Anyone doubt Pelosi's cover up comments were timed to screw with Trump's head before their meeting?

[StarfishSaver]

And does anyone doubt that it worked?

We're watching a master of the game at the top of her game.

[spooky3]

1. :-)

[IADEMO2004]

2. been careless with a delicate man?? Fiona Apple

[Generic Other]

3. At this point I don't think she's playing games

I believe everyone is genuinely upset. I also feel a great sense of empathy for her. But she is not some conductor of an orchestra playing a well-rehearsed score. She's conducting an orchestra without music. I am worried for her and all of us.

I read all her tweets from yesterday. 99.9% of the responses urged, begged, demanded she begin Impeachment Hearings.

More than a dozen other representatives called for Impeachment Hearings.

Again, I respect Pelosi and sympathize with her current dilemma. It is not politics as usual.

[StarfishSaver]

5. Random Twitter responses and a dozen representatives disagreeing with the Speaker

are hardly an indications that she's "conducting without music."

[Generic Other]

7. I mean that this is unknown territory

They are writing the music as they go. She has a good ear. If she is orchestrating this crisis at this very moment, she's doing a great job because the anger is no longer just simmering it is boiling over.

Random Twitter responses? I read hundreds in response to Pelosi's tweets. She is hearing from Americans. They want Impeachment hearings.

Many of us are afraid Trump will destroy the world if we don't do all in our power to depose him.

[StarfishSaver]

9. I don't view Twitter responses as representative of America

The vast majority of Americans aren't on Twitter.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. This! I refuse to make an decision based on Twitter!

[Generic Other]

15. So how do you gage what Americans are thinking?

Polls are no more reliable. I like to hear people's voices. I have been listening to the anger of BLue Wave resisters for 2 years. Following Democratic reps and senators' Twitter accounts, responding to their posters, having at least one senator follow me. I have been engaging journalists, pundits, bloggers. I think it is dangerous to dismiss so many people's voices.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Not to take anything away from Pelosi - she plays Trump like a Stradivarius -

but Trump is easier to play than a dime-store kazoo. The things that scare him are exactly things he rants about. The bad things he's done are the things he's trying the most intensely and obviously to cover up; it's as clear as gin that there's some really nasty stuff in his tax returns and accounting records. His terror is palpable and he's too oblivious to his own tells to just STFU about what's scaring him.

[StarfishSaver]

6. That's true...

[zipplewrath]

8. Is there an expensive one?

dime store kazoos may be cheap and easy to play, but is someone making expensive, or hard to play versions?

Sorry, my mind wandered for a minute. Now back to your regularly scheduled discussion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I'm sure Trump has a gold kazoo. I don't know whether it's hard to play.

Maybe it's his asshole.

[zipplewrath]

12. Sure

now I have to get THAT image out of my head.
I may have to gouge my eyes out.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I'm sure Trump sold them at one time or another...

[Hekate]

14. Then afterwards she went for the "poor baby" gambit! "I am praying for him" damn! Pity!

All the handwringers here, please take a moment to watch her play him.

[think4yourself]

16. Major hand wringer here.

That was truly masterful of her. I shall enjoy these next few hours as the inside of his hollow skull currently erupts into a humorous version of that time I microwaved a fork.

[mcar]

18. She trolled him perfectly

A true "bless his heart" moment.

[Takket]

17. She said he wasn't up the the "greatness" of the task LOL

A major emasculating shot at his beloved MAGA