# State of the Union 2018 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 31, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846 "2018-01-31T00:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/61 "2018-01-31T02:36:23Z")
I can’t watch any more. Hah love the generals looking at him like he’s a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/62 "2018-01-31T02:37:30Z")
So the GOP is pro-choice now? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/63 "2018-01-31T02:38:37Z")
There’s that generic anti-regulation thing again. You know, if prescription heroin were not so loosely regulated, maybe 64,000 people a year would not be dying of overdoses. But if course, wealthy people profit off of that, so… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/64 "2018-01-31T02:39:05Z")
Did he just call for a purge? I think he just called for a purge! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/65 "2018-01-31T02:40:09Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! “Beautiful, clean coal” OMFG that’s hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/66 "2018-01-31T02:40:10Z")
Is this SOTU or a campaign rally? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/67 "2018-01-31T02:40:24Z")
America’s full of cheap labor and desperate people and super high C-level wages. Of course companies want to be here. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/68 "2018-01-31T02:40:56Z")
What a fairytale. Stupid Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/69 "2018-01-31T02:42:14Z")
He bade people stand for him. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/70 "2018-01-31T02:42:33Z")
His highest priority better be planning a defense. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/71 "2018-01-31T02:42:57Z")
Somebody wake me when Joe Kennedy comes on. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/72 "2018-01-31T02:44:02Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Did he just call for a purge? I think he just called for a purge! [Paul Ryan calls for a ‘cleanse’ of the FBI](http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-wants-fbi-cleanse-gop-memo-release-2018-1) Cleanse/purge, potato/potahto ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/73 "2018-01-31T02:45:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Somebody wake me when Joe Kennedy comes on. That’s exactly what I’m waiting to see. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/74 "2018-01-31T02:47:02Z")
Poor Bernie looks like his cat just died. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/75 "2018-01-31T02:47:48Z")
That Paul Ryan just looks dickish. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/76 "2018-01-31T02:48:48Z")
What does he mean by tapping “private investment blah blah blah to take care of the infrastructure deficit”? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/77 "2018-01-31T02:49:50Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > He bade people stand for him. I noticed that too! ETA: If he says “No Collusion” I’ve got BINGO! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/78 "2018-01-31T02:50:03Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Poor Bernie looks like his cat just died. Poor ol’ Bernie I feel for him. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/79 "2018-01-31T02:51:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > What does he mean by tapping “private investment blah blah blah to take care of the infrastructure deficit”? [nutshell] His infrastructure plan was to encourage private investment for funding. So only potentially profitable projects have a prayer of being done. [/nutshell] ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/80 "2018-01-31T02:53:39Z")
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