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George Rebane

President Trump delivered his best speech ever giving the nation its State of the Union.  He ticked off an impressive list of accomplishments that benefitted every corner and population segment of the country.  He did a masterful job in selecting and managing the events in the gallery that honored and represented the many deserving.  And there was nothing nasty in his words, presented themes, and visions for America’s future.  All this while the Democrats sat like sore pustules in their seats denying the uncomfortable truths of accomplishments while they have spent their energies in trying every sleazy trick in the book to bring this president down simply because he beat their Chosen One.

PelosiSOTU200204But the prize and truly historical moment of disrespect came at the end of the speech when Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sitting behind the President, visibly made a show of tearing in half her copy of the speech and throwing the pieces on her desk in full view of the American public.  With that Great Divide play she bet the ranch that Americans see their country and future through the jaundiced eyes of the radical left progressives.  To my knowledge, no American political leader has publicly so vehemently and visibly dissed another political leader in the history of our Republic.  I believe she will live to rue the day in the coming months, because we will see that planned and egregious tantrum over and over again as the election approaches.

The 2020 election season officially started tonight.

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107 responses to “They’re Off!”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Hah, I miscalled it.
    It was obvious there had to be some sort of planned, very public, gesture. I was thinking marching out as a body or not inviting the Prez. Ripping up the speech, brilliant.
    Don’t doubt for a second it was preplanned and there was a big Team Blue Meeting to figure out just how and when to do it.
    I agree that you’ll see it in political ads. It might be a series of commercials used to tie the (D) candidate to California (nobody in any battleground state likes California), Pelosi front and center tearing up the speech, voice-over talking about how Democrats tear up the Constitution. Trump 2020. Fade to black.

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I mean, seriously, the guys working on Trump’s campaign and media presence are high-fiving each other as we speak. Nancy’s Tantrum(tm) is a perfect bit of usable political theatre and can be messaged ’til the cows come home.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Great post, Dr. Rebane. The Road to the White House has officially been launched.
    Comments coming in. How about a Buck review?
    @BuckSexton
    Trump is spiking the football in the Democrats’ end zone, doing back flips in front of their bench, and running up into the stands to make out with the opposing QB’s girlfriend
    ———
    Update:
    For the record: Trump not tired of winning
    https://twitter.com/BuckSexton?

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. The interwebz moves pretty fast. I’ve already seen my first pic of Pelosi tearing the Constitution taken from the State of the Union. Wikipedia got altered like so:
    “On September 24, 2019, Pelosi announced the commencement of impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump.[7][8] On January 10, 2020, she announced that she would end the impasse and alerted the House that she would send the articles of impeachment to the Senate the following week.[9] Speaker Pelosi was officially broken by President Trump on February 4, 2020 after the State of the Union when Pelosi ripped up her copy of Trump’s speech.”
    Changed back already of course. Off to the races indeed.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Opps, moi correction @ 9:20 pm.
    “Great post, Dr. Rebane. The Road to the White House has officially been launched.”
    Launched is too gentle of a word. Tonight, Trumped rocketed himself out of the starting gate. Tomorrow, he will deliver the vicious front uppercut under their cracked ribs that will put them on the mat for a few hours. First knockdown of 2020 and the year is still oh so young.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Who here thinks Trump has gotten inside of Pelosi’s head?
    I DON’T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW
    John Hayward
    @Doc_0
    Dems put on a show for a tiny gaggle of noisy hate-maddened lunatics. Trump played to a vastly larger audience, a contrast perfectly captured by him delivering a poetic and inspirational closing while Pelosi acted like a toddler and ripped up a copy of his speech.
    8:04 PM · Feb 4, 2020·TweetDeck
    Did you see Nancy’s face when Trump went on and on about school choice? Anyway, enough of Nancy. That was just icing on a humongous cake. 🙂
    Don’t See That Often: On MSNBC, Carville Blasts Dem ‘Cult,’ Press Going ‘AOC Crazy’
    Sweet dreamies

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  7. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,Yes Trump lied again and again…the brown nosed GOP chanted 4 more years like some immature Kavanaughs at a pep rally…Trump wouldn’t shake Pelosi’s hand…Limburger got the Medal of Freedom for his radio drivel…given by Melania…3 ring circus for sure…

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Every party has a pooper, that’s why we invited you.”
    Come on, Odlaf, I ain’t feeling the love.

