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    Cheeto’s State of the Union theme: ‘A safe, strong and proud America’



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    Trump’s State of the Union theme: ‘A safe, strong and proud America’
    by Vivian Salama

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will use his first official State of the Union address to tout economic progress under his watch while outlining efforts to secure America’s borders, according to White House officials.

    His speech Tuesday night will come barely a week after a three-day government shutdown, as both chambers of Congress continue to wrangle over funding for one of the president’s central policy initiatives — a border wall with Mexico, currently part of his new proposal to offer a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants.

    Mired in record-low approval ratings and an ongoing federal investigation into his campaign’s contacts with Russian government officials, Trump will look to use Tuesday’s address to convince the American people that his White House is on the right track and speak to an anxious nation deeply divided over issues ranging from race and religion to economic and gender-based questions of opportunity.

    The White House said this week that the president will strike a "bipartisan tone" in his speech, and urge for greater collaboration. Trump has drawn adversaries in both parties, often sparring publicly with lawmakers on Twitter, calling them names and questioning their political clout.

    A small number of Democrats have opted to boycott Tuesday’s speech, expressing opposition to some of Trump’s policies and rhetoric, which they described as divisive or racist.

    A group of female lawmakers have said they will attend the speech dressed in black this year in support of the anti-sexual harassment movement sweeping the nation, while some Democratic House members are planning to invite victims of sexual assault to attend the address. Sexual harassment allegations have been raised against several members of Congress and against the president himself.

    In a preview of his speech, a senior White House official said the theme of the Trump’s address will be "building a safe, strong and proud America." The official said that the economy is "roaring," and Trump will detail how he believes the upswing will benefit all Americans.

    According to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll, “proud” isn’t how all Americans describe Trump’s first year in office. Respondents instead used words like “disgusted” (38 percent), “scared” (24 percent), “hopeful” (23 percent), “proud” (12 percent) and “angry” (11 percent). The top answer after Trump’s victory in December 2016 was “hopeful” (32 percent).

    The president will also touch upon his long-promised "infrastructure plan", which he said this week would result in about $1.7 trillion in investment over the next 10 years. Trump’s framework, which is scheduled for rollout next month, seeks only $200 billion in federal dollars, relying instead on state and local governments and private investors to come up with most of the rest of the money.

    While this is his first official State of the Union address, Trump delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress shortly after taking office, declaring then that "a new chapter of American greatness" had begun.

    Weeks after the Trump administration celebrated its first major legislative victory with the passage of sweeping tax reforms, Trump on Tuesday will reiterate his commitment to helping the middle class, and small business owners keep more of their hard earned money.

    Echoing elements of his speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he declared that he will "always put America first," Trump will outline his vision for trade deals that create jobs and contribute to American prosperity.

    Trump has already pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal and has vowed to withdraw from the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) unless it is revised. This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that a revised TPP would be signed without the U.S. this year, prompting concern among critics that Trump’s "America First" mantra will end with "America alone."

    Trump, who vowed during his campaign to be a "law and order" president, will also update the nation on his national security agenda, including defense and homeland security initiatives.

    The president will emphasize the need for strength at home and foreign relationships that prioritize American national security, highlighting a host of threats, from concerns over destabilizing activities by the regimes in North Korea and Iran to gang violence and drugs trafficking in the United States.

    His national security strategy, released last month, detailed the goal of cooperation with global competitors like Russia and China in the military, economic and informational domains.

    A senior White House official said that Trump is likely to use more tempered language than he has in the past to underscore these issues. Many have warned of the potential for inciting confrontation with North Korea, after Trump recently hurled a series of threats and insults at its leader, Kim Jong Un, calling him "Little Rocket Man" and suggesting, on Twitter, that his nuclear button was bigger than Kim’s.

    The president will detail efforts to rebuild what he refers to as America’s "depleted" military, with significant government funds already being redirected this year toward defense spending. But while Trump vowed during his campaign to end America’s role as global policeman, his time in office has been a demonstration of the difficulty of fulfilling that pledge.

