# The Union's in a state **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2026, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923 "2026-02-24T04:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/141 "2026-02-25T02:48:26Z")
Is it like a speck of decency, a speck of intelligence or a speck of humanity? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/142 "2026-02-25T02:48:55Z")
@Aspenglow , I just may get into the Scotch earlier than planned. This is something else. Now, onto Obamacare … ---
**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:** [February 25, 2026, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/143 "2026-02-25T02:49:35Z")
No one could fault you for it! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/144 "2026-02-25T02:50:27Z")
Is he proposing—gasp—socialist healthcare, disguised as “I’ll give you money so you can buy your own”? Lower costs on drugs now. Nobody else could do it, but I did. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/145 "2026-02-25T02:51:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > “It’s the big one! I’m coming for you, Ivana!” > > Aww man, I was gonna add that! > > Instead: “If you all don’t buy my trump branded products, if I don’t get $10M from you all by Friday, God will call me home!” _( **@kaylasdad99** speedruns through **Hacking For Dummies** and overclocks God’s computer, for some reason)_ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/146 "2026-02-25T02:51:11Z")
He just said, “Should be my third term”. Why is he still in office? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/147 "2026-02-25T02:53:21Z")
To anyone claiming that Congress doesn’t support him like they use to: If he told them to wear a cheerleader outfit to this thing and wave pom-poms every time he said something, they would do it in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/148 "2026-02-25T02:54:16Z")
Trump just admitted our power grid was shit, so of course let’s have private companies build their own power plants. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/149 "2026-02-25T02:54:29Z")
He just promised power companies get to build their own plants and that prices for the consumer will not go up. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/150 "2026-02-25T02:54:42Z")
Now, he’s going on about lowering the price of electricity. How does he propose to do that? As usual, he never explains. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/151 "2026-02-25T02:55:30Z")
He doesn’t plan to do that. If he had an actual plan for it, then when it doesn’t happen, he’ll be at fault. Now it’s all on the power companies. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/152 "2026-02-25T02:56:03Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Trump just admitted our power grid was shit, so of course let’s have private companies build their own power plants. [Monty Burns] Excellent! [/Monty Burns] ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/153 "2026-02-25T02:56:37Z")
I watched for a couple of minutes and it is a 100% stream of absolute bullshit that I gave up. Apparently the cost of everything is down, prescription drug prices are down 400% on [trumprx.com](http://trumprx.com), which he didn’t name, and all the new power plants AI companies will build will cause our power bills to drop. People are morons if they shovel this BS into their mouths. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/154 "2026-02-25T02:56:39Z")
And now he just said members of Congress are corrupt. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/155 "2026-02-25T02:57:46Z")
That’s been an undercurrent of the entire speech. My feeling is that “you cannot trust Congress; only I can save you.” Like any dictator. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/156 "2026-02-25T02:58:03Z")
And he’s now onto insulting/lying about the Somali community in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/157 "2026-02-25T02:58:28Z")
Quiet heckles from somewhere to that one. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/158 "2026-02-25T03:00:54Z")
I signed up for the text alerts, just because I love you people. I’m pasting the texts I get in the P & E thread. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/159 "2026-02-25T03:01:33Z")
Now going on about bribery and corruption elsewhere in the world. “We won’t allow that in our country.” Pot calling the kettle black? Oh, and one of Biden’s illegal immigrants drove over an American child with a truck. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923/160 "2026-02-25T03:03:47Z")
The hell with it. @Aspenglow , I’ve got the Scotch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unions-in-a-state/1027923.md?page=9)