State Of The Union? Strong.

By Hubie and Bertie

So yeah, President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.'s State of the Union address last night was the bee's knees.

We've always had faith in Dark Brandon, so we weren't really surprised — but it was a delight nonetheless. He started out Biden-tough, citing FDR and No Ordinary Time, and got even stronger as the speech went on. Then he hung around for more than a half hour afterward, mingling with members and staff and getting caught saying amusing things on hot mics. His detail were allegedly looking at their watches, trying to move him along. Sorry, guys — he's POTUS, suck it up.

He clearly was having a marvelous time — like the Von Trapp kids frolicking in those window-curtain playclothes that Fräulein Maria made for them — and boy, did MAGA world get pissed about that. "They fumed, they pouted, they squirmed, and like Mike Johnson, they sat silently when Biden was talking about...anything good about America or the positive progress this country has made," says Mary Trump. And today, since their feeble-Biden narrative has fallen completely apart, they've resorted to saying that he was — wait for it — on drugs. (Every accusation is a confession.)

Ahead of the address, Trumpy nutcase Marjorie Taylor Greene threatened to heckle the President, and, inappropriately sporting a red MAGA cap, she did try to engage him on his walk down the aisle. But Biden short-circuited her by reacting, in the words of a particularly spot-on tweep, the way folks do with every trick-or-treater who shows up at their door. Our thought was: POTUS is a dad and a granddad, and boy, does he know how to handle toddlers.

So yes, there was heckling and backing-and-forthing. But the Republicans' bad behavior backfired on them in a significant way: It kept people watching. Most SOTUs are snoozefest laundry lists of accomplishments and proposals, which — we have to admit — even Bill Clinton couldn't pull off over 90 minutes without sending you at least once to the fridge or the bathroom. But the GOP's jibing and shouting, and Biden's gleeful engagement with it, meant that you just had to put off that trip to the litter box a little while longer. It was mesmerizing.

There were so many favorite moments, but one of the best had to be Joe's dressing-down of the Supreme Court. "In its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court majority wrote the following," he said, "and with all due respect, justices, 'Women are not without electoral or political power.' You're about to realize just how much you got right about that." The room erupted, and Roberts, Biff and Gorsuch looked peeved. Good thing the execrable Samuel Alito wasn't there. President Obama freaked him out over Citizens United in 2010, and he hasn't attended another SOTU since. We cats PURR.