    During his first year in office, the U.S. military was pulled further into the conflict in Afghanistan, appears likely to stay in northern Syria indefinitely, and has lost service members in countries like Yemen, Niger and beyond.

    The Islamic State, or ISIS, has lost most of its territory in Iraq and Syria thanks in part to U.S.-backed efforts in those countries. But the militant group continues to pose a threat in countries like Egypt, Libya and Afghanistan and recently carried out a bombing in the Iraqi capital that killed dozens.

    While Trump has delivered on his promise to be different than most politicians in Washington, his agenda has largely toed traditional Republican lines. The White House underscores, among his greatest achievements, his appointment of conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. It also touts the president’s efforts to roll back business regulations and cut taxes, promoting conditions that have helped the stock market boom to record levels — moves that sing to Republican orthodoxy.
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    No one gives a fuck about the orange F A T man. Just hurry the fuck up and put this lying F A T fuck in prison.
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    FORD -

    Tuesday night is Trump's State of the Union speech. Nobody knows exactly what he will be discussing, but I'm absolutely certain what he will NOT be talking about.

    He will surely not be apologizing for the many lies he told American voters: how he promised to defend the interests of working people, but then sold them out to Wall Street and the billionaire class.

    During his campaign he promised to provide health care to "everybody," but then supported legislation which would have thrown 32 million Americans off of the healthcare they had. Although we managed to stop his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, 3.2 million fewer Americans today have health insurance than when Trump first came into office, and millions more will lose their health insurance as a result of the repeal of the individual mandate.

    During his campaign he promised to pass tax reform legislation designed to help the middle class. The legislation that he signed will, at the end of 10 years, provide 83 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent, drive up the deficit by $1.7 trillion and raise taxes for millions of middle class families.

    During his campaign he promised to take on the outrageously high prices of the pharmaceutical industry which, he told us, was "getting away with murder." Then, as president, while drug prices continue to soar, he appointed a drug company executive as Secretary of Health and Human Services who worked to triple insulin prices.

    During his campaign he promised to take on the greed of Wall Street, but then proceeded to appoint more Wall Street titans to high positions than any president in history. Now, with Wall Street firmly behind him, he is trying to repeal the modest provisions of the Dodd-Frank legislation which provide some consumer protections against Wall Street thievery.

    Trump will also not be talking about the role that he has played in significantly lowering the respect that people all over the planet have for the United States. Once, not so many years ago, we were considered to be the political and moral leader in the world, the country most admired. Now, according to a recent Gallup poll, since Trump has been president median approval of U.S. leadership plummeted to 30 percent, down from 48 percent in 2016.

    Trump will not talk about his efforts to undermine democracy in the United States and his support for authoritarianism abroad. He will not mention his encouragement to Republican governors to accelerate efforts for voter suppression, and his admiration for the leaders of countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines.

    Trump will not talk about his belief that climate change is a "hoax," and his appointment of agency leaders who are undermining our ability to move toward sustainable energy and protect the environment.

    Trump will not talk about how he is the first president in modern history who is intentionally trying to divide this nation up based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or nation of origin. He will not be mentioning his overt and covert efforts to win the support of white supremacists.

    And on and on it goes. I suspect that there will be a lot more interest in what Trump will NOT be talking about in his speech than what he will discuss..

    I don't have to tell you what you already know.

    The very bad news is that Donald Trump is president of the United States and he is pushing the most dishonest, reactionary and divisive agenda in modern American history.

    There is good news, however. And that is that, in an unprecedented way, we are witnessing a revitalization of American democracy with more and more people standing up and fighting back. We are seeing the growth of grassroots organizations and people from every conceivable background starting to run for office - for school board, city council, state legislature and Congress.

