Cenk PRAISES Biden's State of the Union Speech?!

Joe Biden just gave the State of the

Union speech and it was pretty good I'm

pretty surprised to find out it was

pretty good it was very energetic very

politically aggressive he took the fight

to the Republicans in a way that was

surprising it was as aggressive a speech

as I have seen certainly from Joe Biden

in a context of a state of the union but

honestly in the State of the Union they

try sometimes to not be so political and

they'll put on a bunch of bipartisan

lines and there'll be a bunch of lines

with their side will applaud for and a

bunch that both sides will applaud for

there wasn't much of that here at all he

just attacked Republicans and his

predecessor as he kept calling Trump

throughout the speech all night long he

hit him and hit him and hit him and the

Democrats kept standing and Mike Johnson

speaker of the house uh only got up

twice during the entire speech which is

a near record low uh I don't you know

Haven kept track of that but I've never

seen the opposition get up so little

partly because the Republic an are

obstinate and don't want to get up for

anything and don't want to appla

anything that's Democratic but partly

because Biden was giving us super agries

of speech okay out a boy that's the kind

of thing we want to see now don't get me

wrong uh was it filled with nothing but

accuracies not exactly were there good

things in it yes so the two things that

I really like are uh the fact that he's

building a port to bring in humanitarian

assistance to Gaza is is policy towards

Israel and the rest of his speech in

that regard I think was a disaster but

credit where credit is due on the port

uh let's Rush that Aid in as quickly as

we can and obviously we have to do that

because our so-called Ally uh won't let

us bring in humanitarian assistance

through the roads uh the right-wing

government of Israel is currently

starving the Palestinians and we have to

get around them so we give them $4

billion a year want to give them an

extra $14 billion a year to do more

bombing we found out uh today in a

report Joe Biden's actually sent them

weapons literally hundreds of times

since October 7th not getting

Congressional approval just sending more

and more weapons including bunker

Busters that Dro 2,000lb bombs his

policy on Israel is awful overall but

I'm glad that he's finally getting

around the Ally Ally and uh and and

building that Port so we can finally

make sure those people don't suff but

it's going to take a couple of weeks and

a lot of them are going to die in the

meanwhile so we're going to spend money

on the port we're going to spend money

on bombing them we're going to spend

money on everything that Israel wants

and some of the things that they don't

want and are forcing us to do because

they won't help but I like the port okay

now uh the other thing is the thing that

Biden does not get enough credit for is

a

15% minimum tax on

corporations uh that is one of the best

bills that the Democrats have pass in

terms of corporate taxes so he said he'd

raise the corporate tax rate he didn't

and there were many ODS to corporations

throughout the speech but that portion

is great and we appreciate it so you got

to be fair give credit where creditors

do overall pretty good speech pretty

good speech now having said that of

course I got to talk about the downsides

too um and he had a couple of uh you

know stumbles here and there and with

Biden you get more nervous than you

normally would a couple of stutters but

overall not a big deal the the fact that

he was so energetic and Loud o

overwhelmed those tiny little blips and

if it didn't you know me I would

definitely tell you right and so uh he

uh and he talks back to the Republicans

I like that part too so he' look at him

because that worked on Social Security

last time around uh so he kind of goed

them every once in a while he'd look at

them I was like oh you don't want to you

don't want to give the uh wealthy

another two trillion tax tax cut uh and

I was like okay there you go Joseph I

like that attitude uh he once said you

don't want to do that

huh okay I like that he was taunting him

it worked for him last time it worked

really well this time you know how he

sometimes leans in and goes really I got

to tell you something and he whispers

especially with his age not a good idea

to whisper but this time he was almost

yelling but I say that as a compliment

that's good nice aggressive in charge

the Democrats were chanting four more

years you know it's a little on State of

the Union but my God for a guy who's so

soft and so uh in love with the

Republicans throughout his career this

is a welcome refreshing different Joe

Biden this is a Joe Biden we need to see

on the campaign Trail so very happy with

that uh now he couldn't help himself uh

a couple times in this speech he was

supposed to one time he supposed to

criticize Wall Street but he's like now

don't get me wrong I like Wall Street

I'm like oh God I know I know dude

you've taken more corporate

contributions than uh almost anybody

Pelosi and McConnell haven't beat maybe

Hillary Clinton but uh so don't say you

like Wall Street in the middle of a

speech where you're trying to criticize

Wall Street but he can't help him so

don't don't mind me I I still like he

bragged about how he comes from the

state with the most amount of

Corporations and how much he likes

corporations it's okay to say hey we

need business to be strong in America

without doing like a giant Love Letter

to Corporate America and to Wall Street

but that's who uh Joe Biden is look guys

some of the things that he talked about

were great the problem is I have to be

honest with you it's a trick see for

example he said why don't you pass pay

leave well what brother why don't you

propose it like for most of the things

that he said that you like they're part

of his discarded agenda that he doesn't

even care about he even brought up

higher minimum wage he's the one that

killed higher minimum wage he told the

two Delaware Senators to vote against it

