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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 09:04 PM Mar 2017

Overplaying The Hand?

It’s a phrase I’ve heard endless times in the past few days from Republican spokes-mouths (domestic and Russian): “The Democrats are over-playing their hand.”

What the GOP doesn’t seem to understand is that it’s their own party that’s dealing the cards – and as long as they keep tossing out those winning hands, the Dems are going to keep playing.

Mike Flynn caught lying about contacts with the Russians during the campaign and beyond – Straight Flush.

Jeff Sessions meeting with Sergey Kislyak, caught lying under oath about it, then changing his story from one minute to the next – Full House.

Jared Kushner and Mike Flynn exposed as meeting with Kislyak at Trump Tower last December – Three of a Kind.

McConnell exposed as covering up CIA reports that Russian hacks were aimed at electing Trump – Four of a Kind.

And then there’s the seemingly endless Royal Flushes delivered to the Dems by the Dealer-in-Chief himself, apparently too busy Tweeting to notice that when you keep claiming to be holding four aces – and your hand turns out to be a deuce, a joker, two orange Candyland squares, the deed to Baltic Avenue, and an expired coupon for a free McRib sandwich – you’re going to lose every time.

As the Republicans wipe the flop-sweat from their brows and insist that the Democrats are over-playing their hand, they persist in literally giving them all the Kings, Queens and Jacks in the deck, and all of the same suit: spades – in other words, shovels with which the Democrats are gleefully burying their opponents, while laughing about how easy it is to outsmart the rubes who keep throwing their own credibility into the pot.

How sad is it when the dealer’s own team is doing the cheating, yet the other side is being dealt one winning hand after the other? How incompetent a player do you have to be to keep stacking the deck against yourself?

The Dems are merely letting the chips fall where they may – while the Republicans whinge about how the chips keep piling-up on the Dem’s side of the table, and don’t understand how or why that keeps happening.

It was oft said during Obama’s tenure in office that he could play multi-dimensional chess while the GOP weren’t adept enough to win at checkers. What we’re witnessing now is a Republican party that keeps confusing high-stakes poker with a game of Go Fish. And not only are they telling their opponents just where the “fish” can be found – they’re conveniently baiting their hooks for them.

As the late Bill Paxton famously said in Aliens, “Game over, man – game over!”

And yet the Republicans keep at it, still deluded into believing they can recoup their losses – while watching their opponents win hand after hand, thanks to the cards the GOP themselves keep dealing from the bottom of the deck.

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Overplaying The Hand? (Original Post) NanceGreggs Mar 2017 OP
Excellent post. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2017 #1
Great analogy, Nance! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2017 #2
Yes, great post. Thank you Nance..n/t monmouth4 Mar 2017 #3
I love your stuff but this was poetic. Mr. Ected Mar 2017 #4
K & R!!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2017 #5
This was absolute perfection. bravenak Mar 2017 #6
Well done, Nance! brer cat Mar 2017 #7
K&R... spanone Mar 2017 #8
"As the late Bill Paxton famously said in Aliens, Game over, man game over!" Cha Mar 2017 #9
We knew in Sept. that McConnell was covering up. Remember Harry Reid challening him: Amaryllis Mar 2017 #10
McConnell knew. Scarsdale Mar 2017 #32
I thought the same thing; refused to confirm Garland becasue he already knew election was in the bag Amaryllis Mar 2017 #35
Kick,kick,Kicked&Recommended! coco22 Mar 2017 #11
Multi-dimensional chess game FakeNoose Mar 2017 #12
That one got me too! BlueMTexpat Mar 2017 #30
Nice malaise Mar 2017 #13
High stakes poker at the casino ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #14
Then maybe they should stop ... NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #17
Rube dupers think the other side is overconfident? czarjak Mar 2017 #15
Go Fish, true. sheshe2 Mar 2017 #16
Love the poker analogy, somewhere in that deck there's a royal flush, in the name of impeachment. George II Mar 2017 #18
Royal flush? Scarsdale Mar 2017 #33
Love this! ismnotwasm Mar 2017 #19
What do you think of tRump's bluff? ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #20
back to a slide in candyland bora13 Mar 2017 #21
The GOP Jamaal510 Mar 2017 #22
K&R smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #23
what the hell are you talking about? frankieallen Mar 2017 #24
It's an analogy, but otherwise pretty straight forward. Fantastic Anarchist Mar 2017 #39
I heard the msm pushing this BS meme MUCH harder than Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #25
They don't like it up em !!! OnDoutside Mar 2017 #26
I'm giving you a high five, Nance Hekate Mar 2017 #27
what is sad is DonCoquixote Mar 2017 #28
Great thread Nance Gothmog Mar 2017 #29
Not very good at bridge, either. tavernier Mar 2017 #31
They knew Scarsdale Mar 2017 #36
As their pile of chips dwindles, they're gonna go for a wild and desperate gamble & hope for 5 aces. NBachers Mar 2017 #34
Go fish indeed grantcart Mar 2017 #37
K&R! gademocrat7 Mar 2017 #38
Brilliant, Nance! volstork Mar 2017 #40

Cha

(297,241 posts)
9. "As the late Bill Paxton famously said in Aliens, Game over, man game over!"
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 09:26 PM
Mar 2017




Thank you, Nance~Excellent!

