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lutherj

(2,495 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 09:57 PM Oct 2019

Did Pelosi just make a major strategic move against Trump?

Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but it seems to me her “all roads” comment was loaded with innuendo. She’s saying in effect, “the inquiry has hit pay dirt, we’ve got the smoking gun and you know it. You play by our rules now.”

Trump doesn’t know who he’s up against, or what strategic brilliance is.

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Did Pelosi just make a major strategic move against Trump? (Original Post) lutherj Oct 2019 OP
Question is what is moscow mitch gonna do??? mucifer Oct 2019 #1
Protect his own ass pangaia Oct 2019 #7
I'll go further...I think she might have been Lars39 Oct 2019 #2
I hope you are right. They are mighty brazen with their open dewsgirl Oct 2019 #13
I'm 72 and believe we won't be able to regain our standing in the world in my lifetime Hekate Oct 2019 #21
.....😢 dewsgirl Oct 2019 #30
I think you 2 may have it Nasruddin Oct 2019 #26
Yep, she let him know to his face that she knows what's up with him and Putin. brush Oct 2019 #3
If she didn't know it was true, she would've never even said it! That's how she rolls... Dennis Donovan Oct 2019 #8
That's how I take it. She's very careful with words, and she's tightening the screws. lutherj Oct 2019 #10
Her comment about praying for him every day for his safety and health vlyons Oct 2019 #4
Or maybe she wants him to think about polonium. hedda_foil Oct 2019 #19
Now that you mention it... 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2019 #5
She doesn't make random comments and she doesn't just blurt things out StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #6
Absolutely Hekate Oct 2019 #22
That's the way I see it. nt sheshe2 Oct 2019 #29
People at her level choose their words carefully Johnny2X2X Oct 2019 #9
My idea about Speaker Pelosi is KentuckyWoman Oct 2019 #20
I thought that too! I said to myself....Nancy knows some shit. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2019 #11
Damn right! lutherj Oct 2019 #12
They say that if you come at the King, you better not miss htuttle Oct 2019 #14
We'll said. My feeling exactly. lutherj Oct 2019 #17
Sounds like she has all the nails needed for his coffin. blm Oct 2019 #15
Oh I hope. rusty quoin Oct 2019 #27
As a person who has been annoyed with Pelosi always playing it safe, I see two probable answers rufus dog Oct 2019 #16
That's my feeling too. She's dragged her heels on the impeachment thing, but suddenly she lutherj Oct 2019 #18
Pelosi never ceases to amaze me. patphil Oct 2019 #23
who remembers Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive: "Give it up you're caught." EveHammond13 Oct 2019 #24
She did it for effect Lithos Oct 2019 #25
I hope you are all right. rusty quoin Oct 2019 #28
Ooooo peggysue2 Oct 2019 #31

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
13. I hope you are right. They are mighty brazen with their open
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:12 PM
Oct 2019

colluding with Russia. I'm 42 and I don't I think I will live long enough for it to see it unraveled.

Hekate

(90,560 posts)
21. I'm 72 and believe we won't be able to regain our standing in the world in my lifetime
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 12:36 AM
Oct 2019

You're the age of my kids. I hope your generation will live to see our honor restored.

brush

(53,743 posts)
3. Yep, she let him know to his face that she knows what's up with him and Putin.
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:00 PM
Oct 2019

She put him, and the country, on notice that she suspects him of being a Putin asset.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
8. If she didn't know it was true, she would've never even said it! That's how she rolls...
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:05 PM
Oct 2019

...like an assassin-ninja!

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
4. Her comment about praying for him every day for his safety and health
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:02 PM
Oct 2019

seemed to me to be referring to the 25th amendment. Translation: He's a nut case.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
6. She doesn't make random comments and she doesn't just blurt things out
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:02 PM
Oct 2019

If she said it, it was planned and she had a reasons for saying it.

Johnny2X2X

(18,973 posts)
9. People at her level choose their words carefully
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:07 PM
Oct 2019

Every word is exactly the right one, she is being strategic, she is forcing him to make a mistake.

People like Nancy Pelosi do not lose their temper, they never speak out in frustration. Even if she was heated there was not a single word that came out of her mouth that wasn’t carefully chosen to serve her strategy.

KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
20. My idea about Speaker Pelosi is
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:20 PM
Oct 2019

Even being heated would have been decided in advance. She acts. She does not get in a position to react. She will be in Congress long after Donnie has fled to Siberia.

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
14. They say that if you come at the King, you better not miss
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:27 PM
Oct 2019

I'm about 1000% sure that Nancy Pelosi knows that lesson by heart.

 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
16. As a person who has been annoyed with Pelosi always playing it safe, I see two probable answers
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:33 PM
Oct 2019

She has the goods on him.

She has a brain tumor.

IT'S NOT A TUMOR!

lutherj

(2,495 posts)
18. That's my feeling too. She's dragged her heels on the impeachment thing, but suddenly she
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:49 PM
Oct 2019

stands up in the White House and calls out his fealty to Putin to his face. No one in leadership in the Democratic Party has been this blunt before. It’s the elephant in the room, but there has to be something major backing it up.

patphil

(6,150 posts)
23. Pelosi never ceases to amaze me.
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 12:48 AM
Oct 2019

She may be the best Speaker of the House in the history of this nation.

Lithos

(26,403 posts)
25. She did it for effect
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 12:51 AM
Oct 2019

I believe the knowledge of "all road" is common and already proven. However, she is banking far more value when she upsets him and keeps him unhinged. She's controlling the message - not him which is infuriating him.

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
31. Ooooo
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 04:51 AM
Oct 2019

Hadn't thought of that. Nancy Pelosi is the Mistress of the Count, never taking a vote until she's dead certain of her numbers. Or in this case the facts. I thought she was just being a badass. But a badass with a gun?

This could get very interesting!

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