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Why The State of the Union Address Proves We Will Never Be United
You set out to boycott the stupid State of the Union address that’s being transmitted from the dysfunctional abbey of enablers and protesters, and then you wind up giving into your masochistic tendencies.
And in the end, you’re left wondering why being an American is so bloody hard.
President Trump’s annual shit show didn’t disappoint, as it was staged to give the bloated cry-baby another opportunity to flamboyantly tout his roster of “tremendous” achievements that are so magnificently epic and basically beyond the reach of any of his “less-accomplished” predecessors.
It was quite a treat watching House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, maintain her cool, calm and collected demeanor with splashes of Meme-worthy gestures that actually made the vomit-inducing event salvageable.
Mike Pence conducted himself with the familiar robotic reactions that had him on his feet more times that we could count, as he enthusiastically played the role of all the emoticons that fit into the “idiotic loser” category.
And the rest of the divided House, mimicked the outlandishness of “Our Union” as seas of white collided with the darker and murkier crowd, as the feathers of White privilege rustled in the very still wind of contentiousness .
