SOTU memes…
Including from the GOP response…
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I don’t usually read Newsweek but this headline made me laugh
Meanwhile the WSJ is whinging about how there wasn’t enough bipartisan rhetoric. Seriously, WSJ, there is no middle anymore. There is no reaching across the aisle. The GOP is stocked full of fascist MAGA complete with christo-nationalists and white supremacists. There are no compromises to be had. Democrats don’t want to give up democracy. MAGA wants an authoritarian dictatorship. You want compromise? Come to the left and maybe you might even deserve it.
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I think this is the guy who was escorted out.
Not sure what the point was, though.
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Thanks, I was just about to see if I could find out who it was.
As to the point, seems like he must be a very sad and angry man. His other son committed suicide almost on the anniversary of the first son’s death during the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. 
Here was Mast’s announcement about his guest.
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Britt is such a spineless weenie that she voted against the border bill she helped draft on orders of her Mango Svengali.
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Yes, but… where was Thomas? Missing in action, I guess.
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That was very disturbing.
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Y’know I kinda missed the “hot mic” moment right after the speech and maybe some here did too so:
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Britt’s voice.
I have… questions.
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I liked the one of Biden looking at MTG with the caption “When your 8 year old nephew flexes his muscles at you”. (I’d link directly but it’s Twitter, and Nitter seems no longer to be working.)
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I have maybe a stupid question, or admission. I like Beau’s videos fine, but I feel like they get posted here more than I’d expect for their content.
Is it possible that they get posted here more than they would if he didn’t present as a Southern country boy, and so we all love the story juxtaposition of him speaking as a liberal?
Feel free to reject this, I don’t watch him that much, so maybe he says stuff that no one else is saying. But the videos I watch always seem… totally fine. But not more insightful than anyone that. But school me if I’m wrong.
I just wonder if he’s liked partly because he gives off this energy:
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Not by me. I don’t listen to him all that much, nor do I especially like him more than a lot of other commentators. But when I do listen, he usually does lay things out, with a calm clarity, in a way that I hadn’t heard before.
He sometimes also makes points I hadn’t thought of before. Maybe it’s YOU who can’t hear that when it happens, because you’re actually the one who can’t see past the country stylings you find so noticeable? It’s just a thought.
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None of the above, thanks.
I end up turning to whichever explainer seems to be fact-based while also being relevant to the topic. I hadn’t even heard about that hot mic thing with Biden until I saw it on a results page for my (algorithm-influenced) Youtube search for Biden+SOTU+2024 stuff.
Ok.
Same.
My news intake may be atypical for a U.S.ian. For current events I:
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have no TV.
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have no subscriptions to any streaming services NetFlix, AppleTV, Hulu, Disney, Maxwhatever it is, etc.
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read (in a fast messy unthorough way) online: the Austin Chronicle, the Austin American Statesman, the Hays Free Press, the Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Le Monde in English, and the LA Times online. I gave up on the NY Times; instead, I read The Onion. Not a joke. Sometimes: Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Intercept, and ProPublica depending on what they’ve been covering.
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listen to Deutsche Welle, NPR (when driving), Texas Standard and/or whatever KUT has on unless I am in the car that has the HD radio so I can listen to the BBC, Pod Save America, and for this election year: Meidas Touch stuff for the legal breakdowns of TFG lawsuits by actual lawyers, as long as I get to skip over Michael Cohen’s voice because it puts me off.
I watch Beau’s two Youtube channels irregularly; John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight and SNL’s Weekend Update weekly. I used to watch Trevor Noah when he was on The Daily Show and miss him hugely. I watch Robert Reich’s various videos on Youtube variously… his UCB lectures are pretty interesting and the man brings receipts. I maybe watch Rachel Maddow once on her Youtube channel every few months.
All this to say that I freely admit I compare the crap outta any one story, and I may be an outlier re pop culture (which I largely have no use for) and some of the more common news channels.
What I am curious about is quite often outside the culture I find myself in.
I find Beau’s vibe direct, observant, reasonable, presented with humility and humor. When he’s been wrong, he corrects himself. When he needs to make citations from primary sources like the documents written by the U.S. states that seceded prior to the U.S. Civil War, he reads them out loud on camera–at length. Oh what a deadly dull TV moment for most networks: reading historical documents on air! Cut to commercial! Go go go–
Beau has some insider knowledge (personally and from his own sources) from walks of life I will never access (law enforcement, military, etc.). He focuses on provable, demonstrable, evidence-based facts. He is as careful as a man can be AFAICT, his wife is a nurse, they are parents. I appreciate these facts personally.
He states repeatedly he does a lot of checking before recording and posting a video. His sources seem to be fairly reliable. He avoids hot takes, gossip, trendy crap. He does not shy away from saying the hard things needing to be said. Cut to commercial! Go go go–
He is outside my frame of reference in many ways. I frankly don’t care if some people can’t get past his Southern accent, or his beard, his t-shirts, whether his otherwise seeming unique combo of his convictions and beliefs and values, and what he may look like to some people. There are a huge number of liberals in the American South and I am super grateful for each and every one of them. I truly am. Brave people. I love 'em to bits. And I tell 'em I do.
Whatever energy he gives off to you is definitely not what I get from Beau.
It is what it is.
bOING peeps, feel free to pitch me some news sources you trust.
Our family has no stickers on any of our cars. It’s not safe to do so even if we did feel like it, here in central Texas. My neighbor’s nice car had one Beto sticker on it and got $3000 of keying damage in 10 minutes on a Thursday afternoon in the closest town. She’s was babysitting that day and was just out to lunch with her young charge.
ETA: Link added. I started a new thread asking as much.
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Same here. I only listen when I see him posted here, and not always then. But I like his take on stuff, and I like that he generally does it in under 6 minutes.
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Those bumper stickers may provide a hint as to the cause of all the damage along the lower portions of the vehicle. Or perhaps the other way around: "My ride’s already a rolling wreck… so good to go as an in-your-face rolling billboard! 
@j9c I should’ve read the fine print beforehand. (Why does hecep keep doing that?!)
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https://www.axios.com/2024/03/09/biden-campaign-ad-trump
“Smokin’ Joe Biden”: Campaign builds on SOTU buzz
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I like how Beau breaks things down and especially how short his videos are. I get super impatient with videos
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