This is the FCNB podcast network. A praisa that we won't with bath and then we won't to say, oh we got it does. No one can take that Owen this gonna be okay? A press that we won't with say, then we won't to say, oh we got it does? No one can take that oway don't don't be okay. Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis. I am your host, Kira Davis, and this is the podcast where we take hot topics, hot button ideas, and we discuss the talking points on those ideas, and we draw those talking points all the way out to their logical conclusion. So this is an exercise in critical thinking, it is an exercise in persuasion. And today we're going to to break down the State of the Union speech in brief. I'm not going to do the whole thing. I decided just to go and spare myself the work of clipping it up. I'm not tech savvy enough to do that quickly, so I just went and found someone else's clips and clips I think encapsulate really the most important parts of the speech, and I'm going to break those down so before we get started, I know, Lottie, y'all want to know what I thought about the speech, and I think we can all agree. And when I say all, I mean all left and right, conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican, independent. I think we can all agree that the bar for mister Biden is very, very low. All he had to do to have a quote successful State of the Union speech was not die and he did that. So it's being hailed as a very successful speech by the media class, and we're going to talk about how they're describing his speech later. It's really amazing how the state run media does not even pretend not to be the state run media. I didn't think there was anything particularly knew about the speech I was watching it. It wasn't you know. You get highlights of the speech ahead of time in the press, and so we kind of knew what he was going to be saying. But we also know that this is going to be a campaign speech, because this is his last address to the nation before his last formal address I shall say, before November elections, and so typically he's Biden isn't alone in this. Typically a president will use this opportunity to stump and that's what Biden did, So we knew you'd be talking about some things that were on the minds of America, and so there was nothing shocking in the topics that he addressed. I do find it interesting, though, that the topics that are addressed really do reflect for Democrats, the American people. In the daily average life of the White House Democrat, embodied in people like the Press Secretary KJP, there's absolutely no recognition that these things are going on or affect anyone. I mean, just watch the White House press pool, watch Peter Doocy in action giving KJP a hard time. The answer is always to deflect or obscure, or change the subject altogether, or to highlight the things that Biden is doing, and typically it's things like he's lowering the cost of prescription drugs and taking on junk fees and things that really aren't at the forefront of most Americans. Not that they're not important and not that nobody cares about them. But when you go around, when you are talking to your neighbors and your family members and other voting adults, voting age adults, are you having, are your conversations consistently circling around the topic of prescription drug crisis and junk fees that might come up occasionally, but what comes up literally every adult conversation you have. I know this, I know this. It's immigration, it's crime, and it's the border. I suppose border and immigration are the same issue. So yeah, these things matter to people. And it's interesting to see the Democrat president take the podium in Congress and bring these topics up when he doesn't want to discuss them at any other time. To me, that is a sign the Democrats are understanding that the people. They know what the people want. They just don't want to give the people what they want because it's politics. But we'll get into this as we go through these clips, and I'll stop to analyze. I thought the speech was a success as far as Biden didn't die. I loved watching Speaker Mike Johnson sitting behind by the way. I think he's adorable. I think he is so adorable, but watching him sitting behind the President, he had just great facial expressions and I feel like he was all of us. I feel like that's how I would be looking if I was having to listen to the President just lie and deflect the whole time. And I feel like I would be sitting behind him doing the same thing. Doing that. Well, you know, I can't have outbursts like Marjorie Taylor Green. I am a professional. But also this is total BS. I feel like he was all of us at that moment. And I'll say this, really nice to see that Vice President Harris chose not to dress like a UPS driver this year. I don't know who advised her that that brown suit was going to work for her last year, but it looked absolutely ridiculous, and it also just looks terrible on her. But whatever, they're her pantsuits. That's all up to her. But I give her props for at least not looking like a UPS driver this year. And then I'm also gonna say I really liked Jill Biden's outfit. I loved her brooch. I love brooches, And if you guys see me on TV, you know I always have like a flower pin. It's actually not a pin, don't. I use magnets and that doesn't harm your clothes, neither here nor there. I don't know if you care, but I always have something on. My grandmother, Scottish, very proper woman, always was adorned with a brooch of some type that was something that completed her outfit, and that's something that I do too. So I loved her beautiful broche. I couldn't quite get a look at what it was. And she had this lovely suit of It was a mint green. It was a beautiful color green. It looked great on her. I've seen Jill in some questionable outfits, some outfits that I think would look good on a twenty year old, which on an almost seventy five year old look ridiculous. But she looked age appropriate. Not that that's the biggest deal, but she looked age appropriate, and she picked something that complimented her, so I thought she looked lovely. And then, of course the Democrat and of course the women's contingent of the Democrat Party dressed all in white, as it has been their tradition. I think since Trump first took office. I don't remember what kind of a statement, and I think it's supposed to be, is white symbolic of women's suffrage or something I can't remember. I honestly can't remember why they did it, but I love seeing all the Democrat female Democrat representatives in Congress all dressed in white at the State of the Union speech because they all look like a cult. It looks like a cult. And I'm like, you know, the older I get, I'm going to do an episode on this. I'm actually preparing it now. I'm just doing a little studying. But the older I get, the more I understand the significance of symbols, of symbology, and it's not just a symbol, is not just a symbol, but it really