Post Editorial Board: Biden’s State of the Union Set New Records for Dishonesty and Emptiness

State of the Union speeches are usually pretty scattershot, but President Joe Biden’s 2023 one Set a new record.

He ranged across a world of issues without substantively addressing the biggest ones — crime, the border crisis, China, the nation’s looming economic woes — because his record is so weak on all of them.

Instead, he offered lies after lies in a shameless bid To fool the electorate before his 2024 run for reelection. His only “big idea” It is to make the rich look like bogeymen and give the American people more freebies and unsustainable spending.

He combined brags about what he had achieved (inflation-fueling spending sprees), promotions for various dead-on arrival bits of legislation (even heavily Democratic Congresses could not pass). “comprehensive immigration reform”), blatantly insincere calls for bipartisanship, cynical and false attacks on his opponents (the chamber was in an uproar at his fake claim Republicans want to slash Social Security and Medicare), bogus stats (billionaires pay roughly 24% income tax, not 8%), some fine tough talk on the Ukraine war and utter laughers (“as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did” — by shooting down the balloon Last chance?).

It included the now-common shout-outs to audience members and the standard rah rah patriotism“We are not powerless before the forces that confront us. It is within our power, of We the People.”).

He had actually No overall theme, as he has no overall vision beyond his self-serving distortions and promises of more giveaways. In his best chance to reach the entire nation, our president basically showed America that there’s no there there except his trademark malarkey.

His flagging polls show the American people aren’t fooled. Just like Biden, they see that his act is getting stale.