Biden’s First Joint Address to Congress: “Boring but radical”

After 99 days in office, Joe Biden delivered an address to a joint session of Congress, a speech that is typically expected by February for first-term presidents. The address was indicative of the Biden administration’s poor messaging to an American population already displaying increased vaccine hesitancy amid reports of vaccine-induced blood clots. Only 200 (fully-vaccinated) socially distanced, masked members of Congress were allowed to be in attendance. Coming in at an hour and five minutes, President Joe Biden successfully read off the details from his sweeping $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, making some blunders along the way.

If you weren’t able to keep your eyes open throughout the session of rambling from America’s geriatric-in-chief, we can’t blame you.

Today we are presenting you with a pithy rundown of last night’s address and fact-checking claims made by former Vice President and current Co-President Joe Biden. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) may have summed it up the best: “boring, but radical.”

Biden began the evening by recognizing this as the first time in U.S. history that we have had both a female Speaker of the House and an affirmative action Vice President:

“Thank you, Madam Speaker and Madam Vice President. No president has ever said those words from this podium . . . and it’s about time.”

Biden continued by calling the January 6th Capitol riots (which were “mostly peaceful” according to BLM’s definition) “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” and later gave his administration credit for the vaccines developed under President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed:

“After I promised we would get 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots into people’s arms in 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million COVID shots in those 100 days.”

Fact Check: There are numerous events that can be considered far more catastrophic attacks on our constitutional republic since the Civil War. Jim Crow laws, segregation, World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. Any of these ringing a bell, Joe? How about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? James Garfield? William McKinley? JFK?

No, according to White House Occupier Biden, the greatest “threat to our democracy” over the last 15 decades was a band of dopes donning Viking hats and trespassing on federal property.

Biden touted his administration’s artificial job creation as restrictions begin to be lifted on business operations across the nation. He claims to have created 1 million new jobs in his first 100 days, which seems to be true, yet this figure pales in comparison to the 11.4 million jobs created during just four months under the Trump Administration.

Biden also advocated for the passing of his “American Families Plan,” referring to the $1.8 trillion spending spree as “human infrastructure.” This gargantuan expansion of the federal government is quite reminiscent of Lyndon B. Johnson’s welfare state. In order to cover the bill, the president seeks to hike taxes on corporations and the rich. Joe Biden attempted to explain that this can be done without increasing deficits:

“I will not impose any tax increase on people making less than $400,000.00 . . . but it’s time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1% of Americans to just pay their fair share.”

Fact Check: The top half of taxpayers pay 97% of all federal income tax. And the top 1% pay 37.3% of the total, as confirmed by Forbes. Axios has also confirmed that Biden’s tax proposals would indeed raise income taxes on individuals making less than $400k.

Biden also claimed that “trickle-down economics has never worked and it’s time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle, out.” Here is what he fails to recognize: when a corporation is taxed at a higher rate, employee wages decrease, the cost of their product increases, or workforce reductions take place as positions are automated. Biden’s proposed capital gains tax increase will also reduce investment in the stock market which directly impacts working class Americans with retirement plans attached to a 401(k).

Even “fake news” CNN outlines how the American Families Plan further redefines the relationship between government and taxpayers. Here is a brief overview of Biden’s new “human infrastructure” proposal:

• Cost: Nearly $2 trillion
• $225 billion funneled to child care
• Another $225 billion for family/medical leave
• $200 billion for universal pre-K (indoctrination of children with anti-American Critical Race Theory)
• Billions for free community college (Thanks, “Doctor” Jill Biden!)

Biden also argued for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour before rambling on to his gun-grabbing proposals, claiming that magazine restrictions would prevent mass shootings. He continued to babble on about deer wearing Kevlar, or something like that:

Fact Check: The mass shootings in Atlanta, Boulder, Indianapolis, and Orange County would not have been prevented with laws restricting magazine capacity. High-capacity magazines have been banned in Boulder, the site of March’s supermarket shooting, since 2012.

Biden wrapped up his address by accusing the general American public of perpetuating a culture of racial bias:

“We have all seen the ‘knee of injustice’ on the neck of Black Americans.”

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) issued a brilliant response on behalf of the Republican Party:

White leftists, unified in their hate of Black conservatives, placed their bigotry on full display yesterday evening. In response to Sen. Scott’s rebuttal, a racial slur began to trend on Twitter. The social media oligarch allowed the hateful rhetoric to trend for 12 hours before removal.

CBS News polling claims (emphasis added) that 85% of viewers approved of Biden’s address to Congress. What say you, Def-Con readers? Can Biden “build America back better?” Or should he start by building his speaking skills first?