SOTU Open Thread
[guest post by Dana]
Remember, there is no ceiling to just how nutty politics can get.
Kamala Harris has decided she will give a SOTU pre-buttal tonight:
“I’m delivering remarks tonight on Facebook Live ahead of the President’s State of the Union Address,” Harris said on Twitter. “It’s critical we speak truth to the American people during this inflection moment in our country’s history.”
Because a candidate can never waste an opportunity to promote themselves, am I right?!
Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor’s race last year, has been tapped to give the official Democratic response. Really? Someone who lost an important election is the most effective voice they have?
Also, Bernie Sanders announced he will be giving his own rebuttal via Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. But of course. Democrats are so not happy with him at the moment.
And in what appears to be perfectly dreadful timing when one considers a certain yearbook, the House Democratic Women’s Working Group has asked that female members of both parties wear white tonight as a symbol of solidarity. Not just white, but suffragette white.
As for Nancy Pelosi’s special guests tonight, you can read the list here.
As for President Trump’s special guests tonight, you can read the list here.
Should be a hoot.
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Let the games begin.
Dana (023079) — 2/5/2019 @ 5:46 pmNot gonna watch it.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 5:50 pmThere are eleven James Bond movies on Netflix. Three with Sean Connery, three with
Dysfunctional dimwits…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 5:54 pm(continued)
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 5:55 pmthree withfour with Roger Moore, two with Pierce Brosnan, one with Timothy Dalton, and one with Daniel Craig.Not gonna watch any of those either.
Have not watched SOTU since about 2002, I think. Not watching tonight. And since Trump will presumably be reading from a staff written script, the speech won’t even have the entertainment value of a Trump rally.
Kishnevi (121377) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:01 pmWell dalton was as hard boiled as Fleming whereas Brosnan was more expressive.
Narciso (1a1ce8) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:02 pmFor the use of the HDWWG
Kishnevi (121377) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:05 pmhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/7/7e/Sister_Suffragette.png/
Handmaids got tired fast.
Narciso (1a1ce8) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:11 pmMali aurantii est.
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:13 pmHeh. Marcotte on Bernie’s personal rebuttal tonight:
Dana (023079) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:14 pmDon’t lean on me, man!
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:14 pmMarcotte, is she still a thing?
Narciso (1a1ce8) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:16 pmPray for President Perry
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:18 pmFox Sports manages to puck things up, so to speak
Kishnevi (121377) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:21 pmhttps://nesn.com/2019/02/bruins-inexplicably-disrespected-in-fox-sports-city-of-champions-graphic/
meghan mccain’s cowardpig daddy never got to give one of these speeches his whole life
🙁
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:23 pmBuzz Aldrin is 89 years old.
He still stands; the U.S. flag he planted on the moon with Neil Armstrong does not.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:25 pmwe added all them jobs even while the federal government worker piggies were off the clock that’s really remarkable
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:25 pm“Don’t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. As high as 35 — as in fact, I heard recently, 42 percent.”
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:30 pm– Donald Trump, February 9 2016
@15. He missed six of them, too, Mr. Feet: no radio or TeeVee in the rooms at the Hanoi Hilton.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:30 pmTakes some gall to stand up there and brag about a 42 percent unemployment rate.
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:30 pmbipartisan action means you have to do both parties all up in it
for example to build a large and friendly wall
for example to bring our long-suffering hapless tatters home
for example to stop throwing monies away on the dirty climate change hoax
thank you Alice you are inspire and you are a good america
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:30 pmHe missed six of them, too, Mr. Feet: no radio or TeeVee in the rooms at the Hanoi Hilton.
poor man
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:31 pmi can’t wait to hear about all the new policies
let’s get to the new ones
i love the new ones
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:32 pmtake deep breaths footsies
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:34 pmhe clearly understands America is under a terrorism attack by the head lice caravans and he’s unflinchingly courageous
that’s why he’s so beloved by the people
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:35 pmunlike Paul Ryan he’s making a distinction between american citizens, illegal head lice invaders, and legal immigrants
this is something new in america history
this is a new paradigm
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:36 pmMS-13 tried to kill Jussie just the other day (sandwich attack)
Chicago’s under siege by these MS-13 people and nobody but President Trump even cares even Alyssa Milano just laughs disdainfully
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:40 pmElvin’s shiny
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:42 pmkishnevi made me look up whether the Volstead Act preceded the 19th Amendment. It did, by 13 months.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:42 pmwe have to end the crisis nancy
she’s just sitting there sucking on a lozenge like she got the simples
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:44 pmted cruz looks like frylock
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:45 pmBREAKING: FBI raid on the White House during SOTU
(j/k)
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:51 pmha he called out the dirty chinesers and their filthy sneaky thieving
this is how a good president are do
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:51 pm@22. Poor man? He owned 11 houses. Or was it 12, Mr. Feet…
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:51 pmhe had no idea
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:51 pmDoes Nancy keep reading the wine list or is she just ordering the veal?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:52 pmOh good Lord.
