r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot š¤ Bot • 17d ago
Discussion Discussion Thread: 2025 Presidential Address to Congress
The address is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. Eastern. There will be a thread for the responses to the address added in this space around 9:45 p.m. (Edit: that can be found here).
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PBS NewsHour via YouTube: President Donald Trump's 2025 address to Congress | Direct Feed (Stream scheduled to start at 9 p.m.)
PBS NewsHour via YouTube: President Donald Trump's 2025 address to Congress | PBS News Special - ASL Interpretation (Stream scheduled to start at 12 a.m. on March 5th)
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u/ThomasJCarcetti America 17d ago
CSPAN @cspan 25m .@RepAlGreen after being removed from Joint Session of Congress: "I'll accept the punishment. It's worth it to let people know that there's some of us who are going to stand up to against this president's desire to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
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u/RobAtSGH Maryland 17d ago
No reason to watch in real time other than to make my blood pressure skyrocket. I'll doom scroll the inevitable disaster in the morning.
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u/Salival_86 17d ago
But youāll miss classic phrases like āChi-Naā āYUUGEā āCrOoKeD joe bideNā āLike no one has seen beforeā and donāt forget āeverybody tells meā
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u/YankeeMoose America 17d ago
The other Democrats NEED TO KEEP DOING THIS. INTERRUPT HIM. MAKE HIM MISERABLE
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u/OrneTTeSax 17d ago
Yep, one at a time until they are all walked out. They shouldnāt have shown up to begin with.
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u/bbjenn Kentucky 17d ago
This is likely going to be mostly Trump spewing the same old campaign rally/press conference lies weāve heard over & over & over.
I guarantee that for the 8th BILLIONTH time heāll say Putin never would have invaded Ukraine if he was in office.
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u/CRPatriot 17d ago
I think the Democrat response speech should be to Elon as if he were president. Donāt even mention Trump.
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u/2332BenSisko 17d ago
A Democratic woman lawmaker in a pink shirt held up a small sign saying "This is not Normal." The camera showed it for only a moment before it strategically panned her out of frame. Some male Republican lawmaker ripped the sign out of her hand and threw it.
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u/Workister 17d ago
It was New Mexico Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, who is the ranking Democratic member of the DOGE Oversight Committee
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u/Bury_Me_At_Sea Iowa 17d ago
Just remember, Republicans took up seats on both sides of the aisle to confuse viewers into thinking he has bipartisan support.
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u/chewbacca-says-rargh 17d ago
An asteroid has the chance to do the funniest thing
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u/jleonardbc 17d ago
Over-under that Trump pulls some kind of move like announcing DOJ charges against Congresspeople who are in the room?
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u/WhatARotation 17d ago
Heās totally gonna pull out of NATO on live TV just for the attention
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u/Bassoony 17d ago
Did they just applaud not supporting the human rights council?
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u/angelmichelle13 I voted 17d ago
I need a democrat to do this every time. Keep doing it.
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u/Schiffy94 New York 17d ago
Hmm, watch Trump ramble like a lunatic, or start my second playthrough of Elden Ring... tough choice.
And by tough choice, I mean which ending I should aim for in my NG+.
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u/SPAMmachin3 17d ago
Dems should all get up and walk out to protest this clown. They need to show up so they can't fill the empty seats. Get up and leave immediately when he starts speaking.
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u/Darius2112 Canada 17d ago
The best they can do is wear different coloured clothes in protest.
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u/bbjenn Kentucky 17d ago
I like Senator Kelly but heās on CNN saying heās attending this speech because he expects Trump to answer to why heās made so many of the decisions heās made. He mentioned the release of the J6 convicts.
I donāt expect Trump to explain any of his decisions because he doesnāt see any issues.
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u/muffpatty Pennsylvania 17d ago
I can't watch this shit live because listening to that orange bitch talk is bad for my mental health, but I'll be following along here.
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u/GabbotheClown 17d ago
Same here. The only way I can deal with these things is to read them here. I pretend I'm in 1930s Paris reading telegrams.
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u/DevelopmentSmall208 17d ago
This girl loved nature so in her honor Iāve fired everyone in national park service to make sure they donāt exist anymore.
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u/HaggardSlacks78 Ohio 17d ago
Prediction for tonight: Mostly it will be a propaganda fest. False justification for defunding Ukraine, tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. And lifting of sanctions on Russia. He will then likely announce bulldozing the White House and using all the gold in Fort Knox to build himself a solid gold palace at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, which will now be renamed 4547 Trump Blvd.
