Trump made people feel uplifted, following up by Pelosi publicly tearing up the speech followed by a governor whining about life no harder than all of us face is such a downer.
Ask yourself, who made you feel good, who made you feel bad.
How not to follow an upbeat speech
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Uplifted? By a pack of lies?
Pelosi did well to publicly tear them up.
Maybe you missed it, but Trumpie was not man enough to shake the hand that Pelosi extended to him. What a wimp! Or has he developed painful spurs in his knuckles?
Trump diminishes everything he touches.
And that now includes the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
What a slap in the face to decency and civility.
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I saw that.
Pelosi extended her right hand and Trump handed her her copy of the speech with his right hand, having given Pence his copy with his left.
Looked more like an awkward fumble than a slight.
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Looked more like an awkward moment? Yeah, right. How could he possibly know in advance that he would be face to face with the Speaker. To shake or not to shake, that is the question. He did not fumble. He made a decision. Who should I believe. My Lying Eyes. or You? Hmmm.
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If you had any remaining doubts that the Democrat Party is the enemy of the American people, they should be forever vanquished.
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We ARE the people. We, the People did not choose and do not support the criminal Trump.
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https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/factchecking-the-state-of-the-union-2/
Hmmm, just a dozen? Well, it’s early.
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Looks more like quibbles than facts.
For example, FactCheck criticizes Trump’s claim on number of jobs created for starting at the time of his election instead of his inauguration. But in truth, business and industry did respond to Trump’s election immediately. As soon as they knew the 8 year nightmare of Obama was over and would not be continued with Hillary, business confidence soared.
It goes on through the list, yes, the wall in San Diego “by itself” did not cut illegal immigration, but immigration officials say it was a necessary part of their strategy.
On and on, factcheck bends context to quibble over statements, when what really matters was mood.
But, I guess I’ll take Napoleons advice though and let the negative response to a conciliatory and uplifting speech do its part in destroying the Democratic party. I’ve put enough effort into saving you from yourselves.
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“conciliatory and uplifting speech” ??
Trump will be remembered as the worst President in history.
All the smoke and mirrors will be for nought as the facts, as they do, win out over time.
If you think trump’s lies (daily) are simply a “quibble” you’ve lost it…
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Doc, you’re a genius…
There, wasn’t that uplifting?
Amazing ain’t it how that works…
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Hey, it’s all about “mood”. If it “feels” right it must be true.
You can’t make this stuff up…
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Mood matters
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Yes, in the bedroom, NOT the Board room…
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You’re mistaking the voting booth for a board room?
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The place where consequential decisions are made?
There are worse metaphors.
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“feel good” politics from the Right?
Hmmm, guess it’s true that we are often guilty of that which we revile in others.
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Observing how things work is not the same thing as approval.
While the Democrat’s antics may be popular inside the ‘bubble,’ they look petty and childish to the persuadable middle.
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What would YOU know about the persuadable middle? You say Libertarian but you are so far to the right of the middle you can’t eevn see it, let alone touch it or understand it.
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As a Libertarian, I am both to the right of the GOP and to the left of the Democrats, where liberty is concerned.
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Yep/ Like I said earlier: A pretzel. That is about the only way you can be left of left AND right of right all at the same time.
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@Tabor
So, Pelosi is risking the persuadable middle? So what is Trump doing with his daily “antics?”
And let me give a typical Trump-like response to your comment about our “bubble.”
It goes something like this . . .
“Our bubble is way bigger than your widdle bubble. Nyah. Nyah. Nyah. Nyah.”
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@Tabor
“But in truth, business and industry did respond to Trump’s election immediately.”
There is no evidence of that “fact” in any credible form. In fact, the trajectory of the economy shows no sign of the mythological turnaround that Trump lies about. Just limping ahead. Last year showed GDP growth of 2.3%. By now, it was supposed to be “4%, 5% or even 6%” thanks to tax cuts for the rich.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-trumps-economy-went-from-rocket-ship-to-lead-balloon-2019-09-27
“Quibbles”
Explain how this, for example, is a “quibble.” Trump made this statement . . .
“Thanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far.”
In fact, he had nothing to do with it unless you believe in time travel. We reached the top on Obama’s watch natural gas in 2009 and petroleum in 2013. It is very telling when the President brags about “accomplishments” that the simplest effort to check the facts proves that he is lying yet again. How can anyone believe anything a lying liar says?
Forbes magazine identified this and four other MAJOR lies in the speech.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/02/04/the-5-big-claims-trump-got-wrong-in-his-sotu/#6c874721517b
Somebody should tear up that pack of lies. Oh, wait. Somebody did.
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Speaker Pelosi did the most polite thing she could have been done with those pages and pages of lies. Personally, I think she could have done the best thing with that speech by quietly dropping it to the floor, squatting down and . . . well, you know the ending, I imagine. That’s what I thought of little donald’s script for a tear-dropping reality-style show which his entire faux ‘presidency’ has been.
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It’s easy to make people feel good with a lie. It’s a whole lot tougher to do it with the truth.
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@Nancy
True; to paraphrase a movie line; Some people “can’t handle the truth”.
And these days a great many can’t even recognize it…
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If Pelosi could have smacked Trump in the back of the head every time he told a lie, he could have had a concussion before the 30 minute mark. Then maybe he would understand what TBI really is. Her tearing up of the speech was the MOST uplifting thing of the entire 78 minutes.
Nancy tore up a speech. Trump and his GOP sycophants tore up the Constitution.
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RE: “Ask yourself, who made you feel good, who made you feel bad?”
That’s a pretty good test. Some are indeed asking that very question:
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I did. And the answer was Ms. Pelosi symbolically doing to that speech exactly what it deserved.
The icing on the cake was the Medal of Freedom presentation to Rush Limbaugh. Deserving or not (I go with not, but that is my opinion), why not do a big ceremony in the White House where it would get the attention it deserves? Or is Mr. Trump scared he would catch Limbaugh’s (very sad) disease? And he figures if Melania catches it, it’s cheaper than divorce.
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