US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

I’m making dinner with a friend and we’ll probably listen to music after

No risk of me watching this thing

I will, without Negronis.

I'm a "DC person," I guess, though I live in Arlington. I am doing everything I can to stay away from the speech, the coverage of the speech, the coverage of the coverage of the speech, the snarky internet reactions to the coverage of the coverage, and the metacommentary on the internet snark. My intention is to drink heavily and read about English history. Make Mercia Great Again.

I'm currently reading an anthology of Philip Kerr's first three novels - private detective stories set in 1930s Berlin. Seems close enough to the present that I don't need to watch the speech.

if we made a list of 100 ILX politics thread tropes, one of them would have to be the back-and-forths about how we will and absolutely won't watch whatever televised political event is about to happen

let me just play my part:

"you know i'm gonna watch it! i fucking hate this shit, i love it"

I will totally be watching the SOTU tonight if in one of these episodes Jim Rockford buys a TV which picks up transmissions from this precise night several decades in the future and then just sits around for forty-five minutes gazing into the abyss instead of trying to figure out who coldcocked his dad this time. I dunno, I haven't seen the entire series yet so I can't say with certainty that it doesn't happen at some point.

NYT right now: "Trump’s State of the Union Address Unlikely to Bring Harmony"

better call my bookie back

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsophiaharvey.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F02%2F104.jpg&f=1

Oh you want Trump to bring some harmony is what you want, huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQwBFbNm1A

that may have been the best joek I've ever made on ILX

It was pretty good, yo.

I got an advance download of the speech, sucked. One or two OK bits, most of it pretty garbage. The last one wasn't that good, and this is just more of the same. C-.

In other words, I predict tonight ... he becomes president.

Me, on the other hand, I'm drinking a beer, baking a frittata, listening to These New Puritans, fighting a cold that feels like pneumonia with no real symptoms (it makes sense to me) and gonna go to bed early after staying up late taking my kid to Panic! at the Disco.

I just started my taxes, and it looks like I'm going to owe bigly. Thanks, Trump!

so Northam is really staying put huh

Dems shoulda tabbed him to respond with "Waitin' for the Robert E Lee"

Okay, now he's just being absurd

https://i.imgur.com/LshTEml.png

No idea how anyone can stand to watch this 'less they're getting paid to

I gave up and am listening to Shar-day and reading Louise Glück.

Sure, you could be watching the SOTU, but OTOH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D3pnhNnCDA

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i love it when the president helps me make the case that it's socialism or barbarism

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 6, 2019

I've never seen so many huge ass ears in my life.

But also

I reckon between a third and half of Dems rose to applaud Trump saying America would never be socialist.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) February 6, 2019

grow up

Defending ppl who applaud this asshole is the grown up thing to do apparently

Ocasio-Cortez is not clapping for anything-- not even bipartisanship.

— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) February 6, 2019

Yeah, I am glad she didn't seem to join in on the fucked up USA chants. All of it was so gross.

I never get to see these things on tv. People are so fucked up.

Is RBG there with the other justices?

I wonder if there is a term for when the "wall of gammon" isn't angry or pink.

RBG was not there, only 4 justices planned to attend (a couple have never attended- its not required or customary)

Roberts, Kagan, and the Trump Twosome were the only two SCOTUS attendees.

bad for the blood pressure to attend imo

hell it's stressful just reading this!

make it end already

Roberts, Kagan, and the Trump Twosome were the only two SCOTUS attendees.

I am sincerely hoping that this means Lord Alfred has had so many sophisticated cocktails that basic math temporarily eludes him.

Roberts+ Korsuch+Beavis only count as one man.

Justice Kertis

*Gorsuch

*whatever the fuck his name is.

As usual Roth is the only Trump whisperer you really need

The stories he tells about workers gladly giving up their paychecks for his drowsy racist fantasies and the villains working against him are mostly just sounds he makes to keep himself interested; he might have noticed that they drew louder-than-usual hoots from the seething grandparents and dead-ender rubes at his rallies, but he also might not have. His lies, though, are more elemental. They are never anything more than the opposite of truth. If Trump keeps insisting that he’s not being investigated for his relationship to Russia in gratuitous and unconvincing ways, it’s not because he’s trying to leverage some advanced placement Dealpoint or exploit some hidden businessman’s trick or angle. It’s because he’s literally fucking being investigated for his relationship with Russia and because he very much wants people to think he’s not, and because that’s honestly the best he can do because his brain is an old donut bobbing around in a toilet.

Trump is so relentlessly dishonest and so plainly diminished and so sorely overmatched that, at this point, he can only be taken at his word. This isn’t to say that you should believe what he’s saying, although you surely don’t need me to tell you that. It just means that what he does, from here until whenever his helicopter leaves the White House lawn for the last time, will never be anything but what it appears to be.

Congrats to @SpeakerPelosi for inventing the “fuck you” clap. #sotu pic.twitter.com/eueoUf9IBT

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 6, 2019

Did Stacey Abrams say anything outstanding?

Not really watched the response speech before or probably likely to in the future. & wondered to what extent it was a response or is it just an alternative viewpoint on the current state of the union.
Can't see Trump being able to stick close enough to a script for it to be guaranteed to be what the response could feed off.

lmao amazing

https://preview.redd.it/jsilt832ate21.jpg?width=690&auto=webp&s=472e1aae7f5766c8e4249f91f4348b30b45e7de3

otm

oh god the transcript

Transcript: pic.twitter.com/TNpQ2zHevJ

— jordan (@JordanUhl) February 5, 2019

I liked the Stacey Abrams speech, there's a transcript on Vox. How was Bernie?

handsome, charismatic, very much a leader

bwahahaha

Fox, apoplectic over its own polling showing wide public support for @AOC and @ewarren's wealth tax proposals, literally blames the fact that schools teach kids to be fair:

"The idea of fairness has been promoted in our schools for a long time." pic.twitter.com/GowAZWYWpZ

— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) February 5, 2019