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   From: zed@is.dead   
      
   On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:18:34 -0000 (UTC)   
   bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:   
      
   > A fresh political and legal storm has erupted in Washington   
   Please enjoy, you steaming flop of feces!   
      
   "Well, thank you very much, everybody. It's really an honor. Speaker Johnson,   
   Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States. Second lady of the   
   United States. Members of Congress and my fellow Americans, our nation is   
   back, bigger, better, richer    
   and stronger than ever before. Less than five months from now, our country   
   will celebrate an epic milestone in American history, the 250th anniversary of   
   our glorious American independence.   
      
   This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph,   
   progress and freedom, in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to   
   exist on the face of the Earth. And you've seen nothing yet. We're going to do   
   better and better and    
   better. This is the golden age of America. When I last spoke in this chamber   
   12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant   
   economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous   
   recruitment for military and police,    
   rampant crime at home and wars and chaos all over the world.   
      
   But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we   
   have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a   
   turnaround for the ages. It is indeed a turnaround for the ages. And we will   
   never go back to where we were    
   just a very short time ago. We're not going back today.   
      
   Today, our border is secure. [Audience chants "USA"] Thank you. Today our   
   border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are   
   rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before and our enemies   
   are scared. Our    
   military and police are stacked and America is respected again, perhaps like   
   never before.   
      
   After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured   
   across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest   
   and most secure border in American history by far. In the past nine months,   
   zero illegal aliens have    
   been admitted to the United States. But we will always allow people to come in   
   legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our   
   country.   
      
   The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56 percent   
   in one year. And last year the murder rate saw its single largest decline in   
   recorded history. This is the biggest decline, think of it, in recorded   
   history -- the lowest number    
   in over 125 years. Year 1900, in fact substantially before my wonderful father   
   -- I had a wonderful father, Fred -- before he was born, substantially before   
   he was born.   
      
   That's a long time ago. He wouldn't like me to say that. But that's a long   
   time ago. [Laughter] The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave   
   us the worst inflation in the history of our country. But in 12 months, my   
   administration has driven    
   core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.   
      
   And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7 percent. Gasoline,   
   which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states. Under my predecessor,   
   it was quite honestly a disaster; it is now below $2.30 a gallon in most   
   states and in some places $   
   1.99 a gallon. And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks   
   ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline.   
      
   Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast, and the annual   
   cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 just since I took office,   
   one year. And low interest rates will solve the Biden created housing problem,   
   while at the same    
   time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really   
   feel rich for the first time in their lives.   
      
   We want to protect those values; we want to keep those values up. We're going   
   to do both. And we are going to keep it that way. The stock market has set 53   
   all-time record highs since the election. Think of that, one year -- boosting   
   pensions, 401(k)s    
   and retirement accounts for the millions and millions of Americans are all   
   gaining.   
      
   Everybody's up, way up. In four long years, the last administration got less   
   than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less,   
   substantially less. In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18   
   trillion pouring in from    
   all over the globe. Think of it, much less than $1 trillion for four years   
   versus much more than $18 trillion for one year.   
      
   What a difference a president makes. A short time ago we were a dead country,   
   now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the hottest. As   
   thousands of new businesses are forming and factories, plants and laboratories   
   are being built, we have    
   added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of time.   
      
   It's getting bigger and bigger and stronger. Nobody can believe what they're   
   watching. American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day and   
   we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80   
   million barrels of oil.    
   American natural gas production is at an all-time high because I kept my   
   promise to drill baby drill.   
      
   More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our   
   country. Think about that, any time in the history of our country, more   
   working today and 100 percent of all jobs created under my administration have   
   been in the private sector. We    
   ended DEI in America. We cut a record number of job killing regulations and,   
   in one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans, a record, off of food   
   stamps.   
      
   And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of   
   our Union is strong. Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so   
   much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me,   
   please, please, please,    
   Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore.   
      
   We're not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we were just   
   always losing, but now we're winning too much. And I say no, no, no, you're   
   going to win again. You're going to win big; you're going to win bigger than   
   ever. And to prove that    
   point -- to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who   
   just made the entire nation proud.   
      
   The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team, come on in. [Audience chants "USA"]   
   Go ahead. That's the first time I've ever seen them get up. [Laughter] And   
   actually, not all of them did get up. But they beat a fantastic Canadian team   
   in overtime, as    
   everybody saw -- as did the American women who will soon be coming to the   
   White House.   
      
      
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