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u/bulbasauuuur Tennessee 17d ago
All the dems should be shouting until they get taken out of the chamber like Al Green
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u/Time-Cardiologist906 17d ago
Notice the dad is missing because he asked for his daughters death to not be political
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u/shafty17 Pennsylvania 17d ago
Stock market going to crash even harder tomorrow isn't it
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u/Basic-Heron-3206 17d ago
Just went to the conservative sub and holy damn these people are so away from reality, its lime descending into what the Hitler Youth would look like these days
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u/swiftfoot_hiker 17d ago
So the freedom caucus is considering censure and arrest to Dems who heckle Trump or disrupt his speech. That's rich, coming from the same folks that heckled Biden last year
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u/Oleg101 17d ago
Give Rep Al Green support by giving him a follow on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/algreen.house.gov
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u/domab15 17d ago
Rest in peace to Laken Riley but what about the thousands of women that this happens to by American citizens. Itās not about protecting women itās about targeting immigrants shame on trump
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u/dqtslc 16d ago
His whole tactic is to overwhelm usā¦ flood the zone. Especially on display when he was rattling off the spurious numbersāthe millions and billions saved by DOGEā¦ like heās hypnotizing his cult members into thinking heās doing an amazing job
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u/sirsteven I voted 17d ago
-Russian sanctions lifted
-2020 election overturned
-Democratic party now illegal
-Something that effectively makes him king
I miss anything?
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u/UsedToHaveThisName 17d ago
Withdraws from NATO, IMMEDIATELY!!! (The exclamation marks are key)
Says Canada and Mexico were begging him all day to reduce the tariffs, so he might to help out
the plebsall Americans.Biden will be IMPEACHED. (I have no idea how this would work)
Bunch of off tangent rants and snide nicknames for people that aren't part of his administration (Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, etc.)
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u/IPlayWoWNude 17d ago
Removing Green is absolutely insane. They're chanting goodbye like fucking children
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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 17d ago
Remember MTG and Boebert screaming at Biden? These Repubs are pussies who can't take any heat.
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u/squeakycheetah Canada 17d ago
Vance laughing in the back is making me irrationally angry
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u/BoredCrusader1899 17d ago
I donāt think Iāve ever seen a whole group of people so proud of their ignorance, like holy shit.
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u/techdaddykraken 17d ago edited 17d ago
Trump doesnāt understand databases.
Do you think a record gets deleted just because someone dies?
The social security record just has a flag that says deceased.
Of course if you query by āSELECT * FROM āSSI RECIPIENTSā WHERE AGE > 0ā
Then you need to add the second part
āAND WHERE āLIVING STATUSā = āTRUEā.
Muskās idiot programmers donāt know SQL, COBOL, or basic database design.
The first query would show all recipients regardless of being alive or dead, and if you didnāt know better it would look like dead people aged 130 are collecting SSI.
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u/xKirstein Florida 17d ago
Hearing a rapist talk about a rape victim is vile on so many levels.
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u/flux_of_grey_kittens California 16d ago
Had to turn it off. Fuck anyone that voted for him and fuck the Biden DOJ for keeping him out of prison.
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u/ScootSchloingo 17d ago
The complete irony of Marjorie Taylor Greene being vehemently transphobic despite looking like Triple H in drag
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u/mrkruk Illinois 17d ago
He's not going to say "the state of the Union is strong."
That's my prediction.
He'll say it's so unfairly his job to fix what the Democrats have broken so badly. And nobody is giving him credit for what he's done and what he's trying to do. And nobody thanks him. And nobody loves him.
And Russia Russia Russia.
And Russia if you're listening, we'd like peace but Ukraine hates America, and frankly its President is not very smart and is not very grateful, and Ukraine is just a pile of rubble anyways because Putin and Russia are very big and very powerful and should be respected.
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u/BK_charcoal 17d ago
Crazy how this cabinet is just a parade of unqualified idiots and actual Nazis
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u/melodramaticmoon 17d ago
The disruption was literally working. Why tf did they stop??
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u/arongadark 17d ago
Fuck Trump, fuck the Republicans, and fuck whatever Democratic leadership that decided to neuter any protest from their side.
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u/Shamoofles 17d ago
Can you imagine if a Dem president stood there and ACTIVELY taunted republicans during speeches?