Simon Jester (548267) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:53 pmDave, I would have went with 1 CBC member yelled at another CBC member to get his hands out of his pocket.
urbanleftbehind (bc1932) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:53 pm@31. More a portly Frito Bandido, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:53 pmThe women in the white coats are there and coming to get ‘ya, Donald.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:54 pmhe’s talking about things that will make a real difference in people’s lives
it’s exciting and it fills people with hope and for the first time in their lives they feel like somebody cares
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:56 pmHe might like that, thinking it’s a Clinique harem.
urbanleftbehind (bc1932) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:57 pmShe was the only Dem they could find who isn’t running for President.
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:58 pm@41. A million bucks from Daddy to start out in life can make a difference, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:58 pmThe old DCSCA is back.
urbanleftbehind (bc1932) — 2/5/2019 @ 6:58 pmPresident Trump is the best one Mr. DCSCA
he brings all the people together
you can’t put a price on that it’s worth a million dollars
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:01 pmschool choice = freedom
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:01 pmOh Melania… if only those buttons across that dress could talk…
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:01 pmYoung master Brett looks sober tonight; it’s a Tuesday and as low man on totem pole must be the SCOTUS designated driver.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:04 pmThey’d say “I really don’t care do u”?
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:05 pmGoodness: the military budget is sky high; can’t the JCS afford smiles?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:06 pmPompeo looks like he had that one taco too many tonight.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:06 pmCNN finds more Russian interference
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:07 pmhttps://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/05/health/north-pole-magnetic-moving-russia-scli-intl/index.html
Via Instapundit:
BUNCH OF WHITE WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE NOT APPLAUDING DURING TALK OF RECORD MINORITY EMPLOYMENT — not a good look.
harkin (0e0056) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:07 pmWhat do we have here, Rex Reed jr.? Knock it off.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:08 pmA major war w/North Korea got a laugh.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:08 pmeverybody hates socialism except the nazi fbi and that boopsy from staten island
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:10 pmTaking shots at socialism and turns to glare at the Dems… sweeeeetttttt!!!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:10 pmSocialism gets booed?
Ever mail a letter, Congressman?? Oh, right… franking privileges.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:10 pmeven ted cruz is taking a stand against socialism
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:10 pmIt’s not over yet?
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:11 pmHes well aware pikachu,
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:12 pm@60. Part of his exercise routine, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:12 pm“BUNCH OF WHITE WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE NOT APPLAUDING DURING TALK OF RECORD MINORITY EMPLOYMENT ”
What do they care about the private sector!?!? They couldn’t give two schiffs… a gaggle of Julias
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:13 pmIt’s like Obama’s stethoscope brigade.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:14 pmi understand what he means when he says we need to bring troops home cause this is abusive what we’re doing to them right now
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:14 pmNo wonder the JCS ain’t smilin’; the latest bills for the F-35 came in at the first of the month.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:15 pmThey should wear the thuggee robes from temple of doom.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:15 pmwe’re keeping them in iraq cuz he likes the fancy base we built
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:16 pmplus they’re socially maladroit and maybe a wee lil bit on the spectrum Mr. DCSCA
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:16 pm@61. Prime-Time-Trump end early???? Suggesting that would get you fired from The Apprentice.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:17 pmwe have to keep an eye on Iran Mr. Dave cause buttboy obama gave them a trillion terror dollars to kill people with
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:17 pmhttps://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/demkkk-297×600.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:18 pmYou know the Joint Chiefs of Staff are not in the chain of command of the armed forces, right? They’re like an advisory board.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:19 pmit was thoughtful of the Dems to invite Trump’s illegal alien housekeepers to the speech
that crisis at the border really hits close to home
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:19 pmLots of Pittsburghers. Allegheny County went for Hillary, Donald.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:20 pmif they said to bring the tatters home then that’s good advise for sure
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:21 pmIt happens at the best country clubs, Dave.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:21 pmi hate show and tell let’s talk more about the good policies
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:21 pm@74. And they still can’t afford a smile.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:24 pmthe whole vestal virgin thing’s just creepy and stupid
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:25 pmProgram alarm: stay awake, Buzz!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:25 pmi love how he’s contrasting real wars we fought with the joke wars he’s gonna get us out of
very smart man
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:26 pmColonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:18 pm
Ladies without hoods. Two important differences…
And as long as the current Klan supports Trumo, that meme is merely proof of failure to think.
