Joe Kennedy will be delivering the official Democratic response tomorrow -- and Bernie will be

[pnwmom]

competing with him, delivering his own response AT THE SAME TIME. Instead of pointing his supporters to Kennedy's speech, he's going to try to distract them.

There are no words.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/371237-sanders-to-deliver-his-own-state-of-the-union-response


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning to offer his own response to President Trump's first State of the Union speech Tuesday evening.

Sanders — an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats — will deliver his speech via social media shortly after Trump's address, according to his office.

Sanders's office didn't hint at what the Vermont lawmaker will say. But he simultaneously blasted out a note to supporters from his campaign account knocking Trump and predicting what the president won't discuss during the prime-time address.


MEET JOE KENNEDY:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/who-is-joe-kennedy-iii-state-of-the-union-democrat/index.html

Last year, Kennedy, who's currently serving his third term in the House, garnered national attention during the health care debate when he delivered an emotional speech that went viral.

During a marathon committee markup on the Republicans' Affordable Care Act repeal and replace bill, Kennedy slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan, specifically taking issue with the fellow Catholic's interpretation of scripture and label for the the measure as an "act of mercy."

Kennedy denounced the proposal to repeal and replace Obamcare as an "act of malice."

He was born and raised near Boston with his twin brother, Matthew Kennedy.

He received his law degree from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He also played lacrosse in college and served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic for two years.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. But but but but . . . . . Bernie

I have to say, with not a little sadness, that Bernie is beyond his Sell By date.

[Pachamama]

41. +1000

Past his Sell by Date....

[jrthin]

61. This man is going to cause us to lose another election to 45. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

62. Like Bernie, I am a septuagenarian.

Unlike Bernie, I see my job to push those younger than more to the fore. I see my job as support. I cofounded a company twenty five years ago this coming May. I continue to work in it as hard as I ever have. But my job is VERY different. It is promoting those who work for us. I work to groom them to own the company. I work to promote them in any way I can. I work to give them whatever benefit if my experience I am able.

I will have succeeded if THEY succeed. I am too old for it to be about me anymore. It is about them.

I guess I am different from Bernie.

[jrthin]

78. Good on you. I wish there were more of you in this world: working

for the good in a selfless way, and you thrive.

[Hekate]

86. And that's the way it should be. Like you, I like to hope I have some wisdom to pass along...

Bernie could -- but does not -- take that stance. He is not generous. He still wants the spotlight, at the expense of the youngsters he could be mentoring.

That is sad, actually.

[trof]

101. Septuagenerain? You too? Who knew.

[Stinky The Clown]

131. Hah!

[Arazi]

132. The OP has been shown she's wrong about this but continues to leave it up

Bernie is speaking after Kennedy AND Maxine Waters.

Everyone hating on Bernie on this thread could apologize and self delete instead of perpetuating the lies and divisiveness.

FWIW, more voices rebutting Trump, hitting every possible demographic, seems like a great idea to me

[Demtexan]

2. We can watch both.

At the same time.

[pnwmom]

5. Brains can't fully attend to two speeches at the same time. Bernie should have scheduled

his for a different time -- not as a distraction. The Democrats had already announced Joe's speech before Bernie announced his.

[Demtexan]

9. DVR one.

I am on my smartphone on DU also watching something on youtube.
I have two screens on my phone.

Plus watching tv.

I learned multi-tasking in the Army.

[pnwmom]

10. That's fine for you. But millions of Bernie's followers might not even realize there's a Democratic

response -- he should be spreading news about that. Instead, he wants the eyes on him.

[Demtexan]

12. I understand.

One could have been after the other.

I voted for Bernie in the primary but Hillary in Nov.

I work nights so I watch most everything on dvr or youtube.

I think there will be a third person speaking.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Oh they know about Kennedy and they already hate him.

Apparently he is owned by big pharma and yadda yadda yadda. It's really bad out there, I don't understand nihilists but that's what I'm seeing with the Bernie believers.

[Demtexan]

14. I do not understand the all or nothing attitude for Bernie.

He would have been a very powerful senator with President Clinton in office.

I tried to tell people about this but it was Bernie or nothing. Now we have nothing.

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. It's about the hope that if things get shitty enough

It will drive the public to socialism. That's the bottom line. Keep electing monsters until the whole fucking thing collapses and then the DSA takes over and we all get universal health care.

[Demtexan]

20. I voted for Bernie in the primary.

I liked what he said.

This was not a normal election.

We had crazy person running for president.

