Nancy Pelosi: The alpha-bitch tigress
Say what you will about Pelosi, she is a political pro and one tough broad!
Note to readers: Do not misconstrue this article as an attempt to stop you from voting for Trump in November. If you are going to vote, then vote for Trump. However, there were some things I needed to say about Trump and Pelosi in this article. If reading negative remarks about Trump will upset you, then stop reading here and leave this page. You have been warned, so do not complain to me if you become angry after reading this article.
In The Lord of the Rings, the primary foe of Sauron is Gandalf. Gandalf says as much toward the end of the last book, after Sauron has fallen, and Gandalf is getting ready to leave Middle Earth to go back to Valinor: “The Third Age was my age. I was the Enemy of Sauron, and my work is finished. I shall go soon.”
Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump are enemies. As to which one of them is Sauron and which one is Gandalf, I leave that to the reader. If you are a supporter of Trump, then Pelosi is Sauron. If you are a supporter of Pelosi, then Trump is Sauron.
But the bottom line here is that Pelosi and Trump utterly despise each other.
On his side, Trump has called Pelosi a “third rate politician” and made no secret that he detests her. Trump even dissed her at his State of the Union speech when she tried to shake his hand:
Pelosi is the one who impeached Trump twice and humiliated him by ripping up his speech up on national TV in front of the entire world:
More recently, Pelosi has made it clear that she will do anything to keep Trump out of office by making sure he is defeated in November. Toward that end, Pelosi demonstrated her utter ruthlessness and seriousness of purpose by helping to push a president of her own party out of the 2024 campaign because she thought he would lose to Trump. Politico had a recent article that delved into Pelosi’s role in pushing out Biden:
Pelosi has been at the forefront of late, as the former speaker is on an extensive book tour and has been publicly explaining her part in nudging Biden off the top of the ticket. The president is still smarting but has told people in recent days that he grudgingly respects Pelosi’s actions.
“She did what she had to do” in order to give Democrats the best chance to win in November, Biden told one of the people, adding that Pelosi “cares about the party,” not about feelings. Biden’s faltering debate performance in late June convinced Pelosi that he could not win and she helped orchestrate an unprecedented mutiny against not only a sitting president of her own party, but also someone who had been a friend for decades.
A senior White House official, also granted anonymity to describe private conversations, said Biden views Pelosi as “ruthless” and willing to set aside long-term relationships in order to keep her party in power — and, most importantly, to prevent Republican nominee Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
“That’s who she has always been,” the person added.
Pelosi and Biden have not spoken since he stepped away. And the president’s anger flashed to the surface during a televised interview that aired this weekend when he namechecked the former speaker as he explained why he quit the race.
But Biden’s inner circle believes Pelosi was the decisive voice in pushing him out.
His allies thought that, after nearly two weeks of trying to reassure fellow Democrats, his candidacy was on track to be salvaged the morning of July 10. But that was when Pelosi made a now-infamous appearance on “Morning Joe,” repeatedly making clear that she did not support Biden continuing his candidacy. The president’s aides believe that opened the door for a host of other Democrats and donors to follow suit.
Moreover, Biden’s inner circle told him the day before he dropped out that if he persisted in the race they believed that Pelosi was going to take her misgivings public — including her belief that Trump would defeat him — which would have been deeply humiliating for a sitting president, two of the people said.
Pelosi has repeatedly said in recent interviews — mainly to promote her new book titled “The Art of Power” — that she didn’t call anyone but the president in the three weeks prior to Biden’s departure from the race. However, Pelosi took calls from rank-and-file Democrats who sought her advice in the days following Biden’s debate performance and before he dropped out of the race, multiple people familiar with her conversations told POLITICO at the time.
If I had to pick a term to describe Pelosi, it would be “alpha-bitch-tigress.” Say what you will about her, she is one tough, shrewd cookie. She knows how to play the political game, and she knows how to win. After winning, she also knows how to move legislation through Congress to achieve her political and policy goals.
In that sense, she and Trump are very different indeed. Trump has never been good with the details of policy, nor was he very interested in legislation during his term in office. He preferred to delegate much of that to others. Trump preferred the rhetorical battles to the legislative ones, and he was much better at that than he was at dealing with the daily details of government.
