Nancy is busting Spanky's ass in a presser

[nolabear]

Last edited Fri Jan 18, 2019, 01:43 PM - Edit history (1)

She’s talking about him like he’s a toddler. “Maybe he doesn’t understand how these trips work.” H”He didn’t know it was a three day trip.” “He endangered not only our group but citizens in the ground.”

He not only leaked the official trip but Plan B, to actually fly commercial? He’s a fucking menace!

Edited to add link:

Link to tweet

[Ohiogal]

1. Way to go, Madame Speaker!

Keep it up!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. When a reporter asked her whether she thought the cancellation of the trip

was retaliation for her postponing the SOTU address, she smiled slightly and said, "I don't think the president would be so petty, do you?"

[dalton99a]

4. Beautiful.

[demmiblue]

5. Whoops, I didn't see your post before I posted!

That was too funny!

[nolabear]

13. Yes, that broke me up. She is so owning that little weasel.

[3catwoman3]

31. That must be a Speaker Pelosi version of...

..."Bless his heart."

That is EXACTLY how petty Trump would be and IS.

[efhmc]

70. Sorry but the true southern saying is "Bless his LITTLE heart.",

as in minuscule or nonresistant.

[3catwoman3]

73. This Yankee thanks you for enlightening me.

I will be sure to use it correctly henceforth -

(I'm not being sarcastic - I'm a word nerd, and always want to "do it right.&quot

[efhmc]

74. Actually if I were really being polite, I would not have corrected you.

That would be a no no. Is it cold where you are?

[3catwoman3]

75. One of the collar counties of the greater Chicago area, and it...

...is a bracing 22 degrees with a wind chill of 7.

[efhmc]

76. Eeek.

Sunny and 46 here in Central Tx. Colder than I like it but the sun is nice. Never been to your area of the country but pretty sure now is not the time to visit. Stay warm.

[3catwoman3]

78. I spent 2 years in San Antonio during my...

...first assignment with the Air Force nurse corps. I was under the northern misconception that all of Texas was flat, brown and dry. San Antonio, as I quickly learned, was hilly, green and HUMID! My first summer there, I thought I was going to melt. I did not spend much time outside.

I remember chuckling to myself on the way to the base one morning, when the radio guy told people that they had better bundle up because it was “a little nippy out there.” It was September, and the temp that morning was a refreshing (to me) 60 degrees.

My favorite, of all the places I have lived, is Denver. I’ve lived in 9 different states, and had 16 different addresses over my 67 years.

[PatrickforO]

38. Yeah, that was great. My wife and I were watching her in action and she's

ever-so-gently tearing Trump a new rear end.

[Chemisse]

60. What a perfect response.

She is amazing!

[NastyRiffraff]

68. Troll level: Genius

She's owning Trump. And he doesn't even know it (yet).

[efhmc]

71. He will not understand this subtlety.

[demmiblue]

3. "I don't think the President would be so petty, do you?"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That made me LOL. It was brilliant.

[dubyadiprecession]

34. Look up "petty" in an old dictionary...

And there he was!

[akraven]

7. Since I can't get TV on cold days except through the 'net -

could someone throw in a link?

I love her madly!!! I was one of the "iffy" folks - but when she took the gavel? PURE RAW COURAGE.

[demmiblue]

10. Here ya go:

Link to tweet

[akraven]

11. THANK YOU demmiblue!

SO saved!!

[calimary]

42. As they said in the old Almond Joy commercials -

“Indescribably delicious!”

[peekaloo]

8. Is she using a magazine with his mug on the cover?

he likes it that way.

[GopherGal]

64. Obama Nobel Peace Prize

he likes it that way.

All the more reason to use the Obama Nobel Peace Prize issue of Time

[matt819]

9. No State of the Union in Congress

At all. Not this year. Not next.

[dalton99a]

12. +1. No more joint addresses for the traitor.

