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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is predicting the bar will be so low for President Trump when he delivers his first State of the Union address Tuesday night that pundits will declare the speech successful as long as "his nose isn't running."
"If his nose isnt running and he isnt burping, he did a great speech," Pelosi said during a House Democratic Caucus meeting, according to Politico.
Also in that meeting, Pelosi reportedly urged fellow Democrats to stay on their best behavior during the address in order to keep the spotlight on Trump.
"Let the attention be on his slobbering self," Pelosi said, according to Politico. "If you want to walk out, dont come in."
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371433-pelosi-pundits-will-say-trump-did-well-if-his-nose-isnt-running-and-he-isn't
Lowered expectations I guess.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)asswipe. . .
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It's sharts he has to look out for.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)So he's covered unless something rolls down his leg.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)I started to wonder why the GOP would get exited about him waving a baby carrot.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,009 posts)I thought that was a misspelling of erections at first.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)But the Democrats wouldn't do that to their FRIENDS on the other side of the aisle. They have respect for the office, and obviously, the person holding it.
I applaud the 2 or 3 Democrats who aren't cowards, and are skipping the speech entirely.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for the institutions of our democracy, no one does. We must uphold them. Hillary attended the inauguration in spite of really, really not wanting to because showing she supported the peaceful transfer of power was her duty. Moral strength, not cowardice.
If anything boycotters would be cowards, except this group is not -- almost every one was or represents others so gravely, specifically insulted by this president that it provides good justification for making this statement. But if they were the only 8 Democrats in congress, they'd attend and sit rigidly tall and silent, that duty outweighing all.
Nancy will be there with her dignity on, of course, although I'm guessing she'd much, much rather be home binge watching some show she's never had time for. Watching this schmuck read yet another speech just another grim duty.
doc03
(35,340 posts)should be locked up every democrat should walk out.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)refusal to attend the president's constitutionally mandated report to them. He's there, they have to be too. This may be 2018 but it's not some low, vulgar reality TV show.
Let's hope numbnuts will embarrass himself and the takeaway be about that, not that I have any real hopes for that. He'll probably mostly bore everyone to death by reading words others wrote with only the usual occasional low, offensive jabs that are his version of behaving.
doc03
(35,340 posts)who is in control of the entire federal and what 30 or more state governments. Don't appear to hurt them.
Someone should bring Stormy and the 20 some other women there too. Like when trump showed up with all of
Clinton's accusers at the debate.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)slimy balloon-boobed "Stormys," repulsing most voters with their low behavior, it should of course be the trumpsters.
How soon some forget. Michelle with her guests at the 8th of her 8 SOTU appearances.
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sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)They could all explain exactly why they are boycotting the speech. He is an Illegitimately elected (Thanks To Putin), Mysoginistic, Racist, Anti-Immigrant cretin, and those are good enough reasons to skip listening to him.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to support a peaceful transition of power. And since no one here's died of starvation or been shot down by some dutiful authoritarian behind a machine gun or neighbor with a shotgun, maybe that's evidence that wise heads prevail.
330,000,000 million people. Do you know where you'd get your water and food NEXT Monday if the pumps stopped pumping and the just-in-time-inventory trucks stopped running?
More importantly even for those who survive, do you know what government they'd required to accept?
This sounds like over-response, of course, but WE, the Democratic Party, are currently the only protectors of our democratic republic because of the corruption and moral collapse, even we suspect treason, of the Republican Party. Our elected representatives won't be attending out of respect for Trump, but out of their duty to listen to our president's constitutionally mandated report to congress on the state of our nation.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)That may be the technical way to describe it, but it's more like a bunch of Sarah Huckabee SPIN, drawn out into a full length speech.
If he was Jim Carey from Liar, Liar, and the speech wasn't full of LIES, I could accept it as a report on the SOTU. But we all know it's a fraud.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And Democrats would be sharing time with Republicans saying why we werent there. Winning strategy you have there.
Calling Pelosi and others cowards is more a statement of self.
Hekate
(90,705 posts)I really don't hold with answering tantrums with tantrums, and you lay out the distinctions between who is and is not attending and why very nicely.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So expect a 3-hanky speech.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Rethugs are trying to own the narrative...and prop up the POS....only positive messaging to the POS today by evildoers.......
RESIST!!!!
Cha
(297,268 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)NYETNYET
(212 posts)Between the snort...snort...snort
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)doc03
(35,340 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)Shitting himself
Exposing himself....
HE WILL THEN BE PRESIDENTIAL.
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Well, that "trope" could circle back. Jai trop mangé.
"Let the attention be on his slobbering self," Pelosi said, according to Politico. "If you want to walk out, dont come in." I respectfully disagree, Madame Pelosi.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,604 posts)and tell us, "The president finally is presidential tonight". Now it is my turn to
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,604 posts)especially stupid but I forgot what exactly. What little respect I had for him disappeared that night.
NYETNYET
(212 posts)No need to stand or clap but sit quietly and make your mothers proud.
Hekate
(90,705 posts)We'll try very hard to get you the Speakership back this Fall.