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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.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Bet he moves to the right to try to get Haley voters.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

This is why voting is so important, and why voting uncommitted in the primary is a sound strategy this time around. Politicians listen to voters, because they actually show up to vote.

Threatening to withhold your vote is powerful only if you've already given it before. I hope more people start understanding this

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

As far as I can tell Bernie won't be giving his own response to the SOTU this year - has anyone seen any announcements by him?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Anyone know what that guy was yelling?

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[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know where else to post this, so here goes

I'm sad that Obama never adopted the "-nomics" moniker that Reagan and Biden have. Obamanomics just rolls off the tongue

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I can't believe he still has energy to mingle after that.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

Not just mingle, but recognize and engage so many people. Listening in, he is dropping policy and info on people based on what he knows they care about.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He always does this, and it pisses the Secret Service off to no end lol

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I would imagine they don't need quite the same alertness that you'd have in public - should be a secure area with known people (granted, I wouldn't want him alone with Gaetz or MTG)

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

I don't know. Back in the day, a senator beat another senator almost to death with a cane. That chamber has had its moments.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Holy shit, he's working them over like a pro boxer.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

If nothing else, he's proven he still has some endurance left. This is a long speech.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The State of my Onion is chopped and sauteed with a bit of butter

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Say what you want about Katie Britt, but she did deliver the biggest laugh of the night...

https://twitter.com/tomorrowventure/status/1765952347451130127?t=LZYJ3mF-a_d-3Ssgum4lrQ

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago
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