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    STATE OF THE UNION LIVE!

    By Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 4:44pm |

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    Not since the days of President Pierce or President Buchanan or President Jackson have Americans

    been more enamored by our Current Leader.

    Tonight we shall be graced by the most inept English Speaker since George Bush Junior and yet, George W is looking better and better every damn day!

    Did you ever hate someone so very very bad and question whether or not you are the mentally imbalanced and not the object of your vituperation?

    So far only Melania is more pissed than I am?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/melania-trump-blindsided-stormy-daniels-hush-money-reports-article-1.3786780

    The Senate voted 98-2 for a bill that would impose sanctions on Russia.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/20/senate-voted-98-2-russia-sanctions-bill-but-its-future-unclear/404733001/

    Yet our current Administration refuses to impose those sanctions.

    Now some may feel that it would be more fruitful to enjoy the current streaming of Chicago P.D. on basic cable (The Oxygen channel).

    But this is my country.

     

     

    But I believe that viewing an obese, unread, lying moron espousing everything that the Obama Administration has accomplished since 2009 might be good for the soul.

    Besides, as viewers we might catch the guy's false teeth failing; or the guy's nose sniffing; or the guy's failing video feed sending him into lala land?

    BUT LET US ALL HOPE FOR THE BEST!

    I mean the guy could blow a gasket and we would be able to see the Secret Service carry the bastard out on a gurney?

    I am hoping for the best.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Comments

    So three hours away, I think we should begin with a review of Piers Morgan's interview of our Great Leader:

    Just fast forward to about 18 minutes into this wonderful piece where our Esteemed Leader discusses mental health issues in the UK?

     

     

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 5:05pm

    I have to admit that I can’t watch him read a TelePrompTer and be praised for being “Presidential”

    I really don’t care what he says

    https://thedailybanter.com/2018/01/who-gives-a-f-ck-what-trump-says/

    My viewing choices are Season 2 of “Stranger Things”, “Star Trek Discovery”, and “Ripper Street”. Since I just finished Series 1 of “Ripper Street”, I think I’ll be viewing the initial episodes of Series 2 tonight.

    He’ll break the spell by tweeting tomorrow. Plus we have the memo release.

     


    by rmrd0000 on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 5:28pm

    rmrd: hahahahahahahahahahah

    Will our Great Leader lie and falsify and fart verbally?

    Has Steve Wynn ever had plastic surgery?

    Huntley-Wynn-CROP.jpg

    Or has Steve ever grabbed a woman in the wrong places?

    http://fortune.com/2018/01/30/steve-wynn-donations/

    Only God knows for sure.

    hahahahahh


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:27pm

    Well it looks like three more hours?

    Well let us look at past comments from our current Esteemed Leader?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/business/latest-trump-decisions-require-heart-soul-article-1.3788052

    What a great great leader.

    THE GREATEST LEADER OF ALL TIMES.

    God I love this guy.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 6:11pm

    Well we have about 1 and a half hour left until the great escape?

    GOD I LOVE MY COUNTRY!

     We now live on a precipice of history?

    An idiot shall inform 350 million folks about their lot?

    HISTORY SHALL BE MADE TONITE!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 6:39pm

    I can't help it. hahjahahah

    Here is Sam Seder at his best?

    I still believe that Trump makes Bush Jr. look pretty goooooooooood. hahahah


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 6:51pm

    Okay, now we have less than an hour before the greatest speech of all time?

    Does the teleprompter work?

    Will Trump be a chump?

    Will repubs stand up and cheer?

    Will the dems scowl?

    WE SHALL SEE!

    WHAT IS YOUR TAKE?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 7:14pm

    Well, I just have to say that I wasn’t planning to watch until I heard from a trumpet that there will be many inspiring people in Melania’s box tonight.

    Wouldn’t miss THAT for anything. 


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 7:27pm

    CVILLE, what is all this then about a box?

    hahahahahahahhah

    Okay then.

    Any further comment will end badly for me.

    hahahahahah

    GOD ALMIGHTY I HATE THESE PEOPLE!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 7:33pm

    Okay folks we have 25 minutes til we see this fat nobody receive applause whilst walking down an aisle.

    Okay, respect the office.....

    JUST KIDDING!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 7:37pm

    OKAY, we got six minutes left.

    Peggy Noonan appears on Chris tonite.

    FUCK PEGGY NOONAN.

    Isn't that an awful (read offal) thought?

    I cannot help myself.

    I despise Noonan.

    Oh well, we all have our faults.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 7:56pm

    Okay, MSNBC presents a fired NBC guy and our favorite lesbian short haired commenter. I do love Rachel by the by. hahahah

    Here also is some liar from George W.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:05pm

    Well they lied to us, of course.

