AMAC Exclusive – By Claire Brighn
Tuesday night, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union Address to a country reeling not just from the latest foreign policy fiasco in Ukraine but also historic inflation and rising costs on everything from a gallon of milk to a new car. Amidst this backdrop, the President will try and convince Americans that things haven’t really been that bad and that they will undoubtedly soon get better. But Biden’s record of broken promises and failed policies gives people little reason to buy that narrative.
Biden’s remarks, just one of a handful of major speeches the president has given more than one year into his term, are likely to be filled with a number of rosy predictions that economic measures like inflation and gas prices – which have been dismal for most of his presidency – will soon get better thanks to his administration’s policies. But wait – haven’t Americans heard this one before? In December, with inflation nearing a 40 year high, Biden said, “I think it’s the peak of the crisis.” This comment came after multiple Biden officials repeated the line that inflation was “transitory.” On gas prices, Biden also said in December, “I think you’ll see…prices of gas pump come down” after he tapped the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The truth, however, turned out to be quite different. In January, the consumer price index rose to 7.5 percent, which was even more than expected, and the highest since 1982. In other words, inflation is certainly not “transitory” and is a major problem for millions of American households, as much as the Biden administration would like to ignore it. The Penn Wharton Budget Model found at the end of last year that inflation cost American households an extra $3,500 on average. And heating costs, as predicted, shot up 30 percent during the coldest months of winter. Real hourly wages – accounting for inflation – plummeted roughly 2.4 percent year-over-year.
Biden’s prediction on gas prices has proven even more inaccurate. Brent crude, for example, is nearing almost $100 a barrel, and gas is closing in on $4 a gallon. Experts warn both measures could shoot up even further and that gas could go over $5 a gallon this summer. In response, Biden said he wants to work with oil-producing countries to “blunt gas prices” and “limit the pain Americans feel at the gas pump.” But according to Jen Psaki just last week, there wasn’t “anything to detail” on whether Biden will reverse his policies and bolster the American energy sector. Translation? Biden has zero plan to deal with the problem.
As these crises have worsened, Biden has blamed everything from “the pandemic” to “climate change” to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, going to great lengths to obscure his role in perpetrating the hardships Americans are facing. Now unable to ignore reality any longer, Biden has made a strategic shift to “empathy.” He recently said that he “grew up in a family where the price at the pump was felt in the kitchen,” as if that’s any consolation to the American families who are now struggling to put food on the table.
At the same time, the rest of his administration often seems oblivious to the fact that Americans are even hurting economically. Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain suggested last year that inflation was a “high-class problem.” When asked about rising gas prices as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that “standing up for our values is not without cost.” That may be true – but ignores the fact that $5 per gallon gas is a completely unnecessary cost imposed by Biden’s own poor decisions.
Indeed, the Ukraine-Russia crisis has brought into full focus just how disastrous Biden’s energy policies have been, not just for national security but also for Americans’ pocketbooks. After finally achieving energy independence under President Trump, the United States was no longer reliant on energy imports from other countries – like Russia – that could be jeopardized by the geopolitical conflict. Once Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline and issued a number of Executive Orders targeting the American energy sector, however, that independence was soon lost. Now, even as Biden tries to put up the front of “hitting Russia hard” with sanctions, the U.S. is still reliant on imports of 600,000 barrels of oil from Russia every day on average. By capitulating to a small cadre of woke environmentalists, Biden has ceded every negotiating chip he had to both protect American interests and keep gas prices low for the American people.
Biden himself has at times seemed unable to grasp how his own decisions have created the very problems he now faces. Even as Biden began to come around and realize that inflation was a real problem, he continued to push Congress to pass his Build Back Better Act, which experts predicted would have only worsened inflation, raised taxes on the middle class, and added hundreds of billions to the deficit. Still, don’t be surprised if Biden pushes Congress to pass several major portions of this bill as separate smaller but equally dangerous bills.
