2023 State of the Union (1 Viewer)

[wardorican]

Anyone watching this?

My first take so far was that it was very cordial. Joe did a good job nodding to both Republican leaders. McCarthy shook his hand 3 times, nodded on a few things and even clapped once or twice so far.

Republican's aren't totally against him right now. Interesting.

 

[Booker]

I liked her better in Total Recall...

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Even Pennywise thinks this ridiculous stunt is over-the-top.

 

[nolaspe]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Cruella De Vil, Kid Rock, Dr Zhivago – the internet was ablaze discussing who Marjorie Taylor Greene most looked like in the white knee-length coat and furry collar that she wore to the State of the Union. It turns out the question shouldn’t have been whobut what.

Greene apparently wanted to match the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the country last week. So she picked a white coat because, I guess, the balloon was also white.

Nick Dyer, the congresswoman’s communications director, told the Guardian in an email that the $495 Overland coat – made with alpaca wool and fur trim – was meant to “highlight” the president’s lack of comment on the balloon during his State of the Union speech. “Biden refused to mention it, just like he refused to stop the intelligence-gathering operation that traversed the United States and surveilled some of our most important military facilities in the country,” Dyer said……

Why Marjorie Taylor Greene dressed like that at the State of the Union

The congresswoman was trying to highlight Biden’s lack of comment on China’s spy balloon, an aide says

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

While delivering the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to link the 80-year-old Biden to a “woke” mob and bragged of banning “CRT” in her state.

Sanders didn’t define either term. She used the initials “CRT” without spelling out “critical race theory,” apparently certain most Americans know what that means.


Watching Sanders toss around those extremely online terms — only months after her party badly underperformed in the midterm elections while campaigning against those very things — vividly demonstrates a problem for the GOP.

Republicans are extremely skilled at grabbing attention, leveraging their formidable media apparatus to turn the spotlight on the manufactured controversy of the moment. But these days they are far less good at persuading the broader public.


Given a rare opportunity to communicate a conservative vision to the entire country, Sanders delivered a message that was, as Matthew Sheffield put it, “filled with far-right buzzwords that were likely incomprehensible to most Americans who had bothered to watch.”

Biden, said Sanders, is “the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.”
To be moved by that argument, you’d need to know that “wokeness” refers to a constellation of contested views about race, sex and transgender rights.

You’d need to know it’s a ubiquitous right-wing media trope to scoff that liberals can’t define the term “woman.” You’d need to know why this is supposed to be terribly threatening.

This rhetoric did little for Republicans in 2022. The New York Times reports that virtually all GOP spending on ads mentioning critical race theory was spent during primaries, a tacit admission it had little general election potency.


Last September, a polling memo from the Republican National Committee admitted that focusing on CRT was only exciting the “base.” To move independents, the memo said, GOP candidates should emphasize “parental rights.”

That, too, was misplaced confidence after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s victory in 2021: Many Republicans did run on such issues in the midterms, but the party dramatically underperformed expectations — including among independents……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/08/sarah-huckabee-sanders-sotu-response-biden-woke-ron-desantis/

 

[GrandAdmiral]

 

[J-DONK]

This is what progress looks like. Scott can't run fast enough from his own proposals. Republicans are going to be like Paul Ryan? Who is Paul Ryan? You mean Jack Ryan from the Tom Clancy novels?

They might still try to raise retirement age, but that's also an easy attack ad.

 

[coldseat]

These Republican's all fall apart like withering leaves any time they get questioning and push back that isn't Fox news tailored propaganda. The Crypt Keeper was slipping and sliding all over the place in that piece, .