is in a lot of cases, an outward expression of something that's on the inside that can't really be expressed in words, or that we aren't even aware of to express in words. I'm thinking about this clip I saw of Russell Brand on MSNBC a few years ago, and he's talking to Joe and Mika. They do mourning Joe. He's talking to Mika and she's very upset with whatever he's saying. I don't know. You know, Russell Brand has had quite the political and spiritual turnaround in the last few years in sobriety, I'll mention that, and so he was saying something that she didn't like, and probably about I think it was about the malfeasance of the main stomedia and how they have a crowned themselves the truth tellers, even as they lie through their teeth and then complain about other outlets like Fox News, when they're also part of the problem. And she was getting more and more frustrated with him, and she holds her she grabs the water bottle in front of her and she grips it with both hands, and Russell looks at her and says, Oh, Mika, that's a very interesting gesture you've just made. What does that mean? She's gripping this bottle for dear life. And I think he was correct in that assessment. That outward gesture, that's body language, right, That outward gesture is a symbol of something inside of her that cannot be spoken out loud. I think the way Russell sort of jokingly interpreted it was that when men tick her off, she wants to, you know, grab them by the you know what and whip them into submission kind of thing. Anyway, I had really been thinking a lot about about that, that the subtle things we do. We think we're doing these things as to represent one thing, and really it's representing something that we just aren't. We do not have the ability to speak out loud for whatever reasons. So when I see all those Democrat women dressed exactly the same, dressed like they're going to some kind of formal event or formal like initiation ceremony, I think of a cult. And that really progressivism has become a cult. So I thought that was interesting. And then another thing that was very interesting to think about, and the President. We won't address it in these clips today, but the President did address it in his speech, the Palestinian thing. Look, we're the Democrats have a real problem on their hands. They've locked arms with the progressives, and the progressives are Marxists, and Marxists hate the Jews. Marxists are completely anti Semitic, and because Marxism has has all well. And also the other issues. Immigration. I've been talking about this a lot. Immigration. We've flooded a lot of our major American cities, particularly after nine to eleven. We flood at places like Dearborn, Michigan with Muslim immigrants from the Middle East, and we flood in Minneapolis with Muslim immigrants from Somalia. And that's how we got people like Rashida Talib and ilhan Omar, And that's how you have a significant portion of the Democrat Party protesting their own members, including the President of the United States, because in their world it's normal to hate Jewish people, and in their world, Jewish people are the enemy, and now they participate in our government. So I find it quite interesting that the way that the capital had to brace itself for violent not about not January sixth protesters doing something. No, they had to guard themselves against their own people, protesting Democrats who hold the traditional American tradition of supporting Israel. That's something interesting, and the President clearly struggled with it. And this is another thing I'll say this. This is another thing that I find so interesting about this whole process, with having Biden basically being a puppet up there. But he's still a very proud man, and he's still he is still a traditional old school Democrat, and he's been doing this job almost his entire life, and he knows the positions, and he knows the things that you're supposed to say, and he things have changed so rapidly over the last decade he clearly hasn't been able to keep up. And that is not necessarily because of his mental state. We're all like that as we get older, right, every time I hear a new slang word from my kids, I'm like, well, I just got used to the old one. When did this one come up? So that's just a consequence of aging. And he comes from a world in which supporting Israel is politically expedient as well as just considered the right thing to do. And he also comes from a world where some of the biggest donors to his party are Jewish, and so Jewish concerns have always been at the forefront of traditionally been i'll say, at the forefront of Democrat policy and platforms. But now he has to appease this rabid base that the Democrats got into business with, got into bed with without thinking ahead about who these people really are or what they want. And now they're trapped there. They've made the bed and now they have to lie in it and or lay in it, or both. And so I find it fascinating to watch Biden's try to straddle that end. The other thing is he is in a diminishmental state, so I don't think he does really have a true understanding about how the sentiments of his own party have changed towards Israel. It was clear to me he did a lot of He didn't come out and say Israel is wrong, but he definitely was trying to appease the pro Palestinian base and talked about it was just ridiculous. One of the things that he said, Oh, we're going to establish an outpost, a military outpost in Gaza. I guess that was his way of saying, Hey, we empathize with the gas in the plight of those who live in the Gaza strip, just trying not to say we hate Israel and will abandon Israel, while also saying, hey, you rabid, foaming at the mouth monsters out there, Hey, we also like your people too. And people have been screaming for military intervention or a ceasefire of some sort, ignoring the fact that a ceasefire can happen tomorrow if Amas just lets go of all of those hostages. But whatever, this isn't the Israel episode. And then he says, oh, the outposts, we're not going to put boots on the ground because that requires an act of Congress, and that makes everybody nervous because we don't want any more endless wars. Most of us don't want it anymore, no matter what side of the political offense you are on anymore. So what's his solution. Well, we're going to put them on a boat. They'll be off the coast. Okay. It was again just more empty rhetoric. I don't even think that's going to happen, to be honest with you, It's just something that he put in the speech because this is a campaign speech and he needs to get these people back. And remember what I said about these immigrant communities who are now large voting blocks and who don't share the same traditionally American values that we have all grown up with. Well, they're voting in Dearborn you. Sixty seven percent of those voters voted no contests in the in their primaries, in their Democratic primaries as a message to Joe Biden. So the Democrats are clearly