Pelosi's opponents are pinning their hopes on an Underpants Gnomes strategy. Here's what that means.
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Led by Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, the handful of malcontents who are trying to stop Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker of the House again after she helped usher in historic election gains don’t really have much of a plan. In fact, their strategy, sucPelosi's opponents are pinning their hopes on an Underpants Gnomes strategy. Here's what that means.
Led by Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, the handful of malcontents who are trying to stop Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker of the House again after she helped usher in historic election gains don’t really have much of a plan. In fact, their strategy, such as it is, looks like it was crafted by the Underpants Gnomes—and that’s not a good thing. If you’re not familiar with them, the gnomes were made famous by an episode of the TV show South Park that first aired 20 years ago next month. These diminutive cave-dwellers, who naturally sneak around at night stealing people’s underwear, are self-proclaimed “geniuses at corporations,” but their plan for turning their thieving into a buck is a bit … lacking: Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit This lampoon of corporate business plans became a celebrated internet meme, applied by critics to skewer all manner of half-baked schemes. But seldom has it been as perfectly applicable as it is now, because the second phase of the anti-Pelosi rebels’ plan truly is a giant question mark. Here’s the deal. Read more