My analysis of Trump's SOTU speech.

[AC_Exotic]

Democrats hated the SOTU speech. Republicans liked it. I just saved you a lot of time in news and analysis. You’re welcome.

Same story every year no matter who is in office. You should thank me for saving you the time. Now you can use your more valuable time to watch cartoons.

 

[Headhunter]

Democrats hated the SOTU speech. Republicans liked it. I just saved you a lot of time in news and analysis. You’re welcome.

Same story every year no matter who is in office. You should thank me for saving you the time. Now you can use your more valuable time watching cartoons.

The only important fact in the SOTU is that independent voters overwhelmingly liked it. 73% that's huge and they are the ones who actually determine who is in power.

Personally I think a lot of them are people that don't pay attention or don't want to think through the issues and pick a side, but that's just the way it is.

 

[Headhunter]

 

[anon_xl72qcu5isp39]

Democrats hated the SOTU speech. Republicans liked it. I just saved you a lot of time in news and analysis. You’re welcome.

Same story every year no matter who is in office. You should thank me for saving you the time. Now you can use your more valuable time watching cartoons.

Right? Who cares? Like it matters about anything?

 

[AC_Exotic]

Right? Who cares? Like it matters about anything?

We already know pretty much what the POTUS is going to do. (Except him going far left on his DACA decision.)

It's just a big commercial for the administration. Always has been (at least in the age of TV).

 

[CowboyJD]

Didn’t watch.

Rarely do.

Thanks for the update,

 

[trapped_in_tx]

Didn’t watch.

Rarely do.

Thanks for the update,

I didn't watch either... Last one I saw in it's entirety was either Reagan, Bush the elder, or slick Willie.

But the play-by-play hysteria commentary was entertainment gold.

 

[Medic007]

I watched a little bit while channel flipping during the OU Baylor game. The SOTU is always an opportunity for the President's party to highlight successes and the upcoming challenges and needs. For the GOP, I think it was very effective in communicating their message, especially how the guests stories were used to illustrate accomplishments and needed work ahead.

The Democrats looked like pathetic road kill sitting on their asses.

 

[Been Jammin]

The Democrats looked like pathetic road kill sitting on their asses.

I'm sure that if Hillary had won, the GOP lawmakers would have been very animated and giving standing ovations.

 

[Ostatedchi]

Just like the past decade, I didn't watch a moment of the speech.

 

[AC_Exotic]

 

[Medic007]

I'm sure that if Hillary had won, the GOP lawmakers would have been very animated and giving standing ovations.

If they sat there all throughout like the Dims did, they'd look like pathetic road kill too. But thankfully we don't have to worry about what they would have done if Hillary was president.

 

[davidallen]

Democrats hated the SOTU speech. Republicans liked it. I just saved you a lot of time in news and analysis. You’re welcome.

Same story every year no matter who is in office. You should thank me for saving you the time. Now you can use your more valuable time to watch cartoons.

Good speech by a shitty POTUS. How’s that?

 

[davidallen]

I watched a little bit while channel flipping during the OU Baylor game. The SOTU is always an opportunity for the President's party to highlight successes and the upcoming challenges and needs. For the GOP, I think it was very effective in communicating their message, especially how the guests stories were used to illustrate accomplishments and needed work ahead.

The Democrats looked like pathetic road kill sitting on their asses.

Unpatriotic Gooner.

 

[davidallen]

The only important fact in the SOTU is that independent voters overwhelmingly liked it. 73% that's huge and they are the ones who actually determine who is in power.

Personally I think a lot of them are people that don't pay attention or don't want to think through the issues and pick a side, but that's just the way it is.

Got a source Sparky? That’s ridiculously high...

 

[trapped_in_tx]

Got a source Sparky? That’s ridiculously high...

 

[davidallen]

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Damn... gonna look at that in some depth.

 

[trapped_in_tx]

I was actually a bit surprised by this. I expected independent voters to be closer to 50/50.

It is a CBS news poll, so appropriate grain of salt required. I'm curious what other assessments of the reaction look like and I haven't had time to dig for any.

 

[Medic007]

I was actually a bit surprised by this. I expected independent voters to be closer to 50/50.