scrambling. They're in a pickle. I have no advice for them on how to get out of it. Then you can't get out of it. You've got to you've got to come down hard on one side or the other. You're either for Israel or you're against them. But they Democrats don't want to take a hard line or anything, so they can just keep floundering. I'll just enjoy the show. I've spoken long enough. Those are my general thoughts about the state of the Union. Clearly, Biden was He started out very peppy. You could tell they were he was late. He was late. And when Biden is late, I think it's because they haven't timed his medications correctly. And that's not a joke. I'm not being facetious. I think it's very obvious that the man has to take medication in order to be lucid. Not a bad thing if you're just an average joe. When you're the leader of the free world, it's a scary thing. So he was late. Clearly they were waiting for his meds to kick in, and they want and that was smart, right because in pat in the past, they've given him the meds, taken their time to get over there, and then he's fading further. He's fading earlier on in the speech, so they did well. He had some pep in his step, looked like he was lucid and aware. But as the speech went on, he did start to fade a little bit. And you can always tell when he starts slurring, he's he's he seems fatigued. I get the same way when I'm doing radio. Once I get to the end of that three hours, it yeah, you do. You your mind gets fatigued, like having to process and spit out all this information instantaneouly instantaneously. So I get that. But let's get into bits, hot topics, the news of the day, in depth interviews, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts today. That's out Laws, The Outlaws Radio Show, NFCB podcasts. All right. This first clip is from probably one of the most interesting moments of the night. Somebody asked Marjorie Taylor Green MTG from this point forward, are you going to have another outburst like you did last year? Last year, she shout out at the president and people were, oh, that's so, it's such a lac of decorum. Oh, we don't this disrespectful. And somebody asked if she was going to do the same thing this year, and she said, yeah, if I hear the president lying, yeah, I will. And a lot of people find that distasteful. And I'll tell you what, We're beyond distasteful everybody that those days are gone. Deal with it. You can say it's Trump's fault, but I don't think it's Trump's fault. I think it's Obama's fault because he lied to us and gave us this frontward facing diplomacy while he was talking trash about half the country behind the scenes, ridiculing them sometimes to their faces. He was so condescending, and that caused the swell of resentment among the American electorate. And that's how we got Trump, because these people were like, I'd rather know who you are, don't lie to me until me you're on my side, and then do everything you can to make my life harder, and then accuse me of being a racist or a bigot because I don't like what you did. The gloves came off. Trump wasn't the disease. He was the symptom. And I still believe that. So you can blame Trump if you want, But we picked him. We picked him for a reason. I mean, maybe not you, but we as a country picked him for a reason. And if you're sitting here going, oh, no, Kira, the popular vote, he didn't win the popular vote, that was the electoral college, go back and listen to my episode on the electoral college, educate yourself. So I'm perfectly fine with shouting in the chambers, and in fact, I think we should have more of it. You ever watch I love watching videos of Canadian Parliament, sometimes a British Parliament, but in the parliamentary procedures, that's how it's set up. It's set up as a constant debate, a constant argument. These people are yelling, cheering, they're active, and again it might just be for show, but it does give you the sense that these people are actively and passionately engaged in the business of the people. So this first clip is in regards to immigration, the immigration the border bill that's not going to pass. That is Biden's attempt to look like he's doing something. And of course we're also going to hear MTG. Marjorie Taylor Green shout at Joe Biden and well, she sort of pulls him off his game. At his age is really hard to pivot. And I get that too. Again, not a problem for an eighty one year old man in the average world, a real problem for the president of the United States. And he said, she demands he say the name of Lake and Riley, the young woman who is murdered by an illegal alien. And well, let's let's break down the let's break down this clip. And I've got a few places to a couple of places to stop. He's going to start by mentioning he who shall not be named. I'm told my predecessor called members of Congress in the Senate to demand they block the bill. He feels a political win he vooted be a political win for me and a political loser for him. It's not about him. It's not about me. Okay, I'm gonna stop right there. First of all, what's going on right now? While he's talking in speaker Johnson, who is adorable, is sitting behind him just shaking his head because he knows what every common sense American knows, and I know they're fewer and fewer of us these days. He knows that Joe Biden could solve the border crisis, I meaning he could solve it that second while he was standing up at the podium. We already have laws for the border. It's just absolutely we have the Constitution. We wouldn't even need any of these other laws. We have the Constitution. He can shut down the border. He can return to Trump's immigration policies. He can put more more, he can finish the border wall, he can empower border patrol, he can start deporting people. I mean it just I don't have to explain. There's the list goes on and on of the things that he can do executively right now. The reason why presidents pass on these things to Congress, and this is the advantage of having a government with three branches, because you can blame the other branches. Congress has more power than the president. Congress also has more people to try to round up and agree on something, but the president. Usually when a president says, hey, I've sent this to Congress, they don't want to do anything. That's what Obama did with immigration his whole his whole administration. He just kept kicking the ball over to Congye. Well, yeah, he really could have done a lot more than he did, but he didn't want to because it wasn't it wasn't going to be politically expedient, and so he would just say, well, I told Congress to take care of it, and they did this this thing all they did, the Dreamer Act or whatever, you know, and he knew none of that was going to hold up. But you know, he gets to blame Congress and take the credit. And then you also hear mister Biden referring to his predecessor. It was his idea, not It wasn't his idea not to say Trump. I guarantee you that is a little baby, little