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Its a phrase Ive heard endless times in the past few days from Republican spokes-mouths (domestic and Russian): The Democrats are over-playing their hand.
What the GOP doesnt seem to understand is that its their own party thats dealing the cards and as long as they keep tossing out those winning hands, the Dems are going to keep playing.
Mike Flynn caught lying about contacts with the Russians during the campaign and beyond Straight Flush.
Jeff Sessions meeting with Sergey Kislyak, caught lying under oath about it, then changing his story from one minute to the next Full House.
Jared Kushner and Mike Flynn exposed as meeting with Kislyak at Trump Tower last December Three of a Kind.
McConnell exposed as covering up CIA reports that Russian hacks were aimed at electing Trump Four of a Kind.
And then theres the seemingly endless Royal Flushes delivered to the Dems by the Dealer-in-Chief himself, apparently too busy Tweeting to notice that when you keep claiming to be holding four aces and your hand turns out to be a deuce, a joker, two orange Candyland squares, the deed to Baltic Avenue, and an expired coupon for a free McRib sandwich youre going to lose every time.
As the Republicans wipe the flop-sweat from their brows and insist that the Democrats are over-playing their hand, they persist in literally giving them all the Kings, Queens and Jacks in the deck, and all of the same suit: spades in other words, shovels with which the Democrats are gleefully burying their opponents, while laughing about how easy it is to outsmart the rubes who keep throwing their own credibility into the pot.
How sad is it when the dealers own team is doing the cheating, yet the other side is being dealt one winning hand after the other? How incompetent a player do you have to be to keep stacking the deck against yourself?
The Dems are merely letting the chips fall where they may while the Republicans whinge about how the chips keep piling-up on the Dems side of the table, and dont understand how or why that keeps happening.
It was oft said during Obamas tenure in office that he could play multi-dimensional chess while the GOP werent adept enough to win at checkers. What were witnessing now is a Republican party that keeps confusing high-stakes poker with a game of Go Fish. And not only are they telling their opponents just where the fish can be found theyre conveniently baiting their hooks for them.
As the late Bill Paxton famously said in Aliens, Game over, man game over!
And yet the Republicans keep at it, still deluded into believing they can recoup their losses while watching their opponents win hand after hand, thanks to the cards the GOP themselves keep dealing from the bottom of the deck.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,641 posts)monmouth4
(9,708 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)I've already read it 3 times.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,013 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)brer cat
(24,578 posts)K&R
spanone
(135,846 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Thank you, Nance~Excellent!
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)You have explosive information about Trump and Russia that you are not releasing. When Comey letter came out.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He refused to allow hearings on Garland for the Supreme Court. He insisted that the next president would fill the vacancy. BASTARD knew who that would be. Traitors, all of them. Lyin' Ryan is mixed up in this somehow. The gop likes to have dumb people in the WH. Either dumb, or mentally impaired like Reagan was from Alzheimers. Imagine how THAT would have been accepted if he had been a democratic president? Now look what we have. $3 MILLION a weekend flying tRump to Florida to golf. He is now living in the style which he pretended he had when he was bankrupt. He will bankrupt our treasury at this rate.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)It was oft said during Obamas tenure in office that he could play multi-dimensional chess while the GOP werent adept enough to win at checkers. What were witnessing now is a Republican party that keeps confusing high-stakes poker with a game of Go Fish. And not only are they telling their opponents just where the fish can be found theyre conveniently baiting their hooks for them.
Oh man I love this quote! It's perfection.
BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)Especially this part:
malaise
(269,063 posts)Rec
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But the casino is owned and operated by the GOP, and they don't take kindly to people leaving with all the chips.
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)... putting all the chips in the Dem's pockets - along with pointing out which slot machines are ready to pay off.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)sheshe2
(83,793 posts)It also could be Old Maid. Their story is old and they have indeed been made.
Soon. Checkmate.
Thanks Nance!
George II
(67,782 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Is that what tRump called his dalliance with the Russian hookers during pee pee gate? I can hardly wait for the details of THAT to come out.
ismnotwasm
(41,992 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'll see your Sessions' investigation and raise you Schumer and Pelosi investigations. Nunes is in the background, looking over tRump's shoulder with a horrible grimace.
bora13
(860 posts)throwing out Schumer and Pelosi was a slide maneuver...weeeeeee! look all of a sudden we are over here. Hey over here people...
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)is sneaky, but I don't see them as bright enough to do any type of multi-dimensional chess or Houdini act and escape this situation unscathed.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)frankieallen
(583 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)the KGOP......just my observation, based upon depressing amounts of cnn/msnbc
bobblehead after bobblehead couldn't resists talking about it, occasionally bringing on some demented surrogate to bolster their groupthink
I know the emptyheaded mouthbreathers can't take the idea that the msm is forced to relate events as they unfold (fake news to them), so they ignore it when they fawn over such silliness as when trump reads from a teleprompter under the clear influence of some sort of thorazine/atavan/xanax coctail, declaring him to be oh so presidential..finally!
then....oops! he's back to his normal hebrephenia
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)I see many people saying that we had better be careful not to overplay this hand. Excuse me, after an election that was compromised, and the federal government literally handed out to its opponents, filled with cabinet members whose main job is to dismantle whatever agency they are appointed to, do we really need to wait for some moment? Seriously, if we really want to win, and I have a evil feeling that many Democrats don't, we cannot ignore the ammunition they are literally throwing onto the floor, our heads, and most importantly at the innocent Americans that we are responsible to.
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)tavernier
(12,393 posts)They never.bothered to find out what trump was.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Big blowhard, bankrupt "millionaire" on his third bought and paid for wife. Not too bright, but connections to Putin enough to throw the election. He is all theirs! Time to put a cap on presidential spending, since this clown is draining the treasury at an alarming rate.
NBachers
(17,122 posts)Or they'll overturn the table with guns blazing and try to make off with the table pot.
They may still get away with it. I hope the posse is mounted and ready to ride.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)volstork
(5,402 posts)"And then theres the seemingly endless Royal Flushes delivered to the Dems by the Dealer-in-Chief himself, apparently too busy Tweeting to notice that when you keep claiming to be holding four aces and your hand turns out to be a deuce, a joker, two orange Candyland squares, the deed to Baltic Avenue, and an expired coupon for a free McRib sandwich youre going to lose every time."
Made me LOL!