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00:00:00.000Joe Biden unleashes an interminable, soporific address to Congress and puts America completely to sleep while preaching insane, radical leftism.
00:00:55.000It was a barely conscious old doddered mumbling at you for an hour and a half about how he was going to spend more money than God has ever created on a variety of proposals that will completely reshape the nature of American government.
00:01:10.000And honest to God, I almost wonder whether the strategy is he's going to bludgeon you into unconsciousness And then, while you're unconscious, he's just gonna loot your pockets.
00:01:20.000He's basically Cardi B. He's just gonna bludgeon you into unconsciousness, and then he's just going to rob you, right?
00:01:24.000That's the actual, I think, premise of the Biden presidency, because...
00:01:48.000But they need him there to hide the water stain because if it were Kamala Harris, Co-president Harris out there making a speech about how she was going to spend $10 trillion.
00:02:02.000If it were Kamala Harris saying this, everybody would be like, wow, that sounds kind of radical.
00:02:05.000But because it is this old man they wheeled in on a gurney who can barely string together a full paragraph, we're now supposed to believe that it's all moderate and fine.
00:02:15.000So, I mean, maybe the bug is the feature.
00:02:18.000Maybe the fact that Joe Biden is a horrible speaker.
00:02:20.000Maybe the fact that he is in obvious cognitive decline.
00:02:23.000Maybe the fact that Joe Biden was almost inaudible last night.
00:03:00.000But Joe Biden can't say that, you see.
00:03:01.000Because if Joe Biden were to say that, then he wouldn't have any lever with which to cram into law all of the spending.
00:03:08.000Joe Biden's entire presidency is premised on the notion that there's a giant crisis out there and he has a bunch of manufactured crises like income inequality or racial inequity or climate change.
00:03:17.000Again, some of these things are real problems, particularly climate change is a problem over the course of the century, but it is a solvable problem.
00:03:51.000Because he can't acknowledge if it's over now, then we don't need any of his garbage spending programs that are going to bankrupt the country, destroy the American dollar, raise inflation, kill investment rates.
00:04:02.000We don't need any of that crap, right?
00:04:04.000As it comes to an end, we are going to go back to the economy we had just before the pandemic, which was the strongest economy in 50 years by all available metrics.
00:04:13.000So instead, you got this bizarre optics of Joe Biden vaccinated in a chamber with 200 other people, all vaccinated, socially distanced, and then you'd have a shot of the crowd.
00:04:22.000And he's supposed to be exciting us, right?
00:04:23.000This is supposed to be the optimistic wave of the future.
00:04:25.000You look out, and it looks like what the inside of Joe Biden's brain must look like, just a bunch of empty space with an occasional human here and there.
00:04:41.000You're going to have to explain to people why I need a mask when I'm both vaccinated and socially distanced.
00:04:47.000The whole idea here from the Biden administration is to continue to promote COVID panic so they can ram through a bunch of policy and they're going to tell you that their policy is not radical because this boring old man is pushing it.
00:04:57.000Because this dude who sounds like your grandpa, not like your grandpa like when he was in his 60s and he was fun and you'd go go-karting with him, but your grandpa when he was in his 80s and you had to start thinking about whether you were going to move him into a nursing home.
00:05:08.000That guy is going to cram into policy a bunch of radical stuff, but it's not radical because of course he speaks like a gentleman.
00:05:15.000Because how could that guy be threatening?
00:05:43.000It makes me sad for the country that the elected president of the United States is a person who Honest to God cannot get through a speech in a coherent fashion. That was not coherent last night I mean here is Joe Biden just a little taste here was Joe Biden Stumbling over himself. This is not because Joe Biden had a stammer that he overcame which is again an act of tremendous strength This has nothing to do with the stammer because for most of his career He didn't speak like this. He only speaks like this now because he's old and because he's becoming adult. Here is Joe Biden last night
00:06:12.000Just stumbling all over himself With regard to Russia, I know it concerns some of you but I made very clear to Putin That we're not going to seek excuse me escalation Thank you.
00:06:28.000I said before the speech that watching Biden speak just as an American is like watching Nick Wallenda walk over a volcano.
