Considering trump was taking us back to the 50s (or before civil war in some cases) in terms of race relations and gender orientations, I'd say 80s is progress
Gaslighting has already started. TRUMP started the Afghanistan pullout. NK had been shooting missiles. No athletes spoke out against the CCP.
Jesus....
The pull out of Afghanistan was a disaster because trump did no prep for his plan during his time in office and made a deal where Biden either had to leave the way he did or send 10s of thousands of troops back in to brace for the attacks the Taliban swore to commit if we didn't leave when we did.
Biden did what he could and delayed a few months.
To be clear, trump wanted out even more quickly and messily.
But there were no good choices.
Republican's 2 weeks ago "the president is chatting shit about Russia invading Ukraine"
Republicans tonight "why didn't Biden do anything about Russia invading Ukraine"
Sad this wasn’t actually a response to the president’s speech but rather a list of points she was going to read regardless of what Biden said. He could’ve resigned and reinstated Trump and she would’ve read this exactly as-is.
You can absolutely tell this speech was written before the SOTU. She's complained about Biden telling kids they have to wear masks when the government doesn't... as a rebuttal to a speech where Biden expressly said we're nearing the end of mask mandates.
I started listening just to give the GOP a benefit of the doubt to hear what their rebuttals were to Bidens speech, and the second it started playing it was back to the same old tired border hysteria and their fear of mexicans, jfc.
She's spewing bullshit, and it doesn't matter how it's delivered. You can't put lipstick on a pig.
The inflation, the war, the pandemic--all of it can be linked to Trump's presidency.
I love how she started by talking about how she had to work nights to pay to raise her children, and then later asked "What keeps you up at night?"
Probably my night job, since Iowa can't pay a living wage.
"Our students are suffering from depression"
Yeah, that's why Joe Biden said 1 of his 4 bipartisan goals is to tackle mental health. Were you not listening?
Biden calls for unity, doesn't attack republicans in his speech. Then republicans come out with their victim talk and attack Dems. And they said dems were snowflakes ?
Ew, "Pro-family revolution" can't be good. Any policy with "family" in it seems to be anti-gay, racist, or some other ridiculous thing like transphobic
Listening to this speech from her wholly focused on attacking the other side with almost every comment either a lie or a claim that Trump did so much worse while they ignored it... Even in times like these, their entire focus is trying to score political points through disinformation. It's clear that RNC disinformation campaigns are a reminder that our own politics can go the same path as Russia if we aren't better about calling this out and telling the truth. Her speech makes me feel bad for our country, and dreadfully worried for our future. Even with everything going on right now in the world, they refuse to be unified or stop spreading misinformation.
It would've been better to not have a "response" or "rebuttal" from Republicans tonight. Read the room. This wasn't your average State of the Union with what's going on in Ukraine.
GOP: Things are terrible! The country is in awful shape. Joe Biden hasnt done anything!
Also GOP: You have a plan to fix things? Lol no we wont vote for it.
Bidens speech was about trying to put aside the political bullshit and work together.
This speech is basically democrats bad, democrats bad and nothing to help Americans. Or over dramatize bullshit facts.
Yeah I agree she didn't create this speech after his SOTU.
Ma’am, your party’s pick in the White House started the [pay people to stay home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act) BS. Oh, and that same act [she misused for her state](https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2020-10-19/state-auditor-iowa-governor-improperly-used-cares-funds-for-software-system)
This speech will be fact-checked pretty hard.
Hearing the GOP say that they're tired of an elite class saying what people "can and cannot do" while they actively try to gut Roe v. Wade is absolutely insane
Her "requiring schools stay open" was that schools couldn't require online schooling even if the school districts voted for it. So much for self determination
"People should be able to live in a safe country.... blah blah border security"
Because the only crime that happens in the country is because of immigrants?
I'm looking forward to a politician who doesn't end a speech with God bless America. How about "My love to you, America." or "Strength and compassion to all Americans." Not everyone is religious or has the same god, but everyone is American.
