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Pelosi: Public Not Smart Enough to Understand Impeachment
Breitbart ^ | 4 Jun 2019 | HANNAH BLEAU

Posted on 06/04/2019 3:38:53 PM PDT by detective

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To: detective

Nancy.... have a come to Jesus with Hillary and tell her whats about to happen.


41 posted on 06/04/2019 4:35:37 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: detective

They’re smart enough, but they are ignorant. I blame a lack of civics classes.


42 posted on 06/04/2019 4:36:38 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: detective
From the article, quoting the The Daily Beast:Quitting teaching civics in high school comes home to bite. Gotta love it. Wonder what the average IQ of those "well educated voters is?"
43 posted on 06/04/2019 4:39:41 PM PDT by upchuck (No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
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To: JimRed
Nancy’s not smart enough to understand that impeachment requires a CRIME.

Hush up! Maxine thinks it requires being someone of a different race and gender from hers whom she hates for any personal reason. That's grounds, right?

Nancy is a tiny bit above Maxine in awareness of the Constitution. She knew the Founders "had to pass it in order to read what's in it" so she isn't going to bother reading it.

Too long.

44 posted on 06/04/2019 4:53:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Is there a clip of her saying that or is this just the author’s take on it?

Author's take. Here is the relevant portion of the article.

Despite Pelosi’s subtle shift in tone, there’s still an element of hesitancy for pursuing impeachment. It’s seemingly rooted in her concern for the American people’s mental capacity, or lack thereof.

Pelosi reportedly made the remarks during a closed-door members’ meeting following Memorial Day weekend, according to the Daily Beast, who reported:

The Speaker, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting, expressed concerns that the public still doesn’t understand how the process of impeachment would play out. She noted that in her time over the recess in California well educated voters didn’t seem to understand that impeachment proceedings would not necessarily result in Trump’s immediate ouster from office.

There is a large gulf between saying that people don't understand that impeachment is not immediate removal from office (a common misconception) and saying that they are stupid. There is no reason for the author to mischaracterize like that.
45 posted on 06/04/2019 4:54:48 PM PDT by Dahoser
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To: detective

But 16 year olds should be allowed to vote.

Yep, yer voters are real smart.


46 posted on 06/04/2019 4:55:54 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Not A Snowbird
I blame a lack of civics classes.

Nancy saw the class listing and rejected it. "What do I need to learn about Hondas for? Let the guys learn the car stuff."

47 posted on 06/04/2019 4:58:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Cboldt

I agree. She’s probably right. Most of the democrat voters are probably wondering “what’s the hold up?” They probably think all impeachment is is a simple vote in the house and Trump is out. They probably have no clue about there being a trial in the senate and the fact they need a two-thirds majority to convict. So-she’s right. The average dim voter is probably thinking they have enough votes in the house to just remove Trump from office tomorrow and they are confused as to why that hasn’t happened yet.


48 posted on 06/04/2019 5:01:48 PM PDT by NELSON111 (Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog show. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
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To: detective

“We have to impeach him before we can find out what he did wrong”...


49 posted on 06/04/2019 5:09:49 PM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: detective

Typical attitude of tyrants - the people are too stupid to run their own lives.


50 posted on 06/04/2019 5:14:19 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: stanne

“She’s definitely not smart enough to understand it.”

I would say she ain’t real smart or rather that she is not highly intelligent. On the other hand smart is not the determining factor, she is crooked enough to pretend to believe that the constitution says whatever she thinks it should say and if her opinion of what it should say changes then she will pretend to understand it in a new way which agrees with her new objectives. She will say that she has “grown” in her understanding and learned that even though she has changed her goals she now realizes that the constitution was in line with her new thinking before she even got her thoughts sorted out. If she decides that she should be the new Queen of this country with unlimited and unquestionable power she will miraculously find the constitution is fully in agreement with her new powers. Should she decide that she is able to flap her skinny arms and fly the constitution will, to the amazement of even Nancy herself, contain wording that says she can do just that but she will still crash and burn.


51 posted on 06/04/2019 5:19:31 PM PDT by RipSawyer (I need some green first and then we'll talk a new deal!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

According to two separate sources, Pelosi said it during a closed door meeting.

Other Democrats in the House leadership have spoken of the need to “educate” the America people about impeachment.


52 posted on 06/04/2019 5:24:54 PM PDT by detective
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To: RipSawyer

Yes. Pride


53 posted on 06/04/2019 5:27:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: detective

“.. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump was “engaged in a cover-up” when he declassified documents...”

Now THAT I don’t understand...


54 posted on 06/04/2019 5:28:11 PM PDT by moonhawk (Excuse me...Did you just presume the gender of the Earth Deity?)
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To: JimRed

The High Crime is winning an election over their pick.


55 posted on 06/04/2019 5:28:40 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: detective

The public isn’t smart enough to know that Pelosi was being entirely non-political in 1998 when she cast 4 “No” votes against holding Rapin Bill Clinton responsible for his CLEAR felonies, and that she’s going to be entirely non-political when she casts a “Yes” vote for the phony accusations against President Trump.


56 posted on 06/04/2019 5:43:35 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: detective; Lurkina.n.Learnin
Other Democrats in the House leadership have spoken of the need to “educate” the America people about impeachment.

Yes, this effing POS hypocrite - Pelosi's lawn jockey:


57 posted on 06/04/2019 5:45:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: DJ Frisat

One of the more onerous misconceptions in the Democratic arguments and it is used in more than just this case, is the other side needs to be “educated” with the underlying assumption the other side is ignorant of enough information to understand the issue, and all they have to do is present “facts” to win someone over.

I’ve been hearing about the articles of impeachment for Nixon on MSLSD (Rachel Maddow and others) without saying Nixon was not impeached, and those articles were not part of an actual impeachment. He resigned. Nixon was also party to a crime cover up. His polls were down to 29% IIRC and would probably have been impeached and possibly removed. PDJT has not been effected negatively. I believe it is because all the process “crimes” are not related to the initial allegation which was serious, but proven false. I believe Americans are smart enough to know the difference between a process “crime” and a real “high crime or misdemeanor”. No amount of “education” will change the truth. Literally the Democrats did not deliver on Russian Collusion (or conspiracy) and they do not accept their own failure.

It will play well with the base, unaccepted by the Republicans and no real good info on the independents. I suspect the information is out there but unreported as it is probably the real reason for Speaker Pelosi’s reluctance until there is movement which may not happen.

If the “education” does not work, then they may not even have enough democrats in the house to vote yea on impeachment which would be a democratic disaster right before the election which all house members will be running for reelection.

DK


58 posted on 06/04/2019 5:47:30 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: NELSON111
The average dim voter is probably thinking they have enough votes in the house to just remove Trump from office tomorrow and they are confused as to why that hasn’t happened yet.

They're also confused about the smell coming from their filled adult diapers, and why their Mom or their nurse hasn't changed it yet...

59 posted on 06/04/2019 5:51:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Dark Knight
His polls were down to 29% IIRC and would probably have been impeached and possibly removed.

Trump supporters are beating their shields and doing Viking warrior chants.

The Democrat Media isn't going to fool us this time.

60 posted on 06/04/2019 6:00:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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