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That’s because few people knew who Trump really is back in 2016. Anyone who’s been paying attention has known for forty years that he’s a sleazy crook (thank you, Spy Magazine). Everyone else, which is practically everyone, thought that he was the charming You’re Fired guy from TV. They also thought he would be a politician within a certain range. Everybody knows just who Trump is now, and they either love him or loathe him, and there are a lot more people in that second camp now, and that camp will continue to grow until November 2024. All those people I hear on C-SPAN in the morning who say they voted for Biden and Hillary and Obama twice and Clinton twice but are going to vote for Trump now are either lying or are agents.

Does this basically mean her husband is the real senator?

Is that a real thing among Christians, or did they make this up? Because if it’s the latter, it’ll become a thing as though Jesus himself said it.

The water he’s carrying for his benefactors doesn’t have to be clean.

I suppose. The voters could democratically choose to dispense with our democracy. Wouldn’t that be ironic. Either way, I think it’s a distinction without much difference.

This is what the MAGA base, almost certainly the vast majority of whom refused to watch the SOTU, will take away from last night's speech.

Hunter's laptop. Try to keep up. 😉

Easy for her to do because she's going to be dead any day now so she won't have to reckon with the consequences of a failed democracy.

I think to that to the red hats, competent is far less important than simpatico.

Counterpoint:

SOTU has long been a platform for the current president to tout his accomplishments, so of course in an election year, it's going to come off as a campaign speech.

I expect we will hear a lot more about how the Biden White House is awash in speed and Xanax.

Mitt heard the '80s calling.

But the $64 question is, are they going to take the note?

I love this because the Trump running dog media are always hammering Biden for problems with the economy that inevitably struggled to recover from COVID at the time he picked it up, so if it's fair game to hammer Biden for that, then it's at least equally fair game to hammer Trump for the economy tanking in 2020 in the first place.

Not sure what else to expect from a class of “legislators” weaned on reality television and WWE.

See, there you go, and I respect it just as much.

That was essentially the first half of the first sentence I wrote in my first post about all this!

All due respect, this is a "dog bites man" story. Hogan already didn't vote for Trump in either 2020 or 2016.

I don't think you needed to lean on some nobody who doesn't even know Katie Porter to co-opt her opinion. You could have posted the same opinion as your own and we would have respected it just as much.

And I'm not talking about Katie Porter at all. But that's fine. We can leave it there.

Who the everloving **** is Iyawo Negeeb and why should I care who she's met?

I wouldn't have thought that Citizens United and whether billionaires control elections would be debatable concepts here, but, there you go. Or maybe we've just thrown up our hands, given up and let cynicism win. After all, looking cynical does make you super cool.

I’m pulling back from her personal tree and focusing on the “billionaires control the election process with their money” forest. I don’t think that’s wrong. That’s what Citizens United was all about.

Boiling down her tweet to its basic contents, is she wrong?