gen z slash millennial progressive move that comes from the media sphere. Remember when the New York Times did that, and all of their their editorial staff are just kids. They're just young people who are who grew up training to be activists, not career people. So remember when the New York Times like, We're not gonna they tried this for a hot second, We're not going to print Trump's name, which is what we feel like, that's normalizing him. And then they decided they weren't going to cover his remarks live or directly, and and MSNBC did the same, and that we're not going to normalize, We're not going to let him lie to the people. Will tell you what he meant, will tell you how to think about what he said. That's so those same people writing this speech for Biden, and that's what and so they just thought it was so clever. Yeah, that's an activist move, that's a Marxist activist move. It's as old as the Good Book. So I don't think I think. I think Biden knows better than this. But again, this is another sign and he's not in control really the way that he used to be. I think Biden knows better than this. If you want to take on an opponent and you got a name, everything needs a name, and everything has a name, maybe this is another episode to do. But there's power in naming things. This is biblical. And so to the idea is that we don't name this and then there's no power in it. I think it had the opposite effect. To be honest, again, this is another sort of subtle symbolic thing. But when everybody knows who he means when he says my predecessor, besides what the word predecessor means, we know who he kicked out of office when he won, and we know who he's going to be facing in November if he doesn't go to jail first. We know this. But what saying my predecessor instead of his name does is it forces our brain to engage in a split second, but still engage in a thinking process that connects the words my predecessor to the word Trump. That's just what our brain needs to do to categorize what he's just said. He's actually causing people to think more about Donald Trump, not less. And I think he's adding some power, some weight to the concept of Donald Trump because we can't even say his name. That makes him really big in a person's mind. Big fail there. And also you can hear he's starting to stumble here. He was starting to get tired. At this point, I'd be a winner. Not really, I that's MTG shouting I am. Now. You see him pick up a button and it's the say her name a button that MTG had made up. He's picking up the button and he's going to hold it up and he is going to say, what Lincoln Lincoln Riley, annocent young woman who was killed? Why? And illegal? Oh no, that I did not hear this correctly. At first, I think I was shouting. I thought he said Lincoln Riley just because I kind of heard the formation of the sense. It wasn't until I went to Twitter and everyone's like, he said Lincoln. And then later I went back guy, I was like, oh my gosh. And the look on Kamala Harris's face. Girl, I got to hand it to you pretty good, poker face, pretty good, but you could see, you know, she may again. We do the subtle body language stuff, you know, biting her lip, knowing that he's just made a huge stump, And it's so embarrassing and it's so indicative. It's symbolic of how democrats view the plight of the average American. They don't care. He didn't even care to learn this young lady's name, even though this is a big deal, it's a huge murder is a big deal anyway someone's lost their daughter, But this is a huge deal because that person didn't need to even begin this country. That woman could still be alive. So that compounds the pain because this is something that it really this is something that really could have been avoidable. And we'll talk about that also in a moment. Hang on, here's what he goes on to say next, what makes our moment rare is a freedom of democracy or under attack at both. And then what he said next, it's not in this clip, but then what he says next is, but how many others are killed? How many thousands more are killed by legals? It was that caught. That sentence was the most dismissive sentence I have heard out of a Democrat mouth since Barack Obama was president. And he told me when I was interviewing him online, stop complaining about gas prices and just give up your your that extra cup of coffee that you enjoy at Starbucks each week. Maybe you don't need that cup of coffee so that others can have more of your money, basically what he said. And I was just like, does this man even have any clue about how I'm living or what's going on out here? Or if I want to enjoy an expensive coffee once a week and that's the only thing that I get to enjoy because I'm working my ass off the rest of the week, how dare you? It's that attitude. I haven't heard anything that dismissive since then, but this was so dismissive. And you could see in Kamala Harris's face even she knew it. And she's an idiot, and even she knew that. Because that doesn't it just is exacerbate, exacerbates. Why do I ever try to say that word? I like writing the word. It has good purpose, but I can never say it out loud. It makes it worse. The image that Democrats don't care what the average American is going through. He didn't even have the decency to memorize this girl's name, to say it correctly, to just read it off the button, and then dismissed the importance of that particular crime by saying, well, lots of people are murdered by people who are illegally, mister President, that doesn't make it better, That makes it worse. That's not a flex. We have enough of our own criminals in this country and we're not dealing with them. We're letting We're letting them pour out into the streets because of all the Soros prosecutors out there, like George Gasconne in La. Our streets are teeming with our own criminals because our own government representatives refuse to protect us, refuse to allow the law to protect us. That's not a flex. We would like to deal with those thousands of murders that happen by American citizens. Can we just deal with those first before we have to deal with the illegals that don't belong here anyway? Very dismissive after an just a pathetic show of quote fake support for the family of Lake and Riley let's move on. What makes our moment rare is a freedom of democracy or under attack at both at home and overseas. At this very second, speaker Mike Johnson closes his eyes and takes a very slight sigh because and I believe I know why, because Joe Biden is telling the truth. What makes this moment rare. We have enemies at home and abroad. But what he didn't say is that those enemies are Democrats and they're helping our enemies abroad. We do have enemies here at home. We know Joe Biden means, you know, January sixth, people people who just got a little rowdy out a protest and decided to walk around the Capitol building. That's what Joe Biden means. Meanwhile, the Capitol police are putting up barriers and fences and arming themselves