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Van Jones on CNN about State of Union: “I encourage everybody: Sit down, listen to this speech. What you’re going to hear is his road map to reelection, what he thinks he’s going to be able to sell the American people on.”
This’ll be the perfect time for the House Sgts at Arms to apprehend the criminal and take him down to a cell. I think that would be a great moment in American history.
Xrepub, you gotta know Nancy is thinking about that. Backstory: she has not spoken to him since October.
Pelosi and Pence staring into space, ignoring each other.
Ocasio-Cortez skipping speech.
Greetings from Nancy…
Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) tweeted at 8:58 PM on Tue, Feb 04, 2020:
From trying to tear down protections for people with pre-existing conditions to the health care sabotage that is driving up families’ premiums, President Trump is waging an all-out assault on Americans’ health care.
4 more years ? 20 years to life !
Ha xrepub
Either he has a bad head cold, or he’s been snorting something.
Incomes are not “soaring” on Main Street. America is “respected, again.” You, Donald John Trump, are a buffoon and the political antics of you and your buddy Pooh-tin are destroying our democracy. Go golfing in a lightening storm, you giant, orange asshat. And take your family with you.
Pelosi is rereading articles of impeachment
He must have read this crap on FB b/c he really thinks what he is saying is true!
“Job-killing regulations” are the ones that hold corporations accountable to their employers, and to other humans by way of environmental protections. If Mike Bloomberg gets the nomination and is the guy that can get rid of this oaf, I’ll vote for him.
More galling is that not one single one of those AH R’s applauding and standing for every sentence even cares that he is lying … or would be willing to consider that most sources of information would conflict with his conclusions.
Folks are off of food stamp rolls because you cut SNAP, you overfed bag of crap.
A sixteen percent pay increase? Where?
I’d love to see this bullshit fact checked in real time.
Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) tweeted at 9:17 PM on Tue, Feb 04, 2020:
Where does he get the stats from? Stephen Miller? He lies so much, why should we believe him tonight or ever? He THREW PEOPLE OFF food stamps, and didn’t “lift” people off welfare, he kicked them out to join the homeless.
I bet Tony is a paid actor.
We are “doing” numbers?
Traditionally, the Speaker says: “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.”
Speaker Pelosi said “Members of Congress, the President of the United States.”
She left out: “For now”
Its like a Nazi geriatrics rally, watching them all standing to applaud hate and lies. Now, tell me again how Republicans are all good Christians when you clearly don’t care about other human beings or the planet.
Began the speech with a lie – His election did NOT end years of economic decay
– first 3yrs created less jobs than last 3 under Obama
– unemployment fell at a slower rate too
He’s aiming to double his 16,000 lies in one speech
Well, “that’s enough” for me.
He’s offended by a country having an “illegitimate leader”???
false
“Thanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the #1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far.”
Nancy drinking vodka to get through this horse shit tsunami?
He wants to build an inclusive society?
SFB has now recognized more black people in this State of the Union address than attended his last 15 rallies.
Nancy just pretending he isn’t there
Stupid fuck is in pander overdrive tonight.
Hi, Ms J ! Thanks for your input.
He’ll lower health care costs by taking health care away.
more socialist bs.
long tall, powerful wall
said by a man whose __ is small
Since he hates socialism so much, when is he going to tell the farmers that they no longer will get any money
I’m pretty sure that Rush Limbaugh’s diagnosis is fake news
Time for Nancy to take a bathroom break. Why should the rest of us get to throw up?
OHHHHH GAGGGGGG
What a ton of horse shit. The medal of freedom to Rush? Is it a sin to hope he dies a long and painful death? Both of them.
I’ve been popping in and out. He must have set some sort of lie per minute records.
He wants $50 M for neonatal research, but wants to end SNAP! Get ’em born – after that, you’re on your own baby!
Nancy stares at her shoes as Trump honors Limbaugh.
Third term abortions are already illegal except to save the life of the mother. What is wrong with this ass. Talk about the nation being cursed.
Isn’t requiring businesses to provide paid family leave kind of like regulating business? I thought he deplored regulations?
Jamie, was that a rhetorical question?
SWEET! We are going to plant trees!!
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. It’s infrastructure week again.
And now, the vilification of aliens ….. was wondering when he would get to this.
Although the bar is very high, this may even be the most egregious lie he’s told tonight.
This is the most manipulative load of crap since Jim Bakker sold fake condos.