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:27 pmi feel so united
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:28 pmTrump, not Trumo…
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:28 pm@81. Rule of thumb- don’t wear white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:28 pmRub the Left’s nose in its anti-semitism.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:29 pmGo to church, unite with God, Mr Feets, and you will not need to depend on men of flesh and blood…
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:29 pmand never wear that kooky green blazer unless you’re working the tarmac in fog
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:29 pmi love god but you have to do croutons on the caesar and do god on the god
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:30 pm“And as long as the current Klan supports Trumo, that meme is merely proof of failure to think.”
All 46 of them?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:31 pmRub the Left’s nose in its anti-semitism.
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:31 pmI must admit that if anyobe can persuade me to vote for Trump, it’s the intersecting social justice folks.
SMoD let us down.
Again.
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:34 pmIs it now time for Stacey Abrams to sing?
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:38 pmi can’t imagine anybody actually watching the rebuttal
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:40 pmwas ruth even there i don’t remember seeing her
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:41 pmyou have to watch it – you’re unified
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:42 pmIt’s always good when someone takes the time and care to remind everyone of the greatness of America, the sacrifice of Americans and America’s importance to the world. It’s a good reminder for all of us, some need it more than others.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:43 pmThe SOTU is the gateway to hard politics, Haiku.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:44 pmDitto, as for that many white suits there’s another faith culture, I’m reminded of.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:45 pmThey ought to play a selection of excerpts from that speech on every college campus, sort of an antidote to the steady diet of anti-American/anti-West horseschiff they are fed.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:47 pmTalk about creepy; who are all those people crowded in behind Abrams? Looks like a scene from that overpopulated planet episode from classic Star Trek.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:47 pmthe pbs stream i was watching had so much obnoxious commentary i had to bail after our president, President Donald Trump, finished speaking
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:48 pmJim Swift
@JimSwiftDC
Probably the best speech Trump has ever given. Credit where credit is due.
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Matt Sarelson
@MSarelson
Nailed it.
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Maria ✞
@vondrachek
This Never Trumper agrees.👍
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Zeno Goldblum
@goldblum_zeno
On the way out, everyone is telling him how good his speech was.
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Stephen Miller
harkin (0e0056) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:48 pm@redsteeze
Which means he’s probably going to wake up and tweet about his d**k or something tomorrow morning.
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Just like his last two speeches to congress – for ninety minutes, he reads a speech written by a sane person and for a brief, shining moment people forget who and what he really is…
Dave (1bb933) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:50 pm@104. Next time, stream C-SPAN, Mr. Feet: the sewage they pipe in is raw and untreated.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:51 pmProbably the best speech Trump has ever given. Credit where credit is due.
Is Matthew Scully still there?
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:51 pmNo mr. Miller that’s when dems do including the new superstar Fairfax, but all and all a good roundup from the bulwinkle.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:52 pmugh i should have
why didn’t i think to do that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:54 pm“They ought to play a selection of excerpts from that speech on every college campus, sort of an antidote to the steady diet of anti-American/anti-West horseschiff they are fed.”
It will take a lot more than that. I was watching a YouTube video on WW2 and there were plenty of comments that the kind-hearted and selfless Soviets won the war and the US came in late to mop up and steal the credit for capitalism.
harkin (0e0056) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:55 pmAfter stalin sacrificed much of his officer corps than made a deal that allowed Germany to tear Poland in two
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:56 pmI think he sacrificed half the Polish officer corps too
harkin (0e0056) — 2/5/2019 @ 7:59 pmIt’s actually post-Soviet Russian nationalist revisionism as well as Soviet-era “education”. Those comments on the YouTube video could very well be Russian bots. But the funniest was on Whackoffpedia: Who knew that the Czars used Cossacks to prevent pogroms against the Jews?
