Last night President Biden arrived late to deliver the annual State of the Union address. Once at the podium, the president bypassed the normal protocol of the Speaker of the House introducing the president and just launched into a vitriolic 2024 campaign speech.
He railed against Republicans and yelled for over an hour. There was no effort to speak of national unity.
Biden finally spoke the name of the young woman in GA, who was murdered by an illegal immigrant recently, but he muddled her name, saying “Lincoln” instead of Laken Riley and he blamed Republicans for the border problems. The truth is Biden rescinded all of President Trump’s tougher border policies in 2021 when he took office and that has led to this massive illegal immigration increase in America.
A man yelled out during the SOTU address and was escorted out by security. It was later reported that what he yelled was, “Abby Gate,” and he is a Gold Star father, whose son was killed during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. President Biden has never spoken to this Gold Star father or spoken his son’s name publicly.
For Biden’s efforts, Democrats and liberals raced on social media and TV news to praise Biden’s “fiery” speech and cheer his vigor.
The president’s hour-plus diatribe was followed by the GOP rebuttal speech delivered by Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Britt used her kitchen as the backdrop for a high-pitched, roller-coaster of female histrionics that seemed overly staged and disingenuous.
Both speeches were just more bad political theater. To complete the evening’s political clown show optics, Rep. Rashida Talib and some her Democrat Squad members came decked out in black and white Palestinian keffiyeh scarves and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene donned a red MAGA hat.
Both speeches were an insult to the American people, talking down to us and worst of all using gimmicky ploys to try to manipulate our emotions.
Biden did make one big foreign policy announcement – a plan for the US military to spearhead building a pier in a Gaza port, to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza civilians. In typical Biden administration fashion – there were no details given, but Democrats roared with applause last night.
Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade on Gaza for over a decade to deter arms supplies and counter Hamas terrorist activities and now Biden is suggesting putting the US military in the midst of this active Israel-Hamas war zone to build a pier. The same architects of the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle are still in the Biden administration and still in charge – no one was relieved or fired. These same people would be heading up this Gazan pier project. It’s an insane idea to stick American troops into some war zone as humanitarian workers.
So, there was the Gold Star father being led away by security, as he reminded us of the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, and along comes Biden to try to lead America into a “humanitarian” Gazan pier-building project in the middle of a hot war zone. Sure, that makes perfect sense…
It’s been reported that this Gold Star father has been arrested.
A ranting old man was talking about putting US troops into a war zone for a humanitarian pier-building project and he insisted at the same time that there will be “no boots on the ground” and Democrats happily cheered. An angry father whose son died as the result of a Biden foreign policy debacle was led away by security and arrested…
Who the hell is going to protect US troops while they build this pier?
The inmates are running the asylum – that’s the real state of our union.
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“Who the hell is going to protect US troops while they build this pier?”
As I found myself muttering last night, ‘Hmmm. So. A Mulberry off Gaza? Lemme think about that a minute. What factors would I need to think about before deciding that would be a whoopie idea?’
Scale of the pier of course. Surely not something like …
https://d-dayinfo.org/en/preparation/artificial-mulberry-harbours/
But then again it was Biden talking so who knows what he”s got in mind?!!
Any <i>possible</i> potential drawbacks to this goal? Hmmm, possibly … fairly remote I suppose but not out of the realm of possibility:
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/12/analysis-houthi-targeting-of-israel-suggests-new-longer-range-missile-in-play/
A “longshot” (pardon the pun) but, as the Houthis are presently firing on actual warships already they do seem a rather ballsy lot.
Oh heck. What could possibly go haywire with Biden’s grand strategizing? Go for it Joe!
Thanks for that WWII history link, JK. I don’t recall ever reading about artificial Mulberry harbors. The larger issue, I’d think, perhaps isn’t getting supplies into Gaza, but who on the ground is going to secure them and make sure they’re delivered to the civilian population and not stolen by Hamas or other jihadists and criminals for the black market. But what do I know, since I haven’t really read any detailed reports on the actual logistics and security situation on the ground.
However, I’m pretty sure it’s a terrible idea to stick US military in to do “humanitarian work” without force protection components in place… at least, that was one of my takeaways from Mogadishu back in the 90s.