Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Open Thread for the State of the Uniom Speech. Update!

I think this screw up is probably a good indication of how FUBAR'd this speech is going to be.

Also how FUBAR'd the actual state of union is regardless of how Trump might describe it tonight. 

Like I said before, I'm not watching.

However I also knew that whatever I posted in this slot would invariably receive tons of comments about the speech, so why not leave a space for those very comments?

To start you of here are a couple of things to watch for.

The audience will be filled with both Dreamers and representatives of the #MeToo movement.

Melania Trump is expected to end her self imposed exile after the Stormy Daniels story broke, and make an appearance at the speech as well. (Maybe she can get a seat in the #MeToo section.

Those who do watch the actual televised speech will also have the opportunity to enjoy an advertisement calling for Trump's impeachment paid for by billionaire Tom Steyer. So that will be nice. 

I will update this post as information about the speech becomes available.

P.S. And on a serious note, whatever you do, do NOT play a drinking game which has you take a shot every time Trump tells a lie, or you are certain to die from alcohol poison.

Update: Apparently Melania got her own ride to the SOTU:

In a break with longstanding tradition, Melania Trump opted to ride with the guests she invited to share her first lady's box during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. 

The motorcade ride, from the White House south lawn to the Capitol building, is just a handful of minutes, but for a first couple who has not been publicly seen together since New Year's Eve, the separate cars were another in a string of isolated movements from a very independent first lady.
Somehow Daniels (Well we have to assume it's Daniels.) was pressured into stating that she did NOT have an affair with Trump, even after passing a lie detector test saying she did for interview in In Touch magazine, but clearly Melania ain't buying it.

Update 2:
Wait, nobody called him a liar? This would be the perfect time to call him a liar.

Update 3: I feel their pain.
Update 4: And the hits just keep on coming.
More nuclear weapons, more prisons, more racism. Lucky us.

106 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:25 PM

    I can't wait not to see this pile of shit. Trump will read haltingly from the teleprompter, weaving his ugly orange head from side to side and occasionally doing his weird hand thing (which may even be on the teleprompter). A lot of words will be read and then Trump will lose control of his impulses and begin to ad lib after which he'll go back to the teleprompter before he gets too lost.

    All of it will be lies. He'll take credit for all of Obama's employment policies- that he's continuing uncredited- that have been reducing unemployment on exactly the same trajectory since 2011.

    He'll make a lot of menacing noises about North Korea because he'd like to have the country scared and on a fake war footing because he thinks it'll be good for society. I'm not kidding, he said that.

    Then there are the other dozen things he's the best at, whatever they are. He'll reel off his usual predictable laundry list of superlatives. Oh, and no collusion.

    The end.

    Stockbroker friend's office has a sweep for how many times Trump says billions and billions. :D

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    1. Meme: Breaking Photo of Putin Finishing up the Details of Trump's State of the Union Speech
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  2. Anonymous4:50 PM

    Time for Trump to take a dump, and wipe his ass with the Constitution.

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  3. Anonymous4:51 PM

    Ok, onstead, how bout u take a shot every time he says Believe Me or That I Can Tell You?

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    1. Anonymous5:06 PM

      or holds his little fingers out making an O with his teensy pinky sticking out.

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    2. Anonymous7:05 PM

      Wp

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    3. Anonymous7:09 PM

      Or says "I" or "me".

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  4. Anonymous4:52 PM

    Will he have a "defective mike", causing him to snort after every sentence? Will he drink with both hands, like a toddler learning to hold a sippy cup? Will his speech deteriorate into a thick tongued slur of gobbled words?
    Those would be the ONLY things I would tune in to watch, but I cannot torture myself by listening to Mr. Monotone slowly struggle to read his teleprompter speech of lies.

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  5. Anonymous5:15 PM

    Where's the scrawl with the names of people making donations to have their names shown on TV?

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    1. Anonymous6:04 PM

      I think that's on his website, which is live streaming the 'speech.'

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    2. Anonymous6:06 PM

      I wondered that as well. It is unbelievably obnoxious to use the State of the Union speech as an opportunity to fund his next election.

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  6. slipstream5:34 PM

    The state of the uniom is covfefe.

    A big steaming pile of covfefe.

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  7. Anonymous5:42 PM

    Just watched the beginning where toxic trump stood there and clapped for himself as he usual does,like the clapping monkey.

    Proceeded to change channel since one year of lies is enough,sure fact checkers are working overtime!

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  8. Anonymous5:43 PM

    If he would stop clapping into the mic! God he's an idiot!

