Jump to content

2019 SOTU game thread

zork

By zork
in Cloak Room

 Share

Recommended Posts

Teamdirtyleg

Teamdirtyleg 1,060

Posted
Posted (edited)

Don’t know if it’s been brought up, don’t care, but we don’t know just how bad it all might have gotten tonight.   

RICK PERRY WAS THE DESIGNATED SURVIVOR TONIGHT.!!!!.   RICK. PERRY.

I’m shook

that is all.   Back to your monkey shit fight.. 

Edited by Teamdirtyleg
  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 845
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Bama Chick
Bama Chick

Accomplished female members of government being referred to as bitches and hoes and objects to be ass fucked. Or they’re old hags. And y’all wonder why women are pissed all the time and think that G

immamac
immamac

Does anyone else have a verbal tick when Ted Cruz is shown on the television that makes you uncontrollably yell "fuck you Ted Cruz, you piece of shit"

atomheartbevo
atomheartbevo

There is not a more beautiful sight than a mother holding her newborn child while the father rawdogs a porn star

hayden_horn

hayden_horn 11,362

Posted
Posted
Just now, yoladu said:

Abrams speech was OK..not great, not bad.. and in the end just not very memorable.

She didn't fuck up, she didn't hit it out of the park.

it doesn't need to be memorable.

in my line of work, we have public speaking engagements. sometimes we knock it out of the park. but sometimes we have our "workman-like efforts." maybe the topic isn't as engaging, or our delivery was off, or whatever, but we made it through the presentation.

stacey abrams gave a workman-like performance. she read the speech. she didn't DELIVER the speech.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SameSame

SameSame 1,704

Posted
Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

 


God, you’re a fucking dick.

Your drop in hot takes tonight have really raised the discourse.

 

Bama this is the game thread.  That's no place for reasonable discourse.

Edited by SameSame
Link to comment
Share on other sites
mdmost

mdmost 42,999

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

it doesn't need to be memorable.

in my line of work, we have public speaking engagements. sometimes we knock it out of the park. but sometimes we have our "workman-like efforts." maybe the topic isn't as engaging, or our delivery was off, or whatever, but we made it through the presentation.

stacey abrams gave a workman-like performance. she read the speech. she didn't DELIVER the speech.

Gigolo?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Pancho

Pancho 44,705

Posted
Posted
2 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

it doesn't need to be memorable.

in my line of work, we have public speaking engagements. sometimes we knock it out of the park. but sometimes we have our "workman-like efforts." maybe the topic isn't as engaging, or our delivery was off, or whatever, but we made it through the presentation.

stacey abrams gave a workman-like performance. she read the speech. she didn't DELIVER the speech.

Ehh, we call that passion in public speaking.  She wasn’t on auto-pilot, but I don’t think it had as much passion as it could have.  But you and I are in charge of when we speak—we aren’t in charge of this, so there could have been stuff behind the scenes that she had no control over. 

And someone mentioned above that they could just respond in rebuttal form from what the president says.  I honestly don’t think that’s feasible because of how the speeches/networks are setup.  I’m half tempted to text my former UT Speech coach since she was a speechwriter for Ann Richards. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
hayden_horn

hayden_horn 11,362

Posted
Posted (edited)

heh.

i guess, kind of sometimes. in a figurative sense. (referencing the gigolo comment)

to finish my thought, this was the equivalent of delivering someone else's powerpoint presentation.

you can get through it, sure, but you cannot make it resonate like the guy who put it together.

her speech was obviously written by a committee she didn't know, to hit some pre-determined check marks.

Edited by hayden_horn
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
hayden_horn

hayden_horn 11,362

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, Pancho Negro said:

Ehh, we call that passion in public speaking.  She wasn’t on auto-pilot, but I don’t think it had as much passion as it could have.  But you and I are in charge of when we speak—we aren’t in charge of this, so there could have been stuff behind the scenes that she had no control over. 

And someone mentioned above that they could just respond in rebuttal form from what the president says.  I honestly don’t think that’s feasible because of how the speeches/networks are setup.  I’m half tempted to text my former UT Speech coach since she was a speechwriter for Ann Richards. 

yeah, but see my previous post. i'm not always in charge, if someone's flight is canceled or delayed, but i still gotta present the deck. and i know i suck.

that's exactly what happened tonight. the D's wanted a generic speech that would highlight what they thought would resonate with their voters. fine, i get it. 

but have a care and be dynamic.

point out that trump, uh, trumpeted low unemployment on the one hand, but said illegals are taking our jobs on the other.

point out that trump went on a pro-life, pro-children rant, but his administration locks children in cages. hell, play one of the horrific tapes of a child being separated or reunited with their family.

be fucking poignant. have some balls.

they just went with the rehearsed speech. 

alas.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
elfenix

elfenix 34,223

Posted
Posted (edited)
13 minutes ago, Teamdirtyleg said:

Don’t know if it’s been brought up, don’t care, but we don’t know just how bad it all might have gotten tonight.   

