2024 State of the Union, 8p central, 3/7

['stache 21777]

1 hour ago, Art Vandelay said:

Don't tell me you missed this masterpiece.

Like peoples' false memory of a genie movie staring Sinbad called Shazaam, I swear they made a follow up porno to this called Who's Ridin' Biden. I guess it was just a joke I heard because I looked it up and it doesn't exist but I've been referencing it humorously for well over a decade.

[Art Vandelay 1710]

14 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Like peoples' false memory of a genie movie staring Sinbad called Shazaam, I swear they made a follow up porno to this called Who's Ridin' Biden. I guess it was just a joke I heard because I looked it up and it doesn't exist but I've been referencing it humorously for well over a decade.

LOL, definitely has to be the Mandela Effect.

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I've never been better than today. 

I would be better off if all the magats would crawl off into the woods and die.

[Jiggy-Z 3432]

I'm better off for having missed the whole SOTU address and rebuttal and getting the cliffs notes here on Surly today.

[gmr548 16518]

Solid B+ speech for Biden. He didn't and couldn't win the election last night but he could have lost it, and he certainly avoided that. He could have stuck the landing better at certain points and I am not thrilled with his handling of Israel but he certainly projected the energy and framed the contrast with Trump that he needs to win the election.

Katie Britt was really just background noise but from what I saw that shit was weird. Also, Republicans putting their rising female star in the kitchen is just... Of course.

[DaysOff 7853]

I guess I should have clarified that I'm abnormal in that I realize I'm not voting in my own interest. Plenty of nimrods vote against their best interests when they think they aren't (cough rural white poors cough).

CRAPers. Conservative Republican Airline Pilots that pay 6k a year in union dues and vote for people who try to destroy what's left of their union's negotiating leverage.

[gmr548 16518]

4 hours ago, 6th Street said:

 

 

Look at her face. She knew it too lmao

['stache 21777]

Just now, gmr548 said:

Solid B+ speech for Biden. He didn't and couldn't win the election last night but he could have lost it, and he certainly avoided that. He could have stuck the landing better at certain points and I am not thrilled with his handling of Israel but he certainly projected the energy and framed the contrast with Trump that he needs to win the election.

Katie Britt was really just background noise but from what I saw that shit was weird. Also, Republicans putting their rising female star in the kitchen is just... Of course.

No American nationwide candidate can go against Israel and win an election. It's what frustrates me about young progressives that are saying they won't vote for him over that topic. There is no candidate that can win if they side fully with Palestine. It's just not going to happen. Biden went about as far as he could last night and I think it's good enough all things considered. He wen't further in support of Palestinian civilians than even I expected and thought he handled it as well as possible. 

[Horn Dog 9674]

5 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Look at her face. She knew it too lmao

I think she was just hanging around hoping that Hunter would come say Hi. 

[Stilicho 1397]

51 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Same here. The difference between us and MAGA clowns on that point, however, is we intentionally vote against our interest where doing so benefits others who need more help.

I vote for politicians who are more likely to raise my taxes while reducing the tax burden on the working class, because I think that a progressive tax system is fair. 

The billionaire MAGA set votes with their pocketbooks. But the working Joes are just deluding themselves that Trump has any intention or capability to make their lives better. If working class Americans really wanted to improve their lives, they should be rallying behind someone like Elizabeth Warren. 

[ChiTownDoc 21102]

SNL should just replay her exact speech for the cold open.  It's perfect, don't try to make it more funny.  

[Red Five 40666]

I heard the Pod Save America guys say that in the days leading up to it, her people were comparing that speech to Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech. 

[SydneyCarton 47889]

1 hour ago, royiv said:

They re-drew 7 this cycle to make it more blue and to make Crawford’s district more red. Living in Montrose, my rep was previously Crawford and now it’s Fletcher.

yeah, my little slice of that map got absorbed last time. Before I was Crenshaw. Woot. 

53 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Same here. The difference between us and MAGA clowns on that point, however, is we intentionally vote against our interest where doing so benefits others who need more help.

I vote for politicians who are more likely to raise my taxes while reducing the tax burden on the working class, because I think that a progressive tax system is fair. 

