Another reason I started a blog is that other than OU football coverage the Daily Oklahoman is a completely worthless piece of trash which I do believe in some fashion has contributed to the low literacy and educational rates in our state. Just me thinking out loud, but I’m going to guess the states with the better newspapers over the years have the higher levels of educational achievement. The First Amendment is kind of funny in how that works and all.
Of course, the internet has changed everything with newspapers, but still that’s no excuse for the dismal record of the Daily Oklahoman as a newspaper which should have been the beacon of smart thought instead of the other way around.
So… what is the State of Our Union heading into Caligula’s big night tonight given the government is still open at least until February 15th?
The Dow is around the 25,000 mark. Unemployment is around 4%. On most months this ‘new’ economy is creating around 200,000 new jobs….although 303,000 jobs were created in January. The national debt has expanded with the tax cuts regardless of some modest GDP growth. Health care reform never happened. Coming into tonight immigration reform hasn’t happened. No one, including Trump, has an idea how some of the new trade agreements will effect GDP long term. No one to date has witnessed an infrastructure bill from the Infrastructure President to date.
No one, again including Trump, has any idea what the Trump Doctrine is in relation to the U.S. role as pertaining to the world. No surprise U.S allies are confused with their relationships with what used to be the world leader since WWII. America has pulled out of the Paris Climate Change Accord. Same thing with the Iranian Nuclear Treaty.
We still have the NFL in spite of Trump and Kaepernick. The Supreme Court is now slanted the conservative way with Chief Justice John Roberts looming even larger in the days ahead. Our ten or so dumbest states, Oklahoma included, still adore Caligula despite what he does on his Twitter account. North Korea, Turkey, and Russia have become our closest allies in the new Trump World Order.
The Dems have control of the House, yet have not been able to do much other than restrain Caligula’s worst impulses to a limited degree. Every political hack alive has a written a Donald Trump book. Put Chris Christie and Cliff Sims at the head of that current class. George Will and most other conservative columnists spend more time now on MSNBC than Fox. The First Amendment is still intact despite being assaulted by this White House. Donald Trump dismisses the very intelligence chiefs he personally appointed.
The Republic breathlessly awaits Robert Mueller’s findings with suspended breath. And, in closing, our country has never been more divided and unable to govern itself in my lifetime.
This is the state of our union heading into night.
So…what will Trump 45’s tone be tonight?
My guess is when your approval rating is still around 81% within the realm of GOP voters….nothing much changes with the tone and the tenor. I would guess tonight is another dose of Steven Miller dogma laced with George Wallace and Richard Nixon nuance which will leave a smile on the face of Steve Bannon.
Why would these guys change course now given the fact the state of Virginia has shown the rest of the country it’s not just a GOP thing with old, rich, white guys?
One would think most Americans, at least the ones who can read, aren’t worn out just yet from all this winning from Day 1.
This is the state of our union.