Watching the State of the Nation address

[Trevor]

All I can say is 😳😳😳😳 as these are the idiots who are running my country? 😳😳

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueVDlBSuig

These incompetent morons make the apartheid government look like angels. 

[Trevor]

And now, the president has declared a "national state of disaster" to deal with our power supply crisis. 

[RCMerchant]

Our President at his State of the Union address got called a liar by Margie Taylor Green, who is a complete melon head.

[LilCerberus]

I wonder if "We Need To Finish The Job" turned into a drinking game...

[ER]

I had a thought reading your title "The State of the Nation." That's a good name for it. Makes sense. Even though calling our version what we do dates back only to FDR, I wonder if there is something reflective of the American mindset in the fact our version of this is called the "State of the Union"? I've always thought the mentality (if not the exact letter of the law) among the people early-on in this country was that it was "a union" of disparate states (states in the European sense) and that was how Americans saw themselves, as members of localized states joining into a union for the purpose of collective betterment, but not necessarily intending the union itself to be so cohesive as to become what it ultimately did, a federal entity that for better or worse consumed the member states as completely as it ultimately has. I think there is something telling in the term "State of the Union" showing even as late as the 1930s this idea, since mostly lost, remained.