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But now the enemy would know she and her delegation is coming on a commercial fight into a war zone without any military escort. Would that be wise?
He really is a Manbaby-in-Chief. :thumbdown
Don't worry, though--as the adult in the room, Pelosi will not be derailed by this stunt. :thumbs:
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On the contrary here's a man with balls of steel and a woman who cannot fathom who she is dealing with. She's playing regular chess while DJT is play 3D chess.
Trump can’t cancel her trip anymore than Nancy can stop the SOTU. She can still use commercial aircraft to go on her trips just as Trump can use the Oval Office to give the SOTU.
It will be fun to see what other power moves they pull on each other.
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On the contrary here's a man with balls of steel and a woman who cannot fathom who she is dealing with. She's playing regular chess while DJT is play 3D chess.
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tRump has the thinnest skin of any president in a long, long time!
You know who was the diametric opposite of that? This guy:
You mean the guy that militarized the DOJ against his enemies? That guy, you say?
Tim-
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Trump did not cancel the trip. It has been postponed for a short time as per the Gov't shutdown...
Trump is so dumb he couldn't even spell CHEST! (LOL)
Postponed their use of military aircraft for the trip, true. They could still do the trip via commercial aircraft. Well, if Trump hadn’t outed the CODEL’s classified travel itinerary they could. Obviously it would be too dangerous for them to travel to Afghanistan now regardless of mode of transportation.
Note that I am not saying Trump broke the law in revealing their classified itinerary publicly. A President can legally do that. But it is highly irresponsible doing it publicly.
Checkmate
Check comes from a Persian phrase 'shah' (king) where 'shah mata / shah mat' meant 'the king is dead' or 'the king is helpless'. I believe this is actually the Persian gameplay terminology over 1000 years ago before Europeans really caught onto it. – Garet Claborn May 18 '11 at 5:07
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Interestingly, that became "scacco matto" in Italian... although matto means mad in Italian! – nico May 18 '11 at 6:09
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In Swedish, it's "schack matt", which is pretty close to the original. Cool. (Chess is actually called Schack, fwiw..) – Macke May 18 '11 at 11:52
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I find the etymology at word origins (the nicer description) questionable because of the reference to Vulgar Latin. It says check < eschequier (Old French) < eschec < scaccus (Vulgar Latin) < shah (Arabic) < shah (Persian). I don't know what scaccus means exactly (does the '' means it is reconstructed but not extant?), but Vulgar Latin is the name of the colloquial Latin at the time of the Roman Empire ... did the game of chess even exist then, and were there borrowings from Arabic at that time? – Mitch May 18 '11 at 14:31
In other words, Pelosi bit off more than she could chew in this case. Better she swallow her pride and come to the table. It will only get worse from here on. Democrats are losing this political war on all sides.
Went right over your head...
Not surprising at all.
Let me give you a hint: 'Hamberders'
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Today proved that Pelosi is playing checkers while the game is chess. Nor CHEST.
Postponed their use of military aircraft for the trip, true. They could still do the trip via commercial aircraft. Well, if Trump hadn’t outed the CODEL’s classified travel itinerary they could. Obviously it would be too dangerous for them to travel to Afghanistan now regardless of mode of transportation.
Note that I am not saying Trump broke the law in revealing their classified itinerary publicly. A President can legally do that. But it is highly irresponsible doing it publicly.
THere was nothing to reveal. He cancelled the trip.
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Trump did not cancel the trip. It has been postponed for a short time as per the Gov't shutdown...
Again over your head. Trump loves the poorly educated..
So Trump is going to fold soon? I thought he was in it for the long haul.
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