eight Democratic senators voted against

it when Bernie Sanders proposed it so

he's totally full of crap on that uh he

bragged so much about lowering drug

prices don't you mean lowering drug

price he's lowered the price on only one

drug and never like one drug we're such

Champions no you're not the other tens

of thousands of drugs are still super

expensive and Medicare can't negotiate

with them which makes no sense at all

Biden didn't fix that in fact I have to

be honest with you guys what he did was

counterproductive he made it look like

we fixed it when he regulated only one

drug so far and then he says well but

don't worry in a couple of years that

could go all the way up to 10 drugs oo

don't hurt him Joe so that just covering

for the drug companies I can't stand

that on immigration he called them

illegals I mean Joe Biden during the

campaign in 2020 thought he was getting

outflanked on the left and he's like

what are you talking about I love

undocumented immigrants now all of a

sudden they're a legals but he did turn

around and say look uh I'm not going to

demonize immigrants coming into this

country they're good people but we you

know we've got to follow the rules etc

etc that part is totally fine but you

know you don't have to use Republican

talking points uh in order to sound

tough on immigration uh actually believe

in your own policies here more stuff

that he um said but doesn't mean he said

oh we got to pass the John Lis Voting

Rights Act you guys threw that on the

bus you didn't even you barely tried you

proposed it they killed it with a

filibuster and you said well I mean I

moved the filibuster for lifting the

debt ceiling so the stock market

wouldn't crash but voted rights nah I

don't want to move to filibuster for

that so honestly not not true uh in

terms of his priorities and how hard he

tried he said why don't you pass

Universal background checks every time

he says something like that by the way

that pulls as high as

97% gun owners want it NRA members want

it there's nothing wrong with a

universal background check the only

people who don't want it are gun

manufacturers who fund the NRA who found

Republican politicians but Biden's never

going to talk about the donors because

he also takes massive money from the

donors but if you like Universal

background checks why don't you propose

it in the Senate remember the Democrats

control the Senate they could propose

any of these things and they totally

refuse to so it's just this is lip

service and marketing so I'm an honest

analyst I give him good marks for good

political strategy and good marketing

here of his agenda which he doesn't do

often in the beginning of the speech he

did a great job with that bring about

how inflation in America is the lowest

inflation in the whole world why don't

you say that every day you should be

screaming that from the rooftops but he

did in this case so credit where credit

is due he talked about how unemployment

is at a record low of course you should

do that so that's exact this was this

was a for Po Folks who don't know the

inner details of politics and what the

Democrats do instead of what they say I

would say this was borderline terrific

speech if you know that the Democrats

and Biden are full of crap

on a huge percent of what he's talking

about then you can't help but be honest

and tell people that as well but

remember whatever the Democrats are bad

at the Republicans are worse I mean

there he was like let's make sure the

billionaires are paying their fair share

and the Republicans wouldn't get stand

up for that wouldn't applaud they no and

he's like well why don't we have them

pay their fair share and then we could

help the average American worker and the

Republicans no boo boo right they didn't

actually boo there they boo in other

places but the don't forget the

Republican Party are total fake populist

they represent the rich and Corporate

America more than anyone else does so um

he said restore that child tax credit

that was in the first year of his of

your term brother and then you never

even bothered to try to bring it back

how could they restored if you're not

proposing it I don't know why the

Democrats don't propose their incredibly

popular policies well I do know because

they don't actually want to pass a lot

of them that's what the rest of the

media won't ever tell you he says

imagine paid leave yeah that's the only

thing we do is imagine it because you

won't propose it it's so easy to at a

minimum politically embarrass the

Republicans because they're all going to

vote against paid family leave and it

pulls out 84% 74% of Republican voters

wanted there's no downside to proposing

it in the Senate except for the fact

that their donors will get mad at them

uh so like I said don't get me wrong

even though I liked what he said about

the port uh in in regards to Israel the

rest of it was total Israeli propaganda

the cowards and Hamas are hiding behind

their human Shields what do you think

they're going to do they're going to

come out in the middle of an open field

and be like hey Israel we're right here

it's a bomb right here okay no they're

hiding in the among the civilians

because that's the only place there is

uh so they're all imprisoned together

along with the civilians H in these uh

open air prison camps that uh Israel

runs called West Bank and Gaza Strip and

of course Gaza Strip has been absolutely

decimated

so look we keep it real here optically

it was a very good speech especially as

we were nervous about how Biden was

going to deliver on this speech there

was one bad piece of Optics which was

one of the congressman kept waving his

Cane and it was coming in front of the

camera when Biden was trying to look

young you don't really want the cane on

camera all the time but otherwise it was

good optically and and from a messaging

point of view in terms of the substance

of the message unfortunately 70% of it

is still not really true but there were

a couple of good points in there

including the 15minute corporate uh

minimum tax so that's your reality on

the Biden speech