The Mummy Mutters: SOTU Address

Well, I watched it. Well, most of it, anyhow. It was just too, too unbearable to watch all the way through. Yes, I write of last night's the State of the Union speech by the alleged President of the United States.

Where to start? I normally would label this sort of speech as a "word salad," but that is too generous. It seemed more akin to when you open a forgotten drawer in your tool bench in the garage, and find a tangled ball of 1990's earphone cables, old charger cords, a broken shoelace somebody saved, and a long piece of twine snaking its way through the whole mess. The thing has neither head nor tail, beginning nor end, untangling it proves beyond even the knot-cutting powers of Alexander the Great, and it seems best to throw it all away. That said, we go on . . . 

The man is delusional. He lives in alternate universe. He actually seems to think, well, "think" proves a big word with Biden, let's say to have been told that he's doing really, really well. He has no idea of the massive disaster over which he presides. The first part of the address seemed an obviously hastily slapped together gooey nonsense about Ukraine and the great role Biden has played in "unifying our allies." Right. Whatever you might think of the Euros, they have proven themselves much more forward leaning and action-oriented than the sleepy Biden-Harris-Blinken team. I don't think we're necessarily taking the right steps, but the US has not been the leader. Biden has unified nobody at home or abroad. He spoke tough words against Putin and vowed to oppose him across the board because the Ukrainian people have proven themselves a "wall" against the Russian invaders. 

He vowed to do everything except that which would actually work to weaken Putin and return an independence of action to the USA. Long-time readers of this humble blog know of what I speak: Fire up US oil and gas production and exports; eliminate our import of energy from Russia. Until we do that, we pay Putin to get around our sanctions. Our nonsensical obsession with a green economy, makes wars such as the one in Ukraine possible. Putin makes money selling us the oil we refuse to pump for ourselves because, well, you know, Gaia.

On foreign policy, he said nothing about his disaster in Afghanistan, the threat from China, or the situation in the Middle East, including Iran. His policies threaten to destroy the amazing progress that Trump made in bringing peace to that region. He said nothing about the wave of crime and violence which is destroying what's left of our major cities. His cry to "fund the police!" is an empty one, driven by the polls, after some years of him and his progressive wokester allies calling for precisely the opposite. In addition, he made no mention of the millions of foreign criminals he has allowed into the country and distributed around the nation.

His economic blather was too horrible. His solution for the inflation he caused that now ruins businesses and lives? "Cut costs!" Wow! I guess businesses should just not pay their rapidly escalating electric bills? Sure. 

I kept expecting him to tell us, "Things don't cost more, folks, they're just more valuable!"

OK. Enough.