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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2019, 04:43:14 PM »
And they can go once they approve funding for border security.    =D
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2019, 05:26:26 PM »
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2019, 06:31:14 PM »
Trump should have let them go, and then cancelled the return trip. :rofl: :rofl:
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2019, 08:55:43 PM »
Well, here's one:
I certainly think it can wait until after the shutdown, but a congressional delegation going over there isn't unusual.
Paul Ryan went a few months ago for the same kind of thing.
Oh yes. I’m sure that international political travel is totally not an excuse for a VIP vacation at the taxpayer’s expense. Work, work, work, that is all they do.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #29 on: January 18, 2019, 09:29:33 PM »
I happened to be listening to radio show I usually don't.  He was responding to people who said she was visiting the troops and they won't like being denied the visit.  The guy said he asked for military personnel to send him horror stories of stuff they had to do when a VIP was visiting.  It was amazing some of the nutty stuff he started reading off.  Most of it sounded like busy work, but some just sounded vindictive.

VIPs just mean a bunch of E3 and below get tasked with doing stupid *expletive deleted*it and endless formations, and being props for photo ops.  I *expletive deleted*ing hated those.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2019, 09:21:54 AM »
Trump should have let them go, and then cancelled the return trip. :rofl: :rofl:

Even better, he should have taken them on AF1 with him for another visit.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2019, 10:22:29 AM »
I happened to be listening to radio show I usually don't.  He was responding to people who said she was visiting the troops and they won't like being denied the visit.  The guy said he asked for military personnel to send him horror stories of stuff they had to do when a VIP was visiting.  It was amazing some of the nutty stuff he started reading off.  Most of it sounded like busy work, but some just sounded vindictive.

It's called a "Dog and Pony Show" for a reason.  And yes, there is a lot of stupid that goes into getting ready for a Congressional Visit.

We had Pat Schroeder (Idiot- CO) come visit Baumholder back in the 1980's.  I got to see, first hand, just how incredibly stupid our "betters" actually are. 
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2019, 11:36:54 AM »
Pelosi is now saying she cancelled her trip "on commercial" because Trump "broke security."  :facepalm:
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2019, 02:01:30 PM »
Pelosi is now saying she cancelled her trip "on commercial" because Trump "broke security."  :facepalm:

Read the same thing, Have you seen any proof?  I haven't and I've been looking.  And of course she is still not working to end the shutdown.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #34 on: January 19, 2019, 02:05:45 PM »
Trump should have let them go, and then cancelled the return trip. :rofl: :rofl:

Trump could have claimed the country is experiencing a raging epidemic of liberalism, and carriers of the disease cannot be let into the country.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #35 on: January 20, 2019, 12:24:03 PM »
Read the same thing, Have you seen any proof?  I haven't and I've been looking.  And of course she is still not working to end the shutdown.
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** - Genderally? Is that an actual word?
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #36 on: January 20, 2019, 07:50:03 PM »
BELIEVE THE WOMAN! WOMEN NEVER LIE! LOOKING FOR ACTUAL PROOF IS RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, UNAMERICAN, AND ETHNICALLY AND GENDERALLY** INSENSITIVE!!



** - Genderally? Is that an actual word?

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #37 on: January 23, 2019, 02:38:36 PM »
State of the Union address ON for January 29th.

President Trump says he will honor Speaker Pelosi's original invitation.

I don't think politics has been this amusing since H. L. Mencken.... or maybe  Will Rogers.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2019, 02:52:52 PM »
I know, I'm one of those crazy "proofers"!

I'd OK the word, since the author has created it.

I refer you to the Humpty-Dumpty Official Style Manual.  To wit: "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.'"

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2019, 03:10:30 PM »
And Pelosi officially disinvites him:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/01/23/its-war-nancy-pelosi-just-formally-disinvited-donald-trump-from-delivering-sotu-address/

I think he would have been better off immediately saying he was going to speak at another venue versus pulling this "original invitation" stuff. Gave her too wide of an opening and now her base can talk about how "powerful" she is. Had he ignored her and just done a venue end-run, she would have looked powerless.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2019, 03:13:48 PM »
Hopefully this will help end the stupid spectacle of lies going forward.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #41 on: January 23, 2019, 03:26:49 PM »
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #42 on: January 23, 2019, 03:38:02 PM »
Had he ignored her and just done a venue end-run, she would have looked powerless.

He's been trying (and failing it seems) to make her do something in the one area she really does have significant power, on the floor of the house. He can show up there but he can't make her call the house into session, broadcast anything or probably even turn on the lights. I guess he could livestream it on twitter like the Dems did with their sit-in a few years ago.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #43 on: January 23, 2019, 04:22:58 PM »
Easiest way to fix that is just step around her. Make her irrelevant. Secure an alternate venue and give formal invitations to appropriate parties. They can choose to attend the address or choose to stay home like spoiled children.

Afterwards, issue a memo praising those who chose to attend. Make it an olive branch moment by heaping special praise on (D) and (I) reps for their commitment to country and constituents. Leave obvious silence for those absent, making them look like the obstinate, petty, infantile morons they are.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #44 on: January 23, 2019, 04:39:27 PM »
Easiest way to fix that is just step around her. Make her irrelevant. Secure an alternate venue and give formal invitations to appropriate parties. They can choose to attend the address or choose to stay home like spoiled children.

Afterwards, issue a memo praising those who chose to attend. Make it an olive branch moment by heaping special praise on (D) and (I) reps for their commitment to country and constituents. Leave obvious silence for those absent, making them look like the obstinate, petty, infantile morons they are.

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I believe he's already been offered at least 1 or 2 alternate venues.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #45 on: January 23, 2019, 09:16:13 PM »
And Pelosi officially disinvites him:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/01/23/its-war-nancy-pelosi-just-formally-disinvited-donald-trump-from-delivering-sotu-address/

I think he would have been better off immediately saying he was going to speak at another venue versus pulling this "original invitation" stuff. Gave her too wide of an opening and now her base can talk about how "powerful" she is. Had he ignored her and just done a venue end-run, she would have looked powerless.

That would have looked like he had to give in.

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I have no doubt he's pre-planned for just about everything she can do.  

Somehow, General Patton comes to mind.



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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #46 on: January 24, 2019, 09:33:29 AM »
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2019, 10:35:14 AM »
Until he changes his mind.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2019, 11:09:48 AM »
Until he changes his mind.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #49 on: January 24, 2019, 11:23:35 AM »
SOTU address is just a bog and pony show, I couldn’t care less.

Trumps Twitter account is a daily SOTU address.
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