Pelosi: ‘Perhaps You Mistook Them For Somebody Who Gives A Damn’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had harsh words for her fellow White House negotiators Thursday morning in response to a question about why they can’t at least come together on a new deal for the most vulnerable people in the face of the pandemic.


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Admittedly, you’d be hard-pressed to cite any evidence that they DO, in fact, give a damn. I think the Speaker summed it up well.

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The Republicans haven’t gotten the memo that unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression, especially in conjunction with a pandemic, ain’t gonna fix themselves.

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““Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn for what you just described,” she quipped, earning a soft “jeez” from CNBC’s Jim Cramer.”

Good let him ride that BURR in his saddle the rest of the day.

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Someone should start manufacturing a lot of cheap blankets and cardboard, they’d make a mint.

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I love it. Pelosi knows she has the leverage -this is like her ripping Trump’s speech to his face redux.

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Jared found a bunch of old blankets in a warehouse out west marked “Danger: Smallpox” which he’s planning to distribute to blue states.

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CNBC’s Kramer really wanted to cheer ‘fuck yeah!’ in response, but caught himself in the nick of time.

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The EO doesn’t have the money to do much of anything no matter who they steal money from.

I had to laugh out loud that Moscow Mitch called out the House for going home. The House has a way to vote by proxy and it was Mitch that has left twice and ignored the House bill for 3 months.

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Lord, I LOVE this woman…the older she gets the less fks she has to give. GO NANCY!

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“and cardboard,”

Made my contribution this morning,town picked up recycling.

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Perfect

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You can’t say don’t get her started. She’s already started.

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I wonder if it’s even more sinister. When people are evicted they lose the address at which they are registered to vote…get the picture??? More disenfranchisement …

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And addressed all this stuff in a bill they passed back in May

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Bring on the fake outrage machine from the people who put children in cages.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met for the seventh time.

Where’s McConnell??? Is he hiding in the White House basement with Donald?

The Republican Senate majority is AWOL in a crisis.

Change the Senate.

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Let them say they do care, since the obvious response is to say they need to stop blocking aide then.

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And with that his head withdrew into its turtle cave.

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And then there’s Jimmy Carter’s interview in Politico:

Not a good day for trump - twitter meltdown in 3… 2… 1…

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