That’s the State of the Union we needed. Biden fired up and ready to get back to work. 🇺🇸
@volkris Hmm, what is bizarre about it? Biden needed to remind the country he's qualified, passionate, has the right ideas, and is capable of doing the work. He did that and more. Great speech.
@manton it’s one of those cases where different people end up walking away with opposite perceptions.
No, he said so many things in the speech that seemed political rather than magisterial, flat out false, out of touch, and the delivery itself came across as uninspired.
He blamed others for his own failures to enact policy, just highlighting that he seems incapable of living up to his promises.
His priorities seemed out of touch with the mainstream, leaving us to wonder, what was this? Just a campaign speech?
That’s not what a president is supposed to be doing with a State of the Union presentation.
But most importantly, whether out of ignorance or lack of talent, he seemed unqualified for the office of president.
@volkris Interesting. Did we watch the same speech? 🙂 No need for us to debate this, though, we're clearly far apart in what we took away from it.
@mbkriegh each politician should be held accountable in their own right, not compared to anyone else. That’s how we encourage each one to be better, and how we encourage parties as a whole to be better, so we can hopefully have better choices in the future.
Heck, Biden dipped into promoting some of Trump’s campaign rhetoric. Had many speakers on the left not been doing that for years we might not be facing the possibility of Trump at this point.
We need to be calling these people out, not giving them a pass because they’re better than alternatives in matchups that they themselves help make.
@manton exactly.
We live in an era when swaths of the US can’t agree on facts even when they watch the same media.
It’s so important to recognize that fundamental issue, and the role it plays in shaping our times.
If we can’t agree on the color of the sky that we’re both looking at, is it any surprise that folks can’t agree on the actually complicated questions?