House Speaker Nancy Pelosi inadvertently conducted a one-woman argument to enact Term Limits on members of Congress during her news conference last week, raised serious questions about her own mental competence, and generally embarrassed the United States on the world stage.
But what else is new?
Pelosiās March 9 news conference was clearly intended to send a strong message of intimidation to Russian President Vladimir Putin ā about whom she had some very choice words ā as well as stress the United Statesā commitment to supporting Ukraine militarily against invading Russian forces and holding Russia accountable economically for its actions.
Unfortunately, the elderly lawmaker failed to convey either intimidation or strength as she stumbled through her remarks.
Now, it might sound cruel to mock an 81-year-old womanās slurring, stuttering, garbled speech. And if Pelosi were just any 81-year-old woman, I certainly wouldnāt.
But sheās simply not just any 81-year-old woman. Sheās the third-highest-ranking elected official in the federal government, and she holds that post at a time when, as she herself emphatically stated, our nation could be on the brink of World War III.
So, itās highly concerning that she is displaying so much difficulty talking in public.
Throughout the disastrous presser ā which, to be clear, wasnāt out of character for the speaker ā Pelosi appeared to demonstrate that she really, really doesnāt seem to be up for the job for which sheās been elected by her party ā¦ and itās hard not to think that voters will likely agree in November.
It can all be seen here:
For example, at one point (the 10:26 mark in the video above), she used āG-O-planā to refer to a Republican senatorās tax proposal.
Shortly after that, she noted that it was a ābusy day,ā as the government started celebrating women ābecause ā¦ month,ā before going on to fumblingly explain that March is Womenās History Month.
āWe started celebrating that āwhen women succeed, America succeeds,ā because ā¦ month is Womenās History Month, that March is Womenās History Month,ā the first female speaker in history garbled.
At another point (the 12:56 mark), when asked about a House bill to ban Russian energy imports, Pelosi eloquently replied, āI donāt think theyāre ā¦ we have strong bipartisan support for the legislation. We want to even do more. We want to do Most Favored Nation ā¦ well, now called, what is it called? Normal Trade Relations ā¦ and stuff.ā
But the most spectacularly disconnected stuff came when she was angrily denouncing the Russian leader.
āThe beast that is Putin,ā she said (about the 21:09 mark), āis just destroying civilian areas, hospitals, striving to put out, what do you call it? Nuclear, nuclear facilities that are the source of electricity in the country.ā
She really said, āwhat do you call it?ā
Reading the official speakerās office transcript of the presser is almost as painful as cringing through the actual news conference, and I sincerely pity the dedicated staffer responsible for putting this dumpster fire to paper and combing through all of Pelosiās stuttering nonsense.
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One particularly painful section of her comments, however, featured wild, dramatic hand gestures, including a strange choking motion when she mentioned Putin, as well as her own personal take on which weaponry might be best suited for use against the long trains of Russian tanks that PelosiĀ shared a distinct desire ātake out.ā
āI think that aircrā¦ that having more planes might be useful,ā she said. āBut that, Iām not ā¦ a military strategist.ā
Careful you donāt get a kink in your neck cringing at this gem:
Yikes.
Pelosiās presser performance is just the icing on the cake when it comes to the current governmentās glorious failings across the board.
President Joe Biden is his usual, sleepy, confused, incoherent self as he blames Putin for rising gas prices and spouts off his own frequent volley of garbled gaffes.
Vice President Kamala Harris, whom the Biden administration determined was the best person to send to Europe to see what could be done, keeps forgetting that Ukraine isnāt in NATO, which is kind of the whole point of Russiaās invasion of Ukraine and why the U.S. isnāt obligated to send more aid to begin with.
Former President Donald Trump once ran on a promise to drain the swamp of D.C., but with his exit from Washington, and with the midterm elections looming on the horizon, it appears that Democrats might just drive the American people to drain it themselves at this rate.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.