Trump D-. Abrams B. Sanders A.

[Ron Green]

Last edited Wed Feb 6, 2019, 02:33 AM - Edit history (1)

Anybody else pay attention to all three?

EDITED to change Abrams’ grade from C+. I saw her speech again and heard more focused points than I did earlier.

[LuvLoogie]

1. ok thanks

[SidDithers]

2. ...

Sid

[Atticus]

3. According to---? nt

[obnoxiousdrunk]

13. Ron Burgundy.

[grantcart]

21. Snort

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. LOL.

Trump sucked, which we expected. Abrams was excellent. Bernie was just Bernie.

[trueblue2007]

22. kinda boring i thought.

[blitzen]

5. Are there three major parties now? I guess I missed that n/t

[MontanaMama]

52. If there are then Bernie

can run for his party’s nomination instead of as a Dem.

[nolabear]

6. Good grief.

[SamKnause]

7. Bernie's response was excellent !!!

[Julian Englis]

8. More like tRump D-, Abrams A-, Sanders C- n/t

[Ron Green]

16. Did you hear them all? Please share your thoughts.

I thought Sanders’ stark contrast of Trump and the RW’s agenda with what Americans actually want was excellent.

[JCanete]

20. serious, or just irritated at the original score? nt

[MrGrieves]

9. Rrrrrrrrriiiiiiight....

[Hoyt]

10. Abrams was a hell of a lot better than that.

[TeamPooka]

11. hmm , thread trashed.

[ismnotwasm]

23. Yup

[Ron Green]

12. Bernie was the only one to RESPOND to Trump's

“points” with clear refutations. His speech was based in the most urgent issues facing this nation and planet. Stacey Abrams, while very capable and positive, did not adress much of the true state of the nation, in my view.

[OliverQ]

25. That's what she's supposed to do. It's not supposed to be an all out

insult trump every chance you get. Her speech was meant to set an optimistic tone of what America really is about, not what Trump and Republicans want it to be.

[vercetti2021]

14. Garbage thread

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. I watched most

I couldn't sit through all of the pussygrabber. Wouldn't have watched any, but Pelosi's expression and shuffling of paperwork did keep me from changing the channel for a while. Until MF45 stated that bullshit about Democrats cheering the ripping of babies crap. Changed the channel immediately. Fuck him, and fuck the rightwing morons who buy into that bullshit.

Abrams deserves an A+++. She's fucking great. That was the best rebuttal ever, PERIOD. Rarely does reading a speech seem like such natural conversation. I hope she gets a lot more airtime in the future, and it's a damn shame that republicons got away with stealing the governorship from her.

I have always been a great supporter of Bernie, and thought the content of his address to be right on target. Such as the point that MF45 and the right keep harping about MS13 while never EVER mentioning the Vegas shooter who murdered so many and wounded over 800. But I gotta say, Bernie's delivery had too many "uh"s, which don't make for the best delivery. He gets an A-

MF45 Pussygrabber gets an F-------------

Pelosi also should receive an A for sitting there with her testicle necklace, shuffling her papers, and being able to restrain herself while simultaneously being so close to Mother's husband and to tRump.

[Sugarcoated]

30. Haha

Testicle necklace, love it

[scheming daemons]

17. If Sanders gives a speech when nobody is watching, does it make a sound?

You giving Abrams a C+ is laughable. And it invalidates your opinion on anything else.

[JCanete]

19. I don't know, but the fact taht you didn't hear it certainly invalidates your opinion on his speech.

[Cha]

28. Exactly.. lost his cred rating Stacy c+

Link to tweet

[ProudLib72]

33. I'm giving this thread a solid D, just slightly above the Rump

And now trashing it...

[Cha]

36. I'm leaning

F.

[Gothmog]

48. Good question

Did anyone actually watch sanders? I did not waste my time on this

[JCanete]

18. I need to watch Abrams speech again, It seemed to serve and I think she nailed a

couple important things.

