It’s no secret that I’m somewhat less than enamored of Donald Trump as a person, and not terribly impressed with him as a president (‘better than Hillary” is not exactly a glowing encomium). But there’s ONE thing he could do which would cause me to admire him. Yes, not give a SOTU speech, complete with props (human and inanimate) and stagecraft, but revert back to the previous custom of literally mailing it in. But keeping Trump away from the spotlight is akin to getting between Gloria Allred and a TV camera, so that’s not going to happen.
So, given the inevitable, here’s a chance for you, the wise and always entertaining Glibertariat, to give your thoughts beforehand and as it happens.
Virginia Postrel would be proud.
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460 responses to “State of the Union Open Thread”
Maxine Waters is gonna be Fun!
I won’t be watching. Unless Ivanka is getting naked, I see no reason to.
I vant a Ivanka, ya?
Ordinarily I would agree, but If there’s any President I would actually want to give a SOTU, it’s Trump. In sheer entertainment value alone, he’s been the best president of the past four decades.
I’m doing the C-SPAN feed on PC, I can’t wait for the Dem Derp, plus I can play Yahtzee and listen…
Meh. I’ll read the transcript tomorrow.
I was hoping he’d be sitting in front of his TV watching Congress as he Tweeted it in.
No, A live Feed of him tweeting while watching Congress on TV, and them with a feed of the WH
I think DJT is the best President in my 54 Years on Earth, He is implementing policies when no one is looking, cutting Regs, and pissing off the Left.
I didn’t vote at all last year, being from California and I never expressed interest in DJT, people just assumed, like they assume I’m a Republican, that I supported DJT.
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
I didnt vote DJT either. However, I fully agree when I read/hear anyone type/say “this country dodged a giant bullet by not electing Hillary”.
Her war-boner, and the added debts called in by the Saudis, Egyptians, and all the defense contractors that gave generously to her “charity”….
I was fully ready to pull Johnson, but the last few days of that campaign screamed ‘DON’T FUCKING VOTE FOR ME’.
So I held my nose and voted Trump.
I’m actually starting to really enjoy Troll President. The constant tweeting gives the left vapors and they don’t know whether to shit or wind their watch. If he got rid of Sessions and pushed state’s rights for drug laws, I’d probably volunteer for his campaign.
I was really pissed because Oregon does automatic vote by mail so I’d already sent in my ballot before Johnson opened his big fat mouth that last week. I wanted to drive over to the county clerk and burn the building down to take my ballot with it.
Gotta say I really don’t get “early voting” for that exact reason.
I was fully ready to pull Johnson
Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Repost since the other thread is dead.
OK Glibs, unusual question: have any of you ever had orthognathic surgery before and if so, was it worth it?
Up until I was 18 I had a perfect bite. Due to excess production of HGH, my jaw continued to grow for 10 more years. I now have a class 3 underbite that I’ve lived with mostly because it doesn’t cause any cosmetic issues or pain. However, my dentist recently recommended I look into the surgery because my teeth have started to grind down in unsavory ways. If I don’t get it fixed, he thinks I’ll have to get dentures in another 10-20 years. Thoughts?
Q, i had really bad teeth, but my jaw was fine, and I got Dentures at 49. Depending on how old you are, you might just want to hang with what you have and get em replaced later in Life, IMO
Thanks Yusef.
after a tiny bit of research Yusef says NO and FUCK NO! Invasive surgery on your Face? Deal with it if you can, and by the time your teeth wear out your jaw will settle in and Dentures/implants will work well for you
/Bad Teeth Bob
My sister had something like that when she was ~17. As best I can remember, she had a severe underbite and the surgeon broke her jaw to realign it. It was very painful and her jaw was wired shut for some time. No issues with it since the surgery so I’d guess she’d say it was worth it.
I had a palatal expansion when I was 26, which, as an adult with fully fused bones, required surgery to cut my face into pieces. No big deal. Then I needed a gum graft to fix the recession from all the movement (10 mm of palate expansion). Again, no big deal. I can’t truly speak to the cost/benefit because it was all covered by insurance + parents, but I’m glad I did it. Of course, if you’re not into blood, it’s an entirely different story.
MSNBC just now
“Trump is calling for war w/ North Korea for bringing up Otto Wambier”
whoops
The correct response is Gilmored it.
Start with MI Plus paste. See if it helps before you consider surgery.
Oh, I hope she sneezes and that wig flies across the room. Ideally, it will be pinned to some ridiculous cowboy hat.
Wrong black woman, Can’t you tell the difference? RACIST!
Dude….thats a total wig. For further reference, so is this:
http://www.trbimg.com/img-5a6effc0/turbine/os-corrine-brown-reports-to-prison-0129
I get that, but Sheila Jackson Lee is the idiot with the hats, just say’n…
Umm….I’ll just leave this here:
https://downtrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/frederica-600-x-337.jpg
Whatever, they all look alike to me……
/or is there more than one?
And whats with the looking up bald Black woman thing? some new Fetish?
Whats with the “COWBOY” hat?
Appropriations!
You get APPROPRIATIONS! and You get APPROPRIATIONS!
and You get APPROPRIATIONS!
I’m in no mood for His Orangeness, because my new BluRay of Zulu is supposed to be delivered tonight! Gotta pick up scotch after work and relax with some quality Michael Cain.
