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Nancy Cochran's avatar

Didn't listen to the speech, from what I am hearing do believe the worst speech of all American presidents.

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Andrea Eisenberg's avatar

Looking forward to hearing your commentary, Simon. I did not listen to the talk tonite - his voice rankles me too much. I do, however, pay attention to your views and the views of others who help me understand what's important. Thank you for so much - you are one of my most trusted resources.

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Betsy's avatar

Same for me. I check Hopium every morning as I trust your take on what's really going on Simon. Thanks for this place.

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Juli killgore's avatar

Even as hope is growing, the start cloud looms overhead – no one is at the helm - just loonies running riot as the rest of the world watches and plans

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JCOK's avatar

It really is a cult. That’s my gut conclusion tonight. Only people who have completely shut down their intellect could follow someone as openly sick and demented as that man. And yes—there are still plenty of them.

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JCOK's avatar

And just for context here, the Felon is at 88% job approval among the GOP per the most recent Civiqs poll. 88%.

That’s a cult. The GOP is a cult.

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Wincie's avatar

Many better ways to spend my time vs DT insidious on tv.

Look forward , (I guess… )to hear Simon’s analysis.

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Dennis McAtee's avatar

10-4 Big Buddy!

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Mrt1 Tim R's avatar

SILENT NIGHT

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Michael G Baer's avatar

100%

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Ruth Joachim's avatar

Aaron, and also Zev/Lev/Dean/Waj break it down. Look forward to Simon’s take tomorrow.

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Greggory Morris's avatar

A disturbing speech by a mentally ill President with a crew of really weird, dangerous, racist, fascist, despicable, misanthropic people at the ready to do his bidding. It augurs that something really ugly and catastrophic is probably in the works.

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Susan Travis's avatar

Well put, Greggory

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Bison Doc's avatar

"Old man yells at cloud."

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Jan Brown's avatar

Sure seems like it.

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Kathy Sowers's avatar

I didn't watch. I cannot tolerate his voice for more than 5 seconds, and looking at him makes me nauseous. I filter through you, Simon. Thank you for doing that.

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Anne Fitzpatrick's avatar

I think this may be a common reaction mainly from women. The guy is so filled with hate of women, hate of everything but particularly women.

Michelle Obama is being interviewed tonight (at 5 pm Pacific) about 'The Look' on MSNOW (I think this is a new book she wrote). I saw a brief snippet of an interview with Jonathan Capehart where she talked about women have to stop allowing women to be mistreated. I'm so glad she skipped the latest Trump inauguration (to me it was a silent statement (that was really loud - if you were listening) that said I am not going to pretend that this is OK, and that all the abuse this man dishes out is not OK).

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Charlie's avatar

I watched a few minutes of it-- inadvertently because I thought I was tuning in to commentary. He sounded unusual: really fast, loud, spitting out numbers that I knew would be nonsense.

Tomorrow will be interesting.

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Jo Burns's avatar

This is my morning, noon, and night mantra. Bless you for withstanding this orange mess.

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Anne Bear's avatar

I checked the news to see if we were at war. The headlines (right now) seem to be treating the speech as normal, but i can see it was anything but. I hope some in the mainstream media have the courage to point out that the emperor has no brain.

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MrsCQ's avatar
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Figures they are treating the speech as normal. Glad I didn't watch any of it or the commentary.

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