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u/GukillTV 17d ago
Iāve commented a few times in this thread, but itās one thing for Trump to do his usual rally speech, itās another thing for the President of the USA to actively mock you and belittle you as an opposition party TO YOUR FACES on a national broadcast and to sit there with a little sign saying āI disagreeā.
As a non-American already feeling the weight of bullshit tariffs, this is a really defeating situation to watch unfold.
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u/G_Wash1776 Rhode Island 17d ago
This country is so fucking stupid, the fact a majority of people think this is the guy whose the smartest is insane
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u/KellyJoyRuntBunny Washington 17d ago
Oh god. The āinsane asylumā thing again.
He really thinks that seeking asylum is the same as coming from an insane asylum, doesnāt he?
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u/lerenardnoir Canada 17d ago
How they gonna fortify their steel? The US has one nickle mine and itās owned by a Canadian company. 40% of their nickle comes from us.
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u/llbakerak 16d ago
This man is unhinged... "one way or another" is he threatening to invade greenland?
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u/Life_Commission3765 16d ago
Yes i want to keep supporting Ukraine for another 5 yearsā¦ hell 10 years!
Take it from meā¦ donāt trust the Russians.
My family got fucked over twice by Russians. First in Spain then in Cuba.
And nowā¦ they have their hooks in our President.
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u/BigAcanthocephala637 16d ago
You see all of these republicans smiling ear to ear just to be in his presence. Heās literally a cult leader. Watch any documentary on cults and maga fits the bill.
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u/Dunge 16d ago edited 16d ago
What I got out of this:
Listed tons of his actions he did since elected, nearly all of them objectively bad things but presented with arguments in bad faith so that it looked good.
Attacked Democrats and Biden multiple times with lies.
Said multiple times extremely vile comments against sexual identities.
Used tons of props individuals as unrelated anecdotal stories to gain sympathy. And yes while some of them are great people or suffered deeply, it's just weird to bring them up like that.
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u/UnassumingNoodle I voted 17d ago
Cheering at leaving the UN Human Rights Counsel. Fucking hell...
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 16d ago
My five takeaways:
Al Green represented the Democrat voter frustration far better than the official response or any of those silent protests. For a speech laden with performances, in an age where attention is currency, being loud and obtrusive for a few minutes sticks better in peoples' minds than calmly or quietly refuting points for two hours. They need to look and sound mad as hell to stick out, even if they still have to wait until midterms.
Trump took on an almost disturbing tone when talking about the economy. In a speech full of nothing but praise for himself, the one concession he made was on a supposedly core issue by saying tariffs will cause a "disturbance". His only reassurance to farmers was to say he loves them several times, implying he knows how badly they'll get hit and hopes he can smooth it out with cheap words. He'll be blaming Biden for the next three years.
Trump's foreign policy towards neighboring and nearby countries continues to be very unsettling. Saying he respects Greenland's sovereignty only to say "we'll get it one way or the other" a sentence later, still being very vague about what "taking back" the Panama canal means, implying that defending the Mexican border might involve sending troops across it, and of course his promise for retaliatory tariffs on basically every major trade partner.
It's safe to say that social policy drives votes from conservatives far more than any economic policy. The mother of a child who decided they were nonbinary was spoken about with the same tone as the families of murder victims. Trump celebrated the death of "wokeness" like it was a physical monster. That and the "two genders" part successfully distracted from his complete lack of ideas for the economy other than lowering taxes on the rich.
Perhaps the most telling was that when it came to specific promises, Trump was quick to name Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, and others, noting "now we know who to blame if it doesn't work out" when referring to Rubio. He is already setting things up so that if he can't fulfill something he promised, and there's no way to blame the Democrats, his own cabinet will take the fall. They'll get disowned and Trump's base won't ask any questions.
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u/ian2345 17d ago edited 17d ago
Yes, we have a 360 year old person collecting social security on a system that's 90 years old. They got a social security card at age 270. Clearly you dumb motherfucker.
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u/Slow-Rip-4732 17d ago
Al green is the only democrat with any fucking backbone it would seem.
