Told myself I was not going to watch the State of the Union Address, but... you guessed it, I did.
I know that traditionally the opposition party usually shows little enthusiasm for whatever a sitting President says at the annual gathering. I can fault Republicans and Democrats for failing to clap for remarks that entail benefits to Americans or commonsense initiatives like balancing the budget.
So, how did this year’s address go? Pretty much like a junior high classroom when a bad teacher is replaced by a worse substitute teacher. Or should I say classless room? Because I haven’t seen a better example of classlessness in the Joint Meeting since Nancy Pelosi melodramatically ripped up Trump’s speech.
I’m befuddled by the Democrats’—what should I term it?—truculence, defiance, passive aggression, or just plain Trump Derangement Syndrome. Seems that nothing—cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the budget, throwing illegal criminal aliens out of the country, stopping the tragic deaths by fentanyl, honoring a border patrol agent, Laken Riley’s family, and police and firemen, reporting on billions of dollars in new investments by formerly foreign companies—nothing was worth so much as a Zen one-hand clap from Democrats. Smug and angry, they sat motionless, writing on white boards, holding up little signs in unison, and looking at phones as the President spoke. Frowny-faced from beginning to end of the address, the people on the Left-leaning side of the aisle seemed to disagree with everything, or they were given marching orders not to show any emotion other than seething anger.
What a hill to defend! It appears that Democrats are in favor of fentanyl deaths, keeping foreign investment foreign, sending money to distant lands for social engineering, and Laken Riley’s brutal murder. They seem to oppose without a positive counter strategy: It was motiveless malignity, to use an expression by Thomas Carlyle to describe evil Iago, on display in front of not just the nation, but also the world.
Low class, childish. Enamored with itself and believing in an unwarranted sense of superiority, the Democratic Party has no high ground, not social, not political, not economic, not philosophical. How can no one in the party stand to honor a mother who lost her daughter or a border agent whose actions saved another border agent when they came under fire at the border? Did I say, “low class”? I think I mean “sick.” Literally depraved. Why did I watch? Why did I watch?
Sick and simultaneously laughable hypocrisy. The party allowed the debt to rise by trillions as bureaucrats drunk on money spent without accountability. As yet, untold billions went to support whims and whimsical “scientific” and “social” experiments. And no one in the party seems to care. But they certainly can get angry that Trump wants to take practical steps to save the country money, such as that spent to rent empty buildings or to pay social security to dead people.
The hills that Democrats choose to defend, such as allowing boys and men in women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms and in female sports, continuing to pay government workers for little or inconsequential work or for rent on empty buildings, or for distributing money for social engineering programs in other countries, or feeding terrorists, these hills are not high ground.
By not standing at any time during the Address, Democrats revealed where they stand and what they stand for.
I know that traditionally the opposition party usually shows little enthusiasm for whatever a sitting President says at the annual gathering. I can fault Republicans and Democrats for failing to clap for remarks that entail benefits to Americans or commonsense initiatives like balancing the budget.
So, how did this year’s address go? Pretty much like a junior high classroom when a bad teacher is replaced by a worse substitute teacher. Or should I say classless room? Because I haven’t seen a better example of classlessness in the Joint Meeting since Nancy Pelosi melodramatically ripped up Trump’s speech.
I’m befuddled by the Democrats’—what should I term it?—truculence, defiance, passive aggression, or just plain Trump Derangement Syndrome. Seems that nothing—cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the budget, throwing illegal criminal aliens out of the country, stopping the tragic deaths by fentanyl, honoring a border patrol agent, Laken Riley’s family, and police and firemen, reporting on billions of dollars in new investments by formerly foreign companies—nothing was worth so much as a Zen one-hand clap from Democrats. Smug and angry, they sat motionless, writing on white boards, holding up little signs in unison, and looking at phones as the President spoke. Frowny-faced from beginning to end of the address, the people on the Left-leaning side of the aisle seemed to disagree with everything, or they were given marching orders not to show any emotion other than seething anger.
What a hill to defend! It appears that Democrats are in favor of fentanyl deaths, keeping foreign investment foreign, sending money to distant lands for social engineering, and Laken Riley’s brutal murder. They seem to oppose without a positive counter strategy: It was motiveless malignity, to use an expression by Thomas Carlyle to describe evil Iago, on display in front of not just the nation, but also the world.
Low class, childish. Enamored with itself and believing in an unwarranted sense of superiority, the Democratic Party has no high ground, not social, not political, not economic, not philosophical. How can no one in the party stand to honor a mother who lost her daughter or a border agent whose actions saved another border agent when they came under fire at the border? Did I say, “low class”? I think I mean “sick.” Literally depraved. Why did I watch? Why did I watch?
Sick and simultaneously laughable hypocrisy. The party allowed the debt to rise by trillions as bureaucrats drunk on money spent without accountability. As yet, untold billions went to support whims and whimsical “scientific” and “social” experiments. And no one in the party seems to care. But they certainly can get angry that Trump wants to take practical steps to save the country money, such as that spent to rent empty buildings or to pay social security to dead people.
The hills that Democrats choose to defend, such as allowing boys and men in women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms and in female sports, continuing to pay government workers for little or inconsequential work or for rent on empty buildings, or for distributing money for social engineering programs in other countries, or feeding terrorists, these hills are not high ground.
By not standing at any time during the Address, Democrats revealed where they stand and what they stand for.
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