# Did Pelosi just un-invite Trump from the State of the Union?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-pelosi-just-un-invite-trump-from-the-state-of-the-union/827898>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 16, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-pelosi-just-un-invite-trump-from-the-state-of-the-union/827898 "2019-01-16T22:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-pelosi-just-un-invite-trump-from-the-state-of-the-union/827898/366 "2019-01-19T17:42:16Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> You still don’t get it, **octopus**. Democrats don’t want felons to vote because it will give us more power. To a rational person, power is not itself a goal, but a means to an end. In this case, the actual end is that we support democracy, and want people to be voting. The reason why we want to win elections is so that we can do things like that. And if the other party won elections but did thing that we liked, like supporting democracy, we’d be happy with that even though we were losing the elections.

Well, what you don’t get is your whole argument fails because of your assumption of rationality. Trump is president. Is that the product of Vulcan logic?

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