Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Grins

(7,218 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:41 PM Oct 2019

Just to watch heads explode, the question I'm BEGGING someone in the media ask...

It won't happen but this is the question I'm BEGGING someone in the media would ask:

"Speaker Pelosi, have you considered offering Vice-President Pence a pardon as an encouragement for him to come clean now?"*

Just to watch heads explode. You know how fast that would go around the world of the Reich-wingers?

Pelosi's response (with a smile and sarcasm): - "Oh! Well...that would be wrong!"

Meanwhile across town:

"Mr. Vice-President, is there any truth to the rumor that you are considering accepting the Speaker's offer of a pardon...?"

Just to watch Trump's head explode.

Can the baby-Jebus love me this much?


* Assumes that, ultimately, both the orange demagogue and the giant Q-tip resign making Pelosi president.

15 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Just to watch heads explode, the question I'm BEGGING someone in the media ask... (Original Post) Grins Oct 2019 OP
I would love that! trump would have the most epic meltdown ecstatic Oct 2019 #1
Not an option. FarPoint Oct 2019 #2
Don't think she can pardon... Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #3
She can pardon if both Trump and Pence are impeached and removed, The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #5
Removed, not impeached. TwilightZone Oct 2019 #6
Of course, and I fixed it. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #10
simultaneously. Ms. Toad Oct 2019 #11
We just need that one media guy. Who's up for it? Captain Zero Oct 2019 #4
Nancy 2019 LakeArenal Oct 2019 #7
"A lot of people are saying............." PatSeg Oct 2019 #8
Uh, why? TwilightZone Oct 2019 #9
Only a President can pardon someone. MineralMan Oct 2019 #12
I think that's the whole point of the post. MoonchildCA Oct 2019 #14
The question I want asked to Republicans in Congress is - Vinca Oct 2019 #13
BRILLIANT❗ 2nd question alone. Duppers Oct 2019 #15

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. Don't think she can pardon...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:45 PM
Oct 2019

she could perhaps make a deal not to impeach in exchange for testimony, but who knows what the snake would say.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
5. She can pardon if both Trump and Pence are impeached and removed,
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:55 PM
Oct 2019

which would make her the president. That's where the exploding heads part comes in.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)
6. Removed, not impeached.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:57 PM
Oct 2019

I know that's what you meant, but they'd both also have to be convicted for that to occur, of course.

PatSeg

(47,501 posts)
8. "A lot of people are saying............."
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:59 PM
Oct 2019

Trump pulls that kind of crap all the time and I'll bet he'd fall for it from someone else.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)
9. Uh, why?
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 02:59 PM
Oct 2019

If Pence is deserving of impeachment, he should be impeached. A pardon shouldn't even be a consideration.

We're having a difficult enough time convincing people that Trump should be impeached. Throwing a pardon for Pence into the mix would only complicate matters.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
12. Only a President can pardon someone.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 03:04 PM
Oct 2019

It's important to know things, so you don't propose things that can't occur.

Nancy Pelosi knows that, so she would never make that mistake.

MoonchildCA

(1,301 posts)
14. I think that's the whole point of the post.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:55 PM
Oct 2019

Pence gives up the goods on Trump and himself, they are both removed from office/and or indicted, she becomes president and pardons him.

Vinca

(50,278 posts)
13. The question I want asked to Republicans in Congress is -
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 03:06 PM
Oct 2019

"Would it be proper for a Democratic president to ask a foreign leader for dirt on a political opponent?"

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
15. BRILLIANT❗ 2nd question alone.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:41 PM
Oct 2019

"Mr. Vice-President, is there any truth to the rumor that you are considering accepting the Speaker's offer of a pardon...?"

Pelosi would not even need to be asked a question.

Of course it doesn't have to be true -- and of course, the journalist asking must be willing to end their career but wouldn't that be the greatest send off of the decades!! It would cause such great havoc that it most likely would be the tRump's tipping point -- he'd go totally ballistic.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Just to watch heads explo...