Tonight, we took advantage of President Trump's first state of the union address and filmed our live reaction. I was unimpressed by his address, and I twice found myself upset at statements that I thought particularly egregious in terms of their regressiveness and simple-mindedness. I did find certain sections of the speech laudible, but the overarching message was one of friendliness to big business. I found Hillary Clinton's forced "Trumped Up Trickle Down" line to be cringe-inducing at the time she said it, but Trump's entire speech was in support of trickle-down economics. Take care of the rich, and you ultimately take care of everyone. It's the Republican communism, in that no matter how many times it's tried and fails, it never seems to get its just eviction from the ideological discourse.
I was also perplexed and annoyed by Trump's menagerie of "good guys" that he kept trotting before us as examples of "true America." By the time it was near its finale, I pathologically hated the people he was showing me, because their stories were being presented in a dishonest context to foster a lie that is ultimately designed to divide and conquer people--distract the poor by turning them against one another while the rich are given government handouts and then the 99% are told all about how great they're doing, like we're supposed to be happy for them.
Good news America! I'm deregulating big business so that they can stop exploiting people in Mexico and start exploiting them here at home instead. My business cocksucker friends get a couple of new mansions, a new fleet of sports cars and luxury SUVS, and a bigger yacht--all on your dime. But don't look dishearted--we've got some new manufacturing jobs for you. Maybe you can help build one your boss' Bentleys.
A note of some embarassment is that this video does begin with some audio technical issues and I do early on space out on the name and position of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. I was perhaps not at my sharpest after days of travel and stressful business negotiation in Ohio. That's no excuse for being such an idiot, of course. My apologies.