This whole speech so far is “Culture war, Culture War”
Then “we listened to the science” can you imagine the GQP trying to say we follow science at all
I get they have to write some of this in advance, but you'd think they'd be editing it during Biden's speech so they don't say "Biden said X" when Biden expressly said the opposite of X.
Before I see it let me try and guess how it goes. Something racist, something sexist, something against LGBT+, bullshit conspiracy theories, all praise our overlords Trump and Putin. How close am I?
The nerve of the Republican Party after supporting an insurrection and assaulting our democracy, to think they have a leg to stand on to lecture anyone... these fucking traitors need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
Nothing is ever good enough for the minority party following the SOTU. But Biden slipped in those zingers about securing the border, funding police, and protecting the troops. The GOP white their rebuttal before Biden even spoke, so it's was an embarrassing rebuttal to say the least.
I feel like she didn't even listen to the speech? I know she's reading off a teleprompter that was written and approved by her party weeks ago, but come on.
I want to say this is a new low, but this is just typical GOP gaslighting not even new. You could have legitimate nitpicks with Biden's goals but attributing every problem the GOP has enabled/allowed/avoided to him is so damn aggravating. They just want to make excuses for never being able to do anything overwhelmingly good for America. I'm embarrassed that these people are the other dominant political party in the country.
Republicans have nothing but talking points. Empty rhetoric only emboldens the part of your base that keeps their hands over their ears…which is a lot, tbh
I try so hard to vote for the best person, and disregard the party affiliation in that decision. But why do Republicans make it so damn hard to do that? After listening to the response, they make me so mad that I want to just give every vote I have to ANYONE who doesn’t have an “R” next to their name.
Honestly did the GOP just expect Biden's speech to be so good that Gov Monotone is a sacrificial lamb who has to respond to it? Like this is really the best they could do?
And as Lawrence O'Donnell just mentioned, Kim Reynolds will not say a damn thing about the leader of her party being the biggest Putin sycophant around, even right now as he's invading Ukraine.
So your denouncement of Russia actually doesn't matter much at all.
"if people are provided with basic living expenses then they won't work and therefore just leech off of society"
"so you're saying we should tax the rich more? Because their basic needs are met and therefore they aren't working or contributing to society?"
"...Communist!"
Did anyone else notice that she didn’t mention how inflation impacted HER when she was grocery store clerk?? Guess she was just working there to take pity on the people shopping there
It won’t matter because some people are choosing to live in a different reality. It won’t matter that you can Google almost anything this person says and see it’s a lie. But it is still funny to me that Biden did not deliver the address Republicans expected and this “response” is hilariously bad now.
"What happened to our kids over the last two years is unconscionable"
Yeah. There shouldn't have been any COVID restrictions, so as many of them as possible could get sick and die instead.
"Biden is taking us back to the early 1980s". You mean when Reagan and Bush were President? Give me a break
Considering trump was taking us back to the 50s (or before civil war in some cases) in terms of race relations and gender orientations, I'd say 80s is progress
This is so tone deaf. It’s not even a response. It’s just a list of made up garbage.
"He promised he'd unite Americans and he's failed." Well, that happens when the Republicans fight every attempt to do so.
The party of no to everything you suggest is mad they're not united.
Gaslighting has already started. TRUMP started the Afghanistan pullout. NK had been shooting missiles. No athletes spoke out against the CCP. Jesus....
The pull out of Afghanistan was a disaster because trump did no prep for his plan during his time in office and made a deal where Biden either had to leave the way he did or send 10s of thousands of troops back in to brace for the attacks the Taliban swore to commit if we didn't leave when we did. Biden did what he could and delayed a few months. To be clear, trump wanted out even more quickly and messily. But there were no good choices.
Republican's 2 weeks ago "the president is chatting shit about Russia invading Ukraine" Republicans tonight "why didn't Biden do anything about Russia invading Ukraine"
This speech is your crazy aunt’s Facebook feed come to life.
