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babylonsister

(171,090 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 02:21 PM Feb 2020

Trump's Allies Suddenly Care About Decorum And Unity After Pelosi Tears Up SOTU Speech



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Trump’s Allies Suddenly Care About Decorum And Unity After Pelosi Tears Up SOTU Speech
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rips a copy of President Donald Trump’s speech after he delivers the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on February 4, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL ... By Cristina Cabrera

February 5, 2020 11:21 a.m.


A stone-faced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripped up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, sparking an uproar among the President’s allies, who suddenly take the rules of propriety very seriously.

“Have you no sense of decency, madam?” Trump’s posse cried out.

Despite the fact that Trump has hurled racist invectives at non-white members of Congress and mocked victims of sexual assault, his conservative buddies are clutching their pearls over Pelosi’s gesture and demanding for her censure.

All in good faith, of course!


“It was shameful to see Nancy Pelosi rip that paper up last night,” Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel told Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday morning. “I think it’s symbolic of the division [Democrats] have brought to our country.”


“What is wrong with her?” asked White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway during an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”


Conway asserted that Pelosi should to be censured or that the Senate ought to pass a resolution “denouncing her behavior last night.”

The speech she ripped up was a one-of-a-kind record, signed by POTUS and full of stories of Bravery, Heroism and Patriotism,” White House social media director Dan Scavino lamented via Twitter. “It belonged to the AMERICAN PEOPLE, not to her. What a disgusting display of raw partisanship!”


“The President walks in and hands that to the speaker of the House and the vice president. Those are the official documents,” an indignant House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told the hosts of “Fox and Friends.” “He signs those!”


And Charlie Kirk, president of conservative activist group Turning Point USA and strict adherent of the rule of law, went with a “lock her up” pitch.

“Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address,” he tweeted. “This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison.”

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Trump's Allies Suddenly Care About Decorum And Unity After Pelosi Tears Up SOTU Speech (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2020 OP
Trump hugged the podium and jerked around greymattermom Feb 2020 #1
I hope Nancy Nikki28 Feb 2020 #2
No mention of the handshake snub? moondust Feb 2020 #3
Pfft. Beartracks Feb 2020 #4
Suck it, snowflakes. Flaleftist Feb 2020 #5
The Republicans can pound sand ibegurpard Feb 2020 #6
Hey! Kellyanne, Ronna, Kevin, Charlie... GoCubsGo Feb 2020 #7
Whine one-one... 2naSalit Feb 2020 #8
Trump has a history of tearing up official documents, ones that are to be preserved by law. Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #9

Nikki28

(557 posts)
2. I hope Nancy
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 02:34 PM
Feb 2020

turn it back on them as destroying the Constitution by letting a lying trots criminal get off scott for by breaking the law and them being co conspirators is just as bad.When they stop with their traitorous ways by giving this criminal his walking papers than they can sit down and kick rocks. I am so glad she did steal his fake lying thunder.Go Nancy.I think he respects or looks up to her in his own way because he knows she can play him and is smarter than he is.He can call her the evil genius and he would be half right.

Midnight Writer

(21,795 posts)
9. Trump has a history of tearing up official documents, ones that are to be preserved by law.
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 03:39 PM
Feb 2020

His aides go through his trash and try to piece them together.

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