I know much has already been written about the "State of the Union" speech.  I must admit, I heard only one pair of sentences live, "on accident," as the kids say.  It made me want to hold my hands over my ears and shout "lalalalalala."  Those sentences — Uncle Joe actually said, "One way to stop inflation is by driving down wages and making Americans poorer.  I think I have a better idea to fight inflation: lower your costs, not your wages."

First, explain to me, please, Uncle Joe, how lowering wages would have cut inflation.  Explain to me how, if someone must commute to his job, but can barely pay for gas with the higher price at the pump, and is barely making enough now to deal with the higher grocery prices to feed his family — how would cutting his wages have stopped inflation?  By letting his family starve?  I guess that's one solution.  I mean, homeless people here in California get paid pretty well, after all!

Uncle Joe, please, tell me how you propose we can lower costs to end inflation.  Seems as if your own actions set us on a vicious cycle of escalating those costs!  We no longer have energy independence — remember that from a mere 14 months ago?

Now we buy from Russia, supporting their war against our friends in Ukraine!  We're sending our money to a country we supposedly don't trust or like because you shut down our fossil fuel production.  Nice going!  Didn't anyone 'splain to you that the only way to cut energy costs would be to resume pumping and transport our own oil?  Yet that's not part of your big green agenda.

Tell me, please, what's your plan is to lower costs?  Do you want to slip us all some of those paper fantasy dollars you keep printing, maybe?  Soon, a wheelbarrow full of those will get us all some bread.  Did you know a loaf now costs about what a gallon of gas goes for in California?  Yeah, $5!

You see, Uncle Joe, the price people pay for things they need rises when raw materials and transportation cost more.  It's a fact of commerce, even if you don't understand it because you never participated in making a real living.  It's not a hard concept to grasp, for us uneducated working people and retirees.

Here, this might help you get it: if I buy some onions at the store because I want to cook dinner, those onions, which a few months ago cost $0.49 a pound, now are $0.99.  That's more than 100% higher, because taxes, fertilizer, wages, transportation costs, stuff like that are all costlier.

Image: Joe Biden's State of the Union (edited).  YouTube screen grab.

Same with that piece of that once-cheap chuck roast I'm planning to cook with those onions.  It used to be a good budget-stretcher.  Now it costs what a pretty ribeye steak used to go for.

So, Uncle Joe, are you starting to see it?  Sure, we can grow all those onions, raise those cattle in the USA, but if it costs a fortune to get them to market, that's gonna cause inflation.  This means costs will be higher.  Capisce?

I think, Uncle Joe, you're just chock full of stories.  They're not benign fairy tales — they're malevolent tropes that are dangerous to the psyche and physical well-being of our population.  We see through them.  That is why your ratings have plummeted faster than CNN's.

Too bad we know you no longer have the rudimentary mental capacity to understand the basics.  You used to be able to separate truth from lies, even if you frequently stretched or ignored the truth.  Now you're just hell-bent on sucking the blood of your people for your own and Jill's aggrandizement.  No wonder so very few of us trust you to lead us.

Here's the rub: you quitting the presidency isn't a great option, because Kamala is a fool, too, but doesn't have the dementia excuse to fall back on unless it's early onset.  Who knows?  Maybe she was really talking to you, trying to explain it in terms you'd understand, when she said this, live on air: "So, Ukraine is a country in Europe.  It exists next to another country called Russia.  Russia is a bigger country.  Russia is a powerful country.  Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.  So, basically, that's wrong, and it goes against everything we stand for."  Yeah, she really, really said that.  She used to be the D.A. in San Francisco, then California's attorney general.  Fitting?

You can't quit because Kamala is dumb as a post, and she can't quit because the next in line is Nancy Pelosi — who is also suffering from considerable dementia at 81.  If she can't serve, we get Patrick Leahy, also 81.  Why is he starting to look like our best option?  Yikes!