00:06:33.000You just know there's going to be a point where there's like, oh man, like I hope he's right.
00:06:38.000Like every so often they should cut live to him every time he goes up and down the stairs of Air Force One because you could be watching history in the making.
00:06:47.000So we're going to get into the actual content of the speech in just one moment, because the entire thing here about how we have to generate enthusiasm for a president who clearly not only is someone who we should be unenthusiastic about, but who's promoting policies that would make LBJ and FDR blush, make Barack Obama blush for that matter.
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00:08:43.000Here was Joe Biden last night doing exactly... I made fun of him, jokingly suggesting this was how he was going to open, and then he opened that way.
00:09:30.000They wheeled me in, on his gurney, and strapped me, propped me up upright.
00:09:35.000I stood there, and the light, it came down and shined on my bald pe- Here he was, the President of the United States.
00:09:44.000I stand here tonight, one day shy of the hundredth day of my administration.
00:09:52.000A hundred days since I took the oath of office and lifted my hand off our family Bible and inherited a nation we all did that was in crisis.
00:10:29.000So one thing you're going to notice over the course of this speech, because we're going to play a lot of it, is how he actively, physically declined in the course of the speech alone.
00:11:15.000We could go with the assassination of four separate presidents between the Civil War and now, and the shooting of a fifth, President Reagan.
00:11:20.000We could go with- In fact, I can name like many, many things, many of things.
00:11:25.000That are worse than January 6th, in which a bunch of clowns and morons decided to invade the Capitol because they wanted to stop democracy from moving forward.
00:11:33.000And within an hour after they were out of the Capitol building, the entire Congress was back in doing exact.
00:11:38.000See, here's the thing about existential crises to democracy, existential authoritarian threats.
00:11:42.000They don't end the same day they are started.
00:11:44.000That is not how things happen when you have an existential threat to the democracy.
00:12:08.000But we're supposed to just believe this because, again, the contrast that the media and Biden have created is this narrative wherein all was darkness.
00:12:15.000And then the bringer of light, Joe Biden, 9,000 years old, career politician, corrupt as all get out, congenital liar.
00:12:50.000But according to Joe Biden, everything sucked, and then he jumped in front of the parade that was already moving, and he started twirling a baton and dropping it every so often.
00:13:32.000You have just a straight line, which means He was just carrying out plans that were already left to him and using a vaccine that was already left to him.
00:13:37.000But here he is taking credit for, for some reason, exceeding the boundaries of a promise that he made that we were already meeting.
00:13:49.000After I promised we'd get 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots into people's arms in 100 days, We will have provided over 220 million COVID shots in those 100 days.
00:14:02.000When I was sworn in on January 20th, less than 1% of the seniors in America were fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
00:14:07.000COVID-19. 100 days later, 70% of seniors in America over 65 are protected, fully protected.
00:14:17.000Senior deaths from COVID-19 are down 80% since January.
00:14:26.000There were 1% of seniors vaccinated when he took office because we were just starting to trench out the vaccine.
00:14:31.000It wasn't because Trump was holding back the vaccine and Joe Biden suddenly unleashed it upon an unsuspecting nation.
00:14:38.000But don't worry, the media will go right along with it.
00:14:40.000Don't worry, they'll go right along with this idea that Joe Biden has somehow revitalized America, even though he has done, as far as I'm aware, precisely nothing to revitalize America except scare the living crap out of everybody who cares about individual rights.
00:14:50.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:16:12.000Okay, so, Joe Biden then continues, and he suggests that the American Rescue Plan, which was basically just sending people a bunch of checks, has somehow saved the economy and created new jobs.
00:16:21.000The jobs were already being created because people were going back to work.
00:16:23.000In fact, one of the things the American Rescue Plan has done is trench out these checks to people, raising inflation on commodities to an extraordinary level, and also driven people out of the workforce because they are making more money by taking money from the government at this point than they are by going back into the workforce.
00:16:40.000If you talk to small business owners everywhere across America, they are trying to hire people to scale up for demand, and they can't because people aren't working.