Thanks for joining in tonight MJ. We are not alone!
How about a “justice for victim’s of MAGA maggots whose acts have been inspired by a horrid man whose name I refuse to say out loud” act
LOVE YOU CRAIG!!
I wasn’t going to watch this tonight but wanted to join your thread.
Who wants to join me in KY working to defeat McConnell this fall?
THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRAY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!
“ join me in KY working”
…doing what, pray tell?
MJ, I’m next door, so I’ll be swimming upstream.
Did FF just join freedom of religion and right to bear arms into a super clause?
Yes, it did seem that the right to pray in public schools morphed into the right to bear arms — or is that the right to bare arms?
This is just another MAGA rally speech, minus the drooling and speaking in tongues.
Re: working in KY ….. I have not yet made contact with the McGrath campaign, but I do want to offer assistance for a week or so if I can be of service there. I want to do more than just send her campaign money.
told ya
ok keep me posted then, i defer to you
Did his speech writer decide that him telling a few tear jerker stories would make him seem less horrible of a person?
Rep Tim Ryan walked out on the speech.
Time for Pence to start handling snakes.
Yep MJ it’s called empathy by teleprompter.
MJ
Prayer is schools is already allowed. It cannot be done in class, coerced in any way, led by an employee of the school, or disrupt regular activities.
It has already been declared legal to have student led prayer on campus and for the school to act as venues for religious activities.
This is another one of those issues the right wing keeps fighting when there isn’t a problem.
O.M.G. – can this get ANY smarmier!
Phony patriotism on parade. Talk about gag a MAGAt
JAMIE44 – I should have clarified by adding there is no constitutional right to pray/demand that others participate in the offering up of prayers of the Christian faith in public schools, which is what right-wingers who think we were founded as a “christian nation” are pushing for. They do not want other religions to have a place in the public schools – they want public schools to teach and require christian prayer.
Oh look he’s reading names. How many do you think he could explain anything about their lives?
The “Beautiful beautiful beautiful Alamo” …
Has his armed team of pardoned elite war-criminals stormed the Capitol, yet?
Interesting choice of the word “Pathfinder”. Must be the writer of the speech. I doubt Trump knows that was the nickname of the first Republican nominee for President.
Nancy is reviewing her subpoena to John Bolton.
Heil Hitler dumbass
lol his hair looks like a magical enchantment
…the illusion of hair
Bink I kept thinking his hair was even weirder than usual.
…it’s like there’s not hair there but my brain is under a spell to perceive there is
Hmmm, Kay Granger says she’s a pro-choice Republican (which is what her opponent’s ad is about), but her ad is Trump saying he supports Kay Granger.
Nancy gives this bullshit what it deserves, rips it up.
POTHOLES! This is the response to Trump’s lies? Why, oh, why? SANDWICH! No. What a wasted chance!
Nancy should’ve lit it on fire. She could’ve gotten a light offa Donald’s giant pants.
Nancy for POTUS
You should be proud of this generation of freedom fighters, women.
This was NOT the right choice to give the Democratic response. I can’t effing watch her, either.
blueINdallas …. I so agree, this is a blown opportunity to put forth facts that show his lies.
Praying this gets followed up by a well-produced Bloomberg ad.
Can we just dump all the dopey egotistical dudes, tonight, please?
…speaking as a dude. We’re all big egotistical dopes, if you hadn’t noticed, by now.
Let’s just give up fact checking and record when he says anything that’s remotely true. Will save time.
Yep, the obviously pissed off Pelosi should have done the response. Stay tuned, it’s coming.
Had I written this response it would have gone something like this:
The P just stood before you and instead of giving a “state of the union” address, he made a campaign speech. That in and of itself is offensive enough. But when you factor in the number of falsehoods and blatant lies he just told you the American people, you should be livid. It is impossible to point out all of the lies in his speech in this short time I have, but let’s go through as many as possible. He started by talking about the economy and taking credit for some of the good news about our economy and then lied about other matters. The truth is that ……… blah blah.
Fear Mongerer In Chief
Words in the second half of Trump’s speech:
murder
murders
brutal rape
terrible (3x)
aliens (5x)
catastrophic
gruesome
deadly
viciously
smashed
hijacked
barbarians
bloodthirsty
horrifying
miserable
ruthless
butcher
evil
terror
He pushes fast computer service for the 5% of American in rural areas, but no SNAP. That’s a great move to subsidize Big Data, paid for by cuts to Big Ag and poor people. Bill Gates wins and hungry kids lose.
