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Trump-Pelosi feud spirals out of control
Politico: It was the snub seen around the country — and in Democrats’ view, President Donald Trump's State of the Union only went downhill from there.
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended her hand just before the start of Trump’s address, the president quickly pivoted and turned his back, leaving the speaker hanging.
Not to be outdone, the normally restrained Pelosi put on a show herself as Trump’s speech wrapped. Standing behind the president, she meticulously ripped up page after page of the speech, while Trump and other Republicans cheered the end of an address that mostly catered to hard-core GOP partisans.
“It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative,” Pelosi told reporters as she exited the chamber. Later as she left the Capitol, she added, “It was a manifesto of mistruths.”
A source close to the speaker said the moment was not planned. But the two bookends — the snub and the tear — perfectly encapsulate the ever-growing chill that has defined the Trump-Pelosi relationship. Pelosi and Trump hadn’t spoken in months, and their encounter Tuesday night was the first time they were face to face since Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry.
The whole episode at the annual address left many befuddled members, who said the feuding captured the spectacle the president created on Tuesday night.
“I suppose it’s all part of the reality-show State of the Union address that we just experienced,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) mused as he left the chamber.
“That was a 2020 campaign rally, that was not a State of the Union,” added Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), calling it a “disgrace. … I regret stepping one foot inside.”
Even Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has chided his Democratic colleagues for being too partisan during Trump’s addresses said that the snub of Pelosi’s handshake was “awful.”
“We’re better than that. We’re a better country than that,” Manchin said, adding that he was undecided how he will vote on the impeachment articles facing Trump on Wednesday. “Not yet. We’ve got another day.”
For the entirety of Trump’s hour-and-a-half long address, Democrats didn’t try to disguise their disdain for the president or the policies he was touting. Throughout the speech — which was a mix of teleprompter Trump, boisterous campaigner-in-chief and a dash of game show host thrown in — there were audible jeers, hissing and boos from Democrats’ side of the chamber.
Even Pelosi could do little to hide her disdain at times, shaking her head and cringing.
“It was a shameful, destructive and divisive speech,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.). “He did nothing to help the wounds he helped create.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) added: "It was demagogic, undignified, highly partisan and in too many places, untruthful."
The president’s third State of the Union address took place during one of the most consequential moments in American history — on the eve of Trump’s expected acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial. And despite Democrats many protestations throughout, their grousing is unlikely to be remembered amid all of the showmanship Trump displayed in the chamber >>>
And this is the State of our Union, more fucked up and divided as anyone can remember.
A divide nation is a weak nation and USA has not been as divided perhaps as Civil war in the 1800.
When it comes to gun violence, don’t pray vote instead
The impeached tRump is helping to make Russia great again
BDS to deprive the oppressive occupied miltary of its bullets and bombs
Buy American, say NO to Chinese made impeached tRump
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
Sultan Hussain The Demagogue:
“I’m not the president of black America.”
Here’s how Sultan Hussain ended up receiving $400,000 per speach:
Obama admits 95% of income gains gone to top 1%
President Obama has been loud and clear about his fight against income inequality, but he admitted that the rich have fared far better than the poor during his time in the White House.
In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the show host cited a recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, that found 95% of income gains from 2009 to 2012 went to the top 1% of the earning population.
The president agreed with Stephanopoulos.
https://money.cnn.com/2013/09/15/news/economy/income-inequality-obama/index.html
"Obama admits 95% of income gains gone to top 1%"
This is when an African-American family live in their own shit for three weeks because of broken plumbing.
Shame on hypocrites!
Flashback: Pelosi Said Obama Did Not Need Authorization to Attack Libya
The House passed a non-binding War Powers resolution on Thursday to rebuke the president for his decision to take out Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
"We deserve the respect from the administration and that Congress deserves under the Constitution,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said from the House floor. “The Constitution of the United States calls that there be cooperation when initiating hostilities."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/01/09/flashback-pelosi-said-obama-did-not-need-authorization-to-attack-libya-n2559285
Sultan Hussain The Demagogue:
I'VE GOT A PEN AND A PHONE-
Fuck the Congress!
sour grapes