State Of The Union

My goodness, what else can go right for Trump before today's State of the Union?

 - The Democrats running their Iowa caucuses make a strong case for the Electoral College as their radioactive clown car explodes in a shower of No Results.

 - Gallup tells us Trump's job approval is a Personal Best of 49% as he awaits his acquittal tomorrow.

 - And the Dow is up 500 to near-record territory (the NASDAQ is at a new high) as... due, we guess to some combo of reduced coronavirus fears and (some cynics say!) a newfound respect for the DNC determination to Stop Bernie.

Look - elections are won in November, not February. But we can agree that for Team Trump this is setting up nicely.

All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy, and maybe even project an air of competence. Missions Unaccomplished! Trump ought to have the same basic goals - be capable and not crazy. Doable!

Comments

[henry]

well hello there. (thread)

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray

And there it is. The single largest donor of Shadow Inc., the company behind the failed Iowa Caucus app, is George Soros.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1224918166691729408

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
@markknoller
·
2m
"There was an attitude of disrespect" by Pelosi, said @VP, who sat next to her on the Rostrum for the @POTUS speech. "I don't actually get her take on this," he said this morning on @FoxNews. He said she also seemed to be muttering in response to the president's speech.

[Buckeye]

291k jobs vs. 150k expected.

:):):)

Moar winning!

[henry]

"versioning approach" in that context is gathering a coherent set of capabilities to announce / launch at once. (Note, fixes can range from ASAP release to a more absorbable cycle).

The idea in 91 was that the military did big projects, that took decades. Versioning in that context was to get useful function out the door, then add more as the technology allowed. The model was the microcomputer hardware / software industry of the 80s compared to the ancient computing systems locked into the Space Shuttle and B1 by fixing a design in the 70s for use over decades. So lots of little recommendations like build a high capacity databus then swap cpus and protocals at the speed of those innovation streams. Thus faster field upgrade of avionics / sensors / weapons instead of slow and expensive depot work. You know the drill, typical academic pie in the sky.

[Buckeye]

Obviously the Shadow app had a kill switch, with Soros at the controls.

Why he is still wasting air is a mystery to me.

[Porchlight]

Even the news coverage that grudgingly admits that the Dems may have a problem STILL frames everything as partisan politics. No straightforward coverage of the speech and the accomplishments of this president and his administration.

[MissMarple2]

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

The facial expressions and head shaking is a new low for the House. Moreover, the protests of members was incredibly inappropriate. A president speaks at the SOTU as a guest of both houses. . . .
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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20m
Thank you Jonathan, and great job!

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. This gentleman is a Norwegian!

Mikkelsen
@Mikkelsen_YNWA
·
8h

It's incredible the US has a person like her in that position. What she did at the end was incredible! I couldn't believe how she could show such disrespect for all those people Trump mentioned in his speech. Appalling. #PelosiTantrum @SpeakerPelosi

[Neo]

Upstate GOP leaders plotting to impact SC Democratic primary by boosting Bernie Sanders

[Neo]

The father of a high school freshman killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was removed from the audience at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night after shouting out during the president’s speech.

Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting, was escorted calmly out of the balcony gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber toward the end of Trump’s speech.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article239976003.html

[MissMarple2]

Democrats, many of whom want to eliminate the Electoral College, have created a system in which a candidate can win the popular vote and lose the election.https://t.co/2LUkj6lFHO

— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 5, 2020

Link goes to a tweet of an MSNBC reporter trying to make sense of the system, which seems to me to be mainly "Bernie can't be allowed to win."

[MissMarple2]

Victoria Toensing
@VicToensing
·
27m
When @SpeakerPelosi
tore up @realDonaldTrump
SOTU speech, I thought “Why not? She’s already torn up the Constitution.” #MakeThemPay #MAGA2020

[Momto2]

From the Mid-Week in Pictures comment section:

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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57m
It was a great and triumphant evening for our Country. Thank you for all of the nice remarks and wonderful reviews of my State of the Union Speech. It was my great honor to have done it!

[James D.]

No straightforward coverage of the speech and the accomplishments of this president and his administration.

And they STILL don't get how continuing that approach destroys whatever little credibility they might still have.

We're very fortunate that the Dems and MSM are as blinded by rage and ego as they have been since 2016. If they'd been smarter, they would have canned all the conspiracy talk and pussy hats and the rest of it right from day one. Instead, the Dems could have worked aggressively with him on things like criminal justice reform, family leave, rewriting NAFTA, etc. They could even have gotten some kind of an immigration deal. And in doing so, they'd have split the President's support among the different factions of the GOP. And the MSM could have done the same - praising him to the skies on those issues, and preserving their illusion of neutrality and fairness.

Instead, they've chosen electoral and industry-wide suicide.

[Neo]

NBC:
'Wake-up call': Iowa caucus disinformation serves as warning about 2020 election
On Monday night, it didn't take foreign interference to highlight the persistent vulnerabilities that Russia exploited in 2016.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Nikki Haley
@NikkiHaley
·
9h
Disappointed to see @SpeakerPelosi rip up the speech that mentioned lives we’ve lost and heroes we celebrated at the SOTU. No matter how you feel or what you disagree with, remember others are watching. This was unbecoming of someone at her level in office.