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  9. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,1.3 million. That’s how many fewer new jobs Trump has created in his first 35 months in office vs. Obama’s last 35 months.
    https://twitter.com/SteveRattner/status/1224879187833565184?s=09

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The horror, the horror.
    Larry Elder weights in
    https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1224937597853552645?ref_src=twsrc%

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: odlaw | 04 February 2020 at 09:55 PM
    – from Zero Hedge
    “Of course, the minute Melania Trump pinned the medal on the conservative talk radio host, who recently revealed his Stage 4 Lung Cancer diagnosis, we assumed liberals across the country would be incensed into an apoplectic rage, infuriated that a “racist”, “partisan” “divider” like Limbaugh had been awarded one of the highest honors in the US, which has been reserved for such luminaries as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks.”

    But the funniest part was that the progressives still thought they were the “uniters”.
    The cracks me up every time……

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  12. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,of course Oosik,,,giving a MOF at the SOTU was just a circus act,,,since Rush is just a Partisan hack…
    There are several catagories…Rush was in the Radio catagory…

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  13. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,another Trump lie,,,GDP…what happened to the 5-6 percent Trumpskkki promised???
    2.3 GDP equals 5-6 GDP in Trump lemmings math…
    Carter had better GDP growth!!!

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  14. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    The SOTU played like a typical Trump rally…

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Leftist loon Linda Campbell has changed her name… I guess the old one wasn’t working for her. She’s running against Brian Dahle as an independent wearing the sock “Kelleher”.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The SOTU was great. America is better off with Trump than Pelosi. She would have us all in chains.
    So the loon Campbell is now Kelleher? I wonder if she changed the name legally?

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    odlid@6:56 6:57 7:02 7:03
    lol. Triggering is never pretty, especially among the elderly. Take a deep breath, everything should be better in the light of day. Well, maybe not today, but tomorrow at least.
    It’s Nancytime! https://i.imgur.com/opV9Lk6.jpg
    I figure she was just tearing up Iowa ballots.

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  18. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,, Trumpskkki forgot to mention…
    1. Biggest deficits ever
    2. Biggest national debt ever
    3. Biggest & most bloated pork barreled budget ever
    4. Biggest entitlement spending programs ever
    5. Biggest Pentagon budget ever
    6. Biggest domestic spending ever
    7. Most reckless fiscal policy ever
    …and none of the above were bipartisan votes.

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  19. scenes Avatar
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    re: Gregory@7:25
    Wait. Yelling at LaMalfa, arrested, crazy letters-to-the-editor writin’ Linda Campbell?
    Check out the twitter feed.
    https://twitter.com/lsuecamp?lang=en
    Cool. It’s like a giant heap of the Cross posts on a bad day, maybe too similar.
    I mean, seriously, there’s something broken here. It reads like a combination of Ed Anger and Emily Litella.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/twi/linda-campbell-capitalism-is-not-an-ideology/
    Heck, I’ll vote for her. The state legislature needs more crazy. I figure it’s the only way we can get things like chemtrail-free zones passed.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: odlaw | 05 February 2020 at 07:02 AM
    Carter had better GDP growth!!!

    See …….this is why you are so valuable to the Democrat Party 🎉, nay…..to progressivism as a movement! Your out of the box thinking!
    Carter……! Jimmy Carter! He not doing anything! And he’s not much older then democrat fossil and front runner Gaffemaster Joe! With a lot less “baggage” shall we say!
    Say what you want about Amy…..she wasn’t out there impregnating strippers and defrauding Ukraine!
    Bravo dugsKKKi!