Look at what he is doing.

Sometimes you do not get everything you want.

You get some of what you want then more later.

We have Putin running the government now.

Bernie would have been one powerful senator and we would have got what we wanted.

We did not need him as president to get it.

I want single payer and all the other programs to.

We are not going to get now with this president.

[Demsrule86]

81. It will never happen...what make these people think if things get shitty enough...we will still

have a choice?

[pnwmom]

19. He convinced a number of them that Hillary and all Democrats are corrupt.

So they won't ever consider supporting a Democrat now. They'd rather live with Trump for 8 years. Or die with him.

[David__77]

25. I think that large majority of Sanders' voters also voted for Clinton.

I did. I would have preferred that Sanders won the primary. And I would have preferred that Clinton won the general election against Trump. I see no problem with Sanders responding to Trump's speech. I see nothing wrong with others responding as well, such as Maxine Waters.

[Demtexan]

28. I will watch one and dvr the other.

I am just pissed off that Hillary is not giving the speech.

She really did win the election.

None of this crap had happen.

[CentralMass]

34. I've met the Congressman and heard him speak and i lke him.

I also like Bernie and voted for him in the 2016 primary..

[LuvLoogie]

22. Wow! You have a smartphone, a TV, AND a DVR?!

Internet and cable, too?

[Demtexan]

29. No I am cheap.

No internet or cable.

Just free tv and good smart phone with unlimited everything plan for $60 a month.

Youtube has a lot news programs.

And Hulu.

And airbox dvr.

[LuvLoogie]

31. Me too. I have internet only, Magic Jack for phone, and Netflix. No TV.

[Demtexan]

33. I do not miss the cable bill.

I rather have a good smartphone and a laptop.

The cable bill was just to high.


My plan is high speed all the way 4g all month.

I am happy.

Extra money in my pocket.

[Demsrule86]

114. Why so nasty?

[Demsrule86]

80. Sen. Sanders should not do this. It is a distraction.

[4now]

3. I hope we are a lot smarter this time

That is assuming that we are still allowed to vote.

[LisaM]

4. Sigh.

I have no words.

[KitSileya]

6. Hm, I thought Bernie was going to trample on Maxine Waters' response on BET,

not on the official Democratic response. She's scheduled to speak after Kennedy. I figured it was the typical tone deafness he's shown towards Black Democrats (our party base), but doing his response at the same time as the official Democratic response really illustrates how he does not align himself with the Democratic Party officially as well as unofficially.

[pnwmom]

8. He didn't have to trample on either one. His followers would have been just has happy

to hear him Wednesday night, or any other time.

[The Wielding Truth]

90. I agree. I will watch his response as well as Kennedy's.

[phleshdef]

94. He is going on Facebook at 10:45.

Do you have proof that he is trampling on anyone based on that time?

[Cha]

44. Divisiveness will get him nowhere.

[R B Garr]

63. Yes, it does show what his priorities are.

This is not surprising. Predictable even.

[bdamomma]

117. Is Maxine's response

after Joe Kennedy's?

[skylucy]

7. ...

[msongs]

11. bernie is not a democrat. why should he care about competing with democrats? nt

[pnwmom]

17. He's doing what a spoiler would do. n/t

[democratisphere]

39. Massive out of control ego.

[chillfactor]

15. Bernie.....back off...

I for one am looking forward to listening to Kennedy.

[smirkymonkey]

75. I am getting really sick of Bernie's shit.

His ego is out of control.

[Cha]

16. Can't wait to hear Joe KennedyIII and Maxine...

not even surprised at this.. such a divider.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

125. More interested in what Maxine Waters has to say... but, of course, will listen to both.

[VOX]

21. I will be watching Joe Kennedy.

End of message.

[diva77]

23. meanwhile wingnut media dominates the airwaves -Fux, Limburger, Hannity, etc.

I think it's great that Maxine, Joe, and Bernie are responding. I'd be thrilled if even more Dems were to deliver responses and garner more media coverage.

[David__77]

27. I think you make a good point!

...

[leftstreet]

32. +1

To imagine that these extraordinary times don't require extraordinary responses would be naive

[pnwmom]

35. Maxine is going after Joe -- she's not trying to distract from him. Dividing progressives

isn't helpful.

[diva77]

38. Fux and all the wingnut media will be dominating airwaves with lies, deception, distraction

I welcome all responses from Dems and Progressives, including Bernie. I wish every cable channel and radio station would feature such responses.

I am done with this exchange.

