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Biden tangles with GOP in raucous State of the Union — barely mentions China
nypost ^ | 2/7/2023 | STEVEN NELSON

Posted on 02/07/2023 9:04:34 PM PST by bitt

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s State of the Union promised a call for unity but his repeated pokes at Republicans — and at least one glaring falsehood — saw the speech devolve into a near-shouting match Tuesday night.

Republican members of Congress vocally disputed several of his claims about them — but especially when Biden said the GOP was plotting Social Security cuts.

And in the 70-minute speech — which also drew jeers blaming the president for the rise in fentanyl deaths — Biden barely mentioned China, just days after a spy balloon from the communist aggressor traversed the US last week.

The 80-year-old president began his second State of the Union by appearing to make an effort to follow through on the White House’s “unity” messaging spin — warmly greeting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after entering, before he proceeded to attack the GOP.

“Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset,” Biden claimed, leading to an uproar from Republicans.

That moment left Biden attempting to calm the heckling by saying, “I’m not saying it’s a majority.”

“Anybody who doubts it, contact my office, I’ll give you a copy of the proposal,” Biden attempted to counter the loud jeers.

“Liar!” shouted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

“I’m glad to see — no, I tell you, I enjoy conversion,” Biden said, trying to play off the awkward and contentious moment.

Biden has repeatedly claimed that the GOP wants to cut Social Security and Medicare — despite McCarthy repeatedly and publicly ruling that out as he and other conservatives push for cuts to discretionary spending and a clawback of unspent pandemic stimulus funds as part of a debt ceiling impasse.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: balloongate; biden; bidensotu; china; costoffrisizhnjubs; dacostoffrisizhnjubs; frisizhnjubs; gop; sotu
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1 posted on 02/07/2023 9:04:34 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 02/07/2023 9:04:47 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

The check cleared from Beijing. Big guy got his 10%.


3 posted on 02/07/2023 9:09:20 PM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: bitt

Hey, he took action! Shot down the spy balloon, right after it crossed Alaska AND the Mainland!


4 posted on 02/07/2023 9:16:31 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: bitt

Looks like I missed another clown show from President Retard

Oh well


5 posted on 02/07/2023 9:16:38 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Azeem

....lol........won’t be a check. One of his attorneys “handed” him a wire transfer/deposit receipt with no name on it....just a numbered account. One thing Old Joe remembers is his numbered bank account.

His attorney hands it to him because Joe can hide behind attorney-client privledge. (talking to your attorney is privledged you know!)


6 posted on 02/07/2023 9:16:52 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: bitt

He must have been juiced up on meth b/c he was rattling faster than an auctioneer.


7 posted on 02/07/2023 9:17:13 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Well, Joseph Stolen is owned by the Chinese, so there’s that.


8 posted on 02/07/2023 9:21:10 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: matt04

(right after it crossed)

Gotta give it time to upload to the relay satellites 🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️ for download in Beijing and other ground-based stations 📡📡📡📡. /shiny side out


9 posted on 02/07/2023 9:21:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

No balloons??


10 posted on 02/07/2023 9:37:28 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: bitt

Another stumbling and bumbling performance. Biden’s handlers ought to have exercised a former tradition and simply sent a copy of the President’s State of the Union Address to the Congress in the form of a written message and spared us the sight of an imbecile slurring words and forgetting the names of people that he pointed to in the gallery.


11 posted on 02/07/2023 9:45:05 PM PST by PBRCat
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To: bitt

The REAL GOP aka Freedom Caucus got raucous.

Finally grew a pair.

Two year too late.


12 posted on 02/07/2023 9:49:14 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: PBRCat

Slurring?

He was so juiced on meth he sounded like an auctioneer.

Selling us out to the highest bidder.

NBD if he gets his 10% /s


13 posted on 02/07/2023 9:50:54 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: bitt

Joe Biden appears to be dysarthric.


14 posted on 02/07/2023 9:51:03 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: Cen-Tejas

Is it?
Seems not in regards to Trump.


15 posted on 02/07/2023 9:51:06 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: bitt

Why anyone would watch this mumbling fumbling fool and then comment after is either as stupid as he is or is begging for attention. We’ve established 100x’s over the kind of animal is running the country.


16 posted on 02/07/2023 9:54:26 PM PST by albie
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To: bitt

We need unity, so stop disagreeing with me, you baby-killing, racist, capitalist exploiter, Nazi partisans!


17 posted on 02/07/2023 10:14:45 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: NWFree

How could you!/sarc


18 posted on 02/07/2023 10:16:44 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: bitt

Biden is a perfect example of what we are to expect here and around the world. Liberals own the election system world wide and will continue to control electronic voting. Conservatives better get used to losing elections especially important ones. Conservatives keep nominating candidates who are naive or stupid, maybe both as an example is McDaniel and Sanders.


19 posted on 02/07/2023 10:17:37 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: bitt

Sarah Sanders delivers Republican rebuttal to Biden’s SOTU address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fsCJlhMC0


20 posted on 02/07/2023 10:30:22 PM PST by Texan4Life
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