Also on the way is even better Man Who Would Be King but that won’t be here until Thursday or later.
Have you seen Zulu? Fantastic movie!, enjoy
Ages ago, yes. I even found Zulu Dawn at some point later. Not as good, but it felt good to see Zulus at their most intimidating.
Despite high quality, I wouldn’t mind a remake of either movie, if it were made more historical without being preachy. There was an episode of Battlefield Detectives that dispelled a lot of myths around either battle which was cool.
You know what would have reduced British casualties at Rorke’s Drift?
A bigger wall.
Just sayin.
When I was in medical school our neighbor was a former army general who was then a bigwig with FEMA. He had a passion for the movie Zulu. After our house burned down (another story for another day) we stayed at his house until we could get our act together and head to a hotel; during our time there he made me watch a VHS of “Zulu” with him one evening, and I admit it was a pretty great movie. It was even better with his commentary about all the military history and strategy that was relevant to the film. That’s the only time I ever saw it, and I can’t imagine seeing it without his insights. RIP General.
Great opening narration from Richard Burton. Plus a kickass John Barry score.
I would like to say something to those of you that didn’t vote for me….
Fuck you!
And to those that voted for me…
Fuck you too!
Hillary Clinton.
And in that photo montage above.. Is Maxine thinking he was not too bad for a honkey, while Orange is thinking WTF was I thinking when I tapped that…
Now all I’m seeing when I look at her is Florence the maid.
Or George Jefferson, when he talks to Tom Willis?
Yup, via that.
Fucking Gross! thanks Alex!
“Zulu” is a good film but I think tonight calls for “Idiocracy” and bourbon. Luckily I will still be at work while his orangeness speaks.
Like 1 or 2 pm there?
4pm until daylight saving starts and then it would be 3pm. The nice part is the NFL comes on at 7am.
John Wick 2 or Breaker Morant.
Hmmm.
eh. is there a stream of it?
I’m too lazy to lookmy internet is downCspan
UCLA won by 15
United Cunning linguist Lickers Association ?
Ok just finished “What Happened in Vegas” that I posted about in the afternoon links. It’s worth the watch. Most of the doc covers the various high profile police murders that have occurred in Vegas in the last few years. The last twenty minutes deal with the Las Vegas massacre in which they allege that the casino had a back channel for contacting the police that they use when dealing with a high roller that goes unrecorded. Basically the response was incredibly slow due to the police not connecting the security guard shooting with the window shooter because they were not aware of the security guard incident as it was not called in on 911. The sheriff deliberately falsified the timeline of events after the fact to minimize the liability of MGM whom was a huge campaign contributor. Its not too far a stretch to imagine, that town is every bit as corrupt as when it was run by the mafia…..maybe moreso because the criminals are all in the government positions now.
Its on! And I got proper pop-corn, popped in bacon grease. Pairs well with beer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEt3VsNJYyw
The Supremes showed up!
I love Diana Ross
+1 Mahogany
Bernie got a Haircut!
Big league scamming is big pimping. $15 minimum wage and Medicare for all!
Melania! AMERICA Fuck Yeah!
I can’t find myself caring less about the SOTU address, but the +5 Democratic responses are off the hook circus.
Agreed, but I want to compare what He SAYS against the replies
You expect there to be any overlap? I expect the response to be massive Derp, even if what he says is nothing special.
The entire GOV in one room, not good
Imagine if something happened to them….
+1 Debt of Honor
I hear the Sec. of Agriculture would then be the prez…
I thought it would be Jack Ryan.
Clancy died man.. He can’t do it anymore..
Then the Secretary of Agriculture will lead our great nation.
So say we all!
The Christian rightists who liken him to Samson would be way too smug. Although he would have to be thoroughly broken before bringing the house down for the analogy to really hold.
Someone call Keifer!
My salad.
The greens:
Romaine lettuce and spring mix, but who cares?
Fruit:
roasted tomatos, and possibly mango if it’s ripe enough
Veggies:
Roasted red peppers, cucumbers, and shredded carrots.
MEAT:
Mexican rotisserie chicken, dry salami, sopresatta, shredded pepperoni, and bacon crumble
Cheese:
Burrata, shredded whole milk mozzarella, and parmesan from the shaker
Garnish:
Fried onions, croutons, asiago crips, and wonton strips
Dressing:
To be determined. Probably San Pascual with a little chipotle adobo whisked in.
Dessert: Tangerine IPA.
I wonder what Just Say’n is having for dinner?
Tasty meal right there, Pulled beef Sammies over here
Tortilla crusted tilapia, broccoli with fresh parmesan
As I get older I find croutons more and more pointless.
I feel that way about all bread products.
Really. I find them crucial. That up there is way too many ingredients for my taste anymore though.
These euphemisms are getting out of control?
You’ve been talking about salads a lot today.
You deserve some of the credit. By some, I mean all.
Taking credit for talking about salads is the Nick Gillespie of credit
Very nice. Asiago crisps are awesome, and I like what you’re doing with the cured meats.
Hat! HAIR! in the House!
Is the blue tie a sign? a troll move?
what’s it mean?
Those ladies standing and not clapping look pissed or constipated.
Not both?
you never know.
cut scene to Witches, i noticed that
It’s just a overly-concerted cry for proper dick
Uncut?
