Trash's SOTU

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Proofreads State of the Union One Last Time to Remove Any Remaining Facts

WASHINGTON —The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is proofreading the text of tonight’s State of the Union address one last time to remove any remaining facts, Sanders confirmed on Tuesday.

While a team of wordsmiths led by the senior adviser

Stephen Miller has attempted to craft an entirely fact-free address, “

It’s good to have a fresh set of eyes to root out any stray accuracies that might have crept in,”

Sanders said.

The press secretary said that, for example, while purging the speech of truths, she noticed a reference to the

African-American unemployment rate standing at 6.8 per cent, a statistic that she deemed “unacceptably correct.”

“I read that and my Sanders sense started tingling,” she said.

Taking her blue pencil to the text, Sanders

changed the number to a “better-sounding” 2.3 per cent.

“That may seem like a tiny detail, but it’s

stuff like that that separates the professional liars from the mere amateurs,” she said.

Once Sanders is

confident that she has obliterated any lingering traces of reality from the script,

she will forward it to Donald J.

Trump, who will insert misspellings.

“It makes him more comfortable reading it on the teleprompter if things are spelled his way,”

she said.

The prospect of delivering tonight’s speech appears to have energized

Trump, who tweeted early Tuesday morning that

he was “very much looking forward to the Steak of the Onion.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sarah-huckabee-sanders-proofreads-state-of-the-union-to-remove-any-remaining-facts?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Bo rowitz_020519&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c 1048022fcc&user_id=43758549&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz

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DEMOCRATS TROLL TRUMP WITH THEIR STATE OF THE UNION GUESTS

The president was the first to weaponize the political plus-one. Now, the 2020 field is getting into the action.

in an era of political showmanship, when a pair of sunglasses can drive an entire news cycle, Democrats are leaning into the troll.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to bring Ana Maria Archila, the activist who famously shouted down Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, to Trump’s Tuesday address.

Other representatives will bring former and current undo ented immigrants,

who either worked at a Trump golf resort or as Trump’s housekeeper;

parents of victims of the Parkland mass shooting,

as well as a Parkland survivor;

and a climate-change advocate.

According to The New York Times,

many Democrats will wear white, the color of the women’s suffrage movement,

in a show of solidarity against Trump.

Here’s who they’re bringing to the State of the Union on Tuesday night, per Politico and The Washington Post:

• Sen. Kamala Harris: Trisha Pesiri-Dybvik, a furloughed air traffic controller who lost her home during the 2017 California wildfires.
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Sajid Shahriar, a Housing and Urban Development employee who organized rallies during the government shutdown.
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, a trans soldier impacted by Trump’s blanket ban on transgender troops.
• Sen. Sherrod Brown: Rita Lewis, an advocate for pension reform.
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar: Nicole Smith-Holt, an advocate for lowering insulin prices and affordable health care.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...U4MDMwNzQ3NgS2

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Proofreads State of the Union One Last Time to Remove Any Remaining Facts

WASHINGTON —The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is proofreading the text of tonight’s State of the Union address one last time to remove any remaining facts, Sanders confirmed on Tuesday.

While a team of wordsmiths led by the senior adviser

Stephen Miller has attempted to craft an entirely fact-free address, “

It’s good to have a fresh set of eyes to root out any stray accuracies that might have crept in,”

Sanders said.

The press secretary said that, for example, while purging the speech of truths, she noticed a reference to the

African-American unemployment rate standing at 6.8 per cent, a statistic that she deemed “unacceptably correct.”

“I read that and my Sanders sense started tingling,” she said.

Taking her blue pencil to the text, Sanders

changed the number to a “better-sounding” 2.3 per cent.

“That may seem like a tiny detail, but it’s

stuff like that that separates the professional liars from the mere amateurs,” she said.

Once Sanders is

confident that she has obliterated any lingering traces of reality from the script,

she will forward it to Donald J.

Trump, who will insert misspellings.

“It makes him more comfortable reading it on the teleprompter if things are spelled his way,”

she said.

