BIDEN KNOCKS WOOD ON UKRAINIAN WAR

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UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, LIVE STREAMED ON CNN TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2022, 9 PM EST WITH HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI AND VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE BY IOWA GOVERNER KIM REYNOLDS.

DOMESTIC POLICY TO REINVIGORATE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING

By PETER THOMAS BUSCH

United States President Joe Biden addressed the nation and much of the global community Tuesday night underneath the shadow of war as he hunkered down for his first State of the Union Address of his four year mandate to govern.

The Ukrainian people were foremost on the mind of Mr. President, with the Russians bombarding cities and advancing on the capital Kyiv in a general pattern that is in line with those lines mentioned in American history books.

Every Russian misstep on the global stage reinforces the caricature America has drawn for the former Cold War adversary. Russia was once an ally, but the military power proves over and over again to be instead an unworthy opponent.

Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not count on the resolve of the Ukrainian people and will never get at their heart and soul.

The United States had been working for months to foster relationships around the world to work as one united against a Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and that strategy paid off with the world unifying against Putin, according to Biden.

Tensions between autocracies and democracies had been long foreshadowed by the President during earlier speeches and press conferences.

Biden then went on to discuss his Administration’s domestic policy, including the idea of building a national economy from the ground up and by growing the middle class, instead of using the trickle down theory that relies on the premise that by giving money and tax credits to the elite, the funds will become investment further down the social economic ladder and keep people off the streets.

Biden seemed to acknowledge that trickle down economics has created a great disparity in incomes within America, with a lot of homelessness and poverty, and with a general growing dissatisfaction the closer to the street you get.

Biden’s plan for rebuilding America includes an infrastructure spending bill to last ten years. Rebuilding America involves using American taxpayers money and so the Oval Office wants the money to be used to buy American made products.

Part of that process of rebuilding America was having Intel and Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger investing $20 billion dollars in a computer chip manufacturing plant in America, with further investments down the road possibly totaling $100 billion. Gelsinger was in the bleachers ready with a waive when his time in the President’s address came.

The Ford Motor Company will be investing $11 billion and creating 11,000 American jobs with the development of an electric vehicle assembly plant. General Motors will do the same with a $7 billion investment and 4,000 jobs in Michigan.

Biden called for less reliance by manufacturing companies on foreign supply chains – parts for American made products should come from American suppliers.

Companies were also urged to cut costs instead of wages to help the nation fight inflation.

And Biden vowed that $400,000 annual income families will not pay one dollar more in taxes than they already are, but any one family at $400,001 and above will have to start paying a fairer share of the nation’s financial burden.

Biden chose the moment to clear out some political space for himself just left of center with policies for the every person, while continuing to push everyone else further to the political right, such as the war mongers among Congress and the hawks among the military. War would be bad for America’s recovery. ‘If you are not with me, you are an intolerant right wing pundit.’

Biden continued to outline his domestic agenda by touching briefly on several issues such as pandemic fraud and the opioid crisis and the urgent need to repeal the liability shield for gun manufacturers.

The retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer from the United States Supreme Court was noteworthy. Biden has appointed Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Breyer. Jackson would be the first black woman to sit as a supreme court justice if she manages to survive the rigorous Congressional vetting process. Presidents can appoint judges, but Congress must approve of the appointment, as was evident by the uncomfortableness of the bench’s Catholic right, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, which she was sharing virtually with Jackson at the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.

Barrett was appointed by President Donald Trump on October 27, 2020 to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her passing. Bader was obviously sitting on the liberal left of the bench, but while Barrett protests a lot that she adjudicates impartially, she obviously sits on the conservative right, which is why President Trump liked her as a justice so much.

Biden also threw in some more countermeasures should Trump seek a second term as President when Biden is finished his first, to wit Trump has a constitutional right to run for re-election. Congress was urged to secure the borders to the south and fix the immigration system, while dispatching trackers to intercept refugee convoys fleeing north from as far down south as Guatemala.

Women voters were also wooed not only with a Supreme Court pick, but with mentions, however briefly, of the Violence Against Women Act.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was in the bleachers for a timely waive so that Biden could underscore the privacy issues facing social media companies when misusing the personal data of users. Haugen leaked thousands of Facebook internal documents to Wall Street investigators and the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal then spun the disclosure into a series of articles about the ongoing internal revolution occurring at Facebook, entitled ‘The Facebook Files.’

Biden then left everyone breathless with:

“THIS IS THE MOMENT TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME.”