[pnwmom]

40. Why couldn't Bernie have given his speech to compete with TRUMP's address, instead of the Democrats?

[phleshdef]

120. Why can't you come back to this thread and admit your entire premise in the OP is wrong?

[Nanjeanne]

65. I can only see info that her response on BET is immediately after Trump. I plan on switching back

and forth between all responses . . . but wondering where you found out that her response is coming on BET after Kennedy's. What time would that be?

This is all I could find . . . "To see what Waters has to say about Trump's first State of the Union, you can tune into BET at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday. She'll be up first on their show, so don't wait." [link:https://www.bustle.com/p/how-to-watch-maxine-waters-state-of-the-union-response-because-its-going-to-be-fire-8038961|

[bdamomma]

121. Thanks For posting

about what time and where to watch Maxine, I love her fire!!!

[VOX]

42. Imagine if 100 Democrats and progressives ALL responded at once!

It would be SO memorable. Sample:

“Millionaires Trump healthcare hot lunch free college Putin Republicans one percent firearms oligarchy vote cowardly Donald unified science Trump fair food stamps debt unchecked Trump election dangerous parklands fair stop media majority people Trump Democratic economy intimidation party alternative Brexit messaging behind emails action forefront Donald freedom regulation balances Trump etc.”

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

82. Yes, the more the merrier!! Need to pile on the Traitor-in-Chief and drown out his nonsense.

[KPN]

83. +1!

I agree. Rs have done exactly this in the past to saturate the air and internet waves in order to reach ALL of their potential supporters in getting out their counter to the SOTU. I didn't here Rs bellowing and crying about that then.

Strikes me as more of the "establishment" think: get in line, keep your mouth closed.

Geesh! How to turn a positive into a negative.

[LuvLoogie]

24. Bernie Sanders of the Bernie Sanders Party will be giving a Bernie Sanders speech about

what Bernie Sanders thinks people who aren't Bernie Sanders should be thinking.

[R B Garr]

64. LOL, that is very well said.

Perfect.

[Tipperary]

26. Wow. Though somehow I am not surprised.

Smh.

[JoeOtterbein]

30. I will LISTEN to both Bernie's & Joe's response. I hope they will TALK to ALL of us Dems!

INSTEAD of even wasting our time responding to stupid GOP stuff, I hope we LISTEN to the needs of our own combined DU human strength as well as weakness, I hope we HEAR everyone who CAREs everywhere!

[pnwmom]

37. Most people won't. Bernie will distract some people from watching the Democrat give the party's

official response.

I don't know why he couldn't have scheduled his speech not to conflict with Joe's.

WHY DIDN'T HE SCHEDULE IT OPPOSITE TRUMP?

[lunamagica]

36. This doesn't surprise me at all

[Kentonio]

43. This isn't 1982

People will see both if they want to. Most people don't watch things live these days anyway. This is just another bash Bernie thread (just like the last thousand).

[pnwmom]

46. He could have gotten just as much attention by giving his speech at the same time as TRUMP,

instead of trying to divert people away from the Democrats' speeches.

But he wants to compete with Joe Kennedy and Maxine Waters more than he does Donald Trump.

[Kentonio]

49. Or maybe you're taking something small and irrelevant

And turning it into another stick to bash Bernie with?

[phleshdef]

118. Considering that the OP isn't remotely correct and Bernie is speaking after Kennedy...

...thats pretty much the only thing I can assume. They certainly are being completely tight lipped about the fact that they've been proven wrong.

[LanternWaste]

54. Your cogent point degenerating into unsupported editorial.

Your cogent point degenerating into unsupported editorial.

Natch.

[oberliner]

45. Maxine Waters is also delivering her own response on BET

[pnwmom]

47. Yeah, after Joe Kennedy's. Why didn't Bernie schedule himself opposite Trump?

Instead, he's putting himself opposite the Democrats and reducing their audience.

[oberliner]

48. He did the same thing last year

I guess because he is not a Democrat.

[LanternWaste]

55. Creative movement of your goalposts.

Creative movement of your goalposts.

[oberliner]

127. I don't understand this response

Just saying he did the same thing last year, and that the reason might be because he does not consider himself a Democrat.

[Eliot Rosewater]

67. What Maxine is doing is like apples and cantaloupes, not the same AT ALL what Bernie is doing

If only we could discuss WHY he does this stuff

Thank YOU for the thread, by the way.

[phleshdef]

106. And now we know for a fact that Bernie isn't doing that. So I'll expect all of you to have the...

...integrity to admit that you jumped the gun. Admit you were wrong and move one. Thats best for everyone.

