It's an unnecessary formality, very stiff and awkward, but Trump made it his own. Hunched over the lectern and with his hair coming unglued, he boasted of achievements and called out individuals in the audience, who were, in his view, either fantastic or horrible. We're in a grand struggle between good and evil, don't you know? I dropped out at some point because sleep had a greater claim on me, as it did on some members of the audience. But Trump was still fully inflated, and the video remains. But there's something about watching it live that keeps you going, and once it's dead, you don't really care, do you?
February 25, 2026
Trump delivered a very long SOTU last night. Did you watch? Really?
It was too late for me, but I watched. Until I didn't.
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I taped it, and watched when I got up at 2:30 am. Best line was "They are all crazy!"" The left showed their allegiance to the illegal aliens over citizens. They fell for the trap, and looked like the morons they are.
It's a Manichaean world, we're just living in it.
What I learned at the State of the Union address. Democrats can't, wont stand to acknowledge a murdered Ukrainian refugee.
The SOTU speech: everything that is most excruciating about political speechifying in its most extreme form. I haven't been able to watch more than 10 minutes of a SOTU speech in my entire life.
It should be okay to call out good and evil in accordance with our national values. Citizens need reminders. Aliens need the information.
WHY did the dems even show up?
were they That Eager to show their contempt for Americans?
Given the opprotunity to show they supported America over illegal aliens..
they instead say mute, then hoisted Large banners reading:
DEATH TO AMERICA! DEATH TO THE GREAT SATAN! LONG LIVE ISLAM!
why? why did they feel that they needed to do this?
i'm assuming it was because they Assumed that no one was watching?
We give Presidential Medals of Freedom for a good hockey game now.
I hope he displays somewhere nice in his home in Winnipeg.
Officially, it was SOTU for decent. law-abiding citizens who aren't certifiable. to the ever-shrinking Democrat voter base, it was STFU.
Mark:
Not just a good hockey game. More like going 25 for 25 from the field to win the gold in basketball at the Olympics.
I watched the SOTU before Tivo and recorded Youtube videos were possible, but the SOTU always had long-winded monologues, odd diversions, and wasted applause time. So no, I haven't watched one in years.
Read a few left and right wing "top take away" posts the following day. Watch a few clips. Save time and avoid aggravation.
The rebuttal speech is often more enlightening, as it reveals who and what the opposing party want to promote. The "liberal in moderate clothing" Spanberger received mixed reviews...I want to learn more about her now...
"But Trump was still fully inflated"
Now thats funny.
I felt Ann’s way going in but after seeing the left’s antics and reaction I think they are the bigger story this morning…
We give Presidential Medals of Freedom for a good hockey game now
…a huge step up from when we were handing them out for being a good liberal…
It's not everyone's cup of tea. Lots of Minnesotans couldn't stand it, for instance.
Lionel Messi got one (he's an Argentine, given the PMF by Biden) for some good soccer games, so why not hockey?
Didn't watch. I checked the NY Times webpage this morning for their take. A three-minute highlights reel, with a running superscript of Democratic rebuttal talking points. Boy, do they really spoon-feed their readers.
"...the left’s antics and reaction I think they are the bigger story this morning…"
For instance, the bedlamite dressed in a giraff costume.
@ Enigma
Spanberger ran on "affordability" and her first action was to move to raise taxes, despite inheriting a budget surplus from her Republican predecessor. As I noted at the end of last night's campaign post, my reaction to her was, "Poor Virginia! Always Winter, But Never Christmas!"
…the liberal reaction convinces me they are convinced they will cease to be relevant without the billions (trillions?) in Treasury transfer schemes congress cooks up to keep them viable. For some reason that is reassuring…
Begley, how does he go '25 for 25' as a goalie and still let in a goal?
Its not like shutouts are unknown, in fact the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal match was a shutout for the USA
…it wasn’t so much the giraffe and the other furrys that hid their face, it was that show was a platform for a few congress critters, too…
I thought about watching and then, without checking, decided it's probably on too late for me. And then I forgot it was happening.
wendybar said...The left showed their allegiance to the illegal aliens over citizens. They fell for the trap, and looked like the morons they are.
