I didn’t watch the State of the Union, because I was fairly sure it would be filled with lies and hypocrisy.
The first two paragraphs of this article are 100% worth your time, even if you stop there.
Also this:
It is as if the nation were being soaked by a torrential downpour, water rolling over umbrellas and into boats, soaking everyone’s clothes—and the leader whose job it is to lead them through the deluge insists that it is not raining at all, that in fact it is sunny, the sunniest day ever.