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

Harris will be speaking before Abrams, which is fine; Sanders will be speaking after Abrams, which is fine. Somewhere in that mix Trump will do whatever it is that he does. Can we all move on now, please? https://t.co/UmMMS5lUdY

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) February 5, 2019

I lol'd: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/05/why-wait-state-union-when-this-robot-can-generate-speech-you/?utm_term=.84b799a40dfb

Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress and my fellow Americans:

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That's the United States must increase in our economy is addicts. The constant extension of college?

I also protect the unalienable sources.

Now is our unfair traffic control talks on a bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission I believe the best idea. What would you for directions that secured victim. The world: Freedom is at the most for our Bipartisan campaign financial security assistance should quickly to cripple our armed for modernizing our help!

We have in 6 years. Here in Americans—Democracy.

May God bless the United States of America.

Quiet thread today. We bought alcohol for the SOTU or are gonna watch Time Share on Netflix?

No force on this earth could compel me to watch the state of the union, if he calls for a pogrom I’m sure I’ll hear about it somehow

I am going to clean the kitchen floor

i've got laundry to fold.

I'm thinking about sticking my hand in the garbage disposal just to see what it's like

I can't even listen to that guy talk in 10-second soundbites, so no. I'll be slogging my way through The Wire.

c'mon don't you want to see the night donald trump finally becomes president??

i can't wait to read the "trump surprises with pivot to center" articles tomorrow it's going to be AWESOME

In my very rich fantasy life AOC gets up and walks out mid-speech.

Fingers crossed Pelosi brings a leaf blower and blasts Trump's toupee off mid-speech.

if he calls for a pogrom I’m sure I’ll hear about it somehow

When I heard he had a plan to end HIV transmission in the US by 2030 my immediate response was "I bet it's 'round up the gays'".

"trump surprises with pivot to center, declares national emergency"

I’m in DC for a conference and ppl want to go out for a SOTU bar bingo thing and i am just...who are you

Well, they’re DC people

xps "slogging"?!?!? why u braek hart

you couldn't pay me to listen to the SOTU

do we need to go to Treeship's house and stage an intervention so he doesn't watch it and then post here? ;)

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

http://i66.tinypic.com/34pnlud.png

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.