Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The willow is too close to the house.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

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… To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the over-dramatic baby-girl-voiced lamentation of their women…


They found a Repub to defend poisoning kids with lead!


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  1. 1.

    Miss Bianca

    … To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the over-dramatic baby-girl-voiced lamentation of their women…

    LOL – Oh, Anne Laurie, you are a treasure.

  5. 5.

    H.E.Wolf

    David Axelrod is 69 years old. James Carville is 79.

    Unlike President Biden, they’re… past their sell date by a bit.

  10. 10.

    Sid

    @Miss Bianca:

    It’s a variation on ‘Joe Biden has dementia’/’Joe Biden is the mastermind of a criminal organization that’s spanned decades on multiple continents’.

  12. 12.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Betty: Oh, absolutely, Mr. Carville is still alive and all. Just… past his sell date. Like a carton of milk that’s gone off. :)

  13. 13.

    Jackie

    5.63 MILLION FAUX VIEWERS!!!

    Let that sink in. How can their commentators spin their usual lies when their viewers know what they saw and heard for theirselves?!?

    I know Hannity et al will try…

  14. 14.

    H.E.Wolf

    … and now I feel compelled to check if there’s milk in our fridge that should be dumped. ‘Night, everyone! Joseph Robinette has it covered.

  15. 15.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Miss Bianca: trump suggested, in a truth social post, that Biden was drugged up to do this. And who would know better about being drugged up than trump? Every accusation etc.

  17. 17.

    Scout211

    Hakeem Jeffries is a really effective communicator.

    Jeffries also pointed out the surprise appearance of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on the floor during Biden’s speech. The Long Island Republican was expelled from Congress in December — and faces almost two dozen criminal charges— over a long series of ethics and campaign finance allegations, but he announced Thursday night that he intends to run for reelection in another district held by GOP Rep. Nick LaLota (N.Y.).

    Given those breaches of decorum and House rules, Jeffries said, Republicans have no standing to chide others about flouting etiquette.

    “That was an embarrassment last night. A complete embarrassment,” Jeffries said Friday morning during a press briefing in the Capitol.

    “Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s basically running the Republican conference, shows up in campaign paraphernalia, and then these people want to lecture Joe Biden because he delivered a strong and forceful speech that made them uncomfortable because he exposed their lies and shamelessness?” Jeffries continued.

    “We have one message for extreme MAGA Republicans who want to lecture us about decorum: Get lost; you’re a joke. Exhibit A: Marjorie Taylor Greene. Exhibit B: George Santos.” 

  18. 18.

    Jackie

    This is scary! I want to know who his target was!

    A team of United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers quickly arrested a man with a hammer who was trying to get into the U.S. Capitol.

    At approximately 3:40 p.m., a man was being screened at the Capitol Visitor Center. As the man’s backpack went through the x-ray machine, a USCP officer noticed that a hammer was inside of the man’s bag. When the officer attempted secondary screening to look inside of the bag, the suspect attempted to grab the bag and became combative.

    Several officers immediately intervened to stop the suspect. A struggle ensued. USCP officers deployed a Taser to stop the individual and take him into custody. A hammer was found inside the bag.

    “These officers did what they were trained to do and stopped this man from getting into the U.S. Capitol,” said USCP Captain Andrew Pecher. “Great work from the officer who spotted the hammer, to the officers who quickly took the suspect into custody.”

    The suspect has been identified as 33 year old Christopher Snow of Canton, Ohio. Investigators are working to determine why he came to the Capitol with a hammer. He is being charged with Assault on a Police Officer.

    https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/uscp-officers-stop-man-hammer-during-capitol-screening

  20. 20.

    SpaceUnit

    @Percysowner:

    That’s too funny.  We’re about to be subjected to a huge flurry of polls telling us that Americans weren’t impressed by the SOTU, especially that part about taxing corporations and rich people.  Christ.

  22. 22.

    Miss Bianca

    @Scout211: You know, I got to say that I am liking this new energy from the Democrats. Why *not* call a spade a bloody shovel?

    Why, Hakeem Jeffries sounds downright…FEISTY!!

    @Geminid: LOL!!

  23. 23.

    bbleh

    Interesting how Joe confounding the Settled Narratives of both the MAGAts and the media (which are different, but more in degree than in substance) is leading to the same kind of defensive confusion and backpedaling and self-justification by both of them.

