# The Nancy Pelosi appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907 "2019-01-17T01:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 36
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/701 "2019-12-22T13:21:55Z")
**[‘I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised’: Pelosi emboldened](https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/nancy-pelosi-interview-088292)** > [@](#): > > Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heading into the holidays emboldened, finishing a tumultuous year back in the majority by both impeaching President Donald Trump and then muscling through the House his biggest legislative win on trade — a signature issue for him — all within 24 hours. > > Pelosi was assertive and upbeat during a year-end interview in her speaker’s suite Thursday, punching back at her GOP critics, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). > > “Oh pfft,” Pelosi told POLITICO, waving her hand dismissively when asked about McConnell’s suggestion she was “too afraid” to send him the articles of impeachment against Trump, which would trigger a Senate trial on whether to oust the president. > > “Fear is never a word used with me. You should know right away,” Pelosi added. “I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised.” > … Yee-HAW! Go, Nancy! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/702 "2019-12-22T18:05:32Z")
I just want to shout her out for dressing to troll Trump. I did notice that she wore black to the impeachment vote, but I also noticed the pin that she has been wearing. Apparently it is a copy of the Mace of the Republic, the official staff of the HOR and it’s Speaker. It’s just another symbol that she is in charge. She knows exactly what she is doing. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/703 "2019-12-22T18:54:10Z")
I want the pin and it’s on backorder, not surprisingly ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/704 "2019-12-22T23:36:33Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Also, what kind of coup replaces an official with a co-elected official of the same party? A coup typically has many moving parts. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/705 "2019-12-23T14:59:08Z")
> [@Taesahnim](#): > > That was good for a laugh. > > The only thing impeachment will do is cause a massive backlash against the Dems. I am really looking forward to the Senate telling Pelosi and Pals to shove their coup attempt up their collective asses. And I am really looking forward to the 2020 elections. > > The survival of this nation depends upon our voting Democrats out of public office at all levels of government. I am pretty sure that Pelosi is a better politician than either of us. I doubt she conducted this impeachment to make a statement that would get stepped on by McConnell spiking the ball. I don’t know what she has planned but I know this. She has every Republican congressman on record voting against impeachment despite a significant amount of evidence. I don’t know what she has in store but she is not in the habit of making meaningless gestures and pointless statements. I’m guessing around October of next year we will see what she has in her pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/706 "2019-12-23T15:02:41Z")
> [@EasyPhil](#): > > A coup typically has many moving parts. So what’s the conspiracy theory here? She impeaches Trump and gets the senate to go along and remove him. Then she impeaches Pence and get the senate to go along with that too and remove him and then she get sworn in as president? That sounds like paranoid delusion. But then again, anything can happen in politics these days. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/707 "2019-12-23T15:48:02Z")
As I’ve mentioned previously, one of my Facebook “friends” (and I use the term very loosely) is a raving Trumpian loony, which gives us some insight into the Mind of a Trumpette. . Her postings this week have largely been memes on a common theme: Pelosi is a raging alcoholic. Of course there’s no basis to this, just sharing as a “know your enemy” service. (Although there was one sound bite recently where she is slurring badly.) ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/708 "2019-12-23T17:07:44Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > As I’ve mentioned previously, one of my Facebook “friends” (and I use the term very loosely) is a raving Trumpian loony, which gives us some insight into the Mind of a Trumpette. . > > Her postings this week have largely been memes on a common theme: Pelosi is a raging alcoholic. > > Of course there’s no basis to this, just sharing as a “know your enemy” service. (Although there was one sound bite recently where she is slurring badly.) Seems like this may be Republican projection about Rudy Giuliani. I also found Trump’s comment about Pelosi “losing her teeth” the other day interesting since “people are saying” that some of Trump’s slurring of words may be due to loose dentures. And there is at least one video of Pelosi “slurring” her words that is manipulated (the video was slowed down): [Doctored videos of Nancy Pelosi spread online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwZgn1o5LY) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/709 "2019-12-23T17:13:18Z")
> [@EasyPhil](#): > > A coup typically has many moving parts. It’s a plot by the shape-shifting Lizard People, in conjunction with the Mole-Men. Wake up Sheeple! ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/710 "2019-12-23T17:30:18Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > As I’ve mentioned previously, one of my Facebook “friends” (and I use the term very loosely) is a raving Trumpian loony, which gives us some insight into the Mind of a Trumpette. . > > Her postings this week have largely been memes on a common theme: Pelosi is a raging alcoholic. > > Of course there’s no basis to this, just sharing as a “know your enemy” service. (Although there was one sound bite recently where she is slurring badly.) A barely-reported irony is that Pelisi simultaneously handed Trump a legislative victory (a new-and-improved NAFTA) at the same time that she helped impeach him. And by virtue of that, Nancy has effectively increased Donald Trump’s chances of winning re-election – she did the right thing of course, but this kind of flies in the face of being some kind of wicked witch or something. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/711 "2019-12-23T17:30:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s a plot by the shape-shifting Lizard People, in conjunction with the Mole-Men. Wake up Sheeple! Connect the dot! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/712 "2020-01-13T17:47:01Z")