    There is no great speech at this time?

    Who is talking to whom, says Rachel.

    WELL NOBODY YOU IDIOT.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:07pm

    NOW DO NOT GO AWAY FOR CHRISSAKES.

    I am sure that the idiot will show up to spout his idiocy.

    ANY TIME SOON?

    I mean they promised this would happen.

    CABLE DOES NOT LIE?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:09pm

    Okay, so Wolf on Cnn shows some folks gathering in the House.....

    But Wolf is so goddamn boring!

    EVERYBODY AGREES ON THIS, RIGHT?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:12pm

    WELL now we have breaking news on MSNBC.

    Madow and the fired NBC guy is telling us stuff along with Chris (you know the Chris who was in the Africa Corps?) and others who do no mean much.....

    Anyhow, there are wonderful commercials informing us how to cook and how to wash dishes and....

    WHAT?

    WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SUPREME LEADER?

    I MEAN THEY HAVE BEEN ADV ERTISING THIS GUY'S SPEECH FOR THREE DAYS?

    oKAY, so if you get bored just keep playing LIKE A ROLLING STONE.

    Hell, this Dylan song will be much more enjoyable than Trump's speech.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:24pm

    I will be tuned to the Heroes & Icons channel watching Star Trek The Next Generation. I like fiction. Not necessarily science fiction.  Just fiction. And not the fiction that will be unleashed at the SOTU, but real fiction.  Really real fiction. Starring really real stars.  Not "celebrities".

    The end.


    by wabby on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:39pm

    hahhahhah, OKAY FLOWER.

    That's all right with me.

    hahhahah

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:48pm

    So now MSNBC awaits our Great Leader's departure from the WH.

    You recall, that dump or shithole......?

    Anyhow, we await!

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/6/1686411/-The-White-House-is-a-dump


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:36pm

    OKAY now we have happy smilin people in the House.

    I feel so damn good viewing this....


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:38pm

    THIS DELAY IS GREAT, REALLY!

    Our big fat leader plans all this!

    This is not some lie perpetrated by the cable news!

    TRUMP IS A PRICK.

    THE END


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 8:55pm

    oKAY SO THE THIRD WIFE OF THIS ASSHOLE SHOWS UP SMILING?

    Well what can we count on when we gather our spouses from other nations with funds....

    WHAT?

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:01pm

    Well we are all smiling as the most inept piece of crap enters the hall!

    WHAT?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:03pm

    Oh here comes fatso.

    With his hair all nice.

    All these folks smiling.

    And what is this? An hour late.

    A blue tie for chrissakes.

    GOD I HATE THIS GUY!

    And by the way, I detest anyone who likes him!

    the end


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:08pm

    Wow,  I have to admit that his slick Elvis side slue is a real turn on.  Does he even LOOK IN THE MIRROR?

    I feel sick. He is so grosssssssss

     


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:09pm

    Oh let us clap.

    God I hate this guy.

    ASHLEY WE ALL LOVE YOU?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:14pm

    CAN YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WOULD APPLAUD AN IDIOT?

    where is brute when you need him?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:12pm

    Oh now we have an ear for gun violence?

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:16pm

    We need to deliver for the people?

    CLAP

    Well, any good antibiotic will cure this?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:17pm

    Oh, he is pouring on the bull shit...expected, but still nauseating.  He is dragging out people who ought to be ashamed of themselves.  He wouldn’t so much as cross the street to help someone in need.  

    What a disingenuous ass-hole.  Loved the view of Nancy Pelosi...she’s not having any of this.  

    Oh, I’ll stop. 


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:18pm

    do not stop Cville.

    We cannot let him go on and on without a response.

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:20pm

    He is nothing but a fraud.  So far he continues to place childish digs against Democrats, rather than even making an effort.  It is so obvious that Stephen Miller wrote this diatribe, and the yells from republicans are just disgusting.

    i hate this man and everyone in the room who claps.

     


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:38pm

    Cville, let us write down and record those fascist pricks who clap for this NAZI


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:42pm

    I think he is losing his voice?

    Anyway now he is lying.

    But that is his forte.