Despite this obvious record of failure, Democrats are already gearing up to treat Biden as a conquering hero. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated as much in her letter inviting Biden to give the address, saying that thus far, Biden’s leadership has “guided America out crisis and into an era of progress.” But for someone who tore up Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020 in a shocking display pique, perhaps Pelosi’s apparent confusion about how things are really going isn’t so surprising. If only the American people were as willing as Pelosi and the Democratic Party to break with reality, maybe Biden would have a fighting chance of convincing someone other than the Democrats seated before him that his tenure has been anything but a failure.
Claire Brighn is the pen name of a conservative researcher and writer with previous domestic and foreign policy experience in the Executive Branch.
America is heading into some pretty lean times for those who are not the uniparty elites in the top 1%, as they like to refer to themselves while saying it is others. Do not believe a word that he says but look at how it affects your own life.
I am NOT looking forward to watching or listening to this lying, blowhard of a oligarch illegally installed as a make believe potus…
I predict the vast majority of the American public will TUNE OUT the SOTUS by this frail, mentally impaired man whom should have long since been REMOVED from office per the US Constitution, based on his mentally impaired cognitive state that comes with his age…
There is not an iota of talk this man can say that will make the disastrous withdrawal of Afghanistan nor the invasion of Ukraine by Russia suddenly go away…Everything currently going on in the world is a direct result of WEAK leadership from our US government with Biden/Harris at the top of the heap. The Ukrainian fiasco is primarily PROPAGANDA & the ” Wag The Dog ” moment this faux administration was desperately in need of to take our eyes off of a 24/7 WIDE OPEN southern border & by design by Biden’s WOKE ” Puppet Masters. ”
All of this & his doubling down on Emergency Orders, Vaccine MANDATES, Vaccine PASSPORTS, mandatory CRT being taught in K-12 schools & further WOKE indoctrination in most liberal colleges in America… The parents spend upwards of $100,000 a year in Ivy School places of learning, only to see their sons & daughters graduating as WOKE radical protesters…This is the current state of affairs under this Marxist driven ideology of our US gov’t that has now extended itself into our Armed Forces of the military, our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves!
Bill… :~)
We all know that this administration has accomplished nothing positive for this nation to date. That was never their goal to begin with. So no one here is about to believe one word of the carefully crafted speech someone wrote for Biden to read tonight. The goal was and continues to be to undermine all levels of the economy, military and society as a whole. All so the United States fails. From the ruins, a newly refashioned socialist Utopia can rise up to join the growing world order that is centered around socialism.
So tell me why, aside from the marginal entertainment value of watching Biden slur his words, lie non-stop about everything, drift off topic and sometimes whisper like some creepy nut job, should anyone care what he says tonight? All tonight will be is another instance where we showcase to the world, that the American people continue to allow an incompetent, senile old man to run this country into the ground. Another night of national embarrassment for all the world to see.
You should not believe anything that Biden says. Not one thing. Biden is a pathological liar.He is from his father the devil!
Living on a fixed income I don’t need this warning. I’m living it daily.
If BS was music, Biden would be a one-man band, with no rhythm Section!
Instead of watching Biden make a fool of this country, I plan to pull each of my fingernails out one at a time. It will be a lot less painful.
I know why. He’s a damn liar like he always has been.
Liar, liar pants on fire! There is NOTHING truthful about him and his administration. They are setting our country up for major disaster. Radical and quick changes better be made this year or we will suffer the consequences for years to come. All the unnecessary blabbing on by Democrat liberals rich or poor will never get us out of this mess, unless we take action fast!
Get out to the polls…walk, run, drive, uber..whatever it takes!
It’s laughable but in reality very Sad, to claim Economic Success! Where? Definitely Pelosi’s & other Elite politicians pockets on both sides of aisle! Not Average Americans. More Lies & Misinformation!
Since “Old Biddy” Biden’s policies have been HELPING Putin, when is HE GOING TO BE ACCUSED OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION?
Is there any part of anything biden has done that has been a success?
Even when he talks about covid shots he will be leaving out the the new number one killer is the side effects of the covid sides.
Inflation, Afghanistan. Russia. Iran. Covid, mandates, voting fraud, supply chain. Energy, environment. All failures.
Heck his speeches are failures. You can’t understand half his words.
I’m not going to watch, there’s nothing wrong with my TV and I don’t want to have to buy a new one tomorrow.
