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America's new president gave an address to a joint session of Congress. The Los Angeles Times posted a full transcript of the speech (along with remarks from its staff that may require Javascript to view); Bloomberg uploaded a video of the event.
The New York Times called it "the most presidential speech Mr. Trump has ever given — delivered at precisely the moment he needed to project sobriety, seriousness of purpose and self-discipline."
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday March 02 2017, @02:00AM (1 child)
A lot of it is manufactured. It is much like what the Koch brothers did with the Tea Party and the endless whisper campaigns about Obama being a secret Marxist Kenyan Muslim, or what-have-you. They hire a lot of PR firms and think tanks to drive it (in fact it was a key part of the GOP grand strategy formulated in the early 70's to do that). The Left has now sort of caught on to the same tactics.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 02 2017, @04:41AM
It is much like what the Koch brothers did with the Tea Party and the endless whisper campaigns about Obama being a secret Marxist Kenyan Muslim, or what-have-you.
If that is true, then it was profoundly counterproductive. But that wouldn't be the only time the Koch brothers burned money on such things.