    FUCK YOU TRUMP?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:19pm

    WAITING ON THE GOOD STUFF LIBTARDS

    DISSOLVE THE FBI

    DISSILVE THE DOJ

    DISSOLE THE EPA

    DISBAND THE STATE DEPARTMENT

    END LOW COST MOOCHER HOUSING

    END MEDICAID MEDICARE

    BLOODY NOSE BOMB KOREA

    BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN

    SHUT DOWN FAKE NEWS PRESS

    FOX AND FRIENDS ON ALL TVS ONLY

    ARREST WLL THE IMMIGRANTS BUT THE ONES WORKING AT MAR A KAGO

    DISSOLVE THE IRS

    END ALL TRADE

    BUILD THE WALL AND ADD A MINE FIELD TOO

    AND AN ALLIGATOR MOAT

    DON'T FORGET DEMOCRATS THEY HATE THE TROOPS!!!! AND REPUBLICANS LOVE THEM!!!!


    by NCD on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:24pm

    NCD, all righty then?

    hahahahahah


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:18pm

    There were those who were sick and now they are sickless.

    There were those who were judgeless and now they are judges.

    There were those who were idiots and now those idiots rule.

    There were those who were cognoscente and now they are less cognoscente?

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:37pm

    I hate everyone who disagrees with me?

    Let us make DC more attainable for rich folks?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:36pm

    Looks like it’s just you and me, DD.  What is there to say?  Now he is talking about terminal illnesses.  He has no clue even what he is talking about. What about children with terminal illnesses?  He truly has no clue that he just finished up taking that away.

    what a hateful idiot. 


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:42pm

    Hi Cville. hahahaha

    NCD did show up. hehahahahaha

    And he did gooooooooood. hahahhaahha

    It is so offal.

    I hope that he dies a terrible death, like Ailes.

    Pence and Ryan look like they are about to die. hahahahah

    LET US PRAY.

    THAT IS ALL I GOT.

    Oh and I forgot Flower.

    Flower did goooooooooooood. ha


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:36pm

    My favorite view of this BS show, complete with trump’s shouting chorus, is the nauseated looks on the Democrat’s faces.  Of course, the “Lizard,” Bernie clapped while looking very serious.  

    But I hated all of it.  Good-night.  Donald trump should not sleep well tonight.  Why? Because he has no clue.  At all


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:33pm

    I do not understand Bernie tonite, at all.

    But hell, I could have done worse.

    Just remember Cville, Donald does not know how to sleep and so we might conclude that he is troubled.

    Which means he suffers.

    He probably does not suffer enough.

    But such is life.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:39pm

    Oh it took me a thousand hits.

    NOW I AM ON THE FRONT PAGE.

    HAHAHAHAHAH

    Lies, lies


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:40pm

    America is regulated.

    The Empire State Building was constructed in only one year. (that is a lie)

    But this great building corporation went bankrupt shortly thereafter. hahhahahaha

    GOD I HATE THIS GUY.

    WHO THE FUCK IS APPLAUDING THIS SHIT?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:45pm

    HIS TEETH AND HIS NOSE ARE LOSING IT.

    HAHHAHAHAHA

    FUCK HIM.

    I BELIEVE THAT HE IS ABOUT DONE?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:47pm

    CAN WE GIVE OUR PREZ FAMILY LEAVE? FOR ABOUT TWO MORE YEARS?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:48pm

    WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THEY CLAPPING FOR?

    I GIVE UP?

    CLAP FOR AN IDIOT?

    WHY NOT?

    OUR NATION VOTED FOR THIS IDIOT.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:51pm

    Answer:  They are clapping for white supremacy, a police state, health care for the wealthy only, and lying in general. That is what they are clapping for.  I’ll bet you I hate this pig even more than Melania does.  And that is saying a lot. 

    So finish, donald. And then go and watch teevee.  And then have a stroke, or at least a heart attack.

     

    Funny, I’ve heard that the donald doesn’t drink or do drugs.  Since he was elected I haven’t turned to drugs, but I am drinking like never before.  Irony?  Coincidence?  You decide.


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:07pm

    The real fun part will be the trump tweets tomorrow.  Jebus help us!


    by CVille Dem on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:09pm

    CVILLE, I thought he was done when the guy stood up with the crutches?

    Again, let us document the assholes who stood up and clapped?

    There are teeth probs.

    He is starting, again, to sound like some old idiot.

    Of course he is an old idiot.

    GOD BLESS AMERICA, IT IS OVER.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:32pm

    HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOIN ON?


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:01pm

    OH DAMN THIS KENNEDY KID IS RESPONSIVE.

    WELL DONE.

    I ALMOST MISSED THIS.

    Too early to get alink.

    Not bad.

    I kinda like this guy


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:50pm

    Joe Kennedy iii gives the best response to a prez I have ever seen!

    I shall discuss this again.

    I think we get a substance of his speech here:

    http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/joe-kennedy-state-of-the-union-trump-1202682318/

    I like this guy, a lot.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 10:59pm

    There it is, I got Joe Kennedy on Youtube. Here it is. I could listen to this all night.

