Biden now bragging about jobs created before any of his policies had time to do anything. Reminder: the Obama-Biden Administration spent 8 years blaming Bush for what happened on its watch, but claimed credit for the 1st 3 years that happened under Trump.

Biden pretends that his infrastructure bill is mostly about physical infrastructure.

Biden says he's putting Harris in charge of his jobs plan. Shades of "nobody messes with Joe" promises of immediate shovel-ready jobs.

"To me, when I think climate change, I think jobs," Biden says, illustrating that the inside of his head consists entirely of campaign slogans.

Now we get to the "America First" portion of Biden's speech.

"Extrenuously limited," Biden says.

Biden suggests we need an Equal Pay Act (one was passed already in 1963) because we have a female VP & female Speaker of the House, both of whom are paid exactly the same as the men who previously held those jobs.

STEP ONE: Introduce bad ideas.

STEP TWO: "Doing nothing is not an option!"

"We did that in the...in the...last piece of legislation we passed."

The word I most want to hear in Tim Scott's rebuttal: "trillion."

Biden now complaining that drug companies make too much money, because hey, it's not as if US pharma companies have invented anything important recently.

Biden says he won't raise taxes on "people" making under $400k, contradicting his Admin's position that they can raise taxes on "households" making $400k

Biden: the tax rate that Bush got rid of was "what the tax was when Bush was president."

Biden refuses to raise taxes on the middle class, instead raising taxes on everything the middle class buys, everything the middle class invests in.

Biden complains that Trump tax cut added $2 trillion to the deficit, before returning to his proposed $6 trillion in new spending.

Biden's lines bashing "trickle down" economics are themselves old enough to collect Social Security. Expect him to start talking next about a Cross of Gold.

This sounds like the Democrats' SOTU response 38 years ago. Which was delivered by Joe Biden.

"America will not back out from our commitments." [Speechwriter inserts several paragraphs transitioning to abandoning Afghanistan]

If you had "escalation" as a word that Biden would be unable to pronounce without stopping the speech, drink.

...and here we have the abandonment of Afghanistan.

Unsurprisingly, Biden's call for passing the Democrats' police bill does not even vaguely approach describing what the bill actually does.

Biden talks about legislation against hate crimes against Asian Americans, does not mention Democrats voting against a bill to bar discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions.

Biden says the WH flag has been flying at half mast (staff, actually) for shootings, but has it not been flying that way for the pandemic?

Biden says we have "seen daily bloodshed" for two decades from weapons banned in the 1994 'assault weapons' ban. Not remotely factual.

Biden argues that Americans could not own combat rifles at the time when those rifles were used in the Revolutionary War by...um....

Now, Biden turns to nation-building in Central America to address the "root causes" of immigration - sure, that will happen quickly.

Biden working through the designed-as-soaring conclusion of this speech like an old man sending back soup in a deli.

"You and I, not some force in a distant capital," says man who has been in Washington since 1973.

Biden, who has been vaccinated, elbow-bumps Pelosi (who has been vaccinated and is wearing a mask) and Harris (who has been vaccinated and is wearing a mask) as if they were lepers he was terrified of touching.