# 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:** 40
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/781 "2020-09-05T19:10:33Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Aren’t we well past the point of hoping to see a single shred of decency from the Trump GOP? All we have left is making sure our own side doesn’t let us down on the same fucking issues we criticize them about. Just saying… And it is clear that you omitted the first part of the quote to ignore that I did agree anyhow. It is just that after telling our side what they are doing wrong one should then not ignore the extreme asinine overreach the other side is doing with this item. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/782 "2020-09-05T20:13:05Z")
I think we absolutely agree. I’m just tired of repeating how awful the other side is with no meaningful effect on the other side’s behavior. And I’m aware I’m belaboring the point that our side ought not be satisfied with saying, ‘Yeah, but those guys are so much worse!’. Yeah, they are. Much. But because there is so much room between out side and theirs, I don’t want anybody getting comfortable with that excuse when we don’t live up to our own standards. …and that’s all I have to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/783 "2020-09-06T01:10:00Z")
I’m completely with QuickSilver on this; it was a dumb-ass move by Pelosi and showed the same kind of judgement that occasionally got the Clintons in trouble: rules are for the little people. Then she compounds it by playing a Trump card: “I was set up”. She deserves all the vitriol that she is getting. If you have to invoke Republicans to try and defend Pelosi then you’ve lost. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/784 "2020-09-06T01:22:32Z")
I live in Virginia now. Pelosi should have taken a page from Ralph Northam. He screwed up early in the pandemic, getting caught without a mask right around the time things were getting locked the hell down. He handled it the right way. Acknowledged that he screwed up, apologized for being absent-minded, and moved on. All Pelosi had to do was to say she screwed up. Everyone hates the lock-down, even people who advocate it. It’s not hypocritical to simultaneously want to break the lockdown rules while feeling compelled to be an advocate for them. It’s like dieticians who occasionally binge on ice cream or other shit that’s not healthy. People sometimes just want to say “Screw it.” We get it. She should have just acknowledged that. Just say it was a weak moment. She was invited for a private appointment and thought ‘what the hell - who’s it gonna hurt?’ But she sees in retrospect that it was a mistake. Next question. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/785 "2020-09-06T06:03:15Z")
I wouldn’t cite Northam since when confronted with the blackface scandal he did exactly what Pelosi did, insisted that it wasn’t what it appeared to be, refused to apologize and waited for it to blow over. I think Pelosi should at minimum apologize for not wearing a mask. My mother gets her hair done and keeps her mask on the whole time and Pelosi has no excuse even if she was set up. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/786 "2020-10-18T12:21:54Z")
Pretty cringe worthy her exchange wIth Wolf Blitzer. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/787 "2020-10-18T15:13:57Z")
Yeah, this thread hasn’t aged as well as I had hoped. Pelosi’s definitely pushing close to her expiration date at this point. It’ll be time for a leadership change if the Dems keep the House. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/788 "2020-10-18T15:54:41Z")
I wonder if she’s had some Mini strokes or something. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/789 "2020-10-18T17:21:25Z")
Well, even if she’s incapacitated before the election, the Democratic Party retains the seat. So that’s something, I guess. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/790 "2020-10-18T17:29:18Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > I wonder if she’s had some Mini strokes or something., I heard she paid off a porn star. I’m seeing more projection than an IMAX multiplex. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/791 "2020-10-18T17:47:23Z")
Hey don’t knock “_Nancy vs. Stormy: World Slut Title Wrestling Bukakke Match Vol. 12_” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/792 "2020-10-18T18:03:08Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Pretty cringe worthy her exchange wIth Wolf Blitzer. Yeah, that was really bad. She sounded almost as bad as a typical Guilliani interview. Still, better than Trump, even on a good day. > [@asahi](#): > > Yeah, this thread hasn’t aged as well as I had hoped. Pelosi’s definitely pushing close to her expiration date at this point. It’ll be time for a leadership change if the Dems keep the House. Isn’t that already a done deal? I thought that a deal was made in 2018 that she would remain speaker so long as she stepped down after the current term. ETA: I just looked it up. It was 2022 that she agreed to step down. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/793 "2020-10-18T18:18:17Z")
No, I feel badly for her. Not projecting. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/794 "2020-10-18T18:41:59Z")
Ah, you’re concerned. So very, very concerned. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/795 "2020-10-18T18:46:10Z")
Let’s see, during a particularly stressful year for most caring, aware humans, she got angry at Wolf Blitzer for suggesting she give in to Trump. Concern! Is she going to be OK? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/796 "2020-10-19T16:38:29Z")
Isn’t it awesome to have the entire government run by old folks! In normal life, you do something called “retire” since your prime work days aren’t at the very end of your life. But in government you stick with it and you even try to get elected and re-elected to the top position. There is no retiring in politics…you instead die in office. Or have everyone wonder if you have dementia, strokes, etc. And this is all three branches of our govt. We need term and age limits for all three. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/797 "2020-10-19T16:50:51Z")
If Biden wins and the Democrats take the Senate, I suspect that Nancy Pelosi will continue on as leader of the House because in her capacity, she is the best suited to help Biden push through the DNC agenda. If however, Biden wins but the Senate remains in GOP hands, I think Nancy will signal her intent to retire. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/798 "2020-10-19T17:20:19Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > There is no retiring in politics… Biden tried this. And then the US elected Trump. RBG also may well have retired by now. But the US elected Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/799 "2020-10-20T14:16:59Z")
I believe it was Rod Stewart who once said that tonight’s the night. Crunchtime. Was Pelosi’s 48-hour ultimatum wise? Will Congress get their shit together Republicans engage reasonably for an aid package in time? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907/800 "2020-10-21T22:24:52Z")
Unca Mitch told DJT not to play nice with Nancy re stimulus $$. Uh-oh! Someone’s gonna be in big twubble tonight. Maybe get sent to bed without their supper. Takes bowl of popcorn and sits on the stairs peering through the banisters 🍿 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nancy-pelosi-appreciation-thread/827907.md?page=41)