State of disunion

This evening, for those who can bear it, an addled old man will ramble on for far too long about all his grievances and how he is going to punish those who have aggrieved him. I’d say it will be a pitiful occasion, but that assumes the old man deserves anyone’s pity. He doesn’t. What he deserves is to spend eternity with a red-hot poker shoved up his ass – beginning sooner rather than later.

It will be a spectacle and not a good one. Republicans will applaud cruelty and avarice. Democrats will sit on their hands, stony-faced, when really they should boycott the whole thing. Maybe they’ll all get up and walk out when the Wankmaggot refers to Renee Good and Alex Pretti as domestic terrorists. That would be nice.

There is no union. Although it’s been building since Newt Gingrich, under the Wankmaggot, Republican legislators have almost completely abandoned any attempt to work with their Democratic counterparts to do anything that might actually help average people. They seem to be just fine with throwing their treasured Constitution out the window. (And if they’re not, they’re pretty fucking quiet about it.)

I’m not saying the Democrats are perfect – far from it – but at least the things for which they are pilloried (e.g. trans rights) show a concern for the marginalised.

No matter who the President is, this annual bragfest, does a disservice to those Yanks (the majority?) who’ve never actually read their Constitution, leaving them with, as Bill Maher pointed out last week, the impression that it is the President, not Congress, who make the laws.  Maher made a call (which of course will never be heeded) to just cancel the bloody thing.

Thankfully I am not a paid member of the US media who has to watch and listen to this pile of crap. My head would explode.

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PS I’ve been avoiding Bill Maher for a while. His Islamophobia is too much. But I did watch last Friday’s show because one of his two panel guests was James Talarico (fresh from the primary bump CBS gave him last week after banning his appearance with Stephen Colbert). The decision was taken with some misgiving as the other panellist was Colorado whack job Lauren Boebert. She did not disappoint. (If disappoint is the world I want.)