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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPelosi on Trump: "He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can't"
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RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)go Speaker Pelosi!
underpants
(182,992 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)She's not fucking around (none of them are based on Leader Schumer's words as well) and it is so please so see some 'spine' and 'fight' from the Ds!
DBoon
(22,414 posts)nt
hedda_foil
(16,376 posts)underpants
(182,992 posts)Buuuuurn
dem4decades
(11,317 posts)That seemed to have worked in the past.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Botany
(70,635 posts)25th amendment time
underpants
(182,992 posts)flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)To invoke it, you need several members of the cabinet, and also Pence.
If Trump ever suspected that a cabinet member might go 25th on him, he would fire that cabinet member immediately. If the cabinet tried to hold a meeting among themselves, some loyalist there would spill the beans to Trump right away.
In a situation like this, the 25th doesn't seem to be very effective. It is more suited to a situation where the president goes into a coma or something.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)First he'd excuse himself to take a shit and then tweet it from the crapper.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)removing the president involves his own cabinet to remove him. All of whom seem comprised too.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)security and insecurity to the discussion.
The wall is faux security while financial insecurity is real, important and impacts more people.
littlemissmartypants
(22,852 posts)BootinUp
(47,209 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)malaise
(269,257 posts)If you think Obama remted his head for free, watch Speaker Nancy
DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts)Pass the popcorn.
littlemissmartypants
(22,852 posts)Accused him of not understanding financial security. After the below the belt dig, which he deserves. I would like to see the rest of what happened. The president is an idiot. No one can or will parse out the nuances of the language he is having flung at him, to the extent he could understand it. He's an idiot. She knows she has a toddler on her hands yet maintains decorum even while throwing verbal punches. He's WAY out of his league.
One very important point I'd like to offer is that by definition, in social work and psychological communities, anger is said to be the indicator of fear. If a person is angry, one should ask, what is that person afraid of because anger is fear, in translation.
Thanks for sharing, swag.
volstork
(5,403 posts)This is absolutely true, and why there is so much anger abroad in our country today. Everyone is frankly scared shitless. The repugs are terrified of losing whatever status and privilege they've had (whether from wealth, race, religion, etc.). The rest of us are terrified those idiots are going to burn it all to the ground with us all inside.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,543 posts)Fred might loan Donald the $5b, in casino chips.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)marieo1
(1,402 posts)Way to go Nancy Pelosi - you are right on the money. How would DJT know, he's never had to work a day in his life!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And you've completely and conveniently forgotten all about selling some shares of stock to tide you over the rough spots in life. Ask Sen. Romney how that works. So unlikable!
There. Now Fox doesn't have to say it.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Folks went spelunking through the Romney family history, and found that wife Ann had tried her hand at making up a hardscrabble up-from-poverty story for the Romneys. Things were tough for these two crazy kids who were just starting out in life, what with paying for college and starting a family. Money was so tight that the young Romneys had to sell some stock that Daddy Romney had given them. Oh, the shame of it all!
I'm waiting for Trump to put this argument forward for federal employees trying to stretch their savings over an open-ended government shutdown.
japple
(9,847 posts)downthread. Next time, don't forget.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I won't melt under the withering scorn of my fellow DUers over whose heads my comments in deep sarcasm disguise sometimes fly. Of.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Your sarcasm escaped me, and I apologize. There is a helpful smiley which you can use, or not. I often use it, just in case.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)At least, that's my experience: "Hey, that sonofabitch! Wait, am I missing something? Hmmmm. Oh. OH! "
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)There's always someone who wants to shit on a thread. Today, you're it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I understood it, but initially got taken aback, so I see where you are coming from.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'll post an apology to the poster.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)Is that a song?
Mr. President, years ago I tried to find fault with Nancy Pelosi
because I thought the Democrats needed a bad ass in leadership
instead of some softie female. Wow, I had no idea how off-base
I was.
You need to learn to say yes ma'am and no ma'am.
She just has a way with words and you do not ... and your
rattle is getting annoying. Give it to Lindsey.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)Thank you, Nancy!
As an "old school" (i.e. polite) politician, Nancy Pelosi is absolutely devastating.
I suddenly fully understand her daughter's comment: "she'll cut your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding."
It might take Trump days or weeks to understand he's lost. He'll only know it when he bleeds out.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)nuxvomica
(12,459 posts)Remember how popular Bill Clinton became for saying "I feel your pain"? We've gone from "I feel your pain" to "I am your pain." I hope she can work in the tidbit about Trump getting a quarter-mil annual salary from his daddy when he was three years old. That toddler could miss a few paychecks but most people can't.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)making use of their time in the majority.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)And as such, she's not pulling any punches.