and bringing in SWAT teams to protect the President and Congress from pro hamas protesters there people their baits. The enemy is here, but the Democrat Party brought them here and are still bringing them here. And the enemy is literally streaming across the border, literally streaming across the border. He's saying this as if he's worried about it, And even as he's speaking, people are just sauntering over the border. And it's not people from Mexico. It's people from China. It's people from Yemen. It's people from the East. It's people from countries that are our sworn enemies and are here to harm and wreak havoc. It's human traffickers, it's cartel members. Even as he's speaking, those people are just walking across our borders. So I'm with you, Speaker Johnson. At the very same time, overseays prudent of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond. If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you he will not. I'm hey, guys, remember that one time when Obama ridiculed and shamed mint Romney for suggesting that Russia is the next foreign policy threat. He said, the nineteen eighties cold and they want their foreign policy back, and the mainstream media went wild, and they never ever mentioned it. Now all they can talk about is the threat that Russia is. And by the way, it's a failure for mint Romney too. Thank god we didn't elect that guy. Thank god? Would what signal would that have sent to future voters. Yeah, we had to suffer through another four years of Obama, but thank god, because that idiot doesn't even know how to use what his greatest moment was on stage. He should be walking around. I know he's not running for reelection now, but even since that he for the last eight years, he should have been walking around reminding everybody of that moment. The GOP should rip that moment and put it on a loop and stick it in every ad. Every time Biden brings up Putin, you play mint Romney. Hey, this is what the Democrats did. They said it wasn't a threat. They laughed at us when we tried to say we need to protect ourselves against this threat, and now look at them. It's just such a failure of messaging because that moment was a gift, and every time the president tries to talk tough about Putin, we should be remembered that moment. These people can't be trusted. Herka is a founding member of NATO, the military alliance of Democratic nations created after World War to to prevent war and keep the peace, and today we've made NATO stronger than ever. Welcome Finland to the alliance. Last year and just this morning Sweden officially joined, and their ministers here tonight. When they stand up, the sky looks so sweetitch. Welcome, Welcome, welcome, and they know how to fight, mister Prime Minister. Welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen. I say this to Congress. We have to stand up to putin send me a bipartis a national security bill. History is literally watching, History is watching. The United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk. Again, clip that clip that put it next to that clip of the debate between Obama and Romney, and just run it everywhere. You represent risk, the free world will be at risk, and bolding others to do what they wish to do US harm. The United States walks away, it will put Ukraine at risk. You represent risk, the free world will be at risk and bolding in others to do what they wish to do US harm. I don't know exactly how to feel about this Ukraine Russia thing, but I'm always interested in the cues the Again this is sort of symbolic, but the body language cues I get from our politicians. So I'm watching Speaker Johnson as he is listening to Joe Biden, and you know, I see this, there is a unity in DC about the need to help Ukraine, and I think that says something Besides all of the Biden's corruption and everything that's there's probably a lot of real nasty stuff that's gone on between him and Zelensky. Right, I'm pretty sure Zolensky is kind of a crook. Well, he probably is, because most Eastern European leaders are. That's almost cultural at that point at this point, so I understand there's a lot of shady business between them. I get that. And so Biden has personal interests in keeping Ukraine from falling into Russian hands and then Russia gets to have access to all this information. I get that. But Russia also is a threat and all and has been since Putin came into office. He's old guard Soviet Russian, right, he is who we we're battling in the Cold War, and that's the world he wants to see again, the Cold War world. And so I have a decent respect for Speaker Johnson. And when I see his face sort of nodding and saying, yeah, yeah, we do need to help Ukraine. Yeah, Putin won't stop at Ukraine. Putin has plans for the European continent. Yeah, it makes me think that, you know, I don't want an endless war, but I think that a lot of are representatives in government. They know a lot more information about all this than we do, and I think they I think it means something that so many people on the Hill think it is a good idea to support Ukraine. I can't stand Zelensky and he and I hate it when he comes to our Congress and scolds us for not giving him enough money. It's like, dude, have you seen the cost housing we've been giving you another that's very distasteful. I don't like him. I don't have any respect for that guy. But I do think that this situation is a bit more complicated than any of us would like to think. So just a little observation. I just I'm observing Johnson and Harris sitting behind the President, and you know, they're both giving positive body language on this hot topics, the news of the day, in depth interviews, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts today, that's out Laws, the Outlaws radio show, n FCB podcasts. My message to President Putin I've known for a long time is simple, we will not walk away. Do you think Putin believes that? I think Putin knows Trump won't walk away. I think most world leaders know Trump won't walk away. And then if Trump says something about how he's going to deal with them, they need to take it seriously. Do you think that Vladimir Putin is sitting in his office or lying in his bare skin rug in front of his giant fireplace, watching this on his laptop and going on, I'm very frightened of Joe Biden. No one in the world is scared of Joe Biden. No one now. My predecessor, a former Republican president, tells Putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want. That's a quote a former president actually said that you must be honest. The threat to democracy must be defended. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about January sixth. Okay, he's moving on to January sixth. January sixth and abortion are going to be the two big platforms of twenty twenty four. I don't think are you saying anything you haven't heard here? Obviously it's within the it's of the best interest of Democrats to paint this as and he does. He uses a lot eyeberbally here. Paint this as the greatest threat to democracy that we've ever seen, even as again they've had to put up gates and bring in squat teams to protect themselves from their own base. A basa has been burning down American City since twenty twenty. