When you say "some sign that the president and Congress are listening." You mean Republicans in Congress, right? While some Dems have often been disappointing at times, tone deaf at times, downright servile at times, they overall ARE listening. Don't lump them I with intentionally and aggressively divisive Republicans. And I mean almost all Republicans. If you support Trump even a little you support divisiveness. When it comes to Trump, as the old, crude saying goes, "you can't be a ;its;e bit pregnant."
If there are the signs you mention I will have to read about them tomorrow. I can't remember the last Trump SOTU address I watched. It's a monumental waste of time, especially now. Even his one dependable happy place, the stock market, is letting him down so EVERYTHING he says tonight will basically be fantasy. I got a text survey the other day asking if the SOTU should be live fact checked...(Y) (N)? Seriously? Does it actually need to be? It would be the easiest fact-checking of all time. The minute he starts talking put up a big all-caps "Lie" and just leave it there the whole time.
Is there any The Contrarian reader who can't do a pretty reasonable imitation of what he's going to say tonight?
I hope to be able to sleep tonight, ergo no SOTU festival of fabrications for me tonight. Barring his attacking Iran with nuclear weapons during his speech, which would immediately escalate world wide, I doubt Don the Con has anything useful or productive to say this evening. Tomorrow will be time enough to assess this exercise in royal crassness and enjoy the factual rebuttals.
Bill Maher usually gets on my nerves by the end of his show, but last week in his closing remarks he called for the end of the SOTU speech and I agree. He made the point that all its trappings make the President look like a king with a lot of proclamations thrown in that in reality require Congress to do something and that never happens. It has devolved into theater and although I'm a loyal Democrat I think it extends to Democratic Presidents as well. It's not a Constitutional requirement and for many years it was just a report sent to Congress. I won't be watching.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that any Democrat who attends tonight's lie-fest should be primaried and/or voted out of office at the very next election.
Don't lay this all on Trump. Ronnie the Popular is the one who turned this speech into theater, with the guests and the calculated applause lines. (What a surprise!)
You obviously are a strong, moral, and coherent gentleman. As you state, being a black man, you were one of the leaders, not just within the Black community, but in the greater picture of politics in America.
So, my only question is how it is possible that you would have expected Trump and the Republicans to present “the most important fact of life is our common humanity,” and how on earth you would expect them to "keep hope alive" when they are now openly racist, openly breaking the laws of our Constitution, building concentration camps, and killing American citizens?
When you say "some sign that the president and Congress are listening." You mean Republicans in Congress, right? While some Dems have often been disappointing at times, tone deaf at times, downright servile at times, they overall ARE listening. Don't lump them I with intentionally and aggressively divisive Republicans. And I mean almost all Republicans. If you support Trump even a little you support divisiveness. When it comes to Trump, as the old, crude saying goes, "you can't be a ;its;e bit pregnant."
If there are the signs you mention I will have to read about them tomorrow. I can't remember the last Trump SOTU address I watched. It's a monumental waste of time, especially now. Even his one dependable happy place, the stock market, is letting him down so EVERYTHING he says tonight will basically be fantasy. I got a text survey the other day asking if the SOTU should be live fact checked...(Y) (N)? Seriously? Does it actually need to be? It would be the easiest fact-checking of all time. The minute he starts talking put up a big all-caps "Lie" and just leave it there the whole time.
Is there any The Contrarian reader who can't do a pretty reasonable imitation of what he's going to say tonight?
I hope to be able to sleep tonight, ergo no SOTU festival of fabrications for me tonight. Barring his attacking Iran with nuclear weapons during his speech, which would immediately escalate world wide, I doubt Don the Con has anything useful or productive to say this evening. Tomorrow will be time enough to assess this exercise in royal crassness and enjoy the factual rebuttals.
Bill Maher usually gets on my nerves by the end of his show, but last week in his closing remarks he called for the end of the SOTU speech and I agree. He made the point that all its trappings make the President look like a king with a lot of proclamations thrown in that in reality require Congress to do something and that never happens. It has devolved into theater and although I'm a loyal Democrat I think it extends to Democratic Presidents as well. It's not a Constitutional requirement and for many years it was just a report sent to Congress. I won't be watching.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that any Democrat who attends tonight's lie-fest should be primaried and/or voted out of office at the very next election.
Don't lay this all on Trump. Ronnie the Popular is the one who turned this speech into theater, with the guests and the calculated applause lines. (What a surprise!)
I think Mr. Felon’s ear drums are calcified.
You obviously are a strong, moral, and coherent gentleman. As you state, being a black man, you were one of the leaders, not just within the Black community, but in the greater picture of politics in America.
So, my only question is how it is possible that you would have expected Trump and the Republicans to present “the most important fact of life is our common humanity,” and how on earth you would expect them to "keep hope alive" when they are now openly racist, openly breaking the laws of our Constitution, building concentration camps, and killing American citizens?
Narrator:
It did not turn out like you had hoped.
Washington Tribunal:
Accountability Commission
To bring Domestic Enemies
Of the United States Constitution
To Justice
Chuck Schumer: "I forgot my hearing aids!"