The left want to burn the country down because they think they will rule over the ashes, but we'll vote for them anyway because Trump made an awkward impeachment joke.
The mother of the Ukrainian immigrant killed on the subway was the picture of grief, in that she so resembled the young woman curled up and wide eyed in her final moments... I wish we could give the grieving mother and her husband, the father, some great medal, or grant them citizenship in the land where their daughter died.
These things are too hard to watch in full. Agreed on that, but you are so young, ann, in how you trivialize Death....sad. #Lent #Respect
I generally never watch these things, just the highlights, especially when Trump said it would be long.
It was disheartening to see RepTlaib wearing an F**k ICE button in the people’s house. Growing up my mother would have labeled this behavior as “no class”.
@ Humperdink
To be fair, at least she didn't blow herself up, as is her people's tradition.
Politics is like the weather, you can’t change it, you can only endure it. Trump was the best hope, but he puts another country first, and in the end he is more able to be emotionally manipulated by Netanyahu than intellectually persuaded by Orban and Musk. Remember when things were going to be different?
The question is will Trump strap on the siucide belt that Graham, Huckabee, Cruz, and Netanyahu have handed him? Vance and Tulsi (remember her?) and his general are telling him Don’t do it! But my guess is that his hand will be forced and his finger will be forced to push the button.
I liked the part where Ilhan Omar became unglued.
I thought it was a very good speech the rage from thr usual susoects confirm it
You will nevah learn timmeh
’…to see RepTlaib wearing an F**k ICE button…’
She’s a piece of shit, so it seems on-brand to me.
I don't listen to any Trump speech. I read his zingers.
Shes just a brotherhood (isa) and company tool
Islamic saudi academy
Never learn what? I tell you that the US funded the Taliban, we admit it, and that Pakistan has admitted doing the US’s dirty work on terrorism, and that the motive was to provoke a Soviet invasion, also admitted, I can provide credible links again, and you seem to insist that either we don’t, or that 9-11 was worth it over some internal issues in Afghanistan in 1979.
Show me the error in my logic or I will certainly never learn.
@Clyde:
As you surely know, Virginia politics pits the deep blue D.C. suburbs against the red Old South rest of state. The D.C. suburbs are a voting proxy for federal employees and contractors -- and largely opposed to Trump, agency layoffs, and budget cuts.
IMO, the Democrat's entire strategy for the fall 2026 election has focused on D.C. area voters. In getting Spanberger elected, this included the long shutdown last year (i.e., the well-off early retirees affected by the 400% poverty cut off for ACA health coverage cared about the nominal "reason" for the shutdown --> Spanberger's off-year election cycle).
On one hand Democrats want to turn inherently purple VA permanently blue (i.e., gerrymandering; NJ-style governance), and on the other hand they want to maximize D.C. lawfare opportunities using federal employees. From what I've seen of Spanberger, she's an obedient Biden-like Party puppet in suburban soccer mom garb. Still, if her SOTU reaction speech was bad her appeal won't go national.
"Trump may lay us off but we can nullify his EOs."
I tried. But sleep got me. Also, I can't listen to Trump for very long anyway. I like (mostly) what he gets done. But listening to him speak is an adventure. Like...when he was 'honoring' the parents of people murdered by illegal immigrants. He tended to get very graphic on the details which I thought was both awkward and awful for the parents, not to mention the rest of us. But that is Trump. He isn't evil, and doesn't mean to come off as evil. He's just missing the gene that helps a human filter speech or thought.
Anyway, the SOTU has become a show, a tedious one at that. And not a necessary message to Congress, but a campaign stop for the party holding the White House. That's it. Today it's the GOP's turn. Tomorrow the Dems will be back at it, and we'll have Dems standing and applauding every few sentences and GOPers looking down at their phones, and (in that case) not standing for 'brave Trans women'....or whomever they decide to present instead of the US Mens Hockey Team.
Not sure it's necessary any longer other than as a vehicle for the President to stop at a point and remind the nation what he (or she?) has gotten done. Which I guess makes it important. Otherwise we only know what the large media tells us. Or smaller social media voices.
