Trump’s State of Union speech rips Democrats to shreds!
Mike Pence had the best line:
“I thought she was tearing up the Constitution.”
As entertainment, President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night (02-04-2020) was a Reality TV smash hit.
Any time you get Nancy Pelosi to rip up the printed copy of your speech and turn it into confetti you know you’ve hit a nice fresh nerve.
Talking heads in the Resistance news media are praising the lady’s petulance. CNN’s Brian Steltzer says “It was unprecedented behavior for a speaker, aggressively rude and unapologetically meant to rile up her base. It was divisive, but effective.”
Really? Mighty weak tea compared to the President’s complete disassembly of the socialist party.
One example: Would any of the Bushes have bestowed the Medal of Freedom to the mortally ill Rush Limbaugh? Too divisive. Well, boo freaking hoo. Trump did it in real time, with Melania doing the honors.
Republican heroes, not Democrat(ic) victims
It is said that Reagan started the practice of pointing to heroes in the gallery. Trump went him one better. His heroes got something from the President. Limbaugh his medal, medical assistance for another daughter, the surprise return of an active-duty soldier to his family in the visitors gallery. He even bestowed the rank of brigadier general for a 100-year-old Tuskegee airman who looks like he could still take one up into the wild blue yonder. (This President is such a racist!)
The president relived his high-profile foreign policy wins. Killed the terrorist al-Baghdadi — introduced the parents of 26-year-old Kayla Mueller, whom the bastard ultimately killed after holding her as a slave. They displayed her photograph. And introduced the tearful wife and 13-year-old son (struggling to keep a stiff upper lip) of a soldier killed by one of Qassim Suleimani’s roadside bombs. Guess what? No World War 3!
Gave a shout-out to law enforcement — do Democrats running for president EVER praise cops? He mentioned I.C.E. by name, then introduced the brother of a citizen slaughtered by an illegal. Didn’t hurt that the surviving brother teared up nicely.
Trump enraged liberals by calling for legislation allowing citizens harmed by illegal immigrants to sue sanctuary cities and states. “Tragically, there are many cities in America where radical politicians have chosen to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegal aliens.”
Took aim at the teachers union lobby by promoting the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunities Act — “because no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing school.” Introduced one such child and gave her a scholarship. Let’s see how many Democrats stand in her way at the schoolhouse door.
No American Venezuela!
Trump denounced the Warren/Bernie plan for “the socialist takeover of our health care system” depriving 180 million people of their private insurance. If you didn’t get the point, Trump introduces the shadow president of Venezuela fighting Maduro’s socialism.
“If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free health care to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free government health care for illegal aliens!”
- The Republican Senate has confirmed scores of originalist federal judges and there’s more in the pipeline, Trump helpfully postscripted.
- Defended the Second Amendment.
- Promoted “the constitutional right to pray in public schools. In America, we don’t punish prayer.”
- Asked for a ban on late-term abortion.
This is a conservative agenda that would have pleased Reagan. (Here’s the transcript.)
It’s the economy, Democrats
Is the economy winning? Democrats have embarked on a fool’s errand trying to say otherwise.
- 7 million new jobs.
- Since November 2016, the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by 47 percent — three times faster than the increase for the top 1 percent.
- The stock market is up 70% since his election.
- The nation is energy independent.
- The unemployment rate for African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians are the lowest levels in history. (Democrats sat on their hands.)
- Instead of adding 10 million dependents to food stamps under Obama, 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare. Democrats remained stone faced.
Trump is riding high
The Iowa Democrat(ic) caucuses were a disaster — the party couldn’t organize a two-car funeral procession. Later today (02-05-2020) Trump will be acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial, which has been a big dud. (Was there a sorrier TV image than the House impeachment managers seated together and scowling?) Joni Ernst was correct: Joe Biden was impeachment’s big loser. (Prediction: New Hampshire will finish his candidacy.)
The Gallup poll has Trump at the highest approval rating of his presidency at 49%.
A record 59% say they’re better off financially than one year ago, and another 74% say they’ll be better off financially one year from now. These are the highest figures ever reported Gallup has ever reported in 43 years.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Not once did the President reference — even obliquely — Pelosi’s failed impeachment gambit. Didn’t need to. Still got under her skin. Success is the best revenge.
98 responses to “Well that tears it!”
