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How TERRIBLE Will Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address Be?

The New York Times has released a laughable report on how President Biden is prepping for his 2024 State of the Union address. Glenn, Pat, and Stu rip it apart for the propaganda that it is. They also give their predictions for just how geriatric this speech will be. Will Biden make it through the whole speech? How mockable will the "historic accomplishments" that he plans to highlight be? How many times will he blame Republicans and Donald Trump for his own failures? And will he address the big issues that Americans really care about, like the border and high crime?

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GLENN: Hmm. Wow. The New York Times has done some vigorous research and reporting on the State of the Union tonight. They write, fueled by throat-soothing tea, guided by teleprompters, and surrounded by six aides and one historian, President Biden spent hours at Camp David last weekend, honing a State of the Union speech that will be watched by one of the biggest audiences before the November election. Really? Really.

The final speech, which aides say will be edited up until Mr. Biden gives it, will be delivered by a president under pressure to reassure voters that he's not too old for the job.

So they talk about in the speech prep sessions. Now, I want you guys to hear. We're joined from Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. Pat, I want you to hear. Because this is different.

Listen to the rigor of this.

PAT: Okay.

GLENN: In speech press sessions, Mr. Biden goes through the material line by line.

STU: Whoa.

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: Yeah. He marks up words, and creates breaks to remind himself to navigate around a stutter, he's had since childhood.

PAT: Oh.

GLENN: If he lands on a passage that he does not think feels like something he would say, he marks it out.

STU: Wait. What?

PAT: No!

STU: Himself?

GLENN: Himself. One former speechwriter described this phase, as an exercise in trying to capture Mr. Biden's extemporaneous thoughts, and put them down on the page.

STU: That's the type of word he would skip --

GLENN: I would have X'ed that out.

PAT: Which, by the way, if he's doing it in advance, it's not extemporaneous. Can we go ahead and notice that?

STU: Thank you.

GLENN: We're trying to capture that.

STU: So basically, they're trying to fool us.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: They said that the president works hard and rigorously each year.

STU: Okay.

GLENN: Adding that he knows, it's his one chance to lay out an agenda every year for progress.

PAT: And show us just how vigorous he really is. I can't wait to see that.

STU: He works vigorously, once a year.

He works vigorously each year, is the quote.

GLENN: Yeah. Now, I will tell you, that incredible speech prep session that they have. Is what I would like to call speechwriting.

PAT: Uh-huh.

STU: Would you call it that, speechwriting?

The fact that he's kind of correcting some word?

GLENN: I would say, this is done by anybody who has ever spoken in public before.

STU: Right. And it's the last step in that process. What you're describing is the final checkoff.

GLENN: Yeah. He's not speechwriting. He's rehearsing. That's what he's doing.

STU: I don't like this part. I'll take that one out.

GLENN: I'm going to have a hard time with that one.

So let me separate this sentence.

That's not speechwriting, even. That's part of the speechwriting process.

STU: Yeah.

PAT: Which means there will also be three words that are spoken tonight. Because he has a problem with all of it. There are about three words that he can say.

GLENN: Except with this particular thing. I don't know what they do to him. But I think he's got a cocktail.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: Like crazy.

STU: Yeah. I agree.

And I will say, of all the problems that Joe Biden has, the highest profile of vets are not his worst moments. Would you agree with that.

He's almost like, you know, he gets up for the big games a little bit. Now, I think drugs are probably involved in that process.

His problems almost always are, he's just like walking by, you know -- like in an ice cream store, and there's cameras there.

And he looks like a complete idiot.

It's not usually those big moments like, okay. He has to nail this.

He's usually bad in those moments. But not catastrophic.

PAT: I think he will be tonight. Maybe I'm wrong.

But I don't see how it's avoidable.

GLENN: Dr. Nick has already been called. He's already been called. He's probably got the IV running through him.

PAT: No. I'm sure. I'm sure.

This speech is usually almost an hour.

Sometimes it even exceeds that.

If he cuts it down to five minutes, maybe -- he can't get through an hour. There's no way. There's no way.

STU: He couldn't get through an hour last year. He was bad through the last half of that. But he got through the first 20 minutes or so, okay. For him.

And that was enough. Most people tuned out.

You know, I was listening to Karine Jean-Pierre doing an interview this morning. Which is always an adventure.

And, of course, first of all, they were saying. They asked a specific question.

Is he preparing for, like, hecklers, like if there are Republican hecklers?

GLENN: Oh, yeah. Oh, he's got some great one-liners, I will bet.

STU: There are massive reporting saying he is, right?

Of course, she denies it. Says, he is not doing that. Yet another lie.

