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"In recent months, I’ve reached out to Trump countless times for comment."

You have, huh? I don't know who you are, but you must have a really healthy ego -- perhaps as outsized as Trump's -- to have thought that he (or any candidate, for that matter) would answer you personally.

And you may not have listened very carefully to the CNN panel's comments about the speech. Axelrod was succinctly brutal, as were several others, including Van Jones.

Hopefully some other Stranger writers will write tomorrow, to better effect.
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@1, Massoud is a reporter who has written for Al Jazeera and the Atlantic. So yes, he's asked Trump (and reps for comment). All journalists who reach out for comment don't expect a response as an ego-stroking device. It's part of their job.
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i didn't listen, and it feels like most of my social network didn't either. what's the point? i went to yoga.
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Great speech. A home run. He hit it out of the park to the dismal the democrats sitting on their hands and looking quite childish.
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Sure, Trump has his moments where he falls in line with his handlers and reads his teleprompter and actually seems halfway sane for about a minute. Never lasts long. Don't doubt that he's going to go right off the rails again tomorrow and drag us all along for the ride.
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I'm sorry I watched it. I used to think watching or listening to GW Bush was torture, but this is 1000x worse.
The most painful part was having to watch all the standing ovations over that poor woman whose husband was killed in Yemen only days ago. She was obviously in agony and he was using her as a prop to show off his great compassion for the military.
Ivanka was standing next to her and patting her arm. I hope the poor woman got a free Ivanka dress or bangle bracelet for her trouble. (Oh, and sorry about your husband!)
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Pence and Ryan appeared to find numerous parts of Trump's speech funny. They certainly smirked a lot.
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Bernie Sanders analysis of Trump’s speech to Congress totally nailed it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eK-5ivY…
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They are only a froot loop necklace of nonesensensical words for The Stranger because they dont involved the words "Humpfest", "Marijuana", "anti-abortion", "gay", "feminism", "bar" and "entertainment". That speech last night (and the reaction of democrats during the speech) showed exactly where their priorites are when it comes to it own US citizens and individual constituencies and showcased the legislative fuck-ups of the last eight years at the hands of democrats. When a ban on lobbying (domestic and foreign-backed) doesn't get a standing ovation, then you really know taxpayer money sucking vampire got staked through the heart last night - and it wasnt conservatives.
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This is an article? NOT. It's an OpEd piece. As another poster said, the ban on lobbying was a huge issue. Something the Democrats could have addressed years ago.
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When has any SOTU speech contained answers, or was not a mishmash of base-pleasing, patriotic word salad?

It's basically a pep rally where both sides can indulge in petty shows of division by the radical act of either clapping, or not clapping.

That being said, no one on the far left is going to like anything Trump says or does regardless of what it is. But judging from the general reactions of the people around me and the news reporting, the fence sitters and people in the middle really approved of the speech.

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@12 If Trump actually gets a trillion bucks out of Congress for infrastructure spending, or manages to sign into law health care reform that works better than PP/ACA, or disentangles us from all those stupid wars in the middle east, I won't complain about it. In fact it would shut me right up.

But he won't do any of those things, so I can keep right on bitching, n/p.
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This is an article? NOT. This is an OpEd. 4 years of 'I hate Trump' is going to get old.
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great, so he stuck to the words on the teleprompter and for the most part read them well. so fucking what. he's still a vile piece of garbage. nothing changes that, but I tell you this: if he somehow manages to rein in his crazy, stay off twitter, stick to the script....we're incredible fucked. people in the "middle" (whoever the fuck they are) watched last night and saw a guy they could, for the most part, agree with. nevermind that most of the stuff he said was bullshit. then they saw a bunch of "whiners" sitting down and not applauding. nevermind that the GOP did the same goddamn thing for the last 8 years. what if trump's team doesn't double down on the crazy and instead tries to normalize him? again, if that happens I say we're all fucked. people were stupid enough to vote for him when he had the crazy turned to 11.
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They had him nicely medicated. He seemed almost coherent.
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@ 15,

There is exactly zero chance of that happening. He held in the KKKuh-razee for exactly one speech and neo-fascist white AmeriKKKa had a euphoric racismgasim. We'll be back to the flaming Trumpster fire today.

