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Tonight is another State of the Union speech by President Trump.  I haven't listened to an SOTU for decades; I never really learn anything from the performance of all involved, with the one party standing up to applaud every sound bite.  Policies that are offered are often forgotten within a week.

Aside from the speech it is appropriate for we citizens to consider the state of our union. Our president has publicly and repeatedly separated us into righteous states who support him and enemy states that need to be tamed. FEMA no longer considers every state worthy of support in times of need along these lines.

What about our citizens? The economy is in the toilet after Trump's playing with tariffs like children's toys, pretending that they are not taxes and pisssing off our trade partners. Trump and his minions keep telling us both that 1) everything is great and 2) it's all Biden's fault. There are apparently people that believe these two opposing positions at the same time although the recent polls show that mania is fading albeit too slowly.

Health? We have RFK Jr. destroying our medical system, working hard to bring back epidemics that we used to vaccinate against.

And then there's the whole morality thing, you know, the bit where we protect pedophiles who are powerful. When you declare yourself above accountability there is no limit to how low you can sink.

Or the bit where we keep killing people on boats claiming they're drug dealers.  Or where we threaten to bomb Iran (after threatening to bomb Venezuela after threatening to bomb ...). At least Trump won the FIFA Peace Prize after the Nobel people opted not to do so with their Peace Prize because of the whole threatening to bomb other countries thing.


So what do we need to do to improve the state of our Union?  

1) Impeach Trump and declare him to legally be the scum that he is.

How do we achieve 1)?

2) Only elect politicians who will support 1)

But November is so far away?

3) Let politicans know that we will decide about 2) now (and not wait until November) and that if they won't support 1) that they need to plan their retirements now because we will not forgive their support of a pedophile warmonger stealing from our Treasury and sending thugs to our cities after people of color, nor will we forget by the next election.

Because there is absolutely no reason to wait to decide a politician has irredeemably made the wrong choice by protecting Trump. Too many people will die if we do.

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