     

    I am guilty of hyperbola from time to time. hahahahahaha

    I love this kid.

    I have not been this uplifted since I listened to Obama in 2004 at the dem convention.

    MY GOD?

    Please give me your opinions concerning this response.

    I LIKE THIS KID! I DO NOT CARE WHAT HIS GENETIC MAKE UP IS.

    THE END


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 11:30pm

    I cannot help myself.

    this is the greatest response to a POTUS I have ever witnessed.

    I am nuts about this guy.

    the end


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 11:55pm

    If Joe Kennedy had been mute    the dems would have scored  simply by presenting  15 minutes from a young guy to respond  to  90 minutes  from the orange-haired  fatty.. 

    In addition to which Joe K was good.


    by Flavius on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:20am

    Flavius you are nor wrong on this assessment.

    We are listening to a moron. hahhahahha

    I just underline what you have already noted:

    IN ADDITION TO WHICH JOE K WAS GOOOOOOOOOOD.

    I hereby render unto Flavius the Dayly line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site; given to all of you from all of me

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:36am

    I got through 4 episodes of “Ripper Street”.

    Is Trump still a racist, lying sack of shit?

    That’s for the link to the Kennedy speech.

    Edit to add: 

    I did see the snippet where Trump took credit for the decreased unemployment rate among African-Americans. The decline began under Obama and continued under Trump although at the lower rate of decline when compared with Obama. The silence of the CBC was classic 

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-sotu-congressional-black-caucus_us_5a712d0be4b0be822ba169c0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    ​If Trump is lying about this, he is lying about immigration, healthcare, national security, etc.


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:01am

    Well, you know this ripper street thingy...

    rmrd;I get these sneezing episodes; for no reason.

    Yeah, Trump is still a racist, lying sack of shit, as it were.

    But this Kennedy guy (I mean I wish his name were Thompson for chrissakes) just hit a home run.

    Okay

    That is all I got. hahahha


    by Richard Day on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:01am

    The Kennedy speech was excellent, he was a very good choice


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:05am

    I wish to address this issue some more?

    All these idiots who attacked Obama?

    Idiots? Well I am sure they were well educated and such....

    But rmrd; this Kennedy kid.....he never flinched.

    I hope.

    And I get too hoped; as it were.

    I just liked this kid.

    the end


    by Richard Day on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:12am

    Trump causes us to be depressed. The Republicans know that he is an idiot. His supporters don’t care that he is an idiot. I do not forgive the voters who put the idiot into office. He is a white nationalist. He hired other white nationalists Bannon and Miller. His Chief of Staff refuses to apologize to a black Congresswoman. I call out racism because it stares us in the face daily. Hate crimes are increasing. There was a sign at the Women’s March that said “If you Support a Racist You Just Might Be a Racist”. Pence is toady to a racist and we forgive him because he blushed when a black pastor criticized Trump’s shithole comment. If Louis Farrakhan was called an anti-Semite to his face, he too would blush. The blush would not mean that Farrakhan was not anti-Semitic, it is just a normal physiologic response to the direct confrontation. The difference between Pence and Farrakhan is that you can tell Pence blushed but it is harder to detect in Farrakhan. Pence gets points for blushing, Farrakhan would not. The entire White House is infected. The Republicans in Congress have picked up the disease. Republicans support the racist. Because they ignore the racism, they are willing to destroy the FBI and the DOJ. They are willing to rehash Uranium One while ignoring the Cyberwar we are in with Russia. Our country is under attack from within. It does not matter what the Republicans say, they will do the same vile things that they have been doing. ​A Nazi  killed a woman in Charlottesville, ministers were hunted down and attacked, and Trump found good people in the crowd. This is the face of our opposition. We cannot sugarcoat this reality. 


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 9:00am

    Predictably, the WaPo headline gives cover to the racist Trump. Twitter responded 

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washington-post-trump-front-page_us_5a716d02e4b0ae29f08c2015?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    Edit to add:

    ​The HuffPot points out the extremism in the speech

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-state-of-the-union-didnt-say_us_5a713551e4b0a6aa487463c7?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 9:32am

    Agree that an attack on one part (and blacks are hardly the "only" part that has been viciously attacked) of our national community is an attack upon all.  That has to be the mindset.  


    by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 10:44am

    Trump is trying to inflame conflict between blacks and Latinos using immigration. Blacks are told immigrants are taking your low-skilled jobs. Blacks ask why are we limited to low-skilled entry-level jobs? At the same time that there are all these immigrants, Trump says that he (not Obama) has lowered black unemployment. He ignores that black unemployment remains twice that of whites. As long as Trump can divert, Trump wins. 538 has Trump’s approval at 39% today. That is a scary number.