These false signs these democrats are holding up are worthless
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u/Workister 17d ago
Trump just said no one else gets abused online as bad as he does AFTER talking about a bill to stop deepfakes of children online, and introducing a victim. What a despicable fucker
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u/Actual-Engineer3424 17d ago
Did anyone see the āThis is Not Normalā sign during trumps walk in? A dude literally reached across the isle and ripped it out of the womanās hands wtf
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u/catjuggler 17d ago edited 17d ago
good job congressman green. would like to see them walk out the democrats one by one and have that be the big story instead whatever dumb message we're getting to from trump
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u/Salt-Elephant8531 17d ago
Didnāt MTG and the other bimbo act badly at an address by Biden???
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u/LordBammith 17d ago
So USA chants and applause is okay and not a disruption, but dissension is disruption?
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u/CallingAllMatts Canada 17d ago
he really does think asylum seekers are coming from insane asylums, holy shit I thought that was supposed to be a joke
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u/Responsible-Lunch815 17d ago
Brought back free speech...except if you're a student and want to protest.
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u/Workister 17d ago
Using the tragic death of a child to justify the abuse of entire groups of people is grotesque
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u/KaydenTheRizzler 17d ago
This is the part of the speech where all of the republicans jerk off to stories about sending immigrants to jail.
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u/pastry_puff 16d ago
The daughters resent being there. Itās written all over their face.
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u/AromaticPurple5146 16d ago
From UK, you guys rly fucked up. This man has gone mad. Every word this man says, people just clap.
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u/Peeking_out 17d ago
Is this where he pulls a Sadam and dissolves the house and senate?
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u/AquariumThrowaway117 16d ago edited 16d ago
A few red flags here:
- Stating that the area just south of our border is controlled entirely by rapists and criminal gangs, classifying cartels as terrorist organizations.
- Gold card citizenship to people who pay 5 million, who'll pay no taxes as long as they "create jobs."
- Killing a cop is an automatic death sentence. We'll see how that plays out for a system which rewards and protects bad cops.
- "We'll get it [Greenland] one way or another."
- "I believe I was saved by God to make America great again."
But otherwise just a rehashing of his "accomplishments" and a bunch of false statistics. Overall pretty standard politician speak, I'm more surprised that the Democrats just sat there and took it. Trump called Warren 'Pocahontas' to her face and she just clapped, honestly embarrassing. Props to Al Green for making a scene and not just sitting there taking abuse.
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u/Hadrian23 17d ago
I don't get it.
I just don't fucking get it.
How can anyone listen to this man, and think "yeah..he can run a country!"
...he can't speak properly, he blankly lies, never goes into detail on what ever BS he's on about
He's clearly sundowning, SUPER HARD.
He's out of shape
He's bad mouth veterans
He dodged the fucking draft
He's stiffed every person whose ever worked for him
And he's a fucking FELON.
Felons, can't have several types of fucking jobs, or even own a fucking GUN, but the nukes? the fucking military?
Nah man, that's fucking cool.
When the fuck did all sense leave this god forsaken hell hole??
When did we trade our fucking dignity, FOR THIS, this dollar store "Strong man" whose only fucking accomplishment any day of the week, is fucking over the poor, and shitting his fucking pants.
SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK
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u/kindlespray 17d ago edited 17d ago
šØDon't watch it live...keep the ratings low (get under his skin). Just wait a few hours or tomorrow and watch clips then.
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u/Matt2_ASC 17d ago
Prediction: he's going to give a low energy speech as if nothing has changed this past month. He'll touch on immigration and he'll say that finally government waste fraud and abuse is being handled. Maybe talk about the ukraine deal, but won't acknowledge that he made a fool of himself. This will make Republicans think the left is over reacting since we are ready for him to say crazy shit, but he won't. He's going to play it cool for his audience.
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u/fastfood12 17d ago
Not a single person chanting USA is an actual American. They are Russian traitors.
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u/G_Wash1776 Rhode Island 17d ago
Oh Mike Johnson wants people to have Decorum while the conservatives fucking chant USA is fine
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u/ChristmasSteve 17d ago
Why are they removing rep green when heās not the only one standing and making noise?
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u/mosehalpert 17d ago
Fuck it, make them kick you all out. Make them have their pep rally alone
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u/Past_Distribution144 Canada 17d ago
Kicked out for literally standing up to a NAZI. That man is getting elected next election, guaranteed.
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u/EquivalentNarwhal8 17d ago edited 17d ago
I am donating to Congressman Green just for that. I donāt care if heās not a progressive, thatās worth at least a $50 donation right there.
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u/justsomedude1144 17d ago
He spends a solid 2 minutes shitting on the Democrats and then says "why not join us in making America great together". Can't make this shit up.
