Well I trusted my instincts and they proved me right AGAIN!!!

[Peacetrain]

Did not watch the address last night, because I told my husband, they are going to try and put lipstick on that pig of an agenda they are pushing.. and reading the comments this morning.. yep.. my instincts have held me up well.. once again..

Just saying..

Good Morning DU..

[C_U_L8R]

1. The Democrats weren't buying it

But apparently Trump's threats to the media are having their intended effect.

[Peacetrain]

2. I have not turned the TV on this AM..

My husband watched it.. and I just could not look at him, after all the damage he has done and the things he has said..

[Scarsdale]

29. Agreed

He is so repulsive I can not watch. The gop are protecting him, just as they protected their Saint Ronnie as he slipped away.

[anglesphere]

3. Hmm..

What are your thoughts on Bitcoin?

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. Good morning Peacetrain - same here..I refused to watch a

bloviating buffoon..who just wants to prove a point, "see Obama, this IS easy.." and hurt the American people..ply on our sympathies with meaningless empathy for the family of a slain military man whose death he is responsible for yet takes no responsibility....

There is NOTHING in this presidency or republican congress that is FOR the American people..we must remain focused...once sanctions are removed from Russia..that will be the defining moment...we will go to war - for greed! That is the moment I will be in the crowd, on the street....shouting NO WAR with all my being....

The media MUST stay on the Russian-trump connection....

[Peacetrain]

5. Amen to that asilive...

[DK504]

26. Ditto as.

One thing I noticed on the bits of listening to the response in appualse from Rethugs was much weaker than any of President Obama's SOTU speechs. Is it just me?

[bigbrother05]

31. Also, nowhere near the crush to shake his hand coming or going

Even the GOP were reluctant to get close. At best one deep along the aisles and plenty of time for mindless pleasantries with each one.

eta: Did our own version of MST3K and laughed at the faux normalcy he worked so hard to project. Thought it was particularly funny them showing him mouthing his speech in the limo on the way to the Capitol.

[Sherman A1]

6. Frankly what other choice did they have?

At some point the tone had to soften, the policies and budget will be what tells us the reality.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Yup

His policies and budget will show us all "what's in his heart"

[MFM008]

27. What's in his heart?

It should be a wooden stake.

[humbled_opinion]

7. Pundits always try to

Clean up what the buffoon says, my take: speech filled with empty promises and wrong way ideas. We must never give in resist on all fronts, the future depends our our actions.

[Peacetrain]

8. true that!!

[barbtries]

10. oh yeah.

i knew i couldn't watch him. i told my co-worker don't worry i'll learn what he said.

[Peacetrain]

11. I still have not turned on the TV.. because of the fawning I am reading about

My guess is that people are looking for anything to find a normalcy in the nuttiness of the last month..

[barbtries]

12. i kept music on in the car on the way to work.

i just had a feeling it wouldn't be healthy to listen to NPR today.

i did watch Stephen Colbert's live response though.

what a nightmare. we're living a nightmare.

[Peacetrain]

13. Nightmare is the word for it

[nikibatts]

14. I felt the same way.

I hate when they do stuff you know they don't mean and the media and other fools buy it.

If he keeps this new MO up, though, it will be much more difficult to get our voters back. I just don't see those jobs coming back in those blood red states as he promised. But if he keeps with this new image they will not notice that they are being screwed.

[world wide wally]

15. I stopped watching cable news election night, but started watching again when the batlle

With the press erupted about a month ago. Skipped the Orange Menace last night, tuned in for some of the post speech commentary.
Looks like it might be time to give it up again.

[drm604]

16. I can't bring myself to watch that fool.

If he comes on the TV I mute it or change the channel. I can't stand to watch him.

[OliverQ]

17. Disgusted by all the praise he's getting

A speech read off a teleprompter devoid of facts and substance, while using a war widow as a prop made him same somewhat human for 1 hour, and suddenly everyone is praising him as the greatest thing since FDR. It's disgusting. These people are so freakin gullible.

This country is doomed when this is all it takes to ignore the man is committing treason and destroying the country.

[dalton99a]

25. +1

[Blaukraut]

18. Same here. The pundits can't help themselves.

They have no idea how to deal with a maniac like Trump. Actually having to drop any decorum and practicing real journalism is alien to this new breed of "access is everything" bootlickers. They were desperate for an opportunity to normalize Trump, and that opportunity presented itself last night on a silver platter.

[kimbutgar]

19. A friend called me last night she told me she watching it

I told her I was passing up on it. She called me later and said she could only stand it for 5 minutes and threw her shoe at the tv.

I was glad I passed. Watched an episode on BBC of planet earth 2 which was more interesting.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. The way I look at it, Trump is leaving a textbook trail of whatever brand of political mutant he is.

So, we will have to go through several of these controlled, orchestrated performances before people begin to realize that they need to watch what he does, not what he says.

I say that, knowing that there are 40% of the American population who are perfectly fine with his anglo-centric agenda.

[Kimchijeon]

21. yep, normalizing the fascism and sucking up

disgusting behavior by the corporate MSM, big shockaroo.

[ananda]

22. Good!

45 doesn't deserve any attention from the public.

He already gets too much from the media and the Reeps.

[logosoco]

23. I watched it on CSPAN to avoid all the extra talk.

It was still a rough speech to watch. When I told my husband I was going to try and watch it, he said "If I have to watch Trump I am going to have to get drunk. Hey, that rhymes!"

I had to look away from the screen often, especially when I knew "the wall" was coming.

In the whole speech, I think there was ONE mention of the environment and it was somehow lumped in with "women's health" and then it was back to fear, war, build up the military!

[marlakay]

24. Its not us I worry about

My daughter late 30's not into politics but does vote every 2 yrs, called me about my visit to her and when I mentioned I didn't watch Trump she said I didn't plan to but I did.

She lives in nice apt building with small gym in it, when she got there a guy had it turned on so she watched it. Said it sounded ok to her.

When I said it was a bunch of lies she says lets not talk politics and changes subject.

I barely got her to vote for Hillary she was almost swayed by Trumps lies.

And my daughter isn't dumb, just busy manager who doesn't watch news, doesn't want to be negative and worry.

If your not fact checking like us his promises sound good to people. It makes me want to scream!!

[dobleremolque]

28. I also didn't watch, either.

Your instincts are not dissimilar to mine. And probably a lot of people, too. Trying to keep breakfast down as I scroll through my daily morning reading list......

[sellitman]

30. Cheeto Face blackout here

Didn't go near my TV or my radio until the coast was clear.

My blood pressure thanks me.