How many ways can I display this racist, rapist russian mole’s crass crust and vile guile ?
Something to think about, Trumpco is going after black voters. This speech shows it. Don’t laugh. They think they’re on to something and Dems need to to pay attention.
The fear-monger-in-chief.
All our fun tonight aside, this was an effective campaign kickoff and I’m scared.
Warren can get the African American vote…and she can tell the truth to do it.
Watching Trump raising soldiers in his audience I almost forgot he dismissed dozens with brain trauma as just having “headaches”.
That’s what he’s counting on. Pulling focus where he wants it.
Now 71% of Iowa precincts are reporting:
@PeteButtigieg : 26.8%
@BernieSanders : 25.2%
@ewarren : 18.4%
@JoeBiden : 15.5%
@amyklobuchar : 12.6%
@AndrewYang : 1.1%
pardon my language but Nancy is a fucking badass, i regret missing that moment.
People are making choices along two lines. First is, who is the best candidate ? Second is, who can be the best president. The first choice is all about “who will beat the crap out off trump. The second choice is all about “who’s saying what I want to hear ?” I don’t think we’ll find a candidate who best answers both questions. So then, who is the best compromise between president and candidate ? We might be able to answer these two questions by mapping it out on a grid with the axes labelled as President and Candidate.
PS : I don’t know the answer.
rush limbaug. What a damnable insult to Women, Hispanics, and Blacks.
The winning Dem candidate must attack on family issues, kid in cages, rape, race, russia and bribery. These are the weak points, the kill points, in the trump campaign. We are 52% female, 30% minority, 2/3 (or more ) of us hate russia and 90% of us hate crooked pols. If we can’t find a candidate who can protect the ’16 Blue states and add WI, MI, PA (not to mention IA, NC or FL) then we aren’t looking in the right places. If we can’t find a candidate who will kick in the crotch, go for the jugular, gut, flay and quarter the bastard then we might as well all move to russia and avoid the middle man.
Van Jones on CNN about State of Union: “I encourage everybody: Sit down, listen to this speech. What you’re going to hear is his road map to reelection, what he thinks he’s going to be able to sell the American people on.”
This’ll be the perfect time for the House Sgts at Arms to apprehend the criminal and take him down to a cell. I think that would be a great moment in American history.
Michigan governor to deliver response:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/4/21116680/state-of-the-union-democratic-response-gretchen-whitmer
Xrepub, you gotta know Nancy is thinking about that. Backstory: she has not spoken to him since October.
Pelosi and Pence staring into space, ignoring each other.
Ocasio-Cortez skipping speech.
Greetings from Nancy…
Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) tweeted at 8:58 PM on Tue, Feb 04, 2020:
From trying to tear down protections for people with pre-existing conditions to the health care sabotage that is driving up families’ premiums, President Trump is waging an all-out assault on Americans’ health care.
4 more years ? 20 years to life !
Ha xrepub
Either he has a bad head cold, or he’s been snorting something.
Incomes are not “soaring” on Main Street. America is “respected, again.” You, Donald John Trump, are a buffoon and the political antics of you and your buddy Pooh-tin are destroying our democracy. Go golfing in a lightening storm, you giant, orange asshat. And take your family with you.
Pelosi is rereading articles of impeachment
He must have read this crap on FB b/c he really thinks what he is saying is true!
“Job-killing regulations” are the ones that hold corporations accountable to their employers, and to other humans by way of environmental protections. If Mike Bloomberg gets the nomination and is the guy that can get rid of this oaf, I’ll vote for him.
More galling is that not one single one of those AH R’s applauding and standing for every sentence even cares that he is lying … or would be willing to consider that most sources of information would conflict with his conclusions.
Folks are off of food stamp rolls because you cut SNAP, you overfed bag of crap.
A sixteen percent pay increase? Where?
I’d love to see this bullshit fact checked in real time.
Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) tweeted at 9:17 PM on Tue, Feb 04, 2020:
Where does he get the stats from? Stephen Miller? He lies so much, why should we believe him tonight or ever? He THREW PEOPLE OFF food stamps, and didn’t “lift” people off welfare, he kicked them out to join the homeless.
I bet Tony is a paid actor.
We are “doing” numbers?
