Join us for the first State of the Union address to be delivered by the current occupier of the Oval Office. It is being streamed live on C-SPAN and on Twitter, and aired on network and cable television across the country.
As we slide from Democratic republic to autocracy we must stay informed and engaged so that we can effectively fight back.
RESIST.
Trump booed when he made his vile, hateful, bullshit “chain migration” claim.
Speaking of so-called “chain migration”…
Melania Trump and her sister Ines both moved to the US in the 1990s to pursue careers in modeling and fashion. Their parents later followed, and now reportedly live in NYC. When brown ppl do this, it's derided as "chain migration."— Gabe #DreamActNow OrtÃÂz (@TUSK81) January 26, 2018
Melania Trump and her sister Ines both moved to the US in the 1990s to pursue careers in modeling and fashion. Their parents later followed, and now reportedly live in NYC. When brown ppl do this, it's derided as "chain migration."
Talking “America first” in the immigration section is about as fucking blatant as you can get. It’s a white supremacist call to action.
New thread here.
Boy. Oh. Boy. His reading is. Getting more. Staccato. And. Slower. Just what. We. Needed.
As we enter hour sixty three of this speech.
The party of family values boos family reunification …
Trump: We must get much tougher on drug dealers and pushers if we are going to succeed in stopping this scourge. Trump goes on to pledge his commitment to ending addiction. No word on how much money, if any at all, they’re putting toward that.
Trump is getting slower by the second. He’s getting a little too much applause and enjoying it. He’s gonna milk it for all it’s worth.
Trump has admitted he does not pass his own standards for immigration.
Trump is talking about fighting opioid addiction. Here is what one of his commission members says about the effort --> Trump Opioid CommissionâÂÂs Work Is a âÂÂSham,â https://t.co/26KEGa6V8g— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 31, 2018
Trump is talking about fighting opioid addiction. Here is what one of his commission members says about the effort --> Trump Opioid CommissionâÂÂs Work Is a âÂÂSham,â https://t.co/26KEGa6V8g
Fact Check: Chrysler is investing in a factory in Michigan, but that plan was in motion before TrumpâÂÂs election https://t.co/AKdjxsQhyw— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018
Fact Check: Chrysler is investing in a factory in Michigan, but that plan was in motion before TrumpâÂÂs election https://t.co/AKdjxsQhyw
All six of Chrysler’s Mexico plants are staying open.
Now around 3650 words into a starting script of just under 5200.
Trump goes international: Weakness is the surest path to conflict and unmatched power is the surest means to our true and great defense. He calls for Congress to “fully fund” our military. BTW, Rs are gonna have to stop doing short-term funding bills.
Now he’s talking about defense and getting rid of the sequester. 10 to 1 he has absolutely no idea what a sequester is. All he knows is that it’s a thing. Standing in the way of his huge beautiful military. Sniff.
He can’t say “liberated” but he can say ISISSSSS and IRAQ. And lie about our success there.
Hey folks... remember when the shutdown happened and Claire McCaskill led a motion to pay the military anyway? Remember when Trump's party said no? Just checking... since he wants to fund the military...
A-freaking-men:
Bipartisan proposal to bring the country together: SOTU speeches should be 18 mins max— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) January 31, 2018
Bipartisan proposal to bring the country together: SOTU speeches should be 18 mins max
Getting sniffier and slurrier.
Now we’re going to get the Guantanamo forever bit. Here’s where Sessions really got to him. He’s making the stain on our nation bigger, darker, more indelible. He’s skating the line of endorsing torture again. Announcing that he’s signed the order to keep Gitmo open for all eternity. He’s probably contemplating sending FBI agents there.
Hey, I bet you could pay for a lot of infrastructure if you closed down the world’s most expensive prison camp.
It sounds like those 41 remaining prisoners in Gitmo will soon have lots of company.
Trump has just in a request to waste hundreds of millions of dollars that could be used for something useful to instead keep the world's most expensive prison open.
Not like we needed that money for anything else.
It costs $10 million apiece to keep them there.
$78,000 for a prisoner in super max in U.S.
Okay, now we get to his temper tantrum against the UN. Because he’s a fucking ignorant, racist cretin.
Tonight I am asking Congress to make sure that our foreign policy is just as petty and vindictive as I am.
A dangerous cretin who has set back the cause of stabilization in the middle east gawd knows how many decades, singlehandedly. Oh, and now he’s going after communists?
Oh, hey! Here’s the part where we might go to war! North Korea, everyone!
Ok, we’re back to the making families who just lost loved ones in horrible ways stand up and cry again, this time the parents of the young man captured and held in North Korea. Like he has a fucking ounce of empathy for them, for anyone.