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:01 pmThey ought to play a selection of excerpts from that speech on every college campus, sort of an antidote to the steady diet of anti-American/anti-West horseschiff they are fed.
Not at all.
Trump is, in a way, everything that is wrong with this country…
Remember that the Bible teaches that there is no such thing as a self-made man…that if God allows you to be financially prosperous, it is because He wants you to have the merit of helping your fellow human beings by using the results of that prosperity for their benefit and not your own.
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:02 pmLol it ain’t just Russian. Unless it’s bots wearing Che’ shirts and waving hammer and sickle flags at lefty protests.
harkin (0e0056) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:03 pmThat would seem unlikely, it was the okrana who pieced together the protocols though.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:04 pmI think he sacrificed half the Polish officer corps too
4,700 of them at Katyn forest alone. Including NCOs.
But did you know that when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia so did Poland? To snatch the northeast quarter? Which may partly explain Chamberlain at Munich, Poland being Britain’s bud at the time.
History is only things that people agree happened.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:07 pmThat’s different from the dem view, that all our efforts beling to the state, that was thrown at schultz last week
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:07 pm“Talk about creepy; who are all those people crowded in behind Abrams?”
Fairly sound strategy to get behind a tank when you are unsure of the environment.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:11 pmWe’ll grant that Chamberlain was stalling for time, it’s even possible in light of riebling tale at the Muller spy ring run by the Vatican, that Halifax wasnt totally a heal.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:12 pm“Remember that the Bible teaches that there is no such thing as a self-made man…that if God allows you to be financially prosperous, it is because He wants you to have the merit of helping your fellow human beings by using the results of that prosperity for their benefit and not your own.”
Don’t have time now, but I’ll quote something from the Bible that directly contradicts that in the morning, kishnevi.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:13 pmhistory’s when you choose greatness and it could happen as soon as tomorrow
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:17 pmAt 2.2 trillion, I dont think we can be much more generous.
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:17 pmThe 1000 Year Reich wore itself out on the Eastern front, and 16,000,000 Soviet subjects died because of the Great Patriotic War, not including those killed for being Jews by the Nazis and similar…if Hitler was defeated by blood, sweat, and tears, an enormous percentage of the blood spoke Russian.
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:19 pmAnd stalin allowed much this to happen, one might even go further when the comintern attacked the social Democrats allowing Hitler to rise up from the ashes, instituting the holomodor gave him a foothold amongst the Ukrainians
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:22 pm“Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that unemployment is at a generational low and that Black and Hispanic unemployment is at an historic low? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that economic growth, well north of three percent, is at a level declared impossible under the anemic leadership of Barack Obama? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that manufacturing is flooding back to the US? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice at the president’s attack on the regulatory state, the monstrous regime of Title IX fanatics, and other efforts to transform ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’ into a safe-space chest-less pajama boys? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that wages are rising, that inflation is stable, that the stock market is booming? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that 2018 marked the first time in 46 years that that cost of prescription drugs dropped? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that the president is endeavoring to rationalize our immigration policy and enforce our immigration laws? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice that the president has made historic inroads in negotiations with pariah states like North Korea and adversarial states like China? Shouldn’t Democrats as well as Republicans rejoice in his rebuilding and modernizing the US military? The answer to all these questions is ‘Yes, they should.’ But will they?”
— Roger Kimball
https://spectator.us/donald-trump-state-union-greatness/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:25 pmDon’t have time now, but I’ll quote something from the Bible that directly contradicts that in the morning, kishnevi.
I will await it with interest, since if any such Bible quote contradicts the rest of the Bible…
(But if I don’t respond, it’s because God has assigned me a job that requires me to work 11-8 tomorrow…)
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:27 pmI don’t know about Mr Kimball, but the cost of mr prescription drugs (measured in their supposed retail price) has risen…
Kishnevi (2326a6) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:30 pm@123. history’s when you choose greatness and it could happen as soon as tomorrow
At breakfast, Mr. Feet; with Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. They’re greaaaaat!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:32 pmYeah, I remember when all those southern women refused the franchise until all their black neighbors could vote, too.
Kevin M (21ca15) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:50 pmOf you think the handmaids tale is real, everything else follows:
https://mobile.twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1092999606496038912
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:52 pmdave you are an expert at brief shiny moments.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:55 pmhttps://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-05-at-23.14.39.png
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:56 pmI see there’s a lot of fact-checking, as has been the tradition with all SotU speeches since 2017.
