Tomorrow will make only the third time in my adult life that I have consciously skipped the State of the Union (SOTU) address. I don’t listen to the Orange Hate-Monkey (OHM) talk. As in, I don’t ever allow myself to hear his voice if I can help it. I talk about how I evolved this maintenance strategy here,
I did contemplate watching the first SOTU that the OHM stank up the House of Representatives with, but I decided that my mental state simply couldn’t cope with that much hatred and disinformation so shortly after I had to come to grips with the fact that no-one was going to do their job and keep the unstable piece of shit out of the office of the president. So many people not willing to do their jobs before it became my quandary whether I should do my job as an informed citizen and tough out the bullshit, or simply admit that there was no benefit to be had in listening to the speech at all.
That decision is what lead to my ultimate decision to block all the things the OHM said, and limit myself to just noting all the things that he and his administration did. A much less daunting task than sorting the bullshit into (yuge) piles.
We have now come full circle as a country. What was so evident for me in 2015 when I tripped over the obvious hatred of elected Republicans,
Is now apparent to the vast majority of Americans. The Republicans? They only care about power. They only care about holding power, and they think that is all anyone around them cares about. They are, to paraphrase one of my favorite political commentators, despicable people or to quote Hillary Clinton, They are a basket of deplorables. They are so proud of being deplorable people that they wear that label on their clothing.
“Yes” they say “I’m in it for the power alone. I have no morals, I have no standards. I just want my party to be the party in power. That’s all you want, so why not?”
This attitude was on display as far back as Bill Clinton’s SOTU when Newt Gingrich orchestrated the Republican dismissal of Democratic legislative proposals because they came from Democrats, even if those proposals originated in conservative think tanks. It reached it transparent heights during the Obama administration when the Republicans pissed on the Affordable Care Act and called it Obamacare even though it was a direct copy of the Massachusetts system proposed and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, now Senator Mitt Romney.
So no. I won’t even be watching tonight. I will not be the hypocrite who boos ideas that he approves of just because they come out of the OHM’s mouth. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and the OHM can mistakenly do right things or propose the right ideas for the wrong reasons. The problem is the man, not the office or the party, when it comes to the SOTU. The man is a charlatan, and I refuse to listen to his lies.
I have always hated the responses to the State of the Union address. I went so far as to write this article,
…after the Republicans in the legislature cluelessly continued to offer their unwanted #MeToos to Obama’s excellent speeches. But my loathing for them goes back to when the practice first caught my eye, back in the days of Newt Gingrich’s bad faith demonstrations against Bill Clinton. But even during the eight years of W.’s pathetic leadership I thought the Democratic responses were lukewarm at best. Mostly because the opposition never seems capable of capturing what it is that the the people opposed to the president really think about his speech and his policies.
This year was different. For the first time in my adult life, the response seems more like what the average citizen might be thinking right now. Not the official response which is still cringe-worthy. No. I mean the radio interview that she gave to NPR afterwards.
Nancy Pelosi tearing up the Orange Hate-Monkey’s speech was the highlight of the evening. Why? Because it’s all the Stormtrumpers and the media want to talk about. They all look like fools. Did she do something illegal? Get a life, people.
The manifesto of mistruths presented in page after page of the address tonight should be a call to action for everyone who expects truth from the President and policies worthy of his office and the American people. The American people expect and deserve a President to have integrity and respect for the aspirations for their children.
Pelosi Statement on State of the Union Address
She gets it. She understands what Trump is. So does Veronica Escobar,
the greatest threat to our security is a president and a Republican-controlled Senate that act only in their own interest
NPR – KUT
I was raiding in World of Warcraft while all of this went on. I think I spent my hours more productively that way.