Traditionally, the Speaker says: “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.”
Speaker Pelosi said “Members of Congress, the President of the United States.”
She left out: “For now”
Its like a Nazi geriatrics rally, watching them all standing to applaud hate and lies. Now, tell me again how Republicans are all good Christians when you clearly don’t care about other human beings or the planet.
Began the speech with a lie – His election did NOT end years of economic decay
– first 3yrs created less jobs than last 3 under Obama
– unemployment fell at a slower rate too
He’s aiming to double his 16,000 lies in one speech
Well, “that’s enough” for me.
He’s offended by a country having an “illegitimate leader”???
false
“Thanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the #1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far.”
The US became #1 in 2012, under Obama.
And about those jobs, take this, asshole.
Nancy drinking vodka to get through this horse shit tsunami?
He wants to build an inclusive society?
SFB has now recognized more black people in this State of the Union address than attended his last 15 rallies.
Nancy just pretending he isn’t there
Stupid fuck is in pander overdrive tonight.
Hi, Ms J ! Thanks for your input.
He’ll lower health care costs by taking health care away.
more socialist bs.
long tall, powerful wall
said by a man whose __ is small
Since he hates socialism so much, when is he going to tell the farmers that they no longer will get any money
I’m pretty sure that Rush Limbaugh’s diagnosis is fake news
Time for Nancy to take a bathroom break. Why should the rest of us get to throw up?
OHHHHH GAGGGGGG
What a ton of horse shit. The medal of freedom to Rush? Is it a sin to hope he dies a long and painful death? Both of them.
I’ve been popping in and out. He must have set some sort of lie per minute records.
He wants $50 M for neonatal research, but wants to end SNAP! Get ’em born – after that, you’re on your own baby!
Nancy stares at her shoes as Trump honors Limbaugh.
Third term abortions are already illegal except to save the life of the mother. What is wrong with this ass. Talk about the nation being cursed.
Isn’t requiring businesses to provide paid family leave kind of like regulating business? I thought he deplored regulations?
Jamie, was that a rhetorical question?
SWEET! We are going to plant trees!!
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. It’s infrastructure week again.
And now, the vilification of aliens ….. was wondering when he would get to this.
Although the bar is very high, this may even be the most egregious lie he’s told tonight.
This is the most manipulative load of crap since Jim Bakker sold fake condos.
Thanks for joining in tonight MJ. We are not alone!
How about a “justice for victim’s of MAGA maggots whose acts have been inspired by a horrid man whose name I refuse to say out loud” act
LOVE YOU CRAIG!!
I wasn’t going to watch this tonight but wanted to join your thread.
Who wants to join me in KY working to defeat McConnell this fall?
THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRAY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!
“ join me in KY working”
…doing what, pray tell?
MJ, I’m next door, so I’ll be swimming upstream.
Did FF just join freedom of religion and right to bear arms into a super clause?
Yes, it did seem that the right to pray in public schools morphed into the right to bear arms — or is that the right to bare arms?
This is just another MAGA rally speech, minus the drooling and speaking in tongues.
Re: working in KY ….. I have not yet made contact with the McGrath campaign, but I do want to offer assistance for a week or so if I can be of service there. I want to do more than just send her campaign money.
told ya
ok keep me posted then, i defer to you
Did his speech writer decide that him telling a few tear jerker stories would make him seem less horrible of a person?
Rep Tim Ryan walked out on the speech.
Time for Pence to start handling snakes.
Yep MJ it’s called empathy by teleprompter.
MJ
Prayer is schools is already allowed. It cannot be done in class, coerced in any way, led by an employee of the school, or disrupt regular activities.
It has already been declared legal to have student led prayer on campus and for the school to act as venues for religious activities.
This is another one of those issues the right wing keeps fighting when there isn’t a problem.
O.M.G. – can this get ANY smarmier!
Phony patriotism on parade. Talk about gag a MAGAt
JAMIE44 – I should have clarified by adding there is no constitutional right to pray/demand that others participate in the offering up of prayers of the Christian faith in public schools, which is what right-wingers who think we were founded as a “christian nation” are pushing for. They do not want other religions to have a place in the public schools – they want public schools to teach and require christian prayer.
Oh look he’s reading names. How many do you think he could explain anything about their lives?
The “Beautiful beautiful beautiful Alamo” …
Has his armed team of pardoned elite war-criminals stormed the Capitol, yet?