Great analogy, work of art David.
Hillary’s disastrous 2016 campaign; the cataclysm of the 2016 election; the imploded Muller investigation; the Kavanaugh fiasco; the collapse of the impeachment farce; the debacle of the Iowa caucuses. The Dems’ greatest hits just keep on coming. Can’t wait for the grand finale: Trump’s re-election in 2020. Speaking of Iowa, even the Dems’ handmaidens in the media deserted them after being forced to stand around for hours on camera in front of a blank map of Iowa with nothing to report. (Loved watching Wolf Blitzer do a slow–and I do mean slow–burn Monday night.)
What Trump should do immediately after the Senate acquits him: Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, he should tear up a copy of the articles of impeachment, turn to the camera, and say, “This one’s for you, Nancy!”
“Prediction: New Hampshire will finish his candidacy.”
Predicition 2.0: The investigation into Quid Pro Joe’s nepotism and the monetizing of his office will commence, post haste.
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Prediction 3.0: geo_, AnonyBob, and perhaps a few others, will slobber effusively that SanFranNan is one brave (if L-Dopa dependent) soul AND the good ol’ U.S. of A. is going to hell in a handbasket, fact-based reality be damned!
The Gotch
Predicition 2.0: The investigation into Quid Pro Joe’s nepotism and the monetizing of his office will commence, post haste.
I’ll take that bet, unless you’re talking about some useless Show Trial in the Senate or House.
Biden will NEVER be investigated (nor indicted, tried, and imprisoned) for ANYTHING he did while holding the public trust. Don’t believe me?
Can you spell H I L L A R Y?
Perhaps you’re confusing Prediction with Bet…?
Anywho, The Gotch is a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine . . . a Righty is got to DREAM, dad!
The Gotch
So I can look you up onder “Loman” in the phone book? We are pleased that Grassley & Johnson–who are NOT furniture manufacturers–will be making inquiries. But they don’t have manacles and graybar hotels.
We’ll see.
President Trump is exceedingly lucky in his enemies.
First, Trump gave Rush the Medal of Freedom – very very different from the Medal of Honor.
But nonetheless it was an embarrassment. He’s not a hero, he’s an obnoxious partisan radio host who’s many and repeated lies have been well documented and done an obvious disservice to the nation. Can you imagine how Rush’s head would have exploded if Rachel Maddow had been granted the award?
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/rush-limbaugh/
LOL, Politifact. That’s rich. LOL. He brought a long dead radio format back from the dead and turned it into a great american success story calling him an obnoxious partisan radio host is all subjective opinion. But no one can argue with his untold success as not be worth awarding a medal of freedom. He pursued his dreams and after failure after failure he found his niche and soared to success. That is reminiscent of the American Dream and it is to be celebrated. Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award and of course it take a back seat to a Medal of Honor winner every day of the week. But in the age, where everyone is now special and should be awarded a medal for trying this award would actually legitimize success. Remember Air America, oh yeah wildly successful. Those talk show hosts are still waiting for their participation trophies.
An opinion? It’s apparent to any objective viewer, including most conservatives, that he’s a chronic liar and who attracts viewers and attention with brash claims, often based on flimsy or even false evidence, or spreading lazy stereotypes. The chair of the RNC no less called him a “divisive and ugly entertainer.”
The man literally said Indians shouldn’t complain about the genocide of their people because the remaining ones have casinos.
What a role model.
The funny thing is you dismissing this by simply saying “lol Politifact” without actually denying a single one of the literal dozen of false claims of his they’ve logged.
He falsely claimed a mass shooter was part of an anti-Trump movement based on a report that identified the wrong person and then never retracted his statement even when called upon.
He claimed Obama wanted to mandate circumcision. Claimed a Batman movie named its villain after Bain Capital in order to damage Mitt Romney. Said Abu Ghraib was no worse than a frat prank. Denies the overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate chance. And on, and on, and on. Integrity clearly means virtually nothing to him; ironic he claims to speak for the party of personal responsibility, apparently it means nothing to you either.
No one can argue with the comparative “untold success” of any number of left wing pundits either but it would be shameless theatrics if Obama had awarded them such an honor (just as Pelosi’s stunt last night was).
Ironic you bring up participation trophies, I’d just been thinking Limbaugh’s medal is virtually the epitome of the lame feel-good participation trophies that conservatives so often decry.
