The state of the union is critically endangered

I didn't watch Felon47’s bloviating liefest in a traditional sense on Tuesday night, but I did participate in a livestream mock-watch online. It made it somewhat entertaining. Still, the speech was a crazed stream of vomited-up garbage, a dishonest recitation of made-up "alternative facts" and baseless demonization of all who disagree with Felon47’s totalitarian agenda.

Thankfully, the speech got pretty much no traction, near as I can tell. Only 33 million viewers saw it, according to the Nielsen ratings people, fewer than last year but more than watched two of Biden's, but these days that doesn't mean a lot; the speech itself might not get seen live, but clips get shared around social media sites and get seen by plenty. Still, it's been largely forgotten already and did nothing to advance any sort of agenda; it was easily the most utterly pointless State of the Union speech ever made. It will probably be remembered mostly for shamelessly using the men's U.S. Olympic hockey team as a prop—that's going to be embarrassing for those guys in the coming years—and for being almost entirely dishonest in its content.

When he did say something true, it was still in the service of dishonesty. He said he guided the U.S. economy into "a turnaround for the ages," and that's true, he did. He wants us to believe he took a floundering economy and made it wonderful, though, which is the opposite of reality. When President Biden left office, the U.S. economy was the envy of the world. Now it's in chaos at best, working well only for what should now be called the Epstein Class, the billionaires that are the only ones seeing any benefit at all in the policies of Felon47 and his bootlicking Republican enablers. The rest of us are hurting in ways we would not be had this fucker not won the election. He also said that "cheating is rampant in our elections." That's a bald-faced lie, but it's also aspirationally true. He said that in support of the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which in reality is a voter-suppression bill with provisions in it to gather data in service of, you guessed it, cheating in elections. 

But we all knew he was going to lie his way through the speech, we all knew it would be full of baseless grievance, racism, and attacks on Democrats. We didn't know he was going to point at the Democrats in the chamber and shout that they were "crazy," something that in a normal era would result in immediate 25th Amendment proceedings but these days is just baked in and unsurprising behavior.

So we move on. What we should be moving on to is the evidence in the Epstein files that accuses Felon47 of child rape and assaults. We should be moving on to is the complete lack of Congressional involvement in another military buildup in the Mideast. We should be moving on to the corrupt obstruction of justice perpetrated by Judge Aileen Cannon. And a slew of other things that relate to criminal and impeachable behavior by this regime.