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bucolic_frolic

(54,746 posts)
32. The crises are mounting
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:57 AM
20 hrs ago

Tariffs, wars, oppression, chest-beating and sabre-rattling. Financial market and the world community can only take so much more. It may be his only remaining choice is total chaos. Steal the crypto and run.

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100% dalton99a 21 hrs ago #1
Headline: NCDem47 21 hrs ago #2
There is a betting line on those and more. BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #57
I'd like to say you're wrong. FoxNewsSucks 21 hrs ago #3
No doubt on this. OLDMDDEM 21 hrs ago #4
Good that it will be a "long" speech according to Trump Jersey Devil 21 hrs ago #5
You can bet popsdenver 19 hrs ago #36
Please don't compare the brilliance of James Joyce... Betty Boom 7 hrs ago #63
Meanwhile the republicans and the other Magas slightlv 13 hrs ago #55
And more opportunities for his teleprompter Grammy23 13 hrs ago #56
I hope his speech goes big and beautiful. chouchou 21 hrs ago #6
Nice try - but not enough capitialzations and mispellings. Conjuay 20 hrs ago #25
Hah, he never speaks in full complete sentences FakeNoose 20 hrs ago #33
Oh, he's gotten wose. A lot worse. ShazzieB 19 hrs ago #45
and he even outdoes Bush popsdenver 14 hrs ago #54
Oh yeah, he makes Bush sound like Einstein by comoarison! ShazzieB 9 hrs ago #61
What else does he have to talk about it that is going good in this country? debm55 21 hrs ago #7
Everything will be great in two weeks. Harker 20 hrs ago #22
I knew a building contractor who did that. calimary 18 hrs ago #46
no...they won't ignore it... agingdem 21 hrs ago #8
Will Jake Tapper write a new book? Or not? Ocelot II 21 hrs ago #9
No MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #27
His drug cocktail will make him appear normal leftstreet 21 hrs ago #10
Probably, but I'll bet getting the mix right for him is getting trickier & trickier & the results less predictable. CrispyQ 20 hrs ago #13
Well THAT would be cool leftstreet 20 hrs ago #14
I bet the drug cocktail to get him to semi-normal Farmer-Rick 20 hrs ago #19
The reason he's been saying it will be "very long". llmart 20 hrs ago #18
Normal for him Johonny 20 hrs ago #30
What are they using on him, though, that produces even a temporary impression Ocelot II 19 hrs ago #43
That's why part of it is "acting" leftstreet 19 hrs ago #44
Some of his bad behavior in the past was for attention, although I think most of it was just cuz he's a prick, but now? CrispyQ 18 hrs ago #48
I don't think he will do that edhopper 18 hrs ago #49
Well they Rebl2 21 hrs ago #11
Count on the TV media to repackage all his lies and try and make them make sense and regurgitate them Walleye 20 hrs ago #12
Sanewashing has become an art with the corporate media. Dr. T 20 hrs ago #35
He'll just sway to shitty music for 45 minutes Blue Owl 20 hrs ago #15
Yep! Jrsygrl96 20 hrs ago #16
I'm not sure Lawrence O'Donnell will ignore it Grim Chieftain 20 hrs ago #17
Lawrence is a notable exception MustLoveBeagles 20 hrs ago #28
Yup! He's the only one tonight who noted that Trump said he wants to replace the federal income tax with tariffs. SunSeeker 2 hrs ago #64
Agreed -- however --- AverageOldGuy 20 hrs ago #20
Maybe "millions" will tune in, MLWR 20 hrs ago #29
I can only imagine popsdenver 14 hrs ago #53
I won't be watching. Want him to get the lowest ratings ever for a SOTU. ChicagoTeamster 20 hrs ago #21
I'll be watching one of the alternative SOTU events. YodaMom2 20 hrs ago #23
If Trump began screaming and throwing things at the seated SC justices, corporate media would call it a "rebuke," sop 20 hrs ago #24
Ihope there are "reaction" shots: looks on audience faces when he LIES! CTyankee 20 hrs ago #26
He'll read a script someone else wrote off of a teleprompter. Demobrat 20 hrs ago #31
The crises are mounting bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #32
Maybe Joe Biden Dave Id 20 hrs ago #34
It's supposed to be a long speech so he's basically filibustering underpants 19 hrs ago #37
But they won't be able to hide it. Expect lots of clips. Joinfortmill 19 hrs ago #38
His staffers will not be at his side to shoo everyone out of the House chamber when he starts decompensating. NT mahatmakanejeeves 19 hrs ago #39
MS NOW will rip him to shreds. Rachel and Lawrence will be on the panel. OGBuzz 19 hrs ago #40
Yes they will, but it will be saved on the streaming and social media sites. I don't ever listen to his actual speeches LiberalArkie 19 hrs ago #41
Disagree. He'll read the teleprompter after nice big snorts of Go-Go Powder Special SOTU formula. betsuni 19 hrs ago #42
Yes. Exactly. All he has to do is read the words in front of him Demobrat 17 hrs ago #50
What is Krasnov worried about??? ultralite001 18 hrs ago #47
I wonder... Omnipresent 16 hrs ago #51
Jake Tapper should be in the front row lame54 16 hrs ago #52
You already know. MaeScott 11 hrs ago #58
I'm not a gambling man JPPaverage 11 hrs ago #59
MS Now won't ignore it radical noodle 11 hrs ago #60
Foreign media will report on the SOTU thing. Aussie105 9 hrs ago #62
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