State of the Union

[aldousburbank]

Thanks President Camacho!
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Don't be dissing my prez ese

[aldousburbank]

Oh good, he put Biden in charge of job training.

[bateman]

I'm reading ahead in the transcript & he doesn't say a goddamn thing about the NSA.

[analog kid]

Mind numbing dreg. Just started watching, but the Duck Dynasty guy is supposed to be there somewhere, hopefully with a camo tux.

2014 State of the Union: Enhanced Broadcast

[bateman]

Oh good, he put Biden in charge of job training.

He could show you a thing or two about how to wax a BITCHIN' Trans Am.

[wr250]

He could show you a thing or two about how to wax a BITCHIN' Trans Am.

and maybe noory's mustache?

[bateman]

This faux folksy thing he does drives me nuts.

[aldousburbank]

Boehner looks like he wants to choke. Biden looks like he wants to run his fingers through his boss' hair.

[wr250]

i wonder if Arts non-compete would apply if we elected him president?

[PB the Deplorable]

How can you guys stand listening to this lying POS?

[wr250]

How can you guys stand listening to this lying POS?

i couldnt. i turned on a noory rerun instead. 

[aldousburbank]

How can you guys stand listening to this lying POS?

MST3000

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Watching this reminds me why I hate suits.  Fuck, who would wear one of those stiff, carpet roll looking, coffin stuffers anyway?  I mean except I guess if you're paid to wear one like some kind of sick craigslist fetish shit....

..... or get elected. maybe we could impose a dress code for all those people running things for us. i vote for clown attire. 

[analog kid]

I can't stand to listen to politicians talking in general. Turned it off.

[wr250]

this republicon lady aint much better
put her and obama together and noory is still better

[paladin1991]

I thought Mr. Sotero had hair.

[nooryisawesome]

yeah just what we need more unskilled workers. Because there are not enough unskilled Americans out of work already.

[The General]

This faux folksy thing he does drives me nuts.

It became normal to do that a few years ago.  There used to be one or maybe two references to an Average American in a presidential speech 10 years ago.  Bush did it.  Clinton did it. A folksy story about a hometown soldier, an entrepreneur, a teacher... Now they just fill the whole fucking speech with folksy Average American Anecdotes. THEY MEAN NOTHING.  The people see through this!  I hope. 
And I've NEVER heard Ron Paul do this. 
I hate it. 
God Help Us.

[nooryisawesome]

the "common sense" thing pisses me off. When politicians talk about "common sense" there is no such fucking thing in America is anymore.
Also "common sense" of a rich politicians means nothing to me.

FUCK YOU politics

[bateman]

It became normal to do that a few years ago.  There used to be one or maybe two references to an Average American in a presidential speech 10 years ago.  Bush did it.  Clinton did it. A folksy story about a hometown soldier, an entrepreneur, a teacher... Now they just fill the whole fucking speech with folksy Average American Anecdotes. THEY MEAN NOTHING.  The people see through this!  I hope. 
And I've NEVER heard Ron Paul do this. 
I hate it. 
God Help Us.

It's this whole "we're just like yeewww" thing. De Blasio's another one. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368159/poverty-chic-matthew-continetti/page/0/1

[The General]

It's this whole "we're just like yeewww" thing.

The other thing that drives me crazy is the whole victim mentality that totally pervades everything now.  Here Obama is, the most powerful man on earth, a black man, telling me how blacks can't get ahead.  Really?  So you're not black AND president of the united states? 

And then the sob story about women being such victims and making 77 cents on the dollar that men make because of discrimination or whatever.  Jesus. Give me a break.  It's not even true.  http://www.openmarket.org/2013/06/19/president-repeats-false-equal-pay-statistic-claiming-women-earn-77-percent-of-what-men-do/

The 60's are over, Obama.  Can Thomas Sowell be president now please? 

[yumyumtree]

Watching this reminds me why I hate suits.  Fuck, who would wear one of those stiff, carpet roll looking, coffin stuffers anyway?  I mean except I guess if you're paid to wear one like some kind of sick craigslist fetish shit...

Sorry, I just hate fuckin' suits.  I mean it's not the homeless or the Goodwill crowd Effing up the world, it's the suits... etc etc

Speak for yourself. Every woman crazy bout a sharp-dressed man.

[yumyumtree]

I actually came on this thread today to see what people thought of having 3 different responses. Michael Medved thinks its excessive. He said Fri. that one response by Cathy McMorris Rogers would be plenty. As it happened her speech wasn't that good.  But Rand Paul's had a lot of cliches too, may have gotten it from Wikipedia.