How are they gonna get their daily dose of smegma?
Kamala Harris Club. 24/7 constipation.
#SOTUSTFU
You think you’re so clever, but one of my super-woke author acquaintances already made that joke. How do you feel now, lizard monster?
Seriously?!? Gojira’s back, and no one mentions it???
Where you been, man?
You’re still here! When do we get another movie review with your awesome rating system?
Weed and whiskey. I’ll get through this.
How surreal is it to see Trump at that podium? I’m just saying that if I travelled back in time and really wanted to blow the mind of me in the past I’d show him this State of the union without comment
Just like Sci Fi, never though it might happen, but here We are…..
It wouldn’t have happened if that idiot time traveler hadn’t stepped off the walkway.
Don’t believe me? Reread the ending of “A Sound of Thunder”.
Think about how lucky we are that this is our timeline though!
we avoided the one where hitler wins, and the one where the soviets don’t implode.
the one where florida goes the other way, and Gore wins twice and Obama refuses to give up being POTUS.
this also isn’t that great, we aren’t the one where the libertarian moment happens.
Yep, i suppose
Can you not imagine Hillary telling the adoring masses the roundups have commenced and the deplorables will comply or serve?
Truly, a libertarian moment.
Turns out there is no timeline where the libertarian moment happens.
The libertarian moment already happened. 1776.
Look back at the world before that. Unfortunately the libertarian moment isnt as libertarian as we would like and it has to be fought for daily.
Cajun Navy!1!!1
God, I hate the bit of introducing people in the stands.
I was just going to say that. It’s annoying no matter what president.
Tuck in your shirt Scalise. Not classy
This is the best trolling I have ever seen.
Do you know why they call it an Xbox 360?
because when you see it, you do a 360 and walk away.
Technically to walk away you’d do a 180.
Dats da joke
Any shot of a sad Pelosi is a good shot of a Pelosi.
Are there any other shots? Maybe a money shot?
Wow… just wow.
That actually got my gorge to rise a little bit.
Well played, Sir.
Patriotism! Jingoism! Propaganda Sandwiches for all!
I love the dems confusion. Do we clap? Do we not clap? Clap but not stand?
they all just look so angry.
I can’t stand the constant clapping from either side.
it’s dumb, but it’s happened every year.
Trump keeps clapping into the mic.
The answer is clear. They should take a knee.
It’s like church on the GOP side. Sit, stand, sit, stand. But yeah, the kneeler is missing.
THIS IS A SCAM
Paul Ryan looks dead inside. He looks like a man who stared into the void, the void stared back at him, then he reluctantly endorsed that void, and now it’s president
Paul Ryan lies awake at night trying to think of the exact moment when he made the first decision that set him on the path that led him here. Like an alcoholic in a gutter looking back on his life in search of where exactly it all went wrong.
He definitely cries himself to sleep.
When he stopped banging Jerry Ryan is when it all went wrong…
Maybe he shouldn’t be such a tool, then.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho’s State of the Union this is not. I can still hope.
God He looks like Mussolini with his expressions, really look at him..
needs to slam his fists on the podium more.
One of the best episodes of The Office.
I’m glad you knew exactly what I was talking about.
I have to take Amtrack twice a week. Trust me, the man has not managed to make the trains run on time. Obviously not Mussolini. Fake news.
Try a car Bob
As a Glib, I’m mortally opposed to roads.
He is loving this more than anything he’s ever done. No fucking way he mails it in next time.
tax bill! and there are people not clapping or standing about people taking more money home.
My exact thought. I can’t believe it’s come to this.
The left knows it is their money you Kulak!
Not giving to the “community” and “greater good” is taking from widows and orphans.
I just want to thank all of you for watching and snarking so that I don’t have to. The wife and I are watching The Open House and being underwhelmed by it. This is paradise compared to the alternative, which would be playing video games while my wife pauses MSNBC’s coverage of the SOTU every five minutes to demand that I share her outrage.
My wife has a guilty pleasure of that show “Say Yes to the Dress”. I told her I would watch that with her before I’d watch the SoTU. Of course rather than that I think I’d be more pleased to walk down the center stripe of a busy street.
Agreed. Thank you all for watching and commenting.
My wife and I ate dinner, where I talked her into buying good weight lifting shoes for her and my stepson.
Now, I’m enjoying a beer while reading these hilarious Glib comments. This is great!
Hawks vs preds, and drunk history are also on, if you get tired of the clapping.
Bruins just scored, the Ducks are up 2-1 now with a few minutes left.
oops. 3-1 now, game pretty much over.
Ooh, I have the Hawks game on in front in me, and the hubs has the SOTU on the PC behind me, but I had forgotten that Drunk History was on too.
I get no tax breaks in all this but others do and will spend money on my services, so i still win, explain that to a Progtard
AFAIK most of the “losers” are people in blue states who are doing quite comfortable. The Left doesn’t give a shit about any of this except as it impacts their ability to launder our tax dollars for votes.
That sounds right. which is unfortunate, I want everyone to pay less in taxes.
Yeah, well, those people should take that up with their states and cities.
100%
The political class in the blue state is up in arms, because all the rich lib donors are about to take it in the ass now. I bet you these douchebags that constantly tell the rest of us how happy they are to pay extra taxes are no longer going to be doing any of that to help the usual tax & spend assholes that run the blue states.