00:16:47.000When he says the economy created 1.3 million new jobs in 100 days because of Joe Biden, that's a lie.
00:17:51.000When he says that he's going to cut child poverty in America in half this year, Democrats believe that the way that you cut poverty is just signing people checks.
00:17:58.000What they don't understand is that the way you actually solve poverty is by incentivizing people to make good, solid decisions that raise them from poverty permanently.
00:18:06.000If you just keep signing checks to people who are in poverty, incentivizing them not to make the decisions that actually better their lives, you are not curing poverty.
00:18:12.000If signing checks cured poverty, $22 trillion in the war on poverty would have raised Americans from below the poverty line.
00:18:20.000By a percentage, the same Americans are now living below the poverty line as were living below the poverty line before.
00:18:24.000We have to do more than just build back better.
00:18:28.000To build back, we have to build back better.
00:18:30.000We have to compete more strenuously than we have.
00:18:35.000America. Here is Joe Biden talking about building back better. But Dango.
00:18:38.000We have to do more than just build back better, build back at the build back better.
00:18:43.000We have to compete more strenuously than we have throughout our history.
00:18:50.000If you think about it, public investment in infrastructure has literally transformed America.
00:18:57.000That's why I proposed the American Jobs Plan, a once-in-a-generation investment in America itself.
00:19:04.000This is the largest jobs plan since World War II.
00:19:30.000Why do we need your biggest... Is this World War II?
00:19:34.000Did I miss the part where we're in the middle of a global world war involving the draft militarization of the entire male population of the United States?
00:20:06.000Because he has a very small window in which to push through all of his world-beating legislation so that the history books one day can treat him as a transformational president, even though he himself declared he was just going to be a bridge to the next Democrat.
00:20:17.000That he was going to be a moderate who restored normalcy.
00:21:18.000It's not some things, but not other things.
00:21:20.000It's not a prudent decision-making process about what to do and what not to do.
00:21:24.000It's do all the things at once and DGAF, the DGAF Joe Biden presidency, which is precisely the opposite of what he campaigned on.
00:21:32.000He campaigned on restoration of politics as normal, restoration of bipartisanship, restoration of a certain solidity and a certain incrementalism in American governance.
00:21:42.000And then he comes into office and he's like, you know, what if I just spend more money than has ever been created in the history of mankind?
00:23:37.000Okay, this kind of language is completely Inappropriate for how economics works in the United States.
00:23:44.000The United States does not have defined classes.
00:23:45.000Most people in the United States will occupy more than one class rung throughout their life.
00:23:51.000And most people in the United States will start off not making a lot of money when they're 20.
00:23:54.000And then by the time they're 30, they'll make more money.
00:23:56.000By the time they're 40, they'll make even more money.
00:23:57.000And by the time they retire, they will be upper middle class or upper class.
00:24:01.000Because people make more money over the course of their lives.
00:24:03.000But the way the Democrats talk about economics is that you're a middle class person and you're stuck in the middle class forever and you're the person who built the country because you were once in the middle class.
00:24:17.000That is how economics works in the United States.
00:24:19.000But really, all that is about is trying to pay off all of his union cronies so they can then spend a bunch of money electing Democrats.
00:24:25.000Because the most corrupt bargain in American politics is that unions all over the country pay Democratic politicians so that those Democratic politicians give them giveaways.
00:24:33.000It's for a group of people who claim that they're against corporate cronyism and against corporations involving themselves in politics and corruption and campaign finance reform.
00:24:43.000The most openly corrupt bargain in politics is between big labor and the Democratic Party.
00:26:31.000And these bastards over here, they want you to die of cancer, because we could end cancer.
00:26:36.000But they and their, and their budgets and their science and magic damage you build but got better It's just ridiculous But again, he has a utopian vision of government.
00:26:50.000Not only does the federal government have the power to just, you know, willy-nilly hire people, not only does the federal government have the ability to willy-nilly raise wages and redo work rules, not only does the federal government have the ability to build back better, not only can they end cancer, They also are going to help American families by, wait for it, wait for it, they're gonna spend a load of money.
00:27:10.000That's, I know, I know you're shocked.
00:27:13.000I know that you are just, right now, you can't take it.