The billionaire MAGA set votes with their pocketbooks. But the working Joes are just deluding themselves that Trump has any intention or capability to make their lives better. If working class Americans really wanted to improve their lives, they should be rallying behind someone like Elizabeth Warren. 

Great post. Quibbling a bit with you and Huck, but I’m only voting against my own financial interests.  I view people as resources (future intellect, future economic drivers, future innovation) and I want to cultivate those resources, not depress them. And that means happier people, a more stable country, less concern over our future, etc. It makes my life better, so in that sense I’m absolutely voting in my own best interests. 
 

 

[tokamak 6352]

28 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

CRAPers. Conservative Republican Airline Pilots that pay 6k a year in union dues and vote for people who try to destroy what's left of their union's negotiating leverage.

A tale as old as time. "Well, they don't mean MY union" (narrator: they do).

[SimonBolivar 10937]

Am I financially and physically better off than 3 years ago? Sure, but comedically think of all the weird ass shit we missed out on by not having Trump as president over these last 3 years. We probably missed out on some weird ass shit where Trump tried to give the Taliban Costa Rica in exchange for a Trump Tower in Kabul.

[mdmost 42866]

8 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

SNL should just replay her exact speech for the cold open.  It's perfect, don't try to make it more funny.  

I'd imagine it will be Chloe Fineman who plays her this weekend since she's great at impressions and fairly hot. 

[Foosters 17734]

6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I heard the Pod Save America guys say that in the days leading up to it, her people were comparing that speech to Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech. 

The kitchen speech from last night? 

Should have had her do it from the driver's seat of a F-150 while going 47 in a 35 wearing Oakleys

[Covri 6231]

52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Like peoples' false memory of a genie movie staring Sinbad called Shazaam, I swear they made a follow up porno to this called Who's Ridin' Biden. I guess it was just a joke I heard because I looked it up and it doesn't exist but I've been referencing it humorously for well over a decade.

Bro that movie totally existed!

 

Spoiler

 

[ChiTownDoc 21102]

Just now, mdmost said:

I'd imagine it will be Chloe Fineman who plays her this weekend since she's great at impressions and fairly hot. 

I'd prefer they just show the cast laughing at her actual speech.  You don't see great artists trying to copy the Mona Lisa.  For a reason...

[Brisketexan 104636]

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

yeah, my little slice of that map got absorbed last time. Before I was Crenshaw. Woot. 

Great post. Quibbling a bit with you and Huck, but I’m only voting against my own financial interests.  I view people as resources (future intellect, future economic drivers, future innovation) and I want to cultivate those resources, not depress them. And that means happier people, a more stable country, less concern over our future, etc. It makes my life better, so in that sense I’m absolutely voting in my own best interests. 
 

 

A lot of this.  I vote against what are perceived as my most direct/immediate interests.  I could have more money in the bank at the end of each year if we lowered the shit out of taxes.  

But in terms of long term, expansive interests, fuck that.  It's in my interest to have a stable and prosperous country going forward for my children and grandchildren (although the jury is out - my kids may have already "noped" out of here).  It's in my interest for my neighbors to do well, to be stable, safe, and secure.  People like that participate in their communities and commerce, fueling our social and economic engine, which ends up benefiting me.  Educated people are less likely to commit crimes like stealing my car and such, which also benefits me.  And the list goes on.

An approach of gathering as many dollars in your own pockets, no matter what the cost to everyone and everything else (and mind you, the MAGAs aren't even accomplishing THAT - except for the absolute richest of them, they didn't get richer under Trump) is utterly destructive and counter-productive -- having lots of money in a hellscape means you're still in a hellscape.  Check out the people with nice houses and money in places like Honduras - I expect most of them would much prefer to be middle class here in the US, where they don't have to top their walls with razor wire, burglar bars, tall locking gates, etc., where they can safely shop at the grocery store or mall, all that shit.  Having a functioning society around you is one of the most important factors in prosperity.

[otisdog 365]

5 hours ago, troph said:

btw good luck with a $42K kitchen remodel.

Yeah...once you deduct the cost of the  Sub-Zero, you've got about enough for the paint.