Make him do it from the White House, or McDonald's

[orleans]

26. +1 n/t

[orleans]

27. +1 n/t

[Mme. Defarge]

14. My take on this

was she was VERY shaken by what happened. And rightly so.

[DENVERPOPS]

15. Not very smart

My take is that it is not very smart for ANY democrat or prosecutor on Mueller's team, or witness to all the graft and corruption to be taking an airplane ride ANYWHERE, AT ANY TIME......

Past history bears this out.................

[FakeNoose]

21. Well she would have been OK on the military transport

... but Trump took that away and told her to fly commercial. I'm wondering how he got her flight info so quickly that he could leak it before she actually left?

[padah513]

41. Don't know for certain so this is speculation

But the turtle's wife is the Sec of Transportation

[calimary]

45. First thing I thought was - hmmm, an easy way to "solve his Pelosi problem."

First thing I thought was - he’s trying to get her killed! Fly commercial into a war zone. That whole “sure would be a shame if something happened to her” type of thing.

trump is already friends with at least two despots who apparently have ways of dealing with those they consider to be troublesome individuals. Putin, for one, and also that “nice young prince” in Saudi Arabia come to mind.

Color me DEEPLY suspicious. DEEPLY.

[area51]

62. +1 n/t

[atreides1]

51. This trip had been planned several weeks out!

It takes time to make sure all security procedures are in place, this would have involved the State Department, DOD, NATO HQ, and commanders on the ground in Afghanistan!

My money is that the State Department were the rats in this instance!

[FakeNoose]

54. After the original flight was cancelled, Pelosi's group booked a commercial flight

It was all done in a matter of hours. But Trump got her flight time and leaked it in a tweet last night. If Putin (or someone else) knows what time her plane comes into Afghanistan, what's to stop him from shooting down her plane?
"Whoopsie we made a little mistake!"

It has happened before. Nancy Pelosi was very shaken up over this, as we all should be.

[uppityperson]

63. I can't find a trump tweet with this? Or did he use another person to tweet it?

[FakeNoose]

65. Sorry I'm not a twitter user

... if my post is incorrect I'll change it. Perhaps it wasn't a tweet, maybe he gave the info out as a press release? I don't know but I'll try: to find out.

[uppityperson]

66. From what I can find, just saying she was going to travel was bad enough to endanger many,

saying she'd fly commercially without specifics but day was enough to endanger more.

If he gave specifics,

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

69. Lawrence O'Donnell said that since 9/11 the VP and Speaker are required to use military aircraft.

This has to do with the Speaker being second in the line of succession.

Given that Donny Two Scoops didn't have a problem with his lapdog Lindsay Graham flying to Turkey, or the FLOTUS using military aircraft to fly to Mar-A-Lago, it's clear that by denying Pelosi her legally required right to use a military aircraft to leave the country, Trump has taken one more government worker hostage.

[mahina]

61. Wellstone.

He would have been president and made lives better.

[Hekate]

17. You may be right. He's out for blood.

[Kurt V.]

24. i agree

[NurseJackie]

16. Who changes his Depends when Melania isn't at home?

I'm sure he just filled his drawers with that one!

[dubyadiprecession]

35. The staff at the adult daycare center at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave of course!

[Shoonra]

18. Was a crime committed?

Did Trump announcing to the world including the enemy that a Congressional delegation was on its way to a hot zone, and that they'd be arriving at a commercial airport, constittute "aid and comfort to the enemy"? Was it the equivalent of revealing troop movements?

[lunatica]

39. What do you think

And what do you think terrorists think? They watch Trump too.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. is this it?

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11819-2/

Q: Madam Speaker, could you just talk about what has transpired over the last 15-16 hours?

Speaker Pelosi. It transpired over – since 2 p.m. yesterday. Our Members who were on the bus – I was ready to join them for a 2:15 wheels up from here to Andrews Air Force Base to visit our troops, pay our respects; to thank them for their service, their sacrifice and their dedication; to get a measure of the leadership of Afghanistan, strength of their military, the morale of their people.

