I have to get this off my chest. I am sure someone else made this observation too, though. Britt's bit on considering the last time Joe Biden might have pushed a grocery cart, is it not so obviously absurd? This is Scranton Joe; he went to state university; he joined a picket line. And their guy takes his dumps on golden toilet seats, ran a scam university, ripped off regular working people. It almost makes me wonder, was Britt's skit a bit of subversion? ( I know the likely answer, and it doesn't matter-- we can get what we need from that performance art;))
During the SOTU we are allowed to watch both of the next leaders in line to be President if something would happen to ‘ Old Joe’. After hearing one of the network news reporters questioning Harris about being ready to step up to the plate, I wondered about how capable the Republican ‘ Alfred E Neuman ‘ would be if he needed to take over.
Anyway- Biden was good, and I think Harris could also do the job. After that Who knows.
Thank you for your remarks and it is good to know that there are Evangelicals who have not succumbed to Trump. I too live in a small mountainous town north of Phoenix in Arizona. All my neighbors and most of this community are Trumpers. Everyone drives a pickup truck and many have Trump flags. Elizabeth www.democrazy2020.org
“We promised our allies we would be there for them,” said Afghan combat veteran Max Kimmel. “Congress might forget about these promises, but our allies won’t.”
Every day in this new Trump world we now all live in now and forever after, I go to bed thinking, this is literally the limit -- nothing can top this one, we have finally attained the non plus ultra.
And then the next day...
Trump on his social media during Biden's speech:
“This is like a shouting match, every line is being shouted,” Mr. Trump, a man often prone to making irate speeches and social media posts, wrote at one point, using all caps.
Check out the article about MAGA Mike's facial expressions in the NYT today. Priceless. At times, he looked like wanted to just melt into the seat. Other times he looked like he really needed the toilet. He had fun making up verbal memes while watching his facial tics.
I think Joe's great speech and Britt's faceplant have lifted our community's spirits. The comments today have been better, funnier, and wittier than usual. Just reading them makes me feel better.
Besides a performance worthy of any high school theatrical production, the optics that Ms Britt might have been going for was a supreme mistake, at least imo. ""[T]he moms at the school drop off" line by Allie Beth Stuckey just added to the damage Britt's setting already created.
In a party known for the misogyny on display, delivering her rebuttal from the kitchen inspired thoughts of "barefoot and pregnant" as a New GOP goal. The view of a woman in her kitchen also reinforces the concept that "a woman's place is in the home" and not in business, politics or any place else that the sexist RINOs deem inappropriate.
Let me add that even though I'm well beyond the age for sitting in a school drop-off line, those I knew back then, as well as some I know today, had very little in common with a MAGAdroid politician. Those moms and dads concerns were that their children get a well-rounded education that would help prepare them for their future, and felt the same as a vast majority did in that earlier epoch in American history. They didn't concern themselves with what other parents allowed their children to read, nor did they object to the kids being exposed to ways of thought and self-expression by the LGBTQIA+ people, POC and feminists (at that time TERFs didn't exist); this was much less about "indoctrination" as it was to develop a more well-rounded and compassionate adult.
We all have to work together to excise the autocratic asshats in Congress if we wish to return to the path we were on ten years ago; before MAGA and after the Tea Party was rejected -- at least in part.
Biden knocked it out of the park. Great speech. I also loved the way the Republican stiffs were grinding their teeth. And little Mikey Johnson squirming and making little nods so slightly while grinding his teeth too .
Thank you for reading my message this morning. I spent the majority of my life/career living and working in dictator-led and communist countries. I then wrote From Democracy to Democrazy, by Graham as a warning to Americans. This book will give you the truth and the evidence of what is happening in our country today. My next book is called The Cold War Myth and will be out by the end of the year. Thank you again, Elizabeth
Thank you. This is very interesting. I will keep this in mind as polls are published. And consider whether the ‘Media’ is giving an accurate account of the polls.
Is this the first State of the Union Rebuttal that might be rated R?
I have to get this off my chest. I am sure someone else made this observation too, though. Britt's bit on considering the last time Joe Biden might have pushed a grocery cart, is it not so obviously absurd? This is Scranton Joe; he went to state university; he joined a picket line. And their guy takes his dumps on golden toilet seats, ran a scam university, ripped off regular working people. It almost makes me wonder, was Britt's skit a bit of subversion? ( I know the likely answer, and it doesn't matter-- we can get what we need from that performance art;))
During the SOTU we are allowed to watch both of the next leaders in line to be President if something would happen to ‘ Old Joe’. After hearing one of the network news reporters questioning Harris about being ready to step up to the plate, I wondered about how capable the Republican ‘ Alfred E Neuman ‘ would be if he needed to take over.