Edited March 8 by otisdog

[BrickHorn 18196]

13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Quibbling a bit with you and Huck, but I’m only voting against my own financial interests.  I view people as resources (future intellect, future economic drivers, future innovation) and I want to cultivate those resources, not depress them. And that means happier people, a more stable country, less concern over our future, etc. It makes my life better, so in that sense I’m absolutely voting in my own best interests

Very true. There’s no such thing as pure altruism. The key is that our self interest is also to the benefit of others—we desire a better world for everyone. Wealthy MAGAts don’t give a shit about that. They just want as much money as possible, and couldn’t care less about all the harm their greed causes everyone else.

[mchookem 16230]

34 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

SNL should just replay her exact speech for the cold open.  It's perfect, don't try to make it more funny.  

 

26 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'd imagine it will be Chloe Fineman who plays her this weekend since she's great at impressions and fairly hot. 

too bad Cecily Strong is gone, she would have killed

[Underdog 28457]

8 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Normal person’s kitchen, imo.

Missing Michael Oher. 

[LCHorn 2585]

23 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Wealthy MAGAts don’t give a shit about that. They just want as much money as possible, and couldn’t care less about all the harm their greed causes everyone else.

Well, there’s a remedy for that…

 

[Aqua Buddha 14524]

2 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

They filed the SOTU at his house and that's what he wore?  Maybe she didn't tell him it was going down and he just opened the door looking like that.

[SydneyCarton 47889]

8 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

They filed the SOTU at his house and that's what he wore?  Maybe she didn't tell him it was going down and he just opened the door looking like that.

Sir, they're just good ole' down home Americans, like you or me. They're everymen. No nee to dress up, because we're just hardworking folks who understand you and your struggles, because we struggle (with combing our hair) too. 

While the rest of us live like:

 

[TexEx15 17487]

1 hour ago, otisdog said:

Yeah...once you deduct the cost of the  Sub-Zero, you've got about enough for the paint.

 

[speed817 19116]

Cumming soon....

[TexEx15 17487]

Someone sobered up.

Edited March 8 by TexEx15

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Mom's and Dad's just like me? I see nothing on the counters except a bucket of greenery and a tea kettle on the stove. Not buying that fakery.

[yoladu 4067]

in regards to Britt and other boiler plate GOP speeches of late; yeah i get you want a republican in the White House but i hope Independents' eyes roll when they hear the GOP characterize the last 4 years as a "nightmare". Histrionic hyperbole.

Is Biden perfect? No. Do i wish i could buy a friggin' sandwich for lunch under $15? Yeah. But anyone who has been truly living a nightmare the last 4 years.. that is on you, not Biden.

 

[atomheartbevo 89452]

 

[Rimbo 25786]

4 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Same here. The difference between us and MAGA clowns on that point, however, is we intentionally vote against our interest where doing so benefits others who need more help.

I vote for politicians who are more likely to raise my taxes while reducing the tax burden on the working class, because I think that a progressive tax system is fair. 

The billionaire MAGA set votes with their pocketbooks. But the working Joes are just deluding themselves that Trump has any intention or capability to make their lives better. If working class Americans really wanted to improve their lives, they should be rallying behind someone like Elizabeth Warren. 

I believe wholeheartedly in trickle-up economics. Rising tides float all boats.

[HenryJames 65890]

[Gil Bang 25898]

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

A lot of this.  I vote against what are perceived as my most direct/immediate interests.  I could have more money in the bank at the end of each year if we lowered the shit out of taxes.  

But in terms of long term, expansive interests, fuck that.  It's in my interest to have a stable and prosperous country going forward for my children and grandchildren (although the jury is out - my kids may have already "noped" out of here).  It's in my interest for my neighbors to do well, to be stable, safe, and secure.  People like that participate in their communities and commerce, fueling our social and economic engine, which ends up benefiting me.  Educated people are less likely to commit crimes like stealing my car and such, which also benefits me.  And the list goes on.