The only skill I expect biden to show tonight is the deftness with which he (or his speech writer) spins how great the past 13 months have been. He repeatedly has told us that HIS administration is credited with bringing Covid-19 to its knees, the most dangerous terrorist to his death, and prosperity once again to the American people…after, of course, inheriting a failed and disastrous economy from the previous administration. Everyone knows that’s a lie. Biden and Harris are 2 of the biggest liars this country has ever had the displeasure of calling President and Vice President.
From inflation to Afghanistan, from the border crisis to crime in the streets, from opiate deaths to stupid mask mandates, from the death of energy independence to refusal to use our resources to keep Putin at bay… And now FEMA is recommending that, in case of a NUCLEAR attack, we should mask up, keep 6′ apart, and call 9-1-1! It doesn’t get any better than that!! What a joke.
Almost the entire democrat party lacks integrity, honor, love for this nation, and a connection with Americans and what America is all about. They’re short-sighted, seeking only what they can capture from us and turn into a fulfillment of their own socialist agenda. The heck with the individual; who gives a c— about what you want; what matters is The Progressive Movement and Power To The Elites. “Let us do all the thinking for you [because you’re not capable].”
Unfortunately, biden has no common sense along with no intellect. He can’t put 2 and 2 together, barely remembers where he is or what the end of the sentence should sound like. The Constitution is just a piece of paper he read once in high school. Tonight, his eyes will be glued to the teleprompter, except for maybe half a dozen off-script comments that might end up in la-la-land. I’m going to make cookies now; it’ll be a great show, calling for refreshments. No need for those rose-colored glasses–Biden’s got it all wrapped up.
I have no intention of listening to Joe yammer on about his lying drivel, while commentators from every media will try to make this epic failure look good. We all can feel his economic policies costing us plenty when we gas up, grocery shop and pay the utilities. He and his party, plus the RINOs are not loyal to the American people and are on an oath to destroy us. FJB
You can believe he will try to give the American people a buckle of s++t. Just look at his accomplishments, high inflation, high gas prices, chain supply issues, workforce shortage, chaos at the southern border, sanctions, the squad, Afghanistan and now he is going to put us in WWIII.
After the last 5 years, anybody who actually believes anything Biden and the Democrats say is an idiot. There, I summarized the article in 1 sentence.
NEVER, EVER TRUST A liberal OR A chimp
Nobody will believe anything this marxist democrats says, he and the anti American democrats lie,lie and lie.
The only thing they do more than lie is FAIL their oaths of office and the Real American People.
I’m sure No One But Those With Reprobate Minds will believe Anything Biden has to say. Everything He says is a Total Lie! Then I Anticipate Rashida Talib’s Rebuttal to the Republican Rebuttale will be blaming President Trump, climate change for everything!!! The whole thing as far as The Donkeys are concerned will be a joke! I’m hoping Republicans don’t show up for this sham
The leftist liberals always have and always will use the rhetoric that’s worked for them , deceive, contort, blackmail to get everything you must, even setting you up to do so. That’s business as usual for them. It amazes me that the foolish democrat voters get swayed and can actually believe these lying politicians every time. We’ll unless you’re a total zombie completely brainwashed by the leftist agenda , you better look at number one your weekly grocery bills, energy costs for heating your home, gas prices per gallon to fill your car, and basically everything else. This president is also extremely divisive and has caused racial tensions to rise like never before. Teachers preaching CRT constantly in our schools, now appointing a Supreme Court justice based on color only and not her qualifications as we always have in the past( if she’s a constitutional and believes in our system as founded im fine with anyone sitting on our highest court in the country)This president is extremely dangerous and destructive to our country and our future right now.I’m ashamed to be an American citizen with this compromised farce standing in as the world’s number one leader.
Biden’s self-congratulating is as bad as Putin. (Putin’s victory announcement was quickly taken down.) Hopefully someone will have a little appreciation of how many plain people feel about the inflation and energy policy that helped set up Putin’s attack on Ukraine and will tone down the bragging about what US geniuses have done while “transforming America.”