But they went back to -- and what about last year?

He had that amazing response last year. I'm like, amazing response to the hecklers?

I don't understand this. They play it back.

The Republicans want to get rid of Social Security.

The Republicans go, no. No.

I don't know if that should be the Republican position. They go, no. No. No.

Oh, well, I guess we all agree now.

That Social Security is -- is off the books.


PAT: That was the amazing --

STU: That was literally the clip they pull, to highlight how good he is.

PAT: My gosh.

STU: Now, I think it was off the table. So it didn't even say the right thing.

All the books. What the hell are you talking about?

GLENN: Of course. There are a lot of the things off the books in Washington. That's the problem.

STU: Make sure this is off the books.

This is supposed to be a different speech.

Amazing. That's his good moment? But I will say, compared to him on a daily basis, in these moments, he's been a D minus instead of an F.

GLENN: He's going to know how to get off the stage. Tonight, he will know.

STU: Probably.

PAT: You think? He might need a little help. But he might be able to get off the stage with assistance. Some kind of assistance. Jill will be there.

GLENN: They have three stairs up to the -- they put a chair lift.

STU: That would be awesome.

PAT: That would be hysterical.

STU: Because that was the Bill Maher thing. Did I see this? He should just lead into this. Yeah, I'm old. But I'm better than that guy.

That should be his campaign. He should come out with one of the stair rails. And come up on the stage.

PAT: That's funny.

GLENN: You know who would do that?

Donald Trump. Donald Trump --

STU: He always --

GLENN: He leans into it.

STU: Go for it. When he's on with like Sean Hannity. And he's like, well, you would never, obviously, become a dictator.

Yeah. I would! Day one.

I'm a dictator, that's me.

But that is what he does.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: He's a "yes, and" guy. He's like, when you go to improv class. Never say no, when you're in the middle of an improv class. Say yes, and. Then come with up with a scenario.

That's what he does.

Again, I would totally be a dictator. Let me tell you the ten things I would do. He leans in.

PAT: The problem is, they bought into that. Anything he says, they naturally pick up on, even when he's just doing funny things.

GLENN: Let me ask you this: What will he address?

Will he address the border.

And will it only be a blame on Republicans?

PAT: A blame on Republicans.

STU: Yes and yes. Same thing with the economy. Same thing with shrinkflation.

PAT: And we will hear the 14 million job number he created.

STU: Fact-check, by the way, to give credit. Fact-checked him on that a million times.

It is a lie.

PAT: It's garbage.

STU: Same thing with the deficit number. That it's a lie.

GLENN: How could he possibly say he's cutting the deficit, when we are spending 1 trillion dollars over budget, every 100 days.

STU: He's a liar.

GLENN: Okay.

All right.

STU: So it's very easy for him to do that.

Because he doesn't care if it's true or not.

When you separate yourself from the truth. You can separate yourself from anything.

PAT: And it's like the other day, when he was asked about the poll numbers, and how bad they are.

Check the polls, Jack.

Five in a row. I'm beating him. Five in a row. Nobody can find one in a row.

I mean, maybe one, from a while ago. But mostly, he's losing in almost every poll.

STU: He's led in two recent polls over the past, let's see --

GLENN: Would you do me a favor?

Would you write -- would you read those three times? I got six in a row.

STU: These are since the 21st of February. Going back then. Trump plus six. Trump plus two. Trump plus four. Trump plus two. Trump plus four. Biden plus one.

Trump plus four. Biden plus one. Trump plus two. Those are the recent polls. And he's obviously not winning --

PAT: It's just a flatout lie. Just a flatout lie.

GLENN: So what happens if Trump wins by two?

STU: Oh, my God. What happens if Biden wins by two?

STU: I can't even imagine how the country reacts to a situation like that.

GLENN: I know. That should be --

PAT: That's scary.

GLENN: For all Nikki Haley people, that are just like, I'm not going to vote for him. I'm not going to vote for him. You have to.

STU: They got -- everybody has to relax on that. Like if people are -- if people -- there are certain people who will never vote for Donald Trump. If they're not across that line, and they're leaning Republican, they will come back. It's eight months of hearing Joe Biden. Don't freak out. People freak out about it. Like, the Nikki Hailey voter generally, isn't even a Nikki Haley voter. Most of them are just protest votes against Trump. They're not being big fans of Trump.

GLENN: Yeah. Many of them are -- are Democrats.

STU: Many of them are Democrats. Many of them are independents. Now, of course, in a general election, by the way, we do need to get some independents and Democrats. A lot of people seem to forget that.

GLENN: I agree.

