Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

We still have time to mess this up!

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Bark louder, little dog.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Everybody saw this coming.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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Trump’s First (Last?) SotU: Early Reviews

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Many thanks to Adam for posting the livestream!

I got called away from the computer, but I did follow the final two-thirds on the Guardian‘s excellent-as-always livestream, with facts and commentary:

Guess which line of those below was a Trump improvisation?

America has also finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies, our jobs, and our wealth.

The nations has lost its wealth but we’re getting it back so fast.

The era of economic surrender is over. From now on, we expect trading relationships to be fair and more importantly reciprocal.

My opinion of the speech and the speecherator: Low energy. No stamina. SAD!

Just look at the reactions right on this here blog. Used to be, we could get three, four massive fast-moving threads out of a single nationally-televised Preznidential speech. Tonight, we didn’t even break a TBogg unit (500+ comments). Not once did the livestream overload my crappy old laptop didn’t even overload, until it came to young Kennedy’s rebuttal!

At least we can take some consolation in knowing that Trump is now — or will be once the tranqs wear off — scouring every available source looking for a metric that will let him tweet that *his* speech was totally more popular than You Know Who’s…
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Also from the Guardian:

Twitter says tonight’s speech was “the most-tweeted #SOTU or #JointSession address ever, passing last year’s record of 3m tweets.”

Perfect. Trump’s devolved past “soundbite president” into “140 character president”. Can’t even muster the energy to deliver a decent quip on-camera.


One bullet dodged:

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  1. 1.

    Aleta

    I suppose T will attack himself on twitter tomorrow for the things he didn’t realize his voice was saying.

  3. 3.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    What he also failed to mention is that some of the corporations that have given out bonuses, such as Walmart, AT&T, General Electric, and Pfizer, are also laying off tens of thousands of their employees. Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Kleenex and Huggies, recently said they were using money from the tax cut to restructure — laying off more than 5,000 workers and closing 10 plants.

    Wilmer

    Wilmer took a crap on Huggies

  6. 6.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Mnemosyne: I watched the Stormy Daniels marathon on The Gorilla Channel: “Pulp Friction” and “Breast Side Story”.

  7. 7.

    Ruckus

    @Mnemosyne:
    I talked to my buddy, who watched this fucking disaster. He hates drumpf with the heat of a nova. He says he likes to be informed. I told him I can’t take the stress of being that informed and besides I already know that drumpf is a moron. I mean look how he’s praised because he actually was able to read a teleprompter and stay mostly on message, that he didn’t have much if anything to do with creating.
    My point is that you made what sounds like a good choice.

  9. 9.

    Steve in the ATL

    I just finished a 14-hour day of highly contentious bargaining. Far better than watching that fucking moron give a stupid fucking speech.

  10. 10.

    piratedan

    well, with this onslaught on the norms of how a President is supposed to act and behave and the considerable lack of disdain that the GOP has for the nation and its traditions, just hoping like hell we get to vote in 2018.

    and if we do take back the House and the Senate, I very much want those elected to roll back all of this treasonous shit and restore our nation to what can be considered a government in good faith.

    If this happens, I fully expect Nancy Smash to be working in the wings for a whole boatload of items to be signed by our current office holder and this guy is such an idiot, I fully expect him to sign them.

    In 2020, if we all live this long, I fully expect to see perp walks of all of these treasonous bastards, those who paid them, those who got paid and all of those that looked the other way.

    I also expect Vlad to have a bullet in his brain pain by that summer.

    Because I’m tired of people fucking with our country.

  12. 12.

    Ivan X

    @efgoldman:
    Shockingly, even all these years later, even amidst their near ubiquity, even having seen them all, Law & Order reruns through about the first 15 seasons remain some of the best and most satisfying programming on television.

  13. 13.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    “In America we know that faith and Family, not government and bureaucracy are the the center of Democracy”#SOTU

    said by guy who doesn’t attend church, has 3 different families, and thinks TWO corinthians are illegal aliens.

  14. 14.

    ThresherK

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    “Hi, I’m actor Troy McClure! Perhaps you remember me from such adult classics as Pulp Friction and Breast Side Story.

    –

    I got my wife to watch the silent 1926 “The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg”. It’s not the operetta, but a Lubitsch adaptation of the book.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    @ThresherK:

    I’ve only seen one bad Lubitsch film, and it was the one that Otto Preminger finished while Lubitsch was dying (he had a bad heart).

    I really need to start up my Pre-Code film blog again. People keep subscribing to my YouTube channel.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
    No one on earth has ever said with a straight face that this motherfucker is smart or has ever told the truth. Unless they are stupider that he is. Which as I’ve said before is hard to believe that a human could be that stupid and still have working autonomic functions.

  20. 20.

    Aleta

    It felt like the speech might have been set up to use for an extra purpose, creating segments for campaign ads.

    Once their primaries of horrific cheering for themselves are over, all of a sudden they’ll be campaigning against the high disapproval of almost every voter group in the country.

