Comments on: Biden’s SOTU

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 03:25:18 +0000

Intel is going to build in Ohio, not Iowa.
What can I say? Biden’s typos are contagious! But, hey – they both have four letters. @AF 3:31
Maybe they will end up building in in OhIowa!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:32:37 +0000

I watched the whole thing, and I thought Biden did spectacularly well considering how bad he often is. If you are on the Left/Democrats side, it would have given you hope that he might be able to last through the next three years. I don’t know what they pumped into him, but it worked – the thing I’m watching for is how long it takes before he is out and about again….I’m sure whatever they do to him takes a toll.
(as an aside, the most entertaining thing for me was Nancy’s goofy look throughout – she definitely had a few before the speech. I’d imagine they were all so nervous that Biden wouldn’t make it through, and so relieved when he did).
But he delivered without any major stumbling. Critics can pick the hypocrisy of the speech, and flaws, but look at it from his side’s point of view….he really did “knock it out of the park” as commenter Mac noted his Democrat friends were saying, by not spectacularly failing.
Will it make a difference, especially by November? I doubt it in a positive way: the speech will soon be forgotten by anyone who actually believed it, but, on the negative side, may resonate with the hard Left that Biden is going to betray them.
Normally come election time, the Left in particular will close ranks and present a united front. This time, I’m not so sure. If the election looks to be a total shellacking, and with so many old-guard Octogenarians inevitably at the end of their careers, this would be a good time for the Squad and the rest of the hard-Left to cement control over the remaining rump of the Party.
However it pans out, 2022 is shaping up to be a most interesting year.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:21:16 +0000

Thanks Hubert.
Fascinating how Fukuyama backed down pretty quickly after being confronted with certain “inconvenient” truths by Ferguson and Meade. Though he still was determined to get in some pathetic pokes at Trump, of tremendous importance to his sense of self, no doubt. (His next book really should be “The End of Good Judgment: An Autobiography”…)
Also for the links… I have a very soft spot for Estonia, alas…for its determination, its creativity, its music, of course its people and their innovation—well, all kinds of things. I had the very good fortune to visit, if only once. As the interview that Neo posted several days back reveals, they have a pretty good idea of what’s coming down the pike (or across the Narva) unless something can be done quickly to stop—no, not “the madness” but—the calculated and brutal reconquest of empire. (Though, who knows, maybe this conference will help(!)—if only by showing that they are not cowering, that life goes on. That scholars and experts continue to come, discuss, fraternize….)
– – – – – – – – – –
As for anyone wondering why “Biden” seems unable to cut Russia loose entirely, here’s something that, if accurate, tells us—REMINDS us—of “Biden”‘s TRUE priorities, though to be sure, “he” has many of those, most (if not all) at the “contemptible” end of the spectrum:
“Amid Ukraine crisis, Biden partnering with Russia to revive Iran deal, thwart US opponents…;
“Administration has held secret talks with Russians to preempt future Trump-like exit from accord, experts and former officials warn.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/security/amid-ukraine-crisis-biden-partnering-russia-revive-iran-nuclear-deal

(And so confabulating with…yes, that’s right!…Guess one can’t talk all the time about purchasing oil…

…all of which is entirely consistent with the “Perfidy in Vienna” link above:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/perfidy-in-vienna-or-the-madness-of-slow-joe.php

…and segues not too badly with the following (not that THIS is anything new, mind you, but still):
“Saudi Crown Prince: We see Israel as a possible ally”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323252

…Heck, even Erdogan is beginning to act—somewhat—like a “mensch” (though I wouldn’t want to bet on how long that’ll last).

Having said all this, to paraphrase Ecclesiastes: “All is speculation”…

By: T

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:37:50 +0000

This year's classic SOTU photo showing Biden with Harris and Pelosi in the background is the perfect illustration of Robert Conquest's third law of politics:

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:53:28 +0000

Fukuyama is a Voice of the Blob. He thinks Biden’s doing a heckuva job. Sorry–make that a “magnificent job”

I’ve always been skeptical of Fukuyama. Going to have to write him off completely.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:39:02 +0000

Barry: “The question is whether those who supported “Biden” will ever wake up to the carnage, chaos, terror and destruction for which they are responsible.”

No, they won’t. See e.g. what Francis Fukuyama has to say in this roundtable discussion with Niall Ferguson and Walter Russell Mead:

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/russias-war-on-ukraine-a-roundtable?s=r

Fukuyama is a Voice of the Blob. He thinks Biden’s doing a heckuva job. Sorry–make that a “magnificent job”.

According to the Blob, Trump was soft on Russia. Here’s Edward Luce, U.S.-based editor for the Financial Times and another member of the Blob:

https://twitter.com/EdwardGLuce/status/1499383660717522944?cxt=HHwWgIC-8dnf8M4pAAAA

Get it? The reason Putin didn’t make his move while Trump was in office was because Trump was giving him everything he wanted.

So be of good cheer. Even as we post, leading lights of the Blob are convening for a very serious conference at the Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia:

https://twitter.com/BALTDEFCOL

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RUSCONF22?src=hashtag_click

Position papers, hashtags, and Powerpoints. That ought to stop Putin.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:37:03 +0000

I don’t think I’ve EVER watched a State of the Union address, because I assume that they’ll inevitably be a “Yay for our side” speech. People who’ve spent their lives running for office will tend to keep doing so even when they’ve actually got the job.

Aye. They could fulfill the constitutional obligation by sending a written statement to Congress each year, as was done between 1800 and 1913.

You can sort our presidents into categories according to their worklife outside politics:

1. Truncated / little of interest: Biden, Obama, Clinton, Johnson, Kennedy.
2. Modest / little of interest: Ford, Nixon, Roosevelt
3. Extensive, earned a living: Bush II, Reagan, Carter, Truman, Coolidge, Harding
4. Accomplished (to varying a degrees): Trump, Bush I, Eisenhower, Hoover, Wilson

We should not have category 1 at any level of government. Category 2 is less troublesome; if we have those it should be because they occupied offices at several levels of government with a decade in each.

By: richf

richf — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:14:56 +0000

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:59:05 +0000

I suspect that when all is said and done, EVERYTHING is intended to be a MASSIVE distraction, whether it is the SOTU, or the war in Ukraine, or January 6, or inflation, or the southern border, or Afghanistan, or the supply chain, or the markets. Or—especially—Covid. Or Trump.

Distraction from what?

Easy. The step-by-step disestablishment, IOW planned collapse, of “The Big Satan” (by “Biden”);
AND the step-by-step destruction of “The Little Satan” (by “Biden” and friends)….
“Perfidy in Vienna? Or the Madness of Slow Joe?”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/perfidy-in-vienna-or-the-madness-of-slow-joe.php

The question is whether those who supported “Biden” will ever wake up to the carnage, chaos, terror and destruction for which they are responsible….though I admit this is not really a fair assessment, since “he” would have “won” anyway…whether they had they voted for “him” or not.

Nonetheless…

By: Hubert

Hubert — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:38:12 +0000

Skip: thanks for the reminder about Diplomad. Everyone should check out his posts on Ukraine and the SOTU address:

https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/

Especially this one, from February 24:

https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2022/02/biden-disaster-biden-disaster-biden.html

Glad to see he’s active again. Hope he keeps it up.

(And no, I didn’t watch Biden’s speech.)