Friends and readers,

Tonight, Joe Biden will deliver another State of the Union speech. He will tell us that the state of our union is strong — which it is — and then take credit for it, which is completely unearned.

Biden disgraced the office by abandoning 14,000 Americans in Afghanistan — a number reported to Congress by Biden’s own administration.

Massive off-budget spending by Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress triggered the worst inflationary wave in over 40 years. Biden spent that time denying it existed, calling it “growth,” labeling it “transitory,” and finally blaming Vladimir Putin and “corporate greed” rather than take responsibility.

Biden and his Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, went AWOL on the worst supply-chain crisis in decades. They still have yet to resolve it, and have yet to end shortages in infant formula — another product of his administration’s incompetence.

Biden promised to deal with both through more spending in his so-called Inflation Reduction Act — which turned out to be a massive climate-change subsidy porkfest masquerading as deficit control. And just days after that, Biden violated the constitutional check on executive power by self-appropriating hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Academia via an illegal debt-forgiveness program that bypassed Congress.

And do you really think that Biden will even acknowledge his border-crisis disaster? Come on, man.

Perhaps most egregiously, the executive branch under Biden ran a social media censorship program that demanded — and got — dissent and debate quashed on Twitter, Facebook, and likely other media platforms. That government-demanded censorship may be the most egregious effort to stamp out dissent in a century.

Tonight, Biden will speak from the dais and claim to have saved the economy, shrunk the deficit, strengthened American security, and helped American families. He will then roll out the same disastrous progressive hobby-horse agenda that Biden tried to slam through Congress over the last two years.

And the establishment media, which has run interference for Biden the whole time, will amplify his propaganda and attempt to shout down his opposition.

The mainstream media doesn’t want accountability. They don’t want to genuinely report the news. Indeed, the media elites have made it clear that “Objectivity has to go” when it comes to their idea of journalism in favor of their preferred narratives.

The mainstream media is circling the wagons around Biden & company.

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Ed Morrissey
Managing Editor

PS: I will have a fairly lengthy rant about the State of the Union circus later today. Stay tuned.