Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread.

This is probably one of the most important speeches Biden can give this year. He has to come across as “Present”, not just “President”.

This will set the tone for the campaign the rest of the year and will be second only to the Democratic Convention speech in August for visibility.

Watch it live here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/

Or through your favorite news source.

The Republican response will be delivered by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236338784/katie-britt-alabama-republican-biden-state-of-the-union

Very good speech!

Full transcript is here:

https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/

Republican response from Katie Britt here:

https://www.britt.senate.gov/press-releases/u-s-senator-katie-britt-responds-to-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/

I encourage you to watch the video and not just read the transcript. Reading it doesn’t carry just how breathless and borderline weepy her delivery is.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
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      I would imagine they don’t need quite the same alertness that you’d have in public - should be a secure area with known people (granted, I wouldn’t want him alone with Gaetz or MTG)

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        All he’d need is a pocket of oats and a skin mag to control those two.

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          MTG: Go fuck yourself! You’re gonna feel the wrath of… (sniff, sniff)

          Biden: (offering a handful of oats) You hungry?

          MTG: (vigorous munching) Neiiiiiigh

          Biden: There there, looks like somebody just had a grumbly tummy (brushes her mane)

          MTG: Whinnie!

          Gaetz: (crushing an adderall and a viagra into a can of Red Bull, all while resembling Butthead) [incoherent mumbling]

          I don’t know why I wrote this and I could press delete, but sharing is caring.

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        I don’t know. Back in the day, a senator beat another senator almost to death with a cane. That chamber has had its moments.