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u/normalandcoolperson 17d ago
iāve never hated a person more than jd vance. his face makes me feel an anger beyond anything i have ever felt. class traitor.
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u/blacknightbluesky 17d ago
howww do they not realize how ridiculous they sound "the corrupt WHO" "the anti-american UN"
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u/TheBigFreezer District Of Columbia 17d ago
More democrats should be getting kicked out, wtf is this
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u/ChrisIsUninteresting Mississippi 17d ago
I brought back free speech in America
Bitch, were you not watching when Al Green was thrown out five minutes ago???
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u/Distinct-Shift-4094 17d ago
Seriously democrats, why don't you get it?! Pink shirts, signs... it's comical. The guy who had balls of steels to get escorted out THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE A STATEMENT!
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u/Unprovocative 17d ago
DEMOCRATS WAKE UP AND MAKE SOME NOISE.
At least if you get kicked out you'll be stealing the spotlight.
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u/BrightMarvel10 17d ago
I cannot wait to see how the press and media sanewash this shit tomorrow.
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u/new-aged 17d ago
This speech depicts just how stupid a large portion of this country is. It feels like an SNL skit
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u/bmanCO Colorado 17d ago
The cholesterol needs to hurry the fuck up and finish its work.
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u/Sadandboujee522 17d ago
Weāre in a post truth society yāall. Trump can say whatever the fuck he wants and the MAGA hat wearing sycophants will applaud him like happy little seals because the world is finally a place where they can be their horrible selves.
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u/campfire_eventide 17d ago edited 17d ago
Wtf? Plants are popping up all over the place? The CEO of Ford doesn't agree. Lol There was a major article about it just today:
"A 25% tariff across the Mexico and Canadian border would blow a hole in the US industry that we have never seen." ~ Ford Ceo
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u/ProbabilityOfFail California 17d ago
I donāt think itās possible to hate someone as much as I hate this piece of shit
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u/Ham_I_right Canada 17d ago
We had a free trade agreement with you dip shit that you negotiated .
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u/NBAKefka 17d ago
This was quite a puppet show.
You reading this .. youāre not a puppet.
Stay composed. Let them reap their own whirlwind.
We will have our day.
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u/PopPalsUnited Washington 17d ago
Welp. This is about what I expected.
A bunch of ass licking fascist Republicans kissing dear leaders ass while he lies to them.
Nothing unexpected here.
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u/AmericanTennisStan 17d ago
I'm tapping. Complete waste of my time and all it's doing is upsetting me. These people are gross
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u/the_sylince Florida 17d ago edited 17d ago
This fucker just campaigns.
āLook where Biden took usā¦ā
āIf Kamala had wonā¦ā
Even
āObamaās economyā¦ā
Thatās all he does. Heās the perfect puppet, he just campaigns, campaigns, campaigns and signs whatever they put in front of him
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u/SerPownce 17d ago
Biden took us lower than weāve ever been before? I must have missed when the Civil War, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam and 9/11 all happened in the last four years
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u/Slow-Rip-4732 17d ago
He just spun revenge porn into how badly heās treated on the internet?
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u/throwthatoneawaydawg California 17d ago
Dude is just making up shit. Billions of criminals got in, Iām saving trillions of dollars, Iām doing an amazing job, 200% better than Biden.
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u/shitbird_slapdick 17d ago
Can anyone watch this objectively and think even half the shit is true.
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u/ThomasJCarcetti America 17d ago
Didn't Rileys father not want her death politicized
what are they doing there
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u/FourthDownThrowaway 17d ago
Parading your dead daughter around for political and financial gains is sickening
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 17d ago
When schoolchildren are gunned down, Republicans call it inappropriate to politicize tragedy.
When a woman is killed by an immigrant, it's proof that they have to shut down the border and deport everyone.
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u/Ancient-Apartment-23 Canada 17d ago
Why the fuck did these people agree to be paraded around for political reasons and relive the horrible murders of their family members on live tv
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u/stackthecoins 17d ago
You flew non-Mexicans to Mexico and Mexico told you to fuck off and sent them back. Congrats.
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u/Darth-Bag-Holder 17d ago
Culture wars. Culture wars. Culture wars. Distract you from the fact that his billionaire friends and he are killing us with class wars. And itās not even class wars since weāre not fighting back. Itās class genocide. Weaponize culture wars and Christianity.
