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****Speech Thread Number Two**** (Original Post) nolabear Mar 2025 OP
Starring Beachnutt Mar 2025 #1
It's like watching Scut Farkus and his toadies. nt dflprincess Mar 2025 #2
Now the tariffs. nolabear Mar 2025 #3
Unf'ckingbelivable is the only word I can find for it. He, and his cult, are delusional. CincyDem Mar 2025 #4
SOOOOO many words. SOOOOO little truth. nolabear Mar 2025 #6
and seriously this is a stump speech.....oh, right, he's running for a 3rd term. a kennedy Mar 2025 #5
No kidding. nolabear Mar 2025 #7
Third term????? bdamomma Mar 2025 #11
I love the American farmer...that's why I'm f'cking them so hard. Just wait. CincyDem Mar 2025 #8
Dirty and disgusting foreign produce Mossfern Mar 2025 #9
What is it with him and "have fun!"? nolabear Mar 2025 #14
Honestly it sounds like a threat Mossfern Mar 2025 #19
Not only is Trump stupid dflprincess Mar 2025 #10
"The fools who wrote the speech"? You mean Putin's speech writers? SupportSanity Mar 2025 #76
The imp behind trump cant stop smirking. And JD trying to look serious. IcyPeas Mar 2025 #12
Tariff tariff tariff "There'll be a little disturbance..." nolabear Mar 2025 #13
Had to give up. I'm 2 closed doors away yorkster Mar 2025 #15
Aaaaaasnd it's the borders and our children. nolabear Mar 2025 #16
Will he mention the Tates? dflprincess Mar 2025 #23
Yah, a little pissed the Dems haven't all just started yelling liar, thief, felon etc....... a kennedy Mar 2025 #17
Courage brettdale Mar 2025 #20
Courage brettdale Mar 2025 #21
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #18
Third Way is the new left wing party kwolf68 Mar 2025 #25
Do all R male congressmen part their hair on the left and Brylcream it down? scipan Mar 2025 #22
I just got home from a protest thinkingagain Mar 2025 #24
What an unmitigated shit that man is. Now attacking Biden nolabear Mar 2025 #26
Making me sick! The lies, the exaggeration. I wish his teleprompter would explode. IcyPeas Mar 2025 #34
We need another Dem to pull an Al Green. They are being too quiet to these lies! SunSeeker Mar 2025 #27
I keep watching hoping he goes off script dflprincess Mar 2025 #28
+1 nt cliffside Mar 2025 #32
Theatrics about signing an order naming a wildlife refuge nolabear Mar 2025 #29
until he cuts it down for lumber Mossfern Mar 2025 #33
I hope he's still selling Trump coins, I really want one. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #38
LOL--even Gingrich looks bored. nolabear Mar 2025 #30
Newt I thought he was dead thinkingagain Mar 2025 #58
What is this "open border" Mossfern Mar 2025 #31
It's how they keep the cult living in fear Skittles Mar 2025 #110
His voice is sing-songy and phony. Hope it ends soon. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #35
I can't stand that sing-song speaking style PatSeg Mar 2025 #40
"Radical left lunatics" Lars39 Mar 2025 #36
Is Mike Johnson actually there dflprincess Mar 2025 #37
Oof. He's introducing half the gallery. nolabear Mar 2025 #39
Exactly PatSeg Mar 2025 #42
Exploitation on display. JohnnyLib2 Mar 2025 #43
How many trauma victims has he invited to stand for him, this is disgusting, esp using kids for props. :( nt cliffside Mar 2025 #41
He signed an EO requiring mandatory death penalty for anyone who shoots a police officer. scipan Mar 2025 #44
Oh brother...making a kid with cancer an honorary SS agent. nolabear Mar 2025 #45
Sweet kid though Avalon Sparks Mar 2025 #48
It was stupid for the Democrats not to clap for this kid cabotnn22 Mar 2025 #77
Yup Avalon Sparks Mar 2025 #107
You were right. The press secretary just listed all the times they didnt clap... IcyPeas Mar 2025 #113
He cut funding for pediatric child cancer. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #46
Welp, we're at 90 minutes and school transitioning kids. nolabear Mar 2025 #47