The Medal of Freedom isn’t meant to honor those of the utmost merit, not those whose primary source of fame is scarcely mitigated fabrication and exaggeration.
(and for the record I noted the difference with the Medal of Honor because that’s what Blaska called it in his text).
*edit, “IS meant to honor those of the utmost merit”
Waaaaahhh, waaaaaaaaaaaaahhh, waaaaaaaaaaah. I’ll pitch in the first nickel to help you purchase a sense of humor, which blows away 90% of your bitching. The other 10%?
Eat it raw.
Except literally the only one of those statements I quoted that was apparently made for “humor” was his “joke” about Native Americans blowing genocide out of proportion. Hilarious!
Literally all the other lies I cited weren’t attempts at mockery or satire, he straight up spread falsehoods to try and smear his targets. Nice try though. Or would you care to try and take an actual crack at honestly refuting a single one of those statements?
The Medal of Freedom is supposed to be reserved for, “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors”. The only clause that would even feasibly be applied to Rush is the cultural component, which would be laughable if it weren’t so antithetical to the awards ideals since the majority if his fame and career has been about promoting and perpetuating stereotypes further damaging and dividing our culture.
And dear lord you’re a dolt. When Stephanapoulos and Chuck Todd mistakenly refer to the award as the Medal of Honor it’s the gravest sin. When your fearless leader Blaska does it though, I’m sure it was just an honest mistake. Or are you going to put him on blast for calling it the medal of honor? I was correcting him, he has since rectified the text above in the post, as I’m sure he could attest to himself.
“That is reminiscent of the American Dream and it is to be celebrated.” Unless you’re one of the deranged Dems who condemn the American Dream as racist. The AD is based on the concept of individual initiative, which is anathema to the Left because it undercuts their belief in the State as the sole source of all that is good and right.
Lol, what a load of mularkey. You generalize just as badly as Rush. The American Dream is also about integrity, and Rush has nary a qualm with obscuring the truth. His gravest sin has been creating a culture that devalues critical thinking in favor of impulsive statements and rationales.
LOLOLOL. Trigger much?
Haha, wow. You’re superficial response only evinces your lack of an actual defense for giving such a prestigious award to such a callow man.
Rather than actually try and refute a single statement regarding Rush’s embarrassing record, you simply retort with the same childish brevity as Trump. Fitting, and yet, continually disappointing how far the right’s intellect has fallen.
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
And of those who never read the book.
*Cough*
Trump did NOT award Limbaugh the Medal of Honor, which is the highest MILITARY award given by the US. Limbaugh was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hate to see you making the same…….hiccup…..as Stephanopolous and UpChuck Todd….
Yes I’m aware, as I stated I was correcting Blaska’s error, but nice lack of reading comprehension.
How stupid are the democrats? They have the hateful, arrogant, witch Pelosi as their mouthpiece. THAT’S how stupid they are!
Could you imagine the backlash if a Republican Speaker of the House tore up a copy of good ol’ Barry’s SotU? ?
Remember when Obama refused to shake the hand of the Speaker of the House?
This just in:
While in a coffee shop earlier today, Pelosi’s husband was overheard telling a friend that “Nan” was muttering intermittently throughout the night something that sounded like “Orange Master.”
Did no one catch the irony of Melania (“Be Best”) Trump placing the American Medal of Freedom on radios biggest bully?
Just a voice on the radio Geo.
If that intimidates you, change the channel or turn the radio off.
The reason Rush’s fans are called “dittoheaads” is because they lack the intellect to think for themselves and let Rush think for them.
Sigh! “Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
The Gotch is starting to think that your Homer is a Simpson…
The Gotch
I think it was a mistake for Trump to add Limbaugh to the list of luminaries, such as Barbara Streisand, that have received the medal of whatever. Awarding Limbaugh was only a half-hearted troll. He really should have gone with Alex Jones or George Zimmerman.
Foodfromliars has one ray of “sunshine” in an otherwise horrific week. A successful and well loved man has stage four cancer and is handling it with characteristic class.
Rush’s enemies have consumed so many lies about him they overflowed from foodfromliars. Only the fools who never listened to Rush know all about him. Like they know all about President Trump. foodfromliars protests too much; such verbose vitriol is not spontaneous.
