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Biden speaking of his accomplishments. \u00a0He was correct. \u00a0He took an economy reeling from Covid and made it \u201cthe envy of the world.\u201d \u00a0Although the American networks and the FTF NY Times did not want to help him publicize that. \u00a0Say! \u00a0Is that a recession we see?? Vibes, vibes, vibes. Facts are too hard. <\/p>\n

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Throughout our history, America has often made the greatest progress coming out of some of our darkest moments, like you\u2019re hearing in that bullhorn. \u00a0[There was a protestor in the background.]<\/p>\n

I believe we can and we must do that again, and we are.<\/p>\n

MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair.\u00a0 They spread fear and lies \u2013- lies told for profit and power.<\/p>\n

But I see a very different America \u2014 an America with an unlimited future, an America that is about to take off.\u00a0 I hope you see it as well.\u00a0 Just look around.<\/p>\n

I believed we could lift America from the depths of COVID, so we passed the largest economic recovery package since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.\u00a0 And today, America\u2019s economy is faster, stronger than any other advanced nation in the world.\u00a0 (Applause.)\u00a0 We have more to go.<\/p>\n

I believed we could build a better America, so we passed the biggest infrastructure investment since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve now embarked on a decade of rebuilding
the nation\u2019s roads, bridges, highways, ports, water systems, high-speed Internet, railroads.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

I believed we could make America safer, so we passed the most significant gun safety law since President Clinton.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

I believed we could go from being the highest cost of prescriptions in the world to making prescription drugs and healthcare more affordable, so we passed the most significant healthcare reforms since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

And I believed we could create \u2014 we could create a clean energy future and save the planet, so we passed the most important climate initiative ever, ever, ever.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

The cynics and the critics tell us nothing can get done, but they are wrong.\u00a0 There is not a single thing America cannot do \u2014 not a single thing beyond our capacity if we do it together.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never easy.\u00a0 But we\u2019re proving that in America, no matter how long the road, progress does come.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

Look, I know the last year \u2014 few years have been tough.\u00a0 But today, COVID no longer controls our lives.\u00a0 More Americans are working than ever.\u00a0 Businesses are growing.\u00a0 Our schools are open.\u00a0 Millions of Americans have been lifted out of poverty.\u00a0 Millions of veterans once exposed to toxic burn pits will now get what they deserve for their families and the compa- \u2014 compensation.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

American manufacturing has come alive across the Heartland, and the future will be made in America \u2014 (applause) \u2014 no matter what the white supremacists and the extremists say.<\/p>\n

I made a bet on you, the American people, and that bet is paying off.\u00a0 Proving that from darkness \u2014 the darkness of Charlottesville, of COVID, of gun violence, of insurrection \u2014 we can see the light.\u00a0 Light is now visible.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

Light that will guide us forward not only in words, but in actions \u2014 actions for you, for your children, for your grandchildren, for America.<\/p>\n

Even in this moment, with all the challenges we face, I give you my word as a Biden: I\u2019ve never been more optimistic about America\u2019s future.\u00a0 Not because of me, but because of who you are.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to end cancer as we know it.\u00a0 Mark my words.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

We are going to create millions of new jobs in a clean energy economy.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to think big.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to make the 21st century another American century because the world needs us to.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where we need to focus our energy \u2014 not in the past, not on divisive culture wars, not on the politics of grievance, but on a future we can build together.<\/p>\n

The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail.\u00a0 They believe America \u2014 not like I believe about America.<\/p>\n

I believe America is big enough for all of us to succeed, and that is the nation we\u2019re building: a nation where no one is left behind.<\/p>\n

I ran for President because I believed we were in a battle for the soul of this nation.\u00a0 I still believe that to be true.\u00a0 I believe the soul is the breath, the life, and the essence of who we are.\u00a0 The soul is what makes us \u201cus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The \u201cAmerican soul\u201d that won the 2024 election turned out to be corrupt, greedy, ready to suck down lies, or too apathetic to even pay attention and vote.<\/p>\n

Following his election, ABC\/Disney ($16 million in December 2024) and CBS (weirdly again, $16 million in July 2025 over an edited 60 Minutes program with Kamala Harris) paid millions to settle with (OK, bribe) Donald Trump. It was not, of course, coming out of their C Suite executives\u2019 pockets.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biden speaking of his accomplishments. \u00a0He was correct. \u00a0He took an economy reeling from Covid and made it \u201cthe envy of the world.\u201d \u00a0Although the American networks and the FTF NY Times did not want to help him publicize that. \u00a0Say! \u00a0Is that a recession we see?? Vibes, vibes, vibes. Facts are too hard. 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