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.
Seriously? Can you come up with a single example of something she accomplished that wasn’t because of corporate interest?
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.
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.
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.
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.
FFS! Just take your vast troves of unethically sourced riches and go away, Pelosis!
(After said riches are properly taxed, of course)
Nepobaby politicians, yeah the Kennedy family has fucked us enough we don’t need more of the same shit.
Are the leftists in the room with us?
Tbf, primaries are carefully orchestrated by elites of both parties to make sure only their preferred factions dominate the primary ballots. Signing up to register in Republican and Democratic parties are intentionally made to be hard.
I still remember when Bernie did his first run and suddenly a bunch of people had to vote provisional. It’s almost as if the elections are rigged on both sides, with only a state’s major opposing political party being caught.
Yeah. The primaries are a joke. It’s all orchestrated to make us think we have a choice when we vote.
The crowing from centrists that leftists lose elections that centrists have complete control over is circular reasoning.
It’s fair to think that centrists might have more support. But if someone believes DNC gives a fair shake to progressives, they’re dangerously naive.
The grift must continue!!!.. it’s a family tradition now
No nepotism happening here.
Now it makes sense why she is finally retiring
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.
As a Calfironian, abso-fucking-lutely not. Shit which district?
11th, basically San Francisco and adjacent islands.
For a 100 year career run with next gen rich people healthcare enriching the family for generations to come.
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…)
I can’t wait to follow in my parents footsteps at the tender age of 59. Holy fuck, this country is cooked.
Meh Adelita Grijalva is 55 and just did the same.
Geriatrics are a problem though, I get it.
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.
Fucking political nepo babies.
Love reinventing the aristocracy.
We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one’s immediate family from running for office once one is above a certain level of success. President is right out. Include the VP, of course. I’d say that Speaker of the House is well within the power tier at which your family should no longer be able to maintain a multi-generational grip on power.
End their political lineage early with booting them off the ballot in a primary election
always vote in primaries!
Nancy was a nepo baby, this is a nepo grandbaby. Third gen legacy lmfao.
The Democrats, left? As someone not living in the US, to me, Democrats are just a light right wing party. At best they might be considered centrists, but left?! Sorry for your “choices”.
FPTP means de facto 2 party system.
The democraric party is really just an uneasy coalition between many different parties in a big trench coat labeled “Democratic Party”, pragmatic leftists are usually in the Democraric party, but not all Democrats are on the “left”.
Yuuuuup. It’s brutal over here.
Letting the days go by.
The way he’s holding that cigarette.
