The 100 Minutes Hate

     Do I really have to do this?

     Yes, yes I do. 

     This is, after all, a political blog, one approaching its 17th year, and I have been doing this for just over 20 years. People come here looking for political content and I'd be abrogating my responsibilities if I didn't comment on major events such as a state of the union address. 

     But I'd be less than honest if I didn't admit that I'd actually forgotten the State of the Union was last night until it was half over. After all, Democratic members of Congress were planning on boycotting the address, while some were content to hold up little signs in pathetic, token attempts at opposition. If they can phone it in, why can't I?

     However, we political bloggers have that grim duty and, no matter how much it hurts or assaults our sensibilities, we still have a job to do, right?

     

    The address went off the rails before it even started when Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico held up a sign reading, "This is not normal". Within seconds, Lance Gooden of Texas ripped the sign out of her hands like the good little Nazi he is.

    It didn't get much better when Al Green stood up and said Trump didn't have a mandate to cut Medicare. Little Mikey Johnson stood up as if he sat on a burning coal and ordered Green removed from the chamber while dittohead Republicans sang, "Hey hey hey hey goodbye". (Green has since announced he's introducing articles of impeachment, not that that has a prayer of going anywhere in the Reichstag the House has turned into).

     (Bottom line: If a white Republican named Greene heckles Joe Biden, no problem. But if you're a Democratic black man named Green, you get kicked out for heckling a fascist Republican. Just so we're straight on the rules.) 

     And speaking of the world's most overpaid bleacher bum, Greene broke the House dress code by wearing her stupid MAGA hat on the floor and Mike Johnson apparently didn't think the Sergeant at Arms should've escorted her out for her own violation of the rules.

     Just so we're straight on the rules.

     Finally, Trump slouched to the podium, scowled at Mike Johnson like the miserable prick he is and proceeded to lie about everything under the sun. I mean, what else could we expect? This is the same clown who publicly lied 30,500+ times during his first so-called "presidency". And this was at the core of my apathy, the apathy of many others like me. After all, what's the use of a state of the union when not one thing that drops out of Trump's maw is even remotely factual?

     Doing something over and over and expecting different results and all that.

     It wasn't a State of the Union. It was a Trump rally, only sloppier, more disorganized, undisciplined and ad libbed. It was like a deleted scene out of Idiocracy. All it needed was the machine gun.

     As usual, CNN's poor Daniel Dale worked himself half to death trying to stay caught up on all of Trump's lies. He lied about DOGE's savings to the American public, which are minuscule compared to the contracts Elon Musk has gotten for his various companies (and the destruction of the departments that would have provided oversight of them).

     He lied about the government funding turning mice transgender. No, he really did.

     He lied about tariffs, claiming they would bring trillions into the economy when in reality it will just raise the cost of goods for American companies and consumers.

     He lied by blaming Joe Biden for the cost of eggs, which have only skyrocketed since January.

     He lied about ending the part of the Green New Deal that Biden signed into law.

     He lied about how much  the Paris Climate Agreement (out of which he just pulled us again) cost us.

     He lied about migrant crossings.

     He lied about them coming from insane asylums because the fucking idiot doesn't know the difference between an insane asylum and applying for asylum.

     He accused Biden of weaponizing the Justice Department, something of which he's guilty and then some.

     He lied about inflation.

     He lied about agricultural purchases from China.

     He lied about autism.

     He lied about military recruitment.

     He lied about Social Security benefits.

     He lied about aid to Ukraine.

     He lied about Panama Canal deaths from over a century ago. 

     And he lied by relitigating the 2020 election. No, he still hasn't gotten over that.

     He lied about everything.

     Again.

     So what was the sense in watching the usual litany of lies?

     The only thing that's possibly more frightening than what Trump's doing to this country are the idiots who think he's doing a bang up job. The price of eggs and many other things are going up while planes are dropping. The economy's going in the shitter, the Dow recently lost over 800 points in one day and tens of thousands of government workers have lost their jobs, including control tower personnel and nuclear regulators and our allies are turning on us left and right. Our government is getting hollowed out by an autistic, ketamine-addled Nazi who plainly has no idea what the fuck he's doing.

     Yes, there will be a blue wave that will at least take back the House and maybe the Senate in 2026 but the question we have to ask ourselves is, will we survive for the next two years?