State of the Union

[Smackie Chan]

How many times will he say, “Guess what”?

So how many?

[Biggie]

Results?

What do you care? You're going to go 5-10 and then quit.

[Smackie Chan]

Results?

What do you care? You're going to go 5-10 and then quit.

Probably won’t get that far. I never did pick the O/Us.

[Mikey]

Care to set the Over/Under on a few of his most over-used words & phrases, like:

1. "Trump" 9
2. "MAGA" 12
3. "Not a Joke" 2
4. "It's Working" 3
5. "Ultra-MAGA" 4
6. "Threat to Democracy" 6
7. "Uhh... Anyway, I've Said Too Much" 2

Highly Cringe Inducing Behaviors

1. Creepy Pedo-Whispering 2
2. Losing His Train of Thought 6
3. Race & Identity Pandering 7
4. Forgetting a Guest's Name 2

BONUS: Pregnant Pause, Waiting For Answer in Ear-Piece 3

Results?

I think he’s oh for 21 on at least the first two.

[StrawMan]

Care to set the Over/Under on a few of his most over-used words & phrases, like:

1. "Trump" 9
2. "MAGA" 12
3. "Not a Joke" 2
4. "It's Working" 3
5. "Ultra-MAGA" 4
6. "Threat to Democracy" 6
7. "Uhh... Anyway, I've Said Too Much" 2

Highly Cringe Inducing Behaviors

1. Creepy Pedo-Whispering 2
2. Losing His Train of Thought 6
3. Race & Identity Pandering 7
4. Forgetting a Guest's Name 2

BONUS: Pregnant Pause, Waiting For Answer in Ear-Piece 3

Results?

Biden had a better night than I did [being bellowed at for an hour], and did much better than expected. Taking into account the incredibly low bar based on his track record, that's not saying a whole lot. That said, I really didn't keep track of the O/Us [too busy counting lies], but to my best recollection here's a few results:

"Trump", "MAGA", and "UltraMAGA" - 0. For the first time in memory, his speech writers took a cue from the Nixon playbook, "Never say your opponent's name in a campaign speech." Smart play. "My predecessor" must have been invoked at least a dozen times, though.

"Not a joke" 1, "Threat to Democracy" 5, Uhh... anyway 0, "Creepy Pedo-Whispering" 1, "Losing his Train of Thought" = Every time he veered off script, "Race and Identity Pandering" 5, "forgetting a guest's name" 0, but the "Lincoln Riley" brainfart was über cringe-worthy.

[Roach]

Howler monkey [Diego ]

Whatever is going on with all this shit, for certain this woman... is a mess. Mental/emotional train wreck. She might even be a man. You know long ago before she uh, changed.

Clown show 33.8x

[kcdave]

I watched every word of the SOTU and several hours of post-speech commentary. I think everyone got exactly what they wanted out of this speech. If you're a hard core Democrat, you heard pro-union, pro-abortion, pro-war, and pro federal spending and you LOVED it. If you're a fiscally minded Republican, you heard the same things and you hated it. If you're a Democrat donor, you heard Joe advocating for big money transfers from government to private companies via war, infrastructure projects, social spending, and you loved it. For all of Joe's blustering about millionaires paying their fair share, the rich know he can't touch them. They understand the rhetoric game and so does Biden. He says stuff to rile up the base but never actually taxes the rich because then he can't kick that political football anymore. Just like the war on poverty. We waged a war on poverty 60 years ago and there are still poor people. Why? Because there will always be poor people and the "war" is just another political football.

On the whole, Joe sounded good. He didn't create any four syllable conjunctions. Multiple times he transposed words and then corrected himself but that's forgivable. He was a little too angry most of the time but that's what Democrats want to hear so they loved it. His presence at the podium was better than I expected and if I think that, I know the Left is popping huge boners over it. kcdave loved it and I think he is representative of a majority of people who will vote blue no matter who.

Damn Grifter, you were on a roll until you stepped on
your dick with that last sentence.

I will vote blue, green, purple, chrome or invisible
as long as it is voting against the yam and all of his
brain washed minions. I lean left on most social issues
until they start to reach for my wallet. I used to lean right
when fiscal responsibility was more than just political
babble, and until the eventual bible thumping would occur.
I am good old Libertarian at heart, but they ain't got a damn
clue how to bury chump and his maga retards. #gojoego

[Sudden Sam]

How many times will he say, “Guess what”?

So how many?

I didn’t watch it. Need to go to the transcript!

[Smackie Chan]

"My predecessor" must have been invoked at least a dozen times, though.

I heard 13 was the tally.

[Sudden Sam]

I’m trying to search the transcript for ‘guess what’, but I’m not certain as to how to search a doc on my phone.

Not getting it accomplished via what I read as to means to search.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

I used to lean right
when fiscal responsibility was more than just political
babble

My first real look at "Fiscal Conservatism" came during Newt Gingrich's Contract With America. I was expecting the GOP to cut government spending. Two years later the R's had spent just as much as the D's before them. For all their bluster, they didn't want fiscal responsibility, they just wanted control. Yay they worked with Bill Clinton and balanced the budget but to what end? A balanced budget that spends just as much as an unbalanced budget does not look like fiscal conservation.

[Dr_Phibes]

I heard he said 'bodacious' a bunch of times. He also claimed to be the least assassinated President ever. The Canadian press is reporting that you've banned the use of stairs, which will be replaced by ladders. Any truth to this?

[L45B]

The Canadian press is reporting that you've banned the use of stairs, which will be replaced by ladders. Any truth to this?

Yes, more specifically ladders with the bottom rungs missing.

These have been in place for years.

Also known as Minimum Wage Laws.

[Dr_Phibes]

You'd just be climbing up and sneaking smoke breaks anyway. That's some kind of union.

[Wolfman]

OLD YELLER. Must have been coached to yell at us--that would reduce a lot of verbal stumbling in his typical rants.