I sincerely hope this leads to some reform. I don’t like people getting screwed on taxes either but I can tell you right now as a lifetime blue-stater there is NO other way these fuckers will get the message than by turning off the spigot.
Exactamente.
Propaganda Sandwiches for all!
THERE IT IS
Copsucking?
Anthem. Pure trolling.
Yup. Watching them Dems stew over calls for standing for the anthem is pretty damn epic.
That train’s always on time.
oof.
The Hat?
Lolwhut? >
Emotional Support Peacock DENIED!
There’s a bunch of angry old ladies wearing black who look like they need an emotional support peacock.
Did you say cock?
A peacock is a large, loud, wild bird. Are emotional support zebras next?
I wonder how ESPN will react to the comment he made.
Guy sure knows how to anger up the other side. Their sad, dour faces make this viewing experience almost tolerable.
It’s great that they are forced to avoid applause when he says something they should be in favor of just because he is TRUMP!!
Trump is better to listen to than to look at and listen to.
He’s goes from Funny to Serious in the same sentence, an odd speaker to be sure
actually pretty boring for a SOTU, we shall see……….
Oh…this just got a little interesting.
Why do I get the feeling that by “taking care of our veterans” he means spending more money?
Because it’s not a feeling, it’s a certainty. Like death and taxes. Actually, he’s literally talking about death and taxes.
#SWAMPTIME
ohh, a little Journey action
The FBI is a worthless organization.
What has it done right, ever? All they do is fuck things up and sodomize civil liberties.
That’s all.
Hoover may have had something to say about sodomy…..
For or against? Or both?
yes
[Golf clap]
The idiots that think the FISC is some great protector of civil liberties – the damn thing exists because of the rampant lawlessness of the FBI under Hoover. This is why I have to leave the country – because I can’t stand the idiots, and Trump isn’t even really King Idiot – he is more the Court Jester.
Isn’t sodomy actually fucking something up, so to speak?
He wants to let people try drugs? Sessions has a sad.
Fuck Sessions. This is an idea whose time should have come long ago. Wasn’t there some douchebag a week or so back trying to explain why this is bad?
Roadz!!!
from the c span stream.
#STFU
Uh oh. Infrastructure. Everybody cover your shit holes.
Too late, TOK. We need a fiddy-five gallon drum of lube.
STEVE SMITH PREFER GO IN DRY.
All the talk of spending now makes me need to pack another bowl and pour another very, very generous glass of whiskey.
BOHICA
Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
Bowls before, bowls now, Bowls Forevaaahhh!
ROADZ!
finish your beer.
hold up, how much?
ROOOADS!!!
We’re building it with American grit. Is that any cheaper than regular grit?
not since the unions and OSHA got involved
Now with less grit.
Bernie looks like he shit his pants.
But he got a Haircut!
He’s clapping but I don’t think he knows why.
Someone told him we now only have 3 deodorants to choose from…
I LOL’d!
Goddamit. I’ve gone all Brooks.
lost or was no longer forced to buy?
You know the answer…
Ermagerd, Bernie looks like a bad animatron. Like Byrd (WV, KKK) in his last years.
Weekend at Bernie’s is real.
He just brought a bunch of people in to talk and advise on his 2020 run…
BEST F*CK EVAH!
Wait, did I say that out loud?
Paid family leave?
Jesus.
Then prison reform?
The man is like a roller coaster.
But now we can watch the left argue against family leave!
I look forward to the feminists shouting how sexist that is.
A rollercoaster of…pandering?
Zero G-spot.
Gangs! Roads! Illegal immigrants! Shit holes! Where will he go next?!?
“Our Youth…Our Poor…”
Oh, shit.
Fuckin Libertarian, almost, I tell ya, then he fucks it up
It’s crazy. Tax cuts, talk of making it easier to fire government employees. I’m happy. I’m on board. Strong on 2A?! So good.
Then…everything else.
I’m going to be a schizophrenic the day I go to the voting booth.
Same.
Duma with the clapping
They’re just Stalin for time.
BOOOOO
OT: Chiefs trading Alex Smith to Redskins. No word on compensation but deal saves KC $17m.
they were moving to the new era anyway. think they’ll pick a veteran up for a year deal out of free agency?
Maybe. Depends on whether they think Mahones is ready to be a starter. They probably won’t get much in the draft. Smith was reliable but I could never see him leading them on a deep playoff run.
If their defense hadn’t shit the bed, this could have been the year. Not having Berry, Ford, or Jones at the end meant the ability to pressure went away.
They have a great new QB coach just for Mahomes. Guy is Kafkaesque, I tell you.
WHAAAAAAHHHH??
This actually surprises me a bit. Poor ol’ Alex. He could have been a contenda in the right circumstances.
Maybe, but I’m not convinced. You need to be able to throw deep at least a couple of times a game and I never really thought he could do that. That said, I didn’t watch them as much this year as I have in the past.
He was the best deep-ball QB in the league this year, says ProFootballFocus.com
When given time, Smith to Hill was the most devastating combo this year.
Noooooooooo!!!!!
Okay, I kept saying, “The quarterback in your mirror is closer than he appears,” but I didn’t think Mahomes was THAT close!
Cap space I think. $17m a tidy sum.