An approach of gathering as many dollars in your own pockets, no matter what the cost to everyone and everything else (and mind you, the MAGAs aren't even accomplishing THAT - except for the absolute richest of them, they didn't get richer under Trump) is utterly destructive and counter-productive -- having lots of money in a hellscape means you're still in a hellscape.  Check out the people with nice houses and money in places like Honduras - I expect most of them would much prefer to be middle class here in the US, where they don't have to top their walls with razor wire, burglar bars, tall locking gates, etc., where they can safely shop at the grocery store or mall, all that shit.  Having a functioning society around you is one of the most important factors in prosperity.

Without the "socialism" of a functioning, government-funded court system, you're fucking unemployed.  There's plenty of MAGA lawyers on this very board that are too fucking stupid to realize that. 

[DDD Dad 14252]

14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Normal person’s kitchen, imo.

x,x,1,x

Edited March 9 by DDD Dad

[Orale 1087]

6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

yeah, my little slice of that map got absorbed last time. Before I was Crenshaw. Woot. 

Great post. Quibbling a bit with you and Huck, but I’m only voting against my own financial interests.  I view people as resources (future intellect, future economic drivers, future innovation) and I want to cultivate those resources, not depress them. And that means happier people, a more stable country, less concern over our future, etc. It makes my life better, so in that sense I’m absolutely voting in my own best interests. 
 

 

I was going to say this exactly. Imo, those at the top of the pyramid benefit more from a larger middle class that has more money to spend on the products and services offered by the top of the pyramid. A tax cut may be of short term benefit to the wealthy. But if it increases the economic divide, they're ultimately diminishing their bottom line long term. 

[Covri 6231]

4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Mom's and Dad's just like me? I see nothing on the counters except a bucket of greenery and a tea kettle on the stove. Not buying that fakery.

When we first bought our house before we had kids I wanted a nice fancy tea pot for the stove as it was popular decoration at the time and cool looking on our gas stove. I didn’t end up buying one and now after two kids can’t even figure now where I could store it lol. These people don’t cook at home ever. 

[ChiTownDoc 21102]

6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

yeah, my little slice of that map got absorbed last time. Before I was Crenshaw. Woot. 

Great post. Quibbling a bit with you and Huck, but I’m only voting against my own financial interests.  I view people as resources (future intellect, future economic drivers, future innovation) and I want to cultivate those resources, not depress them. And that means happier people, a more stable country, less concern over our future, etc. It makes my life better, so in that sense I’m absolutely voting in my own best interests. 
 

 

Damn.  I would have loved to say that if I was that articulate.  Well said and hits close to home for me…

[ChiTownDoc 21102]

26 minutes ago, Orale said:

I was going to say this exactly. Imo, those at the top of the pyramid benefit more from a larger middle class that has more money to spend on the products and services offered by the top of the pyramid. A tax cut may be of short term benefit to the wealthy. But if it increases the economic divide, they're ultimately diminishing their bottom line long term. 

Yep.  Only thing trickling down this millennium will be my rancid piss on trumps grave.  

[henrygandorf 29179]

no idea if already posted…

 

[Dnaguy 11777]

8 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 

 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13547]

7 hours ago, tokamak said:

A tale as old as time. "Well, they don't mean MY union" (narrator: they do).

Reminds me of Bloom County's take on the air traffic controllers' strike.

 

[HornOnTheBayou 8881]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28716]

1 hour ago, Covri said:

When we first bought our house before we had kids I wanted a nice fancy tea pot for the stove as it was popular decoration at the time and cool looking on our gas stove. I didn’t end up buying one and now after two kids can’t even figure now where I could store it lol. These people don’t cook at home ever. 

You don’t store a teapot. It stays on the stovetop. 

[Superhero 8778]

11 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I beleive his specific district is a real motherfucker of a draw.



They drew in Sugarland, which is very diverse, and dilluted it down with Katy and just straight up rural areas. I think it cross 3 different counties. It's infuriating.

Why did the 22nd district turn into Washington State Cougar's logo?

[TexasEd 8064]

51 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Why did the 22nd district turn into Washington State Cougar's logo?

It looks like the ND pissed off leprechaun to me

Edited March 9 by TexasEd

[Anastasis 23395]

I thought that my kitchen was kinda depressing and dated even after a mild remodel. That one makes me want to slit my own throat. 

[Hank Kingsley 20714]