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  21. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,the economy is really just humming along as it was before Trumpskkki took office…
    His employment numbers are not better, the GDP is not radically different…
    He has mostly remodeled sections of The Wall…
    with a few new miles completed…
    He has blown past Slick Willy as the most corrupt President in modern history…more shady dealings, lawsuits against him, most charges of fraud, and that was not because of any Demo Congress…

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump gets by with a Lilie help from his friend in white.
    “Truth be told, he couldn’t do it without Pelosi’s help. She has overplayed her hand time and again, and her insistence that Trump is an illegitimate president has presented Americans with a stark either-or choice. They wisely rejected impeachment as too radical, which is something she initially said herself before succumbing to the mob mentality.
    And she’s just led her party into another embarrassing dead end. Combined with Trump’s strong record, the chaos in the Dems’ Iowa caucus, the lackluster field of presidential candidates and the failed impeachment, the president is off to a roaring start for the campaign.
    We can add Pelosi’s televised tantrum to the growing list of his achievements.”
    https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/nancy-pelosi-shamed-herself-at-trumps-state-of-the-union-address-goodwin/
    Is there nothing Trump cannot do!

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: odlaw | 05 February 2020 at 08:20 AM
    A democrat worried about fiscal discipline?
    Oh dugsKKKi…….you slay me!

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 05 February 2020 at 07:25 AM
    Leftist loon Linda Campbell has changed her name… I guess the old one wasn’t working for her.

    Does anyone here know her (she/her) birth name? I mean before she transitioned!
    ……Steve……Wayne……Darryl…..?

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    PELOSI’S PIQUE……the stained dress
    “If not an escapee from the asylum, Pelosi might have qualified as a candidate for commitment. She needs help. With help, she could perhaps impersonate a normal human being. That’s the way it looked…….
    I would guess that Pelosi felt obligated to display her disapproval to the other women in white and their soulmates in the Democratic caucus. Respect and courtesy are not their thing. Rashida Tlaib’s January 2019 vow that she and her colleagues would “impeach the mother” expressed the derangement of the inmates whose ranks Pelosi leads.
    Pelosi brags that the impeachment of President Trump marks him forever. This is how she thinks. That is her contribution. Perhaps, however, President Trump will be the first president impeached by the House to win reelection. Then what?
    Most moments State of the Union speeches come and go without leaving a mark. President Trump provided many deeply touching if not transcendent moments last night. The stain with which Pelosi marked herself last night should prove indelible.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/pelosis-pique.php
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/IMG_2590.jpg?w=960&ssl=1

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding the SOTU, I thought it interesting that he’d stayed on teleprompter message from start to finish.
    Didn’t do a thing to make it easy for a Senator to vote for conviction today.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    They’re Off!
    Heard elsewhere:
    -Tom Perez mulls asking Trump to run as a Democrat to stop Bernie.
    -Nancy Pelosi settled for shredding a speech because she could not get her hands on the Constitution.

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  28. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,Would be funny if Trumpskkki tears up the impeachment docs today!!!
    …or if he takes the high road and apologises for trying to subvert the democratic republic process by soliciting help from foreign governments to get dirt on political rivals….Don’t hold your breath…BWAHAHAHAHA

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Wow Dougy. Really hitting the crack pipe on this one.

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  30. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    Posted by: Walt | 05 February 2020 at 09:18 AM
    ,,,Good Morning Sunshine!!!

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Takeaways From the Early Iowa Caucus Results
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/05/takeaways_from_the_early_iowa_caucus_results_142318.html
    Morning Walt, my brother. Missed ya last night. Glad you are here. Odlax has been craving attention.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    CNN’s Van Jones Worries Trump’s Overtures Will Win Over Black Voters
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnns-van-jones-worries-trumps-overtures-will-win-over-black-voters/