The Chiefs biggest problem
Schottenheimer had the same problem.
^^^Can confirm
Sucks for Smith, and for the Chiefs in the short term. Sure, under Andy Reid KC’s probably not going to win a SB, but unless Mahomes is the NFL’s next big thing, Smith gave them a better chance for the next couple of years.
On the other end, unless the Skins have some sort of master plan in place, this is really going to suck for Smith. I think he’s a very good QB, but only a few QBs can turn chicken shit into chicken salad, and Smith ain’t one of those. Of course, $17 mil is $17 mil.
Let’s have a crazy 2018 season. Smith and the Skins go to the Super Bowl to face the Chiefs! Smith against his old team! Andy Reid gets another chance to fuck up in a big game! Offensive team name versus offensive team name! Who’s with me?? (I know Ken Shultz is, at least)
“On the other end, unless the Skins have some sort of master plan in place,”
That douchebag owner continuous to try and buy a Superbowl title, leaving the team unable to actually play to win…
Fuck I hate Snyder.
It’s the 21st Century, any one bother with hair dye? these Guys try to look old……..
See that ICE agent is still racist, because he’s one of those “White Hispanics”
Pelosi saying the memo shouldn’t be released is ridiculous. So classified shit can only be released if the dems do it.
It’s only newsworthy if it hurts the democrat’s enemies…
Otherwise it is top secret and a conspiracy to undermine the rightful center of power…
Marco sits?…… Fuck off Slaver
He was just stooping down for some water.
Wouldn’t that mean he was playing Marco Polo?
God damn comb your hair, Rand. Not classy
Hair pick maybe?
Maybe. Rand Paul Hat and Hair guest appearance?
End the Visa lottery?!
Of course. Discover offer a far better cash back program.
American Express-Immigration!
Damn it, who let Sessions write part of the speech?
Sessions came in his pants during that line
Ahem, I will have you know that this is a Family-Friendly Website, Sir.
Yet you reply here?
/Love
Opiod epidemic.
Would that cop’s wife
WAR!!!!
Rousing applause for more defense spending from both sides. Big surprise
Fund the military??! how much more do we need, we spend more than several other major countries combined.
Participating in tribal wars all over Africa and Asia isn’t going to pay for itself duh
The Europeans disagree.
I was going to disagree, then I read the above, Money! the Euros are Whores just like us
Simpler times…
After about a decade of the left going insane, I started having trouble remembering why I’m not a Republican.
Drug war and the never-ending cycle of war. Oh, yeah. I remember.
War sucks, but getting your ass kicked is far worse, so yes, we need a 355 ship Navy, the F-35s, not so much
I think the when possible and when necessary bits might’ve gotten flipped there. When possible annihilate, when necessary detain?
I hear the words enhanced interrogation coming soon.
there it is…
Pirates!!! Kill em all!
Spare the 1979 Pirates, other than that, fuck ’em.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Well show me some thicc then!!!
Do you want the short list, or the long?
Umm, Curvy girls?
hipsandcurves.com
Just found it. Me likey and am pleased with the first order.
Thanks, now i have a new place to buy for the Wife
Cliff notes.
Cliff? no….
We were invited to snark, so that is what we are doing.
Hitler?
Fuck you, Zulu is a classic!
Liquor store, however, was out of Glenlivet so I settled for Glenfyddich. That’s what’s wrong.
Jura.
Indefinite detention and more civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Bigly
Cutting back on foreign aid for the wrong reason is still cutting back on foreign aid.
There’s some noticeable lack of standing when calling out and cutting off funding commies.
You know who else was all about lack of standing?
That guy in the wheelchair who was told by Biden to stand?
God love ya!
Apparently not that nork defector with no feet. That was poorly timed snark.
I am not able to watch it right now.
My only tolerable source for Trump’s SOTU is you people right now.
God help us.
May the tentacly, extradimensional elder gods grant you a quick and merciful death.
Imperialism! Colonialism!
Patriotism! Jingoism! America! Fuck Yeah!
Whut? No pussy hats?
Some Pussy Hats are getting molested tonight!
Classiest State of the Unions ranked
(3) Trump 2020 State of the Union “The Series Finale”
(2) Trump 2018 “Opening Credits”
(1) Trump 2019 “Midseason Cliffhanger”
USA!
USA!
USA!
Well, on the bright side….it’s over.
The drawback is that I have far less whiskey and weed than I did when it started.
plus side is you’re high and drunk?
In that case, *very* plus sided!
Do you still have enough for what is coming?
Oh, the next part is just me lubing my dick up with the tears of the left.
Help take the mind off the bleeding hole violation from the rest of it.
as long as you aren’t out…
I don’t like DJT! so I don’t want good things for the Country, Whaaaaa!!!
/Fuck Dems!
LET THE DERP COMMENCE!
Never live Blogged before, much fun, thanks to all!
*loser cam pan stage right*
YAY! response!
OH MAN IT’S MAXINE TIME
*UNZIPS*
ahhhh Gross!
The Young Turks (which have their own channel) are apoplectic and saying the media is biased against Democrats. I love it.
There are days when I would so smash Ana Kasparian into next week, but those days tend to be my most sociopathic, drunk days, and I worry that she might enjoy it more than I did.
new nose or old nose?
