Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread.

This is probably one of the most important speeches Biden can give this year. He has to come across as “Present”, not just “President”.

This will set the tone for the campaign the rest of the year and will be second only to the Democratic Convention speech in August for visibility.

Watch it live here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/

Or through your favorite news source.

The Republican response will be delivered by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236338784/katie-britt-alabama-republican-biden-state-of-the-union

Very good speech!

Full transcript is here:

https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/

Republican response from Katie Britt here:

https://www.britt.senate.gov/press-releases/u-s-senator-katie-britt-responds-to-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/

I encourage you to watch the video and not just read the transcript. Reading it doesn’t carry just how breathless and borderline weepy her delivery is.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
    201·
    8 months ago

    I ain’t writing an essay to talk about the whole list at once.

    Bruh.

    If you’re going to claim nothing happened in the past two years and someone gives you a laundry list of milestones and events, you can’t just say “eh I don’t feel like writing an essay on it”. Either explain why none of them count, or concede the argument. As it is, your argument is incredibly weak since you’re barely addressing their point.

    Also,

    That article is really good, and somebody got paid to write it… So go read that, soak it up.

    But let’s be honest, this comment and that article are more than most would read.

    Bruh. What.

    If you aren’t going to write a proper response, don’t bemoan that people aren’t reading shit.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      8 months ago

      I mean, I said that…

      Went over the first on the list…

      Then said:

      And then, if it’s not too late, I honestly wouldn’t mind getting into that infrastructure bill.

      Because that was the next thing on the list…

      Did you notice how that person never replied?

      someone gives you a laundry list

      It’s known as a gish gallop.

      None of them pass scrutiny alone, but it would take a lot of effort to disprove all of them at once. Especially when the likely result is the person latches on to a small part of a source you quoted and refuses to read the actual source that goes in depth and was written by a professional