00:27:21.000And he's gonna spend more money on stuff that doesn't work.
00:27:23.000So, says Joe Biden, you know how we're gonna solve America's problems?
00:27:25.000You know how we're gonna solve America's unemployment problems?
00:27:28.000The way we're gonna solve America's problems and our economic problems is we are going to have the Federal Reserve Inflate the dollar so that your kid can go major in lesbian dance theory at a community college to please Dr. Jill.
00:28:21.000We're going to add two free years of community college because Dr. Jill says we should, because she wrote a bad dissertation for the University of Delaware, where Joe Biden has a building dedicated to his name.
00:28:32.000Here is Joe Biden talking about why Jill, community college professor, let's spend $100 billion for Jill or something.
00:28:39.000When you add two years of free community college on top of that, you begin to change the dynamic.
00:28:46.000Jill is a community college professor who teaches today as first lady.
00:28:51.000She's long said, any country that out-educates us is going to out-compete us.
00:28:58.000She'll be deeply involved in leading this effort.
00:29:02.000Any country that out-educates is going to out-compete us.
00:29:04.000So the way that we're going to educate people is by pouring more money into failing programs like Head Start, and we're going to pour more money into community colleges, which again, there's very little evidence that a community college degree paid for by the government when you couldn't get a loan in the first place is going to radically shift the nature of your economic trajectory in the United States.
00:29:57.000The CBO estimates that talk about not increasing deficits assume a 15-year trailing revenue source on taxation and an eight-year revenue source and an eight-year revenue suck on spending.
00:30:39.000Okay, now I understand there are a lot of people who don't like rich people because they think they don't quote-unquote pay their fair share.
00:30:53.000Okay, when you take benefits that you get from the government against what you give to the government, the top 10% don't receive any benefits from the government hardly, and they pay a crap load in taxes.
00:31:02.000The notion that if you're in the middle class or at the bottom of the economic spectrum, that you're somehow being jobbed in the tax system relative to people who are at the top end of the tax spectrum is just insane.
00:31:12.000I know because I've paid tax having earned income in pretty much every tax bracket in the United States.
00:31:19.000And I can tell you, my rate last year in California was well over 50% in total just income tax.
00:31:24.000That doesn't include sales tax, it doesn't include property tax, it doesn't include any of the ancillary taxes.
00:31:28.000When he says, by the way, he's not going to increase taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year, this assumes you're a moron.
00:31:52.000It means that when he tries to raise the capital gains tax, that reduces investment in the stock market.
00:31:58.000Which means there's less investments in the stock market, which means your 401k goes down.
00:32:01.000This notion that as long as he is not directly removing an income tax dollar from you in the middle class, it has no impact on you, if he raises taxes on everything else in the United States, is just absurd.
00:32:22.000So long as he doesn't sound like this, so long as he's not talking like this, he can just say the exact same thing while talking like this about you.
00:32:29.000Here he is talking about how the rich suck and he's going to soak them in all this.
00:32:32.000You know what, Joe, give up on your houses and then we'll talk.
00:32:35.000I'm not looking to punish anybody, but I will not add a tax burden, additional tax burden to the middle class in this country.
00:32:52.000And it raises revenue to pay for the plans I propose and will create millions of jobs that will grow the economy and enhance our financial standing.
00:33:02.000He's losing this game here, you can hear it.
00:33:04.000When you hear someone say they don't want to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1% or corporate America, ask them.
00:33:40.000And then Joe Biden finishes with this little doozy.
00:33:42.000He says, trickle-down economics has never worked.
00:33:43.000Okay, trickle-down economics is a term coined by the left during the Reagan administration to describe the basic way that supply-side economics works, which suggests that investment and entrepreneurship create businesses and you get paid by those businesses.
00:34:02.000The government confiscating vast quantities of wealth from job creators and companies, and then giving it to people, and then assuming that that's going to create economic growth.
00:34:10.000It artificially boosts GDP statistics.
00:34:13.000It does not create the forward momentum that an economy requires in order to create new products and services that you actually wish to consume.