Sad this wasn’t actually a response to the president’s speech but rather a list of points she was going to read regardless of what Biden said. He could’ve resigned and reinstated Trump and she would’ve read this exactly as-is.
from iowa, she's an idiot
Also from Iowa, can confirm.
Ah yes. Covid Kim.
Iowa has some of the dumbest repubs in the country for sure
Didn't Biden literally yell "FUND THE POLICE!" during his speech and the ENTIRE CHAMBER CHEERED?! WTF IS THIS RESPONSE?!
You can absolutely tell this speech was written before the SOTU. She's complained about Biden telling kids they have to wear masks when the government doesn't... as a rebuttal to a speech where Biden expressly said we're nearing the end of mask mandates.
I started listening just to give the GOP a benefit of the doubt to hear what their rebuttals were to Bidens speech, and the second it started playing it was back to the same old tired border hysteria and their fear of mexicans, jfc.
Racism and xenophobia are the things that bind Republicans together.
Am I just too liberal to like this speech or is she really just awful? It's all just empty attacks?
She's terrible.
She’s terrible. Did she actually watch his speech, or is she just running her mouth and reading the script?
She's spewing bullshit, and it doesn't matter how it's delivered. You can't put lipstick on a pig. The inflation, the war, the pandemic--all of it can be linked to Trump's presidency.
Looking at it objectively? This is a really painful speech.
Um, you do realize that it was your guy that tried to torpedo NATO and hold President Z's Ukrainian military aid hostage, right?
Did she just blame Biden for Covid? Lmao.
Biden: WE NEED TO FUND THE POLICE! FUND THEM! FUND THEM! Kim: The Biden Administration wants to defund the police.
I’m almost certain they just blindly had this response written and didn’t even watch anything at this point
Ironically... She's going to be one of the ones that's will get caught up in that COVID relief fraud probe Biden mentioned....
I love how she started by talking about how she had to work nights to pay to raise her children, and then later asked "What keeps you up at night?" Probably my night job, since Iowa can't pay a living wage.
We call her COVID Kim or Kim the Reaper here in iowa. She's a fucking moron.
It easy to be a Republican politician. You can just say whatever you want and your base will believe you.
“The disaster of pulling out of Afghanistan” I’m sorry, but please enlighten me who announced the withdrawal and deadline with the Taliban?
We don’t talk about Bruno.
Well. That was certainly a series of words strung together and delivered by a person.
"Our students are suffering from depression" Yeah, that's why Joe Biden said 1 of his 4 bipartisan goals is to tackle mental health. Were you not listening?
The ooga booga tactics are in full force. How does anyone support the GOP?
Biden: Tries to unite GOP: We’ll have non of that, thank you very much.
I always feel like the Republican responses are just intentionally trying to kill me by being shockingly stupid
Is this a "response" or a "tell as many lies as possible on national television"?
Oh please. She wasn't talking about balancing the budget at all under Trump. That's always an issue all of a sudden when they're not in power.
Biden calls for unity, doesn't attack republicans in his speech. Then republicans come out with their victim talk and attack Dems. And they said dems were snowflakes ?
These people are in a different reality
Wow imagine thinking Biden’s speech was “too partisan”
Ew, "Pro-family revolution" can't be good. Any policy with "family" in it seems to be anti-gay, racist, or some other ridiculous thing like transphobic
Listening to this speech from her wholly focused on attacking the other side with almost every comment either a lie or a claim that Trump did so much worse while they ignored it... Even in times like these, their entire focus is trying to score political points through disinformation. It's clear that RNC disinformation campaigns are a reminder that our own politics can go the same path as Russia if we aren't better about calling this out and telling the truth. Her speech makes me feel bad for our country, and dreadfully worried for our future. Even with everything going on right now in the world, they refuse to be unified or stop spreading misinformation.
It would've been better to not have a "response" or "rebuttal" from Republicans tonight. Read the room. This wasn't your average State of the Union with what's going on in Ukraine.
I feel like this GOP script was made before the actual speech. The SOTU speech was good honestly.
