Drunkblogging the State of the Union
The problem with the response to the SOTU is it always looks smaller — no matter how much bigger the man.
So I’m going to do Marco Rubio, for whom I have a great deal of respect, a favor by not drunkblogging his official response.
I’m watching right now, and I like wait I see. But if the SOTU has become a gimmick, and it has, then the official response is a kind of a cheap gimmick. And that has nothing to do with the person delivering it, and everything to do with the absurd circus American politics has become.
Thanks, Senator, for throwing yourself on this grenade. But you aren’t saving or helping anyone.
“Smart government” should have long ago eclipsed “military intelligence” as our favorite oxymoron.
You know what else is deficit-neutral? Not spending more money.
Just a thought.
BREAKING: Chris Dorner is confirmed dead, but too late for President Obama to use the State of the Union to dance around the corpse.
It’s over.
I suppose I ought to stick around for Marco Rubio’s response.
Hey, where’s the shoutout for retired SSG Clint Romesha, who you just pinned a MOH on yesterday?
But how many times did she vote? That’s what I want to know.
Playing to the base, knowing it will go nowhere, making the GOP look like killers.
So old. So obvious. So effective.
This is the ugliest/stupidest thing I’ve seen in 11 years of blogging, and I spent most of those covering George W. Freaking Bush. I know from stupid.
“Gabby Giffords deserves a vote.”
WTF? Did she move and forget to re-register?
If it saves the life of just one child… ban swimming pools.
If Obama mentions Chicago here, take a shot — of heroin.
The closeup on Diane Feinstein reveals that she knows she’s already lost.
And that’s the kind of thing that fills my heart with happy.
Here comes the non-starter gun-control portion of the speech.
I am so proud of that last item, I can hardly contain myself. Seriously, I’m totally ditching my pants.
“Improve the voting experience in America.”
My own modest proposal? A two-drink minimum.
So here’s where Obama proposes things to stop Republicans from stealing losing elections.
I thought after 30 years of watching and covering the news that I knew what boilerplate was. And then Obama started talking foreign policy.
“We’ll remain the anchor of alliances.”
The big, heavy thing that sinks?
We’re going to make Africa rich. With partnerships. And comprehensiveness.
Comprehensive! Partnership! Europe!
This is the Progressive version of 50 Shades of Gray.
I’m more bored than drunk. And that’s saying something.
Anonymous is gonna be pissed…
Um… Mr. President? Russia doesn’t honestly care about our nukes.
We’re going to stop Iran from getting nukes. Because coalition. So there.
Wow. John Kerry has a very good Serious Face. We’d better get used to that.
“No one should take my word for it.”
I’m laughing like the Joker and crying like Smokey Robinson.
Um… Mr. President? It was the French who invaded Mali. But I do understand your confusion.
“The organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self.”
Did I already mention Ambassador Stevens?
“By this time next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.”
Huh. The speech was only nine minutes late.
We beat al Qaeda! Ambassador Stevens will be so happy to hear that.
“Do more to encourage fatherhood.”
Maybe we could start by not paying for other people’s condoms.
Just a thought.
“Let’s offer incentives,” says the man who was just bemoaning tax loopholes.
“Let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living.”
Let’s tie our testicles to a large rock, then throw the large rock off a high bridge.
Unemployment is too high. So we’re going to raise the minimum wage.
Did I already tell my Mizzou drunk story?
Sandra Fluke is so excited right now, her heels are touching the ceiling.
OK, low bar.
“But we can’t stop there.”
Correction: THAT is what I’m afraid of.
“Let’s get it done.”
That, Mr. President, is what I’m afraid of.
Dude, you reversed illegal crossings back into Mexico.
The only big applause line tonight, the only one, was the one on “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Pretty sure that one’s pavlovian, too.
“We’ve made college more affordable.”
There was this night my sophomore year at Mizzou when I got so drunk at this frat party I crashed, that I found myself in my dorm shower at 3AM, fully dressed, with the water on all-cold, screaming, “GET THE POISON OUT OF MY BODY.”
True story.
But I feel more sick now after that bit about college costs.
That “smarter curricula” has all but eliminated algebra for eight-graders.
Because math am hard.
Head Start saves money! SPEND MOAR MONIES TO SAVE MOAR MONIES.
