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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:44:20 GMT -5
(The Guardian) As he spoke, the president was heckled by far-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. She demanded he say the name of Laken Riley, who is suspected to have been killed by an undocumented migrant. Biden, who usually wants nothing to do with Greene, took her up on the offer. Biden acknowledged Riley – and then, in a reference to efforts to reduce gun violence, referred to greater numbers of people killed in incidents unrelated to migrants in the country.
Former president Donald Trump, during Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, sent a steady stream of messages blasting Biden on Truth Social. “He looks so angry when he’s talking, which is a trait of people who know they are ‘losing it,’” Trump wrote. “The anger and shouting is not helpful to bringing our Country back together!” He added: “This was an angry, polarizing, and hate-filled Speech. He barely mentioned Immigration, or the Worst Border in the History of the World. “He will never fix Immigration, nor does he want to. He wants our Country to be flooded with Migrants. Crime will raise to levels never seen before, and it is happening very quickly!”
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:45:03 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:53:52 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:57:21 GMT -5
(The Guardian) President Joe Biden promised that if Americans voted for Democrats, he would restore Roe v Wade, the decision which protected the right of women to have an abortion. The decision was overturned by a largely Republican supreme court in 2022. Speaking in his State of the Union address, Biden said: “Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v Wade have no clue about the power of women in America. “They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024. If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v Wade as the law of the land again! “America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward. Because I know how far we’ve come.”
Commentators have been enjoying Joe Biden’s reaction to seeing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wearing a visibly pro-Donald Trump outfit at the State of the Union address. Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th district, wore a bright red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, which appeared to have been signed by the former president. Her look was complete with a matching sports jacket – featuring various badges replete with Trump campaign slogans – and a white T-shirt which read “say her name”, apparently a reference to Laken Riley, a a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, who was allegedly murdered last month by an undocumented immigrant who had been released on parole. Greene had heckled Biden about Riley during the speech, shouting “It’s about Laken Riley,” as Biden talked about the border. “Say her name!”
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:58:31 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 13:59:35 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Biden re-emphasised need to raise corporate minimum tax to 21%Joe Biden also re-emphasised his wish to introduce a corporation tax hike should he be voted in at the next election. Speaking during his State of the Union address, the US president said: “The way to make the tax code fair is to make big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their share. “In 2020, 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40bn in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes. Not any more! “Thanks to the law I wrote and signed big companies now have to pay a minimum of 15%. But that’s still less than working people pay in federal taxes. It’s time to raise the corporate minimum tax to at least 21% so every big corporation finally begins to pay their fair share. “I also want to end the tax breaks for big pharma, big oil, private jets, and massive executive pay! End it now!”
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 14:00:39 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Mar 8, 2024 14:12:14 GMT -5
(The Guardian) A majority of Americans who watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address had a positive reaction to the speech, according to a flash poll. More than six in 10 Americans who watched the speech reacted positively, according to the CNN poll, with 35% reacting very positively. That pattern mirrors the reception for Biden’s speeches in previous years, the outlet reported. Last year 72% of viewers reacted positively, with 34% saying their reaction was very positive. In a survey conducted before Biden’s speech last night, 45% of respondents said the president’s policies are moving the country in the right direction. That number increased to 62% after Biden’s address, the poll showed.
Katie Britt’s Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address drew responses ranging from the baffled to the satirical to the appalled, even among fellow rightwingers. “What the hell am I watching right now?” an unnamed Trump adviser told Rolling Stone. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever,” another unnamed Republican strategist told the Daily Beast. The 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star, widely respected on Capitol Hill and her selection to respond to Biden was a golden opportunity to introduce herself to the wider American electorate. In his address Biden used his bully pulpit effectively, attacking Republicans in a fiery speech and inviting a strong response. But Britt’s speech, delivered with overt theatricality, oscillating in tone between the wholesome and the wholly horrific, did not land well even in her own party.
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