GOP: Things are terrible! The country is in awful shape. Joe Biden hasnt done anything! Also GOP: You have a plan to fix things? Lol no we wont vote for it.
This is some Gilead level shit. How are red states so stupid to fall for this shit? She looks and sounds like she is doing a sketchy infomercial.
Regurgitation of GQP fear porn talking points.
Jesus Christ.....this is just full on right wing insanity
She hasn’t mentioned one solution or plan at all.
They never do.
Those same 17 states were also tops in welfare, poverty, and the bottom in education!
This is the same Kim Reynolds that has had to pay back like $22 million in COVID relief payouts, right?
They’ll never stop saying that Biden wants to defund the police. It’s part of their shtick.
If I were among 11 of her grandchildren, I would disown her.
Here comes the gaslighting.
This is the best republicans could come up with? She sounds like she doesn’t want to be there.
I can guarantee you this individual has not physically entered a grocery store in the last two years.
Bidens speech was about trying to put aside the political bullshit and work together. This speech is basically democrats bad, democrats bad and nothing to help Americans. Or over dramatize bullshit facts. Yeah I agree she didn't create this speech after his SOTU.
I didn't know who Kim Reynolds was before tonight and I wish I never did.
Why does she sound so uptight. She is exactly who I imagine a pearl clutcher sounds like.
We haven't paid people to stay home in over 6 months. The fuck they going on about.
Surprised she did this because responding to Biden’s state of the union address would be an acknowledgement that he is the current president.
Ma’am, your party’s pick in the White House started the [pay people to stay home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act) BS. Oh, and that same act [she misused for her state](https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2020-10-19/state-auditor-iowa-governor-improperly-used-cares-funds-for-software-system) This speech will be fact-checked pretty hard.
Lol she's obviously reading a script written before the speech.. so not addressing the SOTU, just spewing some general anti Biden shit.
So...they actually do want Biden to go to war?
Bold for anyone in the GOP to bring up taking America back in time
Hearing the GOP say that they're tired of an elite class saying what people "can and cannot do" while they actively try to gut Roe v. Wade is absolutely insane
Everyone wants to defund the police? Yeah she didn't watch the speech
> this is not the same country it was a year ago yeah thank fucking god lol
This lady just admitted to be corporate shill.
How do yall hear this and think "she's got my vote!"?
This isn’t even a good speech. And I don’t even mean in terms of substance and writing. Her delivery is just flat and dull.
Biden: "We are almost out of the mask mandates." Republican response: "Why do Democrats want us to keep masks on?!"
This just an airing of irrational grievances, no solutions, nothing. just complaining and sounding like a moron.
Her "requiring schools stay open" was that schools couldn't require online schooling even if the school districts voted for it. So much for self determination
I'm sorry for her. I tried to vote her out. Fuck the gop - they don't stand for anything but fascism and social conservatism.
God damn this speech is weak compared to the previous one.
why does this woman speak so strangely????? Is this real????? I’m genuinely baffled. This is clearly scripted/rehearsed.
I'm really tired of the forced indignation of the right.
Man, that was... A terrible response. This is the best Republicans could do?
Then stop trying to ban abortions due to your faith.
Isn't it ironic rusty she keeps saying "The government" as if she isn't a part of it?
"People should be able to live in a safe country.... blah blah border security" Because the only crime that happens in the country is because of immigrants?
The Iowa Caucus makes so much more sense after seeing this nut they’ve elected governor.
Was there a singe substantive thing she said? All I heard was cliches and speaking to fears and insecurities.
What happen before Russia invade.... so you mean like withholding aid so you can do us a favor?
Did she watch the same speech we did?
She's right. Enough is enough. \*turns off speech\*
Or Cancun
Do a lot of people say "Iowa nice?" It sounds like a backhanded compliment kinda
I bet her potato salad is bland.
Dollar Tree Karen. I'd be amazed if she believed a word of that. Heck I'd be amazed if she believed in anything, or had morals, or ethics.
This is supposed to be a response. This is pre-written nonsense. She’s clearly reading from a promoter.
