The State of the Union is tomorrow. This will be President Obama’s last of his presidency. Because we are heading into a massive election year, both nationally and locally, it’s likely the President won’t spend a lot of time (at least, not to us) on new policies or initiatives. He’s already enacted volumes of executive orders and has legislated via government regulations rather than through the Legislature. He will spend a lot of time talking about the policies he likes, the ones he’s pushing and those of his party. He’s not going to endorse a candidate, but he will endorse the current socialist road we’ve been traveling down for the last seven years.
If you think my use of “socialist” is harsh, I only point out that the Chair of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, refuses to be able to come up with the difference between being a democrat and being a socialist. Nor could Hillary Clinton, for that matter. Bernie Sanders is a self-avowed socialist, running for President under the DNC. If they see no distinction, why should I?
Moving on, tomorrow night will likely be filled with repeated calls to continue along the same road. There will be stern, paternal warnings that Republicans want to take the country back to before the Civil Rights era and the time of Jim Crow. We will sit through a cacophony of over-the-top applause from the useful idiots, while others will make a show of arm-folded scowls and exaggerated head shakes. We will get to see how Paul Ryan conducts himself beside the clown-faced grins of Joe Biden, both sitting directly behind President Obama. I’ve said this before, but if someone were to edit the #SOTU with calliope music to play in the background, the well of the House would actually look like some Kabuki merry-go-round — everyone taking turns jumping up and down, but (much like the country) going nowhere except in obstinate circles as the nation swirls the drain.
After the #SOTU, we will then get to sit through hour after hour of political analysis. We’ll have the propagandist wing of the Democrat party (the mainstream media) telling us how brilliant and amazing he is. Turn a channel or two either way and you’ll have the opposite view.
Which brings me around to the only way I’ve been able to manage my way through the last seven of these speeches to our nation — the #SOTUdrinkinggame! Maybe this year it will be #SOTUdrinkinggame2016, who knows? What is the State of the Union drinking game, you ask? It’s really quite simple. Take a moment today or tomorrow and think about all of the words/phrases you might expect the Commander in Chief to use during his State of the Union and put them down on paper. As an option, you can choose to add a second column, detailing just how much you drink each time that word or phrase is uttered. Maybe it’s a shot! Maybe just a sip. You decide.
Here’s a partial list I’ve been working on for tomorrow night:
Words/phrases that result in taking a sip (liquor or wine) or a swallow (beer):
- Common sense gun control
- Plug the gun-show loophole
- Most gun owners agree in common sense background checks
- Easier to buy a gun than a book
- Felons should not be able to buy an assault rifle online
- Mocking those who think there’s a government gun grab in the works
- Mocking the candidates running for GOP, specifically Donald Trump
- Any use of fair, fair share or leveling the playing field
- Gone from the worst economy under George Bush to one of the fastest growing
- Time for the rich to stop getting wealthy off the backs of the middle class
- Need to implement a living wage / increase the minimum wage across the country
- Any cherry-picked stats about the growth of economy
- Climate change and the Paris meeting held late in 2015
- This was the hottest year on record
- ISIL (pronounced – Eye-sill)
- Islam is a peaceful religion
- Affordable Care Act is working, reducing costs and providing coverage to millions who didn’t have it before
- America will continue to welcome refugees from all nations
- America was built by immigrants
- Free college
- Any mention of someone who wrote him a letter or sent him an email
- For each guest invited by the administration who is called out in the gallery
Items that require a shot (or several large swallows of wine or beer):
- For every 10 uses of the word, “I”
- For every 10 uses of the word, “Me”
- For every 10 uses of the word, “My”
- For every 10 uses of the workd, “Mine”
There was a time when the State of the Union had it’s purpose, but that has long since been ignored. Under our current ruler, it might as well be named the State of Fundamentally Transforming America (SOFTA — which is what we’ve truly become), since this president has repeatedly shown he has no problem enforcing parts of laws he likes, changing parts he does not and ignoring others he finds unnecessary.
Just remember, this president has made a legacy for himself of stating facts as he sees them, quoting data he believes to be correct and making up everything else in between. He’s Harold with his purple crayon, creating his own reality while being devoid of any sense of the word. It must be a nice affliction to have — to invent history and facts as you need them to be, to align with your worldview. It may be a way to live in Lenin’s push for blissful ignorance, but it’s not how I would expect the leader of the free world to behave.
And for that reason, I’ll be playing the #SOTUdrinkinggame2016 with much gusto. It’s about the only way I’ll be able to make it to the end. BTW…if you are interested, I’ll be real-time tweeting throughout, so follow me on Twitter (@alanjsanders) and see how bad my typing gets by the end! I’ll just blame it on Siri.
Cheers!
Freedom Cocktail 