Good Wednesday morning.
Here is what’s on the president’s agenda today:
- The president announces the United States’ candidate for the next president of the World Bank
- President Trump delivers remarks to the ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS
- The president participates in a dinner with the National Prayer Breakfast host committee and pastors
Here is the text of the SOTU speech
Watch the speech:
Creepy, scowling women in white
Tonight is yet another reminder that the most powerful leadership in America is not coming from the White House – it’s coming from women. pic.twitter.com/MfisUQl4tp
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) February 6, 2019
I did not manage to watch the SOTU live as 9 p.m. is around my bedtime, so I watched it very early this morning. I was distracted by these white suits in the audience. WTF am I looking at, ladies?
In particular, the color is associated with the suffragette movement. Early advocates for women’s voting rights wore white as a symbol of purity, often alongside purple for dignity and green for hope. The suffragettes also used white to reassure onlookers that their protests were non-aggressive.
According to Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, the chair of the aforementioned working group, Tuesday’s move was a direct nod to the movement.
“Wearing suffragette white is a respectful message of solidarity with women across the country, and a declaration that we will not go back on our hard-earned rights,” she told CNN ahead of Wednesday’s address.
Oh, are your rights in jeopardy, girlz? For realz? Please.
“Standing hand in hand with @HouseDemWomen wearing #Suffragette white to #SOTU as we fight #ForThePeople,” she tweeted. “At State of the Union tonight, @realDonaldTrump will look out at the House Chamber and see a sea of #Suffragette white sending the message loud&clear that @HouseDemWomen are fighting for the economic security of women & families,” she added in a separate tweet.
Women enjoy record-level unemployment, more women than ever are in public office and have more opportunities available to them, and these chicks are playing 1800s dress-up. The true state of affairs was revealed when the white ladies stood up and cheered the president’s job statistics for women. That’s right, you can thank President Grab-a-P*ssy for that, handmaidens.
Oh and WHOOPS! Trump did not wait for an introduction by Pelosi to start State of the Union
General SOTU round-up
People seemed to approve of the SOTU — people other than the media and the Democrat partisans.
CBS NEWS POLL: 76 percent of viewers approved of what they heard in Pres. Trump's #SOTU speech; 72 percent said they approved of Pres. Trump's ideas for immigration. pic.twitter.com/VXJ09v6DKv
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) February 6, 2019
That is 3 out of 4 people! But you would not know that from the crazy commentary that followed. Van Jones was particularly unhinged.
Jones said, “I saw this as a psychotically incoherent speech with cookies and dog poop. He tries to put together in the same speech these warm, kind things about humanitarianism and caring about children, and at the same time he is demonizing people who are immigrants in a way that was appalling.”
Stacy Abrams, the Democrat woman who lost the Georgia governor’s race, gave the official response to Trump’s speech. Abrams complained, “Making the livelihoods of our federal workers a pawn for political games is a disgrace.”
“The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people – but our values.”
Eh, these federal employees have a better benefits deal than regular Americans and they have better healthcare and a better retirement package. Government shutdowns/late paychecks are a risk. That’s the trade-off for all those things and a job that you can’t get fired from, so boo-hoo. Federal employees earn 50 percent more than private-sector employees.
This is the exact face I was making when I was watching these sourpuss babes in the SOTU audience.
https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1092979700039905280
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Watch Bernie Sanders’ Red, Frowning Face as Trump Slams Socialism During SOTU
Fun picture from the SOTU: I title it “HAHA, LIFETIME APPOINTMENT!”
Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, left, and Brett Kavanaugh watch as President Donald Trump arrives to give his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Historical picture of the day:
Pres. Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, second from right, wave from the reviewing stand during a birthday celebration parade through the streets of his boyhood home, Feb. 6, 1984, Dixon, Ill. The President celebrated his 73rd birthday. (AP Photo/Mark Elias)
Other morsels:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry tapped as ‘designated survivor’ for Trump’s State of the Union
Thank G-D. Everyone is dying to know! Klobuchar to announce 2020 plans Sunday in Minnesota
What a jerk. Don Lemon asks music legend Gladys Knight if she’s worried about career after Super Bowl performance
32 Religious Groups on Probation for Alleged Discrimination at University of Iowa
Michigan ex-Uber driver who killed six is sentenced to life in prison
Trump Roasts Northam, Biden And Schumer In Pre-SOTU Luncheon
Elizabeth Warren claimed to be ‘American Indian’ on Texas bar registration
Convicted Child Molester Jerry Sandusky Is Going to Get a New Prison Sentence
Beto O’Rourke shares stage with Oprah
Trump to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair’s second summit
Chinese student sentenced to prison for taking photos of US military installation in Florida
Pilot in fatal Southern California crash had fake police credentials
Of course. CNN panel gets heated: Dems challenging support for Israel
Trump announces second Kim summit will take place in Vietnam
And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!
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