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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
I call him Buttgag.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:

...I'm quite relieved that the vote for acquittal is over, and with only one surprise. That BS is behind us and DT, and we can move on to more important things.

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Originally posted by PASig:
President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.

I really hope he has some choice words for all the Democrats, including that piece of shit Mitt Romney.

Maybe he will have a big industrial shredder and will make a big point of feeding the two articles of impeachment into it.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Didn't President Trump endorse and campaign for Mitt Romney when he ran for Senator?

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Originally posted by PASig:
President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by PASig:
President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.

It's now 12:03 EST and I'm not seeing it on any local station here in SE Mi.

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With the 2020 U.S. presidential election officially under way (well, sort of, after Iowa), it is a moment to assess the state of the competition. The first conclusion is startling: As if one weren’t enough, we now know the Democrats are competing against two Donald Trump s.

The first Trump is the person elected 45th president of the U.S. by voters in November 2016. That is the Trump who delivered the State of the Union speech, an enumeration of his policies and a look at the content of his re-election campaign.


Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address, Feb. 4. Photo: michael reynolds/Shutterstock
But there’s another Donald Trump, the “Trump” of the Democratic Party’s imagination—a Darth Vaderish emperor of evil, whose speech House Speaker Nancy Pelosi methodically tore to pieces, as if summoning an ancient curse that would finally make “Trump” melt into a puddle before her.

“Trump” is the character Bernie Sanders calls “the most corrupt president in history” or in Mike Bloomberg’s TV ads is “an angry, out-of-control president.”

While the rest of the country went about its business the past three years, the Democrats and much of Washington’s media have tried to reimagine the U.S. presidency as a kind of Star Wars trilogy between the forces of good and rank evil.

The first episode was “The Russian Collusion Narrative” in which “Trump” conspires with the head of the Russian Empire to destroy American democracy. The second installment, taking up where the Mueller cliffhanger left us, was “Obstruction of Justice,” which after the “Collusion” blockbuster had a strikingly short run.

Then came the “Trump” trilogy’s final installment: “Impeachment,” with headliners Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler. The box office for “Impeachment” was awful, and it ended up getting 52 thumbs down in the U.S. Senate.

Like a Hollywood studio over-invested in sequels, the Democratic Party has bet the ranch and its chances of winning the presidency on the American people concluding from this saturation that they are in the grip of “Trump.” And that’s not going to change.

Speaker Pelosi ostentatiously tearing up Mr. Trump’s speech was a symbolic act of “Trump” repudiation, but she probably did further damage to the party’s brand by in effect dismissing and insulting the stories of undeniable personal triumph we’d just heard. That was a miscalculation.

But Nance the Ripper showed us more than that. All the separate policies and issues identified in the president’s speech—jobs, the economy, energy, health care, trade, Iran, the aspirations of minorities—are generally regarded as the normal business of politics. But normal politics has become irrelevant to the party’s strategy.

However ham-handed Mrs. Pelosi’s gesture, there is always method in her madness (in that, she and her “Trump” nemesis are twins).

After Mr. Trump won the 2016 election, surely Mrs. Pelosi saw that her seething, unhappy party wasn’t a pretty picture. The Democrats needed to invent the one-dimensional monster called “Trump,” to divert the attention of the American people from the fact that their own party was deeply divided between the Sanders far left and the Clinton center-left, a division that inexorably produced the political pileup we just witnessed in Iowa.

As of late Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg, an articulate chameleon, appeared to be tied for delegates with Bernie Sanders—the lucky loser of 2016 who became the American left’s standard-bearer. But the bottom fell out in Iowa for Joe Biden and the party’s center. One flawed caucus won’t decide the nomination, but the lesson of the party’s division is clear: Move left, or lose.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
he’s riffing even better than at his rallies.
Love it!