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Here's the simple truth. You can't love your country only when you win. Look, I love that line. It was one of the things I love the most. You can't love your country only when you win. Only problem was that's you, Joe, That's for you, not us. We get that, We on the right get that. We always love our country. You guys are the ones who don't love it. You barely love it when you win, but when you lose, it's the worst place on earth. It's so common now it's become a joke. It's become a punchline. How many celebrities or even just average people on social media say every election cycle, if ex Republican wins, if my predecessor are with he who shall not be named wins, I'm moving to Canada. I'm leaving. I'm getting out of this country. You all are the ones who only love your country when you win. You only approve of the electoral College when you win, You only care for the Supreme Court when it delivers you decisions you see as a win. That's you. He's absolutely right here, he's talking to the wrong people. If we change the dynamic at the border, people pay people pay these smugglers eight thousand bucks to get across the border because they know if they get by, if they get by and let into the country, it's six to eight years before they have a hearing, and it's worth taking the chance of the eight thousand nine. But but if it's only six months, six weeks, the idea is it is highly unlikely that people will pay that money. Okay, it's about to go nuts in here, but he's talked. This is a clip. He's talking about the border bill, right, and going back to that, Republicans need to pass this border bill. I'm helpless until you pass this border bill. And it was it was jumbled because he's losing cognitive ability here, but it was jumbled. But what he was saying in this bill right now, part of the issue, part of it, a small part of it, to be honest, is that it's catch and release. You catch these people, you give them a court date, and the court date might not be six to eight years from them, and no one comes back for the court dates. So you just it's just the honor system. There's no way, there is a way to go find these people, but we don't. We don't monitor these people. There's no consequences. Deportation is nowhere near the levels it needs to be, and so these people just disappear into the population. And so part of the Border bill is, well, we'll change that, we'll get rid of some of those red tape, and you'll have your hearings in six weeks. And so his justification, he's saying it like it makes sense, which this is what you're in here, and Speaker Johnson is really engaging in some facial expressions right now. Then you're gonna hear the chamber react to this, because what he's saying is, hey, part of the problem is yo, these people, you know, pay eight thousand dollars to the human traffickers to get across the border, and then they figure that's worth it for you know, six to eight years to get my stuff in order and go Hi. That's worth it. But if we short it to six weeks, they're not gonna spend eight thousand dollars knowing that they're going to have to stand in court in six weeks. Like it doesn't make any sense. None of these people are coming to court. Moron, sorry to call it President moron, but he is. None of these people are coming to court. That's not the problem. They don't They're not coming to court. These are criminals. They broke the law to get here, they broke the law to stay here. They're not going to obey the law to show up in court. It doesn't matter if it's if somehow you find them to give them a summons for six weeks, or if somehow you find them to give them a summons for eight years from now, it doesn't matter. But he is saying this as if it's a solution. It grieves me to think of how many people are actually nodding at this like it. He literally said nothing, it's it's it's gibberish at this point, and Speaker Johnson's face and the audience reflects that, and come all that way knowing that they'll be able to be kicked out quickly. Folks, I would respectfully seck you suggest my refriend my Republican Vanezuela to the American people, get this bill done. We need to act now. And just the faces of the Republicans side Byron Donald had a grave heat he gave me, put his hands out like what what in the hell is this brother? Talking about Matt Gates. Matt Gates, whose hair gets higher every State of the Union speech. He's shaking his head. I gotta say I honestly this. I don't like Matt Gates. I've met him personally on several occasions. I've been on programs with him, had conversations, and when I was working at Red State, we were big supporters of his. But I think he's kind of fake to be honest with you, but also to be honest with you. I don't care because I think he has his own agenda. But I and this is what I have learned about politics as I've gotten older. There's no politician who's going to there's no such thing as a good politician. You have to engage in a lot of compromise to get to the top. So what you should do is stop idolizing your politicians and just start picking your politicians based on whose self interest lines up with yours the most. And Matt Gate's self interests line up with mine. His self interests have a conservative bent. He's getting far in his career by being a staunch conservative, and I do believe he is a right winger. I don't think that's fake, but he does seem to have taken on this persona, but he knows how to work it. To me, it looks ridiculous, but you know what, it's working. It's working. It's it's sort of a millennial Trump, if you will. He's thrown his lot all in on that persona and it's working for him. So I'm not a fan of Matt Gates as a guy, you know, I do think he's kind of fake, But as a politician, I gotta say I respect it. So the higher that hair goes, the more committed I see he is to this persona. And I'm here for it, all right. We're cool, We're come and do clothes. Here, and if my predecessor is watching instead of paying politics and pressure members of Congress to block the build, join me and telling the Congress to pass it. We can do it together. But that's what he apparently, here's what he will not do. I will not demonize immigrants saying they are poisoned in the blood of our country. I will not. That's campaign stump speech. That's right. Nobody's saying that, but somebody is. But people are saying, yeah, the criminals are coming across the border. Of course, because the media has an agenda for Trump, they and because they won't play his words directly, they interpreted his words as, oh, I hate immigrants. But I was on Stacy Washington show. I was hosting the show last night and with this is one of the things I told her audience said, I live in a border