I'd probably vote for the person who says they'll end this 'tradition' of stopping the national networks for a night and instead, just have a national movie night, complete with Director's commentary and popcorn. Of course we'd have someone protesting the popcorn, so for them we'd have an option of avocado toast.
National Movie Night with Avocado Toast.
I think I'm done for the day.
As i say unteachable
No. It's nice to see what others highlight as their favorite (in a good or bad way) moments. I've seen enough now to come to a conclusion: Trump has established "America First" as the current brand for the Republican party. Democrats have established endless mndless protest as their brand.
Onto October then and we can settle this in the midterms, right after Democrats spend the summer bemoaning the fact America survived for 250 Years with an historically stable form of Constitutional Republicanism. The Left can't help themselves. They're stuck in the position of hating Trump more than they love America and it just oozes out of them in every appearance, every gesture.
I’m convinced the left’s campaign policies in the upcoming midterms will be F-this, F-that and F-everything.
Affordability is supposed to be their battle cry. It will be a tough sell when they raise taxes the moment they take office. See: Mamdani and VA’s SpamBurger.
The best self-own of the night is a more difficult choice but I go with congresscritter Ro Khanna (D - CA) who thought it would be cute to show up with a purported "Epstein Victim" who is actually a woman recruited when she was 22-years-old who happily recruited underage girls for Epstein for years. Ghislaine's little helper!
Yeah Ro! That'll show Trump! You go Boi! At least he didn't dig up Ed Buck's body and drag it in.
Much like the Senate confirmation process, the State of the Union has outlived its purpose. This should have been a PDF attached to an email.
Kakistocracy said...Much like the Senate confirmation process, the State of the Union has outlived its purpose. This should have been a PDF attached to an email.
You mean returned to its purpose. A PDF attached to an email is essentially what it was until Woodrow Wilson, America's worst president, decided to do his in person.
But of course you didn't object until the Democrats absolutely disgraced themselves at one. Then, suddenly, the in-person SOTU is a problem.
Democrats are now quoting the Sex Pistols "Bodies" every single day. Newsom, Tlaib, et al.
"Bodies" lyrics excerpt:
Ah! F* this and f* that
F* it all the f* out of the f*ing brat
She don't wanna a baby that looks like that
I don't wanna a baby that looks like that
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, an abortion
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, I'm not an animal
An animal
I'm not an animal
I'm not an animal, an animal, an-an-an animal
I'm not a body
I'm not an animal, an animal, an-an-an animal
I'm not an animal
Mummy! Uh!
Nope. I think Trump does this to troll, and the length is to laugh at those that try to compare him to Sleepy Joe. You (the critics) couldn’t keep up with Trump if you tried and he just demonstrated it as true.
Look at the biggest critic here, Mark. His best comment is a valueless comment about Presidential Medal of Freedom, as if we are to forget Biden gave them to Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe, and Katie Ledecky. In other words, the criticism is at best a complaint that Trump continues the tradition of his predecessors. It is hardly bloggable.
Totally agree with the professor. Future SOTU addresses should be from the Whitehouse w/o the studio audience bullshit like it was an episode of Let's Made a Deal! This whole thing started to go wrong around the days of the Reagan administration and it has never been recalibrated back to what it's supposed to be. What it isn't supposed to be is a performative political pep rally with shout-outs and special guest stars and all this other nonsense. If you want dignity in public presentations, you gotta be dignified and Trump is just not the guy for that , especially if you give him a live crowd to cheer, boo, & hiss. The SOTU speech is now just a relic of the old republic.
But of course you didn't object until the Democrats absolutely disgraced themselves at one.
Yah, Obama’s were masturbate material for college educated white women and the get a tingle up my leg media crowd…
If, in the off-chance, one was unaware of the dysfunctional, traitorous Democrats Party, things became very clear last night. And the Demwits are in shock that they’ve been exposed and shown to be the scum they are.
They really dialed past eleven
And I watched the entire festivities. They were real and they were spectacular.