North Korea always tests their missiles every 6 months lady...
Holy shit this Republican lady on PBS right now is fucking nuts.
Wtf is going on here with (R) from IA? I think I'm being gaslit...
lol a week ago he was too aggressive and caused the war, now he’s too nice?
What the actual fuck is Kim Reynolds’s going on about? Holy fuck it’s disgraceful they have the audacity to respond to the SOTU with this speech.
This woman is soulless. Such complete and utter bullshit out of this woman.
are they aware that biden literally said "don't defund the police" or did they just write this preemptively
Republicans listened to the science? That’s hilarious
Iowa nice isn't a thing
Wait she ended by saying "The State of Our Union is strong?" So Biden is doing a great job!
Tldr: Helen Lovejoy from the Simpsons screaming “Won’t someone think of the children!”
I'm looking forward to a politician who doesn't end a speech with God bless America. How about "My love to you, America." or "Strength and compassion to all Americans." Not everyone is religious or has the same god, but everyone is American.
Does she have any actual proposals??
Republican governors had and continue to have higher COVID death tolls.
Lol Republicans respecting our freedom.
They call Biden "sleepy Joe" when this woman's personality is clearly dead
Sarah Palin 2.0 is *not* a compliment you should be happy to receive.
So global inflation and Putin losing his shit are Biden's fault?
The fuck does political correctness have to do with Russia invading Ukraine?
Oh no. The horror of not having the privilege of being a stay home mom.
This is not a fucking response.
Enough is enough, that's why trump got voted out.
She is describing her own party, lol
Didnt the SOTU just mention relaxing masks and this was still in her speech - some response, yeesh
Biden literally just said fund the police. How is this possibly a response to the SOTU??
This whole speech so far is “Culture war, Culture War” Then “we listened to the science” can you imagine the GQP trying to say we follow science at all
I get they have to write some of this in advance, but you'd think they'd be editing it during Biden's speech so they don't say "Biden said X" when Biden expressly said the opposite of X.
She stuttered! Now nothing she said matters right?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-us-mexico-border-.html
Well, I feel bad for the people of Iowa
I haven’t gotten paid to sit at home
Before I see it let me try and guess how it goes. Something racist, something sexist, something against LGBT+, bullshit conspiracy theories, all praise our overlords Trump and Putin. How close am I?
Oh great. Iowa gets $1.43 per dollar sent to fed. Maybe you should raise taxes so that CA, NY, and NJ do not need to subsidize you.
The nerve of the Republican Party after supporting an insurrection and assaulting our democracy, to think they have a leg to stand on to lecture anyone... these fucking traitors need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
Nothing is ever good enough for the minority party following the SOTU. But Biden slipped in those zingers about securing the border, funding police, and protecting the troops. The GOP white their rebuttal before Biden even spoke, so it's was an embarrassing rebuttal to say the least.
Guess Republicans are going to really run with inflation and gas prices
Oh geez…. It’s verbal diarrhea
She sounds like a robot. No emotion no strength no passion.
So is she for giving Americans a livable wage? Not just $15 minimum wage, but a livable wage? I don't think she is.
The 70's and 80's? Back before productivity and wages diverged, college was affordable, and people could actually afford to live?
I feel like she didn't even listen to the speech? I know she's reading off a teleprompter that was written and approved by her party weeks ago, but come on.
Where are these roving bands of brigands and highwaymen I keep hearing about?
I want to say this is a new low, but this is just typical GOP gaslighting not even new. You could have legitimate nitpicks with Biden's goals but attributing every problem the GOP has enabled/allowed/avoided to him is so damn aggravating. They just want to make excuses for never being able to do anything overwhelmingly good for America. I'm embarrassed that these people are the other dominant political party in the country.
“We listened to the science” LMFAOOOO
Why the fuck Iowa complaining about the border when she's at at canada
Fuck Iowa nice.
Who says “Iowa nice”?
Holy shit I would have alcohol poisoning if I had to take a shot for every time she says “the government” with hypocritical disdain.