The Left suffers defeat after defeat and never figures out why. This week (and its only Thursday) is a stellar example. Foodfromliars illustrates it perfectly.
The effect? Failed impeachment, impotent Dem house, Biden campaign in the toilet, America resurgent, absent Russia Dems have to hack their own election and botch that.
The cause?
Karma
Howse about including moronic Lefties “defending” the “Most Revered Military Leader” & “Austere Religious Scholar” and sitting on their hands at the SOTU while everyone cheers record-breaking Minority employment gains and veterans.
It gets worse.
The 2020 DNC Host Committee Board FIRES! Two Leaders for creating/allowing a “toxic work environment.”
The democrat Party of gender/bathroom confusion, workplace equity, & #MeToo snares ne’er-do-well Lefty yet again!
The good ship Lefty has taken fatal torpedo hits, leaving it listing badly.
The highfreakin’larious kicker? It’s (heh!) listing further Left; what could possibly go wrong, am I right?
Or like you said: KARMA!!!
The Gotch
Gotch, President Trump was brilliant in having the TDS haters manditory attend El Rushbo’s award ceremony. Shows me.
Good catch GD,HM!
The Gotch never even saw it that way & missed it completely.
Shoot; reckon that’s why they pay you the BIG money, am I right?
The Gotch
Put words in my mouth much sir? I’m sorry the man is ill, but I’ve done nothing but to apparently discredit him but quote him and the former RNC chair directly. It’d be sad too if John Stewart were terminally ill, but I don’t for a second believe he’d be worthy of the Medal of Freedom either. It’d be nothing more than spontaneous feel-good spectacle and posturing
Please point out a single unfair comment or “lie” I’ve made about him.
You and Rush represent the right at its worst: fabricating statements and never arguing content. You’re argument is literally that I used too much content. What a sad reflection on the state of conservative debate. What would Mr. Buckley say? Care to give it another try?
I love the faux outrage at the Speaker of the House ripping up the print version of the liars contest while trump is violating the Presidential Records Act by destroying records. Trump has made it a practice of destroying his records in order to keep them from historians, investigators and anyone else who has a right to see exactly what actions and policies the US Government is implementing. At least we know the republican administration is cognizant that what they are doing is so morally repugnant and wrong they want no record of it ever happening.
Wrong-o-rama as usual geo. We really want this idiotic impeachment well documented and remembered fondly. The Nancy, Nadler, Schiff Show was one for the ages.
Its destined for the highlights reel in the Roadrunner’s best hits.
Please provide examples as to what is wrong with my post saying trump is illegally destroying records, otherwise it’s apparent your talking out your hind end.
Surely, Shirley, you can provide documentation for your claim?
WE documented Hillary’s records-destruction, after all.
Once again we see that rightwing nuts are incapable of researching the truth and depend on spoon fed lies for their information.
Can’t wait to see the personal attacks get for posting facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/archives-document-destruction.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533977417/trump-sued-for-allegedly-violating-presidential-records-act
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-official-documents-destroy-white-house-staff-repair-presidential-records-national-archives-a8392856.html
You note that the NYSlimes article does not mention the ELECTRONIC STORAGE of all those documents until graf 20 or so. Sorry, zero!! No damage here.
As to Trump’s ‘tearing up’ docs which should be kept…….ahhh………the story is sourced from two FIRED and very low-level twerps. Even assuming that their story is complete (see “electronic storage” as a possibility), it doesn’t surprise me that Trump dumps papers. That’s something he did in private sector. Now and then one’s old habits come to the surface. By the way, will higher-level staff pukes be required to repair papers going forward, or is this pure BS?
The NPR item simply describes Just Another Lawsuit, which was filed b/c it’s now SOP to use encrypted message systems. Russians, ya’know. The suit–like NPR–is BS.
Have any REAL “facts” to toss around, Zippy??
“The Medal of Freedom is supposed to be reserved for, ‘an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors’.” (bolds mine)
Oh, oooh, you mean like the especially meritorious contribution of Madeleine We Think The Price Is Worth It Albright?
Recall what THAT PRICE was…?
Ah Lefty; so MUCH crushing ignominy, so little time!
The Gotch
Highfreakin’larious! L-Dopa addled SanFranNan caught pre-ripping/practicing TEARING UP The Donald’s SOTU speech.
She’s all your, Lefties: OWN IT!!!
The Gotch