STU: You do need those people. I don't think the approach of just mocking and belittling everyone who didn't vote for you. Is necessarily the right approach here.

But you have eight months. It probably works itself out. The question is, can you get the people who didn't vote at all, in these primaries.

Or people who are in the middle, and are considering you. Can you win those people over?

GLENN: Do you think any of the people will be watching it tonight. Other than the people like us, addicted to the news.

Or in our case, paid to watch the news.

STU: Yes!

GLENN: I mean, I just don't see this being a big audience.

PAT: I wouldn't. If I don't have to. It's too aggravating. It just enrages me. So I would skip it.

GLENN: Yeah. We're doing our coverage tonight.

STU: The coverage tonight, will be really fun. Glenn, you will be on.

We also have Dave Landau on. Michael Malice is going to be on. Sarah Gonzalez. Jason Buttrill will be on.

Talking about a new documentary we are doing. It is going to be a really fun. It's a roast.

We're not doing -- oh, let's get into the numbers.

No, well, we will fact-check live as well. But we will just be mocking Joe Biden relentlessly.

GLENN: Well, that's not right.

STU: Unless he does a great job.

GLENN: Like you know exactly how he's going to perform tonight. What he will say.

STU: I tend the rates will be up for this one.

State of the Unions in all the other years. The nonelection years. They're for political nerds. But we are getting into election season. Everyone knows what the match will be. I think this one might be a little higher rated.

GLENN: They say this is going to be the highest rated -- this is what the New York Times said, the highest, the biggest audience he'll have, until the November election.

That's possible.

Because they won't cover anything else that he does, long form.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: This might be the longest form thing he does, until the election.

STU: I think you're probably right on that. And I think too. When you look at the ratings at the end of the day, you can't just add up what you see on the networks.

Because not only, you know, we're doing coverage. I mean, Donald Trump is doing some alternate coverage now. A lot of people -- this is a very wide split audience.

I would watch this, but I would watch it on BlazeTV.

I would want to watch it be mocked.

GLENN: Yeah, I wouldn't watch him on ABC. Even Fox. I just wouldn't be watching it.

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Meet the pro-Intifada candidate NYC Democrats just elected

New York City Democrats just elected 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a "socialist Muslim", as the Party's candidate for mayor. But Glenn Beck argues that his radical beliefs are actually communist and Islamist.

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VOICE: Z10852. Something weird is going on. The World Trade Center is on fire.

VOICE: Seriously the top of the building. We're trying to get information.

VOICE: Top level of one of the --

VOICE: To unfold from New York City.

VOICE: A plane crashed just --

VOICE: My sister is in that believe. I hope she's okay. I have to come to New York.

VOICE: It's pandemonium.

VOICE: It's raining papers.

VOICE: Wait a minute! Stop just a second. Why are we -- why are we -- I've got breaking news. Breaking news, yesterday. New York City just elected as their mayoral candidate for the left. And the Democrats, a -- a Muslim radical, who is also a communist!

So, you know, it only took you 25 years. It only took you 25 years, New York, to go completely insane.

Somebody who is -- well, I mean, if I might quote Michael malice today. I am old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.

But you've got a -- you've got a communist jihadist apologist now.

Who was -- you know, well, CAIR put $100,000 behind his bid for New York City mayor.

So you have somebody who is endorsed by CAIR. That's really good.

He also was somebody who said, you know, he was -- he was for the shooting of the United Health Care CEO.

Said he was looking forward to driving down magnum Joan avenue. I don't know. Sounds like supporting people in the streets. Maybe it's just me.

Then he also said that he was going to globalize the intifada, which I think that's -- maybe -- maybe that's just me.

I mean, what do I know?

Tim Miller who is a podcaster. Asked him a few weeks ago. Asked him about his pro Palestinian slogan. Globalized the intifada. And he said, for me, ultimately, what I hear in so many, is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights, in standing up for Palistinian human rights. Oh, is that what you hear, Mr. CAIR?

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

Right. So globalize the intifada.

I mean, I mean, sure, that's -- I mean well, let me go on.

Because I don't want to take him out of context.

He then delved into the semantics of the intifada, citing the United States Holocaust memorial museum's use of a word for a translation for uprising, in an Arabic version of an article, a museum published about the Warsaw ghetto.

Oh!

So this is just a comparison, about the -- the armed rebellion against the Nazis!

I don't know if that makes me feel better!

I mean, if we're globalizing that.

We're the Nazis in this scenario.

Because I don't think it's the Palestinians.

I certainly don't think it's anybody who is like, hey.

Global jihad. I don't think it's those guys.

Or the Nazis. Who are the Nazis in that?