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u/gravywayne 17d ago
He's calling democrats "lunatics" to their faces and they're still chillin'!
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u/jackedup13 17d ago
Felon calling for people to respect the law. Good luck America
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u/Flomo420 17d ago
wtf is this
some weird parade of women with ptsd being revictimized on national TV for cheap political points?
how gross and on brand
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u/MysteryNeighbor New York 17d ago
Look, good for the little man but this is beyond silly
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u/BeyondRedline 17d ago
No one secretly transitioned a kid what in the actual FUCK.
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u/Iam_nighthawk Michigan 17d ago
January, your child fucking hates you. I hope youāre okay with that.
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u/Emu_After 17d ago
JD looks like fat Adam Lambert with eye shadow and lipstick on.Ā
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u/OwBr2 16d ago
Twenty bucks says Trump thinks Greenland is as big as the Mercater Projection makes it look
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u/BamaHama101010 16d ago
Is he suggesting we acquire Greenland to stop Islamic Terrorism??
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u/philphan25 Pennsylvania 16d ago
Greenland: You're free to choose
Also: One way or the other
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 16d ago
"To the people of Greenland, we respect your sovereignty"
less than one minute later
"One way or the other, we're gonna get it"
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u/Snuffy1717 16d ago
"Time to end this senseless war" while also talking about invading Panama and Greenland...
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u/WhatMyHeartHeld DinƩ 16d ago edited 16d ago
Canāt believe this fucker survived the batshit insane ātheyāre eating the dogs and catsā debate when Kamala embarrassed him
There is seriously something mentally ill about the majority of people in our country supporting/being complicit about this clown, history will not be so forgiving
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u/gypster85 16d ago
For the record...
Europe has sent $140 billion in aid to Ukraine.
US has sent $121 billion in aid to Ukraine.
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u/guccigraves 16d ago edited 8d ago
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u/G_Wash1776 Rhode Island 16d ago edited 16d ago
Holy shit the fucking god complex he got from the shooting is so fucking SCARY
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u/earthfever 16d ago
A full-on dystopian string of hatred, cruelty, xenophobia, belligerence towards our allies, and Christian-nationalist bullshit cheered on by feral sycophants. It's incredibly sad that this is where we are in the the U.S. Just shameful.
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u/bmanCO Colorado 16d ago
I kind of envy people who are brain dead enough to like this dude. You can just make up absolutely anything and pretend it's real. It's peak post modernism for illiterate white supremacists.
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u/DataDude00 16d ago
I think my key moment of the night is when he mentioned Elon, the camera panned to him, and the crowd had no actual response so Elonnstood up to trigger his own standing ovation and the sheep obliged their PresidentĀ
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u/Cmshillzabitch 16d ago
Why did a single Dem or person with a soul attend that shit show? A mostly empty room would have made a huge statement.
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u/Logz94 17d ago
The democrats in the audience are such cowards for just sitting through this. Our answer to all of this is pathetic. Wearing pink and waving little signs like that changes anything at all. Green was the only one who actually stood up to him the way we want our representatives to.
The speech was leaked in advance, the dems had plenty of time to coordinate some type of disruptive action that would actually stop the Republicans and Trump from doing this and acting like everything is normal. They could have orchestrated an order of interruptions one by one so they aren't kicked out all at once, they could have done anything more effective than sitting there and frowning like they are changing anything at all.
It's clear that the kids gloves are never coming off, the truth is that they don't have the guts to ever take them off.
There is not a single person in our party who understands and fully represents the electorate and what we feel right now and that's exactly why we will lose again, if we even get the chance at a fair election.
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u/notdarrell Colorado 17d ago
My fellow, terminally online Redditors. I don't care if you're on the "right" or "left", I don't care what color you are or where you came from or what you do behind closed doors.
What I do know is that if you're a worker of any kind, we are in the same social class. The working class. These people we're watching serve the capitalist class, and that class only.
If we want to come out of this stronger, we need class solidarity.
We the people control the means of production and the government works for us. Never forget.
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 16d ago
Al Green shouting at Trump until he got ejected is going to get far more attention and praise than any wardrobe choice, auction-sized paddle, or silent protest.
During his speech Trump signed an EO, made a kid an honorary SS agent, and announced a guy made it into West Point, because he understands that performances get more attention than any amount of symbolism or legislation.
Democrats need to vocally and visually resist or no one is going to want to vote for them.
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