00:34:19.000So here he was saying, oh, trickle down at Kodajibu, because he's living in 1983.
00:34:29.000Trickle down economics has never worked.
00:34:31.000It's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out.
00:34:35.000From the bottom and the middle and the middle out.
00:34:38.000From the bottom, he's starting to slur his words, right?
00:34:41.000You can see the train is beginning to slow.
00:34:43.000It is reaching the end of the line for Joe Biden.
00:34:46.000It's time to grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, which ironically is also the title of Hunter Biden's autobiography, Bottom Up and Middle Out.
00:34:53.000We'll get to more of Joe Biden's incredible State of the Union address in just one second.
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00:36:23.000Alrighty, we'll get to more of Joe Biden's bizarre address last night in just one second.
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00:37:13.000So Joe Biden really did back load a lot of the wildest stuff in the speech.
00:37:19.000So all of the spending, we're going to give you free daycare.
00:37:22.000We're going to give you free three and four-year-old Head Start programs and free community college and free this and free that and a free blueberry for every person and two belly buttons.
00:37:31.000We're going to do everything you could possibly.
00:37:33.000That was actually not the wild part of the speech.
00:37:35.000The wild part of the speech is when he started talking about race and guns and immigration My fellow Americans, look, we have to come together to heal the soul of this nation.
00:38:32.000Okay, so there are a few things that are worthy of note here.
00:38:35.000One, when he says we've seen the knee of injustice on the neck of black America, this again goes back to something I've been saying for the last couple weeks.
00:38:40.000Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter, but he was convicted of something of which he was not even accused.
00:38:45.000Being a racist and America was convicted on the basis of that, of being racist, systemically racist.
00:38:50.000And Joe Biden just continues to lie about that.
00:38:52.000That's why he says things like the knee of injustice on the neck of black America, because Derek Chauvin is a stand in for the racist, bigoted, vicious American system.
00:39:00.000Also, cops are all wonderful, but they are systemic bigots, right?
00:39:04.000This is this is just bizarre, stupid crap.
00:39:07.000And Joe Biden pushes it because, again, he needs a crisis in order to manufacture all the things that he wants to do.
00:39:14.000Another crisis that allows him to manufacture this sort of stuff.
00:39:16.000He says that gun violence is an epidemic in America.
00:40:13.000If deer don't wear Kevlar vests, but sometimes bad guys do too, does he really think that getting rid of 100 round clips is going to somehow, or 100 round magazines is somehow going to lower gun violence?
00:40:26.000When was the last time you saw somebody commit a shooting only with that weapon?
00:40:30.000Like seriously, how many homicides in America are caused by 100 round magazines?
00:40:36.000And beyond which, forget the magazines, you're just gonna have people walking around with bandoliers, right?
00:40:40.000It'd be like an old Western... Whatever, this is all ridiculous.
00:40:43.000Then, he suggested that white supremacy is terrorism.
00:41:59.000So if white supremacy is terrorism, and you're going to use the power of the federal government to crack down on white supremacy, then by the transit of property, everything you don't like is terrorism.
00:42:08.000This is why you shouldn't let Joe Biden off the chain to ad lib, because you end up in weird situations.
00:42:14.000Okay, then he talked about immigration reform, and this honestly was one of the best parts of the speech, because he talked about how politicians have failed to do immigration reform while there are tens of thousands of children being held in cages on the border.
00:42:28.000And then he's like, you know what my solution to that is?
00:42:30.000His solution to that was to pass legislation to make it easy for the dreamers to stay, create a pathway to citizenship for farm workers, and put permanent protections on immigrants for temporary protected status.
00:42:43.000So, in other words, we have a crisis on the border with people washing into the border by the tens of thousands, and the only solutions he mentioned last night have nothing to do with border security.
00:42:53.000Even border Democrats, like Mark Kelly, they're like, I didn't hear anything about the border there that actually makes any sense.
00:43:00.000Okay, and then Joe Biden came to his long-awaited conclusion.
00:43:03.000This sucker went on for an hour and a half.
00:43:05.000And it was like listening to an old story from your grandparents and they're starting to doze off and you're starting to doze off and everybody's starting to doze off and Ted Cruz is starting to doze off, literally.
