One of the nicest gestures during President Trump's SOTU on Tuesday night was when he honored a 13-year-old boy who survived a battle with brain cancer. He always wanted to be in law enforcement and got his wish when he was made an honorary Secret Service agent, complete with credentials. Even I smiled when I watched this, and I also liked when Trump announced that another young man, a high school athlete who lost his deputy sheriff father when he was just a boy, had been accepted at West Point.
Yesterday, I received a large number of comments from readers who were angry that Democrats sat on their hands when the 13-year-old was appointed to the Secret Service as an honorary agent. I did not notice this at the time and went back to check the video.
Unfortunately, the accusation is true, at least of a large number of Democrats. One Congressman refused to stand because "Trump [is] ripping cancer research to shreds in order to give billionaire tax cuts, firing doctors and nurses who are caring for kids with cancer right now in order for them to take their salaries and put them in their own pockets.”
Let's assume this is true. The young man is in no way responsible for any of these mistakes.
What happened actually makes Trump look good.
And that's pretty hard to do.
I have a feeling a lot of kids and parents are going to do more than shake signs at this moron. King Trump/Musk is signing exec order to shut down Dept of Education today. Watch your local and state taxes go up as school districts are funded from three buckets, local, state and federal.
ReplyDeleteYea, I'm a dem and I am very disappointed in out Party's behavior. The whole pink, paddle and white board thing is childish. The Party is now run by angry women and frightened into silence men, who think this nonsense is selling with the independents who determine elections. This is what happens when Party primaries are dominated by ideological and gender hardliners who put forth unreasonable people who appeal to a thin majority of Democrats.
ReplyDeleteI feel in the same boat but the Republican Party has become just as bad our government has lost its reasonable intelligent discussion of issues and compromise solutions. Respect and decorum for the institution has been lost. Gerald Ford and Tip O’Neill must be looking down very sadly.
DeleteDemocrats cheered for five more years of war. Democrats scoffed at the coolest 13-year old in the country. Democrats scoffed at a girl who received brain-damaged from a boy playing girls volleyball. They scoffed at an heroic steel worker who does the volunteer work of 50 men. They scoffed at the mother and sisters of a beautiful girl murdered by an illegal animal who was let into the country by them and Joe Biden. This is who they are. This is who their voters are: bloodthirsty, science-denying, hateful. Mostly, they are the party of meanness - vicious, heartless meanness.
ReplyDelete6:05, You are full of partisan hate. Just as most Democrats I know are decent and honorable people who are tolerant, so are most Republicans. It is the rank partisans like you that both sides need to distance themselves from. This is where Trump goes wrong. This is where Congressional Dems go wrong. This is where many party activists on both sides go wrong.
DeleteI see the words you type. And then I see who you and your fellow travelers support at election time. Decent and honorable? Then, vote like you're decent and honorable. Dems used to be the party of caring. They are now (demonstrably and repeatedly) the party of hatred and meanness. Even your so-called moderate Fetterman is OK with boys and men knocking women and girls around in sports. You write of a party that is no longer in existence. And you've been right there encouraging it all along with your own meanness and hate.
DeleteIf you're more upset about the Democrats not standing than you are Trump using a cancer patient as a prop while he and Musk cut funding for cancer research then you're a fool who fell for their trick.
ReplyDeleteLIKE I said, even if that young man is being used, he is still an innocent and should be regarded as such. I am embarrassed by this disregard for another human being.
DeleteThe kid was a prop, Bernie. You’re mad about the optics of congressional Dems not clapping as the Trump admin is shredding research funding for medical research.
DeleteAnd you don’t have to assume the research cuts are true. I’ve personally received emails from the NSF about grant freezes, and there is substantial reporting on the massive loss of research funding to PA research hospitals.
Bernie your democrat party is going the way of the whig party.
ReplyDeleteChildren should not be used as props, especially by an elected official who is cutting funding for cancer research and treatment.
ReplyDeleteIt's real easy to make President Trump look presidential. Identify as a Democrat, act like a democrat, and use terms like Hitler, obligarch, orange man, democracy killer, and beleive Biden is "the best Joe Biden I've ever seen" AKA Morning Joe Scarborough, a failed repub and MSNBC reprobate.