state. I live forty miles from the border, and as you can imagine, we're deeply, deeply affected what's going on. It's it's becoming mass chaos, even in our schools. It's just crazy. So I see the results of this unfettered access to our border. And as an immigrant myself, a Canadian immigrant, you know, I understand that the you know, the ridiculousness of all the red tape of the system, and I would love to see that reformed. I don't know that you can really reform red tape. Government only gets bigger, it never gets smaller. But that would be ideal. So I I have a heart for people who want to come here. This is the greatest country on earth. But when I look at what the border. I'm watching Bill Illusion's reports on Fox News and I'm watching other reports from the border, and I'm seeing the thousands of people coming across, and it's ninety eight percent military age men. So don't give me the line. And these are just families looking for a better life. They're not families. It's men and it's little children progressives. Doesn't that alarm you? Don't you have any concern for that? Doesn't that set off any red flag? Of course it doesn't, because y'all have been engaged in trying to mute the human instincts to sense danger. Right, you're putting men in locker rooms with our little girls, in sports with our women, and you're telling us that we're, oh, this is normal behavior. You need to be tolerant. And what does that do? That lowers our defenses. It lowers our instinctual response to danger. So yeah, I guess probably a lot of you don't think it's weird to see a thousand men guiding five hundred children by the hand crossing our border illegally. That doesn't set off alarm bells for you. But for a normal person with a thinking a brain that can think, we know that there's something off about that picture. So I am ay our immigrants poison No, no, and nobody thinks that. And I'm using the term nobody loosely because obviously somebody somewhere does. But nobody in our government. Our Republicans don't think that. Your predecessor doesn't think that. Conservatives don't think that. But we do think the criminals are poison and we think human traffickers are poisoned. We think child rapists are poisoned. We think Chinese spies are poison we think drug cartels are poisoned. And those are all the things and ventnel is poison and those are all the things streaming across our border. But so Johnson's face was, you know, he was shaking his head and rolling his eyes. But at this portion of the speech really is just campaigning it's stumping. We don't need a border bill. It's ridiculous, Like, if we needed a border bill to control the border, why haven't we had one from twenty thirty, forty years ago. Hot topics, the news of the day, in depth interviews, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts today. That's out Laws, The Outlaws Radio Show, NFCB podcasts. We don't need the border bill. I'm not sure how this is reading with America at large. I think most people, most of Americans, don't even watch this speech. I think the people who are watching now are already people who think who have bought into this lie that well, it's just but this is again, this is the this is the advantage of having a government that has three separate branches. The President can just blame Congress, and Congress just has to take the blame. You just blame. Well, the Republicans won't pass it. Yeah, the Republicans won't pass it because it's not even really a border bill, and you don't need it. You can shut down the border tomorrow. Let's bring this home. Separate families. I will not people because of their faith, unlike my predecessor. On my first day in office, I introduced the Comprehensive Bill to Fix Emigrations. To take a look at it as all these and more. On his first day in office, he reversed Trump's policies as some of the very policies that his administration is now pressing him to put back into place, not least among them remain in Mexico. But again, this is just a this is the stump speech portion. In my career, I've been told I was too young by the way, they're gonna let me on to sendate elevators for votes. Sometimes not a joke. Uh, this is something weird that the president does. He says something that sounds like a joke because it sounds untrue, right, And that's your again, you're reading this, you're reading his language, and you're interpreting what he's saying. And he says and you may not have been able to understand it because he's slurring his words. But he says he's talking about his age here because that's something that needs to be addressed. And he says, I've been told he makes a little joke. Yeah, tell maybe I'm too young. By the way, they wouldn't let me. They used to me, they wouldn't let me on the Senate elevators to take a vote. Now you might not have any clue what the this is in reference to, but this is a story that he's told before as well. This is a lie. By the way, there's absolutely no one that can confirm this, but he claims that he was so young. He was like the youngest senator of his day. He was so young that people thought he worked at the capitol, and so they wouldn't let him on to the Senate elevator to get to the chamber for votes. He's saying this, and people are laughing, right, laughing, not like mocking, but these are people, Oh, this is a politician. He's making a joke. They're laughing because it sounds like a joke. It sounds like just a well, yeah, just a joke somebody that's not true but sort of true, and it's really just to make you laugh and think about it. And then he says, no, it's not a joke. He does that all the time, and it feels creepyi or doesn't it does that feel so creepy when you when somebody says something you think is clearly a joke, and then they look at you and they go, no, that's not a joke. Isn't that That's always a cringe moment. Oh oh, I thought you were joking. Oh you know, you show your best friend this really ugly jacket you got. You don't think it's ugly though you love it. You go, oh, I love this. Isn't this jacket so amazing? I look five years younger in this shecket and your friend laughs, huh, Now, I'm not joking. I really do look five years younger in it, you know. And then friend is like, oh, oh, I didn't know. That's how it is with Biden when he tells these quote jokes. This isn't a joke, it's a lie. And I've been told I'm too old. Whether young or old, I've always been known. I've always known what endures. I've known our north star, the very idea of Americas. They were all created equal, deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives. And that is that. Thank you, President Biden. And that was just the end of a campaign stump speech, and he talked about how Trump himself is seventy seven. And you know it's true. Trump is old too, so by the end if he wins, he'll be in his eighties by the end of his term. And I know that decline happens quickly as you age. But watching Trump inside by side video with Biden, it's just clear that he's