[The General]

I actually came on this thread today to see what people thought of having 3 different responses. Michael Medved thinks its excessive. He said Fri. that one response by Cathy McMorris Rogers would be plenty. As it happened her speech wasn't that good.  But Rand Paul's had a lot of cliches too, may have gotten it from Wikipedia.

Sadly, the Repubs are finished. 
The backlash has been worse than when Coca Cola changed their formula. 
W ruined the brand for probably the next 50 years.

[yumyumtree]

I know what you're saying about faux folksy. I don't think that great leaders of bygone eras did this. I couldn't give less of a darn if a candidate has the same hobbies, shops at Target or what's in their iPod shuffle, as long as it is t Miley Cyrus. If anything I want them to have a more high-class background than me. It was very useful, for example that Jackie Kennedy was able to speak French with DeGaulle. What I care about is principles and approaches to problem-solving.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

 
W ruined the brand for probably the next 50 years.

Its a shame because some of the ideas W had when he ran in 2000 were excellent.
Especially the original HSA. The idea that an individual was responsible for saving for his own healthcare (personal responsibility) and the government would take its hands off the money-was a great idea.
But the Dems were afraid the rich would get so much better healthcare (the rich get better everything, anyway).
And the Rs abandoned him. What a shame.

[Yorkshire pud]

It's this whole "we're just like yeewww" thing. De Blasio's another one. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368159/poverty-chic-matthew-continetti/page/0/1

It isn't just you that enjoy this 'just like you' BS. We have a Prime Minister (multi millionaire) married to a woman, whose father owns about half of of one county..(Quote) "Samantha grew up in a small northern town"...Yeah, too right. The Chancellor of the Exchequor is also a millinaire. Neither have had a proper job, both left Eton, jumped into the political backroom arena (Cameron was an advisor I believe to John Major) and squeezed through the ranks. The latest buzz phrase? "Doing more for/Helping/Supporting 'hard working families'... The same hard working familes who are enjoying job losses, home repossession, astronomic energy costs, huge food cost increases, and pretty much anything that fucks that hard work.

[The General]

Its a shame because some of the ideas W had when he ran in 2000 were excellent.
Especially the original HSA. The idea that an individual was responsible for saving for his own healthcare (personal responsibility) and the government would take its hands off the money-was a great idea.
But the Dems were afraid the rich would get so much better healthcare (the rich get better everything, anyway).
And the Rs abandoned him. What a shame.

He did have some good ideas.  He talked a lot about a lot of good ideas.
But it wasn't over his good ideas that the Repubs abandoned him.

[paladin1991]

Its a shame because some of the ideas W had when he ran in 2000 were excellent.
Especially the original HSA. The idea that an individual was responsible for saving for his own healthcare (personal responsibility) and the government would take its hands off the money-was a great idea.
But the Dems were afraid the rich would get so much better healthcare (the rich get better everything, anyway).
And the Rs abandoned him. What a shame.

I abandoned W and the repubs when he/they felt no shame in sending me and my brother back to Ramadi and Fallujah, respectively, after our initial tours over there.....and I didn't see the Bush twins or or the relations of other repubs walking point or laying down suppressive fire so the Doc could extract one of the wounded.
Guess they have better things to do with the lives of their children than nation build.
Fuck 'em.
Oh, and I don't shine up to the Dems either, same as above, Fuck 'em.

[Ben Shockley]

I abandoned W and the repubs when he/they felt no shame in sending me and my brother back to Ramadi and Fallujah, respectively, after our initial tours over there.....and I didn't see the Bush twins or or the relations of other repubs walking point or laying down suppressive fire so the Doc could extract one of the wounded.

I'm glad you finally noticed.  I wish more people had been hip to the neo-Con chickenhawks pre 2006 (or ideally, pre 2000).

Guess they have better things to do with the lives of their children than nation build.
Fuck 'em.

Exactly; just like what Cheney shamelessly hypocritically quipped about his notable absence from Vietnam-Era service.
I remember hearing Bush at one of those dog-and-pony speech / Q-&-A sessions with some soldiers in Iraq, and him lip-servicing about how military service is the most noble thing a person can do, etc.  I SO WISHED that some short-timer combat-arms EM* would have stood up, been recognized and asked the motherfucker "Mr. President, I'm sure that you have repeatedly urged your daughters to join the Army or Marines and volunteer for service in a combat zone.   So in light of the fact that both have ignored your advice, how are you and the First Lady dealing with the humiliation of your daughters being so un-patriotic?"
Yeah, I know the soldier would have been tased or worse as soon as he uttered "daughters" but a brother can dream, can't I??


* Although, Paladin, you look to me like a guy who knows that a "combat-arms type" was unlikely to be at such an event.  They're generally up front, while the big shots and reporters heap fake- and/or clueless awe and praise and whatever goodies they brought with them onto a bunch of freshly-showered REMFs.