    So tonight they made usable blurbs of Republicans applauding people who aren’t wealthy white R men and women yet looked grateful. A baby saved from a bad womb, a Latina soldier I think, a heroic Asian, two AA families, an AA welder working in a small white family business, brave soldiers, a white policeman who listens to god, a Latino ICE, three families who’ve lived through evil and tragedy. They can replay the faces and emotions over and over by dropping one or two clips readymade into ads, and save on production costs and actors and contracts.
    Whatever.

    His only accomplishment was that he resisted talking about himself as a god who owns resorts for a record length of time.

  21. 21.

    Aleta

    @Ruckus: And so he relies on threats and displays of power and fake bigmanliness.

    There was a huge entire ring of ice crystals around the full moon tonight. New snow on the ground. The cold felt good after so much hot air from deadened minds.

  23. 23.

    SectionH

    I’ve gotta repost from the non-SOTU thread that Tamara put up much earlier, because, well, it’s a a BFD for me anyway:

    “And because I’m insanely proud of her, I’ve got to brag that my DiL has been asked by the Old Globe Theater in San Diego to give them a full length play – and they’re paying her for her submission, and a non-trivial amount. She had a short play on stage there a couple of years ago as part of their “New Voices” that year, so it wasn’t completely out of the blue, but they came to her. No guarantee it’ll be produced, but they’re paying well more than nominal.

    Just found out this evening at “Christmas Dinner” with the kids. Got my happy mood back now just writing about it.”

  26. 26.

    patrick II

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
    I was watching season 2 of Justified. Intelligent writing, dry humor, a fast gun and the Bennett Clan. And watching Dickie Bennett try to some something intelligent easier to watch than POTUS trying the same.

  32. 32.

    Patricia Kayden

    Lol at Manchin giving Trump a standing ovation. He should just flip to being a Republican and call it a day.

    I know he never did the same during any of President Obama’s speeches.

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Hello there. Saw the blue moon last night (it was lovely), but we’re not gonna see an eclipse. Ah well. This summer’s was excellent. Cannot be greedy.

    Agree re Manchin. If he stays a Dem, we’re good. Will be interesting to see how his upcoming Senate race goes. Trump is not playing well, and that may go for WV too. Cannot say.

  36. 36.

    kd bart

    The most remembered thing out of DC last night will be the trade of QB Alex Smith from KC to Washington.

  38. 38.

    Magda in Black

    @scav:
    Perhaps the bubble of wealthy middle class “motorcycle enthusiasts” buying high end Harleys to be cool ….as opposed to actual bikers ( who are already cool)….. is over?

  41. 41.

    dr. luba

    @scav: The motor city is revving again, but it has nothing to do with the GOP or Trump. Obama saved the auto industry. Local businessmen/women have been building/expanding. Jack White and other local artists have been doing their part to revitalize the city. And the hipsters are gentrifying it.

  42. 42.

    Tata

    The husband and I watched recent episodes of Black-ish rather than the speech. If you’re not watching Black-ish, you should check it out on Hulu.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yup. Manchin is a vote for the Democratic Senate leadership. The Senate Majority Leader decides what gets done in the Senate. He can be infuriating when he goes outside the tent, but as you say one has to consider where he’s from. But what really matters is his vote at the start of the session for the Leader.

    More Democrats opens up the possibility of the party and policies moving left (because you can then afford to lose votes).

    I do wish people wouldn’t gripe about him so much. McConnell and Ryan and the rest of them are the enemy – not Manchin.

    Eyes on the prize.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    Boatboy_srq

    Ever get the feeling that “You lie!” was actually groundwork for this moment? The US has not merely a post-truth pResidency but a counter-truth one; yet thanks to the eight years of consistent mischaracterization of BHO’s public statements, there are grounds for BSDIers to simply bewail the lack of honesty from Washington and shrug when Lord Dampnut’s egregious untruthfulness and gauche posturing come up in discussion.

  45. 45.

    DesertFriar

    @Another Scott:

    People need to realize that every county in WV went for Benedict Donald in 2016. Mitt won WV by 26.8 percentage points. Trump won by 41.7% over Clinton. That’s what Manchin is up against.

  46. 46.

    J R in WV

    @DesertFriar:

    Yeah, I don’t understand it either, and I’ve lived here most of my life, except for a couple of years college and some time in the Navy. People here are so easily conned out of their heritage. Taken advantage of by wealthy coal owners or auto dealership owners. Willing to spend public money to help a cheating businessman out of his own hole to “save jerbs”!!!

    The mineral wealth of the state that was once owned by individual landowners was mostly bought by traveling landsmen trading treadle operated sewing machines and hunting rifles for a farmer’s mineral rights – millions or billions of dollars worth of coal, oil and gas for a $97 sewing machine for the wife and two rifles and brood sow for the husband.

    The descendants of those farmers, now penniless in terms of real property, are desperate for jobs and willing to believe any Republican who tells them he will bring back the good coal jobs.

    Example: Current Gov. Jimmy Justice, D R-Greenbrier Resort, coal man, “My Daddy was a Coal Man!”; a Republican all his life, the changed to win election as a Democrat, then changed back to Republican the first time Trump visited the state after being elected President.

    So strange. When I was a kid it was so Democratic a state, as long as the UMWA represented the miners, until Reagan broke the NLRB and all the unions. Worst part of his presidency, breaking the unions.

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