Kevin M (21ca15) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:56 pmWhere’s Montagu when he’s needed?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:57 pmNattering nabobs of negativism.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 8:58 pmI need a picture of Ruthie with todays newspaper.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:00 pmWhat is the purpose of npr:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1092994652599451649
Narciso (413bf2) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:01 pmIf Ginsburg is dead may she rest in peace if not man up and show us what you got.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:02 pmif God allows you to be financially prosperous, it is because He wants you to have the merit of helping your fellow human beings by using the results of that prosperity for their benefit and not your own.
What does it mean if he allows you to be poor, or blind or stupid?
Kevin M (21ca15) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:03 pmAmy Coney Barrett for the victory.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:04 pmHistory is only things that survivors agree happened.
FIFY
Kevin M (21ca15) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:05 pmThe most despicable person tonight was Mazie Hirono, closely followed by Schumer, Sandy Ocasio-Peron and Pelosi who must have been a happy grazing cow enjoying her cud in her previously life.
CK (63970b) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:06 pmLying squaw! https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1092943935683477504
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:12 pmI was misquoting Napoleon Bonaparte:
More here, and a picture of a pretty lady too.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:13 pmI love the photo of Pence and a glass of water with Pelosi sitting behind a crystal water display. One of those glasses were probably for her teeth.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:15 pmLying squaw!
And she got an “F” in Sex, too.
nk (dbc370) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:15 pmlieawatha will not die
mg (8cbc69) — 2/5/2019 @ 9:16 pmDemocrats are counting down the days till 2020 election. the 6 million democrats who didn’t vote in 2016 and the 70,000 voters in detroit who left presidential ballot blank giving trump michigan will be voting in 2020 because they don’t have to vote for a clinton!
lany (7acdff) — 2/5/2019 @ 10:58 pmHide n seek is the game the democrats are playing with RBG. They will keep her hidden until they can make it a 2020 issue.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/6/2019 @ 2:53 amI never realized the amount of KKK women in the democrat party.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/6/2019 @ 3:56 amWatching cocaine Mitch’s expressions, Trump needs Mitch to die in a ditch.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/6/2019 @ 4:13 amMitch’s corrupt pig-wife sat there smirking the whole time too
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/6/2019 @ 4:31 amWell, I didn’t listen to the speech. Nothing an impotent orange lame duck has to say about anything is worth listening to.
I watched Inside the NFL on Showtime, the final episode, to see what real professionals and actual champions thought of the Super Bowl. Most complained it was a boring game, but to me it was a clinic on old school football. Defense wins championships.
It’s symbolic, if not emblematic, of the current situation. Here come the Rams, with their high-powered offense. There are the Patriots, with their more-experienced team. And what happened? Los Angeles could barely score a field goal, and New England won the game.
Bill Belichick is the winningest coach in NFL history, but if you ask him, he’ll tell you Tom Landry was the greatest. In fact, he modeled his Patriots after Landry’s Cowboys. He now joins Landry as the only other coach in Super Bowl history to hold his opponent to 3 points.
Trump is Los Angeles. Pelosi is New England. That may seem like an odd, inappropriate metaphor, but think about it. He is inexperienced. She is disciplined.
From what I’ve read, cultists are complaining that the Speaker didn’t show respect to the President, because she was reading and smiling while he spoke. But why should she show any respect to him, when he didn’t show any respect to her?
He came barging into the chamber before the Speaker announced him, as if it were his House. It’s not, and she knows it. Custom, courtesy and tradition are unknown to him–D’ohnald does not understand decorum. So Pelosi was like, okay, fine, talk on TV, I’m going to sit, read and smile–you wouldn’t even be here if I hadn’t invited you.
The Speaker of the House is a very powerful position. It doesn’t matter what the President says, thinks, wants, or believes. She knows he cannot pass any legislation without her agreement and approval.
What was she reading and smiling about while ignoring him? Oh, I don’t know, perhaps a status report on the vote count of her majority caucus, with side notes on additional votes from the minority caucus, with annotations of additional votes in the Senate. Followed by a list of the subpoenas about to be issued by the chairs of significant committees.
The incredible shrinking President, with low approval ratings and under multiple investigations, both political and criminal, with more to come. Who cares what he has to say about anything today? He’ll just say something else and contradictory tomorrow.
