Dark Brandon Gave the Speech of His Life
By Louis Conte, Headlines Editor, The Kennedy Beacon
“Feisty!”
“Fiery!”
“Energetic!”
“The President came out swinging.”
These are but a few of the descriptors that the DNC-aligned media used to describe the State of the Union speech delivered by President Joe Biden (aka Dark Brandon) last Thursday night.
CNN’s Stephen Collinson said, “The president came out fired up and gave an energetic speech that was a far cry from some of his more subdued efforts that have concerned supporters. He delivered much of the speech at high volume. And in the most important moment of the 2024 election campaign so far, Biden appeared to succeed. He projected vigor and forcefulness.”
The pundits ignored his few flubs, of course. For example, commenting on the cost of prescription drugs, Biden suggested that one can obtain medications 40% cheaper by traveling outside of the United States – to Moscow!
We are pretty sure that he meant Mexico but, close enough. Biden had also confused Mexico with Egypt at a February press conference, responding to a DOJ report that described him as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
Shouting for most of the speech, the usually low-energy, shuffling, forgetful 81-year-old president was in rare form. MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough described Biden in almost orgasmic terms, declaring “Game, set, match for Joe Biden.”
Scarborough compared Biden to Harry Truman and stated, “People underestimate Joe Biden.” Scarborough was so effusive in his adoration of Biden that we think he might be planning to replace Washington’s visage with Biden’s in the famous painting, The Apotheosis of Washington:
Dave Rubin commented that the Morning Joe host has become a viral laughingstock.
Comedian Stephen Colbert weighed in, saying Biden delivered a “Feisty, fiery, heated State of the Union speech” and implying that Biden may have had an extra shot of caffeine.
Conservative commentators suspected that Biden may have had a shot of something else.
Who knows.
Missing from all the talk about an unusually vigorous Joe Biden was minimal coverage of the president’s commitment to endless wars; his denialism of economic policies that have wrecked the economy and brutalized the middle class; and his total neglect to mention the country’s chronic disease epidemic.
But Biden’s all-too-rosy take on the economy enraged at least one astute observer, David Stockman, the author and former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan.
“Amidst all the shouting and partisan demagoguery, Biden’s non-stop malarkey, prevarication and hypocrisy was so unrelieved that it’s hard to know where to begin,” writes Stockman in his Substack. “For example, during the first 36 months of his tenure this is what happened to the purchasing power of wages and savings. Sixteen cents on the dollar has already gone up in smoke, yet Biden had the audacity to claim that he brought inflation under control.”
Continues Stockman, “He also claimed that the U.S. economy is in the pink of health and that the middle class has never had it so good. Well, in the first place, the alleged ‘prosperity’ now reflected in the numbers amounts to plain old intergenerational thievery. Between Q4 2020 and Q4 2023, the public debt rose by $6.3 trillion, which is equal to 106% of the $5.9 trillion gain in GDP. That’s right. During Peppy Joe’s time in the Oval Office, Uncle Sam has actually borrowed more than the entire gain in output for the U.S. economy. And that includes the inflation part of the gain embedded in nominal GDP, which was considerable.”
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described Biden’s State of the Union speech as “more of a campaign stump speech that you’d give to a red meat crowd during the last two weeks of the campaign.” In a “State of the Union address,” Kennedy continued, “you want something that inspires pride in our country” both here and “all around the globe.”
Kennedy gave his own “How I See the State of the Union” speech last Thursday night. Take a listen and note the difference.
Louis Conte is a writer and investigator with over 39 years of experience. He has authored two novels and one work of nonfiction. Conte lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife and sons.
Excellent article on "Dark Brandon"
This morning I appeared on the RT show CrossTalk. Here's the segment on Biden's speech I had prepared for the show:
CrossTalk Question #3: Were you surprised Biden led with Ukraine in his State of the Union address?
Richard C. Cook:
Biden’s speech was an example of the “Two-Minute Hate” from the book 1984. Biden is delusional, but he and his speechwriters really seem to think that all he has to do is mention Russia and Putin and the American masses will march in lockstep and vote to send billions of more dollars to the US-installed fascists ruling Ukraine.
Conjuring up hate for an enemy largely manufactured by the government and controlled media is a trick older than the hills. The US did it with Saddam Hussein and with Osama bin Laden and even with the American Indians, but the best example is how the Anglo-American media conjured up hatred against the German “Hun” to launch World War I, followed soon after by World War II when the same was done against Germany again, along with Japan. Now it’s the periodic cry, “The Russians are Coming.”
There was a great song in the American musical South Pacific. “You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear; you’ve got to be taught from year to year; it’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear; you’ve got to be carefully taught.” Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and their ilk sing that song night and day.
The number one job of the leaders of the Western so-called democracies is to get the voting public to hate the enemy de jour.
German spiritual writer Bô Yin Râ pointed out that until we learn to hold hatred itself in contempt as unworthy of human beings, war will not end. See his major work, The Book on the Living God, the chapter on “War and Peace.”
Also see our website for the American Geopolitical Institute:
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/
Spot on and remember, the strategy they are pursuing has nothing to do with what they speak about in public. Power and control are paramount and getting the masses to vote for them is the whole game in such a speech. As an example, behind the program to flood democratic voting strongholds with human bodies from south of the border - North as well - is to increases census and get more house seats. They do not give a rats ass about the human cost, they seek power and control. They use the military as a tool, and they will do and say anything to keep this power.