Biden’s new math. Start with 10 drop to 2 raise to 5 is 17, better than 10! Sooner or later the wanters, the you owe me’s, will out number the givers, tax payers. Then you will have to be satisfied with whatever the social order can provide. Your welcome!
It has been very apparent that Biden and many of the democrats in DC are lying to the public. So much so that many democrat voters are turning away as they cannot believe how openly we are all be lied too. Unfortunately the mainstream media will not call them out on this nor will they even question the lies. It is past time to expose these people for what they are, self-serving politicians that have not interest in following through on promises made to get them elected.
You’d have to be an complete idiot to believe the economy is good, but unfortunately there are a lot of them around- useful idiots!
3/3/2022 So poopy pants open his mount to let out more lies –never watch CCP joe B also known as “poopy pants” nor any news media it is all a smokescreen anyway—be warned— they are I trying to change more States voting laws — that will lead to the Dictatorship they have been after for many years. Plus WWIII was won without firing ONE-SHOT– but– by using Germ warfare. These GLOBALIST– were able to LOCKDOWN THE WHOLE WPRLD– therefore reducing everyone’s RIGHTS– Just saying IMHO of course.
Does Joebama O’Biden think the entire population of America is either high on CBD’s, narcotics or alcohol because his SOTU was geared to those who are definitely brain impaired like him!
Lyin’ Biden every day all day. No wonder his son Hunter turned out to be such a criminal. I always think about childhoods when people are so dysfunctional and evil. Like Putin, what kind of childhood did he have to make him turn into such an evil person? He must’ve had no love or affection from his parents, if he had any. I believe people are not born evil. Something or someone happens to them in their childhood.
LET’S GO BRANDON!!!!!
America is heading into some pretty lean times for those who are not the uniparty elites in the top 1%, as they like to refer to themselves while saying it is others. Do not believe a word that he says but look at how it affects your own life.
I am NOT looking forward to watching or listening to this lying, blowhard of a oligarch illegally installed as a make believe potus…
I predict the vast majority of the American public will TUNE OUT the SOTUS by this frail, mentally impaired man whom should have long since been REMOVED from office per the US Constitution, based on his mentally impaired cognitive state that comes with his age…
There is not an iota of talk this man can say that will make the disastrous withdrawal of Afghanistan nor the invasion of Ukraine by Russia suddenly go away…Everything currently going on in the world is a direct result of WEAK leadership from our US government with Biden/Harris at the top of the heap. The Ukrainian fiasco is primarily PROPAGANDA & the ” Wag The Dog ” moment this faux administration was desperately in need of to take our eyes off of a 24/7 WIDE OPEN southern border & by design by Biden’s WOKE ” Puppet Masters. ”
All of this & his doubling down on Emergency Orders, Vaccine MANDATES, Vaccine PASSPORTS, mandatory CRT being taught in K-12 schools & further WOKE indoctrination in most liberal colleges in America… The parents spend upwards of $100,000 a year in Ivy School places of learning, only to see their sons & daughters graduating as WOKE radical protesters…This is the current state of affairs under this Marxist driven ideology of our US gov’t that has now extended itself into our Armed Forces of the military, our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves!
Bill… :~)
We all know that this administration has accomplished nothing positive for this nation to date. That was never their goal to begin with. So no one here is about to believe one word of the carefully crafted speech someone wrote for Biden to read tonight. The goal was and continues to be to undermine all levels of the economy, military and society as a whole. All so the United States fails. From the ruins, a newly refashioned socialist Utopia can rise up to join the growing world order that is centered around socialism.
So tell me why, aside from the marginal entertainment value of watching Biden slur his words, lie non-stop about everything, drift off topic and sometimes whisper like some creepy nut job, should anyone care what he says tonight? All tonight will be is another instance where we showcase to the world, that the American people continue to allow an incompetent, senile old man to run this country into the ground. Another night of national embarrassment for all the world to see.
You should not believe anything that Biden says. Not one thing. Biden is a pathological liar.He is from his father the devil!
Living on a fixed income I don’t need this warning. I’m living it daily.
If BS was music, Biden would be a one-man band, with no rhythm Section!
