Now it makes sense why she is finally retiring
Fucking political nepo babies.
Love reinventing the aristocracy.
Nancy was a nepo baby, this is a nepo grandbaby. Third gen legacy lmfao.
End their political lineage early with booting them off the ballot in a primary election
always vote in primaries!
Can I ask what your main issue is with Christine?
Can’t speak for OP but I’m presuming it’s her association by maternal relation with one of the leaders of the modern Democratic party, of which the blatant corruption, chronic neglect of the working class and unwillingness to pass off positions of power to the next generation has brought upon an era of desperation, extreme political divide and fascism.
I actually know next to nothing about Christine Pelosi or her politics. For all I know she could be the most progressive politician in California. But I find it far more likely that she’s just going to follow in her mother’s footsteps and push to maintain the status quo that benefits the wealthy and powerful at the cost of the average American.
Well now we’ve moved on to another topic, the claim of blatant corruption of Nancy Pelosi, can you cite an example of that?
They didn’t change topic, you just didn’t like the answer they gave.
I think we both moved naturally in this direction, didn’t accuse them of “changing the topic.”
I think it’s important to mention Pelosi never traded any stocks. Her sin was marrying a stock broker and having joint assets starting in college and refusing to ban that very act from congress. Many times this resulted in going against her husbands and her own interests, such as when she voted to regulate VISA despite them selling Paul a lucrative stock option, or the years where they actually operated at a net loss.
Now, if you were to complain about something else like her general disposition towards Republicans from the moment she was sworn: her awful nonpartisan confirmation speech, or her often crossing of the aisle into red territory, then you would be making fair criticisms. Instead everybody sits here and pretends that theres ome huge financial scheme going on with no evidence at all of corruption.
Because FOX news told you so.
Who the fuck watches Fox News besides boomers?
Well let me enlighten you, the anti-pelosi posts and comments sound 100% exactly like those fucks at Fox News.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-beat-market-581-162100416.html
A New York Post analysis revealed that before first taking office in 1987, Pelosi and her husband reported between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks in their portfolio — worth $133.7 million today, according to the latest estimates from Quiver Quantitative (2).
That means that Nancy Pelosi made a 16,930%, blasting past 2,300% for the Dow Jones over the same period of 37 years.
She didn’t do that well without inside information about laws that would affect the stock market. A simple google search would have provided the figures, and logical reasoning would lead most to that conclusion. Stop with your bad faith bullshit.
I hate her too but she is by far not the only one. Why everyone focuses on her for stock trading is beyond me.
Because Republican voters ignore all the Republican politicians that do it, and Democratic voters are also sick of her actively blocking the attempts to make it illegal while she was speaker. Multiple times
George Soros made a billion dollars in a day. Melvin Capital lost billions and shuttered. Things like this happen to brokers.
I think stock trading should be banned for politicians, but I think its sill to ban Nancy Pelosi for having married one. She was never going to vote for that and I can’t blame her.
Seriously? Can you come up with a single example of something she accomplished that wasn’t because of corporate interest?
She wrote and passed the Affordable Care Act
She created the “Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming” which lasted from 2007 until Republicans dismantled it after gaining majority in 2010
She toured Asia and showed support for Taiwan and Tibet in opposition of China
After VISA offered her husband, a lifelong stock broker, a very lucrative stock option she voted against their interests anyways
OK, let’s start with the first one. The one that was written by the Heritage Foundation, the makers of Project 2025, that increased the stock price of every major health insurance company, and killed any chance for a universal health care plan. The one that left 30mil Americans uninsured, and another 90mil Americans under-insured. That one?
The version of the bill that passed the house was based on Stanford professor Alain Enthoven’s proposal in 1978 to use the federal employee benefits program as a model for a national health care program. Here is the Heritage Foundation dismissing that conspiracy theory.
The ACA increased healthcare coverage by tens of millions of Americans andade it illegal to discriminate based on preexisting conditions.
And if not for Independent Joe Lieberman and Every Single Republican, it would have instead been passed as public option and function virtually the same way as Germany’s healthcare system.
He is blindly loyal to every NeoLiberal, so they have no corruption. It’s like how Trump can’t be corrupt when MAGA brainwashed them into loyal cult members.
Any crimes they did is good, anyone who says otherwise is anti American.
