Pelosi Not Willing to Trade Over Border Wall, Calls It Trump 'Manhood Issue'

[Arkansas Granny]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday there is nothing she would trade for President Donald Trump’s border wall, setting a hard negotiating stance in advance of an expected December showdown over the issue.

“It happens to be like a manhood issue for the president, building a wall, and I’m not interested in that,” the California Democrat said during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

Pelosi emphasized Democrats do support border security but they would prefer to look at strengthening existing security measures as part of a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/pelosi-not-willing-to-trade-over-border-wall-calls-it-manhood-issue-for-trump

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Sometimes I really love Nancy! Manhood issue is great!

It must be an insignificant issue then . I love Nancy but want to see a different speaker if we take the house, a younger one, and I am old. We don't need to give them Nancy to beat around. I think if the Democrats came out and said Nancy would not be the speaker before the November election it would actually help us.

[Bfd]

26. She should be Speaker until she says "My job here is done" & confident in handing over the position.

Until then she is hard wired for the job in this crucial moment.

She stays until this govt is back on course.

[Hortensis]

2. Lol. I just said I don't want Nancy calling him "Tiny."

But fine for any of the women with personal knowledge.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. What if she had said..."to me, it's a tiny issue, but it's a big one in the eyes of Trump."

[Hortensis]

9. :) Yes, how about if she did?

He's such an easy target, especially for women I suspect, but he doesn't expect it from women who need to maintain some dignity.



(I want to look like this in another 10 years, and act like it. Next lifetime maybe.)

[Funtatlaguy]

10. Dignity has gone out the window in public discourse in the era of Trump.

Us being deferential in favor or cordiality is now seen as weakness by both men and women.
That’s one reason why I agree with Warrens DNA test.

[Hortensis]

11. I disagree, tho. It's gone out the Repub political window, yes.

But not ours. And business and other nations are actually often on our side in these right-wing extremist days. They put a high premium on behaving and cooperating to achieve their goals, and Trump may be the only "businessman" in America who bizarrely imagines this is a zero-sum world.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Sometimes the tinest of issues are the biggest issues for people...nt

[mcar]

5. Love our Nancy!

[barbtries]

6. they're overkilling it grossly at the border.

jailing children. splitting up families. criminalizing legitimate refugees.

it's not just all these casual racists calling the police on black people that reveal how thoroughly racism is ingrained into our society.

fight it.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. The racism has always been there, but it seems lately that many people find it acceptable again.

[barbtries]

16. yeah.

part of the trump effect.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Exactly...let them go back to uttering racist remarks

In their living rooms and stop polluting my air

[lostnfound]

8. Inappropriate and simply enflames the misogyny.

Don’t feed the stereotype.
Young men growing up are making choices about their political party. How is a Dem leader mocking Twitler for his manhood” helpful?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. appropriate for vile thing in White House

Any young men who are offended by mocking that thing in our White House are already supportive of the rantings of that thing in our White House.

Twitler, and all who support him, should be mocked incessantly.

[LanternWaste]

13. How is speaking to trump in a rational manner helpful?

Don't feed the stereotype... this is trump's little problem, no one else's.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Agreed..."ego" would have sufficed

Is manhood wholly pejorative now? If so, someone tell Webster's. Why even go there? But Pelosi can do no wrong with many people here, no matter how badly she misfires.

[BamaRefugee]

14. JUST ENFORCE THE LAWS WE ALREADY HAVE ABOUT HIRING!

Month after month of Attorney General Avenatti parading RICH REPUBLICAN BUSINESSMEN in orange jumpsuits, on their way to prison, in front of the press will be FAR MORE EFFECTIVE than sinking to tRump's level and talking about everything in terms of dicks and pussies.

[Initech]

15. Ha! Love it!!!

[Cha]

17. ohhh, Way to show the insignificence of

building a freaking "wall", Nancy!

[struggle4progress]

18. "Well, I heard Mexico's paying for it. So Congress can just sit out this discussion!"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Will always love that

[wiggs]

19. Atta' way! nt

[wiggs]

20. The memes write themselves if only the dems would take advantage! nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Exactly...score's like 99 to 1

[Honeycombe8]

21. Oh, I'm soooooo glad to hear this very small but potent comment by her.

Way to go, Pelosi! It's not too much, not too little. Just right.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Ya.. but what about his power to swap funding around? Can

We prevent that somehow?

[moondust]

28. He doesn't need another monument to himself.

Not at taxpayer's expense! The dumbass seems to think he's a pharoah or something.