I'm going to say that Nancy's ripping of the paper was a win for Nancy Pelosi. I realize if you look at social media that is exactly the opposite of what all the smart people are saying. I mean that all the smart people, people who in my opinion are very smart, are playing this like Nancy has sort of lost that round by dishonoring the occasion and by being disrespectful and it's all going to blow back on her, etc. Well, here's my take on it. And I want to be consistent. I want to be consistent with what I say about Trump so that I don't get into the hypocrite category accidentally. I often separate with Trump his technique from his policies, etc. So persuasion-wise, Pelosi ripping up that paper at the end, just persuasion-wise, really good. Really good. Possibly an A-plus. And here's why. What are we talking about? We're mostly talking about her. And what are you gonna remember about the State of the Union a year from now? Maybe only that. Might be the only thing you remember. You remember about ten percent. You might remember that Rush Limbaugh got an award. Maybe you remember about the service people who got reunited, the service person who got reunited with his family. Maybe you remember the handshake. But you're not really gonna remember the content of the speech except you know that the president bragged and that people said he was lying. You know, basically that's just background noise these days. But you gotta remember that ripped-up paper. And that goes into the annals of history as one of the great moments in politics, I would say. So in so doing, Nancy drew attention away from the speech, which was one of the greatest victory laps of all time, onto her protest. And the protest, yeah, somebody said in the comments it was visual and you could see the emotion. So people who had the same feeling that she did were probably really bonding with her at that moment when she ripped it up. There were probably people at home thinking, man, I hate that speech, rip it up. And then she rips it up. So I think for her base it was probably good. And it reinforces the there's something horrible and icky about this president but we can't put our finger on it. There's just something horrible and icky. Yeah, rip up his document. We don't need to be specific. We don't need to get into the details. It's just all rip it up. So I think she came out ahead actually with that play. And I acknowledge that a lot of people are disagreeing with me on that, but that's my take.

All right. I wish there were some way to measure it so you could actually know whose take is better, but you can't.