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    comma-man: “,,,another Trump lie,,,GDP…what happened to the 5-6 percent Trumpskkki promised???
    2.3 GDP equals 5-6 GDP in Trump lemmings math…”
    Dunno where you got your numbers, and far be it from me to expect any to actually look this up, but I’m seeing quite a lot higher GDP growth rate using IMF values. Of course, I’m using per capita, inflation-corrected values as opposed to Schiff math. 4.5% for 2018 and 3.8% for 2019(est.)
    Generally, I’d say that the kind of thing that matters to most people is this chart:
    https://www.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/median-household-income-688×500.png
    Where you can see two things. (1) The Obama problem and (2) the lack of real growth over time. Even going back 50 years, the rate of median increase is pretty low. I’d say that people are getting poorer not just due to wage stagnation but also because of clawback from an ever-increasing burden of taxes and regulations. Just think about how much less gasoline would cost if we weren’t collecting money for the children.
    My personal view is that the economy follows it’s own piper and the connection between it and partisan politics is hard to track. No doubt a person could even argue about what ‘household income’ is. Working in a factory? Receiving a check from the government? Tax free busking?
    Perhaps you could treat us with a rant on ‘CHILDREN IN CAGES’ next.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    There is only one Kelleher (James) in all of Nevada County and he lives in Nevada City of of Appleseed Lane with a woman named Terri Schwander – registered with County Elections.
    Linda Campbell is registered, lives with two other women (Dana Campbell and Leslie Brown) off of Red Ranch Road.
    Which one is it?

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Here dugsKKKi….never again say I’ve done nothing for you!

    Romney will vote to convinct Trump, in dramatic break with GOP

    The definition of “Cuckservative” has a picture of Mitt Romney next to it.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/05/sen-mitt-romney-will-vote-to-convict-trump-breaking-with-fellow-republicans-110848

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    So dug…..were you as upset when O’Dummy presented a posthumous MOF to Harvey Milk as when Trump presented Limbaughs?

    “Milk was a pederast,” said Bryan Fischer, a host on the American Family Radio network. “A pederast is a man who fancies sex with post-pubescent boys.”

    ……or were your computer privileges at the group home suspended that day?

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Speaking of H. Milk
    I’ve always wondered if there’s a nickname in the fleet for this ship.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Harvey_Milk_(T-AO-206)
    as an aside, I’ve always thought that naming Navy ships after people is a bad idea, even the Nimitz Class ships.
    With the exception of the Queen Elizabeth, the British have successfully avoided this so far as I know (is Billy Ruffian a name?).

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Mitt Romney
    Not surprising. From a year ago:
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/02/rand_paul_on_romney_there_will_be_a_backlash_for_holier_than_thou_anti-trump_op-ed.html
    A mixed bag. Short term, it’ll give a small victory to The Mob and is worth filling up a few tens of thousands of blogger posts and twitter nonsense. Long term, he’s unlikely to get that job back now. Personally I think it’s a good trade.

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  39. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Given Biden’s poor showing in Iowa, it looks as if trumpler’s smear campaign against Biden has worked even though it was based on long discredited conspiracy theories. All you have to do is lie lie lie and eventually it sinks into soft skulls.

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  40. scenes Avatar
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    ‘Robert’ Cross@1:21PM
    Oh well, someone else seems to be having a bad day.
    I can only think of one solution.
    https://i.redd.it/n5hscfekqte41.jpg

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  41. Crossbow Avatar
    Crossbow

    Who gives a crap about Biden.. I am just pointing out how the trumplicans operate. Giving Limbaugh the Freedom Award is like giving Joseph Goebbels a Pulitzer.

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  42. Herb Adleman Avatar
    Herb Adleman

    this just in — the Senate has voted to impeach Donald Trump and remove him from office. in the end they didn’t need any witnesses or evidence after all.

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    There’s nothing the Orange Man can’t do!
    Courtesy of reddit, Ms. Nancy doing a test rip.
    https://i.redd.it/pku78odv54f41.gif

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump is acquitted of the dreamed-up impeachment sham of Pelosi/Schiff/Nadler and the rest of the clowns on the left.
    Limbaugh saved this country from you commies by exposing you to the light. Over the years he has been shown to be a prophet regarding your evil intentions. Trump did the right thing by honoring a great man. You libs get to polish your trophy from Putin for your interference in our election.
    HerbA is projecting again. Goebbels is your guy not ours. And you seem to have learned his techniques quite well.

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The latest polls have Trump negative 2.
    Congress, negative 53.

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 05 February 2020 at 01:21 PM
    All you have to do is lie lie lie and eventually it sinks into soft skulls.

    Indeed Bertie…….but these soft skulls are democrats (or do I repeat myself). Primary…..democrat primary…..democrat voters.
    Glad you’ve come to terms with it.

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