It is a CBS news poll, so appropriate grain of salt required. I'm curious what other assessments of the reaction look like and I haven't had time to dig for any.

I'm weirded out by the 43% Democrat number. Probably Russian Bots taking the poll.

 

[AC_Exotic]

Good speech by a shitty POTUS. How’s that?

He might just be a bad person -- but an effective POTUS.

That being said, you don't like truckloads of new jobs and a booming economy? I would have loved that to have happened under Obama.

 

[davidallen]

He might just be a bad person -- but an effective POTUS.

That being said, you don't like truckloads of new jobs and a booming economy? I would have loved that to have happened under Obama.

Ummm, it did. It still is.

 

[davidallen]

I was actually a bit surprised by this. I expected independent voters to be closer to 50/50.

It is a CBS news poll, so appropriate grain of salt required. I'm curious what other assessments of the reaction look like and I haven't had time to dig for any.

There’s this: http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...union-garners-lowest-positive-reaction-in-two

 

[AC_Exotic]

Ummm, it did. It still is.

Really?

What specifically did Obama do to create that booming economy?

(I think Trump's tariffs have a chance to hamstring the current economy, fwiw.)

 

[trapped_in_tx]

Fake image?

I have no clue - I just saw it posted in another thread and spent zero time verifying. I grabbed it because I presumed that was the source of headhunter's number.

And I'm not clicking another link to thehill.com. I think it gave my phone AIDS.

 

[trapped_in_tx]

Really?

What specifically did Obama do to create that booming economy?

(I think Trump's tariffs have a chance to hamstring the current economy, fwiw.)

Current tariffs or additional tariffs?

The stuff with the washing machines and solar panels is small potatoes and unlikely to change much. If he keeps going I'll concede things could get interesting.

 

[davidallen]

Really?

What specifically did Obama do to create that booming economy?

(I think Trump's tariffs have a chance to hamstring the current economy, fwiw.)

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...d-trump-inherit-mess-8-charts-show-otherwise/

 

[AC_Exotic]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...d-trump-inherit-mess-8-charts-show-otherwise/

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-mess-trump-inherited-is-real/

 

[davidallen]

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-mess-trump-inherited-is-real/

Old articles both... lets look at stats of '16 v. '17:

• Labor participation rate at 62.7% in Q417 - the same as Q416. Even with higher demand, labor participation is stagnant as Boomers opt out.
• Trade deficit swells +11% '16 to '17.
• Avg job creation under DJT is 167k for '17 - under BHO in '16 it was 213k.
• Stock gains roughly following a familiar trajectory. 24% S&P gain in DJTs first hear compared to 166% gains in the BHO years.
• Federal debt +3 pts.
• Food stamp recipients +3 mln
• Consumer confidence down 4.1 pts since DJT inauguration.

 

[Headhunter]

Got a source Sparky? That’s ridiculously high...

As has been pointed out it's been all over the news Ignoramus.

 

[davidallen]

As has been pointed out it's been all over the news Ignoramus.

Thanks ****tard

 

[BluegrassPoke]

There’s this: http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...union-garners-lowest-positive-reaction-in-two

I stopped reading at CNN. Fake news.

 

[GunsOfFrankEaton]

Really?

What specifically did Obama do to create that booming economy?

(I think Trump's tariffs have a chance to hamstring the current economy, fwiw.)

Obama left office and made way for a regulation exterminator and tax cutter. Let's give him credit.

 

[Medic007]

Obama left office and made way for a regulation exterminator and tax cutter. Let's give him credit.

This. And he left no doubt as to what incompetence and poor leadership looked like.

Thanks Obama!

 

[JimmyBob]

Didn’t watch.

Rarely do.

Thanks for the update,

Late, but it's great to have a limp-dick home bball game to fill in the blanks.

 

[CowboyJD]

Late, but it's great to have a limp-dick home bball game to fill in the blanks.

I read some comic books I had been meaning to get to, but hadn’t had the time.

True story.

 

[JimmyBob]

I read some comic books I had been meaning to get to, but hadn’t had the time.

True story.

I thought about touching the poodle in strange places, but the competent adult supervisor wouldn't leave the room, so I was stuck with dog biscuit hoops.