When President Biden Gives His SOTU Address in a Few Weeks It Should Focus on One Major Them: Keeping America Safe.
And whether the GOP wants to accuse him of campaigning or not, the President should bring up Donald Trump's remarks about how Trump would not only do nothing to stop Russia from attacking a NATO ally, but that he would ENCOURAGE Russia to do so.
If the GOP members in the chamber want to boo that, let them!
Before the speech, the Senate should take up and pass a resolution rebuking Trump's remarks and reminding everyone that it is American LAW to come to the aid of a NATO ally if Article 5 is invoked by an ally, just as our NATO allies did for us after September 11, 2001. We our CONSTITUTIONALLY bound by the Treaty we signed.
And, since I am absolutely sure that those of you who are Trumpets need a stern reminding, here is the "law" I am talking about. It's called the Constitution of the United States of America:
[quote]Article. VI.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.[/quote]
And here are the parts of the NATO Charter that we signed that are relevant:
[quote]Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
Article 6
For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.[/quote]
Let Republicans vote against such a resolution reaffirming our commitment to NATO. Let the House Republican leadership fail to take it up.
@boudinMan says [quote]right, and the economy is doing great too, right?[/quote] Good question!
Let's start with the measures Trump touted when he was in office: unemployment and stock market averages.
[quote] [b]News: Unemployment is at its Lowest Level in 54 years[/b] 517,000 jobs added ; 3.4% unemployment rate. [/quote] https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2023/02/news-unemployment-its-lowest-level-54-years And yes, these are the same statistics that Trump used to crow about.
The Covid jobs recovery is complete and then some That curve ends in Oct '23, you'll have to mentally splice on these extra months of job creation: From yesterday [quote]Stocks popped on Thursday, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC) hitting a fresh record high, despite a disappointing retail sales report that raised questions about a "soft landing" scenario for the US economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.9%, or almost 350 points, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added 0.3%. The S&P 500 was up nearly 0.6% to hit a record closing high of 5,029.73.[/quote]
Yep, Trump's [b][i]favorite[/i][/b] numbers are even better under Biden. Of course Trump's biggest failure is his botching of our pandemic response.
All through Trump's term, our Covid per capita death rate was DOUBLE that of countries like Canada & Germany, resulting in about 550,000 Covid deaths under Trump.
If Trump had handled Covid as well as, say, Justin Trudeau, we'd have had 275,000 FEWER DEATHS! Put another way, Trump's mis-management of Covid cost more deaths than THREE Viet Nam wars!! Three Viet Nams in a SINGLE YEAR, not spread out over ten years like the actual war!!!
Sure, Covid came from outside. And different leaders in different countries managed it differently. Trump's piss-poor Covid management is made clear by the relative per capita death rates.
[quote]"I look at it this way," Birx told CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta. "The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."[/quote]
Never mind that the baseless accusations, whataboutisms, and wholesale fabrications you were spewing when every single point you made was countered could easily be translated into the explosive stuttering of someone who’s on the losing side of the argument displays, right before the purple vein on the side of their forehead pops up and little wisps of steam come out of their ears. This might make a better profile pic for you:
@Patriot96 You have [i]your[/i] facts backward.Biden and Obama have both departed more than Mango Mussolini. Mayor Las was impeached as more performative theater from a congressional majority that has given up any pretense of governing. But by all means, keep repeating to yourself that what you’re stating is actually supported by any concrete evidence. With the way Biden will hammer it home between now and Election Day, it won’t be moving the needle with any where [i]near[/i] the momentum needed to pick off independents.
Thing is at this point the US has two governments. The Republicans don't even have a constitution. So they certainly aren't going to listen to the American one. Heck they don't even mentally live in our reality, but we have to deal with them because their physical bodies are here taking up our space and resources. Fuck the GOP. Fuck the antichrist Christians. And fuck both of their Taliban and Russian allies.
