#state of the union

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

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[victusinveritas]

This could have been a moment when the Democrats stood up as one in a great Spartacist moment of political resistance... instead we got Al Green with the bravery to not back down.

[thedialoguedilemma]

Donald Trump just admitted at his Joint Session of Congress that Elon Musk is the head of DOGE after his attorney lied in federal court that Elon Musk is not the head of DOGE.

[seashantiesforthoughts]

Trump saying that there are people listed on social security payouts are in their 200s and 300s is crazy when you realize the social security administration was created in 1935.

So no, there is not someone “collecting payments” at 367?? years old, because they would have been born in 1658. There are no payouts, just computer issues.

[odinsblog]

Al Green, FTW 🙌

Every Democrat needs to take turns doing that throughout Trump’s speech of lies.

[shedontlovehuhself]

[saywhat-politics]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) warned Democrats to "respect" President Donald Trump when he addresses a joint session of Congress this week.

"Are you expecting the Democrats to put on some kind of a resistance show on Tuesday night?" Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Johnson in an interview on Sunday.

"Boy, I hope not," the speaker cautioned. "I hope they respect the decorum of the institution. It's really important."

[historyforfuture]

The country of freedom and ridiculous democracy.

The moment of the violent arrest of the economics professor of Emory University Caroline Fohlinin in the state of Georgia

After these scenes, there must be a position for all universities around the world to stand with the people of Palestine in Gaza. All hypocritical authorities and rulers who support the Nazi terrorist Israelis must be confronted.

[hypernoves]

I do not have the words to describe the empathy I feel for the trans teenager whose parents had been invited to the white house to deliberately misgender their own child in front of the millions of people watching the state of the union. It genuinely made me burst into tears of rage. I can't even begin to imagine how disgustingly awful it must feel to have parents who not only voted for Trump, but are willing to have the PRESIDENT publicly spew transphobic lies about you in particular, during a speech that so many ignorant people are listening to and blindly believing. I don't know who you are, and I don't know the details of your story (nor am I entitled to them), but if you're ever somehow miraculously seeing this for whatever reason, I'm so sorry for everything you have to go through. I promise, one day, it gets better.

[todaysdocument]

President George Washington’s First Annual Message to Congress

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Presidential MessagesFile Unit: Presidential Messages during the 1st Congress

Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives.

I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity, which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favourable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been recieved) the rising credit and respectability of our Country- the general and increasing good will towards the Government of the Union and the concord, peace and plenty, with which we are blessed, are circumstances, auspicious, in an eminent degree to our national prosperity.

In resuming your consultations for [complete document and transcription at link]

[victusinveritas]

[thedialoguedilemma]

Representative Al Green was removed from the Congress after standing up in visible protest after Trump began his speech spewing off lies.

[dicapiito]

Representative Al Green

[odinsblog]

U.S. representative Al Green (D-TX), March 5th 2025

[skull-pun]

That's it?

That's the big must watch state of the union?

THAT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF REPUBLICANS GAGGING ON TRUMP'S DICK!!!

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

I watched the Orange Man TV Speech so you don't have to. Here's the gist of it (and the Democrat response) in ten memes, because the whole world is a fuckin meme at this point.