I thought it was a perfect beautiful address like everyone has seen a million times before. I'm sure Iran sees our Hockey team led by our hero, Alfred E Newman, and realizes that they are surrounded by the cousins of these deplorable red necks on ships planes and helicopters just waiting to ditch their gloves and Crosscheck the Republican Guardians of Persia.
and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is Teh-hay-ron
and it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
well there ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee! we're all gonna die
Hezbollah howie doesnt dissapoint
I’m told Preparation H® can cure what ails you, Mark.
Didn't watch. Just can't. But appreciate the apparent illegal alien/America First theme. Also: Trump back on offense, Dems exposed, looong speech shows he's not too old & done.
I usually don't watch these, because they're mostly just grandstanding. The Republicans will see the Democrats remaining seated as a national offense against decency, which is where I tend to land, too. The Democrats cannot see it as anything except a pledge of allegiance to their brand. They're incapable of responding to anything now that isn't issued from their own leadership, even if it's a warning against suicide. If Trump told them to breathe oxygen, they'd suffocate out of spite.
Highlights of the Trump - Don Surber https://share.google/7m97TYry9UxU0EsHN
Good grief- I practically never watch these things. You can always read the transcript inside an hour of the speech if you really need to know what was said ASAP or, much better, read it the next morning. The last time I actually watched Trump speak for more than a couple of minutes was the Joe Rogan interview before the election- he is, otherwise, just far too long-winded for my patience.
I gave the gist
I can’t watch these things. Trump makes me nervous because I feel I can read the room better than him. And I have an aversion to long speeches that stems from my days growing up in a church. Almost every public event I attend is too damn long.
I guess I'm in the minority opinion here on whether the SOTU has outlived its purpose. Quite the contrary to the majority view here, I believe it has great value. Throughout the rest of the year, we get random bits of information, events, narratives, and almost all from second-hand sources. But here, on one night, in a couple of hours we get to see, hear, and experience first-hand from the behaviors of the principals leading us exactly how they truly feel about us and the principles they actually value.
Tedious as it may be, scripted or not, wow, what a stunning revelation.
I never watch, but a few minutes ago I heard a brief replay on radio where he was really hitting Somali corruption with both barrels. I like that -- calling it out for what it is: the fleecing of the US treasury.
why was it on so late? was that another hack soviet dem media scheme?
The gulf between the Democrats and everyone else in America is enormous and may be anthropological.
I pledge allegiance the corrupt democrat mob party of thieves liars and crooks.
There is in fact a struggle between good and evil. No person or party monopolizes either. Our political choices are reflections of how adept we are at choosing between good and evil.
yeah but the left's insane cult base still worship.
Tough nuts Ann... but did you notice he ain't SENILE??? Unlike your beloved Democrat Biden?
Nabisco is a Cracker wannabe.
Love to remove the spectacle and just got back to the written letter format.
No howard im a proud latino
Its always on at 9 (he had a lot to say)
Great speech. Good man. Glad I voted for him.
It was over by the time I arrived home. I did watch clips and commentary.
The most important thing citizens should be paying attention to in regard to presidents is the actual empirical results of what they're doing. However, there is some civic value in having a president periodically show up at the Capitol to spell out his vision and justify or explain what he's trying to accomplish.
I think the reason this SOTU didn't seem worth watching for a lot of people is that Trump already does the latter thing all the time. In fact, for most modern presidents, there isn't a ton of mystery around what they're trying to do, so the SOTU becomes about something else, e.g., Biden's ability to make it through an entire speech, or what the opposing party will try to do to rattle the president.
Howard’s struggles continue…
You have my decoder ring iman
"But there's something about watching it live that keeps you going, and once it's dead, you don't really care, do you?"
SOTUS are not memorable.
once it's dead, you don't really care, do you?
hell of a thing to say in relation to a man who's been targeted by three assassins
honkies and crackers and other white leftists - obey their white left masters.
There may be a good person in there somewhere, narciso. Not just cynical asshole…
I may watch clips. One problem with Trump being so open and accessible to the Press is its not really a big deal when he gives a speech.
Don't let John Henry catch you using the L-word ethnic slur.
Mark says "Its not like shutouts are unknown, in fact the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal match was a shutout for the USA."
