Biden SOTU Massively Triggering, Trump Goes Low on DeSantis
The David Pakman Show - February 8, 2023
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Biden Brutally Mops the Floor with Republicans at State of the Union
President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address last night and predictably, Republicans are furious over the speech. It was expected by many that Biden would unveil some new policy ideas but instead, he spent much of the time launching direct and brutal attacks against the Republican Party. Some of the policies the president did lay out included a billionaire tax and a larger tax on stock buybacks. He also announced a plan to expand the $35/month cost cap on insulin. At one point, Biden set a trap for Republicans by suggesting that some Republicans want to sunset Social Security and Medicare. Republicans started shouting in response, to which Biden replied that the subject is now off the table. This made Biden look like he was delivering a masterclass in exposing the right as hypocrites on this issue. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gatez both took the State of the Union as an opportunity to humiliate themselves by shouting at Biden, but the president seemed totally unfazed by their immaturity and Kevin McCarthy was powerless to control them.
Trump UGLY, Calls Ron DeSantis a Pedophile in New Attack
The possible Republican Party matchup between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is really starting to get ugly, even though DeSantis hasn’t even announced whether he’s running. Trump has now made an allegation that DeSantis is attracted to underage girls, based on a 20-year-old photo that appears to show him posing with recent high school graduates. The photo was shared on Truth Social with the caption “here is Ron DeSanctimonious grooming high school girls with alcohol as a teacher,” followed up by a vomiting emoji. Trump shared the image himself with a post of his own that read, “That's not Ron, is it? He would never do such a thing!” This is a new low, even for Trump, and it’s likely a sign of how below the belt the campaign between the two of them will get if indeed DeSantis decides to run.
From yesterday’s show:
Tucker Carlson Gives Delusional Defense of George Santos
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has now stooped to the new low of offering a defense of disgraced lying Congressman George Santos. Tucker delivered a monologue that was really a clinic in logical fallacies as he invoked whataboutism, reductio ad absurdum, straw-manning, and false equivalency. Tucker acted as if getting Santos to resign from Congress is the only issue that Democrats currently care about. He attempted to mock the left by saying, “George Santos is like 9/11 in human form. Nothing will ever be the same. Now that George Santos is here, you will never forget the moment you first saw George Santos. Where were you when George Santos was elected? It's a story you will tell your grandchildren.” Carlson went on to bogusly claim that the argument Santos was fraudulently elected because he misrepresented who he was has anything to do with arguments that Biden was fraudulently elected due to voter fraud. If Tucker’s audience had the critical thinking skills to realize the propaganda tools he’s using, they wouldn’t buy into this nonsense, but sadly, the vast majority of them don’t and continue to watch his program every night.
From yesterday’s show:
Republicans: Biden Popping the Balloon Is Suddenly BAD
The American right wing is now pretending that Joe Biden ordering the popping of a Chinese spy balloon over the weekend is somehow bad, even though they would have endlessly praised the move if it happened during Donald Trump’s presidency. For example, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went on Fox News and criticized the move because the balloon was destroyed rather than captured. He said, “we had plenty of capacity to scoop that balloon out of the air. We used to do it all the time with satellite photographs back before you had electronic transmission. We'd have planes who would go out and actually capture the capsule that had the satellite spy material.” Gingrich has been out of power for a long time so he’s likely out of the loop when it comes to military technology. Also missing from his analysis is how Joe Biden would have had all of the different options laid out to him by the military so it’s not like Gingrich’s idea would come as any news to him. This is just the latest example of Republicans trying to make Biden’s success on this matter seem like a bad thing.
More on the show:
-- George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, environmental activist, and author most recently of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, joins David to discuss the future of the planet, conservation, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/40H2U0g
-- Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers the most disgusting and delusional State of the Union response speech in recent history
-- Republican Senator Mitt Romney confronts lying Republican Congressman George Santos before the State of the Union address and tells him that he should not be there
-- Republican Senator Marco Rubio has a sudden realization about "wokeness" after President Joe Biden's 2023 State of the Union address
-- The world is horrified over radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene briefly serving as Speaker Pro Tempore in the House of Representatives
-- A look at how the mind virus spreads through Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson
-- A look at the defense of "we're just asking questions" often employed by bad faith actors
-- Voicemail caller says that Patrick Bet-David, on whose show David recently appeared, is essentially Joe Rogan but with hair
-- On the Bonus Show: Most Dems don't want Biden in 2024, FBI says Baltimore woman plotted to shoot up electric substations, single-use plastic production up despite pledges, much more...
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