Third time's the charm: President Biden's first address to Congress open thread

The content is coming fast and hard, folks! 

At 9pm ET, President Joe "Shades" Biden will make his first address to Congress. It's not a State of the Union speech; but he will outline his economic plan to get the country out of the hit caused, in part, by the pandemic. (The economy was already slowing down before states shuttered due to COVID.)

As detailed by NBC:

Biden is expected to unveil his American Families Plan as the focal part of his address, a roughly $1.8 trillion package that includes universal preschool, two years of free community college and expanded access to child care. It is the second phase of Biden's two-part push to boost the economy, following the $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package, which he announced last month.

But Pres. Biden has more than the economy on his mind:

Biden will speak directly to Americans who "feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that’s rapidly changing," according to the excerpts, and will argue that his economic proposals will create millions of jobs that do not require a college or associate's degree.

"We have to prove democracy still works. That our government still works — and can deliver for the people," the president will say.

In a meeting with editors today, Pres. Biden addressed the fact that the world's democracies have much to prove in the face of resurgent autocracy:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Xi Jinping is betting democracy can't "keep up with" autocracy, and warned that proving the Chinese leader wrong is key to the survival of the US.

"They're going to write about this point in history," Biden said to reporters ahead of his first address to a joint session of Congress, in remarks first reported by CNN. "Not about any of us in here, but about whether or not democracy can function in the 21st century."

"You know, things are moving so damn rapidly," Biden went on to say. "Things are changing so rapidly in the world, in science and technology and a whole range of other issues, that — the question is: In a democracy that's such a genius as ours, can you get consensus in the timeframe that can compete with autocracy?"

Again, we are at an inflection point as a species. Do we embrace freedom and equity? Do we become a truly global civilization? Or do we descend into a war of all against all?

History didn't end with the ouster of the former guy. The work of free peoples is only beginning.