If Orwell were writing 2084, there’d be a ministry pyramid with “Spending is Saving” carved into it.
SPEND MOAR HEADSTART!
Totally did not see that one coming.
Hey, if he can rerun proposals, I can rerun gags.
“Let’s streamline the process,” says the guy who confessed he didn’t know that shovel-ready jobs weren’t shovel-ready.
The guy who brags about Dood-Frank (well, not bragging about it tonight) is complaining people can’t get credit.
Did I already make the joke about the trash guys and my liquor bottles?
Huh. Infrastructure spending. Totally did not see that one coming.
Obama fix bridges.
Wow. He almost got a laugh line there.
Almost.
Seriously, the rest of this drunkblog could consist of nothing more than the world’s longest, sustained F-bomb, and I’d feel like I earned my paycheck.
All that new oil production Obama had nothing to do with, and yet has been bragging about? He just proposed taxing it.
There are not enough swear words.
Hee-hee. I must be drunk, because I swear I just heard Obama say something about cutting red tape.
If Congress wants to “protect future generations,” they’ll stop spending money we don’t have, Mr. President.
I’m hearing an awful lot of spending proposals Obama wants to take credit for, and an awful lot of vague spending “reforms” for which he’ll blame Congress — whether they pass or not.
Five SOTUs is apparently my Obama limit. This could get ugly.
Whew. OK. Bear with me. I need to calm down.
Investments. Green energy. Human genome. Brains and organs. Batteries.
Stop. Just stop. You want to invest, invest some of your own considerable book royalties, you grifting one-percenter.
Great. Fifteen government-industrial hubs. I suppose they’ll be connected by high-speed trains. Which Obama will make run on time.
Correction: Apple will start making some Mac Minis in America again. From components produced in Asia, where it’s still legal to produce circuit boards.
Even the Democrats — while giving a standing O — look like, “Four more years, really? WTF?”
American Jobs Act!
Holy cow, I knew this speech was going to be a retread, but I wouldn’t have even remembered this one if he hadn’t brought it up.
Boehner looks stoned. I wish I were.
OMG. “The greatest nation on earth cannot continue drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.”
This is like me berating the trash guys for all the empty liquor bottles they haul away from the end of my drive.
This is the guy who sabotaged every attempt at tax reform, now claiming the tax reform mantel. The audacity of bullshit, it never ceases to amaze.
Huh. I can’t prove anything for sure, but I somehow get the impression he’s reading off a teleprompter.
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The class warfare. I cannot take much more of it.
“I am open to additional reforms from both parties…”
This will play out like immigration reform. Tell Congress to come up with something, sabotage the results, then blame the Republicans for obstructionism.
Whoa… NOW he’s willing to embrace Simpson-Bowles?
I’ll believe that when he plays real cards on the table. In the meantime, I believe you’ll find Simpson and Bowles in the same closet where Obama locked them three years ago.
“We can’t cut our way to prosperity.”
But we can spend our way there! Hoo-ahh!
“The need for modest reforms” to Medicare.
But we’re going to make the rich pay more. Again.
Biden heard applause and woke up. It’s pavlovian.
Um… Mr. President, who suggested the sequester?
Faced with actual cuts, real cuts in real time, Obama blinks. And he’s the one who proposed them.
Ha! Fake 2.5 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade takes us halfway to solvency.
We’re gonna need more zeroes.
We need to make “basic decisions about our budget.”
Enacting one might be a start.
“The American public doesn’t expect the government to solve every problem.” But I get the feeling that’s not going to stop him from trying.
He’s going to open doors For The Children™.
I think we’re supposed to grow the economy from the middle out, but I’m not sure how that squares with Michelle’s diet plans for us all.
Crap. He’s not finished with the economy.
“We have cleared away the rubble of crisis.” Now we just need to clear away the behemoth of ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank.
Wait, what?
We’re buying more American cars and less foreign oil!
Frackin’-a.
“Our brave men and women are coming home.”
We still don’t have an explanation for the additional 100,000 that were sent to Afghanistan, but at least they’re coming home.
“There is much progress to report.”
We’re starting with a JFK reference. “Partners for progress.”
Biden looks like he’s already asleep.
Remember: Refresh with the blue Updates bar instead of the refresh button. You’ll help save our servers.