    On the one hand, go Joe!  On the other, they really were hoist by their own petards, as they say.  Maybe they shouldn’t have painted him as quite the drooling incompetent headed for an inevitable electoral loss.

    But on the third, let us not be distracted.  Donate, volunteer, organize, dammit!  WIN the election, and others along with it.  The Orcs aren’t gonna stop, so we can’t either.

  24. 24.

    counterfactual

    @Percysowner: Early polls on SOTU or presidential debates are usually crap. The public consensus doesn’t click until the next day or so.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    @Jackie:

    5.63 MILLION FAUX VIEWERS!!!

    Let that sink in. How can their commentators spin their usual lies when their viewers know what they saw and heard for theirselves?!?

    The commentators will spin (“angry!” “amped up on something!!”) and memories will fade, but still…if even 10% of those hard-core Faux News viewers start to see the light, that’d be quite something.

    I’m not holding my breath, mind you, but it’d be something!  =)

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    @Scout211: Froette and I were absolutely besides ourselves earlier today watching clips of Jeffries laying into the Repubs.  He’s just awesome!

  27. 27.

    jimmiraybob

    “Joe Biden ran and won on a promise of unity and normalcy. Tonight he …….”

    Bullies hate it when you punch back.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @Jackie

    Includes the audience which reached the conclusion it was a throng of innocent tourists leisurely strolling through the Capitol on January 6th.
    //

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    You can tell how well Biden did tonight by how annoyed Republicans on here are right now.

    I am really enjoying this interlude of Republican strife and confusion.

  30. 30.

    danielx

    @jimmiraybob: ​
     

    “Joe Biden ran and won on a promise of unity and normalcy. Tonight he …….”

    …and then he discovered it was a waste of time and energy.

  31. 31.

    Miss Bianca

    @Brachiator: “Oh my gosh, those uncivil libtards TRIGGERING us!”

    Cry harder, Trumper trash. I’m sure Senator Britt can give you some pointers.

  32. 32.

    Geminid

    @Brachiator: Republicans were glad to have a day when they could all hate on Biden. They spend most their other days hating on each other.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    @Percysowner:

    Now, now, before we get happy, Aaron Blake from WaPo wants a word:
    Early polling of Biden’s State of the Union doesn’t quite match the hype

    I watched the speech with my own eyes and was impressed. “Hype” doesn’t apply, but I know that some political hacks have to create their narrative.

  34. 34.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @MagdaInBlack:

    There were numerous comments last night on the conservative side that Biden was on something, with one speculation being a wireless controlled IV feed of Good Shit…lol! Hannity even went there on his show.

    This is in line with the “Biden crime family” shit. There is a real Trump crime family and he knows it. Republicans keep saying “Biden crime family” to lessen the impact when the press gets around to telling everyone that Trump and crime are a family thing.

    Same with the drugs. In this case Dr. Ronnie Feelgood Jackson ran the White House pharmacy as his personal dispensary. His mismanagement led to him being demoted from Rear Admiral to Captain, as was recently disclosed. Thus the attacking Biden on drug use.

    They are poisoning the waters to try and prevent people from saying exactly that about them.

  35. 35.

    cain

    @Jackie:

    Those assholes were all set for some feeble thing with slurring and mistakes but instead they got something else and an equally shitty SOTU response that probably filled viewers with a bunch of wtfs.

  36. 36.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    “Joe Biden ran and won on a promise of unity and normalcy. Tonight he set fire to the huge pile of olive branches that we have repeatedly knocked out of his hand for the last three years.”

    I like this version moar better…

  37. 37.

    cain

    @NotMax: smearing feces on the walls, grabbing souvenirs from the speakers desk and urinating on random things like how all tourists are when they visit. Just random wholesome stuff.

  38. 38.

    Lyrebird

    @bbleh: ​
     

    But on the third, let us not be distracted. Donate, volunteer, organize, dammit! WIN the election, and others along with it.

    Yes, I agree with you in principle. But after how many weeks of disinformation crap and people pushed from the left as well as the right to apologize if they’re backing the Biden-Harris ticket… let’s put on our dancing shoes for a night or two.

    JRB schooled them with facts, with quotes from their own rulings… inspired us with solid accomplishments and brave vision for the future.