[Cha]

50. Yes, after Joe Kennedy's

[Nanjeanne]

66. Oh - what time will that be? All I can find is that she is scheduled at 10 PM on BET. So what time

will she be giving her address? Thanks.

[phleshdef]

89. Bernie is scheduled at 10:45, AFTER Maxine at 10.

[Mike Nelson]

51. I suspect...

...he will be running as a third party candidate in 2020. Hopefully, we have someone who can defeat both Pence & Bernie because I don't think Bernie can win... the US will want the opposite of DT: a young, progressive establishment, likely female Democrat.

[underthematrix]

52. I'm going to watch the OFFICIAL Democratic response from Rep Joe Kennedy

No shade to anyone who plans to watch Bernie or Maxine live. I'll watch Maxine later in the evening.

[ananda]

53. I'll be watching Kennedy.

I studiously ignore anyone who went after Franken.

[vi5]

56. Bernie Sanders "votes with us more than 75% of the time!!"

"He caucuses with the Democratic party which means Majority leader Schumer!!"
"He voted to save Obamacare!!"
"He will be approving a Democratic president's supreme court picks!"

I'm told those are important things that demand that we be nice to certain folks. Is that not true in this case? Asking for a friend.

[NCTraveler]

57. I don't expect anything more from him. nt

[pandr32]

58. What the hell?

This makes me angry. Democrats have picked who will issue the rebuttal. I suppose we should forget this when Sanders conveniently registers as a Democrat to run in 2020.

[eleny]

59. I wish he wasn't against medical marijuana

And I wish he wasn't so wishy washy about single payer health care. He doesn't appear to support either from statements of his that I've read. Too much cash from big pharma, I think.

A few weeks ago I was looking forward to Kennedy's address. After researching him - now not so much. I'm tired of falling into line and then being disappointed over serious issues.

So I'm going to just give it all a pass tonight. I'll do some of my volunteer sewing. It's a better way for me to spend my time. At least I'll have something to show for it besides getting my blood pressure up.

[BoneyardDem]

68. Old eggs, sour milk or limp lettuce

...even on sale they are no longer worth the time to look it over. I'm listening to Kennedy and moving beyond expiration dates.

[Nanjeanne]

70. I'll be watching all of the ones scheduled - all targeting different audiences. I think it's

fabulous to have that many voices giving rebuttals reaching out to so many people. The one's I know of so far are:

Joseph Kennedy - will be on all the channels right after Trump

Maxine Waters - on BET - joining “Angela Rye’s State of the Union.” Only info I can find online is that she is joining BET programming at 10 PM Eastern. I see here that she is speaking after Kennedy - but can't find anything about that online so no idea what time that's scheduled. So I plan on tuning to BET at 10 . . . just in case people at DU are wrong.

Bernie Sanders - on Facebook [link:https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/|

Former Maryland congresswoman and candidate in the Prince George’s County executive race, Donna F. Edwards will speak on behalf of the Working Families Party after Sanders. Still trying to find out how to watch this.

Virginia Del. Elizabeth Guzman will give the Democrats’ official Spanish-language response. It will air tonight following the president’s address on Univision, Telemundo, and CNN en Espanol.

As Donna Edwards said herself:

Many audiences, multiple platforms, reaching people no matter where they are. Same message, different voices, all calling out this President and his dangerous, destructive, and divisive agenda. More power to progressive voices mobilizing for the fight ahead.

[pnwmom]

87. Joe, Maxine, and Bernie are NOT targeting different audiences. They're all targeting

progressives.

[Nanjeanne]

93. Um you can be a progressive and a senior. Or a progressive and a young person. Or a

minority. There will be people who watch regular tv and see only Kennedy. There will be young people who prefer Facebook and don’t even own a tv. There are people who will already be watching BET over MSNBC and watch Maxine and not Kennedy or Sanders.

Not sure if you are intentionally obtuse or I simply wasn’t clear enough for you but among progressives there are still different audiences. Not a controversial statement. But then again ...

[pnwmom]

104. Why do you assume that Kennedy and Sanders aren't targeting many of the same people?

Of course they are. Kennedy and Sanders have both been speaking out for the working class, and Kennedy's speech will be held at a Vocational Technical school in a working class town.

[phleshdef]

107. Why did you assume that Bernie was trampling on Kennedy's speech before knowing the facts?

Will you ever admit that you were wrong and this OP was pointless?