Need a refill of my drink. nt cliffside Mar 2025 #50
I just started PatSeg Mar 2025 #55
It can't be too much longer Mossfern Mar 2025 #53
Getting rid of "wokeness" Mossfern Mar 2025 #49
Back to trans people AGAIN. scipan Mar 2025 #51
This is what the dems should be screaming!! IcyPeas Mar 2025 #52
Please be over soon. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #54
A long shitshow zeusdogmom Mar 2025 #56
Hah! I was just going to say, "What a shitshow!" PatSeg Mar 2025 #57
Claiming the Panama Canal Lars39 Mar 2025 #59
Okay Donald, put it on your collector card and sell a digital version for $99. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #63
Seriously! Lars39 Mar 2025 #67
"We want to protect our citizens like never before." Bluepinky Mar 2025 #60
Great. Panama Canal. It's just for us, nobody else! nolabear Mar 2025 #61
Eff your iron dome Watchfoxheadexplodes Mar 2025 #62
Greenland! Lars39 Mar 2025 #64
Greenland."One way or another we're going to get it." nolabear Mar 2025 #65
Yeah, bet they can't wait to be ruled by King Donald. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #71
Menacing look from Dear Leader re Greenland. nt cliffside Mar 2025 #85
reclaiming th panama canal? Mossfern Mar 2025 #66
Blackrock deal announced today, lots of money in private equity. nt cliffside Mar 2025 #70
That smile on Marco vanished so quickly lol SunImp Mar 2025 #68
Yup. He is not happy. Lars39 Mar 2025 #69
He just said we're taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland, "one way or another." nt SunSeeker Mar 2025 #72
I just swore at the TV PatSeg Mar 2025 #94
Referring to Warren as Pocahontas again Lars39 Mar 2025 #73
Just called Senator Warren Pocahontas. nolabear Mar 2025 #74
All the Dems should have walked out young_at_heart Mar 2025 #111
Im loving reading the comments on BlueSky's "Whats Hot Classic" page. IcyPeas Mar 2025 #75
Here Beringia Mar 2025 #82
Thank you. Where did you grab that link? I couldn't find it... IcyPeas Mar 2025 #101
I went to BlueSky and looked up Beringia Mar 2025 #109
Ahh, thank you .... I think they need to add a share link . IcyPeas Mar 2025 #112
He's touting a supposed letter from Zelenskyy nolabear Mar 2025 #78
Talking about Ukraine now, he's rambling. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #79
Now the assassination story. nolabear Mar 2025 #80
"Saved by God to make America great again" dflprincess Mar 2025 #87
LOL... somehow, DU folks make me find humor in the worst of times. FemDemERA Mar 2025 #81
well, crap, happened again. My response was for something several posts back... guess I'm too slow. FemDemERA Mar 2025 #88
That's okay. The shit's flowing fast.😄 nolabear Mar 2025 #91
He need not remind us the assassination attempt failed. We're living it. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #83
+ 1000 nt cliffside Mar 2025 #95
OMFG Mossfern Mar 2025 #84
"I was saved by God to MAGA." nolabear Mar 2025 #86
Definitely the other guys work SunImp Mar 2025 #93
God thought I should live. Too bad for your husband though SunImp Mar 2025 #89
Okay, I'm done, will have to miss the highlights. Bluepinky Mar 2025 #90
Sounds like he's winding down Mossfern Mar 2025 #92
Yeah ***soaring rhetoric*** almost done. scipan Mar 2025 #96
Dangerous Delusional Don JohnnyLib2 Mar 2025 #97
Coming up on two hours. He's wrapping up. nolabear Mar 2025 #98
Panama, Greenland... Dear_Prudence Mar 2025 #99
SMU 67 Syracuse 72 3:22 left. jls4561 Mar 2025 #100
Slotkin promises to be a lot shorter than what we just watched. Heh scipan Mar 2025 #102
1st up: tax cuts to the rich. scipan Mar 2025 #103
She's good. Down to earth. scipan Mar 2025 #104
She is good. Calling him out in simple fashion. nolabear Mar 2025 #105
I hope people are still watching. Man, was she ever brief! scipan Mar 2025 #108
How to keep democracy. 3 points. Speak out, organize. scipan Mar 2025 #106