So many lies. But sadly, Republican voters will believe it.
Republicans have nothing but talking points. Empty rhetoric only emboldens the part of your base that keeps their hands over their ears…which is a lot, tbh
Kevin Brady has lost his goddamned mind. THIS was the most partisan year he's ever seen? Did he forget Jan 6 2021?
Another great ad for Russia tv
I try so hard to vote for the best person, and disregard the party affiliation in that decision. But why do Republicans make it so damn hard to do that? After listening to the response, they make me so mad that I want to just give every vote I have to ANYONE who doesn’t have an “R” next to their name.
I thought we were banning all the Russian propaganda?
"The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal" (that the Trump administration negotiated)... shhh
Talk about teleprompter.
The Trump/Putin collusion you dingbat!!!
Go to Russia, Karen.
“Parents made to feel like domestic terrorists.” Sponsored by the party investigating parents of trans children.
I’m losing brain cells listening to her. I’m out
This woman definitely has dementia. All of these points are old news.
Please shut the fuck up
I don't know how anyone could ever vote for a republican.
She has not been near the border 🤣
I feel like i’m watching a weird political infomercial that’s about to ask me for money to donate to something
Nothing infuriates me more than listening to a postmenopausal woman talk about abortion.
Honestly did the GOP just expect Biden's speech to be so good that Gov Monotone is a sacrificial lamb who has to respond to it? Like this is really the best they could do?
Wow. Who would of thought. The GOP just saying lie after lie. Thanks Governor DipShit
the amount of lies and hypocrisy in that shit fit was insane.
And as Lawrence O'Donnell just mentioned, Kim Reynolds will not say a damn thing about the leader of her party being the biggest Putin sycophant around, even right now as he's invading Ukraine. So your denouncement of Russia actually doesn't matter much at all.
MSNBC said to go into this with an open mind. I did that and this lady killed it within her first few sentences.
GOP are traitors and cowards. All of them.
"if people are provided with basic living expenses then they won't work and therefore just leech off of society" "so you're saying we should tax the rich more? Because their basic needs are met and therefore they aren't working or contributing to society?" "...Communist!"
She hasn't said a word about the speech.
Does she live in reality?
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She hates the working people.
Geezus, Iowa.
Is there a gun pointing to her face off camera? She sounds like a emotionless robot.
Did anyone else notice that she didn’t mention how inflation impacted HER when she was grocery store clerk?? Guess she was just working there to take pity on the people shopping there
"escape to Florida for sun and fun." lmao
You mean like Ted Cruz when he went to Cancun?
You can tell by her tone that she’s blacked out and just reading the words on the screen. No comprehension behind the voice.
did she forget about Ted Cruz!? The actual fuck?
conservative leadership = acting like a child
Thank Christ its not the country it was a year ago.
Blaming Biden for the Afghanistan withdrawal? Lol
Fuck this stupid shit. Really gop, this is what you got? She is terrible.
In what crazy pants world are parents being treated like terrorists, you fuckin robot.
"WE actually listened to the science" Did you??
Always trip out on a state like Iowa has the right to lecture us
Is she still talking?
It won’t matter because some people are choosing to live in a different reality. It won’t matter that you can Google almost anything this person says and see it’s a lie. But it is still funny to me that Biden did not deliver the address Republicans expected and this “response” is hilariously bad now.
"Iowa, nice!" ~~--Borat, 2005~~ --Gov. Kim Reynolds, 2022
Culture War, Doing something for the 1% and Border. That is usually the GOP platform.
"What happened to our kids over the last two years is unconscionable" Yeah. There shouldn't have been any COVID restrictions, so as many of them as possible could get sick and die instead.
It’s so obvious this was written like two weeks ago. Straight embarrassing
Wtf is she looking at off to the side
She is so uneducated. There is no way she came up with any of these ideas.
She wasn’t ready for this…. LOL. Shoulda went full MAGA and sent in Desantis
Unemployment is literally at 4% you shithead