[Nanjeanne]

135. You win.

[mcar]

71. At the same time?

So much for unity, eh Bernie?

[Cha]

72. Just more divisiveness.. so

not even a little bit surprised.

I would have been surprised if he had his response at a time not to step on Joe Kennedy's rebuttal for the Dems.

[mcar]

74. And I see people smearing JKIII already

With the same old, same old.

[aidbo]

73. Id rather watch Bernie

[Arazi]

84. +1 I dont understand the outrage. I'll watch Kennedy too

Bernie haters look for anything to slam him. It's nuts. Most of us can multi-task here

[Cha]

76. It's obvious divisiveness.

[sl8]

77. Where are you seeing that his response is at the same time?

I don't see any time specified at the link you provided.

From https://qz.com/1192720/trump-state-of-the-union-2018-how-to-watch-the-response-videos/

Kennedy's response will be immediately following Trump's speech, "Like the State of the Union, the official Democratic response will be broadcast on all the major US news networks, including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS, C-SPAN, Univision, Telemundo, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. You can also watch live online via Twitter, PBS, and C-SPAN."

Sanders tweeted that his response would start, on Youtube, at 10:45 pm Eastern. I think it may be on Facebook, as well.

Link to tweet

It looks like Waters is scheduled to respond at 10:00 pm on BET. Presumably, her response won't start until Trump finishes, although, she's said that she won't be watching Trump, so maybe not.

Edwards is scheduled to give her response at 11:00 pm Eastern, on Facebook.


On edit:
Quartz corrected their article, now saying, "Waters will deliver her rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address on Angela Rye’s State of the Union on BET on Wednesday, Jan 31 at 10 pm."

[KTM]

96. Whats that ? Crickets ?

Sadly, thats not suprising here.

Here's some more info missing from this thread:

Others on the left will likely tune into the unofficial response given by 2016 hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., which will air after Kennedy’s speech on his social media channels.

As if the Kennedy, Guzman and Sanders responses aren’t enough, former Democratic Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards will also speak on behalf of the Working Families Party. Edwards said in a tweet Monday that she wasn’t trying to create a rift on the left.

The different Democratic responses have the “same message, different voices, all calling out this President and his dangerous, destructive, and divisive agenda. More power to progressive voices mobilizing for the fight ahead,” Edwards said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-state-of-the-union-5-democratic-responses

[melman]

112. I wonder it the OP will make a correction

Of course I don't really wonder at all. I know they won't.

[KTM]

130. Hahahaha -suuuuure.

This thread is now scheduled for demolition, will fall off the boards and disappear, pay no attention, nothing to see here, move along...

Your next 2 Minute Hate will be broadcast at its regularly scheduled time.

[Demsrule86]

79. Unbelievable to me.

Time to consider whether Sen. Sanders should be considered a Democrat on this site.

[KPN]

85. Why are you making a positive into a

negative? Did it occur to you that more might actually be better? Did it occur to you that they will be presenting complimentary rather than contradictory or opposing messages? Did it occur to you that some voters may pay attention only because of Bernie?

Why are you dividing?

[phleshdef]

88. Bernie scheduled his response at 10:45 tonight on Facebook. Do you know for a fact this will...

...coincide with Joe Kennedy or is this just more the same old jumping the gun to whine about Bernie because of deep seeded jealousy toward the huge following he has?

[Cha]

91. No one is fucking jealous.. good gawd.. all you have are

insults.

[phleshdef]

92. Wow, must have struck a nerve.

[Cha]

95. Why? 'Cause I called on your accusation that anyone could be jealous of the divisiveness?

[phleshdef]

97. You didn't call out anything. But I am going to call you out now. You ready?

You spent this entire thread jumping right in, trashing Bernie, taking it as gospel that he is trampling on Joe Kennedy's response. Now we know Bernie isn't going live on FB/Youtube until 10:45. Given that Trump should be done by 10 and Joe K. will likely be done before 10:45, are you going to retract all the embarrassing posts in this thread where you went right along with the anti-Bernie lemming mentality and admit that you spoke before knowing the facts or are going to conveniently pretend like none of that happened and cower away from this thread, never acknowledging that you were wrong?

[Cha]

98. Nah.. you're not calling out anything.

[phleshdef]

102. I see. So you aren't big enough to admit that you were wrong.

Consider yourself called out for it. And it is called out, whether you like it or not. Everyone here can see it. You can't hide from it.

[Cha]

103. You're not "big enough to admit" what you said

was wrong.