00:44:16.000The government is a group of people elected by us to check and balance each other and participate in limited, enumerated powers to protect our individual rights.
00:44:53.000The fundamental basis of the Constitution of the United States is that the government is not us, which is why we should worry about what the government does, which is why there should be enumerated powers, which is why checks and balances do matter.
00:45:50.000But if you actually read that speech, that is the single most radical address to a joint session of Congress of my lifetime.
00:45:56.000It makes Barack Obama seem like a piker.
00:45:59.000He wants to spend more money than has ever been created, completely rewrite the nature of the relationship between the federal government and the individual.
00:46:05.000And he wants to say that he's doing it in your name.
00:46:12.000I don't want Joe Biden anywhere near anything that belongs to me, including my individual rights, because I don't trust him with any of those things.
00:46:18.000And you should not either if you have a bone of sanity in your body.
00:46:22.000So all of that led up to a response by Tim Scott.
00:47:31.000It's the only State of the Union response address I've heard that I actually thought was of benefit to both the Republican Party and the person who gave the speech.
00:47:38.000I've seen a lot of them, ranging from Marco Rubio and the famous water bottle thing to Bob McDonald, the former governor of Virginia speaking to a house in like the sort of stilted way.
00:48:23.000And then he continues and he says, you know, Joe Biden wants to define what your life is going to be like for you, but that's not the way that America is supposed to work.
00:48:29.000He says the American dream is about you defining that for yourself.
00:48:32.000The beauty of the American dream is that families get to define it for themselves.
00:48:39.000We should be expanding opportunities and options for all families, not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best.
00:48:57.000They believe that black people are all supposed to vote Democrat because they say that black people have no agency in America because of white supremacy.
00:49:04.000But Tim Scott says, no, black people do have agency because all individuals in America have agency.
00:49:08.000And Tim Scott says, a mature adult thing, which is just because you have experienced racism from individuals, does not implicate the entire system of the United States, which of course is true.
00:49:17.000As a Jew in the United States, I've experienced some antisemitism.
00:49:19.000I was the number one target of online antisemitism in 2016.
00:49:22.000That does not mean that America is systemically antisemitic.
00:49:26.000So Tim Scott makes a rather mature point here.
00:49:29.000So he starts off by saying, listen, I've experienced some racism myself, Again, you're not supposed to say this if you're Tim Scott, because the immediate follow-up for Democrats is, if you say, I've experienced racism, the immediate next line is supposed to be, because America is racist.
00:49:42.000That's how you get the bizarre spectacle of LeBron James sitting on his billion dollars while doing propaganda work for China talking about how America is deeply racist and terrible to black people.
00:49:51.000Here is Tim Scott saying, listen, I've gone through some racism myself.
00:49:57.000I could call it Uncle Tom and the N-word by progressives, by liberals.
00:50:02.000Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family's poverty was actually privilege.
00:50:09.000But, says Tim Scott, that does not mean that America is racist.
00:50:14.000He says the only thing that's racist right now is the Democrats who are pushing racial essentialism and racial division in order to gain what they want politically.
00:50:21.000A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic.
00:50:29.000And if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.
00:50:33.000Today, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again.
00:50:39.000And if you look a certain way, they're an oppressor.
00:50:42.000From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all.
00:50:51.000By doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal.
00:51:05.000It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination.
00:51:10.000And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.
00:51:17.000That's spectacular stuff. Fantastic, spectacular stuff there from Senator Tim Scott.
00:51:21.000And this, of course, earned him the unremitting ire of the media.
00:51:23.000Because how dare he point out the absolute truth, which is that they use charges of systemic racism in order to cudgel you into silence, in order to shut you up, in order to violate your individual rights.
00:51:34.000And Tim Scott didn't stop there, right?
00:51:35.000He actually explained how they do this.
00:51:36.000He said, you guys, you want to racially polarize us so that you can use racism in order to get us to shut up about your violations of individual rights and constitutional bargains.
00:52:32.000Because the whole point of you constantly talking about race is that you can ram through an agenda that really has nothing to do with race.