     


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 11:06am

    war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength... and throw in any other of your favorite Orwell quotes because:

    We are all North Korea https://t.co/YoIrrHPVXU

    — Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 30, 2018

     


    by artappraiser on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 10:45am

    Don’t forget, in the actual words of Paul Ryan:  Losing your health insurance “gives you freedom.” Yes, and the rubes went for it. 


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 11:00am

    Right.  Because "freedom" the way the radicals who've taken over the Republican party mean it means freedom from having to pay taxes for things you personally don't want to pay taxes for--most things excepting police and military and maybe, for the "moderates" among them, a few public goods such as roads not yet privatized.

    And it also means freedom from regulations you personally don't like--therefore, take power and write the laws to allow you to do what you want to do, and if that means other people lose some or all of their freedom, well, they need to get their stuff together and stop mooching off of the wealth-generating "producers".  


    by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 11:14am

    lol, WaPo lllustration for What Trump’s address sounded like, in eight American living rooms:

    From left, Jen Burch in Denver; Nancy Berry in Dearborn Heights, Mich.; and Marina Rivera in Phoenix. ( Matthew Staver, Brittany Greeson and Caitlin O’Hara/for The Washington Post)

     


    by artappraiser on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 10:54am

    Looks like 47.7 million watched, compared to just over 48 million for Obama's first SOTU against a somewhat smaller population base.  I wonder how much of it is a kind of NASCAR effect--some attending/tuning in, in part, to watch the crash they anticipate?  Or...more of the reality TV thing?


    by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 11:30am

    Yes, the NASCAR effect but we are all buckled into the back seat.


    by moat on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:05pm

    Yes we are, true that...


    by AmericanDreamer on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 12:50pm

    I just saw a really good Brit body language expert analyze his tricks on BBC News. She started her remarks with this: he's improved, has gotten frighteningly better at this....I thought spot on. While I didn't watch the whole thing from what I watched, it was like a light bulb hearing her little segment,  as in: oh I see, that is exactly what seemed different, he was just recently coached on adding body language to the teleprompter speech. All his gestures and motions were what slowed it down, they were very purposeful and synched with the script. Not natural, to be sure, but whoever worked with him tried to use his moves that we already know, liked pointing up with one finger, etc.


    by artappraiser on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 7:00pm

    FAKE NEWS!!

    donald’s State of the Union was the bigliest ever, and no one shouted out LIAR! at him either. 


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 2:45pm

    Tomi Lahren, the Conservative pundit fired by Glenn Beck’s Blaze for being poor-abortion now works for Fox News. In her Twitter repo d to Kenddy’s Speech, she attacked his manhood. She later deleted the tweets, but  they were captured before deletion (because we are in 2018). Lahren’s response is typical of what we get from modern Conservatives. They are authoritarians. 

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tomi-lahren-joe-kennedy-meltdown_us_5a72735ce4b09a544b5665fb?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    ​


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 7:56am

    Narcissist Trump claims his SOTU audience was the largest in history.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-state-of-the-union-viewers-lie_us_5a730284e4b0bf6e6e221d6c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    Cue the laugh track.


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 10:29am

    Yes, just as attendance at his Inauguration was.  


    by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 11:37am

    Politifact crashed during the SOTU

    http://thehill.com/homenews/media/371557-fact-checking-site-crashes-during-trump-state-of-the-union


    by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 12:19pm

    And it's not true: Trump Boasts, Incorrectly, That His State of the Union Drew the Largest Viewership,

    BUT THAT SAID

    strikes me that there's a difference though, as even it were true, people will slow down to look at a car crash. Is clear to anyone by now, as opposed to the inauguration, that people would tune in to this SOTU just to see what he did.This is where his narcissism gets extra crazy, because he equates adoration with ratings, he'd rather have attention of the mass quantities of people than adoration, everything according to the "no news is bad news" p.r. thing.

    Brings up for me all the problems the world has with a troll as president of the U.S., you can't not feed him, as his trolling is part of the whole political game. If you're political, you can't not feed a demagogue.

    But this particular demagogue really is a troll. Though he hasn't really gone far this way yet, he could very well betray fans for ratings, he doesn't care if you are upset with him or hate him as long as you are paying attention to him.

    Carrying this line of thought even further, it's clear he took advice from professionals for the speech, stuck to the script. But he doesn't always do that if he instinctively feels it won't get him ratings, hence the defiance disorder mentioned in Howard Kurtz's new book.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 4:15pm