PBP: 2018 State Of The Uniom, pre-game, live PBP, & post-game

What ever the game, if he drinks his water with 2 hands, the game ends, and everybody must drink everything in their house...including the bleach.

 

Thread title FTW. It's like these guys care so little about government that they don't bother to run spell check on the ********ing tickets.

My congresswoman requested all the Democrats who are attending to wear black, but I prefer the congresspeople who are boycotting. This administration is not a goddamn funeral, it's an attack on the fundamental pillars of our democracy.

 

Washington and Adams addressed Congress in person. Jefferson changed the practice to submitting a written report, although many claim he did so because he was an amazing writer but a not so great public speaker.

 

I've long thought the pomp and circumstance around the whole thing is unseemly and far too imperial. Now that we have a wannabe autocrat in offfice, it really exposes what's wrong with the practice.

He made mistakes as POTUS, but this one thing Jefferson got right.

 

Fair point, but aside from my original wording I don't think it's a straight comparison.

I know it doesn't look that way from your perspective, but as loathsome as Wilson was in so many ways--and it was only the brevity of our involvement in World War I that kept the worst excesses of his national security "innovations" from taking deeper root and becoming truly institutionalized--he wasn't a nihilist the way Trump is.

Wilson wasn't going to scorch the earth so that there was no threat to his power possible.

 

That's largely the result of hurried posting from work.

At a later time I can give a more measured and considered response.

 

It's not a campaign rally. I expect he will read the teleprompter, mostly successfully, and the media will be on his jock like static cling (if you know what I mean). "Today is the day he truly became President." And then he'll tweet something awful later, and the reporters who slobbered over the speech will look like jackasses.