State of the Union Summary and Analysis

From J.J. Sefton:

Good morning kids. Midweek and we interrupt our regularly scheduled "Coonman & Poonman Virginia Vaudeville Hour" for the big story which was President Trump's State of the Union speech. By any metric, OrangeManBadass topped his previous outings with yet another grand-slam-dunk-hat-trick of a stemwinder. 

And how fitting that it was delivered on the eve of the 108th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. From my perspective, it's not just what he said and the manner in which he spoke the plain, unvarnished truth to power, it's the knowledge of all that has gone on in the past year and especially in the months since the midterm elections that powerfully underscore what he said and making it visceral for anyone who heard or saw it. 

I've aggregated most of the speech-related links into the top bucket but you'll find excerpts that are particularly relevant to specific issues in those appropriate buckets as well. 

Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Mag sums it up best, along with outings from IBD, Michael Goodwin at the NY Post and even NeverTrumper crackpot Podhoretz praised him with faint damnation in his column, if you care to indulge. 

Best moments for me far and away was the President's damnation of legalized infanticide in and out of the womb, his equally forceful damnation of Socialism where you could almost smell the diarrhea and halitosis through your TV scene seeping out of Bernie Sanders top and bottom holes, calling out the rise in anti-Semitism, singing Happy Birthday to a Shoah survivor and acknowledging real American hero Buzz Aldrin. 

And the cunning stunt of the Dem women dressed in white was a total waste of time, especially when they gave the President a standing ovation on his women's employment numbers. That said, it did not look good at all to see them sitting on their hands when the historic high black and Latino employment stats were announced. 

And Kamala-Toe's shaking her head "no" to Trump wanting to stop drug and human trafficking across the border is not something most real Americans want in a presidential candidate. 

Lastly, the great unmasking of the Democrat-Left-Media complex by directly calling them out and also by actually keeping his promises to the American people (GOP-e enemies, Deep State saboteurs and Hawaiian judges notwithstanding) is, for me, Donald Trump's greatest achievement. 

What he has forced them to say and do and what he is doing in turn is not pretty. But this is what fighting back looks like. 

I've lived virtually all of my nearly 59 years witnessing nothing but political kabuki theater as the Overton window ratchets ever more leftward. Sometimes it was slow, sometimes quicker and perhaps it only paused briefly here and there. But it never moved in the other direction. That is, until January 20th of 2017. 

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it's not the end, nor the beginning of the end, nor can we even be sure if it is the end of the beginning or if there will in our lifetimes even be an end to the beginning. But it is undeniable that the words and deeds of President Trump are having a salutary effect on the body politic. 

Whether America as founded will ever be restored to a pre-1913 state from a Constitutional perspective is for sure in doubt, even for a cockeyed-optimist such as yours truly. But one thing is for sure. What has gone on before can no longer continue. At the very least, this President has laid down a gauntlet and in his way given a choice for everyone in this country: either you're with us or you're with the terrorists.

• STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
• Greenfield: An Heroic, American State of the Union Address
• Bernardo Sandersnista Shits His Gotkes When Trump Blasts Socialism: "Tonight, We Renew Our Resolve That America Will Never Be a Socialist Country"
• President: Only "Foolish Wars, Politics, or Ridiculous Partisan Investigations" Can Stop our Economic Miracle
• President Calls On Congress to Put Drug, Human Traffickers Out of Business - Kamala-Toe Harris Shakes Her Head "No"
• Trump Tackles Anti-Semitism in SOTU; Addresses Survivors, Liberators
• Breitbart Live-Blog Recap of Entire SOTU Speech
• IBD on SOTU: Even Democrats Seemed to Like Trump's Speech
• Trump Shows He's Playing to Win With Bold SOTU Address
• Shot: Conflicted Dems Wildly Cheer Trump's High Women's Employment Numbers
• Chaser: Dems Refuse to Cheer for Record Low Black, Hispanic Unemployment Rates
• Even Butterball-Powerbottom Podhoretz Thought Trump's Speech Was Good (link to his column - jjs)
• Ruth Fadeout-Ginsburg Has Still Yet to Attend a GOP SOTU Speech
• "Tank" Abrams' Dem Response Resurrects "Kids in Cages" Fake News