Another difference between Pelosi and Trump comes down to one of the basic rules of politics: You dance with the one who brung ya. Nancy Pelosi always knew she had to not only deliver for her people, she had to protect them. If you were on Nancy’s team, she would use all of her power to protect you, even if you’d done something wrong. Pelosi was a fierce tigress in that sense, and she was always ready to pounce on enemies and shred them to bits with her claws if they screwed with one of her people.
Trump, on the other hand, never understood this very basic rule of politics. After he took office, he promptly forgot his White working-class base, especially White males. He did little or nothing for them while in office, and then stupidly ran for reelection with a brain-dead, backstabbing campaign that focused almost exclusively on minority votes. That blew up in his face as enough White males abandoned him that his enemies were able to push Biden over the top with fraud, and the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
To make matters worse, Trump then idiotically called his people to the J6 rally, and we all know what happened that day. Unlike Pelosi, Trump didn’t try to protect his people with a blanket pardon. He let his enemies in the Deep State arrest his supporters and put them in jail, while he high-tailed it to Florida to lick his wounds and get ready for the 2024 campaign.
In all of that, you can see the difference between Pelosi, the political pro, and Trump, the amateur politician. You can also see one of Trump’s prime character defects: He is a narcissist controlled by his own ego, and his supporters were always simply a means to an end. That end was his own glory as president, and also to stick it to Obama for mocking Trump at a dinner way back before the 2016 campaign. Yes, that dinner was likely the primary reason Trump ran for president in the first place. MAGA was just a way for him to attain the presidency and put Obama in his place.
One of the more interesting things that Pelosi has said about Trump is that “he has no ideology,” and I believe she was right when she made that remark. If you examine his record as president carefully, along with this attempted run for reelection in 2020, you can see that he did not adhere to the ideology he espoused when he first ran in 2016. Pelosi is a shrewd politician, and she locked onto Trump’s lack of ideology long before others finally caught on.
Those of you who are reading this article might wonder if I have a sneaking admiration for Pelosi, and you are quite right because I do. I admire her ruthlessness, her willingness to go to the mat for her people, and her determination to defeat Trump at all costs. That does not mean I agree with her policies or that I like her as a person. But you cannot deny that the woman has guts, smarts, and the toughness to take on a figure like Trump in a no-holds-barred battle for power.
Frankly, I sometimes wonder what Trump’s first term would have been like if he had been similar to Pelosi. Imagine him as president, but with her political smarts, ruthlessness, and singular ability to identify an enemy and then use every iota of political power to destroy that enemy. Think of what Trump could have accomplished if he had had some of Pelosi’s qualities while in office.
But what about 2024? How does Pelosi figure into this campaign? I do not know what she is specifically doing right now, behind the scenes, after getting rid of Biden. But if I were Trump, I would make sure that somebody was keeping an eye on Pelosi. She is quite able to cause him serious political damage in her own way, even though she is not the Speaker of the House anymore.
As far as Trump goes, I will say this also: I warned in an earlier article that he is not motivating White male voters to come out for him in November. His failure to do so is linked to his complete lack of interest in protecting his people. He does not see White males as “his people.” So he is yet again attempting to focus on gaining minority votes while likely leaving a significant chunk of the White male vote on the table.
It is a stupid error on Trump’s part, and you can bet that alpha-bitch-tigress Pelosi will take advantage of it if she can to help Kamala Harris get elected. So brace yourself if Trump goes down in flames in November. If it happens, it will likely be because he still hasn’t learned his lesson from 2020. If he loses because he ignored White males, I don’t want to hear a word about another “stolen election” from Trump or any of his supporters. 🙄
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Dude, you need to take back the gift of unlife that you inadvertently gave to that old crone. She needs to retire, or turn to dust.
Absolutely correct. Failure to identify and respect an enemy's strengths is a fatal mistake, and there's nothing wrong with pointing out the exceptions to the general rule that politicians are fucking retards.
I look forward to the day Pelosi, Hillary and a handful of others retire or kick the bucket, which undoubtedly is coming in the next decade, because none of the other morons on their team can hold their alliance of chaos and evil together.