a kennedy

(35,859 posts)
5. and seriously this is a stump speech.....oh, right, he's running for a 3rd term.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:01 PM
Mar 2025

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 Isn’t there a middle finger emoji??? Oh please can’t we get one??? P. L. E. A. S. E

Mossfern

(4,702 posts)
9. Dirty and disgusting foreign produce
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:05 PM
Mar 2025

Still ragging on Biden.
Farmers will hurt for a bit ..... but it will be alright.
They should 'have fun'

dflprincess

(29,326 posts)
10. Not only is Trump stupid
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:05 PM
Mar 2025

but the fools who wrote the speech may be even dumber. Real "low IQ" types.

SupportSanity

(1,579 posts)
76. "The fools who wrote the speech"? You mean Putin's speech writers?
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:49 PM
Mar 2025

Some of the context might not have come through after it was translated into English from its original Russian.

yorkster

(3,800 posts)
15. Had to give up. I'm 2 closed doors away
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:09 PM
Mar 2025

from the telly. I was getting so angry at the social security stream of age lies.
The Dems should walk out.
My sweetie has a thicker skin. I was getting too angry at the lies and the potshots at Joe Biden.

Damn this man and his enablers.

dflprincess

(29,326 posts)
23. Will he mention the Tates?
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:12 PM
Mar 2025

Doubtful but perhaps one of the Democrats should ask - loudly.

a kennedy

(35,859 posts)
17. Yah, a little pissed the Dems haven't all just started yelling liar, thief, felon etc.......
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:10 PM
Mar 2025

Response to nolabear (Original post)

kwolf68

(8,450 posts)
25. Third Way is the new left wing party
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:14 PM
Mar 2025

We only want to kill 60% of people over 90. And oh yea, your body my choice. Bring in that corporate booty. Democrats are so dead until further notice. This party is incredible. JUST LOOK AT your forefathers and fight against the oligarchs and for the working class. The fact the working class is now Republican is negligence.

scipan

(3,025 posts)
22. Do all R male congressmen part their hair on the left and Brylcream it down?
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:11 PM
Mar 2025

Just noticing.

thinkingagain

(1,350 posts)
24. I just got home from a protest
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:14 PM
Mar 2025

I just can’t watch
I just can’t watch.
I just can’t watch.
I peeked a couple of times at something someone posted
I just can’t watch
Thank you, brave souls who are watching and posting what’s happening for those that just can’t watch
Somebody please tell me when it’s over so I can watch the rebuttal

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
26. What an unmitigated shit that man is. Now attacking Biden
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:14 PM
Mar 2025

on border issues. Lying, smearing, lying some more, and still those enablers clap.

dflprincess

(29,326 posts)
28. I keep watching hoping he goes off script
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:17 PM
Mar 2025

so wildly even the Republians can't ignore it.

A girl can dream.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
29. Theatrics about signing an order naming a wildlife refuge
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:17 PM
Mar 2025

after a girl killed by a Venezuelan gang member.

Bluepinky

(2,543 posts)
38. I hope he's still selling Trump coins, I really want one.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:26 PM
Mar 2025

My husband wanted two Trump digital collector cards, but I told him he missed the boat. Wish I had purchased the ones of him as an astronaut and baseball player, what an investment.

Bluepinky

(2,543 posts)
35. His voice is sing-songy and phony. Hope it ends soon.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:20 PM
Mar 2025

I’m waiting to hear what Rachel has to say later.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
39. Oof. He's introducing half the gallery.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:26 PM
Mar 2025

It’s hard to not clap for victims of crimes. He’s using them.

cliffside

(1,692 posts)
41. How many trauma victims has he invited to stand for him, this is disgusting, esp using kids for props. :( nt
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:28 PM
Mar 2025

scipan

(3,025 posts)
44. He signed an EO requiring mandatory death penalty for anyone who shoots a police officer.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:29 PM
Mar 2025

Sounds illegal as hell. Those aren't even federal laws.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
45. Oh brother...making a kid with cancer an honorary SS agent.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:30 PM
Mar 2025

It would be nice if he wasn’t using the poor kid to tout Kennedy Jr.

Avalon Sparks

(2,748 posts)
48. Sweet kid though
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:32 PM
Mar 2025

All should have clapped, although a stunt, still happy for the little boy and his Dad.

cabotnn22

(152 posts)
77. It was stupid for the Democrats not to clap for this kid
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:49 PM
Mar 2025

A child with cancer getting an honorary badge is something you clap for - regardless if it was a stunt or not. The optics are bad.

