State of the Union: Joe Wins!

If we learned one thing from last night’s State of the Union speech, it was that if Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few other MAGA assholes in Congress didn’t exist, the Democrats would have to invent them.

Remember Joe Wilson? He’s a GOP House member from South Carolina who yelled ‘liar’ at Barack Obama while the President was making a speech to Congress in 2009. The next day he issued an apology for his remarks: “I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”

That was then, this is now. And now we have an ongoing battle within the GOP to see who can shout the loudest and be the most disgusting acolyte of what’s left of MAGA and Donald Trump.

And talking about Trump, yesterday the big-money PAC, Club for Growth, sent out invitation to its annual donor event and Trump wasn’t on the list. This is a group of moneyed conservatives who raised more than $50 million for the 2020 election and are promising to do the same thing again or more in 2024.

Trump sent out a fiery message, accusing the group of being a bunch of ‘political misfits, globalists and losers,’ and his entire comment only had one spelling mistake. The President of the Club responded by saying that “the GOP should be open to another candidate,” a message which I guess Boebert, Greene and the other GOP hecklers didn’t hear last night.

What was, for me, most interesting about last night was the ‘official’ GOP response to Joe’s speech, which was delivered by Sarah…