 you at home should know what those plans are instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some Republicans some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security Sunset I'm not saying it's a majority contact my office I'll give you a copy I'll give you a copy of the proposal that means Congress doesn't vote I'm glad to see and I tell you I enjoy conversion amazing if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are they'd go away other Republicans say I'm not saying it's a majority of you I don't even think it's even a significant but it's being proposed by individuals I'm not politely not naming them but it's being proposed by some of you folks the idea is that we're not going to be we're not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the dead if we don't respond that right there was probably my favorite moment of the entire state of the Union address by president Joe Biden because he did something that he doesn't do enough and that is call out the extremism of Republicans and this moment was crucial because he kind of got them to show their cards so you saw the responses when he said that they want to cut Social Security and they were just indignant they feigned outrage you know Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee in particular their responses were interesting to me especially Mike Lee's but Marjorie Taylor Greene throughout the entire state of the Union you could hear her screaming at Joe Biden for various reasons and it was just genuinely embarrassing unhinged and trashy but exactly what I'd expect from Marjorie Taylor Greene but she responded to questions about why she chose to call out Joe Biden and here's what she said you know what people are pissed off and for the president of the United States come into the people's house and lie like he did about the economy the border and then act like he's terrified of China and unwilling to talk about the fact they spot on us last night yeah he he got exactly what he deserved and I am not sorry one bit and I don't think Speaker McCarthy is upset with any of us for her expressing our views and being unwilling to allow the president to lie what am I gonna do stand up and give golf claps no thank you I don't clap for liars I love how Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling out somebody else's lies while not being aware of the irony here she's one of the biggest liars and maybe she's not even lying maybe she's just genuinely misinformed about 99.9% of the issues that she talks about either way what she did was effectively turned the state of the Union into the Jerry Springer show and she did this last time with her and Bobord heckling Joe Biden if you'll all remember that but it's not that I am inherently against heckling the president during the state of the Union you know I don't care about civility or decorum but what I care about is why you're heckling the president so for example if Democrats during Trump state of the unions would have heckled him for the terrible things that he said I would have liked that so I'm not against the heckling it's me being against the dumb things that she's choosing to get outraged about and Mike Lee you saw that he was incredibly indignant at Biden calling out Republicans response or calling out Republicans wanting to cut Social Security now it's funny that he of all people would feign outrage considering the explicit things that he said about Social Security so this video was put together by the Midas touch where they juxtapose his reaction with things that he said about Social Security and you just you can't come back after you've said this like you can't pretend to support Social Security after you've been filmed saying this he wants to pull Social Security up by the roots and get rid of it I mean he's just saying it of all the Republicans who talked about the variety of ways that they want to undermine Social Security Mike Lee should be the least defended by Biden's remarks given what he said and just pause for a moment don't ever let this fact be lost on you when we're talking about how the GOP wants to cut Social Security that's your money if a bank were to just take the money that you deposited and give it to rich people or spend it on something you would be outraged right you'd view that as theft so conceptually we need to think about what the Republicans are doing as theft as well if you saw Mike Lee on the streets and you walked up to him and you snatched his tie or you stole his watch I'm not saying that you should do this but if you did that to him if you stole from him directly he would be outraged and justifiably so but when it comes to you since you're a peasant since what you want doesn't matter since your money is less important then he's perfectly fine effectively doing the same thing to you stealing from you and look it's not just Mike Lee who has proposed cuts to Social Security CNN reporter Daniel Dale reminded everyone of Senator Rick Scott's plan to sunset all federal legislation which was so unpopular that Mitch McConnell even had to come out and announce that plan because it would include Social Security as well and let's be clear Mitch McConnell wants to cut Social Security but he knows that you have to uphold this facade that Republicans don't want to cut Social Security because their base will never let them get away with that now there's more as Common Dreams explains beyond Scott's plan the Republican Study Committee the largest caucus of House Republicans released a budget proposal last year that advocated gradually raising the retirement age a change that would cut Social Security benefits across the board the Washington Post reported last month that some House Republicans have resurfaced the above plan and other possible changes including bipartisan trust fund commissions in recent days as they push for far-reaching federal spending cuts in exchange for any agreement to raise the US debt ceiling as part of a speakership deal with far-right House Republicans McCarthy agreed to advocate for a cap on federal spending at fiscal year 2022 levels which would entail deep cuts to education spending public health programs and other critical areas so let's be very clear these people are liars the Republican Party is lying to you and the only reason why you saw that strong reaction is because they were called out they absolutely want to cut Social Security they've been broadcasting it for decades now but they know that they have to uphold this facade that they want to protect Social Security because it would be deeply unpopular if they just said what they wanted to do which is why we always have to catch them saying it behind closed doors now Biden actually got them to applaud Social Security once he kind of backed them into a corner so let's watch that as we all apparently agree Social Security Medicare is off to the off the books now Social Security Medicare are lifeline for millions of seniors Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they started so tonight let's all agree and we apparently are let's stand up for seniors show them we will not cut Social Security we will