Orange You Glad You Stopped By

The third President of the United States in the history of our country to ever be impeached by the U. S. House of Representatives will offer his last State of the Union address this evening before both chambers of our legislative branch. 

Between us, I would have preferred he was too busy packing his things and loading them into the moving van at the White House rear gate but Mitch "Chicken Kiev" McConnell had other plans which is all well and good as I can wait until thirty-eight weeks, until Tuesday, 3 November, to vote him out of office.

As have predecessors before him, Pantload45 will basically launch his re-election campaign in his live, televised-to-all-points-east-and-west address and it would be nice since he'll be dressed like a grown-up if he actually comported himself like one. I'm not too sanguine at the chances of that happening for the entire address but if you're a gambler, that might be a bet to take. 

I wouldn't expect him to mention even in passing that while he has stood the watch:
the national debt has ballooned; 
the climate crisis has accelerated; 
the incidence of reported hate crimes has risen sharply as has rampant racism; 
not forgetting our allies no longer trust us (nor should they); 
his trade wars have damaged core components of every aspect of our nation's economy, and America has put up a very large "Not Welcome" sign at every border. 

Perhaps he should, instead, choose to talk about:
the 11.6 million American jobs added to the economy;
the 4% increase in real wages after inflation for American working men and women; 
the record corporate profits of US companies;
the decrease by some fifteen million people of Americans without health insurance,
or how the stock market has nearly tripled in total value.  

Except, all of those things happened while Barack Obama was president. 

Come to think of it, tonight might be good to just Netflix and Chill AFTER you've made sure you've registered to vote in November.
-bill kenny