    Is he Superman? No of course not! Can we get complacent? Of course not. But that was a dam fine speech, in part because Biden is a dam fine president.

  40. 40.

    RevRick

    @jimmiraybob: I responded to all the whiny GOP tweets asking them to identify on the doll where President Biden kicked them in the family jewels.

  41. 41.

    Hoppie

    @Jackie: And they will mostly succeed, the will to be misinformed is strong, but every doubter we peal off we get closer to victory.  Joe and his team know this and are playing a longish — ie 8 month — game.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    TBF I am “pretty vitriolic: most days. How I roll.

    Lord Dark Brandon, rain your feckless, senior, incompetent fiery rage upon the pates of the enemies of our precious republic.

  46. 46.

    stinger

    Early polling — heck, late polling — means diddlysquat. The Biden-Harris campaign experienced its biggest single hour of fundraising during the first hour of the SOTU broadcast. Then broke that record during the second hour. Then broke THAT record in the next hour.

    I don’t know who’s being polled, but clearly not the millions of individuals who are donating enthusiastically to the campaign.

  48. 48.

    moonbat

    @Baud: Yeah, what happened to him? Did he decide the only way to stay relevant was dump on the Dems? He’s so lame now.

    P.S. I no longer accept James Carville’s emails either.

  49. 49.

    Jackie

    @cain: I’m all for that reaction! If Faux’s audience tunes in to more Joe speeches out of curiosity to see if his SOTU speech was a one-off, all the better!

  50. 50.

    Jackie

    @stinger: Speaking of polls, Rasmussen has finally been kicked to the curb. It’s more than about time!

    The poll aggregation and evaluation site 538, part of ABC News, dropped the right-wing polling firm Rasmussen Reports from inclusion in its polling averages and forecasts,” the Washington Post reports.

  51. 51.

    sdhays

    Trump is either going to put up another ~$400 billion bond to the State of New York this month or declare bankruptcy (or have New York State start seizing Trump Organization assets). The RNC is broke, and no one wants to donate because the money will just go to pay Trump’s various fees and expenses. His campaign also doesn’t have much money and also has a donor problem. He’s selling shitty, ugly shoes to scrounge a bit of cash. And he has the election fraud trial coming up, which is also not a federal trial and not subject to Supreme Court shenanigans.

    Oh, and he’s suffering from increasing cognitive decline.

    How soon will Republicans have buyer’s remorse? (And I do mean “buyer’s” since so many of them have lit money on fire for him.) Before the convention? Before November? Or after the election?

  55. 55.

    hitchhiker

    Axelrod loathed the Clintons, and I don’t think he ever recovered from seeing his hero make HRC the Sec of State. While she was running against trump, old Axe did everything he could to remind every audience whose attention he enjoyed that she was Not Worthy. I don’t know what she ever did to him, but he hates her. I wonder if Obama could prevail upon him to dial back his Biden hate for the next eight months.

    I think the billions of pixels spilled on the subject of Biden’s age might just work to his advantage from here on out. He’s clearly fine. Old as fuck, but fine and more than capable of presenting himself as a warm and decent human being who has nothing but contempt for the thug he’s running against. After that show of force last night, he went to PA and gave another speech today.

    I read that the Rs chose last night for the SOTU. They probably thought they’d wrap up the nomination on Super Tuesday, bask in the press from that for a day, and then get to watch Biden be slow and incoherent on Thursday. Instead they had to sit there in silence while he handed them their asses.

    Keep doing whatever it is you’re doing, Rs. We can work with this.

  57. 57.

    Citizen Alan

    @jimmiraybob:

    “Joe Biden ran and won on a promise of unity and normalcy.”

    The only proper response to that is to say “Yeah, and he won! And then Trump sent people to storm the Capitol and overturn the election! You traitorous fuck!”

  59. 59.

    lowtechcyclist

    @RevRick: ​
     

    I responded to all the whiny GOP tweets asking them to identify on the doll where President Biden kicked them in the family jewels.

    Nah, Biden doesn’t need to fight dirty. He punched ’em in the gut, then punched ’em in the face, then a hard one to the chin, and they’re trying to crawl off the floor after the ref’s eight-count.

  61. 61.

    Lauryn11

    Speaking of the Mandate of Heaven I first read that as “the people are preposterous.” Well, they are, but it’s like not being able to pick your own parents.

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