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    1. Anonymous6:28 PM

      And it's such a baby clap.

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    2. Anonymous6:51 PM

      Kennedy's speech. Wow. Inspiring.

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    3. Anonymous7:11 PM

      Yes and the young people were enthusiastic!

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  9. Anonymous5:45 PM

    I think his handlers give him antipsychotic meds before primetime. His voice sounds different and his mouth is dried out. He is slurring roads already. Should be funny.

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    1. Anonymous6:25 PM

      His quack doctor must have given him a double dose of valium,he almost put himself to sleep.

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    2. Anonymous6:28 PM

      Totally. I love, though, how now and then a key word comes out--"Isis!"--as if he has Tourettes.

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  10. Anonymous5:47 PM

    schmiiiii, schmiiiiii, schmiiiiii, schmiiiiii
    What is UP with his phucking snorting.

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  11. Anonymous5:50 PM

    Watched the opening and first minutes of the speech. Melania is pissed and glaring as Trump spoke. She isn’t a happy woman. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!

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    1. Anonymous7:08 PM

      https://nypost.com/2018/01/30/melania-arrives-at-state-of-the-union-without-trump/

      on her own

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  12. Anonymous5:54 PM

    Either stormy weather just pulled a 15 mins of fame publicity stunt or she is just stating she didn't have an affair but a few one night stands.

    If nothing happened why did trump pay her to shut up and if he didn't pay her,why isn't she talking?

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    1. Anonymous6:47 PM

      A one night stand is one night.
      A few is an affair.

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    2. Anonymous6:54 PM

      Syphillis in her brain? Just a guess.

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    3. Anonymous7:25 PM

      Maybe he did pay her for sex.Which would then make it neither an affair or a one night stand.

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    4. Anonymous9:28 PM

      Notice that oh-so-very Trumpy phrase tossed in the second letter: “trust me”. He must have dictated this

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  13. abbafan6:04 PM

    they (repigs) got to her...

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  14. Anonymous6:11 PM

    Did you see where Rep. Gosar has asked Capitol police to arrest DREAMers? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/30/gop-rep-paul-gosar-calls-dreamers-arrested-state-union-speech/1080457001/

    Hmmmmmm - who works for him?

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    1. Anonymous9:32 PM

      And, DID they???
      (I hope, they had more common courtesy...)

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  15. Anonymous6:14 PM

    Teleprompter trump speaking in monotone about building up nuclear arsenal.

    There is no such thing as chain immigration, this is alternative fact for republicans to demonize family immigration, just ask melanomia what that is.

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  16. Anonymous6:16 PM

    Shit, didn't realize it was Tuesday. Thanks to all that watched and provided updates. Sounds like he wasn't absolutely unhinged but just his usual dumb self.

    'Merica, Fuck Yea!

    (okay, not so much)

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    1. Anonymous7:03 PM

      He just read the speech in a monotone,nothing inspiring, dog whistles to his base about criminal immigrants immigrant,fact checkers are going to be really busy,

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  17. Anonymous6:20 PM

    Every time Melania shakes someone's hand, I bet they are thinking about where that hand has been.

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  18. Anonymous6:23 PM

    He knocked it out of the park. Unfortunately for you US hating libs, people will MAGA with or without you.

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    1. Anonymous6:39 PM

      Hey man, I hate the guy, but I do so love the thousands I'm seeing each month from the market.

      We have a crazy POTUS be he's making my cash flow AND my retirement accounts sweeter each and every day. Thanks crazy Trump.

      I suppose all you deplorables are rather happy with how your portfolios are performing as well?

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    2. Anonymous6:42 PM

      Put down the bong and walk away Sarah

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    3. Anonymous6:58 PM

      You must have been watching a repeat of Obama's speech,even the republicans couldn't get out of there fast enough Lol

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    4. Anonymous7:05 PM

      Only a moron would think he knocked it out of the park.
      Your a moron.

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    5. Anonymous7:05 PM

      You are a fool,America was already great before trump illegally took office.
      FAKE PRESIDENT with cheesy hats made in china.

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    6. Anonymous7:05 PM

      Said the crack demented...

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    7. Anonymous7:13 PM

      Were you watching Trump's speech or Putin's? You were in a very small park that he knocked it out of!

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    8. Anonymous7:13 PM

      Only a moron would think trump has any influence over the stock market.

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    9. Anonymous7:16 PM

      Why does melanomia only wear clothes by foreign designers, so much for MAGA,as first"lady" she doesn't even support American jobs.

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    10. Anonymous7:18 PM

      MAGA.

      and you are welcome.

