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Well from the reviews, it looks like a couple of octogenarians had good nights this week.
But that response was so weird. Almost felt like a bad and dramatic infomercial actor was chosen.
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Well from the reviews, it looks like a couple of octogenarians had good nights this week.
But that response was so weird. Almost felt like a bad and dramatic infomercial actor was chosen.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Druba
I thought "fighting Joe" did
I thought "fighting Joe" did a good job... I couldn't stomach the response and moved on. Haven't checked out the spin yet.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: surjade
The spin is strong.... and
The spin is strong.... and nauseating.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry
>>>and nauseating<<<
>>>and nauseating<<<
Is there anything about any part of this that ISN'T nauseating???
(That's the totality of my political commentary)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD
I thought the state of the
I thought the state of the union speech was always in January??
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: dimethyllovebeam
I watched about a half hour.
I watched about a half hour. Most I've watched since Obama. Joe sounded good.
In a truly enlightened society though, the talking points would've included continued funding for psychedelics in mental healthcare, with doobie smoke filling the chamber, and all members bringing their own stash from home, along with their own Visine and Funions.
Due to the lack of this, imo, it is nauseating, and i always feel like Send in the Clowns should be on a loop throughout the entire show, no matter who's at the podium. I miss Carlin.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Semolina Pilchard
I didn't watch, and plan to
I didn't watch, and plan to only give US politics a minimal amount of attention this year. I hope Biden prevails in the fall, and Trump catches at least one criminal conviction, but beyond those things, I'm not much interested in the day-to-details of this farce anymore. That shit just don't pay.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: fishcane
"I'll give Biden this - he at
"I'll give Biden this - he at least gave a better speech than Katie Britt,"
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
^ the Hoovers?
^ the Hoovers?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: aiq
When Britt was running she
When Britt was running she had a spot that consisted of her sitting with her very scared looking daughter while Britt described the kid's hallucination seeing a giant face of Jebus in a thunderstorm.
Talk about nauseating, how about Trump calling Democrats Marxists and he will purge the government of the "disloyal". Fill the military with loyalists, deport "millions", invite Putin to attack allies.
Much, much, more. And please spare me the Garcia quote, not voting for the lesser evil allows the greater evil to win. That makes sense?
That makes me sick to my stomach. Some of you...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
Republicans always showcase
Republicans always showcase their minorities for these responses. Only 8% of federally elected officials are Republican women. I can just see what happened in the planning meeting for this. Let's have her address the country from a kitchen. If they didn't have so much power they would be adorable in how fucking clueless they are.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: fishcane
If you think any of them have
If you think any of them have your best interests in mind, your blind. They've ALL got blood on their hands
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skyjunk
Why can they use insider
Why can they use insider trading in their personal lives, but cannot invest our tax money by using that insider info? If you're going to be crooked, cut me in.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
>>>>They've ALL got blood on
>>>>They've ALL got blood on their hands
Pretty impossible to live in a first world country without having blood on your hands. I'm for the people who are at least working toward less blood on their hands as opposed to those who see blood on your hands as a virtue.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: fishcane
That's the lesser of two
That's the lesser of two evils, as mentioned
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: 19.5 Degrees
^ Yeah, but isn't the
^ Yeah, but isn't the underlying reality that the world is a dangerous and violent place to begin with?
I suspect impossible decisions are why (most) Presidents get gray hair.
Likewise, isn't it inherently impossible for any President to have everyone's individual interests in mind?
Having said that, I do believe Biden "gets it" and is trying and work toward something better for the US / world as a whole. While he might enjoy the schmoozing after the SOTU and other related benefits, I suspect being President again (with all of the baggage) at this stage of the game, for him, wouldn't be his first choice if we weren't in such a bind.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
So classy.
So classy.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mice elf
Please don't hate on Karen in
Please don't hate on Karen in the kitchen for giving an awkward, bipolar, warbling, nonsensical SOTU retort
She's the best senator Alabama has
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
I don't think it's
I don't think it's complicated. I'm against this guy who currently meets with Trump getting control.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
is that the brahphacy?
is that the brahphacy?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: aiq
I remember when some of you
I remember when some of you anti-types thought the SC gutting the Voting Rights act was a good idea. How's that working out?
No Democrat ever passed bills to ban teaching history, to discriminate against LGBTQ, stripped universities of diversity, gutted public school money, or packed courts at all levels with fuckwads who want to govern with the Old Testament.
The "both parties are the same" horseshit is disingenuous at best, stupid and dangerous at worst.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mice elf
It's ok to hate the only
It's ok to hate the only choice you're presented with
Instead, focus on which outcome you will hate more
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Druba
“Government is the
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa
"President Biden's call for cannabis reform in his State of the Union Address was a milestone moment in the history of the sector. In a fiery speech, which kicked off his re-election bid, Biden not only referred to his edict to review marijuana rescheduling but also the mass pardons he has issued for thousands of people with possession convictions."
