The State of the Union Revealed a Sad Reality

237 points by IllIntroduction1509 a day ago on reddit | 12 comments

[OP] IllIntroduction1509 | a day ago

The speech turned reality on its head in many ways. The president who has enriched himself and his family by more than a billion dollars in his first year in office called on Congress to clean up its corruption. The president who has collected about $175 billion in illegal tariffs from the American people falsely told them that he had given them a great big tax cut. The president solemnly condemned political violence—the same president who ended his first term by inciting a mob to sack Congress and overturn an election. Maybe most shocking, Trump demanded that members of Congress rise to agree that it’s the first duty of government to protect American citizens—even as his own government by its brutal police methods has shot American citizens dead on the streets and then tried to deceive the country about how those Americans had been killed and why. Then of course there were the many misstatements of fact about the economy, about crime, and about wars and peace—many of which look like deliberate decisions to deceive the public watching on television.

standard-issue-man | a day ago

If this was the revelation to what is going on, you haven't been paying attention

NfiniteNsight | a day ago

Revealed? Really?

No-Requirement1663 | a day ago

One thing the dems did stand up for was the part about stopping corporations from buying single family homes... nobody would have stood up if he said 'we have to stop corporations from buying every apartment complex in the city'

Or all the land around every city, or all the farmland available.

Our governments sponsors wouldnt have appreciated that... the room would have sounded like crickets.

Even crazier to think; if corporations had to sell all the homes they've acquired all at once- we'd either have to bail-out the banks and hedge funds, or see systemic failure and capitulation that makes our old house of cards look like a fortress.

[OP] IllIntroduction1509 | a day ago

If you encounter a paywall, use this archival link: https://archive.ph/iwdTn

hereandthere_nowhere | a day ago

Suddenly awake to this? Lol, #getdafuckouttahere

tucker_frump | 23 hours ago

He's stealing America's virtue as he rapes Lady Liberty in broad daylight ....

Far_Out_6and_2 | 16 hours ago

This is really fucked up man

CoolFirefighter930 | 3 hours ago

This is so funny the OP doesn't even know that the state of the union is required by law !

Y'all never stop entertaining me so much.

CoolFirefighter930 | 14 hours ago

Cry baby cry .It happens every time we get a president . Its like crying because the sun is hot.

karatekidliveordie | 3 hours ago

Coward