just in a whole different era than Biden. Biden looks weak and frail, just physically even. But and that would be fine too if when you heard him talk you were like, Yeah, this guy knows what he's doing. But then he looks weak and frail, and then he sounds weak and frail when he speaks. He's replacing thought with volume. So during the speech, whenever Biden was wanting to appear in control, he just got louder. He wasn't giving new ideas or wasn't saying anything interesting, he just got louder. The media loved that, but I think they just loved it because it was a sign that he was alive, really, and that's how low the bar was, and he jumped over it. So that was the gist of the speech. I'm going to read. I want to read to you some of the media descriptions of it because it was hilarious but real. Quickly though, before we end, Katie Britt, the Senator from Alabama, gave the response young woman. She was in her kitchen. She gave a very it's been described as actory response. A lot of people felt it was cringeworthy. She got very emotional, it felt very rehearsed. I want to say this about the rebuttal speech, the traditional rebuttal. It's a thankless job. It's a thankless job. It's like being the head, it's like being the chair of your party. It's always a thankless job. And what you don't understand about it is that it's very hard to look to a camera and talk to people who aren't there. That's a skill, and it's it's a skill that not everyone has, and it's very difficult. I get asked a lot, how do you talk on this mic and you're not talking to anybody yet? Well, that's a skill you have to develop. Yet I have an imagination, so I imagine that you're here. But it's not as easy, and it's not easy to be live. You can't make any mistakes. You're amped up, you're stressed, you're focused, and it's just a terrible situation. Not to mention. Now you're responding to a speech that has the benefit of an audience of hundreds of people and millions of more on camera, and they're responding, and they're clapping and they're laughing. They're giving you energy, and energy is key for being on stage. Any entertainer will tell you that, oh I had a dud crowd today, No, the crowd was so so boring tonight, or oh we had a great crowd. Like what that person's performance is based on the energy that the crowd gives them. It's the same way with giving one these speeches. So I don't know how we solve it, but I don't. I don't think it's Katie Britspaul. I think she did fine for what it is. She did fine. She may have sound a very actory, but I suspect maybe she is an actor. She probably has some theatrical training. A lot of people in Congress do. That's not shocking a lot of people in the punnitry industry right in the commentary at my end of the business, a lot of us are former actors, former entertainers. It's not as weird as it sounds at first, because politics is very performative. It's actually a natural progression. I mean, of course, you know, look at Ronald Reagan, so I a one actor to another. I kind of recognize what Katie's doing. She's delivering a monologue which might be great on stage but didn't play well to the camera. I don't think you can solve that problem, like I said, the circumstances around it, or make it such that it's very hard to deliver that rebuttalance natural and you have no energy, you have no audience. Here's what I would humbly suggest to the Republican Party. Do it at a rally. The next rebuttal speech should be should include a group of people. Maybe it's a private party of people you've invited. Maybe it's something that's happening offsite in a different building. Maybe it's just a group of your interns filing into the office and standing behind the camera as Katie gives a response. Maybe, but I think there needs to be an audience. And I genuinely I'm saying this as someone who has years of training and experience in entertainment and particularly in acting. I think you will see a genuine improvement if you have an audience. So talking points went out to the media directly after the speech and again, and like I said, the barb was low. All he had to do was not die, and he didn't die. And he even had some shouting to do. And because the media is not curious, the mainstream media, that is legacy media, they're not curious. They have no originality, and they get their marching orders directly from the White House. Here's an example of how different top media outlets described Biden's State of the Union speech. Someone's put together this handy list for US. Politico a fiery Biden. New York Times a series of fiery attacks against former President Donald Trump. NBC News Biden turns State of the Union into fiery campaign stump speech. ABC News Biden's fiery State of the Union, CBS Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union, MSNBC Biden delivers fiery address. Washington Post fiery political tone. The Hill, Biden's fiery State of the Union shows these miles ahead of the alternative. CNN Biden delivers fiery political State of the Union. USA Today President delivers fiery State of the Union. CNBC Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union speech. Writers fiery State of the Union speech BBC. Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech semaphore, A fiery stem winder, Yahoo, A fiery state of the Union, way too early, President's President Biden's Fiery State of the Union Daily Mail. Independent voters say fiery president did better than expected financial times A punche fiery state of the Union. If they don't even pretend to be original thinkers anymore, well, anyway, let me know what you thought of the State of the Union. You I think it'll move to need. All these things never do, and they're more interesting just to uh see what's on the minds of the party politicians, because always they're aimed at elections. These days it's there. There's not much with the media. I can understand a time when it was harder to get word around the country. I can understand a time when a president's address had deep significance for the nation at large. But these days, because we can get instantaneous media and we get all day, every day reporting from our capital, it's not as important. Do I believe in the importance of symbols and symbology, and so I do think it's a symbolic effort and should continue. But I don't think it does much ever to move the needle, and always how people view the speech falls directly along party lines. I can't remember the last time I looked at a speech by someone of the opposite party that I vote and said, oh, they were really good, don't I don't think, because at the time I'm always thinking you're lying, you're lying, you're lying. So I just I don't know that it has much value in moving the needle. But it's always an interesting observation and it's part of our process, and for that I always appreciate it. So let me know what you think, writes me jlty at ProtonMail dot com. Jlt Y at ProtonMail dot com. 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