One score and three years ago, I started this humble blog with, well, no real purpose. I fished around for a purpose for a while, some would say I am still fishing, but finally, in late January 2004, I found it: I always post about how much I hate the State of the Union Address.
Okay, that is not all I do here. I'm not sure what else exactly I do do here, but if it were just that, I would just post one thing a year. But posting about the SOTU, and how much I hate it, is one of the things that I do here, and I do it every friggin year.
But it feels a little more boring now. I once was a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness about how shitty the SOTU address is. Nowadays, it's pretty much accepted that it is awful. Members of Congress are skipping the event and doing counter-programming outside. Everyone is stealing my bit!
Plus, can we all agree that the state of the union (not the speech but the actual state of the union of the United States) is terrible at the moment? Trump is too addled to get what this thing is supposed to be for--a report from the President to Congress about how things are going. That's how bad our state is! We have someone who may be the stupidest president in the history of this great nation, with a narcissistic personality disorder who is waltzing through various stages of dementia while his political party does nothing to stop it. That's really really bad! Our problems go way beyond the fact that the modern SOTU address has always been a bullshit celebration of nothingness. It seems almost silly to get into my familiar whine this year, even on this crowded bandwagon where everyone is probably a lot more receptive to my message.
And yet, here I am, whining my whine like I have for (!!!) twenty-two years.
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