No, we beat Finland 4-2 after trailing 2-1.
I watch every SOTU. This was the best, as it incorporated fun moments. They are tedious as they cover such a broad range of topics in such a partisan manner. Usually they are filled with fantasy legislation that will solve grave problems like healthcare and climate change. Trump broadly declared the success of his policies and promised more EOs. Legislation is no longer a viable means of government, so he at least had a coherent case to make. The constitutional requirement is from the days of part-time legislatures and so the form is empty and each president's team seems some measure of political advantage. All things considered, Trump did well.
Too late for me. Did he say anything newsworthy?
"Hunched over the lectern and with his hair coming unglued"
Where do you go with an observation about the content after starting with an ad hominem that immaterial? The guy is ancient, and vain about his trademark hair. I'll take that, because I know he is the one running his administration, not the chief of staff or some other adviser. Trump still thinks and speaks clearly, unlike Biden in his presidential days, and what he said not only resonated with the citizenry, what he said may change history in a positive manner. Sit on your hands, Democrats, and deny and decry that the job of the US government is to protect the citizenry.
Wondering how large my emergency supply closet should be, what all I need to stockpile, and whether I need a six-month or six-year supply of food. That Susan Rice video this week was more disconcerting than SOTU.
If Trump is truly “America First,” we wouldn’t have launched a huge fleet to fight Israel’s battles, sorry. I believed him too, but I have eyes.
In regards to comments by planetgeo and Dog and Pony Show… I agree with them. I don’t care to watch the SOTU. As Yancey notes, I can read it in full later and enjoy the cliff notes and responses as I choose. However, I think an Executive should stand in front of the people and tell us where they think we are and where we are headed. Even if it is all a lie, we can then make that judgement.
It was awesome. Every word, phrase and gesture. You really need to discard the TDS. It is so 2016. Reality is really fun and exciting.
At what point did you stop watching? When he said "these people are crazy" ?
Another highlight was every time they showed that skanky scowling Somali pirate Ihan Omar, and each time they did I wondered, "Whatever happened to the guy who fake attacked her a couple weeks ago?"
Weird how those phony staged democrat skits just get memory-holed so quickly. Like the other democrat who said Tampon Tim urged him to kill the one democrat who voted against allowing Somali fraud. Weird.
We're in a grand struggle between good and evil, don't you know?
I do know, Althouse, and you’ve chosen evil.
Mark 6:39: “We give Presidential Medals of Freedom for a good hockey game now.” Shocking! Better to save them for the likes of George Soros and Megan Rapinoe.
If Trump is truly “America First,” we wouldn’t have launched a huge fleet to fight Israel’s battles
Not only is this OT but is truly stupid on a global scale. You may be ignorant, but America's armed forces are very aware of Iran's nearly 50-year war against us. They committed an act of war when they took over our embassy in 1979 and held Americans hostage. They continued the war through several admins that let them, with impunity, kill our soldiers in Iraq. Almost every IED that took lives and legs was made and planted by Iran and we all knew. Bush-Obama-Biden all knew and all failed to retaliate or, worse, aided the regime (pallets of cash).
Ignoring a country that broadcasts their hatred of you and the fact they are at war is not good governance, and Iran is explicit. "Death to America! Death to the Great Satan!" are not simply slogans they are policy of the regime. They've proved their intent. If they get The Bomb they will use it against us and Israel and I don't want to wait and see who gets hit first.
In your pea brain assessment Israel is hit first and so we ought to just say nevermind. That's stupid on steroids.
This is an easy call, even if you are ignorant of the way Iran is currently supplying Putin with 1000s of drones. Even if you are ignorant of the fact embargoing Iran's shadow fleet aids our operations against the Russian and Venezuelan shadow fleets. If you can't understand the geopolitical sense of isolating Russia and China by cutting off their patrons/suppliers/allies then you certainly can't be trusted to make the right call about our ally Israel. We are the biggest beneficiaries of stopping the mullahs. That it also might make the whole region safer is something to celebrate.
Notice that he didn’t try to sell his attack on Iran to the American people? It’s because he doesn’t care what we think.
