# State of the Union Address, March 7, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 8, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590 "2024-03-08T01:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/101 "2024-03-08T03:57:52Z")
Loved it. He did great by clearly, energetically condemning Jan. 6 for what it was. He did fine in calling out the hypocrisy of the Republicans suddenly opposing their own immigration bill, once Dear Leader chimed in. I just wish he’d pointed out that native-born Americans are more prone to violence and murder than foreign-born residents – that getting angry because one particular murderer happened to be an undocumented foreign-born person (and thereby condemning a category of people) is no more logical than getting angry because that person is left-handed, or wears a bowtie. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/102 "2024-03-08T03:57:58Z")
The fake ‘ gosh I am just so worried and concerned “ tone is a touch irritating ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/103 "2024-03-08T03:58:47Z")
Looking forward to Colbert which should be a live one after the speech. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/104 "2024-03-08T03:59:33Z")
All breathless, and “Bieeden is out of touch” I think she is mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/105 "2024-03-08T03:59:58Z")
She comes off as an actress who is reading a monologue to a casting agent to get a part in a self-produced Christian movie about The End Times. ---
**Author:** ![deltogre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deltogre/32/5041_2.png) [@deltogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltogre)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/106 "2024-03-08T04:00:56Z")
When did this bullshit nonsense of opposition response start? I don’t remember it in the 80s and 90s… Who gets to choose who does it? It’s almost always some low-level moron like this no-name from Alabama. Why don’t we ask that fucking moron Mike Johnson for his RESPONSE to the speech, and not a pre-written pseudo-response from a talking head? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/107 "2024-03-08T04:02:07Z")
She’s gonna’ squeeze out some tears pretty soon. Problem is Bieeden gave a fantastic speech and she’s wanna’ be actress. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/108 "2024-03-08T04:02:15Z")
Why is she harping on the Linken (sp?) Riley murder? “Killed by an illegal immigrant!” Why does she ignore all the school shootings committed by Americans? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/109 "2024-03-08T04:03:08Z")
And there is the “bless his heart”. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/110 "2024-03-08T04:03:17Z")
Cause most of those killers were white, and all of them were citizens. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/111 "2024-03-08T04:03:20Z")
For real. The shit she is saying is the same thing countless parents and loved ones of those killed by gun violence have been saying for decades now. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/112 "2024-03-08T04:06:07Z")
OMG. Who is this stepford wife giving the Republican response? If things are so bad, why is she smiling so much? Is it bad that I snorted when she said her children were named Bennett and Ridgway? Also, if she wants the border controlled, why did she vote against the bipartisan bill? I really want to punch her. She is complaining about a retiree who has to work to afford his medication. Gee, I wonder which party wants to cut Social Security and which one is working to lower prescription costs? She’s complaining about Putin being aggressive while her candidate told him to go ahead and attack NATO countries. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/113 "2024-03-08T04:10:58Z")
The senator from Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/114 "2024-03-08T04:11:18Z")
This needs to be hammered home often and loudly and specifically about each one of them “ you don’t care about the gun violence and you voted against every initiative to solve these immigration/ freedom/deficit problems “ with dates and details on what unrelated side issue they were holding out for. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/115 "2024-03-08T04:16:42Z")
One of my favorite moments of this speech will be when Joe was talking about the border bill the GOP wouldn’t bring to a vote and was listing all the things it would accomplish. The cameras cut to Sen. Lankford (R-OK) who was the chief GOP negotiator on this bill as he mouthed “That’s true”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/116 "2024-03-08T04:19:13Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > If you’re a true undecided, or first time voter, or independent I don’t know how you could listen to that and then listen to the incoherent ramblings of a Trump rally and decide “yeah, I think Trump is the way to go this year” Bears repeating. Joe did fine. I can’t wait for any debates and watching that idiot shit his pants through his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/117 "2024-03-08T04:22:00Z")
Katie Britt is scary weird. The big smile while the sobs are barely being held back is especially bad acting. Man, these people are so fucking strange. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/118 "2024-03-08T04:24:28Z")
I was teaching during the SOTU, so now, at lunchtime, I’m scrolling through the full text of President Biden’s speech. I love the fact he called out those traitors in the opposing party for their craven attack on our democracy and he correctly described Trump. ---
**Author:** ![deltogre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deltogre/32/5041_2.png) [@deltogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltogre)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/119 "2024-03-08T04:26:36Z")
But, but, but…outrage! My high school-aged son made the EXACT same observation as you. You and he are on point. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590/120 "2024-03-08T04:29:28Z")
I can’t stop picturing her going through life like that. It’s cracking me up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-address-march-7-2024/998590.md?page=7)