Not sure I’d be concentrating that much, but maybe new. I’m not a nose fetishist and as long as it doesn’t get in the way, I’m good.
I don’t really know. that’s just one of those jokes a bunch of the videos that make fun of TYT include.
“Also, water is bone dry.”
C span is doing Joe Kennedy as the Dem Response, so which is real?
Joe Quimby.
“It’s pronounced dream-ah!”
Dreamah! DREAMAH! I’LL KILL YOU!!!!
Another fucking Kennedy. Really?
Where’s Maxine?
Fuck it, I’m just about ready to Binge DS9, wish me luck!
I’m on the first season of BSG (didn’t have cable when it first came out) and just watched “Hand of God.”
Outstanding!
I’m bingeing on the weekends – up to S03 now. Are you saying you haven’t seen the show? Oooo it’s so great. And don’t listen to the haters. OK, there are lulls in the middle of S02 and S04 but still.
Yep, this is my first time through.
So this State Of The Union was the second longest ever, I am thinking the next one will be even longer, and classier.
Hawks win, pelosi has a sad, drunk history is recorded on the dvr. I’ve had a full night.
Good night glibs!
PC!
MSNBC just now
“Trump is calling for war w/ North Korea by bringing up Otto Wambier”
spicy
Why am i listening to some off-brand kennedy dope? i want Maxine!?
Bring on the ginger potato-head.
Let’s hear how I don’t pay enough taxes from a member of the biggest tax-dodging scheme in the world. Your entire family of drunken hypocrites can fuck right off.
Joe Quimby just started his speech with Russia fever dreams.
Knee deep, yo
He needs a chapstick advisor.
I’m very disappointed by the Maxine thing.
where is it? did i miss something? i’ve had it on mute for 30 mins
I thought Maxine was only supposed to be on BET
The Hill + Buzzfeed seemed to be very explicit in saying she was going to do 2 events, but i realize i may have misread it
I might have been confused by the first 2 bits, where ‘following’ could mean tues or weds, but that latter paragraph seemed pretty specific
I blame incompetent, inarticulate internet journalists.
I have the sound off again. the only person i want to hear is crazy maxxy
i suspect the shiny reminants of drool/chapstick on Kennedy’s mouth is going to be a twitter thing tomorrow
*the only thing that strikes me about this ginger dolt being used to make the ‘response’ speech (i only listened for like 40 seconds, none of which entailed any response to anything as far as i could tell)…
…is that the dems are so shit out of political talent that they have to send in some kid who looks like he finds shaving problematic. schumer or pelosi are just toxic and they know it.
They really think he’s the next Obama. Sad!
The Carmex lips are going to be a thing. Think fast; we could go viral
CHAPPEDAQUIDDICK?
STOLEN
It’s not Carmex, it’s Cosmoline.
Now we all have to try and figure out something the dems never go near until now, that old ginger was fellating.
if i’d taken a screenshot, i might draw an arrow to it and label it “Chowdah”
LOL I was wondering, what the hell
“who’s dick do I have to suck to deliver the democrat response?!” ?
The Democratic response should just be called “let us remind you why you held your nose and voted Republican in the last election”
Q…. Q…
There’s a bunch of white chicks in prom dresses!
Hmmm…
QQ
Saggy girl in a breeze?
“Now the president said in his speech that he wants to keep Gitmo open and loosen the rules of engagement in Afghanistan. I’m not going to address those issues tonight. Instead, I want to talk about feels”
I can’t Gitmo…. Satisfaction!
who’s this ginger fuck and why is he in a chop shop?
He’s a Kennedy. That car just got pulled out of a river. It’s a family tradition.
That’s why his lips are wet.
HAHAHA
Obligatory
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/490286249844822016
Not a peep on Facebook. What a shame.
I was celebratory drinking (unrelated), and I really wanted to talk shit.
It will take 12-17 hours for the talking points to get out.
i give up. i’m not listening to news people babble. I’ll have to rely on youtube to provide me my maxine-joy
links!
Somebody said she was going to be on BET.
That didn’t happen.
that’s tomorrow. she was also supposed to do a response segment tonight. they didn’t say where so i presumed all the networks were carrying her.
I found her here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
Damn you
And here I thought we were done with Kennedys. Ugh.
Don’t call it a comeback!
They truly have been there for years, and years, and years
BAAAAHAHAHAHA
I have to give it to Trump – he has an honest-to-god gift for trolling his opponents and reducing them to quivering little piles of rage jello. Look at this Kennedy larva. He can barely complete a coherent sentence. Now, that might just be inherited Kennedy stupidity, but he’s hardly alone. I don’t have to like the man to appreciate a master craftsman at work. He baited the motherfuckers time and time again and they just kept taking it and going on a blue marlin-like run.
“Don’t want to sound like a dick or nothing, but ahh … says on your chart that you’re fucked up. Ahh, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.”
You know, what I do is I…..heh heh….y’know
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/958547016413564932
neontaster
@neontaster
29m29 minutes ago
“I’m sorry if I seem a bit damp, I had to swim here from my car.”
we have a mole
I knew he hung out here.
I laughed hard.
Not sure why I, but I flipped over to CNN
Got to hear Kamala Harris say that the reason the black caucus did not applaud when Trump mentioned the black unemployment rate being so low was because he didn’t think Obama for that.
