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This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayor Cooper podcast. President Biden

stated the union address was in many ways defined not by his address, but by a photo

that has gone viral this morning that captures the awful Lauren Bulbert and Marjorie Taylor

Greene, heckling the president as he eulogized his deceased son. If a photo was worth a thousand

words, then this one is worth ten fucking thousand, as it sums up everything about our

current political moment. That was the moment in this speech where the president was talking

about his unity agenda and talking about priorities that we should all be able to agree

on. Look, one American dies every five minutes of an opioid overdose. There's no question

we should do more to help our nation's veterans, people who have been hurt by the impacts

of burn pits. Of course, we need to do more to work together to cure cancer. They were

heckling around that time and that moment. I think that says a lot more about them than

it does about how important these priorities are and how much the vast majority of people

who were sitting there watching in that chamber last night could work together to solve

exactly those problems and others too. The venom and contempt in their faces, the lack

of decorum, self-righteousness and stupidity, speak to where we are as a nation in 2022.

And all of it while Lindsey Graham looks on helplessly like a fucking geriatric who just

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