-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/irisdorbian/2024/03/08/cannabis-pros-applau...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: fishcane
I haven't seen anyone saying
I haven't seen anyone saying both parties are the same.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mice elf
^ He also said we would be
>>>
President Biden's call for cannabis reform in his State of the Union Address was a milestone moment in the history of the sector. In a fiery speech, which kicked off his re-election bid, Biden not only referred to his edict to review marijuana rescheduling but also the mass pardons he has issued for thousands of people with possession convictions."
<<<
^ He also said we would be curing cancer in his next term
Someone should invent a magical way to link these two themes together somehow...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MeditateontheQ
^^^^ I think Big Pharma has
^^^^ I think Big Pharma has already made that $$$ connection, yes?
Don't know about anyone else, but when Biden said that I enjoyed a little puff. ;-)
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic
Please don't hate on Karen in
Please don't hate on Karen in the kitchen for giving an awkward, bipolar, warbling, nonsensical SOTU retort
She's the best senator Alabama has<<
Sad as hell and funny AF.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
Quoting my earlier post
Quoting my earlier post
>>>>I can just see what happened in the planning meeting for this. Let's have her address the country from a kitchen.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MeditateontheQ
^^^^ pure PR gold. LOL
^^^^ pure PR gold from strategy idiots. LOL
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: gypsy tailwind
the nuge is big mad, lol
the nuge is big mad, lol
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
Kind of hoping the Nuge gets
Kind of hoping the Nuge gets invited to play at the RNC this year. Between him and DJT's inability to keep their mouths shut, it could be the shitshow to end all shitshows.
This song is dedicated to all that MAGA pussy out there...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Floating Flasher
someone i spoke to was
someone i spoke to was hopeful after his speech, i listened to zero of it, and was glad it made my friend feel good at least
finally a few folks are waking up and having no confidence over joe for his israeli war propping uppery, as if the other guy will not be inifintely worse on every level, ya know, beginning with that whole nepotistic faux theocratic autocratic dynasty thing, but i digress
bottom line is we must vote for ol joe
no matter how many elections this has been my mantra:
this time we truly have no choice
oligarchy beats autocracy
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Strangha
OMG. How pathetic. Now they
OMG. How pathetic. Now they find out new details of that most horrific story of the 12 year-old girl Sen Britt exploited for political gain in the response.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-britts-border-trafficking-anecdote-...
From the story:
The actual content of the story is heart-wrenching. As Britt told it, she traveled to Texas just after taking office last year and “spoke to a woman who shared her story with me.”
“She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12,” Britt said, going on to outline horrific acts of sexual violence that the woman said she endured as a child.
“We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a third-world country,” Britt said with dramatic flair. “This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace. This crisis is despicable.”
There are a few problems with Britt’s framing of the story, though.
Britt did not name the abuse survivor in her State of the Union rebuttal directly, but Britt’s communications director, Sean Ross, confirmed to The Washington Post that the story was about an activist named Karla Jacinto Romero, as Katz had suggested.
While Britt made it seem like an example of recent lawlessness caused by Biden-era policies, the abuse Romero endured happened two decades ago, when George W. Bush was president. That fact alone has led many people on social media to ask how Biden can be to blame.
As he explained in his now-viral video, Katz unearthed a press release from Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) office dated Jan. 11, 2023 — shortly after Britt was sworn in — describing a trip to Texas. Blackburn, Britt and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) traveled to the southern U.S. border to assess the migrant situation Republicans have been railing against since Biden took office.
A photograph in the press release showed the senators holding a roundtable discussion alongside a Mexican congresswoman, a Fox News contributor and Romero. Britt later released a video from the trip showing her hugging the activist.
For years, Romero has been telling her story to raise awareness about sex trafficking — she also shared it during a congressional hearing in 2015.
In that sworn testimony nine years ago, Romero said that she was forced to have sex with thousands of men over four years of her life, starting at the age of 12, until she was rescued in 2008. Bush would have been president throughout that time.
Further, while Britt implied in her speech that Romero’s abuse had taken place in the United States, Romero testified that it actually happened entirely in Mexico. She made no mention of drug cartels.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mice elf
well, well bless her heart
well, well
bless her heart
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Strangha
Gotta see this. Scarlett
Gotta see this. Scarlett Johansson as Katie Britt on the SNL cold open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfLpuLdF8Q She even talks about the BS I posted above.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: (~)};)StealYourFace
yikes Migrants in my fridge..
yikes Migrants in my fridge...
LOL
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
This whole kitchen thing , to
This whole kitchen thing , to be fair a shit ton of parties end up in the kitchen.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: That’s Nancy with the laughin’ face
Britt is more educated than
Britt is more educated than most of her cohort, and destined to lose her license to practice law after hitching her faux kitchen table to the house of MAGA
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: (~)};)StealYourFace
preggers and barefoot in the
preggers and barefoot in the kitchen would have been a better look for Britt and the GOP...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee
Nice job by Scarlett and the
Nice job by Scarlett and the SNL writers to come up with that in 48 hours.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: pride of cupertino
Joe was right on.
Joe was right on.
And fuck his scumbag opponent. Even John McCain didn't want nothing to do with that motherfucker. Too bad McCain isn't still around to say, "Yeah well, I like guys that don't get indicted."