# 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:** 6
**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, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/101 "2018-01-31T03:03:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, I got my new biweekly paycheck last week with the new rates figured in, I assume, and my takehome was MORE! Woohoo! A whole… > $34.37 MORE!!! > > Imma gonna run right out and help jack up the economy, Imma gonna buy myself a… > > Urm, well… Trump tie? Oops, sorry, not enough. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/102 "2018-01-31T03:04:05Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > I think it’s fair game to comment on a woman’s fashion choices when she has her own fashion line. What do you think about the “she’s a bitch” comment? ---
**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, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/103 "2018-01-31T03:04:40Z")
Drug pushers? Does he mean pharma company execs? Cuz I suspect he means black guys at the street level. ---
**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, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/104 "2018-01-31T03:05:01Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > It’s been an “actual term” for a while now. actual term = Republican talking point ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/105 "2018-01-31T03:05:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What’s the problem? … If you don’t already know, I doubt I could explain it in a way you’d comprehend. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/106 "2018-01-31T03:06:30Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, I got my new biweekly paycheck last week with the new rates figured in, I assume, and my takehome was MORE! Woohoo! A whole… > $34.37 MORE!!! > > Imma gonna run right out and help jack up the economy, Imma gonna buy myself a… > > Urm, well… Hey, if you’re not using that $893 or so this year, I’ll take care of it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/107 "2018-01-31T03:06:31Z")
Anybody catch more about the firing of federal employees? I need a transcript. . . OK, here it is. [Real-time (sort of) transcript]([Text And Analysis: State Of The Union 2018, Annotated : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/580378279/trumps-state-of-the-union-address-annotated)"Real-time (sort of) transcript) > [@](#): > > Last year, Congress also passed, and I signed, the landmark V.A. Accountability Act. > > Since its passage, my administration has already removed more than 1,500 V.A. employees who failed to give our veterans the care they deserve. And we are hiring talented people who love our vets as much as we do. > > And I will not stop until our veterans are properly taken care of, which has been my promise to them from the very beginning of this great journey. > > All Americans deserve accountability and respect. And that’s what we are giving to our wonderful heroes, our veterans. Thank you. > > So tonight I call on Congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust, or fail the American people. I needed that in it’s full context, given the people he might want to fire. . . Also, scoorge? Is that, “scourge.” ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/108 "2018-01-31T03:06:33Z")
Has he touted the stock market yet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/109 "2018-01-31T03:06:57Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Wow, he is getting booed. What triggered the booing? By Dems or GOP or both or gallery? I refuse to watch, I ain’t got that many brain cells left as it is. ---
**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, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/110 "2018-01-31T03:07:13Z")
Is he fucking witnessing right now?? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/111 "2018-01-31T03:07:56Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > What do you think about the “she’s a bitch” comment? I thought it was a pretty low effort joke. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/112 "2018-01-31T03:08:08Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > What triggered the booing? By Dems or GOP or both or gallery? > > I refuse to watch, I ain’t got that many brain cells left as it is. I think it was a comment about chain migration, and Dems, but IDK for sure. ---
**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, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/113 "2018-01-31T03:08:53Z")
I gotta tell y’all: this is way easier to watch with [this](https://theofficialworldsgreatesttroll.com) sitting in front of the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/114 "2018-01-31T03:09:41Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Good to know this sort of childish name-calling is ok with you. Let’s keep the personal cracks about other posters to a minimum. Insult public figures - however unseemly and beneath us, I’d hope - remains fair game unless they post here. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/115 "2018-01-31T03:09:49Z")
Apparently our current nuclear arsenal just isn’t powerful enough for Cadet Bone Spurs. ---
**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, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/116 "2018-01-31T03:09:51Z")
The booing was at his disparaging characterization of immigrants murdering and smuggling drugs. By the Dems I think, but it wasn’t clear. Noticing above average groaning from the audience. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/117 "2018-01-31T03:09:58Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > What do you think about the “she’s a bitch” comment? Not really accurate. I think she is more of a brain-dead asshole. ---
**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, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/118 "2018-01-31T03:11:17Z")
Hey, that was Attorney General Keebler! ---
**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, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/119 "2018-01-31T03:11:24Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I gotta tell y’all: this is way easier to watch with [this](https://theofficialworldsgreatesttroll.com) sitting in front of the TV. I don’t see the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846/120 "2018-01-31T03:11:32Z")
Hey, me and my friends are making fun of Ivanka now, pretending she’s retarded. It’s okay because President Yam showed us it’s okay during the election! He’s truly inspirational when it comes to making fun of people. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-of-the-union-2018-follow-along-thread/807846.md?page=7)