Trump kicked a field goal, much to the cheers of his fans. Pelosi scored a touchdown and won.
Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:02 amLiz Cheney
harkin (e15868) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:43 am@Liz_Cheney
Things my Democrat women colleagues wouldn’t clap for at #StateOfTheUnion2019 tonight: America, freedom, free enterprise, law enforcement heroes, record low unemployment for women & minorities, the right of babies to live. Things they did clap for: themselves.
He came barging into the chamber before the Speaker announced him, as if it were his House.
Dude, there’s no need to make things up. The House Sergeant-at-arms announced him like he’s supposed to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maw2JumryUQ
Trump did flub when he called Pence “Mr. Vice-President”. Pence was there as President of the Senate and traditionally they are addressed as “Mr. President”.
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:49 amI was driving Uber so listened on the radio. As Trump speeches go, it wasn’t bad. He usually sounds half-asleep when he’s not in rally-mode. I appreciated the nod to bipartisanship. Interesting that he said “Wall or barrier” or some such language to indicate his wall doesn’t really have to be a wall.
JRH (fe281f) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:49 amLiz Cheney is in Congress? Nobody tells me anything.
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:51 amOh, and one more thing. Sh!t like Nancy Pelosi is why we got Trump.
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:54 amnancy came across like an emasculating pussyhatter what’s bizarrely obsessed with her geriatric genitals
it was basically a homemade gillette commercial, is what her hateful performance amounted to
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:56 am“The 1000 Year Reich wore itself out on the Eastern front, and 16,000,000 Soviet subjects died because of the Great Patriotic War”
Millions of Russians died fighting TGPW, but how many less would have died, where would Hitler’s Eastern Front have been, had Stalin not murdered a good deal of his Officer corps? And lol at the millions all being victims of Germany. Early in the war young Russians faced guns both front and back, oftentimes themselves carrying sticks because there weren’t enough rifles to go around because Communist collectivism and industry was a failure.
And oh yeah btw, does anyone still dispute that Stalin killed more of his own countrymen than Hitler? Maybe all those folks they starved or sent to die in Siberia in the 30s could have helped keep the Wehrmacht from penetrating so far.
harkin (e15868) — 2/6/2019 @ 6:58 amLol at ‘Pelosi is the Patriots’.
Did Belichick stammer, slur and have a mini-seizure in his postgame presser?
Plus, this goes against the liberal meme that the Pats are the team of white nationalism and MAGA.
Tom Brady’s New England Patriots Are Team MAGA, Whether They Like It or Not
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-bradys-new-england-patriots-are-team-maga-whether-they-like-it-or-not
I still remember the glee from liberals a couple years ago on social media when the Falcons had a big halftime lead over the Pats…..before Team MAGA came back.
harkin (e15868) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:10 amNow, if you want to talk about bonehead moves by Trump … he had a chance to have Nancy Pelosi, Adama Schiff, and several other high-ranking Democrats, in the same plane, over a war zone, and he cancelled the flight.
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:17 amFinally watched some video of the way the Dems acted during the SOTU and it was despicable and childish. They succeed in making Trump look sympathetic. They overplay their hand always and yep this is why we have Trump.
JRH (fe281f) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:31 amFunniest part of Abrahm’s speech:
“Democrats stand ready to secure our ports and borders.”
lololololololol
harkin (e15868) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:44 amThese ******** democrats are going to turn me into a Trump supporter soon. 🙁
JRH (fe281f) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:46 amGreat tweet by Liz Cheney… https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-06-at-8.27.25-AM-600×268.png
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:47 amGG: “Trump is LA; Pelosi is New England”
The SoTU is theater with very little tactical significance…and in the end, we still have divided government….with little policy agreement. Everything from here on out is positioning for 2020….the DEMs won’t let Trump do much….and they will put him on the defense with oversight. Trump will play the persecution card…and complain about DEM obstruction.
I don’t see the analogy. Trump is impeded…not because of some great DEM maneuvers or strategies…but because of his own personal foibles, his lack of policy depth, and the political dysfunction of our time. Though I’m not actually convinced that a President Cruz would be getting much more accomplished…though he certainly would be a far more persuasive policy ambassador and, with a good economy, he may not have lost the House in the midterms (they were a referendum on walls, tariffs, and tone).