ReplyDeletet us Face facts Trump destroyed the democratic party He exposed their evil and hateful attitude. Most of them are mentally ill and need help. The democrats are destroying local communities, our cities our counties and our schools we cannot continue to put democrats in charge of anything because in the end they are hurting our people BIG TIME.
ReplyDeleteThis was obviously planned by the speech writer and the Trump team. If the Dems did stand up and cheer the admin would proclaim that he has earned everyone’s support. I’m happy for the kid and hope he has a full recovery. Somewhat distasteful how he was used here. Political games.
ReplyDeleteIt was truly disgraceful and showed the true colors of the bitter dems - pure hate. Because you lost the elections you take it out on an innocent.
ReplyDelete7:18, All I can say is that most Democrats I know would certainly stand and honor this young man.
DeleteYour last sentence shows your true colors also. You didn't have to take the swipe. You dems cannot control your distain.
ReplyDeleteThe downfall started with Obama He was going to change America. We got a break with Trump but then the big mistake came with Biden who did not have the mental capacity to do the job as result they covered him up and the far-left lunatics took hold of the party, The final results were seen the the night in halls of congress.
ReplyDeleteI loved that kid DJ Daniel. My favorite unscripted/spontaneous moment was when little DJ ran down to give a high five to the student who found out he was accepted to West Point.
ReplyDelete7:36, I liked that as well. The young man going to West Point was really shocked to get the news the way he did, and DJ delivering the high five was the icing in the cake. Those were my two favorite moments.
DeleteA big problem is the media at least 95% is left wing they have lied to the public for years I believe it finally caught up with them They are going the way of the dinosaur. The rot started in those left-wing universities where these people learned their so called trade.
ReplyDeleteThe democratic party will rise again under the leadership of Gavin Newsom he destroyed San Franisco as mayor look what he did to California now He wants America and the liberal left will give it to him.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats looked angry & lost- they need to fire whatever consultant advised them to sit on their asses with the bingo paddles!
ReplyDeleteAfter 4 years of being called a systemically racist country, it was refreshing to watch a President defend our country!
ReplyDeleteIf this is your takeaway, it's probably bc you are a racist lol.
DeleteThere is an old saying: “Choose your enemies wisely.”
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure Trump is clever enough to have done that deliberately , but it sure does seem like his enemies are intent on doing him favors.
Sure Trump is not clever like you are Boy you must be smarter than Trump
DeleteA fresh steaming dog turd is smarter than Trump and many within his cult.
DeleteAnd sadly, BOH, your experience of having to relook at the video is exactly the problem with so many (not all) Dems. They don’t see what is happening right in front of them and they can’t read the room. That’s why they do not have the White House, the Senate, and the House.
ReplyDelete9:24 you are a typical democrat calling people names you are a moron who learned nothing
ReplyDeleteAs. Registered Republican I thought the whole evening was just another Trump campaign rally. There wasn’t any new idea in the whole thing. It was much of a replay of to silly inauguration speech right down to the silly Gulf of America. Trump won the popular vote by less than 2%. When the word mandate comes up be aware that you are being lied to. There is/was no mandate at that number. As a stage 4 cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy, I can also tell you that I am appalled and insulted that Trump would use a kid as a photo op for himself while desimating the department that conducts clinical trials. A fake ploy to show what a heart Trump has. It was slap to the thousands of cancer patients who lost their treatment in the middle of a trial. Ask Fox Chase Cancer Center and University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center how they felt about the rally. The Democrats, for the most part, did the right thing by not reacting to anything- and there were plenty of lies to react to. Congress itself has been shut out of the legislative process. Did congress approve DOGE? It’s not even a legal department. There’s really nothing for Congress to do in Washington. Trump won’t let Republican members to hold town halls so McKenzie has been posting photos of him making nice controlled on-site visits, just nice photo-ops. Trump cares about Americans just as much as he did the first time. I will say, he’s getting much better hair and makeup treatment, and it was cute that he got Musk to wear the same color suit he was wearing, and ditching the adolescent baseball cap.