    And these candidates, from coast to coast, are standing tall for a progressive agenda: Medicare for All, a $15 an hour minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges and universities, transformation of our energy system away from fossil fuels, a woman's right to choose and pay equity, progressive taxation, fair trade, criminal justice and immigration reform and much more.

    Yes. The Koch brothers and their billionaire friends are planning to spend some $400 million in the 2018 midterm elections supporting right-wing Republicans. We will beat them, however, because we are in the midst of creating a political revolution. When ordinary people, by the millions, demand economic, racial, social and environmental justice - we will not be denied.

    Keep the faith and please remember, despair is not an option.

    In Solidarity,

    Bernie Sanders

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    Meh.

    Trump will, like last year's SOTU address, probably read a prepared text off of a teleprompter. He'll stand there with his tiny hands grasping the top corners of the lectern, his chin sunk slightly below his shoulders, his head darting from the teleprompter on his left to the teleprompter on his right. If he manages to do that without diverting into some batshit racist loon ad libs, much like last year the mainstream media political pundit class will uniformly comment on how 'presidential' he appeared, regardless of the content of his remarks. The bar is set so low for Trump that if he manages to blandly speak in complete sentences, even when merely reading off a teleprompter, the entirety of the pundit class simultaneously rush to throw clothes on the Emperor: "he's so presidential!" "he gave such a disciplined speech!" "he didn't say anything offensive!" as if these things were anything other than Trump barely hurtling a bar set so low it is practically laying on the ground.

    The net effects of what Trump does are evident to see. Why waste my time listening to him speak? He has no credibility in terms of what comes out of his mouth, because he has lied with such frequency and ease that nothing he says can be taken at face value.
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    Meanwhile, ABC "News" has hired a new commentator just in time for the speech.....


    Yep, it's Chris Christie himself. Hope he's not getting high on the air during the speech, or Jeff Sessions might call a raid on ABC studios.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Terry View Post
    The net effects of what Trump does are evident to see. Why waste my time listening to him speak? He has no credibility in terms of what comes out of his mouth, because he has lied with such frequency and ease that nothing he says can be taken at face value.
    A big story this week over here has been that cunt Piers Morgan interviewing President Goldfinger and as you say what's the point in even watching that?

    He's completely a completely transparent man child. The only time Morgan took a brief break from rimming him and asked about him tweeting false videos from a British facist group he just said he didn't know anything about them.
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    Could not bring myself to watch it , life’s to short.
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    Morgan's a cunt, but when he interviews another cunt, it can be entertaining. His interview of Alex Jones was great comedy. Didn't see his interview with Cheeto, but I might look for it if I'm bored shitless.

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    I am offended by the comments in this thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    A big story this week over here has been that cunt Piers Morgan interviewing President Goldfinger and as you say what's the point in even watching that?

    He's completely a completely transparent man child. The only time Morgan took a brief break from rimming him and asked about him tweeting false videos from a British facist group he just said he didn't know anything about them.
    Yeah, well, that's the thing: when Trump gets questioned about things he has said or done by reporters, [Trump] will just flat-out deny these things were said or done. It'd be comical if it weren't such a scary level of self-delusion. It's the ease with which he lies...I have a hard time figuring out why some who voted for him professed such a belief that Trump could be counted on to do the things he said on the campaign trail, because Trump has no credibility.

    In addition, I'm frankly just tired of seeing and listening to Trump. I'm more than content to read what he says within the context of quotes in print form news stories, thus sparing myself from having to look at him or hear his voice.

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    The Young Turks live stream of Cheeto's State of the (Soviet) Union


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    Damn.. the look on Malaria's face when Cheeto walked in the room.... she really hates that orange bastard!

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    Baby Joe might look like Jack & Bobby, but he damn sure doesn't speak like them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Damn.. the look on Malaria's face when Cheeto walked in the room.... she really hates that orange bastard!
    She must really love money.

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    I only managed to watch the first 6 standing ovations so around a minute or two.