And it seems, if that's what you mean, then it's not just a harmless kind of slogan about human rights. It is a call for violence on the streets.

Because I don't know if you know, that's what happened when the Jews had their uprising against the Nazis.

I'm just saying!

But, hey, hey, free Palestine.

Oh, that's not what that means, gang. That is not what that means, but don't worry about it. He's just going to be possibly the new mayor.

And that's great. By the way, the Columbia faculty members signed a letter defending Hamas.

They were also among the donors to his mayoral campaign.

So, you know, you don't have anything to worry about.

And his father, who used to work at Columbia. Do you know, Stu?

Is his Dad -- is he still a professor at Columbia University?

He said that -- this violent terror thing of Islam, is not a part of Islam. Now, I've read the Koran, and much of the hadith.

And I'm pretty sure the violence is a part of that. But no.

No. This is something entirely new.

And his father while at Columbia university, wanted everybody to know, that this is actually -- this is something that came out of America!

America is really responsible for this.

And, you know, it really started with the Reagan administration, you know, when he started -- when he started with his very religious terms, to finish the war against the evil empire.

So, you know, that's where -- that's where 9/11 came from.

Is what -- don't worry about it! Don't worry about it!

Because who am I? I'm clearly just -- am I an anti-Semite today, or am I an Islamophobic? I can't remember which one.

Oh, it's probably both. Anyway, Islamophobia. Let me just explain Islamophobia. I haven't even gotten to the Communist part of it. Which is really, really -- New York, you're in one for hell of a ride. Buckle up.

It will be a fun rollercoaster for you. My gosh, I've never been happier that I've been away are if New York.

Anyway, I just want I to know, there is Islam. And then there is Islamists. Now, an Islamist is somebody who really wants Sharia law.

That's political Islam!

That's not a faith. That's political Islam.

Now, let me make really -- something really clear. Criticizing Islamism, is not Islamophobia. Pointing out the dangers of, oh. I don't know.

Political Islam. The ideology that seeks to use the tools of democracy, ultimately to destroy democracy, is not an attack on Muslims.

No. Uh-uh.

You know why?

Because Muslims are often the first people in line.

The first victims of the ideology.

So let's draw a bright, bright line between Islam as a faith, millions of people can practice that faithfully and peacefully.

It's mostly peaceful, okay?

Then there's the Islamism.

Islamism is something entirely -- that's a political project.

A theocratic political -- oh. Left loves theocracies. They love it.

Of course, you never see a problem with it.

See it when an Islamist is touting it. Anyway, it's not about prayer. It's not about fasting. It's not about spiritual life.

It's all about power. It's about merging of mosque and state. It's about implementing Sharia, not as a personal code of conduct. But as a governing legal system.

And it's -- it's supremacy.

Absolutely. Faith.

Religion.

It's -- there's one thing that's supreme.

It's misogynistic.

Deeply intolerant of all kinds of things.

Descent. Secularism. Other faiths. Even competing interpretations from inside the faith itself.

It will behead them too.

So let's -- let's be honest here for a second.

You know, CAIR should be labeled an international terror organization.

In my opinion. In my opinion.

Oh, does that make me -- that makes me an Islamophobe. I'm sure. I'm sure they will start a campaign against me on being an Islamophobe.

Stand in line, guys. You've been doing it since 2001, okay?

I don't really care. And I don't think the American people. I think that record, all the grooves are worn-out on that one, okay?

This is not a religion we're talking about. When we're talking about Sharia law. And we're talking about globalize the intifada. What does that mean, actually, to globalize it?

Does that mean we now want to do what is happening to Israel? All over the world?

Has the Palestinian plight become our plight you now, as Americans?

That there has to be an intifada here!

Because it's the kind of the same. You know. It's kind of the same over, you know, with what the Palestinians are going through.

Well, it's very much like what the Jews went through with the Nazis.

That's a weird one. That one makes my head hurt. It's very much the same as that. And very much the same as the fight against Donald Trump.

Oh, this is going to be fun. It's fun!

Really fun. You know, the irony here is, the ones that will scream Islamophobia the most, are the ones in the progressive left, the champions of feminism, LGBTQ rights. And secularism.

They're going to -- no. You want -- they're going to stand with the people, who want to kill them first.

See, this is how smart they are!

This is why it's going to work out well, in New York City.

Let me just say. If you have an ounce of common sense, you run a business, you have an ounce of wealth. And I don't mean wealth like, you know, hey, Lovey.

Let's get on the boat for a three-hour tour with a suitcase full of cash. I mean you saved anything, anything, get the hell out of New York City.

I mean, this is about survival. This is about free speech. This is about women's rights.
Religious pluralism. Secular legal systems. Liberal democracy.