RICK PERRY WAS THE DESIGNATED SURVIVOR TONIGHT.!!!!.   RICK. PERRY.

I’m shook

that is all.   Back to your monkey shit fight.. 

we were one angry japanese airline pilot away from aggy as president. 

Edited by elfenix
  • Like 2
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley

Hank Kingsley 20,904

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

well, then she was a bad choice. 

a rebuttal should, uh, rebut.

she would've been better off with:

 

Not sure why you're so hard on Abrams here. Most of these SOTU responses seem to be prepared in advance. She stuck with focusing on Democratic policies and let the media criticize and pick apart Trump's speech. 

These responses rarely move the needle, and I highly doubt a contentious and critical one would have been helpful either.  She could have been a bit more demonstrative I guess, but she articulated her points and spoke well in front of the camera, which was refreshing after Dotard's speech. 

 

 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
hayden_horn

hayden_horn 11,362

Posted
Posted
Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Not sure why you're so hard on Abrams here. Most of these SOTU responses seem to be prepared in advance. She stuck with focusing on Democratic policies and let the media criticize and pick apart Trump's speech. 

These responses rarely move the needle, and I highly doubt a contentious and critical one would have been helpful either.  She could have been a bit more demonstrative I guess, but she articulated her points and spoke well in front of the camera, which was refreshing after Dotard's speech. 

 

 

but i felt like she didn't do what you said. she rushed through a prepared speech. that's fine, if the speech is good. i did not feel it was good.

and, it was supposed to be a rebuttal, and while i realize that most of these aren't actual rebuttals, but pre-prepared remarks, designed to rarely move the needle, then i'm left with the opinion of "why bother?"

i thought kennedy did alright last year. i felt like abrams didn't do well this year.

mostly because trump has given you SO MUCH MATERIAL, even in a pre-written speech.

she hopped from lily pad to lily pad without a killer instinct, and the rebuttal was ineffective because of it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
UpperWestside

UpperWestside 6,160

Posted
Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Mapache said:

Jesus would be ashamed of you Falwell, you ignorant soulless fuck

He is what Christianity is in a large section of this country. It is shameful and repugnant and I do not blame those who turn from it when you see who the cretins are who are promoting it. Using Jesus to further political gains is awful, but holy hell we have millions in the population who are gullible and will eat it right up. 

Edited by UpperWestside
  • Like 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Goredho

Goredho 17,394

Posted
Posted (edited)

Trump didn’t glaringly show his ass as I was expecting, but it was just a bunch of lip service about crossing divides and governing for all Americans that is completely incongruous with his actions the past two years.  I will say moderated Trump is more dangerous than 100% pure, uncut Trump.  If you just tuned in to the SOTU to see what’s going on in America (which is the majority of voters) he would not have struck you as a bumbling narcissist or criminally malign.

Stacey Abrams was the suck.  She did not address a damn thing he said.  No contrasting his portrait of the way things are with reality — that there is no way to rejoin separated immigrant kids with their families, the President’s secretary of defense resigning in protest over the unplanned withdrawal of support for our allies in Syria, a year of stock market gains being wiped out by Trump’s trade wars and government shutdown, growing numbers of indictments and guilty pleas emerging from Mueller’s investigation that Trump directly attacked, etc....  Just a wimpy, “Sucks to be a government worker.  I feel you, fam.”  She motivated me to further not give a shit until Mueller’s report drops or House hearings come about.

Edited by Goredho
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Gil Bang

Gil Bang 25,915

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

How fucking orange are these people? All the orange. All of it.

How much more orange can they be?  The answer is none.  None more orange. 

2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

They know they're going to watch a bunch of young men die in the next couple of years for no fucking reason but this man's ego.

"I didn't watch my buddies die face-down in the mud..."

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Let a lawyer give the goddamned rebuttal. Our fucking job is to think on our feet and respond on the fly. I could have made notes (along with the prep beforehand about what we KNEW he was going to say) along the way, and delivered an actual fucking rebuttal.
And I like Stacy - an old classmate and friend of my wife. She’s always been whip-smart. But a meh, canned speech.

wait...

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


Typed too fast - TRIAL lawyer. She has a JD, but she was a tax attorney - wonky stuff, not “think on your feet” stuff.

Fair enough. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
FondrenRoad

FondrenRoad 4,378

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, retread said:

 

Not so fast. There is no question that Donald Sr was snoozing through every speech or class he ever attended as a youth. His dad just bought a new wing for the school, and Donnie got an A.  We need engaged people who care. Not poorly educated guaranteed to pass trust fund kids. 

But Joshua still has a chance. He just needs someone to do something for him that nobody ever did for Donald. Make him earn something on his own merit alone. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
FondrenRoad

FondrenRoad 4,378

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, Teamdirtyleg said:

Don’t know if it’s been brought up, don’t care, but we don’t know just how bad it all might have gotten tonight.   

RICK PERRY WAS THE DESIGNATED SURVIVOR TONIGHT.!!!!.   RICK. PERRY.

I’m shook

that is all.   Back to your monkey shit fight.. 

To be honest, Perry would be better.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...