i oddly enjoy the wrenching detached experience of watching the spectacle in real-time
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
i also want to see if/how he'll react to an audience that isn't 100% supportive. it's very rare that he exposes himself to it, especially in front a huge live audience. in the debates he would take pride in fighting back against the boos. and maybe it even worked for him in that setting. not sure how all that translates to tonight.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
I would love it if the democrats would openly boo him, but that's obviously not happening.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
yea i can't watch this thing
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
i'm happier the less i think about this asshole
This is pretty much how I feel
If Lewis Carroll stops by with a large bag of opium, I will watch Trump's State of the Union message.— John Lurie (@lurie_john) January 30, 2018
― Moodles, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
I don't think I've ever watched one, not starting now.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
This thread is the “I don’t own a TV” of threads right now.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
watching him form sentences is the most painful thing i can imagine atm
bc it necessarily means watching form his little asshole mouth into a sphincter while he makes his thumb-finger gestures
― j., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
i also want to see if/how he'll react to an audience that isn't 100% supportive.
Yeah, omg, how will he respond to the sight of so many democrats sitting down and not clapping.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
wasn't Bush's "axis of evil" bit from a SOTU address? is that the last time anything memorable/significant was said at one of these?
(or said by the actual president at least? wasn't that dude shouting "you lie" at Obama at a SOTU? and Rubio stopping to swig from a bottle of water during his rebuttal?)
(NB I'm not American so this isn't “I don’t own a TV” style performative ignorance, just genuine ignorance)
― soref, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
probably will stream it while listening to ambient techno and surfing the web
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
xp it was a joint session of congress - joe wilson
― j., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
i'll be teaching a class tonight so no way am i watching this
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Ironic, because I (and many others) won't be watching because we *have* class.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
its my music appreciation class, my students and i will be having a great timeway better than anyone watching this shitass speech
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fatalbert/images/0/0b/Rc.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120221180233
"The State of the Union is like school on Saturday: no class."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
i'm going to do some yoga tonight instead of watching this
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
if i were at home, i might watch enough to make my stomach turn, and then i would stopso like 35-90 seconds
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
just look on the internet tomorrow and they'll show you clips of the parts to be mad at
― j., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
I would only watch this if I thought there was a chance that I could be part of the shared cathartic experience of watching him stroke out and die on live television, but I'm realistic about the slim chances of my outliving him.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
no, fuck this. I'm done
― akm, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
i’m listening to al green
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
lol
― the late great, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Noice!
― Moodles, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
I'm mostly tuned out these days, but that long walk up the aisle felt like the last "God, how did this ever happen?" moment of Part One.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
Enter the First Lady, with the mien and bearing of Mary, Queen of Scots escorted to her doom.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
― rb (soda), Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:07 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't own a TV.
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
i'm remembering that no one benefits more from the time-honored "tell stories of american heroes and call them out on the crowd for a standing ovation" technique than terrible fucking presidents. over and over, the entire room stands up and gives a standing ovation. to the casual viewer trump appears to be killing it and even winning the democrats over.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
Which PED baseball player did Clinton put in the box one year? I don't remember that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
Reagan started the tradition iirc
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
I'm covering this shit so y'all don't have to watch it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
oh man the smirk of this guy talking about the economy doing well.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
They have a page listing all the luxury-box guests:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_gallery.php
Clinton had Sammy Sosa there in 1999!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
nothing like that exquisite moment when all the republicans and half of the democrats (including pelosi) give a standing ovation to the importance of standing for the national anthem
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
American grits!
https://whatscookingamerica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Grits.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
Makes me think of the recording-studio scene in Boogie Nights: "Pillars, frameworks? Now you're talkin' over my head."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
murmur in the crowd during the section on "chain migration" - couldn't make out exactly what was said
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
― rb (soda), Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:07 PM
TV in general has somewhat varied fare, not the same ape flinging shit outta the cage.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
i watched natural born killers instead but when i left the house for work afterwards i could hear the president's voice coming from behind the curtains of the neighbor's house, saying his catchphrase to enthusiastic applause. dark
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
The bald dude who introduced him when he walked in — that was his longtime security goon right?
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
That's future United States of Trump National Security Minister Goon to you, son.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
I watched a lo res YouTube of the pilot episode of Moonlighting
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
I was watching episodes from the 'who shot JR' season of Dallas.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link