It’s about governance, it’s about security, it’s about the civilian affairs in the country as we make our oversight decisions about our policy, the engagement that we have in Afghanistan. The Members were on the bus already, I was about to join them and the President then canceled the trip. It was kind of a funny letter – saying seven days, going to Egypt – somebody didn’t tell him it was a quick weekend trip, but nonetheless, that served his purpose.

Forgetting him for a moment, not only that, but we had the prerogative to travel commercially and we made plans to do that until the Administration leaked we were traveling commercially and that endangers us. We weren’t going to go, because we had a report from Afghanistan that the President outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous, because it’s just a signal to the bad actors that we’re coming.

You never give advance notice of going into a battle area. You just never do. Perhaps the President’s inexperience, didn’t have him understand that protocol. The people around him, though, should have known that. That’s very dangerous.

And then – so we’re saying, well, it’s not only been our safety, that’s one thing, but the more important thing is the people who we would be meeting with, our civilians there, our own troops, first and foremost – again, they take so many risks for us. We didn’t want to heighten the risk for them.

So then we can go commercially, so we say, let’s review this in light of the State Department’s report that the President’s statement has heightened the danger on the ground. As we’re making that decision, all of us together, then the State Department doubles down and says we don’t think you should come because the President’s statement has made it dangerous.

The fact that they would leak that we were flying commercial is a danger not only to us but to other people flying commercially. It’s very irresponsible on the part of the President.

We’ll go again. We’ll go another time. This would have been my ninth trip. One of my colleagues, it was his fifteenth trip, but we’ve been many times to see what the needs are of our men and women in uniform, honor those needs and thank those troops.

Q: How do you know the leak came from the White House? The White House has denied the leak came from them.

Speaker Pelosi. I rest my case.

[ ... ]

[calimary]

49. That's my girl! Nancy, You ROCK!!!

And donald, you’re don’t dealing with one of your simpering sycophants here. Speaker Pelosi is a VERY seasoned veteran of this game, including understanding the Speakership. That, too, isn’t her first rodeo either.

PLUS, and I think this is key, she’s a mom and a grandma. Having raised FIVE kids, she’s dealt with dozens of unruly, spoiled, undisciplined, and overly-coddled children. That dynamic has undoubtedly sharpened her instincts about human behavior and the shrewd and gentle-but-firm management thereof. As a mom myself, I totally get this. ANY mom would.

I suspect that’s also how she’s able to herd cats so effectively in the House of Reps.

On edit - CNN just aired a clip of her in that interview - finishing with “I don’t think the pResident would be that petty, do you?” And I thought - “MAN, that velvet glove has a hand grenade in it.”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

50. she really does rock!

As tough as a rock and as rough on dirty Donald's head.

He's still reeling and reacting.

[flying_wahini]

72. I believe it had to do with Pelosi going to see the NATO commanders....

[link:https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/17/trump-postpones-pelosis-overseas-trip-because-of-shutdown.html|

Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, in a series of tweets, wrote that the congressional delegation’s trip to Afghanistan included a required stop in Brussels for pilot rest.

“In Brussels, the delegation was scheduled to meet with top NATO commanders, U.S. military leaders and key allies – to affirm the United States’ ironclad commitment to the NATO alliance,” Hammill wrote.

He added that the weekend trip to Afghanistan did not include a stop in Egypt, as Trump had suggested in his letter.

[bigtree]

20. k&r

[JohnnyRingo]

22. This will only affect him if he has a huge male ego.

...So mission accomplished?

We know how Trump held a years long grudge against a black man who publicly humiliated him. Ms. Pelosi will most certainly overtake CNN as enemy of the state before this is over.

[maddiemom]

25. Trump was humiliated due to his thin skin and large ego.

A normal, well-adjusted person would have laughed it off. Maybe the dig would have even been felt a bit at the time, but quickly forgotten.

