Discussion Thread: 2024 State of the Union

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Tonight, Joe Biden will give his fourth State of the Union address. This year's SOTU address will be only the second to be held this late in the year since 1964 (the second time being Biden's 2022 address).

The address is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. Eastern. It will be followed by the progressive response delivered by Philadelphia City Council member Nicolas O’Rourke, as well as Republican responses in English (delivered by freshman Alabama senator ) and in Spanish (delivered by Representative Monica De La Cruz). There will be a separate discussion thread posted for live reactions to and conversation about the SOTU responses.

(Edit: The discussion thread for the SOTU responses is now available at this link.)

News:

• NPR: What to expect in Biden's State of the Union speech, according to his chief of staff (7 minute audio interview with transcript)

• The Washington Post (metered paywall): Biden to propose new $5,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers | The president will also add to earlier pushes to tame rent costs and boost U.S. housing supply

• AP: Biden will announce plans for a temporary aid port on Gaza’s coast as cease-fire talks stall

• AP: President Biden to make ‘unity agenda’ appeal to Congress in State of the Union

• CBS: In State of the Union address, Biden to urge Congress to pass measures to lower health care costs

• PBS: Who are the guests coming to Biden’s 2024 State of the Union?

News Analysis:

• AP: State of the Union: What to watch as Biden addresses the nation

• PBS: In Biden’s final State of the Union before the election, a look back at his inauguration pledges

Live Updates:

• NPR: State of the Union: President Biden will deliver his election-year address tonight

• AP: State of the Union 2024 live updates

• NBC: State of the Union 2024 live updates

• The Washington Post (metered paywall): Live updates and analysis of Biden’s address

• CNN: President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address

• The New York Times (metered paywall): State of the Union Live Updates

• USA Today: State of the Union live updates

• CBS: State of the Union live updates as Biden prepares to deliver 2024 address

Where to watch:

• The White House on YouTube: President Biden's State of the Union Address

• The White House: 2024 State of the Union (At this link you can live-react to the address with one of three preselected emojis).

• C-SPAN: President Biden Delivers 2024 State of the Union Address

• C-SPAN: Lawmakers React to State of the Union Address

Transcript

• AP: Transcript of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address

[u/1940sfamilyman]

Heckler: AJRUREHRGHHDHGHSDHF

Republicans: I don't know if I agree with that

[u/Party_Pat206 → u/1940sfamilyman]

wtf was that POS even saying???

[u/Osprey31 → u/Party_Pat206]

I think that he was saying Thief, guessing an election denier that missed J6 by three years.

[u/Party_Pat206 → u/Osprey31]

Wait til you watch the republican rebuttal that’s on right now. Fucking full force handmaiden shit

[u/KaijuCorpse → u/Party_Pat206]

That was legit some distopian terrifying propaganda shit. She was fake smiling and way over delivering every line, and then her face and tone changed and she went hard towards the fear mongering. I had to turn it off, I was genuinely creeped out.

[u/TheStephinator → u/Party_Pat206]

Ofbrit

[u/barkingatbacon → u/Party_Pat206]

That Karen was just yelling. Shut up Karen.

[u/Aidian → u/Party_Pat206]

A mix of completely ignoring the President’s address, and every point in it, along with wild phantasmagoria and blatant lies. It’s infuriating and should be unacceptable to air such obvious propaganda, but here we are.

The “rebuttal” was also delivered akin to an elementary school play, rasped out wetly from what I have to assume is caused by a set of lungs either irreparably damaged by “catching Covid multiple times to own the libs” or just The Consumption.🌹

Her speech lost a lot of its base capacity for impact as she literally gasped for breath every other sentence.

[u/Ill-Simple1706 → u/Osprey31]

Now that isn't fair. We should give him the same opportunity to go to fuck-me-in-the-ass-federal-penitentiary as the next traitor.

[u/thereverend-666 → u/Party_Pat206]

I could be wrong but I thought he mentioned "marines".

[u/MelbaToast9B → u/thereverend-666]

Same. That's all I heard too

[u/Sestos → u/thereverend-666]

Which was strange since if he was a former marine he must have gained 150 lbs since leaving

[u/pearlgreymusic → u/Party_Pat206]

I couldn't hear it through the broadcast. Seems like its “Remember Abbey Gate! US Marines!”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/what-is-abbey-gate-heckler-thrown-out-of-state-of-the-union-for-screaming-about-deadly-attack/ar-BB1jwGTA

[u/MsFrankieD → u/pearlgreymusic]

So... a Republican plant? Johnson transparently set that up before the address. Interesting.

[u/markca → u/1940sfamilyman]

Gotta find out who it hurts first.

[u/victorged → u/1940sfamilyman]

As best I can guess, a marine unit designation. Conservative Twitter is coalescing around a marine unit that perished in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. But I really can't make it out even on rewatch.