I agree about what Sanders brought though. He went straight down the list of so much of the hypocrisy, lies and omissions that Trump has engaged in in that SOTU and his Presidency, and he delivered it with the proper righteous indignation. Also lets be fair, Abrams had 10 minutes. Sanders rebuttal is much longer. That's the advantage of offering an additional rebuttal on a different platform.

[OliverQ]

24. Abrams response was excellent. No clue what you're talking about.

[DemKittyNC]

26. Sanders an A?

WTF?

I am so sick of him.

[smirkymonkey]

27. +1000

I know. What a joke!

[JCanete]

32. I'm assuming you didn't listen to his response...and yet you took issue with the rating? That is

priceless. A + + + + + + + + +

[DemKittyNC]

35. You assumed wrong

I did listen to his response. I didn’t need the SOTU mansplained to me but he obliged to none the less. Thanks Bernie! As a simple, silly woman - I needed that.

[JCanete]

37. so what about it was mansplaining? Could you walk me through how simply by being a man speaking

to Trump's policies and rhetoric is mansplaining?

I am impressed, that as tired as you are of Sanders and his "mansplaining" by talking to national issues, not a man's take on women's issues, nor to women about issues, nor for a woman on her behalf, etc. (yet its still mansplaining somehow) that you still decided to listen to his whole speech. Thank you for your sacrifice. I look forward to your slightly more detailed critique.

[mr_lebowski]

38. You obviously did not actually listen ...

There was ZERO mansplaining.

[Gothmog]

53. How many people bothered to listen or watch this speech

in 2018 I saw that only 2 million watched and I thought that was high even though it was less than 1% of the US population

[David__77]

29. I think Sanders and Abrams are both great.

...

[aidbo]

31. Yeah, but I'd rate them F, A, A+. Didn't watch Kamala Harris sorry.

[gopiscrap]

34. Trump D-

Abrams A-
Sanders B

[mr_lebowski]

39. I'd agree with your edited grades ...

I give Bernie an extra full mark because his speech was a RESPONSE, whereas Abrams was 'The Democratic SOTU'. It was not truly a response. Hers was 100% pre-written, and possibly pre-recorded.

Whereas Bernie's was live ... although I'm sure a fair bit was pre-written just because you KNEW ... Trump wouldn't mention ... 95% of what Bernie said he wouldn't mention, which was a big part of his address. But there were also many elements of what Trump DID mention, which means it wasn't all pre-done. HIs team basically did a phenomenal job of having his address and rebuttal points ready.

I enjoyed both, but loved Bernie's ... a fair bit more. No bash on Abrams intended, she also did great. Bernie's crew had quite a bit more time to pull it together as well. When you go RIGHT after like Stacey did, it's a different deal.

[quickesst]

40. My grades

Drump- repuglican party----- D-

Abrams- Democratic Party----A+

Sanders- Chameleon Party----

[Trumpocalypse]

41. Col. Sanders?

I thought he was dead.

[MyNameGoesHere]

42. Trump - F, Abrams - A, Sanders - I

I rewatched Sanders and cannot give even a D. He just isn't at a D, my I grade stands.

[jcgoldie]

49. nice

[SidDithers]

43. Edit: ...

Sid

[betsuni]

44. I didn't understand Sanders' comments.

He listed progressive things the majority of Americans want, then said Congress isn't doing what the American people want because of moneyed interests, Wall Street, Big drug companies, corporations, fossil fuel industries, the billionaire class who are paid off.

"They have the money, we have the people." "They" are Republicans.

[Ron Green]

51. Isn't that very much the state of the Union at this time?

The people’s wishes and needs are going unmet, and there are specific reasons for this.

[Arazi]

45. I liked all 3 responses by Harris, Abrams and Sanders

We're damn lucky to have all of them out there

[Apollyonus]

46. bwahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

47. OKAY THEN

[Tarc]

50. According to who, the Jackpine Radicals?

Ok, buddy.