[Texin]

37. Shit. I think Shitler hates Nancy Pelosi more than he hates Hilary Clinton.

[MyOwnPeace]

53. By now,

I would think - FOR SURE!!!!

[Dave Starsky]

55. It seems like he was actively trying to get Pelosi killed.

So I would say you were right.

[ffr]

23. Republicans have been outing Americans at every level since GWB's era.

They are scoundrels and anyone who supports them, the tRump base, are nothing less than scoundrels too.

SHAME! LOCK THEM UP!

[still_one]

30. Actually it started with Reagan

[True Blue American]

33. Bush Senior

Do not forget Bush getting Iran to hold the hostages and then Iran/ Contra. Bush lying about Iraq?

This goes way back to Republican treason.

[Dave Starsky]

56. Reagan was the first actual treasonist.

Nixon was the first "break the law to get elected" president. He got off scot free. That was the first litmus test of "How many crimes can you get away with to get elected president?" Then Reagan made deals with Iran, and it's gone downhill ever since.

[bigbrother05]

36. Nixon/Kissinger torpedoing the Paris Peace talks

Sabotaged LBJ's effort to end the war before the 1968 elections. Any that died after that date are directly linked to those criminals.

Of course you can go back to Prescott Bush and his cronies trying to oust FDR.

[True Blue American]

57. And ending up with their companies seized

because they refused to quit doing business with Germany during the war.

[NoMoreRepugs]

28. tRumpy and the Rethugs remind me of monkeys, the

Deplorables are the crowd that laughs when they throw poop at the "libruhls" - only time it isn't funny is when it hits them. Like the soybean farmers and the government workers not getting paid.

[JohnnyLib2]

29. Maybe she'll pop up in Afghanistan very soon.

Wonder woman!

[Raven]

32. You know, it's not like Pelosi was going on a junket...

She's a 70 something year old woman who I'm sure does not relish spending umpteen hours on a plane and then being a potential target in a war zone. This just might be one of Trump's cheesiest moves. What a vulgarian he is.

[padah513]

43. Vulgarian lol

[NJCher]

46. that's what I thought, too

when I heard certain right wing columnists calling this a "junket." What bullQ@$#. Afghanistan is not a destination for a "junket."

I would go so far as to say that this is something Congressional leaders obviously get something out of that they don't get any other way. First-hand contact with military leaders, for example. The information isn't filtered. The fact that some of them have done it 9-15 times says something right there.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

40. Trump is stupid for trying to play tit-for-tat with Speaker Pelosi.

She will eventually cut him off at the knees. Trump has no concept of how to deal with women of power. It's alien to him.

He should be playing nice to prepare for what's soon coming his way......

[C Moon]

44. He wanted them in danger.

He's a traitor to the U.S., working only for Putin. I can't wait to see him in chains.

[Delphinus]

48. I have to agree with you.

[Dave Starsky]

58. Yes, he did. He wanted to kill her and those she would be visiting.

It is just that obvious. He is a traitor to the United States of America. He is a clear and present danger to this country.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

47. Trump is trying to play tiddlywinks..

and failing miserably while Speaker Pelosi is playing three dimensional chess. He will never get the best of her and is just digging that hole deeper and deeper. Ivanka needs to put him in a timeout or down for a nap. Better yet, start packing their bags, this isn’t going to get better.

Another side scam? Raising money for his re-election in 2020. Really, he’s going to cheat his way back to the White House with 39% and 50 indictments? Just sucking the the racist saps who support him dry before impeachment, indictment or resigning.

[SummerSnow]

52. He was just royally pwnd.

[BannonsLiver]

59. I can't put into words

How grateful I am for Nancy Pelosi’s wisdom and ability.

[Tarc]

67. "Irresponsible" is far too light, Madam Speaker. Trump deliberately painted a cross-hair on you

and dared you to go where terrorists would be waiting.

This is what treason is.

[elfin]

77. Individual #1 is afraid she is starting the prep to be President with important foreign trips eom