Interesting choice of the word “Pathfinder”. Must be the writer of the speech. I doubt Trump knows that was the nickname of the first Republican nominee for President.
Nancy is reviewing her subpoena to John Bolton.
Heil Hitler dumbass
lol his hair looks like a magical enchantment
…the illusion of hair
Bink I kept thinking his hair was even weirder than usual.
…it’s like there’s not hair there but my brain is under a spell to perceive there is
Hmmm, Kay Granger says she’s a pro-choice Republican (which is what her opponent’s ad is about), but her ad is Trump saying he supports Kay Granger.
Nancy gives this bullshit what it deserves, rips it up.
POTHOLES! This is the response to Trump’s lies? Why, oh, why? SANDWICH! No. What a wasted chance!
Nancy should’ve lit it on fire. She could’ve gotten a light offa Donald’s giant pants.
Nancy for POTUS
You should be proud of this generation of freedom fighters, women.
This was NOT the right choice to give the Democratic response. I can’t effing watch her, either.
blueINdallas …. I so agree, this is a blown opportunity to put forth facts that show his lies.
Praying this gets followed up by a well-produced Bloomberg ad.
Can we just dump all the dopey egotistical dudes, tonight, please?
…speaking as a dude. We’re all big egotistical dopes, if you hadn’t noticed, by now.
Let’s just give up fact checking and record when he says anything that’s remotely true. Will save time.
Yep, the obviously pissed off Pelosi should have done the response. Stay tuned, it’s coming.
Had I written this response it would have gone something like this:
The P just stood before you and instead of giving a “state of the union” address, he made a campaign speech. That in and of itself is offensive enough. But when you factor in the number of falsehoods and blatant lies he just told you the American people, you should be livid. It is impossible to point out all of the lies in his speech in this short time I have, but let’s go through as many as possible. He started by talking about the economy and taking credit for some of the good news about our economy and then lied about other matters. The truth is that ……… blah blah.
Fear Mongerer In Chief
Words in the second half of Trump’s speech:
murder
murders
brutal rape
terrible (3x)
aliens (5x)
catastrophic
gruesome
deadly
viciously
smashed
hijacked
barbarians
bloodthirsty
horrifying
miserable
ruthless
butcher
evil
terror
He pushes fast computer service for the 5% of American in rural areas, but no SNAP. That’s a great move to subsidize Big Data, paid for by cuts to Big Ag and poor people. Bill Gates wins and hungry kids lose.
How many ways can I display this racist, rapist russian mole’s crass crust and vile guile ?
Something to think about, Trumpco is going after black voters. This speech shows it. Don’t laugh. They think they’re on to something and Dems need to to pay attention.
The fear-monger-in-chief.
All our fun tonight aside, this was an effective campaign kickoff and I’m scared.
Warren can get the African American vote…and she can tell the truth to do it.
Watching Trump raising soldiers in his audience I almost forgot he dismissed dozens with brain trauma as just having “headaches”.
That’s what he’s counting on. Pulling focus where he wants it.
Now 71% of Iowa precincts are reporting:
@PeteButtigieg : 26.8%
@BernieSanders : 25.2%
@ewarren : 18.4%
@JoeBiden : 15.5%
@amyklobuchar : 12.6%
@AndrewYang : 1.1%
pardon my language but Nancy is a fucking badass, i regret missing that moment.
People are making choices along two lines. First is, who is the best candidate ? Second is, who can be the best president. The first choice is all about “who will beat the crap out off trump. The second choice is all about “who’s saying what I want to hear ?” I don’t think we’ll find a candidate who best answers both questions. So then, who is the best compromise between president and candidate ? We might be able to answer these two questions by mapping it out on a grid with the axes labelled as President and Candidate.
PS : I don’t know the answer.
rush limbaug. What a damnable insult to Women, Hispanics, and Blacks.
The winning Dem candidate must attack on family issues, kid in cages, rape, race, russia and bribery. These are the weak points, the kill points, in the trump campaign. We are 52% female, 30% minority, 2/3 (or more ) of us hate russia and 90% of us hate crooked pols. If we can’t find a candidate who can protect the ’16 Blue states and add WI, MI, PA (not to mention IA, NC or FL) then we aren’t looking in the right places. If we can’t find a candidate who will kick in the crotch, go for the jugular, gut, flay and quarter the bastard then we might as well all move to russia and avoid the middle man.