Biden and Boehner have just been awarded fabulous consolation prizes.
Here we go…
The green ribbon is for Sandy Hook, I’m told.
Boomark this for later: http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2013/02/obama-must-confront-ha-ha-ha-ha.html
Dear Wolf Blitzer: This circus is NOT mandated by the Constitution. And that’s not a partisan complaint, either. I invented drunkblogging when Bush was giving one of his many clusterfudge speeches.
What does the green ribbon represent? Biden and Reid are each wearing one, so maybe it’s some sort of Mormon/Irish unity thing.
Blue tie? Blue tie.
Only nine or so minutes late.
For those who are wondering, I’ve already segued to scotch. Sinatra to follow.
My lord, but Jennifer Granholm is a well-programmed progbot.
No, I don’t actually have an embargoed transcript of the President’s speech. But if I did, it would say, “I SPEND ALL THE MONIES!”
It looks like if you hit that blue “update” bar, it only updates the new posts, instead of the whole page. That’s going to be much nicer to the Amiga 500 they run my drunkblogs on, so please hit the blue bar instead of refresh.
Should the worst happen, prepare yourself for President Chu.
Correction: Second worst.
I should note that Medal of Honor recipient, Clinton Romesha, declined Michelle Obama’s invitation to sit with her here tonight.
A failed governor, a failed presidential candidate, a failed advisor, and somebody I can only sort-of recognize. These are our betters according to CNN.
Drink up, folks.
I’m watching this CNN panel of the powerful & rich — real DC brokers. And I can’t help thinking we’d be better off with Caligula’s horse.
“His fourth pivot back to jobs in the last three years, hitting Republicans… ”
I swear that’s what the CNN reporter just said without any trace of irony.
I was kidding about the unicorns thing. My actual pre-release transcript says “A bunch of stuff the House won’t agree to.”
Thank you, Wolf Blitzer, for reminding us that the President will be shaking hands as he walks down the House chamber aisle. Maybe we could use another Howard Kurtz or two.
There’s a nice little “Update” bar that will appear at the top when I post updates. If you don’t see the bar, don’t update. If you do see the bar, tell the barkeep I could use a refill.
One little request, dear readers. We’re trying new liveblogging software which is supposed to protect our servers from the meltdowns my drunkblogging always bring — but please don’t refresh too often.
Also, I think you’ll find new posts show up at the top, so that’s 917% less scrolling, and we pass the savings on to you.
I know it’s supposed to be embargoed, but my pre-release SOTU transcript just says, “Unicorns! Unicorns! Unicorns!”
I’m at my desk. I have vodka on one side for getting going, and scotch on the other for when I slip irrevocably into despair. Later, I’ll being my mood back up by alternating the iPod between Sinatra’s torch songs and Joy Division.
I won’t play Overly Smart Pundit by noting how the burning, collapsed cabin in California tonight presages Obama’s blah blah blah blah blah. Because first of all, Twitter is already on it. And secondly, man, isn’t one Howard Kurtz enough?
The President will be reading from my Second Manifesto this evening. Thank you.
Dat Dorner dude? He dead.
I’m going to have to tap out this evening, Stephen. The hubris and narcissism that’ll be on display tonight . . . Just too much. Going to watch Doomsday Preppers. Figure out what’s a good tip and where the flaws are. And if we get another psychic who believes we are do for a Martian invasion, that’s pure gold.
I’m going to switch over to F/X and watch “Justified” when it comes on…Boyd Crowder is just as crooked as Barokeydoke and a damn site more interesting to listen to
I swore off drama series after Battlestar Galactica. Had to step back from the emotional investment.
Oh, good we’ve rockslide guy. Bill Owen’s gonna have fun with this weapon of choice. Because no one can get around boulders.
I suppose it depends on the individual, but I have a theory that while a parent shouldn’t drink to excess and beat his wife and kids, a certain amount of alcohol is necessary for heart health and keeping the parent mellow enough so he can withstand the beating they get from family and politicians. The question is how do you determine how much is enough?
Also is it possible that the Pope didn’t consume enough hard liquor?
Do love the Joy Division reference. Need a new needle to play my albums. Old school, baby.
Thanks for doing this so we do not have to, Vodkapundit! Steeeeeeeeeeve! I am into the grape, white wine …. Salud!