00:52:39.000This is not about civil rights or our racial past.
00:52:42.000It's about rigging elections in the future.
00:52:46.000And no, the same filibuster that President Obama and President Biden praised when they were senators, the same filibuster that the Democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year, has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is now on the other foot.
00:53:05.000Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants.
00:53:14.000He is, of course, exactly right about this.
00:53:17.000But the fact that he's exactly right about this is why the media are so upset about it.
00:53:19.000So MSNBC had a whole panel where they said they were embarrassed for Tim Scott.
00:53:22.000They weren't embarrassed for the senile old man warbling out $10 trillion of spending to an empty chamber filled with uselessly masked morons.
00:53:31.000No, they weren't embarrassed for Biden.
00:53:32.000They're embarrassed for Tim Scott for saying true things about race.
00:53:37.000This is MSNBC in a nutshell right here.
00:53:40.000People see him as being genuine in trying to work on criminal justice reform.
00:53:44.000And rather than make even one single salutary point on that, he came out and lied about the Georgia bill, saying it's easier to vote in Georgia than in New York.
00:53:53.000I am shocked and a bit embarrassed for him.
00:54:06.000He tried to pass a criminal justice reform bill last year.
00:54:09.000And it was filibustered by the now Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.
00:54:13.000By the way, if anybody ought to be embarrassed by anything, it's Joy Reid, who came out in the last week, last two days, and said that she jogs double-masked, outside, like an idiot, after being vaccinated, like a pathological lunatic.
00:54:25.000I'm not talking about somebody who's a complete embarrassment to the public discourse.
00:54:28.000Joy Reid, each and every day, proves herself an embarrassment to the public discourse.
00:54:32.000Okay, but don't worry, the media, the same media, who are ripping Tim Scott up and down because Tim Scott's very, very bad, they're praising Joe Biden to the skies.
00:54:38.000So Jonathan Capehart told the obviously abject lie that Joe Biden, his address had the same energy as other addresses, which is like saying that a potato battery has the same level of energy as a Tesla battery.
00:54:54.000No, Joe Biden was like, if you could have hooked up a heart rate monitor to Joe Biden, he was barely alive.
00:55:00.000OK, he was nearly flatlined last night.
00:55:03.000But here's Jonathan Capehart trying to pump him up.
00:55:06.000I thought this was, despite having maybe a quarter of the people who are normally there, I agree with Lisa, it was a much more intimate speech.
00:55:15.000But I also think, not being in the room, but watching on television, it still, for me, had the same energy and I think a little more focus because we were not distracted by taunts or boos.
00:55:29.000So much energy, so much brilliance, so much wonder.
00:55:31.000And if you look at the headlines from the media, it's the same thing.
00:55:34.000The media are just the propaganda wing for this party.
00:55:37.000The actual headline last night is Joe Biden proposes more spending than has ever been proposed by man or God.
00:56:34.000Biden makes case to vastly expand government's role.
00:56:38.000We have to prove democracy still works, he says.
00:56:40.000President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda to rewrite the American social compact by vastly expanding family leave, childcare, and healthcare.
00:56:47.000Taken together, the collection of initiatives suggest a breathtaking scope of change sought by a president who spent a lifetime as a more conventional lawmaker.
00:56:54.000The succession of proposals amounts to a risky gamble that a country deeply polarized along ideological lines is ready for a more activist government.
00:57:03.000And then there's a picture of him being applauded, of course, by Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris.
00:57:07.000And then underneath it says, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi make history on DAIS.
00:57:57.000He'll just wander off just like he frequently does.
00:57:59.000Just kind of like walk off and you won't know where he is.
00:58:03.000And then there'll be a legacy written about him by Jonathan Alter or by Michael Beschloss about what a wonderful president he was.
00:58:09.000And you'll just be stuck with the bill.
00:58:11.000So recognize what this was last night.
00:58:13.000It was an attempt to bludgeon you into submission by saying America is bad and also trust this nice old man to completely change the nature of government in the United States.
00:58:22.000Just because the nice old man seems like a nice old man doesn't mean that what he's proposing is nice or decent or good or prosperous for the United States.