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An eloquent gesture

President Donald Trump is exonerated

He may be exonerated from Impeachment but the voters will give him their thumps down. He may be a one-term President.

So those who believe in Revelation must get out of USA as soon as possible.

Eleven months isn't that long to wait.

An eloquent gesture on Pelosi's part without having to say a word.

- call neo-Nazi's "fine people"
- call Mexicans rapists

both of those statements are pure biased opinion not facts.

most of what you post is pure out-of-touch-with-the-real-world opinion, not the fact you claim it to be.

This is classic Collins behavior.

Pelosi tearing up his speech was going as childish as Trump, not classy as she usually is. It would have been better had she just sat remaining silent. Better yet, not showing up at all.

Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, and the civility police are on a rampage: On “Morning Joe,” host Willie Geist lectured that the House Speaker’s act is “not what the country needs.”

As many pointed out, Pelosi’s theatrical gesture, which came after Trump appeared to refuse to shake her hand at the outset, is tame alongside Trump’s own constant shredding of decorum — the hate rallies, the insulting of lawmakers and so forth.

But there’s a more precise point to be made here. If the underlying premise of the criticism of breaches of decorum is that they pose a threat to our democracy’s functioning, then much of what Trump has done well beyond such breaches — for three years now — actually does pose a severe threat to that functioning, while acts like Pelosi’s actually do not pose any remotely comparable threat.

This isn’t whataboutism. It’s meant to correct a massive category error. Breaches in civility are not the main threat to our political system. Indeed, if Trump only went on half-cocked rally rants and merely insulted Democrats, the current damage would not be nearly as severe.
It’s all the other misconduct that threatens the fabric of democracy — Trump’s unchecked lawlessness, his abuses of power, his public racism, his unprecedented lying, his treatment of the opposition as illegitimate.

In this context, hand-wringing about a mutual deterioration of decorum — the New York Times discerned a “mutual snubbing,” while an NBC reporter sniffed that Pelosi indulged in “antics” that are “Trumpian” — is profoundly misleading about the wildly asymmetrical realities of the moment.

Susan Collins’s impeachment vote personifies her soulless party