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    11. Anonymous7:23 PM

      And here you are,crawling on all fours to a Liberal blog to make yourself feel better about your pussy-grabber-in-chief.

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    12. Anonymous8:14 PM

      LOL,MAGA, no more work visas for trump organization, put his money where mouth is and hire Americans. Plenty of unemployed steelworkers he lied to that need jobs!

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    13. Anonymous8:30 PM

      Donald's speech was devoid of emotion. He was stoned. That's what I saw.

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    14. Anonymous12:05 AM

      MAGAMAGAMAGAMAGA!

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    15. Anonymous2:15 AM

      Donald is the genius chosen one who was marked to lead this country thru it's most delicate and dangerous times.

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    16. Anonymous3:45 AM

      6:39 Us, too! Up alot of $$$$$$ and no AMT. Yet, my sister who voted for him will lose her job helping blind kids in a state funded service.

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    17. Anonymous3:46 AM

      Trolling is a sickness, 6:23 PM. You shouldn't get drunk before watching the pussy-grabber-in-chief tell lies. You are alone and grasping for attention, slug.

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  19. Anonymous6:27 PM

    His other speeches were criticized for being completely devoid of personal anecdotes and feeling. This one is half filled with stories about fifteen guests. Interesting people. Filler for his vague speech and lack of inspiration in his own words and thoughts and experiences.

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  20. Anonymous6:48 PM

    That Guantanamo Bay: doesn't that belong to Cuba? Can't they rescind their agreement to use their soil for torture?

    NOT watching the 'State of the UnioM'!

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    1. Anonymous7:17 PM

      No we own Gitmo.

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    2. Anonymous9:39 PM

      Not so sure the Cubans are really what you would call anti-torture. Oh BTW Gitmo is ours through some crazy ass perpetual lease from 1903.

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  21. Anonymous6:52 PM

    Fantastic speech by Joe Kennedy.

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    1. Anonymous8:16 PM

      Now that was what a speech is suppose to do,inspire people.

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  22. Anonymous6:55 PM

    Yay Joe Kennedy! Tell it.

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    1. Anonymous7:25 PM

      I got choked up listening. And that pin-drop silence at moments--wow. Poetic speech. Just great.

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  23. Anonymous6:55 PM

    A Kennedy is speaking. I see a presidential candidate.

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    1. Anonymous7:26 PM

      Definitely veep, at least.

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    2. Anonymous3:46 AM

      enough dynasties though.

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  24. Anonymous6:56 PM

    Keep Gitmo open,trump and his fellow traitors will be the next "guests"

    Boy everyone sure cleared out fast,nothing inspiring at all about his speech,all he did was read someone elses words.

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    1. Anonymous7:26 PM

      And half was stories about victims and heroes. Without that, he had nothing.

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    2. Anonymous8:59 PM

      He bored the Hell out of me. Slow in delivery and very uninspiring to say the least! He's a fraud!

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    3. Anonymous3:47 AM

      low info dumb murikans were his target audience obviously.

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  25. Anonymous7:16 PM

    Liar.
    Uninspired!

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  26. Anonymous7:34 PM

    BREAKING: Trump just finished selling his latest scam to the American people -- infrastructure fraud.

    In his first State of the Union speech, Trump promised to put $200 billion into the hands of greedy private corporations like his own to give them unprecedented control -- and even ownership -- over our roads, water systems, power grid, airports, public buildings, and other critical public infrastructure systems.

    Just imagine: tolls on every new highway and soaring power and water bills for every American.

    This can't become another Trumpcare. We need to make sure that Trump's proposal is dead on arrival in the House and Senate. Will you chip in $5 to help us deliver a powerful message to Congress that America rejects Trump's infrastructure fraud?

    Trump is talking about taking our most critical public goods -- the roads we drive on, the pipes that deliver water to our homes, the train tracks that transport goods, the cables that deliver power, our internet lines, and telephone services to our homes -- and putting them into the hands of big corporations whose only job is to make more money for shareholders -- not to serve the public.

    And once the infrastructure is built, those corporations will have tolls, rents, and fees that the users of those services will have to pay -- because the corporations that build the infrastructure will own it. Not the public.(1)

    Let's be clear: Trump wants to use $200 billion of taxpayer money to partner with big corporations to rebuild America’s crumbling roads, bridges, and dams -- and let the corporations profit from them. It's a terrifying prospect.

