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* Matt Margolis Can we all just take a moment and just appreciate how great it is that Trump, not Biden or Kamala, is delivering this address tonight? *Sarah Anderson Are the Dems wearing pink to remind us of all the Pepto Bismol we needed after four years with them in charge? * Kevin Downey Jr. How funny if Trump comes in dressed like Zelenskyy.

No. Not a mod, but I did start the thread to discuss the address. If you want to be childish about it, please continue. THEY REALLY DO: Democrats Seem Desperate to Prove That Republicans Are the Adults in the Room. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/04/democrats-seem-desperate-to-prove-republicans-are-the-adults-in-the-room-n4937574 Related: The First Lady’s Guest List for Tonight Is Fascinating. https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/03/04/the-first-ladys-fascinating-guest-list-for-tonight-n4937572

Our usual posters here will just say that she is stupid. .

Donald Trump in the Oval On Survival, The World, and His Plans For His Second Term Ben Domenech https://thetransom.com/p/donald-trump-in-the-oval

AGAIN ? Everything about this is comedy gold, Jerry. From her committing to staying in perpetuity and then almost immediately leaving, to the very helpful HUD chief of staff offering for Maxine to watch a video of President Trump's accomplishments in the lobby while she waits. I mean ... just a work of art. https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/04/maxine-waters-tries-to-get-into-another-federal-building-it-doesnt-end-well-this-time-either-n2186257

The Truth. China's Out: American Company Taking Control of Panama Canal Ports President Trump can probably chalk this up as a win: The American asset manager BlackRock, according to an announcement made on Tuesday, will be purchasing two key Panama Canal ports from a Hong Kong-based Chinese firm. The possession of these ports by a Chinese concern has, according to President Trump, represented a strategic threat to American shipping as well as to the movement of naval vessels. The ports in question are Balboa and Cristobal. The Panama Canal has vast strategic importance for pretty much every nation on the planet. An enormous amount of shipping passes through the canal every year, not to mention military traffic. Since the canal was built by the United States at an enormous cost, President Trump has been advocating the complete return of the canal to American control. It's not at all clear if that will happen, but at least these two key ports will no longer be in direct Chinese control. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/04/chinas-out-american-company-taking-control-of-panama-canal-ports-n2186268

Wrong thread. SOTU thread And laws against masks specifically to hide your identity during the commission of crimes has always been illegal .

After All That Noise, Trump's Approval Rating Has Increased by Matt Vespa There aren’t many places where the liberal media can go on this one. There’s been a recent attempt to peddle a narrative that buyer’s remorse surrounds Donald Trump. There isn’t. The media tried to declare his approval ratings were plummeting when they were not. Voters have the information at their disposal, so when they see that headline about dipping approval ratings and then check, only to find that the most anti-Trump outlets are the ones with such polls, they ignore it, and rightfully so. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/03/03/trumps-approval-rating-has-increased-n2653035 .

“Gavin Newsom and his allies just forced 12 historic family farms and dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore in California. They claim it’s about saving the environment — but the truth couldn’t be more different. Here is the true story — and it’s heartbreaking.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1896805547837735304.html

Rumors of other Democrat childish plans for to night. . . . . . props. Noisemakers egg cartons Hand clappers Pocket Constitutions AND (of course) multiple walk-outs. If bringing props to Trump's address that would make Carrot Top blush doesn't get the job done, the report also states some Democrats may "sit stone-faced and refuse to clap." How would that be different from any other time in their miserable existence since November? No matter, Trump's speech, will be "must-see TV." https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/04/karoline-leavitt-rips-dems-over-report-they-plan-to-protest-trumps-speech-with-noisemakers-egg-cartons-n2186264 .

Does the Democratic Party need to change? It can't. It won't. I'm reading "Senate blocks ban on transgender athletes, as Trump pushes forward/The Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance legislation banning transgender athletes from competing in female sports" (WaPo). Every single Democratic Senator voted against the bill. That is, they stuck to their principles on the #1 issue that clearly — massively — hurts them. WaPo's A.I. summarizes comments — "Many commenters criticize Democrats for supporting policies that they believe disadvantage biological women" — and singles this one out as "provocative": Yeah, who are we as a country if we don't defend someone's right to pee next to someone of their imagined gender? Or defend a guy’s right to creep out a bunch of college girls by flouncing around in his original equipment in their locker room and then going out and stealing an NCAA swimming championship from them? /s Posted by Ann Althouse https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/03/senate-vote-transgender-athletes-womens-sports/ https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/03/does-democratic-party-need-to-change-it.html Top Democrats humiliated as their attempt at edgy social media videos revealed as heavily scripted DC stunt. By ALEX HAMMER Democrat leaders were caught red-handed reading from the same script in videos meant to oppose Donald Trump's address to Congress. Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker all published footage of their opposition Tuesday with the same word-for-word clips and strikingly similar b-roll. All began with the same clip of the president vowing to 'bring prices down' - and the same expletive-laden reaction from each senator, 'Sh*t that ain't true.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14460399/chuck-schumer-elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-scripted.html? .

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Gee, Roundy tries (and fails) to spin a case brought by San Francisco on MAGA. Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha. Supreme Court lets San Francisco discharge more raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean By John Fritze The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental regulators overstepped their authority by attempting to impose vague limits on how much raw sewage the California city may pump into the Pacific Ocean. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/supreme-court-san-francisco-poop-epa/index.html We may need a Roundybout is Wrong thread to keep track. .

Imagine that ?

ELON !!

Trump’s speech to Congress has the ingredients for a blistering event https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/04/trump-speech-second-term-congress/ Why Trump’s joint remarks to Congress won’t be a ‘State of the Union’ address https://apnews.com/article/why-is-it-not-state-of-union-3bf88c02395141a6d9148a8f7c1e6e78 Live updates: Donald Trump to address joint session of Congress tonight https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/donald-trump-speech-address-to-congress-live-updates/81142181007/ .

Classic misdirection by Roundy, too bad it doesn't work on adults. Just some of 'nothingburger's" teenage victims.

Frankie just can't help it, LOL

Trump to Announce Another Major Investment in American Manufacturing by Katie Pavlich President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new and major investment in American manufacturing from the White House Monday afternoon, marking yet another economic victory less than two months into his second term. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. intends to invest $100 billion in chip-manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years under a plan expected to be announced later Monday by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal reports. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/03/03/trump-to-sign-another-major-investment-in-american-manufacturing-n2653127

Bondi Reveals FBI Delivered 'Truckload' of Jeffrey Epstein Files, Meanwhile Top Bureau Official Resigns by Bob Hoge Two FBI stories broke Monday, and they very well may be connected. First, the New York Field Office’s top agent, James Dennehy, resigned, claiming that he had been told he’d be fired if he didn’t. Second, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Bureau had dropped off a “truckload” of Jeffrey Epstein files after she’d set a hard deadline for their turnover. Coincidence? As we reported, Bondi had promised to deliver the potential bombshell files, which she did to select independent conservative media influencers Thursday, but things didn’t necessarily go as planned. https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/03/03/bondi-reveals-fbi-delivered-truckload-of-jeffrey-epstein-files-meanwhile-top-bureau-official-resigns-n2186238

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