Political dynasties are bad. Becomes a defacto aristocracy.
That is a good and fair criticism, and I hope someday we might move to ban it.
Dear leftist in San Francisco, you have a good option. Saikat Chakrabarti. Don’t let the nation down. If the people that made Trump, Gulliani, Bloomberg, & Cuomo can deliver, so can you.
As a San Franciscan, I am telling everyone about saikat and how he is the best choice. But I think there are Democrats here that care more about low taxes and niche identity politics, like getting trans kids in sports, more than getting those same kids access to health care, housing, and food. SF is not an easy place for an economic leftist to get elected.
It sounds like Saikat Chakrabarti would be wise to come out in support of trans rights, if he hasn’t already.
But but but tv talking head man said name with more than 3 syllable is scarey jihad???
Not gonna lie, I also had to look his name up. I’ve known about him for almost a decade, and I didn’t know how to spell his name. I too believe that it’s a racism card that has to be broken, but if a Muslim socialist who’s called a communist can do it, I think he might be able to as well. I even think he’s a better option than Mamdani.
He certainly has more political experience than Mamdani having been AOC’s chief of staff.
You gotta admit it’s problematic. I’m white as can be, and so is my first and last name, totally black middle name. Think John Tyrone Jones. Did not get a single reply on my resume for 2-months until I removed my middle name. 3 interviews, 2 offers and a job within 2 weeks. (This was 10 years ago.)
To this day I’m surprised Barack Hussein Obama made it all the way to the top. Times have changed drastically, but not that much.
LOL, at least I can pronounce her name. Some Indian names utterly kick my ass. Still, easier than Eastern European names. “I have no idea what those letters represent.” At least I can sound out Indian names. :)
The romanized versions of Indian names rely on more recent standardized transliteration rules.
Eastern European names keep legacy orthographies that are tied to centuries‑old literary traditions, records, and national identities.
I struggle with many Polish names especially.
Is it normal to put one’s middle name on their resume? That is not someone that has ever occurred to me to do
This exact thing needs to be repeated everywhere. Well said.
Letting the days go by.
Was she the one puppeteering Dianne Feinstein’s remains?
Weekend at Feinsteins. Someone should ask her if she felt ok pushing that old hag to mumble grievances at school children.
I wonder if they got Freaky Friday’d
If so they been doing it for three generations.
I thought she was running for her mom’s seat but I’m glad she’s not. If she wants to run for local to prove herself then go for it. Lots of people follow in parents footsteps and it makes sense.
That said, I fully support progressive Saikat Chakrabarti running for Pelosi’s House seat (against Wiener who is an AIPAC candidate…)
Yeah California “STATE SENATE”
It’s very easy to get confused about. But this is not a federal position it’s internal to California’s state government. I still think it’s a pretty big deal, not quite what I’d call a “local” position. But she’s not inheriting her mother’s job.
I can’t wait to follow in my parents footsteps at the tender age of 59. Holy fuck, this country is cooked.
Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
- Godfree Roberts
From here
What’s bro doing on a non-ml community?
Oh. That’s why her mom is stepping down. OK.
The way he’s holding that cigarette.
FFS! Just take your vast troves of unethically sourced riches and go away, Pelosis!
(After said riches are properly taxed, of course)
She’s 59. She should be thinking about retirement, not running.
59? That seems extremely young to retire. I’d be more concerned about her being too right wing.
6 years from retirement age.
A workaholic attitude toward life is far worse for all of us than a right-wing ideology. Our political representatives believe it virtuous to work into the grave, so none of us get to retire.
He parents are worth 200+ million. She probably never needed to work from the start. Hell, my grandpa retired earlier than 59. And he’s not rich.
That’s about her specifically. I’m just talking about age and fitness for office. There’s no question that Pelosi needs to go away.
I’d be more concerned about her being too right wing.
Two things can be true at once.
But also, 59 is getting close to geriatocracy territory. Just because the Senate is named after an institution of old men doesn’t mean it should strive to imitate all the bullshit of its namesake.
This IS a retirement plan… best benefits in the entire country, very little actual work, tons of grifting opportunities and best of all, zero accountability… what is the electorate going to do? vote for Maga?
As a Calfironian, abso-fucking-lutely not. Shit which district?
11th, basically San Francisco and adjacent islands.
