The big problem with the #Biden State of the Union speech was that instead of speaking to the whole country about the whole country, it focused on speaking to his own choir about himself and his reelection.
That's why people are criticizing it as a campaign speech.
If you're a Biden supporter, realize that the speech did not invite non-supporters, including independents, to join in his efforts. It appealed only to those already on board, which is not productive in terms of actually getting those efforts done.
In other words, if you're in favor of what Biden was calling for, you too should be critical that this #SOTU won't help get those things done.
The speech seemed focused on helping nobody... except Joe Biden's personal reelection.
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@volkris If biden wants my support I need to see humility, apologies for his past mistakes and racism, some sense of him wanting to do better.
All Biden ever talks about is how great he is, and how much everyone who doesnt agree with him sucks (or isnt black in his own words, lol). Every time he talks he makes me want to vote for him less, not more.
@freemo Yeah, one thing I was struck by was the constant talk of himself and what he (supposedly) did, instead of what we did, or what the government did, etc. Humility would be nice, but at least he should realize that it wasn't a moment to talk about himself.
@volkris I think everyone is so sick of ego from Trump that it seems doubly socially naive because the last thing we want is Trump replaced with another ego driven person who makes it all about him.
@freemo well, I end up thinking that if Trump wasn't that way then Republicans would be in a better position to call Biden out on it.
That's the problem with this situation of having two incompetent frontrunners: they can't hold each other in check, and both parties are worse off without that struggle making them better.
Yup, I mean, pretty much every single one other than these two had better egos than these two. At least of the ones I was alive to see. Not saying they were a paragon of humility. But these two are certainly the worst I can recall.
No doubt they all had egos, but yea I dont see any of them as being anywhere near bidens level of ego.. I mean the man had the nerve to say just like 2 years ago that anyone who doesnt agree with his policies doesnt even count as a black man if their black "If you dont vote for me you ain't black"... thats a level of ego that I cant think of **any** candidate saying anything that comes close to that. Even Trump who would be the most ego focused candidate next to Biden, even in his case off hand I cant think of anything more ego-driven than that.
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Good policy.
I have been doing the same, though I save space, using #USpol, #EUpol, #GeoPol, #UKpol, #DEpol, and so on.
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I strongly disagree with your stance. I've just watched it again.
This was one of the most inspiring presidential speeches I've ever heard.
#Biden has a clear focus of the things he wants to accomplish and the many things he has in fact accomplished, in contrast to many other nations, e.g. leading the most successful rebound of any big country, in contrast to #China and many #EU countries.
He has a completely hostile "#Republican"...
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...Party, which is rife with political infighting, and at the complete beg and call of #TFG, represented by the #MAGA wing of the party.
I would not even be able to count how many times he's used the word "bipartisan" w/o using writing utensils and I remember particularly well that he emphasized that the strong state of the Union is do to "You!" I.e. the #American people.
It became very clear that he is a masterful orator and that #TFG is the "sleepy"...
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...guy suffering from bouts of #dementia, even confusing his wife and other people.
The #MAGA wing has taken over the formerly #GOP and I am quite confident that a re-elected #TFG would rename the party into #MAGA's predecessor, @AmericaFirst, paving the way for a remake of the Nazis in Madison Square Guarden.*
This is my take.
I strongly urge everyone intere7sted in #politics to listen to the professional commentary of the...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden
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...#SOTU by #RachelMaddow and #JenPsaki:
The Rachel Maddow Show: MSNBC special prime time coverage of #President #Biden's State of the Union address.
via @getSonnet
https://i.sonnet.fm/Lngs6sj4NQdXPJB48
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@HistoPol I'm actually in agreement: he has a clear focus of the things HE wants to accomplish.
Not the country, not what the democratic process might accomplish, not what he might be able to grow consensus around, not even what the law might allow.
His speech was a long list of the things HE says he wants to accomplish.
That's exactly the criticism I'm leveling at him.
I don't think it's inspiring. It's authoritarian, of anything, but mainly it's just out of touch.
He wants to do all sorts of things. That's nice. However, he's still only president and subject to both that reality, and the realities of, well reality as well.
And that's exactly why this missed the mark as a SOTU speech.
It'd be fine as a campaign speech to his people, though, where he can make promises that he won't keep.
@Lassielmr I think the best way to consider the SOTU speech is to ignore any sense of ideology or philosophy or statesmanship or anything like that.
The guy is having trouble in the polls among his own base, so he decided to use this giant platform to target specific audiences to try to win their favor, regardless of anything rational or realistic.
So he might be all of the things you list, but in this particular speech, none of that mattered he was just trying to pander to a particular group of voters, who themselves might be out of touch and all the rest 🙂
It was very unbecoming, very inappropriate for the event, but the people who would care about such things the most already won't vote for him no matter what.
Oof, I just realized i forgot to hashtag USPolitics, which I always try to do to help people filter that out of their own timelines.
My apologies to anyone who sees my post but was trying to avoid politics on their feeds! I completely understand that position!