I agree that Boehner is stoned, too …. Stop applauding, Toooool!
Paraphrasing …. preezy just said something about education and werking yurselves into the middle class …. Me thinks he has lost his mojo …. God help us!
Now come the talking heddddzzz to skrull us on what we just hoid ….
preeezy has been upstaged by a mass murderer …. Frightening …. What´s next?
Hi Stephen,
Your wit is on, ‘Wolf’ is off, and the little round updating icon encourages people to refresh.
You have just enough time to offer a drinking game for the address; perhaps predicting the number of times certain words are used?
Best Wishes,
Sorry, but I don’t play drinking games. I drink.
Great job of writing and drinking, Stephen, but you weren’t as drunk as Bill O’Reilly was on his Factor show tonight.
New liveblog math working well for me. LIKE it so far.
Me, too.
You have slandered that horse!
. . . at least he had a day job of useful employment.
Better you than me. I’ll be watching Citizen Kane and sipping the 45% Maker’s.
+1
Good advice on using blue bar to update; it’s faster too.
On CNN I like Gingrich already he sounds diabolical!
At least Mussolini could start his speeches on time.
Duuuuude.
“Only nine or so minutes late.” Better than Benghazi
Isn’t the green ribbon in honor of/prayers for Dorner? He’s in the greeny woods, and he’s part Irish, I heard.
Green ribbon is for sandy hook victims I think.
green ribbon—for Sandy Hook victims,playing on sympathy for gun control
I believe Woodrow Wilson was the first to address a joint session of Congress.
Thank you for sacrificing your liver for us, Mr. Green. I’m lifting a shot of Laphroag in your honor…
And the blue bar is AWESOME.
Orion
Loving the blue bar updates.
hey, we haven’t been rewarded because we’re OUT OF WORK!!!
Mouthing words.
I don’t see him spending much time in front of cameras down the road.
He’s on bonus time now, never expected a second term anyway.
Executive orders, burdensome regulations, appointing incompetents where convenient and agents of destruction where intended…
… we are in a lot of trouble.
Hearing him use the word “compromise”… I do not think that word means what he thinks it means.
Did they co-ordinate their ties.(O.,B, and B) All pastels too.
CNN must be a tick ahead of YouTube. I see Mr G’s comments then the speech catches up. Perhaps the copious amounts of spirits have given him the ability to see into the future…future…future…
ok, switched over during ad time. Is Harry Reid a zombie?
“We’re gonna need more zeroes.”
We’re gonna need a bigger buck.
His applause lines are tepid.
I know Stephen and I are drunk, is Obama? Cause he is flippin crazy.
how is public education not a special interest?
hey..how about a flat tax across the board with no loopholes or deductions, all income including welfare taxed flat.
No…they’ll come up with something like Obamacare. More bullshit.
Remember…Keep to the (Tax) Code!
Wow. What an utterly uninspiring speech. The even his buddies can’t manage to treat it like it matters.
Watching Season 1 of Lost – getting ready for the result of another 4 years of this guy.
I wish Boehner’s death ray stare really worked.
3-D printers…revolutionize how we create things…even guns!
Appears that blue bar works great to post new stuff from Stephen, but guest comments only update when entire page is refreshed.
I’ll have the Powers look into that.
BTW, only trying to be helpful; this ‘new look’ for the live blog looks good and is running *much* more smoothly.
It really is — thanks for noticing and for letting us know.
Agree. Much better, though autologin would be helpful too. HP Touchpad and I have to enter name & mail each time is a pain.
Summary: Pastiche of speeches and other disingenuous comments from the past five years, including fake concern for jobs, spending, and “smaller government”.
And now that that’s out of the way, Obama can get on with the standard federal government takeover of everything.
I think I read a lot of this speech in history books…somewhere around 1933?
Stephen, every time he uses the word “investments” you have to take a shot of vodka. Or tequila.
Now he’s talking about reduction of CO2 emissions. Its because of the recession idiot. And now he’s lying about climate.
Not a good idea! That’s enough ETOH to kill . . .
Are you still upright? Don’t fall off your perch…
awesome, more executive orders
He’s a god
hmmm. can’t see the blue update bar. tell the hamsters to run faster
FYI, blue bar only appears when the server is loading comments from Stephen, or has some of his comments in memory that are not yet displayed by your browser.