She also said the problem with the speech is the American people don’t trust politicians because of Trump.
Trust in politicians was sky high before Nov 2016. Absolutely.
Perhaps he didn’t thank Obama because, y’know, he didn’t accomplish it during his administration?
eh, it was going down during the last few years.
but its still getting better under this ultra racist potus.
*thank* not think
MAGA Barbie is….shall we say…..not bright
Also, am I missing something that happened in 1966?
3:59 PM – 30 Jan 2018
I thought Dana Loesch was MAGA Barbie.
MtNRAGA barbie?
MALIBU BARBIE!
Some have tried to make that case but it doesn’t really work because of her black hair. Barbie has to be a blonde. I know there are lots of Barbie branded dolls of all hair colors and skin tones, but THE Barbie is a blonde.
Barbie has to be a blonde.
Truest sentence written on this site.
Barbie should be a libertarian icon, “Born in Germany in 1952, the inspiration for America’s most famous doll was a saucy high-end call girl named Lilli.” TW autoplay video
Civil Rights Act of 1965?
God damn, she better be a natural blonde or she has no excuse.
Well, it took awhile to kick in.
Contrary to common belief, I was working. What did I miss?
I had a salad.
Scotched eggs and some slurry with seaweed for me.
my girlfriend broke her finger on my truck door.
Two scoops turned his troll game up to 11.
That’s awesome. Which finger?
left pointer. up high by the first knuckle. I still don’t know how she managed that.
Not the one that…. you know.
She’ll fight through it. a real trooper.
I am in Fukuoka and just had some amazing tonkatsu ramen.
And apparently Joe Kennedy has somebody’s spunk all over his face.
Did you get the recipe? For the tonkatsu, obviously.
I did not. Do the restaurants give that out?
If you ask the right questions. Usually, the secret to a good tonkatsu broth is that you can never bring it to a boil. 180-190 all night long.
Damn, that sounds great. I will start inquiring.
I should hope so. Hakata ramen is from Fukuoka after all.
Where did you go? We went to a random ramen place in the basement of one of the buildings near Tenjin station. Had chicken ramen and it was still good.
https://imgur.com/g2XaVnB
I’m trying to work – homework is due for my accounting class tomorrow and there will be a quiz as well – but it’s just too damned funny to tune out completely.
Michael Caine makes an excellent toff.
I like the fact that the speech is more about the special guests than the govt or the prez. The defector from North Korea was inspiring.
It was disappointing that not many on Team Blue clapped for lowest black unemployment ever. I was amused when none of them clapped for the line about the basis of the US being faith and family not govt and bureaucracy. Must have struck nerve with that one.
I wonder how Team Blue will square the circle of thinking Russia is the number threat and Trump wanting to boost military spending to counter Russia.
Good
-right to try for the terminally ill
-tax cuts
-ending visa lottery
-deporting gang members
Bad
-more military spending
-more war on drugs
-border wall
-protectionism
Ugly
-infrastructure boondoggles
-saber rattling with Russia and China
-pointless sanctions and other meddling
Kennedy’s response was lame. Blahblahblah Russia blahblahblah bully.
No spoilers.
Shit.
The new hashtag is #chappyjoe
We used to have Suzy Chapstick.
Mike Pence’s head.
to think we have 3 more of these.
or 7…
I’m scheduled to give the libertarian response at 3 AM on one of those channels that shows those knife infomercials. It will just be me at a table with several bottles of bourbon and a list of every member of Congress, the Cabinet, the President and Vice President in front of me. I will then go on to tell every one of them (with the following exceptions; Amash, Massie, Lee, Paul, Wyden (I know, but at least he’s an ally on civil liberties),DeVos, Pai and Haley) to go fuck themselves.
Sort of a Libertarian Festivus: “I’ve got a lotta problems with you people, and you’re all gonna hear about them!”
My State of the Union Response
-17 years of war, 6800 US service members dead, $4.8 trillion spent, no end in sight
-total US debt: $23 trillion
-value the dollar has lost since 1913: 96%
-incumbent reelection rate: 90%
-number congressional acts passed since 2001: over 1,000
-total number of laws: too many to count
-number of laws regarding guns: over 20,000
-number of illegal drugs in 2018: dozens
-number of illegal drugs in 1906: 0
-number of workers per retiree in 1960: 5
-number workers per retiree in 2018: 3
Fuck you, cut spending, repeal laws.
What are the odds TPTB let the guy live that long, given the existential threat he poses? You think the left doesn’t have an ample supply of would-be assassins just waiting for that assignment? Granted, that might well be the last straw for the right before they just hoist up the black flag and start cutting throats. Can’t say I would blame them.
If that happens, find the nearest prepper you know (if you aren’t already one) and hunker down.
more details on the missile scare
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A false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii was sent on Jan. 13 because an emergency worker believed there really was a missile threat, according to a preliminary investigation by the Federal Communications Commission.
The report finds that the false alert was not the result of a worker choosing the wrong alert by accident from a drop-down menu, but rather because the worker misunderstood a drill as a true emergency. The drill incorrectly included the language “This is not a drill.”
The top two civilian officials at Hawaii Emergency Management Agency announced their resignations Wednesday, Reuters reports, and the employee who issued the alert was fired. In addition, the agency’s military director told the wire service, a midlevel manager is being suspended.
