I am good and goddamned sick and tired of reading or hearing the following clause:

[Martin Eden]

36. Either way, whatever the Democrats do will garner attention

And that attention will be in the context of Trump. I think turned backs then a walkout would be a much more public slap in his face, but getting every Democrat on board to do that could be difficult.

Probably more doable for D leadership in both houses to call for a boycott, but leave it up to each member to decide whether or not to attend. As it becomes increasingly apparent the majority will NOT attend, those who do will stick out and come under intense criticism from their voting base -- incentive to join the boycott.

AFAIK, a SotU boycott has never happened before. Mainstream media talking heads would probably clutch their pearls and decry such a brazen breach of tradition and decorum. To that I say F&@# THEM! They made this nightmare possible with bothsideserism and normalizing the greatest threat to our Constitutional democracy since the Civil War.

The ABSOLUTE WORST THING our elected Democrats could do is sit there as The Fascist Grifter spews lies and insults while Republicans applaud and give him standing ovations.

If this ruins the SotU presentation going forward, so be it. That spectacle has been a farce of fake decorum and partisan political engineering far too long. Let's have some old fashioned honesty, and fight Truth Decay by refusing to give any credibility to the most egregious LIAR and deplorable POtuS ever to dishoner the once great United States.