I switched over to Dual Survival. They are trying to evade raging hippos and elephants. Seems safer than this POS POTUS.
Santa Clause is comin’ tooooooooo towwwwwwnnnnnn!
Headstart does not work. 43 of 44 studies say so.
“tonight, I propose…” x 100
why can a private Montessori school spend 8 to 10 grand a year per student, have a 4 to 1 student, teacher ratio and have students who know how to learn, love to learn and graduate on an equal level to Asian students yet our public schools are spending over that and are not able to graduate students capable of basic algebra?
Watching the dog show. 10x the brains. 100x the looks. 1000x the integrity.
+1 million
+1
Boehner’s facial expressions, so subtle, so disgusted with this whole circus.
The next caption contest should be of Bohners face.
Oh Stephen.
My pope just resigned, with great courage knowing that the secular press was going to have a field days skewering him and the church. So, seeing as how he is going to be something of a sacrificial lamb, I’m very empathetic to what you’re doing here, sacrificing your sanity (and your chances of waking up tomorrow morning with a nice clear head) in order to spare us having to listen to the dung that will be greeted with sycophantic applause by the dumb and dumber. You are a very courageous man and I thank you for sparing me such torture.
Stephen: extra credit for Orwell shot.
he forgot that we need free birth control pills and abortions…so we don’t have to live with our mistakes
Master of the Universe, talks like he’ s still really high on some of that Maui Wowi! What a rap, the mainstream media must be eating it up, write about his perpicacity and vision.
Paulette, hadn’t you heard the latest in California? They don’t ‘like’ algebra and so nobody is going to make ‘em have to take it. Not gonna be mean ol’ uptight school teachers encouraging stagnant minds to contribute to the overthrow of the addled minds that have corroded and corrupted every venue of communication and influence.
Sheesh, I don’t drink but a glass of wine every several months but judging from poor Stephen’s coverage it might be time to raid my wine rack.
Lord almighty..I think I need to start cracking open some beers over here
Start? Beer? This is a professional drinking site. Beer is a warmup.
I just sat here, staring at that, unable to speak.
All that comes to mind is: FFFFUUUUUUUUU…
Well, free birth control and abortions and pretty soon we don’t have to be concerned with California teens not like algebra, will we?
didn’t think about that…could work
it’s a good thing that this speech is on fat Tuesday, other-wise there would be a lot of broken vows out there regarding swearing and alcohol.
OK Stephen,
Have to admit to a little curiosity; is this all improv, or is Obungler so predictable you worked up some material in advance for the obvious opportunities?
Nice work, either way.
Thanks, but this is alcohol-fueled improv. Although the first couple posts I did crib a couple of my own tweets from earlier today.
“The organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self.”
Paging Ambassador Stevens. Ambassador Stevens…white courtesy phone.
Huh? We don’t have free trade with the European Union? Where did all those ship parts, wind turbine parts, cars, engines and other high tech come from? The tooth fairy, I guess.
“people who live on a dollar a day”….like his own brother to whom he has never sent a nickel.
Kinda interesting; progs assail righties for lack of ‘compassion,’ yet research has consistently proven conservatives (esp religous) give *much* more generously to charity.
> imagine if a Republican pol treated any of his relatives as badly as BHO neglects his African relatives.
Ok, enough. Time for the best show on TV, “Justified.”
As soon as this is over, I’m right there with you.
No SOTU for me…watched the Bruins game.
And I the Caps game. Even as crappy a start they’ve had, they’re more fun than Obummer.
Oh great, we’ve got a gay military (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
here comes the gun grab
Very grateful for this. Didn’t watch the speech, but had a blast with this post.
Enjoying the decline!
Don’t leave yet. The “fun” ain’t over.
The closeup on Diane Feinstein reveals that I had tacos for dinner.
I LOLed. I almost never LOL.
Huh?
sule, ‘i had tacos for dinner’ means that when he looked at FEinstein in closeup he lost the contents of his dinner.
Oh…gotcha.
I’m definitely stealing that!
