 things like that, that he says that he's going to ban. And okay, that's fine.

00:39:39.380 Okay, I wanted to play a couple clips from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but we don't have time for that.

00:39:43.320 I just want to play this one that I thought was really strong. And before I even play it,

00:39:47.280 let me just say, so I don't know if, um, if governor Sanders, if she is, um, if she listens

00:39:57.600 to relatable, but I do know that there are a lot of friends that she has very close to her

00:40:02.860 who listened to relatable. I've met them. I've met the governor. She's amazing. I hope that she's a

00:40:09.020 relatable fan. Cause that would be amazing. But even if she is not, I do know that the people

00:40:13.240 close to her listen to this show very faithfully, which is pretty cool. Um, so here she is with this

00:40:21.000 amazing and very compelling message for the GOP.

00:40:24.160 President Biden, and I don't have a lot in common. I'm for freedom. He's for government control at 40.

00:40:32.700 I'm the youngest governor in the country. And at 80, he's the oldest president in American history.

00:40:39.540 I'm the first woman to lead my state. And he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob

00:40:48.860 that can't even tell you what a woman is. In the radical left's America, Washington taxes you and 1.00

00:40:56.380 lights your hard-earned money on fire. But you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves,

00:41:03.640 and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one

00:41:09.640 another or our great country. Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to

00:41:17.580 resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left. The dividing line

00:41:24.800 in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy.

00:41:32.540 Go listen to her full speech online. We don't have time, obviously, to play all of it. So good.

00:41:38.760 So strong. Love it. She's going to do a great job for the people of Arkansas. So I'm excited to see

00:41:44.140 that. The GOP also gave a Spanish response. And there was a, you know, there was a mixed response

00:41:50.480 about that from the conservative side. I think that the person that gave it, Representative, one,

00:41:55.480 uh, uh, uh, Kiskamani, uh, Siskamani, uh, Siskamani, my document says, Siskamani. He gave a Spanish

00:42:02.800 language GOP response. Some people are like, look, English might not be our official language,

00:42:07.500 but it should be our language. This is not something that the GOP should do. It's un-American. Some

00:42:11.540 people are saying that. Others are saying, look, we've got millions and millions of Spanish speakers

00:42:15.240 in the United States. Republicans are doing a better and better job of appealing to this

00:42:19.360 constituency. And it can't hurt. It can only help. So that is like, there are two sides to

00:42:25.440 that. Some people don't like it. They just think it is unpatriotic to represent the language that

00:42:30.660 is more prominent in other countries. Some people think, okay, it's a really good strategy. And don't

00:42:35.640 we want these people to vote for us? Because a lot of them have conservative values that do align

00:42:40.720 better with Republicans than they do Democrats. So just something to think about. You should watch

00:42:45.740 that too, if you speak Spanish and can understand it because from what I understand, it was a very

00:42:52.160 good response. All right. That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 08, 2023

Ep 751 ｜ Biden’s Absurd State of the Union Address

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