    It did explain to me how the US congress has an approval rating of around 15%...

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    Notice how slave FORD and slave SESH never question Trump's wet dream of a police state? Well now you know.

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    What the fuck is there to "question"? The police state has existed since Hillary Clinton & the rest of the fake "Democrats" voted with Chimp/PNAC Republicans to enable the Orwellianly named "Patriot Act".

    I have always been on record as opposing that bullshit. So was the guy I voted for in 2016.

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    Yeah, a pseudo-socialist tool who seems to talk a lot but offers little when it comes to the struggles against the economic system that has produced such levels of social inequality. In fact, he has praised himself at preventing such a movement. So get the fuck out of here with that bigoted Bernie shit.

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    My god have you lost the plot...
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    Couldn't find the Majority Report stream when the Cheeto speech went live last night, but here it is, if anybody wants to watch Sam Seder & the gang providing MST3K style commentary to the orange nazi.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Morgan's a cunt, but when he interviews another cunt, it can be entertaining. His interview of Alex Jones was great comedy. Didn't see his interview with Cheeto, but I might look for it if I'm bored shitless.
    Here's an abridged version...


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    The only thing more painful than watching Trump's speech is watching Sam Seder watch Trump's speech.

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    I'm not buying it

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    Speaking of The Guardian, they didn't care much for Baby Joey's lame "response".....

    Trump’s speech was bad. The Democrats' response to it was worse
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    The Democratic party showed it had learned nothing from the 2016 defeat and still has no idea how to deal with Trump and the Republican hegemony

    During the State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, the American people saw a boisterous, self-confident, united Republican party rally around its president, while a defeated, grim, and moping Democratic party looked on powerlessly.

    As soon as the rather long State of the Union speech was over, liberal pundits and Democratic operatives started to attack it. Some focused on the lack of concrete policies or the nativist content of the immigration sections; others pointed out the lack of energy of the speech. They had seen a “low-energy” Trump and assumed the base would be left uninspired and wondering. It again showed their complete lack of understanding of the Trump-Republican party dynamic.

    For the past year, interviews and polls with Trump supporters, and the broader Republican base, have consistently shown that the vast majority of Republicans support his policies but not his tone.

    They want Trump to be combative and self-confident, but not engage in petty, personal attacks. What they want is authoritarian and nativist policies with a human face, and that is what Trump finally delivered on Tuesday.

    This is why people like Republican spin doctor Frank Luntz, a relative Trump-skeptic within the party, tweeted: “Tonight, I owe Donald Trump an apology. Tonight, I was moved and inspired. Tonight, I have hope and faith in America again.”

    No matter that Trump presented an economic agenda that, if actually implemented, would probably bankrupt the country – hello big government! No matter that Trump connected legal immigrants to MS-13 gangsters and called for an overthrow of the age-old immigration system. No matter even that Trump called upon Congress “to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers – and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people” – hello Big Brother!

    On Tuesday evening, Trump finally became the president of the whole Republican party. It shows how far the normalization of radical right ideas has come. Trump was already the true voice of the party base, but now the party elite also embraced him. Ayn Rand disciple Paul Ryan even enthusiastically applauded Trump’s $1.5tn government-stimulated infrastructure plan.

    Sure, the atmosphere in Congress was, at times, more like that of a frat party. And it reached a patriotic frenzy when the whole Republican contingent broke out in a minute-long “USA! USA! USA! chant. But rather than defensive and nasty, Trump presented his administration as self-confident and successful, ready to do business with the (pesky) Democrats.

    Masterfully, every nativist policy was camouflaged by using non-white enforcers and victims and contrasted with policies that are at the top of the Democratic agenda – such as citizenship for “illegal immigrants”.

    The Democratic party, on the other hand, showed it had learned nothing from the 2016 defeat and still has no idea how to deal with Trump and the Republican hegemony. Not only did their members of Congress sit there defeated and moping, often not even applauding policies that were, or should be, in their own platform. They chose the personification of the east coast liberal political dynasty, Joe Kennedy III, to give the Democratic response to the State of the Union. From Massachusetts, of all places!

