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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Sophie Scholl

State of the Union Addresses have always been performative bs and I rarely bothered watching them. His, I refuse to even try. I figure if anything *truly* important happened, I could catch it via a news article or Bluesky post or something.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

Richard Hakluyt

They are getting longer, once they get to 4 hours then you are in Great Hall of the People/Make Enver Hoxha Great Again territory....let's hope we never get there.

The Minsky Moment

The press really needs to stop referring to Elena Kagan as a "liberal" justice.  She isn't.

Actually, Jackson really isn't either but that's more of a hot take. In her case, it is mistaking temperament for ideology.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Norgy

Isn't it just relative to, say, Alito?  :ph34r:

crazy canuck

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on Today at 06:57:27 AMThey are getting longer, once they get to 4 hours then you are in Great Hall of the People/Make Enver Hoxha Great Again territory....let's hope we never get there.


In the time before time the important thing was to fit the speech into the schedule of network TV.  Now the audience watch steamers.

The length increases revenue
Awarded 17 Zoupa points

In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

Oexmelin

Quote from: crazy canuck on Today at 10:07:33 AMIn the time before time the important thing was to fit the speech into the schedule of network TV.  Now the audience watch steamers.





Everyone should watch steamers.
Que le grand cric me croque !

HisMajestyBOB

This SOTU was more like a Cleveland steamer.
Three lovely Prada points for HoI2 help

Jacob

Any particularly stand out moments?

mongers

Quote from: Jacob on Today at 02:33:53 PMAny particularly stand out moments?

US BS output reaches all time record, WH indicates ambitious production targets for this year.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"