Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your weekly libertarian podcast that worries more about

the gas bags floating up out of Washington DC, man.

I'm Matt Welch, joined per common law by Nick Gillespie, Peter Suterman, and Katherine

Mengu Ward.

Happy baseball season, everyone.

Hey, Matt Welch.

Howdy.

Happy Monday.

Yeah, that's right, Peter.

So a lot has transpired since the State of the Union speech last Tuesday, if you remember

it at all.

For instance, Rihanna got pregnant, and apparently we've started an intergalactic war, but there

was a critical and very chaotic three minute passage of President Joe Biden's speech that

carried over into the following days into this week, likely next month, most of this year

and why not the presidential race in 2024 as well?

It started off by the president stating quite falsely that Republicans want to take the

economy hostage unless he agrees to their economic plans, which include making the social security

and Medicare programs sunset Republicans erupted into House of Commons style, hollering

in response Biden then shot back that he'd be happy to give anyone copies of what he

called the proposal, uh, then a apparently Kurella, Deville, Dressed Marjorie Taylor

Greens started shouting liar, um, Biden said, oh, we all apparently agree that social security

and Medicare cuts aren't going to be part of the debt ceiling negotiations and then everybody

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