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
10. We knew in Sept. that McConnell was covering up. Remember Harry Reid challening him:
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 09:32 PM
Mar 2017

You have explosive information about Trump and Russia that you are not releasing. When Comey letter came out.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
32. McConnell knew.
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:26 PM
Mar 2017

He refused to allow hearings on Garland for the Supreme Court. He insisted that the next president would fill the vacancy. BASTARD knew who that would be. Traitors, all of them. Lyin' Ryan is mixed up in this somehow. The gop likes to have dumb people in the WH. Either dumb, or mentally impaired like Reagan was from Alzheimers. Imagine how THAT would have been accepted if he had been a democratic president? Now look what we have. $3 MILLION a weekend flying tRump to Florida to golf. He is now living in the style which he pretended he had when he was bankrupt. He will bankrupt our treasury at this rate.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
12. Multi-dimensional chess game
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 09:43 PM
Mar 2017


It was oft said during Obama’s tenure in office that he could play multi-dimensional chess while the GOP weren’t adept enough to win at checkers. What we’re witnessing now is a Republican party that keeps confusing high-stakes poker with a game of Go Fish. And not only are they telling their opponents just where the “fish” can be found – they’re conveniently baiting their hooks for them.


Oh man I love this quote! It's perfection.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
30. That one got me too!
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 12:46 PM
Mar 2017

Especially this part:

What we’re witnessing now is a Republican party that keeps confusing high-stakes poker with a game of Go Fish. And not only are they telling their opponents just where the “fish” can be found – they’re conveniently baiting their hooks for them.


ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
14. High stakes poker at the casino
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 09:49 PM
Mar 2017

But the casino is owned and operated by the GOP, and they don't take kindly to people leaving with all the chips.

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
17. Then maybe they should stop ...
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:04 PM
Mar 2017

... putting all the chips in the Dem's pockets - along with pointing out which slot machines are ready to pay off.

sheshe2

(83,771 posts)
16. Go Fish, true.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:04 PM
Mar 2017

It also could be Old Maid. Their story is old and they have indeed been made.

Soon. Checkmate.

Thanks Nance!

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
33. Royal flush?
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:30 PM
Mar 2017

Is that what tRump called his dalliance with the Russian hookers during pee pee gate? I can hardly wait for the details of THAT to come out.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
20. What do you think of tRump's bluff?
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:24 PM
Mar 2017

I'll see your Sessions' investigation and raise you Schumer and Pelosi investigations. Nunes is in the background, looking over tRump's shoulder with a horrible grimace.

bora13

(860 posts)
21. back to a slide in candyland
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 10:59 PM
Mar 2017

throwing out Schumer and Pelosi was a slide maneuver...weeeeeee! look all of a sudden we are over here. Hey over here people...

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
22. The GOP
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:52 AM
Mar 2017

is sneaky, but I don't see them as bright enough to do any type of multi-dimensional chess or Houdini act and escape this situation unscathed.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
25. I heard the msm pushing this BS meme MUCH harder than
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 02:55 AM
Mar 2017

the KGOP......just my observation, based upon depressing amounts of cnn/msnbc

bobblehead after bobblehead couldn't resists talking about it, occasionally bringing on some demented surrogate to bolster their groupthink

I know the emptyheaded mouthbreathers can't take the idea that the msm is forced to relate events as they unfold (fake news to them), so they ignore it when they fawn over such silliness as when trump reads from a teleprompter under the clear influence of some sort of thorazine/atavan/xanax coctail, declaring him to be oh so presidential..finally!

then....oops! he's back to his normal hebrephenia

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
28. what is sad is
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 05:03 AM
Mar 2017

I see many people saying that we had better be careful not to overplay this hand. Excuse me, after an election that was compromised, and the federal government literally handed out to its opponents, filled with cabinet members whose main job is to dismantle whatever agency they are appointed to, do we really need to wait for some moment? Seriously, if we really want to win, and I have a evil feeling that many Democrats don't, we cannot ignore the ammunition they are literally throwing onto the floor, our heads, and most importantly at the innocent Americans that we are responsible to.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
36. They knew
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:38 PM
Mar 2017

Big blowhard, bankrupt "millionaire" on his third bought and paid for wife. Not too bright, but connections to Putin enough to throw the election. He is all theirs! Time to put a cap on presidential spending, since this clown is draining the treasury at an alarming rate.

NBachers

(17,110 posts)
34. As their pile of chips dwindles, they're gonna go for a wild and desperate gamble & hope for 5 aces.
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:35 PM
Mar 2017

Or they'll overturn the table with guns blazing and try to make off with the table pot.

They may still get away with it. I hope the posse is mounted and ready to ride.

volstork

(5,401 posts)
40. Brilliant, Nance!
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 07:37 PM
Mar 2017

"And then there’s the seemingly endless Royal Flushes delivered to the Dems by the Dealer-in-Chief himself, apparently too busy Tweeting to notice that when you keep claiming to be holding four aces – and your hand turns out to be a deuce, a joker, two orange Candyland squares, the deed to Baltic Avenue, and an expired coupon for a free McRib sandwich – you’re going to lose every time."

Made me LOL!

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