I was transported yesterday from the East Room of the White House back to 1997 when the President spoke yesterday before an assembled group of embarrassing open-mouthed American political seals. In that year, the Seinfeld episode entitled the Strike aired December 18, 1997 and introduced the pseudo-celebratory idea of Festivus. As one of its’ tenants…
Category: SOTU
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 159)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1786. Blocked witnesses in the impeachment trial 1787. Mocked a reporter's transgender parent 1788. Expanded the…
Trump's SOTU was a ratings disaster
Donald Trump thinks that somehow the results of a rigged impeachment trial with no witnesses and a foregone conclusion amount to an “exoneration.” But the viewing public hasn’t exonerated him. They conspired with the FAKE NEWS media to make his third State of the Union address a crushing ratings disappointment. Early returns indicate Trump’s latest SOTU garnered…
Nancy Pelosi: 'I shredded his state of his mind address'
Nancy Pelosi is bringing some righteous fire, yo! Based on these comments, I can only assume Madam Speaker is trying to get Trump to take a swing at her during their next Oval Office meeting. Sadly, Republican senators would think there’s nothing impeachable about that, either. x PELOSI concludes with this: “[Trump] has shredded the…
Reuters poll: (even) 18% of GOP voters think Trump is guilty, so let Limbaugh pass quietly
Sadopopulism emerges even as Trump honors Rush Limbaugh with a SOTU stunt, because the only skill Trump has is trolling his enemies, even with using a dying man to mine reactionary sentiments. Think how Trump scheduled that photographer at his dinner with Mitt Romney to cruelly misguide him into thinking he might actually make Mitt…
Fact-checking the SOTU, “a manifesto of mistruths”
SOTU was simply an expanded campaign speech that included a few stunts like a reunion, a scholarship award, and a medal presentation. His speeches have tended to lies, this SOTU is no different. Yet there were even more lies besides the stunts and appeals to evangelicals. x President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address, annotated https://t.co/NzRFTKVnje…
Trump rips democracy in SOTU but renders a new high in game-show prize reveals
How strange, Lord Haw Haw gets an Iron Cross. There was a scholarship giveaway, a reunion, and all it needed was that DNA sample in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit for Maury Povich’s on-camera reveal. x Speaker Pelosi on tearing up the president's State of the Union speech tonight: “It was the courteous thing to…
James Carville on 2020: “Wish in one hand, (___) in the other. See which one gets filled first.”
MSNBC had James Carville on to opine on the Iowa caucuses, and he cited a Marine Corps saying as a critique of the Democratic party not providing a winning strategy for winning in 2020. I will be setting my TV on something other than the SOTU. We’ve had three years of (___) in tiny hands. x…
The reports of Trump's “strong economy” come from being given a stronger one that he's squandered
Trump may have been squandering Obama’s strong economy. (2018) “The benefits of this strong economy and sound financial system have not reached all Americans.” Economists call them leading economic indicators because they measure the early influencers on growth. In October 2019, they report that the economy is faltering slightly. It has slightly slower growth, low unemployment, and inflation is below…
Trump's last hurrah could be revealed in the SOTU
E. Howard Hunt’s storytelling could return as one can imagine Trump's last State of the Union speech (SOTU) as unhinged, the second SOTU in history to be delivered by an impeached POTUS. In the age of “threat imminence” new yet improbable CTs will emerge, as their narratives are now getting their trial ballooning, like “Obama killed Gaddafi”….
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 107)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. ____________________________________________________________________________ 1237. Threatened to set off a new arms race by withdrawing the US from…
Parkland Father Fred Guttenberg Replies to drumpf's SOTU – “his made up version of an emergency.”
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his fourteen year old daughter Jaime in the horrific Stoneman-Douglas shooting last year, was Nancy Pelosi’s guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech and I think it is fair to say he was not impressed by drumpf’s stumbling tap-dance around the real problems that face our country. Newsweek I WAS…
Steve Mnuchin wins prize for dumbest post-SOTU response … maybe ever
Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Dwight David Eisenhower. One of these kids is doing his own thing. Or maybe not, if you’re Treasury Secretary Steve Mental Munchkin. After Donald Trump told us in his State of the Bizarro Union speech that we’ll never be a socialist country (like that could happen, and like anyone…
Stacey Abrams is A Tough Act to Follow, but Pet Shop Boys Try: – “Give Stupidity a Chance.”
No one in their right minds would attempt to top the excellent performance by Stacey Abrams delivered with her SOTU response last night, but in an awesomely timed release yesterday the Pet Shop Boys provided a perfect musical accompaniment to her speech perhaps aimed at an audience not normally tuned into the news channels on…
The Biggest “Loser”
I am not going to rehash the insipid intellectual wasteland that was the Trump State Of The Union speech last night. Since I quit drinking a couple of years ago, I find that I no longer have the stomach to suffer through his shit more than once. But there was something that jumped out at…
Before his fake 'call for unity,' Trump viciously trashed Dems at lunch with media
I figured I’d skip tonight’s State of the Union address, for the same reason I’m not driving to the local tavern to watch drunk idiots order hardboiled eggs floating in brine: I don’t need to hear what they have to say, and I’d prefer not to vomit if I can help it. Also, his scripted…
Greg Sargent Details How Pelosi Had to Overcome Charges of Bothsiderism to Make Trump Cave.
Greg Sargent, Washington Post reporter and principal writer for the Post’s influential Plum Line Blog, today tweeted out an interesting thread on how the MSM tried for all its worth to equate drumpf’s damaging to the nation as a whole, spiteful, and ultimately futile government shutdown with Speaker Pelosi’s principled and ultimately harmful to nothing but drumpf’s fragile…
Rudy Giuliani: “As far as I know” Trump Didn't Tell Cohen to Lie….
Rudy appeared today on CNN’s State of the Union and spouted a bunch of gobbledygook framed by two classic examples of temporizing…. opening with “As far as I know”…. x Rudy Giuliani: “As far as I know, President Trump did not have discussions … in which he told (Michael Cohen) or counseled him to lie. If…
CBN News dunce says Trump is 'playing chess,' gets brutally slapped down
This may very well be the swiftest, most efficient garroting in the history of Twitter: x He’s unable to spell the word hamburger — Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 16, 2019 And what was Trump’s response to Pelosi's shock maneuver yesterday? Basically, he knocked the chessboard over and started bawling. Sorry, Dave. Nancy Pelosi is playing chess….
Never Forget. 2003 State of the Union.
We must never forget that a President exploited the tragedy of 9/11 to spread fear, lies and war in his State of the Union address. Remembering is the only way to keep it from happening again. Thankfully, Obama has resisted the urge to use his platform to push for a large scale war and I hope…
