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My Old Lady Message to D.C.
Hey, you old people, get TF out of government!
It’s impossible to imagine a doddering, confused octagenarian screwing up — and screwing up really badly — on a public platform and still keeping her/his job. But at the Federal level of the government of The Greatest Country in The World, it happens frequently, and said dodderers are then routinely helped offstage and back to their cushy Washington DC offices.
Nancy — watch your ass, China— Pelosi is back from her pricy little jaunt over to Taiwan (while her husband was being arraigned for a DUI arrest, btw) and had these pearls of wisdom to share:
“In our earliest days at our founding of our country, Benjamin Franklin, our presidency, said, freedom and democracy. Freedom and democracy, one thing, security here. If we don’t have- we can’t have either, if we don’t have both.”
The woman is up there making our former Glorious Leader, the failed real estate developer, sound eloquent and even coherent. Which is not to steal any thunder from our current Dear Leader, who has gifted the world with such head-scratchers as these:
You know, there’s a uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it’s called, he called it the, you…