We got home from a Styx concert at 10:30 and were surprised to find the speech still on. Watched the last 20 minutes or so. The thing that really struck me is how the leftist "sundowning" narrative was proved indisputably false. He looked like he could go all night.
What has Russia done to us? Look up the stuff that has come out about the coup in Iran in 1953, Ajax is a good search term, then when they reasserted control over their ancient country, we said they declared war on us. You really do have to be a pea brain to not understand that. We are mad that they got out from under our thumb.
If Trump claimed to be America First in his speech, showing that it was a lie is certainly on topic, even if you don’t want to hear it.
" It’s because he doesn’t care what we think."
I hope he doesn't care what I think, because I don't know shit about the details of what's possible and what's not. This is not a democracy. It's a republic and that's why.
Latino not latinx (que porqueria, what trash)
The purpose of the SOTU is to report on the state of the union. This year's address hit it out of the park by that measure.
The union is divided and the opposition party puts loyalty to their brand over loyalty to the country and the people. That fact was graphically demonstrated over and over and over.
Too long? Suck it up. I think many people making that complaint sit still for hours to watch the "Oscars". Put it in a writtten report? NO ONE will read it but most will believe whatever nuggets the media chooses to share. HA!!!!
Too many victims of Dem policies highlighted? Too graphic? People SHOULD get uncomfortable about real suffering. Victims are not a statistic and they are not some asshole "triggered" by others ignoring her personal pronoun.
Note: Award-winning, clever advertisements don't move the product - repitition, repitition, repitition moves the product.
After the Dems sat on their hands time after time when Trunp gave them every opportunity to stand-up for America, he pointed a finger at them and called them "crazy". Kinda hard to argue with that.
Who but a crazy person would willingly participate in the making of so many campaign advertisements that will make them look like traitorous fools?
I'm glad he called-out the Somalis - and Minnesota - and FRAUD. The media now has to talk about this - or not. People will notice.
He called-out the Court but I wish he'd gone further and lobbed a grenade at the district courts. Roberts is letting the judiciary rot and government of the people is suffering.
And, before any call the president out for being uncivil or disrespectful to the opposition, please compare his performance with that of Pelosi who made childish faces behind his back when he spoke and then tore-up his speech.
“We're in a grand struggle between good and evil, don't you know?” We surely are! The greatest danger to the Republic is people whose minds and/or moral compasses are so weak that they can’t see that. We call most of those people Democrats.
Jennie Taer on X: "National Guardsmen Andrew Wolfe makes his first appearance since being ambushed in DC in November by an Afghan national brought into the US during Biden's botched withdrawal. Wolfe wasn't expected to survive. Trump surprised Wolfe with a Purple Heart. https://t.co/UugX7PaQrP" / X https://share.google/37rnNkMEImmZQiofC
Miguel Unamuno would have had something to say about "latinx". He was THE Spanish language in his time. It would have been long, erudite, and scathing.
And no one in US academia could have stood up to him.
Its a pity that there is nobody left to bring down such a hammer.
imTay: “Notice that he didn’t try to sell his attack on Iran to the American people? It’s because he doesn’t care what we think.”
If we are speaking of the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the only attack so far, it’s actually because he knows few of us are stupid enough to fail to understand the danger to the world of nukes in Iran.
Note to imTay: You might want to ask yourself whether the USA is fighting Israel's wars, or is Israel fight America's wars.
Take your time. It might be one of those, "What can first, the chicken or the egg?" things..
Its a very binary language (only an alien could come up with such a concept)
Fuckin’ Spaniards! What can’t they do?!?!
Anyway…
The ONLY people who like "Latinx" are autocratic leftist academics and their supporters. These "intellectual colonists" reproduced exactly what they claim to despise.
Hispanics, Latinos, and Latinas consier Latinx an alien concept. They don't use it and don't understand "why" in a gendered language.
Only 2% use it!
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/12/u-s-hispanics-preferences-among-pan-ethnic-terms/
I can't say that I've ever watched a SOTU all the way through. Doesn't matter who is boasting about his accomplishments.
And I also haven't been able to stomach the opposing party's "response" Governor Spanberger gave it her best shot last night, but my verdict was "not ready for prime time".