Also, I just can’t square the analogy between Pelosi and the ultra-prepared and professional New England Patriots (love ’em or hate ’em). DEMs are not exactly shining….they are still crippled by identity politics, by not taking border security seriously, by hyper-focusing on redistribution and proposing to spend money that they have no chance of ever raising in revenues. They were utterly reprehensible in the Kavanaugh hearings…and continue to over-play the collusion meme. The DEM imagery and voices remain the only buoy for the GOP. Yesterday was just a reminder that we live in awfully petty times….
AJ_Liberty (3c84de) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:53 amFor kishnevi…
Ecclesiastes 2:20 – So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.
2:21 – For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.
2:24 – A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:55 amWhoops now see harkin posted Cheney’s
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:57 am155… that’s not where the suppository goes…
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:59 amit was an excellent speech that’s for sure
President Trump hit the home run and scored the winning goal
AGAIN
happyfeet (28a91b) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:59 amI read the speech, didn’t see it. There was really nothing new, and there’s a reason so many fact-checkers are so busy these days.
Paul Montagu (cbbfc4) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:20 amIndeed.
Pelosi is treated sewage. Trump is raw sewage.
Dave (1bb933) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:22 amShe should really show some gratitude after all that money President Trump donated to her campaigns a few years ago!
Dave (1bb933) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:29 amThe H8 is strong in academia…
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:40 amBut we knew that…
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:40 amKing Camp Gillette* invented the double-edged safety razor disposable blades which I still use, but Gillette now only makes those in Russia for the non-avocado-toast-and-LeCroix market. I don’t buy them. I prefer the Japanese-made Feather or American-made Personna.
*His parents named him King Camp because King Camp was where they spent their honeymoon.
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 8:48 amAcademia can only teach hate.
mg (8cbc69) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:01 amNo. They do preach love for the expanded state.
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:14 amNext!!!
The Associated Press
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:16 am✔
@AP
BREAKING: Virginia’s Democratic attorney general, second in line to be governor, says he wore blackface at a college party in 1980, deepening state scandal.
Ha!
https://twitter.com/DaRealGrizzle/status/1092984690561159168
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:22 amCoonman, Coonman & Poonman
Colonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:24 amIt wasn’t blackface. It was soot from the cross-burning. (It’s been linked a gazillion times.)
nk (dbc370) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:28 amOllie North, your state needs you.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 2/6/2019 @ 9:36 amThe New York Times
@nytimes
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says he dressed up in a wig and brown makeup as part of a costume while a university student
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Currently between fraudulent suspensions
@jtLOL
“brown makeup”
“dark makeup”
It’s good to be a Democrat.
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Josh
@JoshFromIndy
Replying to
@nytimes
“Dark makeup”? Are you kidding me,
@nytimes?
Just call it what it is: blackface.
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Joshua Roberts
@joshtweetsthat
I wonder if newly minted
@nytimes
columnist and all-around excellent writer
@jbouie
has any thoughts about this?
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Phil Colorado
@PhilColorado
NYT: Mary Poppins and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface
NYT: Blackface Video Has Elite New York Private School in an Uproar
NYT: Florida Secretary of State Resigns After Blackface Photos Surface
But also NYT: Virginia Attorney General Says He Also Dressed in Dark Makeup
harkin (e15868) — 2/6/2019 @ 10:00 amColonel Haiku (6b7575) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:55 am
You picked a passage that teaches exactly what I said the Bible teaches…especially if you continue on a few verses. Solomon was pointing out the futility of trying to amass wealth, the fact that everything is provided by God, and that God ensures it goes where He wishes, no matter what we do.
Kishnevi (31ec7b) — 2/6/2019 @ 7:02 pmDonald trump started out with things almost everyone could agree with, and ended with that, and he =sandiched his immigration talk in the middel fo his speeech.
Here are what I found to be the 3 most amazing statements from the State of the Union message:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-state-union-address/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/05/us/politics/trump-state-of-union-speech-transcript.html (fuller, as delivered, buut also has commentary)`
AND
Maybe he’d agree to that, but that’s not in any legislation he’s proposed. AND
Fact checking reveals:
1. This wall he’s talking about was built between 2008 and 2010.
2. There as wall by El Paso before.
3. Crime hit aopeak in 1993 and was much lower by 2006 and didn’t really drop after the wall.
4? What wall protects Wisconsin from Chicago’s South Side?
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 2/8/2019 @ 1:07 pm