Historically they always were, it's only in the TV era that we've come to expect some sort of speech and hoopla. Even before that, provisionally placed in there to at least make sure there was SOME communication between the branches, assuming all hell breaks loose and there is a complete breakdown of political process.
It can be also done in written form
Would there be stage direction added <blank stare> <garbled word> <olde time racial slur>
Historically they always were, it's only in the TV era that we've come to expect some sort of speech and hoopla. Even before that, provisionally placed in there to at least make sure there was SOME communication between the branches, assuming all hell breaks loose and there is a complete breakdown of political process.
Yeah type up Pelosi and Schumer an email:
The state of the union is great, we got vaccines and uhhh I got hairy legs... you ain't black!!!
Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb, a black man did.
The sad part is, liberals actually believe that.