(02-05-2020 10:06 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(02-05-2020 06:47 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(02-05-2020 01:41 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(02-05-2020 12:51 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I think this video speaks enormously:

Could you imagine the uproar if Paul Ryan had overtly ripped up an Obama SOTU address?

Granted the SOTU is grand acting, but the petulant attitude by Pelosi was strangely in line and echoed the stony silence of the Democrats. I mean, did you see the jerks just sit there like rocks when Trump noted the unemployment figures? I guess they dont like low unemployment. Pelosi's act just capped it off wonderfully.

I guess if Orange Man announced that he was going to undertake brand new measures to to fight against pedophilia and workplace rape the Democrats would start a directed effort to rehabilitate Roman Polanski, Harvey Weinstein, and Epstein as fine examples of why Trump is bad. Just amazing.

I don't listen to speeches, but I was flipping channels and watched 5-6 minutes early, when he was introducing the 100 year old Tuskegee Airman and awarding the scholarship to that girl. Pelosi had to know she was on camera. but spent her time reading, not listening, and when it came time to rise, she was always late - even for the Tuskegee Airman. The Resistance was very evident in shots of Schiff, Nadler, and Omar.

And then Big is puzzled that we don't just sprint to join those ranks. I consider many of the prominent members of the Democrats to be loathsome people, including but not limited to the ones named above. Why would I care to align myself with them?

In any case, Pelosi has only four more of these to sit through. Always a possibility she could learn some manners.

Lest we forget how respectful and full of applause the Republicans were when Obama was POTUS and giving the SOTU...

Both sides grand stand and generally refuse to applaud when they think the POTUS is full of ****, regardless of how wonderful the line is. And we’ve seen plenty of rudeness and actions that were out of line get championed by the right. Short memory spans, huh?

Your justification for Pelosi's childish antics is that other members of Congress have behaved childishly in the past.

I'm not justifying it. I'm commenting to Tanq that her antics aren't unique to the Dems, so I don't see why Reps are any better and more appealing, based on this act alone. Both sides play these stupid games, and neither is better than the other - and Tanq was clearly trying to suggest otherwise.

I think both sides use the SOTU to grandstand too much.