pelosi's face, and her body's actions, as she sat behind the president last night, is worthy of a study in psychotic breaks from reality, insolence and, if not always body language, then body and face language
forget for a moment the waxy pallor of her mein
its partly the fixed superiority and condescension of her pursed lipped smile
she stood at appropriate times and even did clap
but her body gave, in constant fear of anyone's misinterpretation, the message she was standing and clapping about something else and no never in response to trumps speech
she mouthed words to the air perhaps even to real people,
its unknown whether or not the people mouthed back or even recognized her signaling or even if there was a real person she was signaling to
she clapped as if to recognize others in some sort of perky greeting
and these detached moments of hers just happened to occur when others were standing and clapping in response to the speech
her message seemed to be she cant help it if the speech interfered with her personal reason for trying to gain someone's attention by standing and recognizing someone by clapping off into the distance
her actions reminded me of an awkward teenager at a school dance, in self conscious awareness of her pitiful aloneness and that she wishes she either were elsewhere or popular and to cover up she time and again waves and smiles to no one in particular until her mind develops a distorted or nonexistent sense of objective reality.