ReplyDeleteTrump used a child to pander approval from his base while planning to cut funding for health and education. His critics saw through that at once and could not approve of his gimmick. Nothing to do with the poor child. It is trump using a poor child for his selfish purposes who should be admonished.
ReplyDeletego home to your mommy
DeleteYou can’t fix every problem by throwing money at it… education spending increases every year to record highs while proficiency scores are lowest they’ve ever been…
DeleteSpeaking of Trump's enemies, I know this is twitter and who knows what AI (or AS---artificial stupidity) can do today, but...
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/i/status/1897621162693161442
Do not view with food or coffee in your mouth.
11:14 - 🔥🔥 Sulhee Jessica Woo 🔥🔥 can take me on any day. 🔥🔥
DeleteState of the Union speeches used to be worth viewing, but have completely devolved into public relations spectacles, complete with pandering applause lines and bait/switch traps. Both parties do it, its sad and gross and in general useless. Why networks even bother airing them anymore is questionable.
ReplyDeleteLooks as if Bernie has relocated his taint with yesterday's malarkey. Just what local dems are normal in the valley because all I see is a bunch of pink pussy hat wearing freaks. This being under the far left and far right we see on the posts yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThe Dems have been disgracing themselves ever since Trump came down the escalator. They have no ideas and govern only by resisting Trump. BTW, Al Green is the 13 yr. old's Rep. in Texas, and it just goes to show the Dems only care about getting headlines.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats want to keep the war going in Ukraine they want boys to play in girls sports and go in girl's locker rooms, Democrats want to let criminals walk our streets, and many more idiotic things. do you think this party has a future/
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to watch the president lie and stay quiet. He did not have a mandate. He lies all the time and right wing billionaires are buying all the media. The only truth we will hear are from bloggers. I hate to say it but even you post the truth despite your shitty opinions of us all.
ReplyDeleteI thought I've seen it all, until I saw the Dems "choose your fighter" tic toc video- shameful! These are unserious people, further proof we need term limits!
ReplyDeleteDems have a 20% approval rating, case closed!
ReplyDeleteNot only have the politicians lost all common sense. So has half the country. When you are unable to see good anywhere because of hatred for one person you really need to stop and take inventory of yourself. When you don't clsp or support patents of children killed or a boy who beat cancer you have lost all perspective and should not be making decisions for our country. If people on this blog don't see that then they are also blinded by hatred
ReplyDeleteTo my earlier point about the entire thing being a staged event. Agree its a bad look on Dems, but when 9 out of 10 things were essentially put in the speech to "own the libs" with either bat shit insanity or general red meat for far right podcasters that Dems are going to hate regardless, expecting them to applaud for one moment during a 100 minute MAGA rally is rather silly, yet this is what Republicans can talk about today - "Dems didn't cheer for a little kid!" Its all theater at this point. Far too many people watch cable news as their entertainment and because of it think they're informed.
DeleteYou also are missing the point
DeleteState of the union which this wasn't yet are always partisan but some parts are for all. The demo this date could only see their hatred and nothing good
DeleteThe R's didn't stand up and applaud Biden when he gave his SOTU speeches. This this isn't shocking at all. Heckling? That isn't new either. I remember Mr. Marjorie Taylor Green yelling and screaming at Biden. She wasn't escorted out by the Man at Arms, was she? The majority of D's that sat, sat in protest, silent protest. The kid with the police uniform? There was absolutely no story to tie him into the speech. None. The kid was a cancer survivor...and....he is at the capitol for what reason? Bizarre. Just another Trump speech touting his list of actions that have caused inflation to rise, the stock market to dive, and the big three automakers to scramble in panic, and for the American public to wonder why is our economy taking a nose dive. And anyone that believes that SS is sending checks to people that are 120+ years old slow, stupid, retarded, uneducated, The idiot claiming such on a world stage is equally retarded.
ReplyDeleteThe Democratic party will be over in the next 3 years. No leadership and no sense of true American patriotism. God I wish there was a third party
ReplyDeleteWe need at least 3 Parties!
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