Anyway- Biden was good, and I think Harris could also do the job. After that Who knows.
Now that you mention it, yes. That same voice actress is also on the Mercy ship fund raisers. I turn the sound off when both come on.
Did anyone else think Katie Britt's delivery sounded like the quavery voice overs in an ASPCA commercial?
Thank you for your remarks and it is good to know that there are Evangelicals who have not succumbed to Trump. I too live in a small mountainous town north of Phoenix in Arizona. All my neighbors and most of this community are Trumpers. Everyone drives a pickup truck and many have Trump flags. Elizabeth www.democrazy2020.org
“We promised our allies we would be there for them,” said Afghan combat veteran Max Kimmel. “Congress might forget about these promises, but our allies won’t.”
Yep. This goes for Ukraine and the EU as well.
Every day in this new Trump world we now all live in now and forever after, I go to bed thinking, this is literally the limit -- nothing can top this one, we have finally attained the non plus ultra.
And then the next day...
Trump on his social media during Biden's speech:
“This is like a shouting match, every line is being shouted,” Mr. Trump, a man often prone to making irate speeches and social media posts, wrote at one point, using all caps.
Check out the article about MAGA Mike's facial expressions in the NYT today. Priceless. At times, he looked like wanted to just melt into the seat. Other times he looked like he really needed the toilet. He had fun making up verbal memes while watching his facial tics.
I think Joe's great speech and Britt's faceplant have lifted our community's spirits. The comments today have been better, funnier, and wittier than usual. Just reading them makes me feel better.
"Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative commentator, posted on X Friday morning that Britt had genuine appeal in coming across like "the moms at the school drop off" and praised the kitchen setting." https://www.thedailybeast.com/official-katie-britt-gop-response-to-state-of-the-union-has-republicans-losing-it (link from following the link in the story)
Besides a performance worthy of any high school theatrical production, the optics that Ms Britt might have been going for was a supreme mistake, at least imo. ""[T]he moms at the school drop off" line by Allie Beth Stuckey just added to the damage Britt's setting already created.
In a party known for the misogyny on display, delivering her rebuttal from the kitchen inspired thoughts of "barefoot and pregnant" as a New GOP goal. The view of a woman in her kitchen also reinforces the concept that "a woman's place is in the home" and not in business, politics or any place else that the sexist RINOs deem inappropriate.
Let me add that even though I'm well beyond the age for sitting in a school drop-off line, those I knew back then, as well as some I know today, had very little in common with a MAGAdroid politician. Those moms and dads concerns were that their children get a well-rounded education that would help prepare them for their future, and felt the same as a vast majority did in that earlier epoch in American history. They didn't concern themselves with what other parents allowed their children to read, nor did they object to the kids being exposed to ways of thought and self-expression by the LGBTQIA+ people, POC and feminists (at that time TERFs didn't exist); this was much less about "indoctrination" as it was to develop a more well-rounded and compassionate adult.
We all have to work together to excise the autocratic asshats in Congress if we wish to return to the path we were on ten years ago; before MAGA and after the Tea Party was rejected -- at least in part.
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Biden knocked it out of the park. Great speech. I also loved the way the Republican stiffs were grinding their teeth. And little Mikey Johnson squirming and making little nods so slightly while grinding his teeth too .
Thank you for reading my message this morning. I spent the majority of my life/career living and working in dictator-led and communist countries. I then wrote From Democracy to Democrazy, by Graham as a warning to Americans. This book will give you the truth and the evidence of what is happening in our country today. My next book is called The Cold War Myth and will be out by the end of the year. Thank you again, Elizabeth
Andrew Sullivan on Katie Britt’s speech: “The sheer scale of her cringe became an instant legend.”
Thank you. This is very interesting. I will keep this in mind as polls are published. And consider whether the ‘Media’ is giving an accurate account of the polls.
Poll:
Do any of you brag about being a wife the way Katie Britt does?
I like being married. And I put work into my marriage. But I've never listed it as one of my accomplishments.