Category: StateoftheUnion

Live coverage of impeached president’s State of the Union speech, #2

Posted on by Joan McCarter

The bad reading job of "meticulous and carefully honed" words appearing on a teleprompter by impeached president Donald Trump continues.

Chat amongst yourselves about it here. Watch on every national broadcast channel, the cable news channels, C-SPAN, or your choice of news outlets on YouTube.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:06:01 AM +00:00 · Barbara Morrill

Ongoing coverage can be found here.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:38:38 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

He actually says this. "NO PARENT should be forced to send their child to a failing government school.” Government. School. Fuck you, impeached president. And fuck you more for exploiting a young person of color in this.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:39:58 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

The announcement on a scholarship for Janiyah Davis was not in Trump's prepared remarks

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:40:34 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter Secretary of Education standing up, smiling and applauding him talking about failing government schools.  Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:42:46 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

You knew that was coming—protecting patients with pre-existing conditions. WHILE HE’S SUING IN FEDERAL COURT TO HAVE IT DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:43:06 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Also, he’s trying to take away people’s Social Security disability.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:45:16 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

WALK OUT DEMOCRATS. WALK OUT RIGHT NOW!

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:47:22 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Pelosi mouths "Not true" twice when Trump asserted Democrats wanted to give taxpayer funded health care to undocumented immigrants

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:48:00 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

They should really walk out of the room, but this is something.

Dems are now chanting HR 3 � their drug pricing bill. Trump is trying to talk over them

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:50:03 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Rush. Fucking. Limbaugh. Rush. Fucking. Limbaugh.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:52:36 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

So, Susan Collins, about that Trump learning from being impeached and modifying his behavior. What do you say tonight?

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:54:23 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Melania Trump giving racist Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the same #SOTU speech where Trump tries to use black people as props for his political agenda is offensive.

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:56:17 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Now we’re onto the forced birther part of the speech. After he touted taking food away from 7 million people. Cuz he’s pro-life.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:58:02 AM +00:00 · Gabe Ortiz

None of the Republicans who are standing up to clap for anti-abortions legislation did anything when there were babies in cages and dying at the hands of ICE and CBP. That tells you everything you need to know about their "values" #SOTU

— Bruna B. Sollod (@brunasollod) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 2:58:04 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Oh, hey. It’s infrastructure week again.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:02:03 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

We’re back to the horrifically racist shit and reveling in gore and violence again, to talk about immigration and sanctuary cities. Fucking monster.

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:02:24 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter A rapist talking about how awful another rapist is. Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:02:36 AM +00:00 · Gabe Ortiz

Trump back to scaring folks about so-called “sanctuary cities.” The truth: 

These policies don�t give immigrants special protections; they ensure they have basic constitutional rights that can�t be trampled on and focus law enforcement resources on protecting local communities instead of on jailing families and separating children.#sotu #sotu2020

— Battle Born Progress (@BattleBornProg) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:03:04 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

these illegal alien snuff film incitement passages are always a disgrace

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:03:28 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

We are now onto late-term abortion and we've lost another Democratic congressmember. @RepSpeier has left the chamber, folks. �

— Kadia Goba (@kadiagoba) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:04:10 AM +00:00 · Gabe Ortiz

We are hearing, again, as in previous #SOTU, horrible stories that distort a reality � immigrants, with or without papers, commit less crime than people born in the United States.

— Monica Campbell (@monica_campbell) February 5, 2020

Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020 · 3:05:19 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter

Do you suppose Trump will next talk about all the people killed and hurt by the massive rise in white supremacist violence. No? Okay. #SOTU

— Arshad Hasan (@ArshadHasan) February 5, 2020

Trump, ‘deeply gifted orator’ his staff says, delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday night

Posted on by Joan McCarter

So this is happening as scheduled, even though this is already the worst week of the century and the last thing anyone needs. Impeached president Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 9 PM ET. It will be on every network as well as the regular cable news outlets and C-SPAN. You can watch and mock along with your friends here at Daily Kos, as well.

The White House is setting expectations insanely high as totalitarian regimes do, for this coming tour de force penned by dear leader himself. "The president is a best-selling author and deeply gifted orator who packs arenas and has a meticulous and carefully honed method for writing his speeches," Hogan Gidley, a White House lackey, said in a statement, "whether it be at a rally, a manufacturing plant opening or the State of the Union. What the American people hear is 100 percent President Trump's own words." That last sentence is possibly true.

Those "carefully honed" words will probably be about the economy, maybe about the coronavirus, probably about the new trade agreement, the United States Mexico Canada Agreement replacing NAFTA, and possibly the trade deal just signed with China. He may stay on script and ignore impeachment. He may do anything because when you're a celebrity, you can do anything.

The Democratic responses will come from rising-star Democratic women. Michigan's first-term Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver the English-language response. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a freshman representing El Paso, Texas, will deliver the Spanish-language response.

Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar to give Spanish-language Democratic response to State of the Union

Posted on by Gabe Ortiz

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have announced that Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas will deliver the Spanish-language Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech next month.

“In the House of Representatives, she is making a difference for El Pasoans and for all Americans, as she fights to end the gun violence epidemic and to protect children and families at the southwest border,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Her values and vision beautifully represent our party and our country, and we look forward to hearing her positive message of progress.”

As noted by Pelosi in the statement, Escobar made history as one of the first Latinas to be elected to represent Texas in Congress, alongside her colleague (and manager in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial) Rep. Sylvia Garcia. Like many of her freshman colleagues, Escobar has made a powerful mark in Congress during her first year in office. 

Following the white supremacist terror attack in El Paso last year, Escobar filled the presidential void to become a comforter-in-chief to her distraught community while condemning the kind of rhetoric that influenced the attack. When Trump asked her to join him during his visit to El Paso, she declined, saying, “I refuse to be an accessory.” Escobar has also been a compassionate advocate for immigrant families, and has helped lead investigations into some of the most harmful anti-immigrant policies from the Trump administration. 

This past November, Escobar was elected by her colleagues as the newest member of the House Democratic leadership team. “Congresswoman Escobar’s election to the Democratic House leadership is monumental for Latino representation in Congress,” Latino Victory Project said at the time. “Since day one, Escobar established herself as a steadfast, hard-working leader in the freshman class, whose penchant for consensus-building did not go unnoticed.”

“I am honored to be delivering the Democratic Spanish-language response to President Trump’s State of the Union and look forward to addressing our nation on the progress Democrats have made For the People,” said Escobar in the statement.  “Our diversity is our strength.  Now more than ever, Democrats will continue to celebrate our diversity, defend our democracy, and work for a more equal and just nation.”