    We've stopped Trump's terrible ideas before, but we can't let his infrastructure plan become like the border wall, which has now entered the mainstream of American political discourse as a fait accompli. Democrats can't give a single inch. We have to support those that hold firm to progressive values, and demonstrate that there's a severe political cost for those who don't.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/30/trump-is-going-to-propose-an-infrastructure-plan-tonight-its-a-scam

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  27. Anonymous7:35 PM

    I heard yelling every so often,anyone know what that was about?

    Worst speech ever,at least he is consistent,worst inaugration ever,worst first term ever,worst SOU ever !

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  28. Anonymous7:56 PM

    Members objected when he lied and said chain migration means unlimited family members can enter the US. I guess they were surprised that he lied - not sure why they were surprised.

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  29. Anonymous8:07 PM

    I couldn't watch. I watched Create TV about carpentry and traveling. There's only so much a human can take, and I've listened to Trump for a year now, and I am ready for another reality. His is too make believe.

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  30. Anonymous8:07 PM

    It has been a long time since a State Of The Union response was good, but Democratic Rep. Joseph Kennedy III gave a great speech that launched a new national political star.

    Kennedy said, “It would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos. Partisanship. Politics. But it’s far bigger than that. This administration isn’t just targeting the laws that protect us – they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.”

    Rep. Kennedy talked about the American promise and offered a positive vision for the future combined with a devastating critique of Trump.

    Video of Rep. Kennedy:

    http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/30/star-born-joseph-kennedy-iii-nailed-sotu-response-trump.html

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    1. Anonymous2:57 AM

      Thank you!

      A bright spot, much needed.

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  31. Anonymous8:10 PM

    We have a senile mentally ill racist traitor giving the State of the Union address who wasn’t even legitimately elected President of the United States – and he’s so far gone, he can no longer even pronounce the name of the guy who came before him.

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    1. Anonymous12:03 AM

      lol. yes in fact, he was legitimately elected as President. very much so. president. trump. it is a done deal dude.

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    2. Anonymous4:01 AM

      12:03 AM is having a Trump pussy-grab orgasm again.

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  32. Anonymous8:17 PM

    Spent the evening watching David Letterman interview President Obama on Netflix. A very worthwhile evening and no more need be said. Peace and blessings to us all. There is goodness in this world 🌎

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  33. Anonymous8:24 PM

    I have never felt so low, am i the only one?

    We have an idiot as President.We have a First Lady who shows up in white to protest women being used because she's okay with it. I don't even know how we got so far from President Obama and it came to this, who knew there was a seething mass of rednecks so pissed and so willing to blame others for their own lack.

    My America is dying before my eyes.

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    1. Stop it. Snap out of it. Do something to change the current situation. For example, have you tried joining #Postcardstovoters? Find @Democratwit on Twitter; instructions to join are listed there. It at postcardstovoters.org.

      It’s part of Russian Active Measures to make us feel despair.

      I do about 10 cards a day for #postcardstovoters. It has been a blast to see so many Democrats compete so well across the country. Currently we’re trying to flip a Congressional seat in PA (Lamb!). But I’ve worked on several state senate campaigns, too. You can do it from home and it’s fun. It’s therapeutic. Did you know every AL Democrat got a postcard from #postcardstovoters in the Jones campaign?

      That’s what I’m talking about. Join the Blue Wave! We can and will turn things around this year!

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    2. Anonymous3:48 AM

      yep. time to get out. I am.

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    3. Anonymous4:34 AM

      You can also stamp your dollars with get money out of politics. Check Moveon for more information. We got into this situation due in large part to Citizens United. When the Koch brothers, and the Mercer family can pour unlimited amounts of cash to buy politicians, it's a direct assault on democracy.

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  34. Anonymous8:29 PM

    He seemed awfully calm. WTF? Was he medicated?

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  35. Anonymous8:29 PM

    Stormy on kimmel,big nothing however insinuated that is not her signature on the above posted letter.

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    1. Anonymous9:41 PM

      What happens to the Uniom when the pee tape turns out to have Vlad in it too?

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  36. Anonymous9:12 PM

    Trump supporters are under the impression that they will be seeing their tax break next month,boy are they in for a big surprise since the tax scam is for 2018.

    I can't wait to see their excuses,besides it is Obama's fault

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  37. Anonymous9:48 PM

    The whole thing was a hot plate of lies and racism with a steaming side dish of bullshit. To add to the circus, Trump kept enthusiastically clapping for himself like a toddler. whenever the audience applauded. I couldn't stop laughing! I was crying!

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  38. My Mother and I ended up in the Vet Hospital emergency room (ruptured cruciate ligament on our 90 lb lab.) and they had the TV on and the SOTUniom was on. Didn’t want to ask that they change it. A few people were sitting in front and may have been watching.

