#sotu — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sotu, aggregated by home.social.
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“I won my election by 15 points, & we won 13 new seats in our state legislature because voters decided they wanted something different,” #Spanberger said, adding, “Those who are stepping up now to run will win in November because Americans — you at home — know you can demand more, & that we are working to lower costs. We are working to keep our communities & our country safe. And we are working for you.”
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…Her own election last fall, #Spanberger said in her speech, was a referendum on Trump’s first year in office & demonstrated that voters preferred #Democrats who run as a moderate counterweight to the president. This year’s #midterms, she predicted, would continue that trend.
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The job #Spanberger took on Tuesday night can be thankless∶ Fumbling the opposition party’s response to the #SOTU speech is a bipartisan tradition dating back decades. But she completed the task without committing a memorable or meme-able error.
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“Every minute spent sowing #fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings,” #Spanberger said. “Our president told us tonight that we are safer because these agents arrest mothers & detain children. Think about that.”
#Trump #immigration #ICE #StateSponsoredTerrorism #SOTU #USpol
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“He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the #corruption is unprecedented,” #Spanberger said, before ticking through details. “There’s the #CoverUp of the #EpsteinFiles, the #crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes & billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name & face on buildings all over our nation’s capital. This is not what our founders envisioned.”
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#Spanberger called Trump’s #tariffs a “massive tax hike on you & your family,” & argued that congressional #Republicans were making life more #expensive & “making it more difficult to see a #doctor” while driving up the costs of #energy & #housing.
And she said that while Trump’s policies were hurting “regular Americans,” they were helping himself & his allies.
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#Spanberger, 46, is the second #CIA veteran in 2 years chosen to deliver the #Democratic Party’s formal response to Trump. Last year, it was Senator #ElissaSlotkin of #Michigan, a fellow #moderate who also first entered #Congress in 2018 & had also just won a statewide election. While #Slotkin warned last year that #Trump would increase the #CostOfLiving, Spanberger made a broader case that his admin was working against the #WellBeing of the American #people.
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Spanberger’s speech — & the selection of her to deliver it — signaled how #Democratic leaders want the party to be viewed in Trump’s second term: sober & serious officials who understand voters’ economic plight.
A #moderate who is coming off a landslide election victory in #Virginia, #Spanberger gave a safe speech that struck the political notes #Democrats are aiming to press — that #Trump has hurt the economy & sowed #chaos with his policies.
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Gov Abigail #Spanberger of Virginia framed the #Democratic Party’s rebuttal to Trump’s #SOTU address around 3 questions: Is he making life more affordable? Is he keeping Americans safe? And is he working on Americans’ behalf?
Spanberger, who took office last month, argued that on all 3 counts, the answer was no.
“Is the president working for you?” she asked before a supportive crowd in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. “We all know the answer is no.”
#Trump #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/spanberger-democratic-response-trump-sotu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Thin-slice of brief response to the deluge of #disinformation and #lies, from Sir.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to the President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address.
Source: CSPAN (emphasis mine)
#SOTU #TrumpVirus #WordSalad
#GQP #democracy #StateOfTheUnion #Spanberger #Democrat #truth #dictator -
I do not know how anyone tolerates listening to #Trump speak. He is manifestly stupid: seriously, objectively stupid, while speaking as if he's the smartest guy in the room, talking down to everyone.
I started playing a #SOTU reaction YouTube broadcast and couldn't listen for more than about ten seconds. I cannot stand him or the honking sounds that come out of his cloaca of a mouth. #Politics #GOP #TrumpIsAnIdiot #TrumpIsAFascist
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The #Democrats response to #DementiaDon's #SotU Address presented by Gov. #Spanberger will be on Network TV after the address, and #Colbert on The #LSSC will be live after the address tonight.
But "The Progressive Response" by fmr Rep Summer Lee can be seen here 👇 live tonight:
https://workingfamilies.org/2026/02/watch-2026-wfp-response-to-the-state-of-the-union/ -
It would be a shame to die in #Iran wearing an #American #military uniform to distract media attention away from the ongoing #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp by the so-called #UnitedStates so-called ‘Department of #Justice.’
#Resist. #DoNotComply with #IllegalOrders.
#StateOfTheSwamp #SOTU #NoKings https://www.defiance.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
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The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".
More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.
#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump
