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I don't think she walks on water, but I do know that every one of her critics is a fucking moron who doesn't have one-tenth of her talent.

And yeah, it's always possible for some state or other to blow the deal; nevertheless, Pelosi also has a talent for persuasion and coordination -- unlike her fucking moron critics -- so maybe she can at least get enough governors to agree long enough to get Trump to step down. Now, what happens after that, who's to say; Pelosi can't make any absolute promises, but she can still offer Trump a better deal than anyone else could. There is also the small matter that there is an institutional reluctance to press charges against ex-Presidents, and to even do so, the state of Oregon (for example) would have to come up with crimes impacting Oregon. Which would probably end up in front of the Supreme Court, who would probably side with Trump. Really, the biggest state Trump has to worry about is New York, and even then Pelosi just needs to persuade the SAG to let Trump slide on charges that would land him jail time.

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Strom was a pioneer in the field of the "grab them by the pussy" school of interpersonal relations, including assaults on lady lawmakers and housemaids.

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Maybe, although that multiple Popes thing didn't work out in the long run.

I am satisfied to have Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House of Us All.

That allows Donna Rose to be the benevolent unofficial constitutional monarch of us all.

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The only conceivable scenario I can imagine that would put Not-Actually-Nervous Nancy Pelosi in the White House verges on science fiction and is so colossally unlikely that I won't even attempt to describe it here. (Hint: It involves pigs with stealth aircraft capabilities and an abrupt shift in conscience among all the Senators who are currently in the full employ of the FSB via the NRA, i.e. every Republican Senator.)

What I can see is Pelosi taking The Donald, The Mike, and The Rest of Them apart methodically, piece by piece.

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He's still better than any current member of the Cabinet and also is a better love story than Twilight.

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This presumes that Diamond and Silk wouldn't turn against each other when competing for the nod.

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Whereas I am practicing Ferengi Science: determine what the other person wants, then figure out a way you can sell it to them.

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Fine. We can install Fancy Nancy as the Antiqueen. Now who has a spare castle in Avignon?

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Thank you, Stephen, for giving actual, graceful words to the ideas I could only express with GRRRRs and WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKs as I read Wegman's blatantly castration-fear-based diatribe.

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Sadly, they're not really funny at all.

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I still remember Jon Stewart, when describing a vote on some major issue in the Senate, saying "...and Strom Thurmond, ears still ringing from the Big Bang, voted ..."

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Well, I think - and I could be wrong - that if Trump is impeached, any Veep that Mikey picks would need to be confirmed by the Senate, so I can see him not having time to name and confirm one before his own impeachment.

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Whole E Shite! This must not be!

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*note to self* start teasing Aron with descriptions of my shoes

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But there can only be one princess of Erikaland

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YOU MONSTER!

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