Joe Biden is such a failure, it’s taken nearly 100 days to program him to give a speech to a joint session of Congress. Normally, a new president does this in February, or early March at the latest. At this point, it will be the end of April and Biden will finally mumble out words whatever his communist handers tell him to do mumble. Usually during a joint session of congress speech, it’s a full house, with about 200 people at most. The room that hosts these speech has a capacity of 1,100 and is usually filled with Congress, Senate, Supreme Court Justices, cabinet secretaries and other people within politics. Not this time though.
I’m of course not even going to bother watching. I’ll just laugh at the reactions on social media.
It is appropriate, really, that our empty suit of a president will deliver his first speech to Congress to a mostly empty chamber. Joe Biden will look out to a sea of empty seats, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. It makes one ponder – why is he even going through with the exercise?
Biden will speak to an in-person audience of only about 200 people. Traditionally, a joint address to Congress is delivered by a president in the first year of his term, at the invitation of the Speaker of the House. Next year, he will deliver a State of the Union address. Though a speech is not required, one has been delivered in person since Woodrow Wilson’s presidency in 1913. Presidents take advantage of a congressional audience to try to garner support for their agendas. This year, with the country so deeply divided, there is little hope that Biden will change anyone’s mind about anything. The address is being delivered late this year. Since 1934, it has been delivered to Congress in January or February. Slow Joe is just now getting around to it. He’s been pretty busy signing executive orders and actions, you know. And, his party is busy ramming through trillion-dollar legislation on purely party-line votes.
This year, because of the pandemic, a big show is being made of the fact that Biden and Pelosi will abide by mitigation mandates. The president will speak to a limited amount of people in person. Normally, the room is packed with members of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, cabinet members, and staffers. Guests are invited by the president, the first lady, and members of Congress. The room is crowded. The House chamber can accommodate about 1,100 people. Additional capacity can be expanded with temporary seats and standing room. So, with only 200 people there – by invitation only – the room may as well be empty.