#RepubliKKKanIncompetence
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I find it amazing anyone thinks these speeches (BTW this isn't a State of the Union) ever mean shit. If it did, we'd have gone to Mars by now.

But is sure makes both sides feel important and that's what it's all about: feeling important as the republic gets flushed down the drain.
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I didn't vote for the guy, but I gotta tell ya, after listening to his immigration plan and his VOICE Plan, I'm starting to like the guy.
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An op/ed, long on word count and short on substance. Trump is your liege lord - own it.
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Norm dear, do you buy the undercoating and the service plan as well? Do you give your bank account information to that nice Nigerian man who just wants to give you money? Are you a lottery habitué?
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@5 @17 *YAWN* Again with the Hitler and KKK. What would you do without them? I bet if you had a time machine you'd refuse to kill Hitler for fear of losing your favorite slurs.
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@20- "I didn't vote for the guy,"

Convicted sex offenders aren't allowed to vote, so you couldn't have.
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POTUS: "We need to take care of our own citizens first."

Entire D side of House: Looking ready to vomit at such a suggestion.

GG. That will play will with Americans. Globalist fail.
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.nobody yelled 'liar' ?
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I couldn't stand to listen to the speech, but I tuned to MSNBC afterwards in the hope that someone there would tell me how awful it was. Instead, I got Chris Matthews, Katy Tur and Hugh Hewitt telling me how presidential it was. I really miss Keith Olbermann.
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@27 Classy! And I never mentioned supporting Trump any more than fellating him. But that seems to be the quality of the hive mind you share with so many others these days: either you're a good and nice person who agrees with me, or you're LiterallyHitlerKKKFascistWhiteSupremacistMisogynistHomophobeIslamophobe. Remind me, how did running her campaign as an SJW culture war benefit Hillary, and how many people will you win over to your side with that?
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@31 This window into your immature mind is not very attractive. It reminds me of a shouty fundamentalist protester I saw outside of Pride one year, who was obsessed with fisting and feces, and talked about Jesus with his finger on the toilet flusher, getting rid of all the bad people. Sometimes we hate what we secretly love. I think you'd be happier turning off that internal porn reel.
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Check out Theodore the buffoon @12 trying to castigate anyone opposing this administration extreme right agenda (slashing Medicaid and the EPA while increasing an already bloated war budget) as being 'far left'.
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@1

Wow, that was an ugly comment.
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This was a disgusting reminder of how the media is completely unable to help itself in it's rush to ingratiate itself to power.

If this was presidential, maybe it's time to admit that the presidency is a long line of monstrous dictators who cause millions to suffer to enrich the few.
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Who wrote that speech?!?! It didn't even sound like him. Not even a little. It was... coherent.

Words are... ultimately meaningless.
It is only actions that count.


We can all sit here and opine our smart comments about the glossy wallpaper of the speech. The meaningless vagueries of glorious dreamlike patriotism... but the foundation is being bulldozed while both chambers clappity-clap-clap.

The facts of the matter are that the corporations --ever in bed with both parties-- are now being given the freest hand they've had since the early 1800s to run roughshod over the citizenry in the pursuit of holy profits. And any public outcry is being wholly ignored. Trumpy was right (in his election rants) that Wall Street<=>Government complicity is a problem... and as soon as he got the chance, he cemented that complicity, by selecting corporate ideologues and dyed-in-the-wool racists to "his" cabinet.

We'll have more war ($54b more! And a "conflict of civilizations"!), less care and beauty ($58b less!), more institutional racism & scapegoating in this country ("VOICE" shudder), and ultimately nothing to help even those who voted for him out of desperation. I doubt even that the infrastructure programs will materialize.

I bet you 10 to 1 that there'll be a serious terrorist attack in this country within the next 24 months. Which only lead to more social repression for everyone. Yay USA.
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David dear, what exactly did he say that you and people like you think is so great? Or are you just relieved that it wasn't his usual childish tantrum?

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