The Associated Press reports that the fired employee had “confused real-life events and drills in the past, the state said in a report. His poor performance has been documented for years, and other members of the team say they were not comfortable working with him in any role.” The AP says the state’s internal investigation found that the employee was told to cancel the alert, but he “just sat there and didn’t respond.” Another employee eventually made the correction, as the worker “seemed confused.”
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/30/581853255/hawaii-missile-drill-stated-this-is-not-a-drill-resulting-in-false-alert
Good evening mammals, I have just arrived at my first beer. How did you like the team blue response of the bi-pedal ginger with the family legacy?…
He’s one of ours, but he’s in training so go easy on him
Might want to tell him to stop slavering over the mammals on TV. It’s a dead giveaway.
if he kept his tongue in his head he wouldn’t come across as a lizard that bad.
Well he still hasn’t fully qualified on that incursion suit. Like I said it’s training, we’ll probably swap him back out for the actual mammal after he attempts a round of MSM circle jerk
I liked the part about how government spending is not a zero sum game. Raising spending in one area does not require the feds to cut spending in another. The government can increase spending everywhere!
Overall, I found the Pud Pudding around his lips to be off-putting and a major distraction. That made it really hard to concentrate on all the other gibberish that was cumming out of his mouth.
I can’t give a Gift of the Gun, but I can the Gift of Sabaton.
Oh, that doesn’t say sybian. My fault for being disappointing.
A forerunner of Zed’s favorite gun was used in that battle:
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Webley RIC[edit]
Webley Royal Irish Constabulary Revolver
The Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) model was Webley’s first double-action revolver, and adopted by the RIC in 1868,[35] hence the name. It was a solid frame, gate-loaded revolver, chambered in .442 Webley. General George Armstrong Custer was known to have owned a pair, which he is believed to have used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.[36][37]
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If you like Sabaton, you’ll like Manowar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdxrYxLtl20
fun fact: a sabaton was an armored boot worn by knights.
I avoided most coverage of this stuff by being at work and then watching things on my DVR. But then when I stopped and my TV went to live TV, it was that show on ‘Comedy’ Central (I’d DVR’d Drunk History) called The Opposition, I guess it’s supposed to be like the Colbert Report, but even less than less than funny. Anyway, they were talking about the SOTU, and the jokes were all about how the country wasn’t divided before Trump. I was glad I was drunk and turned off the TV
ALL LOVED GLORIOUS LEADER OBAMA IN BEAUTIFUL UNITY AND SOLIDARITY! ONLY WRECKERS AND SABOTEURS OPPOSED HIM
Time to go let Iron Maiden lull me to sleep. Goodnight, I’m Steve Albini. No one at the venue may look Danzig in the eye.
Master Shake looked Danzig in the eye.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/politifact-crash-state-of-the-union-2018/index.html
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President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address proved too much for non-partisan fact-checking site PolitiFact Tuesday night. The website saw its servers crash for six minutes during the President’s speech.
“Welp … our website just crashed. Thanks for reading ?!!? We’ll keep things up here on Twitter while we see what happened,” the website tweeted, citing high web traffic numbers.
…
Going into Tuesday night’s speech, PolitiFact had labeled 69% of Trump’s pubic remarks as ranging from “Mostly False” to “Pants on Fire” wrong.
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pubic remarks? someone grab that proofreader by the pussy.
Maybe now we can adopt the Amendment I’d like to add, that anytime a politician is speaking in capacity of their job they must be under oath and can be charged with perjury if they lie.
Going into Tuesday night’s speech, PolitiFact had labeled 69% of Trump’s pubic remarks as ranging from “Mostly False” to “Pants on Fire” wrong.
Has Politifact explained how we’re supposed to believe that something is mostly true when Bernie Sanders says it, but mostly false when Trump says it?
How did they rate the “shithole” comment?
Was at class tonight so missed all of the “fun”. Did anything actually happen during/after the speech like Trumpbot suddenly start speaking his lines in Russian?
Nah, just world-class trolling that made the Donks look like sore loser assholes. Almost made up for Trumps’ shittier statist tendencies.
What kind of class?
Just a huge amount of class, the classiest state of the union ever, perhaps. Well, George gave a good one, Washington of course, but at least as classy.
I wish. Japanese. Not well taught, imo. Instructor likes to jump around instead of using the text. Either pick another text or provide supplemental material and for god sakes structure it beforehand.
Two millenials/post millenials in particular just can’t stop talking. One is a cuckoo artist type that doesn’t seem to have any social awareness. The other has taken it before in high school and can’t resist blurting out the answers to apparently show off his knowledge, along with making comments throughout. Need to bring corporal punishment back into schools at an early age.
If only he did.
SP, webdominatrix, and I spent the evening making pizza and drinking wine. What did we miss?
Troll President said things we don’t like and replenished the supply of leftist tears (not that it needed it), Joe Kennedy offered the Democrats’ response covered in somebody’s jizz, Bernie Sanders got a haircut, and I tried a good ramen shop.
I hear that Bernie ran out of other people’s video.
It’s big daylight, wake up, Glibs!
Safe space in Mehico?
To the fainting couch! Andele!
The scowl on Nancy’s mug was priceless. Almost makes me wish I had watched it.
Where’s the links!?
Thank you, Clara Peller.