Chris Applegate
Ken WhiteI have successfully avoided all coverage of, and all discourse about, the State of the Union. This is a good thing.
Dan Thies@Popehat it was the best of speeches, it was the worst of speeches
barelysecure
JohnW@Popehat Same with me. Including the State of the Union address itself.
Todd Smith
Doug Warren@Popehat
My college roommate had a book of stories by the now-problematic (and also now-no-not-problematic-what's-the-other-word-oh-yeah-shitty) Orson Scott Card in which they had (somehow) identified a baby with superhuman musical talent and raised him in isolation from all music but what he wrote himself. Then a guy broke into the compound and played Mozart at him, and he panicked and tried to cover it up, but they could tell because there was no more Mozart in his music.
Anyway, good luck.
Codhisattva@Popehat the cat meme is the best part
ruidh@Popehat Now do the Super Bowl.
The Evil Microwizard
That Anonymous CowardSomething something Sherman marched to the sea...
KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀@Popehat Tangent to nothing but corkscrews-as-protected-utensils can't be guaranteed under interpretation. You need a backup plan
Jason Kisser
Lane@Popehat you definitely don't want to hear what Sarah H Sanders said in her rebuttal.
@Popehat me too until you brought it up 😆
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱I was going to assign students to watch it to do some textual analysis, but decided at the last minute that I'd rather let them watch Top Gear
Chuck DarwinYou don't need the commentary. Just watch it. It's better than Top Gear
Lynda 
@Popehat 🤷🏻♀️ It was a good speech and I like to stay informed.
TFG was a different story (no information)
Kinene⭐🐻@Popehat There was a speech last night?
I listened to rpg podcasts (Delta Green games) and worked on a weaving project.
Mike Laursen@Popehat I have a strict personal policy of never watching political speeches.
djohngo@Popehat I'm envious.
Historian1661@Popehat You missed all the discussion about Kristen Sinema's dress?
Lord Licorice@Popehat You missed the part where Joe Biden yelled "It's Biden Time" and Bidened all over the place
Dextrosity@Popehat Ken, I want to know what brand cone of silence you use.
Nicholas Peterson@Popehat whamageddon, but for color-coded ties and american flag pins
Badgerclops@Popehat wait until the late-night talk shows start talking about it tonight
BiohazardAt its best the SOTU was generally just performative.
But now everything has to be a clown show for feeding the "conservative" soundbite market, so they're just going to be a mess from here on out.
Even less point in tuning in for them now then there was back when the peanut gallery could still mostly behave like adults.
Rufus T Firefly@Popehat
You missed some amusing moments, but overall you made a good choice.
You missed some amusing moments, but overall you made a good choice.
OracleClyde@Popehat You really missed the hootenanny. When Biden threw the nun-chucks at Matt Gaetz I was worried it was starting to get out of hand.
Charlie Galvin@Popehat Until the advent of the TEA Party, I would have thought someone who said that had a screw loose. But now…
lessbarb@Popehat (in the voice of Sir David Attenborough), 'and now the call of the North American Frilled Gym-Slut'.
koberulz@Popehat Ironically, this very toot is the reason I can no longer say the same.
Dirk Hohndel@Popehat
me, too.
One of the great features of Mastodon. Temporary filter of a handful of keywords and hashtags and I enjoyed social media as if there was no ridiculous circus going on in DC…
me, too.
One of the great features of Mastodon. Temporary filter of a handful of keywords and hashtags and I enjoyed social media as if there was no ridiculous circus going on in DC…