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By Mike Huckabee

August 8, 2022
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I’m going to say something that will surprise you; shock you; it will likely result in an audible gasp from our audience here in the Huckabee theater!  Here it is:  I salute Nancy Pelosi!  Yes—I do.   For making a stop in Taiwan during what would have otherwise been a meaningless government junket for her and some Congressional cronies to fly around the world at taxpayer expense and pick up some bargains while pretending to be on an important trip to study world conditions.

Yep—catch your breath and realize that I am actually giving props to Pelosi; kudos to the Congresswoman; salute to the speaker!  Now, don’t get used to it.  I’ll be back to my sarcastic and snarly self soon, but it genuinely mattered that Pelosi didn’t back down and cancel her stop in Taiwan as a result of the blustering bullying of the Chinese communist party who threatened to shoot her plane down if she tried to land in Taipei.  Of course they didn’t shoot down her plane.

I’ve been to Taiwan more than a dozen times.  I love the country and its people.  I love their embrace of freedom and their commitment to an elected government and to the benefits of free enterprise.  Hey, I learned to use chopsticks there.  In my first trip when I was a mere Lt. Governor, I was treated to a wonderful luncheon with a group of political, government, and business leaders in Taiwan.  The only utensils before me were chopsticks.  And I was hungry.  Like being thrown into the water and forced to swim, my hungry self completely mastered the use of chopsticks in short order.  To this day, I wouldn’t think of eating Chinese food with a knife and fork! 

I was there most recently just before the pandemic shut the world down.  I’ve met with the last 4 of its Presidents.  It’s a vibrant, exciting little island where innovation and technology rule.  Frankly, I can’t wait to go back.  But my reasons for offering my rare praise for Pelosi tonight is because China has bullied the world into submission.  Major US corporations cower in their corner offices and say nothing about the human rights abuses of the communists in mainland China.  They love the money they are making from doing business with the Chinese communists and look the other way at child slave labor, the sick and twisted oppression of free speech so strict it would make Facebook and Twitter blush, and a brutal treatment of Christians.  And big celebrity athletes and entertainers like LeBron James smugly speak of how awful America is and fail to say a word about the millions they make in China by using slave labor to make their shoes and other junk.  Whether it’s Walmart or Disney or Woke-a-Cola, it really is all about the Benjamins.

While President Biden was sending mixed messages and all but urging Speaker Pelosi to not set foot in Taiwan, Pelosi understood that once it became public that she even MIGHT go, and the Chinese government started having the tantrums of a two-year old, she absolutely HAD to go for otherwise, it would make America look even weaker than Biden made us look in the exit from Afghanistan. 

So when I saw her plane touch down at the Taipei airport and saw the welcome she received from the good and freedom—loving citizens of Taiwan, I was for a moment very proud of her and of the United States for standing with a faithful friend and ally and not caving into the petty cash-driven demands of the bullies in the so-called People’s Republic of China. 

Now, I’m sure when Nancy gets home, she’ll be right back to tearing up Donald Trump speeches on TV, making incoherent speeches, promoting abortion, rallying her partisan pets to raise taxes, and keeping the likes of her pet Republican Liz Cheney on a short leash.  And I’ll be right back to calling her out for insider stock trading involving her husband, ignoring President Biden and his son Hunter’s unseemly connections to business with the Chinese communists, and her still pretending that the January 6 riots in DC were worse than 9-11. 

But for now, I raise my glass of iced tea, tip my hat, and offer a deep bow from the waist to Speaker Nancy Pelosi for being a brave American Eagle and not a frightened chicken in the face of threats from one of the most corrupt and evil empires on the face of the planet!

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  • Kim

    08/09/2022 06:19 PM

    Mercy what a surprise statement about Miss Fancy pants Peloski! But would you investigate the reason her son accompanied her on the trip? Why also did her husband not appear in court and gets the judge he wanted to oversee his trial?

  • Carol Adame

    08/09/2022 06:11 PM

    I am not at all impressed that she took her son along on all this trip to those countries where he does his business dealings at taxpayer expense. He is not a government official and should not have been acknowledged in the lineup of the American politicians on the receiving end of, at least, the Taiwan president. His presence and the foreign leaders acknowlegement thereof made it seem more like a personal business statement for him rather than how it was presented to the American people.

  • Lois M Kohler

    08/09/2022 05:58 PM

    It is nice you gave her credit and did some others that don't usually agree with her. I for one still think there was an ulterior motive. There was a personal interest but I may never know. she is too calculating and dishonest to just do it for no reason.

  • Pamela Robinson

    08/09/2022 05:54 PM

    I do admire her bravery but it can't compete with the bravery displayed throughout Trump's administration. He NEVER backed down or gave in to the pressure from the left! The Dems are SO AFRAID of him that they are grasping at straws & sending in the FBI to break the law for their crooked causes to discredit him since they've failed miserably in the past!

  • Georgia Baca

    08/09/2022 05:15 PM

    I agree with what you said although I believe Nancy Pelosi is evil and has wasted a massive amount of tax payer's money by trying to find something wrong with Donald Trump instead of dealing with the massive amount of issues that need to be addressed. It is hard to know what the Lord expects from us except He is under control.

  • Carol Majewski

    08/09/2022 05:08 PM

    No Kudos to Nancy. She took Paulie Jr with her on our dime. ( another Hunter absent sex trafficking, crack pipes, and hookers) Pelosi is another crime family that is just more deviant than and are not in our faces like the Bidens

  • Robert Kotch

    08/09/2022 04:33 PM

    I believe that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was nothing more of an insincere show to merely detract from Hunter and Joe Biden's dealings capitalizing on the CCP. In other words, "...we need to make it look like the Biden's are tough on the Chinese and that the CCP is tough on the USA with threats issued to a significant member of Congress who just 'happens' to be traveling to Taiwan". This is ALL THEATER trying to demonstrate that the Biden's are not in bed with the CCP and the Chinese are showing their strength proving they have absolutely NO special deals with the Biden's.

  • Marilyn Hellmuth

    08/09/2022 04:04 PM

    Dear Governor Huckabee, Are you aware that Nancy took her son, Paul, with her on this trip and introduced him to all the important people on her visit? she also met with the largest chip manufacturer in the world. Pardon me if I see similarities between what she just did and what Hunter has been doing for years.
    Marilyn

  • Jay Marz

    08/09/2022 03:41 PM

    I’d be happy to take that attitude and I would if I’d ever seen her do or say anything remotely altruistic and look truthful at the same time. Maybe she did do that. Or, maybe she gave China a way to blame us for their invasion of Taiwan, should that happen. The Democrats and at least the RINOs have not drawn any lines with China and they manufacture practically everything. Now, at a time that is not opportune to say the least Pelosi goes to make a stand? Or is Biden so compromised she went to delay things? I watched Carlson the other night and he makes a good argument for why it couldn’t be worse timing. And who would know better than Pelosi?

  • Kajun Jeaux

    08/09/2022 03:26 PM

    I salute you for all the great work you do for American citizens, and I'm not disagreeing with you, but some things are best left unsaid.
    Bonjour, Mon Ami

Mike Huckabee

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