    Kennedy’s speech was heralded by the Democratic punditry as inspiring and truly American. But as with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, it was low on substance, particularly in terms of socioeconomic policies. And, seriously, who chooses a trust-fund kid, who is the 22nd richest member of Congress, to speak to “the thousands of American communities whose roads aren’t paved with power or privilege”?

    And so Kennedy did what the Democratic party has been doing for over a year now, reach out to Hispanics, including the by now obligatory few sentences in (surprisingly good) Spanish, and women – the type of “identity politics” the party has been criticized for since the 2016 defeat.

    But for all the heralding of diversity, and criticism of this administration’s nativism and racism, there was no explicit reference to key issues for the non-white, and white, underclass. Issues like prison reform or voter suppression were not even explicitly mentioned. And he barely mentioned the opioid crisis, one of the most soul-crushing problems of the US in general, and his state of Massachusetts in particular, which Trump had devoted several minutes to.


    Trump, meanwhile, delivered exactly what the broader Republican elite and masses wanted: authoritarian nativism with a human face. He spoke directly to the not yet convinced Republicans, knowing that his base will follow him anyway. The Democrats did exactly the opposite.

    The past year saw a slew of “non-traditional” electoral victories in terms of candidates, often not the favorite of the local and state party elites, geography, in so-called “fly-over country”, and electorates, such as the disproportionate support of non-whites, in particular African American women. Despite this, the Democratic party presented Kennedy, the poster boy of the party insiders: a rich, white, male from the east coast.

    While Steve Bannon might not be a player in the White House any more, and the State of the Union was markedly low on populism, the Democratic party would do well to heed the words he spoke in an August 2017 interview: “The longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”

    Cas Mudde is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction and The Far Right in America

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    Lowest rated State of the Union, EVER!


    UPDATED: Viewership of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address is down slightly in the Nielsen ratings compared to his first televised address to Congress last February as well as President Barack Obama’s first such address.

    On broadcast, Tuesday’s coverage of the speech drew 7.1 million viewers on NBC, 7 million on CBS, 5.4 million on ABC, and 3.6 million on Fox for a combined 23.1 million viewers.


    "Fake news" story here:

    http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/trum...gs-1202682703/

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    If he's not ImOranged by next year, the nazi bastard will probably make it mandatory to watch the speech. So he can claim the "biglyest audience ever!!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    My god have you lost the plot...
    Plot? What fucking plot? master Bernie is a fraud. His relentless bullshit “progressive” rhetoric is nothing more than pro-capitalist politics. Him and his whole bourgeois political establishment can fuck right off.

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    Bernie is "pro-capitalist" in the same way that FDR was "pro-capitalist".

    Capitalism itself isn't the problem. DE-REGULATION of capitalism is. That is exactly what caused the Great Depression in 1929, and it's what will cause the next one, as the Kochsucking Randtards in the government continue to destroy everything the greatest President of the 20th century put in place to save this country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    If he's not ImOranged by next year, the nazi bastard will probably make it mandatory to watch the speech. So he can claim the "biglyest audience ever!!"



    After watching a couple of minutes of that farce I just couldn't believe either figure represented how many people actually watched all that shit.

    Turns out that figure is based on an estimate of how many people saw ONE MINUTE of it based on a poll of 1 in 2000 people.

    President Goldfinger probably sits on his golden toilet imagining millions of people enraptured with his crap for 90 minutes - like most of the nonsense in his mind it didn't happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    Here's an abridged version...



    This has blown up here which is funny but also kind of pathetic.

    Satirical 'Daily Show' style program did this funny bit.





    and Piers is now all over twitter and the Murdoch owned media crying foul about the vile image of him.

    I won't show his tweets because it would spoil the original gag.

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