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The Dems will be showcasing a lot of butts around President Trump's State of the Union Address.
The first prebuttal will be the State of the Swamp sponsored by Defiance.news and the Portland Frog Brigade. It will be streamed live at 7 pm on Tuesday from the National Press Club. They promise the following:
This is not a protest. This is not a watch party. This is a truth-telling counter-address that will be live, public, and loud.
It's going to last until 11 pm. Can you imagine watching four hours of this stuff?
Then Rep. LaMonica McIver, who has been indicted on felony charges for attempting to enter an ICE facility illegally and faces up to 17 years at Club Fed, will deliver another prebuttal that will stream on Meidas Touch. If you're interested — and I'm sure you are — you can probably find the link online to watch this gripping television spectacle. Norm Eisen, the esteemed founder of Democracy Defenders Action, repeats a tiresome trope:
“The threats facing our democracy have never been greater.”
Next, MoveOn.org is sponsoring a People's State of the Union on the National Mall, also to be streamed by Midas Touch. Not sure if this qualifies as an actual butt since it is billed as neither a prebuttal nor a rebuttal. Maybe it's just a plain butt. It will be attended by such luminaries as Sen. Ed Markey and Sen. Chris Murphy. Rep. Yassimin Ansari promises, "An honest accounting of the State of the Union." If that doesn't convince you to tune in, nothing will.
Following in the linguistic tradition of Bad Bunny, Alex Padilla, a resident of Maryland but Senator from California, will offer a Spanish-language rebuttal. I couldn't find anything on time or streaming platform, so I'm not sure if this is a prebuttal or a rebuttal, but it will no doubt be a butt. You'll have to figure out the time and streaming location on your own.
The final butt to wrap up the evening will be the official Democratic rebuttal by Gov. Abigail Spanberger. It starts at 10 pm on PBS, so you'll have to choose between watching the final hour of the State of the Swamp and Gov. Spanberger's much-awaited rebuttal. Tough choices all around.
So many butts to enjoy all day Tuesday.
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They sound just like toddlers having temper tantrums: if they can't get their way, they scream and cry. So sad.
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No, but to be fair, I can't imagine watching two hours of the actual State of the Union either.
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I can't bring myself to watch the State of the Union Address, and I like Trump, let alone any of these whine fests.
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One of my Senators, Maryland Man's best bud Chris Van Hollen announced he will not attend because fascism. Preserving and expanding the power of the unelected administrative state, gutting election integrity and vaporizing the nature of citizenship is what is termed "saving democracy."
The real tragedy of our partisan media is that it is not dominated by cynical, very well-informed grownups who would ruthlessly mock the parade of ridiculous people now so prominent in our politics.
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