But there are moments--I recall the outrage and pearl clutching over Representative Joe Wilson shouting "You lie" when Obama made specious claims about his "Obamacare" legislation.
I don't expect to hear outrage and pearl clutching over Ilhan Omar's and Praypals(?) yelling at Trump last night. And supposedly at least one Democrat congresscritter threw Trump a middle finger digital salute last night.
I didn't plan on watching it. I rarely listen to Trump speeches, or anybody else for that matter. I care about action, and find political speeches pretty worthless. It was on in the other room, and after watching for a minute I was pulled in to watching the whole thing. It had some incredible moments, amazing stories, and exceptional people, and it had some powerfully telling visuals. Trump was surprisingly confrontational, even for him, but it was welcome by me, and I think a lot of other Americans who have wanted for a long time for their representatives to answer basic questions about what they support or don't. I noticed that the Democrats do not support anything Trump does. They really only stood in numbers for the release of the Gaza hostages. Not sure why that was more important than other things.
This SOTU seems to be getting mostly good reviews, but I'm sure Democrats absolutely hated it. I would if I was them. It really disproves the claim that both parties are the same.
Trump did a great job of showing what the voters' choices are. You may not like the Republicans, (I don't), but the Democrats have decided to try their best to see just how much that matters to you.
The visual of the night was the democratic senator who was caught sitting with his head in his hands as Trump spoke on protecting the country/immigration/democratic inaction.
The visual spoke volumes.
If I were Trump I’d never do it from the Oval Office, I’d go to Congress simply to allow them to clown themselves on the media, which many were happy to do.
Surprisingly though, and to her credit Senator Warren stood and clapped when Trump called for a ban on Congressional insider trading. I’m no Senator Warren fan, but that was the correct take.
If Israel is fighting America’s wars, what is our beef with Iran if you take Israel out of the picture? They have already agreed to not build a bomb, to rigorous inspection, if we leave them alone, what reason do they have to attack us, because if somehow they did manage to build enough bombs to attack the US, which is probably impossible under strict inspections, attacking us would assure a devastating nuclear response.
“They are a crazy theocracy!”
I give you Huckabee, who finds a deed for Israel to practically the entire Middle East in the Old Testament.
You said that timmah not us
Enigma: is Bodies an anti-abortion song? I know John Lydon is pretty conservative (as well as Vacant). Or is it just pure punk disgustingness? CC, JSM
Bodies is considered anti-abortion by many (and a right wing rock song). However, it's apparently a true "horror" story of an insane woman who lived in a tree house and carried a self-aborted fetus in a bag. Look up the backstory!
John Lydon is indeed either a libertarian or rightish-wing versus the UK's politics. I don't understand the internal nuances of being anti-monarch vs. conservative vs. reform.
Israel fought soviet proxies in habbash atafat nidal carlos the jackal
Nidal attacked targets in western europe in vienna and rome airports habbasb attacked american diplomats in khartroum
It was better than the Super Bowl half-time show, another useless spectacle
I find it awkward when Trump calls out political opponents like that. Part of me thinks, hey, be diplomatic, more conciliatory, and so on. But then I also think why should he? Because the opposition has been brutal. They don't give a hoot about respect, civility, decorum. Why play nice when the opposition does not?
Its not like shutouts are unknown, in fact the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal match was a shutout for the USA.
You really are a dumbass. The Gold Medal match was a 4-2 victory over Finland, and they had to rally from a 2-1 deficit to get it.
And if you were to actually read Begley's comment, he was talking about going 25-25 in basketball.
For the record, Hellebuyck saved 41 of 42 shots.
Dumbass.
We're in a grand struggle between good and evil, don't you know?
We do now.
Howard (not that Howard) said...
“We got home from a Styx concert at 10:30…”
Was it the best of times? Between the lineup changes and aging, did it still feel like Styx? I didn’t realize they were still together, let alone touring.
"Hunched over the lectern and with his hair coming unglued"
"Where do you go with an observation about the content after starting with an ad hominem that immaterial? "
I don't think Althouse views that as a put-down.
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