But it's also about failed principles of Communism. Okay?

First, you have to call out political Islam for what it is. Okay?

And we have to do it with the clarity that we call out white nationalism.

Got to do it with that. Got to -- you know, the Klan. Really bad people.

Really bad people.

Anybody who is shouting for globalized intifada?

Pretty bad. Pretty bad people.

Okay?

Now, let's get to communism.

Because that's another cool, cool angle of the new Democratic candidate for -- for mayor of New York City.

That I just -- I think is cuddly and cute. Sure, it led to 100 million deaths. But this time, New York is going to be radically different. Oh, did I use the word radical?

I didn't mean to use that. What's radical about this guy?

Nothing. He's just like you!

Well, not exactly.

But let's talk about communism, next!

Now, the new mayoral candidate that's running there in New York City. That so many young people rushed to defend and vote for. He's promising free buses.

That's going to work out.

Where are you going to get the money for free buses.

It's free!

City-run grocery stores.

Oh, rent freezes. And finally somebody has done it. A 30-dollar minimum wage.

So under the banner of equity. And, you know, we will tax the wealthy. And the corporations. You know, we're going to squeeze another $10 billion out of them.

Really?

Because they're going to call a U-Haul.

You know, they will call something like U-Haul. There will be a lot of -- there will be a lot of movers that are like, how do I get the truck back from Texas or Florida back up to New York? Nobody is moving up there.

But he's going to do it.

Now, his vision isn't really new. You know, just -- just tax people, so we could have city-run grocery stores. You know, I remember -- I'm old enough to remember those city-run grocery stores in Moscow.

They were great.

The shelves were empty.

But that's just Moscow.

It worked out completely different in Venezuela.

Where, oh, no.

It didn't. That's right. The grocery store.

They were eating the zoo animals.

But it will be different in New York.

Because they have rent controls too.

And that will just choke the housing supply, but don't worry. As a young family.

You know, you voted for it.

You know better.

It will work this time.

So, you know, I like building ideas, I just don't like usually building on the graves of 100 million people.

But, you know, why not? Why not?

You know, use this dogma.

And this time, it will be different. It's not like it was in China. Where the great leap forward, was a gross -- a gross parody of progress. Venezuela, which was oil rich. One of the richest nations in the hemisphere now sees 90 percent of its population in poverty!

Yeah. Darn it. You know what they did?

They decided to take state control of things.

You know, like grocery stores. And it worked out well. How is that free busing working out in Venezuela?

I just want to -- I just want to know.

Anyway, then you've got the globalize the intifada. Which is going to drop a little violence in, and anti-Semitism in with your communism.

Which is weird!

Because violence and anti-Semitism, always happen. When it -- when it comes to -- when it comes to communism.

This is weird!

I've got to play something for you. Because this has talked about on me earlier this morning.

Oh, wow.

Wait a minute. This is -- this is the whole coalition coming together here.

So this is going to be good. New York, this is going to be great.

It's going to be great for you.

No. He's going to uplift you. Then the social fabric of New York City is just going to be -- just one.

It's going to be fantastic. Don't worry about your 120 billion dollars in debt. Or your 10 billion-dollar deficit that you have right now.

You are going to charge the rich more taxes, and they will stay right there.

They will be like, you know what, that 46 percent in taxes that I'm paying, this is just not enough. It's just not enough.

I need to pay 60 or 70 percent to be able to pay my fair share. So that's good. That's good. That's good.

You know, they're not risking 100 million people. It's just 8 million people.

This time, it's just 8 million people.

But, hey. For those of you in upstate New York. That aren't going to be part of this experiment.

Don't worry, you get to pay for it. Because they'll kick it up to the state. The state will have to subsidize everything. And don't you love it?

Really, don't you want to subsidize the really crazy ideas of New York City?

I mean, why don't you have a -- why don't you have a democratic socialist. A/k/a communist mayor.

Why haven't you done that? Are you not progressive enough? Are you not looking into the future?

Are you stuck in the past?

I don't know. I don't know. The graveyard is pretty big. I have a hard time getting past that one. You know, yeah, so I'm stuck in the past. Because I can't seem to pass that graveyard, and get to be down the path with you. But it's going to be a paradise.

Forget arithmetic. You know, or human nature. This time, it's going to work. It's going to work. So all right!

Wish I lived in this morning.

No wait. Nope. I don't. Nope, I don't.

And Ted Cruz, stop it. Stop writing, hey, come to Texas. No. No. Don't come to Texas. Don't come to Florida. Go to California. It's beautiful this time of year. Go there. Go there.