[**Pelosi says Trump ‘impeached for life’ despite McConnell’s ‘gamesmanship,’ ‘coverup’**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-says-trump-impeached-for-life-despite-mcconnells-gamesmanship-coverup/2020/01/12/4e75531a-3544-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html) > [@](#): > > House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump is “impeached for life” regardless of “any gamesmanship” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom she accused of orchestrating a “coverup” of Trump’s actions as the Senate waits for the House to transmit the articles of impeachment. > … WTG, Nancy! Trump will wear this label for the rest of his life, no matter what happens in the Senate. Just like Bill Clinton does. Nancy kept this ball in play as long as she reasonably could, but even if Mitch holds a fifteen-minute “trial,” trump is _branded_. And oh, does it ever eat at him… 🙂 [ **Trump, Shifting Arguments, Urges Swift Dismissal of Impeachment Charges** _The president injected new instability into his looming impeachment trial as Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that nothing could “erase” the stain on his presidency._](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/us/politics/trump-impeachment-trial.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday injected fresh instability into final preparations for the Senate’s impeachment trial, suggesting that senators should dismiss the House’s charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against him outright rather than dignifying them with a full tribunal. > > That unexpected statement, arriving amid a flurry of tweets, not only appeared to put the president at odds with Republican Senate leaders moving toward a full trial but also contradicted Mr. Trump’s own words from just hours earlier, when he argued for a trial that would include as witnesses Democratic House leaders who are prosecuting him. > > “Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, ‘no pressure’ Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday afternoon. “I agree!” > > It was the latest instance of the president publicly vacillating between his apparent desire to make the charges disappear and to precipitate an extended spectacle in the Senate that would turn the tables and put his critics on trial. > … This vacillation is further evidence that the inside of trump’s head looks like [this](https://www.featurepics.com/StockImage/20090818/pumpkin-interior-stock-photo-1300406.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/713 "2020-01-13T18:09:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This vacillation is further evidence that the inside of trump’s head looks like [this](https://www.featurepics.com/StockImage/20090818/pumpkin-interior-stock-photo-1300406.jpg). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/714 "2020-01-13T19:34:26Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This vacillation is further evidence that the inside of trump’s head looks like [this](https://www.featurepics.com/StockImage/20090818/pumpkin-interior-stock-photo-1300406.jpg). :eek: ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/715 "2020-01-13T21:08:57Z")
In one of Robert Heinlein’s books (I forget which one offhand) one of the characters was servant to a cat named Random Numbers. When asked about the origin of the name, the human replied that where most cats had a brain, this one had a bucket of random numbers — he would dash off in one direction until he ran into something, and the impact would scramble the random numbers causing him to dash off in a completely different direction with no regard to where he was going before. The point (if any): my feline overlady has definite Random Numbers tendencies, and she shows far more consistency than the current infestation of the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/716 "2020-01-14T00:19:26Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > In one of Robert Heinlein’s books (I forget which one offhand) one of the characters was servant to a cat named Random Numbers. The cat is one of the characters in [_To Sail Beyond the Sunset_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Robert_A._Heinlein_characters#R). ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/717 "2020-01-14T00:36:36Z")
> **[McConnell Doesn't Have Votes to Block Witnesses: Report | Law & Crime](https://lawandcrime.com/impeachment/mcconnell-doesnt-have-the-votes-to-dismiss-impeachment-charges-or-block-witnesses-reports/)** > > According to several Monday reports, not only is McConnell short of the 51 votes required to promptly dismiss the articles of impeachment, per Trump’s tweeted desire, he may also be forced to hear testimony from former Trump administration officials. If this is true, that McConnell doesn’t have the votes to dismiss or block witnesses, then once again, Nancy wins. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/718 "2020-01-14T03:08:47Z")
Nancy Pelosi is the Bomb! I have a photo of my wife leaning on a lamp post on Nancy Pelosii Blvd in Golden Gate park, looking just like a Hooker. It is the **BEST**!!! Nancy Rules, Others drool! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/719 "2020-01-14T03:19:08Z")
She’s a nut. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/720 "2020-01-14T06:14:05Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > She’s a nut. You probably consider yourself a fine judge of character, amirite? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907.md?page=37)