[phleshdef]

105. I don't believe what I said was wrong. A lot of people here are jealous of Bernie's popularity.

But thats neither here nor there, thats just my opinion. Opinions are soft.

You were most certainly wrong about the timing of the SOTU responses and you didn't even bother to check the facts before opening your mouth though. That much is based on hard fact not opinion.

You can say whatever you want to say in response. I don't care. You've lost the argument and there is nothing you can do or say about it.

[Cha]

116. No one is jealous of BS' "popularity".

[phleshdef]

119. Thats my opinion and you can't change it.

Nor can you change the fact that you were wrong about Bernie speaking at the same time as Kennedy. Live with it.

MAHALOATCHALATA!

[melman]

108. Excellent post

Nailed it.

[KTM]

99. What divisiveness ??

You mean that SOTU response, scheduled at 10:45PM, after both Kennedy and Waters ? That?

I dont think you called anyone out on anything here... you are just misinformed and raging about an imagined slight that doesnt exist.

[Cha]

100. Yeah, I did.

[KTM]

109. You did.... imagine a non-existent issue, you mean.

Let's scroll up... "I would have been surprised if he had his response at a time not to step on Joe Kennedy's rebuttal for the Dems."

So, say you're suprised, admit that it clearly isn't "obvious divisiveness," and own your mistake and your misdirected anger.

[GaryCnf]

110. A GREAT idea

Two speakers, attracting voters from different parts our political alliance, as much as doubling the size of the anti-Trump audience.

[Beantighe]

111. I was listening to the talking heads on cnn today

and they are already spinning the multiple responses as being basically, "Democrats can't even unify enough to support one response."

[R B Garr]

123. Chuck Todd on MSNBC was pushing that, too.

[MariaCSR]

146. And I agree with that. We need ONE message, not several.

[pamdb]

113. Bernie bot

I like Bernie, voted for him in the Michigan Primary. Then Hillary in the general.
That said, Bernie needs to just go away.

Would like to see Biden and Kamala Harris

Biden and Amy klobuchar

Is Biden a couple of years younger than trump?

[Gothmog]

115. I will be watching Congressman Kennedy

I have the DVR set to tape Congresswoman Waters speech

[tavernier]

122. Im going with the HOT redhead!!

That old prune with the bloated ego can stand in line.

And I’m older than Bernie, so don’t even try the age discrimination stuff.

[melman]

124. Are you going to admit your were wrong?

[democrank]

126. What's the point of this?

Bernie Sanders and Joe Kennedy are on the same side when it comes to Trump. They both oppose him. I couldn't care less if there were 100 people responding to Trump's bullshit. The more the merrier.

Are people going to be called out because they don't choose to view the "right" SOTU response? Good grief, will this divisiveness never end?

[Tarheel_Dem]

128. Then there's two things I won't be watching tonight. YAY! n/t

[jalan48]

129. Good. The more against Trump the better.

[GulfCoast66]

133. Maybe he is going to release his tax returns

[Glamrock]

134. Why should he?

As it's been said here ad nauseum, he's not a Democrat. He's only an independent who votes with the Democrats 90% of the time. He's free to do as he wishes.

[question everything]

136. Ane Waters and perhaps more. Divided we stand (nt)

[bullwinkle428]

137. This thread should get interesting in a couple of hours.

[melman]

138. When are you going to admit you were wrong?

[pnwmom]

139. I wasn't. I looked at Bernie's FB page and he said "someone" needed to respond

to Trump, as if he was the only one doing it.

And his speech was same old, same old stuff. Most of us could have written it for him, we've heard it so often.

[melman]

140. You absolutely were

And now you're trying to pretend you didn't say what you said.

[pnwmom]

141. What did he do to encourage his followers to watch Joe Kennedy's response?

Nothing. He simply said that "someone" had to give a response -- as if no one else was -- and here was his.

[melman]

142. Blah blah

You were wrong and you won't admit it. Bottom line.

[pnwmom]

143. Yeah, right. Whatever you say.

Nah, just kidding.

[melman]

144. Whatever

I really don't need you to agree. The facts are the facts either way. And the fact is you were wrong and you won't admit it.

[trueblue2007]

145. i did not listen to it. In a vote between Mr. Kennedy and Sanders .... I'D VOTE KENNEDY

I ALWAYS VOTE DEMOCRAT.
I was overwhelmed by Kennedy's passion and his articulate message.

[MariaCSR]

147. Bernie is the reason we're going to have 4 more years of Trump.

His sense of timing couldn't be worse.