And her piece de resistance was her “performance” at the end of the speech. As President Trump was winding down his address, our heroine was conspicuously shuffling the copies of the address, I assume. She was paging through some type of manuscript all during the speech and now she gathered them up, collated them, and “straightened” them by tapping the batch between her hands to align them in order. Then, astoundingly, she proceeded to take a few pages at a time and, holding them deliberately in front of her chest, tore them in two. She continued the charade until the entire pile was “shredded.” (I wonder who gave her that “ingenious idea.” Is she bright enough to think of that herself? Her female adolescent advisor may have had a hand in that.)
Or, maybe she copied it from the Bible. There is an interesting story in Jeremiah 38. The prophet had written the warning that he received from God and sent it to the King, named Jehoiakim. Ironically, the scroll instructed Jehoiakim not to rebel against the King over him, one Nebuchadnezzar. (Can we read, “disrespect,” here?) So the scribe sent from Jeremiah took the scroll to read to the King. Follow the text beginning in verse 20.
So they went to the king in the court...and they reported all the words to the king. 21 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he...read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king. 22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. 23 When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
Not only did Jehoiakim have the temerity to desecrate a President’s address, he sliced the Word of God and burned it in his fireplace. Too bad Ma’am Nan didn’t have a charcoal barbeque handy.
Well, just glance down the chapter a little ways. Verse 27 continues the tale.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll...saying, 28 “Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned. 29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?’” 30 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. 31 I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them—but they did not listen.”’”
As Dr. Phil asks, “And how did work out for you?” Old Jehoiakim ended up “tot” which is German for “assuming room temperature.” And his descendants followed his ways and died without sons. If I were a voter in California, I would look long and hard for an alternative to send to Congress to represent my district and State in November, not named Pelosi.
The mind roams back to junior high days. I had a crush on the queen of the class, the head cheerleader, and the girlfriend of the team captain. And she was all the same person. So I screwed up my courage and wrote her a note, professing my profound admiration for her. I anxiously watched as she discovered the note in her desk and, curiously, opened it.
Then, with a determined “Nancy-esque” look on her face, she proceeded to rip my missive to shreds. (Excuse the anachronism.) And, sadly, I was not emotionally decimated by her crass dismissal of my affections. I had expected it. And, undoubtedly, President Trump was not surprised by her perverse behavior, even in the Congress of the United States.
Let’s see what happens now. And the Democrats want this, and possibly another, near octogenarian to run the country for the next four years?