not cut Medicare America people they earned it if anyone tries to cut Social Security which apparently no one's gonna do if anyone tries to cut Medicare I'll stop them I'll veto it I'm not gonna allow them to take away be taken away not today not tomorrow not ever but apparently it's not gonna be a problem that was actually well played by Biden strategically speaking he got Republicans to go from bullying him to applauding him when he says that we should protect Social Security they know they have to uphold that facade but here's where Biden can really pin their balls to the wall for lack of a better word call their bluff right now and there's a way that you can do that as Nancy Altman the president of Social Security works suggested in an op-ed for common dreams the White House should now release a plan to expand Social Security and call on Republicans to release their own plan to protect Social Security and then you let the American people decide who's actually telling the truth exactly now the Republican Party they don't actually want to protect Social Security and I would bet that they wouldn't go along with the White House plan to do just that there's an easy fix if you want Social Security to remain solvent for decades you lift the cap on taxable income but Republicans want to create the sense of urgency and false sense that you're going to lose your Social Security if reforms aren't made immediately because that's the ways that they're going to undermine Social Security right they create this sense of oh my god it's going bankrupt we have to do something we have to act and take drastic measures to protect the program when we all know that the fix is really simple so if Biden were to propose lifting the cap on taxable income which would make Social Security solvent for decades they wouldn't go along with it we know that's lying so I think that that was well played by Joe Biden here now moving on I want to talk about another instance where the State of the Union essentially developed into the Jerry Springer show where Mitt Romney actually confronted George Santos on camera and we didn't know what was said at the time that this was caught but we now know thanks to George Santos detailing this exchange with the reporter so Mitt told him you don't belong here Santos responded by saying go tell that to the 142,000 that voted for me Mitt Romney said you're an ass Santos said you're a much bigger asshole I love it I love this so much you can tell that Mitt Romney made some remark to George Santos and I'm glad that he called him out I don't like Mitt Romney but I don't like George Santos either so I love whenever these goons fight each other but Mitt Romney explained why he decided to confront George Santos afterwards when reporters asked him about this I didn't expect that he'd be standing there trying to shake hands with every senator in the president of the United States given the fact that he's under ethics investigation he should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and and people coming into the room he says he you know that he embellished his record look embellishing is saying you've got an A when he had an A minus lying is saying you you graduated from college you didn't even attend and he shouldn't be in Congress and they're gonna go through the process and hopefully get him out and but he shouldn't be there and if he had any shame at all he wouldn't be there why did you make a point to say that though I mean it was kind of out of your way to see was standing right there in the aisle shaking hands with everybody did he respond to you he may have I didn't hear yes so in case you didn't hear it he was asked at the end there if he was disappointed that Kevin McCarthy didn't call on George Santos to resign and he said yes so yeah now George Santos was not done with Mitt Romney because he decided to snipe at him via Twitter writing hey Mitt Romney just a reminder that you will never be president look I wish that Congress was comprised of politicians that actually cared about anything other than their own careers and petty bullsh** but this is what we have we have a bunch of lol cows that were forced to milk to distract us from the fact that Congress is sitting idly by as multiple crises go unaddressed and it's a sad fact it's dystopian but you know I'll still enjoy watching them fight each other any day of the week now if I can take a moment to just talk about Biden's date of the union I think that overall his speech was pretty good every single state of the union speech is bad every state of the union speech that I've ever heard I have been unimpressed with this one is no different but out of all of the unimpressive state of the union speeches this one is probably the best and I say that specifically because if you are a normie and you don't really follow politics too closely I think that hearing Biden say populist things like bringing jobs back that were shipped overseas manufacturing in America buying America first I think that these things are gonna resonate with the American people I think that him talking about the variety of ways that corporations are screwing working class people I think that that is going to land well with normal voters now currently polling says they's not doing too well I would predict that maybe he gets a little bit of a bump because of that speech and I think you know it's it's surface level things but if you go a little bit deeper you'll see that all of the things that Biden is proposing it doesn't go far enough when he talks about lowering the cost of healthcare I'm sorry but if we lived in a sane world you would be calling for Medicare for all he talks about how we should celebrate capping the cost of insulin for seniors on Medicare I'm sorry but if we lived in a sane world we would cap the cost of insulin for everyone and go further than that just make it free because guess what we're the richest country on the planet and we can afford to do that aside from that you know the American exceptional exceptionalism was present and insufferable the Republicans were insufferable heckling him at the dumbest moments that's not to say that Biden should not have been heckled for a couple of things that he said but they choose to heckle him for the dumbest reasons for example when he's talking about fentanyl what do they do they say oh close the border they all scream in unison close the border as if he's not doing the exact border policies that Trump was doing so they're all disingenuous both Republicans and Democrats but when it comes to who actually is closer to the American people at least rhetorically speaking I think that Biden made it clear that he is trying to appeal to normal working-class people now his actions don't line up with that rhetoric but still when it comes to overall appeal and how this speech is going to be perceived I think that it's gonna land pretty well either way it was a show because Republicans made it that way but at least it was a little bit entertaining so maybe we'll thank them for that either way it was an hour and a half or so that I wish I could get back if I'm being perfectly honest