It’s a grotesque thought, but I suspect more than one marital conjunction in MAGA that night was energized by one of the partners privately concentrating on images of crucifixes and plunging necklines.
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.
Obviously this was intentional. I pointed out to my wife (there i go mansplaining again!) that the Britt “response” was not intended nor expected to reach undecideds, independents, or anyone except the Trump base that (a) is terrified of brown people, (b) has sexual and fiscal anxieties about wimmen out of their place, (c) is under the impression that riding the subway in NYC is a sure death sentence, and (d.1) male Fox viewers who tune in to see the hot babes in short skirts tightly crossing their legs, and/or (d.2) male viewers staring at that little cross hanging down enticingly in that open but not too far open dress top.
I'm not sure those commercials work that well. I tune them out the second they start and I hope there's a long-living circle in Purgatory for people who abuse animals.
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.
Yes, I have been really down in the dumps for a couple of weeks here because the courts seem to be in the bag for Trump and bits of theocracy are seeping in more and more; it looks like the long running project from the far Right is succeeding. Thanks, Joe Biden, for once again doing us proud and reminding us who we are. He's not perfect, but he is damn good. He may not win in the end, but I, for one, have hope.
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.
I just watched the Katie Britt thing and the most prominent thoughts I had were
- Is this an actual human being or a simulacrum programmed to methodically utter one focus-grouped 2 second statement after another?
- Do actual human beings ever conclude each sentence by pausing and freezing the parts of their faces into the same position for 0.75 seconds?
- Is that frozen position intended to resemble a smile by actual human beings or is it carefully modelled to replicate the facial expressions of models in sales literature for vacation time shares?
- Is this in fact an actual human being, an animatronic figure in a modern wax museum, or an AI superimposed on a CGI background?
- Are the people who generated this bizarre Lovecraftean nightmare video actually right that this imagery will successfully convince real Americans, addled and befuddled by decades of carefully crafted imagery and mendacity, to piss away their Republic in exchange for rule by kleptocrats, mobsters, and narcissistic megalomaniacs?
- If in fact this is, as the video seems to show, an actual stepford wife, what would it be like to be married to it? What does it say about America that this might in fact be in truth and fact, a true manifestation of our national ideal of marriage?
It is most bizarre. And, although, it's hard to listen to what she is actually saying due to the overacting and creepiness, if you do focus on her 'message', it's even more crazy because she is not really making the Republican case for anything at all. People are struggling financially? Okay, maybe, but Republicans killed the child tax credit and want to reduce social security, take away health care, give tax breaks to corporations, not increase minimum wage, etc. Okay, she tells us to be afraid of our cities, but if there is anything to be afraid of, it might be guns (that's a remote danger overall, but not a completely irrational fear in the US), and what are the Republicans doing on that? Republicans want to make open carry the law of the land; oppose banning assault weapons, etc.(BTW, when I look around, I do not see carnage; things are looking pretty good out there). She says she took a different approach about the border, but that consisted of getting to demagogue on a story about a woman who was sexually abused by cartels? What's the point? That was pretty awkward given where the Republicans as a whole landed with that one, even though I know she did work on that. But yes, I do agree with her on something. We are at a crossroads. I know which road I am taking.
Is this the first State of the Union Rebuttal that might be rated R?
It’s a grotesque thought, but I suspect more than one marital conjunction in MAGA that night was energized by one of the partners privately concentrating on images of crucifixes and plunging necklines.
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;))
Anyone ask her when The Orange Snake even looked into a grocery stores. Or Melania or Ivanka or the other privileged class.
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.
I'd trust Alfred E Neuman more than anyone the Snake picks for VP. Willing to bet a good part of the readers don't know who he is. :-)
What, me worry?
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?
Obviously this was intentional. I pointed out to my wife (there i go mansplaining again!) that the Britt “response” was not intended nor expected to reach undecideds, independents, or anyone except the Trump base that (a) is terrified of brown people, (b) has sexual and fiscal anxieties about wimmen out of their place, (c) is under the impression that riding the subway in NYC is a sure death sentence, and (d.1) male Fox viewers who tune in to see the hot babes in short skirts tightly crossing their legs, and/or (d.2) male viewers staring at that little cross hanging down enticingly in that open but not too far open dress top.
I'm not sure those commercials work that well. I tune them out the second they start and I hope there's a long-living circle in Purgatory for people who abuse animals.
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.
And his presidency was one nightmare after another with his Cabinet, family members and the Snake himself sucking up any joy in a new day.
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.
The only way Speaker Johnson could have looked unhappier is if he'd been informed that Matt Gaetz was going to be his cellmate.
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.
Yes, I have been really down in the dumps for a couple of weeks here because the courts seem to be in the bag for Trump and bits of theocracy are seeping in more and more; it looks like the long running project from the far Right is succeeding. Thanks, Joe Biden, for once again doing us proud and reminding us who we are. He's not perfect, but he is damn good. He may not win in the end, but I, for one, have hope.
"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.
I just watched the Katie Britt thing and the most prominent thoughts I had were
- Is this an actual human being or a simulacrum programmed to methodically utter one focus-grouped 2 second statement after another?
- Do actual human beings ever conclude each sentence by pausing and freezing the parts of their faces into the same position for 0.75 seconds?
- Is that frozen position intended to resemble a smile by actual human beings or is it carefully modelled to replicate the facial expressions of models in sales literature for vacation time shares?
- Is this in fact an actual human being, an animatronic figure in a modern wax museum, or an AI superimposed on a CGI background?
- Are the people who generated this bizarre Lovecraftean nightmare video actually right that this imagery will successfully convince real Americans, addled and befuddled by decades of carefully crafted imagery and mendacity, to piss away their Republic in exchange for rule by kleptocrats, mobsters, and narcissistic megalomaniacs?
- If in fact this is, as the video seems to show, an actual stepford wife, what would it be like to be married to it? What does it say about America that this might in fact be in truth and fact, a true manifestation of our national ideal of marriage?
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It is most bizarre. And, although, it's hard to listen to what she is actually saying due to the overacting and creepiness, if you do focus on her 'message', it's even more crazy because she is not really making the Republican case for anything at all. People are struggling financially? Okay, maybe, but Republicans killed the child tax credit and want to reduce social security, take away health care, give tax breaks to corporations, not increase minimum wage, etc. Okay, she tells us to be afraid of our cities, but if there is anything to be afraid of, it might be guns (that's a remote danger overall, but not a completely irrational fear in the US), and what are the Republicans doing on that? Republicans want to make open carry the law of the land; oppose banning assault weapons, etc.(BTW, when I look around, I do not see carnage; things are looking pretty good out there). She says she took a different approach about the border, but that consisted of getting to demagogue on a story about a woman who was sexually abused by cartels? What's the point? That was pretty awkward given where the Republicans as a whole landed with that one, even though I know she did work on that. But yes, I do agree with her on something. We are at a crossroads. I know which road I am taking.
No, and I have been married for 30 years.