The prospect of delivering tonight’s speech appears to have energized

Trump, who tweeted early Tuesday morning that

he was “very much looking forward to the Steak of the Onion.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sarah-huckabee-sanders-proofreads-state-of-the-union-to-remove-any-remaining-facts?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Bo rowitz_020519&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd6795524c17c 1048022fcc&user_id=43758549&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz

Satire or not -

Sadly - this SOTU - is a couple of hours of blatant lying to the face of the American people.

In the twilight zone that we live in - people will actually pay attention to this show of lies and some cultists will even applaud this liar after he blatantly abuses them by lying to their faces.

If you genuinely care about a person, you are honest with them because you respect them. Lying to a person you care about always ends up badly.

If you fear or hate a person or worse yet, you hold them in contempt - and you are already a confirmed liar, it makes no difference how many times you blatantly purposefully lie to their faces because they are worthless to you.

This is how this criminal traitor treats his idiot supporters.

Enjoy the show.

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Trump’s State of the Union Address Unlikely to Bring Harmony

President Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday is his first since Democrats took control of the House of Representatives.CreditSarah Silbiger/The New York Times

any hope of harmony was dispelled long before he left the White House.

The president and Democrats spent the hours before his State of the Union address exchanging political fire,

As he and his team have drafted his address in recent days, he has groused about the text, complaining that it is too gentle on Democrats, according to people briefed on the matter.

The president has sought to sharpen various lines,


Democrats did not wait for the address, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern time, to challenge him.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, took to the Senate floor to declare that

Mr. Trump’s presidency was failing and troubled by chaos, and

that any promises he would make were hardly credible.

Anticipating calls for unity, Mr. Schumer

mocked the idea that Mr. Trump was capable of bringing the country together.

Mr. Schumer responded with a tweet of his own:

“Thanks for watching my speech but you must have missed this line:
‘Even more empty than his policy promises are President Trump’s calls each year for unity.’”

Mr. Trump’s calls for unity were almost surely destined to fall on deaf ears.

Even Republicans have publicly rebuked him lately for his plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, and

party leaders have pressed him not to declare a national emergencybypassing Congress to build the wall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/u...the-union.html

[DarrinS]

Why is Bernie upstaging a black woman with his own SOTU response?

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Why is Bernie upstaging a black woman with his own SOTU response?

DarrinS carrying water for fourth wave feminists on ST.

[Winehole23]

[Chris]

[Winehole23]

Clocking claps. How trite at a SOTU.

[Chucho]

Clocking claps. How trite at a SOTU.

In the times we live in? Not really.

[Winehole23]

In the times we live in? Not really.

not sure what you mean.

[Chucho]

not sure what you mean.

Considering all the divisiveness, it was nice to see everyone clapping and cheering together. Refreshing to see, imo.

[Chris]

Considering all the divisiveness, it was nice to see everyone clapping and cheering together. Refreshing to see, imo.

"Meaningless puffery" according to Winetroll.

[Winehole23]

It is puffery and it is meaningless.

It's a stump speech. Emotive prose. The practical result, come tomorrow, will be negligible.

[Leetonidas]

Lol at these bootlickers standing up every 5 seconds

[DMX7]

How many more TV close-ups do we get of the Senior Adviser to the President?

[Winehole23]

Lol at these bootlickers standing up every 5 seconds

Unity is obsequiousness to power. It should be embarrassing to anyone who tries to think for him/herself.

[DMX7]

"Meaningless puffery" according to Winetroll.

It is... dems and republicans are going right back to battle after this pep rally.

[Ghazi]

taking credit for beating ISIS when Russia/Iran/Syria did most of the work.

[Winehole23]

Correct. It's a pep rally.

[Winehole23]

taking credit for beating ISIS when Russia/Iran/Syria did most of the work.

I like how Trump took credit for the new female faces in front of him. They're mostly Dems who ran against him and his policies.

[Chris]

[Ghazi]

Iran is a bad bad nation (fails to give any reasons why )... they wanna kill all Jewish people so let me segment into the synagoguge incident without saying why iran is so bad

[DMX7]

Jesus, there was hardly any substance in terms of plans for the future. The plan is to apparently coast off of our former glory.