I truly did LOL!
toughest gun laws in the country…Chicago
so what happens? City of victims
yeah, gotta say the ‘two drink minimum’ comment to ‘improve the voting experience’ was witty, timely and appropriate.
and thank you very much for vastly improving the SOTU experience, though I for one will get well beyond the minimum.
This voting thing and the 102 yr old woman whose name I can’t spell….we have early voting, and absentee voting and many, many options in FL to not have to wait in line for 6 hours. If she is so stupid to not take advantage of the many other options she had to get to vote other than wait in line for 6 hours, then she shouldn’t vote.
Load of crap.
Stephen, Feinstein may have lost with the presipunk, but here in Mexifornia, where there is not a raping, thieving, murderous illegal who cannot look forward to being invited to dine with Moochelle and the goon and their ‘not for thee, but for me’ culinary extravagance, governor moonbeam (and his extremely impressive private arsenal) is salivating at the thought of going door to door to confiscate.
I understand your frustration, but all I can say is: Get out. It’s too late for California.
Every time this group of yahoo’s applaud all i can think of is: “Hercaleez;Hercaleez;Hercaleez”
Hey, where’s the shoutout for retired SSG Clint Romesha, who you just pinned a MOH on yesterday?
Aparently he declined an invitation to sit with the First “Lady”. So no shout-out, I think.
Did anyone else find it hard to swallow to see Pres O (who when to BED when his man in Bengazhi (sp?) was under fire and missing) pin the MOH on this true hero who whet under fire to save his men? SSG Romesha is a fine man.
yes, the irony is deep. even worse as it appears he is using events that hail military valor to distract attention from his own inattention to duty.
Stephen,
I am curious about at least your assessment of the Rubio response, even if you only want to so a summary afterword.
Not so much for Rand . . .
One hour of cheap demagoguery. Reminded me about Mr. Brezhnev messages to the Soviet people.
‘J’ is for Jackass
– of Narcissism. Thank goodness his protege Dorner burned on his parade tonight.
“BREAKING: Chris Dorner is confirmed dead, but too late for President Obama to use the State of the Union to dance around the corpse.”
That’s what Biden is for. Somewhere down the road: “Chris Dormer is dead and CalPERS is alive.”
How will the media explain Obama’s simultaneous presence at the SOTU and his brave personal apprehension of Chris Dorner in CA?
Hey!
My last two years on active duty were with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
I learned two things during that time at the Pentagon:
1. Secrets are *very* hard to keep.
2. All large bureaucracies revolve around ‘turf’ (power: budget & headcount)
“How will the media explain Obama’s simultaneous presence at the SOTU and his brave personal apprehension of Chris Dorner in CA?”
Are you suggesting that Dear Leader can’t be in two places at the same time?
No no, just looking for a further schooling on his excellency’s extraordinary personal powers.
Whether it is further schooling or a more thorough re-education that is required will be determined by your willingness to cooperate with the government.
I did not watch. I was practicing the art of self-defense. Recently earned a brown belt.
Kept switching between the Westminster Dog Show and the State of the Union address. The dogs where more fun than this endless rerun of ideas and preening peacock.
what duz it matter now?
– captured swigging from VodkaPundit’s glass in the midst of his rebuttal. Now Jon Stewart will mock him for delivering it half-swacked.
Nothing wrong with a gay military? Well if it’s the UBER privileged gay military yes we do have a problem.
Sexual harassment cannot be charged against a gay military officer in this day and age. A chaplain cannot refuse to marry without encountering likely punitive action.
That is a problem. It’s the super-equality, i.e., the imbalance.
Stephen, I’d love to get out, but that family thing is keeping me here. Have to wait on Tom Sowell taking his wife out first.
I am so glad you masochist souls are still brave enough to venture into that Disarry of the Union cesspool. I can’t even stomach to look at Barack Obama anymore. He’s like MaDonna to me. I see him on TV, I change the channel before I puke.
I come to PJM to read what idiocy and lies were said, knowing fully well it’s all promises that can’t be kept and another nanny ripoff.
I don’t even want to hear the Republican rebuttal – clowns and cowards, posturing as statesmen.
Me too.
The Nebuchadnezzar of our times.
Oh goody. Sounds like the pres will have er’ up to 22 Tril in 2 years.
Nice post. Two things I like about the post, one it is straight forward and two it does not attempt to promote anyone’s position particularly. Nice work Stephen.