Thread by @DavMicRot

Tuned in late, assume I missed the Ukraine & COVID parts of the speech, but these meat & potato: buy American, raise wages, cut costs things seem like they would be popular.

Biden's proposal to raise taxes on rich & powerful households & corporation stands in sharp contrast to Republican plan to raise taxes on lower-income working families & retirees. Taxing rich people is popular & good, taxing poor people is unpopular & bad.

Chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud is great idea: it was likely rampant AND we need more investigation & prosecution of white collar crime.

Why is that we can test any American & give them treatment for free, for COVID-19, but not other diseases?

Biden: "The answer is not to *defund* the police, but to *fund* the police"

This will popular, but I would prefer to fund orgs that optimize keeping US safe by working w/ communities, w/o core mandate to arrest people. We ask police to do too many things they are not trained for

Biden has been terrible on immigration, doing nothing to stem crippling decline in *legal* immigration. And, continuing too many of Trump's inhumane (and completely unproductive) polices at our southern border.

Now Biden is in that part of the speech where he just touches on core issues to satiate constituencies, but he is moving so fast I am not going to bother to comment as he will be 2 to 3 issues later by the time you see my tweet.

It is cool having two women sitting behind Biden, but I look forward to when we have a woman at the podium.

Republican congresswoman mocked Biden as he talked about his son, a veteran, dying from cancer.

If you are reading this, you are not the target audience for this speech. I hate the laundry list stuff, but when Biden got into the topics he cares about, bread & butter stuff, wage, costs, prescription drug prices, he was clear & forceful.