IcyPeas

(25,385 posts)
113. You were right. The press secretary just listed all the times they didnt clap...
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 03:28 PM
Mar 2025

But said they all clapped for Ukraine... therefore they clapped for war

I'm pretty sure this will be the talking point on all the right wing news outlets.

Bluepinky

(2,543 posts)
46. He cut funding for pediatric child cancer.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:31 PM
Mar 2025

Then he has the nerve to a say that fighting childhood cancer is a top priority of his administration.

IcyPeas

(25,385 posts)
52. This is what the dems should be screaming!!
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:34 PM
Mar 2025
Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization


Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T02:35:11.737Z

Bluepinky

(2,543 posts)
54. Please be over soon.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:37 PM
Mar 2025

I’m going to take my dog for a walk, that’s a better use of my time.

zeusdogmom

(1,138 posts)
56. A long shitshow
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:37 PM
Mar 2025

Blathering, bloviating, liar going on 90 minutes plus. And he doesn’t appear to be running out of steam just yet.

Mossfern

(4,702 posts)
66. reclaiming th panama canal?
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:42 PM
Mar 2025

Where is he going to get funding for all this?

Now a potential war with Panama ....

I'm waiting for his meds to wear off an he gets exhausted and stops.
I think he gets energized by talking about himslef.

Ach now Greenland WTF.
Sounds like he's determined to take over Greenland - I wonder what Denmark thinks about that.

SunImp

(2,696 posts)
68. That smile on Marco vanished so quickly lol
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:43 PM
Mar 2025

If anything bad happens it's all on you lil Marco

young_at_heart

(4,033 posts)
111. All the Dems should have walked out
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 01:32 AM
Mar 2025

That sort of disrespect and rudeness doesn't belong EVER at a SOTU address. I want to throw up!!!!

IcyPeas

(25,385 posts)
75. Im loving reading the comments on BlueSky's "Whats Hot Classic" page.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:49 PM
Mar 2025

I don't see a way to share that though.

IcyPeas

(25,385 posts)
112. Ahh, thank you .... I think they need to add a share link .
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:09 AM
Mar 2025

Also if you click the # sign at the top right it shows you Your Feeds and under that it suggests other feeds.... but no simple way to share.

still learning.

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
78. He's touting a supposed letter from Zelenskyy
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:49 PM
Mar 2025

asking to open negotiations again. Of course he immediately says they have to get Russia to agree.

FemDemERA

(806 posts)
81. LOL... somehow, DU folks make me find humor in the worst of times.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:52 PM
Mar 2025

Honestly, thank you nolabear for this. Reading the running commentary sure beats watching it on CSPAN and having my blood pressure spike every 30 seconds!

FemDemERA

(806 posts)
88. well, crap, happened again. My response was for something several posts back... guess I'm too slow.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:55 PM
Mar 2025

Solly Mack

(96,863 posts)
83. He need not remind us the assassination attempt failed. We're living it.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:54 PM
Mar 2025

We know it failed.

Mossfern

(4,702 posts)
84. OMFG
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:54 PM
Mar 2025

He was saved by god to make america great again.
This speech is not about our nation - it's about him.

Bluepinky

(2,543 posts)
90. Okay, I'm done, will have to miss the highlights.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:56 PM
Mar 2025

A dog here needs a walk, far more important than hearing how America will be made great again.

Mossfern

(4,702 posts)
92. Sounds like he's winding down
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:56 PM
Mar 2025

to finish.

Definitely NOT written by him.
You can tell it's not his sing song

nolabear

(43,850 posts)
98. Coming up on two hours. He's wrapping up.
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 11:59 PM
Mar 2025

Democrats are leaving fast while the Repubs clap.

jls4561

(3,071 posts)
100. SMU 67 Syracuse 72 3:22 left.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 12:10 AM
Mar 2025

I hope the orange fat man ends his speech soon. I will be tempted to turn on Rachel after this game ends, and hearing “Joe Lunardi” and “they’re on the bubble is already making me nauseous.

scipan

(3,025 posts)
106. How to keep democracy. 3 points. Speak out, organize.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 12:20 AM
Mar 2025

I'm glad she's talking about it.

Wow, that's it. 11:20 est.

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