    I will say I didn’t hear him say Hillary’s name, brag about his inauguration crowd or claim “no collusion” so can’t say to what extent he publicly embarrassed the United States (again).

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    1. Anonymous4:36 AM

      I was pleasantly surprised that Trump evidently practiced his delivery of the speech instead of monotone reading.

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    2. I did notice that. I wasn't paying attention to his actual words, but I did notice the delivery did not sound like a 7 year old reading a book report.

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    3. abbafan3:46 PM

      I did not watch the SOTU last night, as I had earlier finished painting my hallway; I was too busy watching the paint dry...

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  39. Anonymous10:44 PM

    The cartoon character faces of Ryan, McConnel and Pence was funny to watch. They looked so content with their front man.
    I imagine Putin looking even more placid thinking what a genius he was for backing this idiotic American. Or blackmailing, whichever was the case.

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  40. Anonymous1:13 AM

    The reaction of the generals gives me hope that they would refuse an order to go to nuclear war. Hopefully the kid holding "the football" feels the same.

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  41. Anonymous2:08 AM

    It was magnificent. I blew a boner through my Wranglers.

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      That was your hand.

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  42. That was the kind of lies and con job Trump has been spewing for 40 years and I still don't understand how Americans could have voted him president last year, if they had been paying attention to his BS for the last 40 years.

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  43. Anonymous3:40 AM

    We're goin' to war....he has no choice but to jin up patriotism and bring on The Rapture.

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    1. Anonymous4:42 AM

      At one point he spoke of to invoked God. I thought where is Trump? He went all Evangelical altering his persona.

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    2. Anonymous10:32 AM

      https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/north-koreas-deadly-dictator/

      watch that^

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  44. Anonymous3:55 AM

    I did not watch the nasty liar nor the rebuttal afterwards. I skipped it all. Nothing he says except "I resign" will do. I see nothing more than a liar and nasty dirty human who has hurt so many. A Russian kgb rigged election is not fact. It is a crime. fact.

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    1. Anonymous7:30 AM

      Facts? What 'Facts'?

      Blog fantasy does not count.

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  45. Anonymous3:58 AM

    Sarah Palin wasn't invited? But she is a Trump supporter.

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  46. Anonymous10:27 AM

    Alaska

    https://www.dermotcole.com/blog/2018/1/30/rphoqaxyqzmptoxrhf4fisas3je93x

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  47. Anonymous1:07 PM

    If you listened carefully, trump campaigned using the word REPLENISH when he spoke of our military armaments. He also campaigned on DISARMING defenders of the Constitution as well as the SNEAK ( Military ) ATTACK in his second Presidential Candidate debate.

    He had made many trips to Colorado Springs Co. where his RR/Military base exists. These are the where the 200 or so military backers would meet with trump, and this is where he was informed and CONNED into their Determinism of Military superiority when it comes to making the right decisions about war. Every war has examples they draw on to say why by example, the President's decision was inferior to the military advise. As a result, trump has given the launch to the field military, so they can act swiftly, and acting swiftly in offensive postures is part of their SNEAK ATTACK strategy to beat M.A.D.

    What greater example to world can trump give of his unquestionable authority under the guidance of the military RR to act than with the Fire and Fury they have him quoting from Isaiah 65:15??

    There is no need for MORE weaponry, we have enough to make the entire world uninhabitable at a GREATER RATE than is currently occurring, the leak on REPLENISHING points to a plan that is unpublished and is based on the wrong application of scripture, these freaks think they are the firepower of God that will come down, so do the Russians to be fair, the air force has a patron saint who symbolized great destroying fire from above.

    The snakeoil that drives the W.H. is theocratic dominionism. Look it up, the game afield is for the watering hole like in 2001 a Space Odyssey, it is for tribal self preservation, not diplomacy, tribe to tribe. The so-called inspired are claiming Adam's lost dominion for themselves, that is their claim to fame.

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  48. Anonymous1:18 PM

    Update on the WIn 10 Home Hijack:
    Windows cloud services I do not use are in play, like Win Family and friends and Remote Desktop which is not a part of WIn 10 Home.

    My term has been hijacked and admin control shared with some friends I did not invite.
    Look for a Remote Desktop file in DOCs that is empty and shaded admin settings with no access as the Admin. This is not Government it is private sector, around here the local telecom has been invading PC's for some time acting as Homeland Security for two counties, they have the network guy who is the programmer hack for local intrusions.

    Free speech is no longer free, the crooks can shut down any free speech in a jerk and who you gonna tell if you cannot get out?

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