Instead of watching Biden make a fool of this country, I plan to pull each of my fingernails out one at a time. It will be a lot less painful.
I know why. He’s a damn liar like he always has been.
Liar, liar pants on fire! There is NOTHING truthful about him and his administration. They are setting our country up for major disaster. Radical and quick changes better be made this year or we will suffer the consequences for years to come. All the unnecessary blabbing on by Democrat liberals rich or poor will never get us out of this mess, unless we take action fast!
Get out to the polls…walk, run, drive, uber..whatever it takes!
It’s laughable but in reality very Sad, to claim Economic Success! Where? Definitely Pelosi’s & other Elite politicians pockets on both sides of aisle! Not Average Americans. More Lies & Misinformation!
Since “Old Biddy” Biden’s policies have been HELPING Putin, when is HE GOING TO BE ACCUSED OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION?
Is there any part of anything biden has done that has been a success?
Even when he talks about covid shots he will be leaving out the the new number one killer is the side effects of the covid sides.
Inflation, Afghanistan. Russia. Iran. Covid, mandates, voting fraud, supply chain. Energy, environment. All failures.
Heck his speeches are failures. You can’t understand half his words.
I’m not going to watch, there’s nothing wrong with my TV and I don’t want to have to buy a new one tomorrow.
The only skill I expect biden to show tonight is the deftness with which he (or his speech writer) spins how great the past 13 months have been. He repeatedly has told us that HIS administration is credited with bringing Covid-19 to its knees, the most dangerous terrorist to his death, and prosperity once again to the American people…after, of course, inheriting a failed and disastrous economy from the previous administration. Everyone knows that’s a lie. Biden and Harris are 2 of the biggest liars this country has ever had the displeasure of calling President and Vice President.
From inflation to Afghanistan, from the border crisis to crime in the streets, from opiate deaths to stupid mask mandates, from the death of energy independence to refusal to use our resources to keep Putin at bay… And now FEMA is recommending that, in case of a NUCLEAR attack, we should mask up, keep 6′ apart, and call 9-1-1! It doesn’t get any better than that!! What a joke.
Almost the entire democrat party lacks integrity, honor, love for this nation, and a connection with Americans and what America is all about. They’re short-sighted, seeking only what they can capture from us and turn into a fulfillment of their own socialist agenda. The heck with the individual; who gives a c— about what you want; what matters is The Progressive Movement and Power To The Elites. “Let us do all the thinking for you [because you’re not capable].”
Unfortunately, biden has no common sense along with no intellect. He can’t put 2 and 2 together, barely remembers where he is or what the end of the sentence should sound like. The Constitution is just a piece of paper he read once in high school. Tonight, his eyes will be glued to the teleprompter, except for maybe half a dozen off-script comments that might end up in la-la-land. I’m going to make cookies now; it’ll be a great show, calling for refreshments. No need for those rose-colored glasses–Biden’s got it all wrapped up.
I have no intention of listening to Joe yammer on about his lying drivel, while commentators from every media will try to make this epic failure look good. We all can feel his economic policies costing us plenty when we gas up, grocery shop and pay the utilities. He and his party, plus the RINOs are not loyal to the American people and are on an oath to destroy us. FJB
You can believe he will try to give the American people a buckle of s++t. Just look at his accomplishments, high inflation, high gas prices, chain supply issues, workforce shortage, chaos at the southern border, sanctions, the squad, Afghanistan and now he is going to put us in WWIII.
After the last 5 years, anybody who actually believes anything Biden and the Democrats say is an idiot. There, I summarized the article in 1 sentence.
NEVER, EVER TRUST A liberal OR A chimp
Nobody will believe anything this marxist democrats says, he and the anti American democrats lie,lie and lie.
The only thing they do more than lie is FAIL their oaths of office and the Real American People.
I’m sure No One But Those With Reprobate Minds will believe Anything Biden has to say. Everything He says is a Total Lie! Then I Anticipate Rashida Talib’s Rebuttal to the Republican Rebuttale will be blaming President Trump, climate change for everything!!! The whole thing as far as The Donkeys are concerned will be a joke! I’m hoping Republicans don’t show up for this sham