Nancy Pelosi is hailed as a genius while pursuing an idiotic impeachment gambit.

Members of the media blamed Trump for Iran, accidentally shooting down a civilian airliner,

and congressional Democrats suddenly object to executive war-making power.

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at expressvPN.com slash Ben. Okay. So, we have now reached the point where impeachment might at some

point be given to the Senate. I mean, I can't say that it's actually going to happen, that, you know,

the impeachment charges will be handed by Nancy Pelosi to the Senate because she's still playing

this idiotic game where she's like, maybe I'll hand it to them, but maybe I won't, but maybe I won't. Make up your mind, lady, which is it? Even members of Nancy Pelosi's own party are starting to look at her like, is there a strategy to any of this? Or are you just kind of winging it? Like, what was this?

Here's the problem for Nancy Pelosi. Originally, when she launched this impeachment effort, she figured that it was a low-risk, high-reward gambit. That basically, no matter what happened, she was going to be on good terms with her own base. Because something super damaging would come out about Trump, something damaging enough that would really hurt him for 2020. So even if they impeached in the House and he was acquitted in the Senate, it would hurt Trump going forward. There's only one problem. Trump's poll numbers have been absolutely stable. Everything in the world is baked into this cake when it comes to Trump. Everything. Egg shells, baby poop, custard, like everything is in the cake, okay? And everybody knows that it's in the cake. So Nancy Pelosi thought, well, probably they will dig something up. It turns out they didn't dig up anything that was supremely to the point of impeachment damning. They dug up some stuff that probably could have gotten him censured in the House, maybe even censured in the Senate, but nothing that merited impeachment. And so now Nancy Pelosi is stuck with this conundrum. if she submits these articles impeachment to the Senate and the Senate, but nothing that merited impeachment. And so now Nancy Pelosi is stuck with this

conundrum. If she submits these articles impeachment to the Senate and the Senate just dismisses

them immediately, then this thing is over. And she was a giant failure because she has declared

herself a very important person for having pursued this nonsense. If, however, she holds this thing

back and doesn't submit it to the Senate, then I guess in her own mind she looks stubborn. I guess in her own mind she looks like she's trying to play brinksmanship with Mitch McConnell, but she doesn't have any leverage. The whole thing is idiotic. So here was Nancy Pelosi yesterday explaining that she was actually saving the country with this impeachment effort. She's been busy. She's been too busy to go to San Francisco 49ers games. By the way, not too busy to go to fundraisers, not too busy to mouth off

about how her home city of San Francisco is being run beautifully despite feces and needles on the street.

But she's saving the country as Nancy Pelosi. So here is Nancy Pelosi explaining yesterday

that her gambit of not handing the impeachment charges to the Senate is somehow saving America.

Are you going to the Niners game?

It would be her intention to go.

I went to the one game in San Francisco.

We watched all together the second game in Seattle.

I have unfortunately responsibilities to save our country this weekend.

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