Nikki Haley
@NikkiHaley
·
11h
The accomplishments speak for themselves. Congratulations @realDonaldTrump.
❤️
🇺🇸
#SOTU #Results

[Neo]

The Hill:
DOJ tells Supreme Court that subpoenas for Trump's finances are unconstitutional

[Neo]

Politico:
Rand Paul reads alleged whistleblower's name and Republicans 'fine' with it

The Kentucky Republican's comment on the Senate floor was met with shrugs by most Senate Republicans.

Thanx to Politco for verifying the name

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Sol DeWitt
@Soll_DeWitt
·
2h
History won't be kind for Nancy Pelosi: she will be remembered as the Speaker who initiated a malicious impeachment, who's son Paul Pelosi was on the board of directors of Ukrainian Viscoil, and above all as the last Speaker of the House of the Democratic Party.
#PelosiTantrum

[D]

Neo:
Great posts by you today.

[MissMarple2]

The President has retweeted a lot of people; I have just posted a few. Here's his Twitter page link if you want to go look at the rest:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

[MissMarple2]

Hugh Hewitt
@hughhewitt
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49m
Unleashing a torrent of tweets, @realDonaldTrump takes on @SpeakerPelosi and her #PelosiTantrum. No escaping what a disaster this was for Ds everywhere, because it accurately demonstrated the contempt she and Ds feel towards to much America honors. #ItsOurHouse a caller told me.

[jimmyk]

What's all the crap about the SOTU being a "campaign speech"? When was a SOTU ever apolitical, or not upbeat about the President's accomplishments? This was no more so than any of the SOTUs of the past couple of decades at least. Maybe Reagan struck a more somber tone after the Challenger explosion, but that would be the only exception (and that was almost 30 years ago).

[peter]

In other news, apparently the Boston Red Sox traded away one of their superstars, Mookie Betts, to the Dodgers, for a nothing player with a giant smudge on his reputation arising out of an incident in a hotel room with an underage runaway.

[henry]

Supreme Court election time in WI.

https://empowerwisconsin.org/karofsky-lawmakers-can-limit-peoples-possession-of-firearms/

[henry]

Have the Senators started their ten minute campaign speeches yet? The peach mint vote is scheduled for 4:00 eastern

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/05/13-key-takeaways-from-president-trumps-epic-state-of-the-union-address/

Molly Hemingway does a good job of taking the more significant things from the speech, the ones that will have the longest effect.

[MissMarple2]

From the Indy Star cartoonist:

[MissMarple2]

henry,

I don't think the Senate has opened for session yet. You don't think the Senators would get up this early, do you?

[Melinda]

Yes, they would. Making campaign calls across the street at THe Gas Chamber's call center.

[clarice]

https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/04/facing-up-to-the-revolution/
Codevilla

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/iowa-democrats-still-wont-say-when-full-caucus-results-will-be-in/

I cannot get over this. Incompetence and cheating in real time on live TV.

[clarice]

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
·
16h
Just In: 62% of the results from Iowa

B RNIE IS G TT NG RO B D
33
97
511

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
·
18h
Bob 1: So what you do at SHADOW is take the caucus counting specs to the engineers?
Tom: That's right
Bob 2: why can't the caucus people count themselves?
Tom: well I'll tell you why, because people aren't good with counting
Bob 1: so you write code?
Tom: I'M A PEOPLE PERSON

[Jane]

Speeches were Monday and Tuesday Henry. they are either done or close to it, Henry.

[D]

Clarice:
This Iowa Caucus is a disgrace.
I think Bernie is winning snd they are loathe to release the true results.
It should not be taking this long.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

New thread

[Buckeye]

New

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

I don't have as negative a view as Codevilla. It seems to me that President Trump has pulled aside the veil on a bunch of institutions.

Television networks have lost their luster. The moniker of "fake news" has struck a chord with millions of Americans. Confidence in reporting has plummeted.

No one is really paying attention to the Academy awards or the Emmy Awards any more. People don't go to the movies the way they used to, and a lot of them don't watch TV at all, so who cares?

Scandals in the Church and in Academia has made us less susceptible to their influence. Watching the impeachment fiasco has made us question how Congress operates and the type of people we elect.

Of course things won't get back to the way they used to be 40 years ago. However, things can move closer to that goal, and there is a lot of improvement that can be done. I am not giving up, and I find Codevilla's article too accepting of the status quo.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

MissM: (link to article where Dems can't say when Iowa results will be ready)

Back when the debacle began, people noted:
The attendees have gone home.
Not all the volunteer caucus captains preserved records.
There is no "chain of custody" to ensure the existing records are correct and accurate.

Why would we think an accurate result is possible?

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

New

[anonamom]

Top vote getter on the midweek in pictures at Powerline:

DrMaturin • 4 hours ago
Maybe if the Democrats hadn't spent the past three years trying to win the 2016 election they'd have a better handle on winning in 2020.

[anonamom]

Unlike our enemies, our ultimate objective is, as Lincoln said, “peace among ourselves and with all nations.” But what kind of peace we may get depends on the extent to which we may compel our enemies to leave us in peace. And for that, we must do unto them more and before they do unto us.

Codevilla, from clarice's 9:31