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Bernie on the real State of the Union (Original Post)
malaise
9 hrs ago
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Tim S
(138 posts)1. THIS should have been our SOTU Rebuttal speech!
Instead of having an immediately presented, canned speech based on what we *guess* the president will say, we need 24 hours to fact-check and counter all the lies Trump used. THEN we present our rebuttal. We could put up a web page with links to actual evidence to inform people versus citizens having to trust Trumps evidence of People tell me
or I hear
and sheer repetition of unchallenged lies.
For me, Bernie remains the heart & soul of our party. Its too bad megadonors marginalize him.
but then I am a Democratic Socialist
Grim Chieftain
(1,533 posts)4. Me too
Whatever Bernie is, so am I. That man is so honest and fearless. We need more like him.
usonian
(24,456 posts)3. Transcript -- kinda crude, but for "readers"