Imagine how out-of-touch you have to be to represent San Francisco and not realize sincere antiwar protesters exist.
Here is my completely nonpartisan hot take. We should pass a constitutional amendment that ties the maximum age to hold public office (including judges) to the Social Security “Normal Retirement Age” at the time of passing. That is currently 67 years old. You can do whatever you want past 67, but you can’t hold public office.
Do you want them to make the retirements age 90? I’d rather not give those assholes a perverse incentive to reduce benefits.
I did state “at time of passage” but we might as well say “at time of drafting” to avoid shenanigans.
In a lot of a states you can bring forward laws to ballots that amend the state constitutions with enough public signatures. I think in our modern day lack of a useful government officials we should use this tool far more often to attempt to ensure a healthier government.
What difference will that make? Also, what happens if/when life extension/age reversal becomes an everyday thing? Government regulations often move at a glacial pace, why fix something in place now that will be hard to remove when it’s completely irrelevant. We are even still saddled with the stupid EC and the idea that states all get 2 senators, no matter their population size. How long would it take to remove a rule like this that quickly becomes obviously ridiculous in the near future?
Young politicians will always have an incentive to consider raising the age limit. This isn’t a system that leads to irreversible change when and if the time arises where the limit is no longer appropriate.
She represents San Francisco’s billionaires. She has nothing to do with people making median incomes.
So in her world, support for Israel is a universally shared opinion
Having said that, it is in Russias interest to highlight the very real genocide in Gaza. By demonstrating the obvious hypocrisy of the Western “rules-based” order, they will make it easier for Russia to commit further atrocities in Ukraine. And for China to invade Taiwan. And America’s ability to credibly resist those efforts will be diminished - after all, the US enabled Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians despite international condemnation, so who is America now to object to the murder of Ukrainians or the annexation of Taiwan?
Aren’t you actually proving her point?
You’re saying that among protesters there are sincere ones.
A call for investigation means that there is a belief that among sincere ones there are also insincere ones trying to spin shit up.
Edit: of course downvotes. It isn’t even a secret https://www.mei.edu/publications/essential-questions-about-russia-hamas-link-evidence-and-its-implications
It’s an easy way to silence people you don’t want to hear. Someone who believes there’s sincerity in the sentiment doesn’t start off with: “For them to call for a ceasefire is Mr Putin’s message. Make no mistake. This is directly connected to what he would like to see.”
It doesn’t really matter what you justify it with afterward, you’re still essentially saying opposing “war” in Gaza is supporting Putin.
It also implies that anti-war protesting is something that is problematic and should be looked into. Or, rather than being pro-Palestine is wrong, and that it’s a sentiment that has to be caused by foreign influence.
Enough with the Hamas sideshow bullshit. You don’t have to be a Hamas supporter to be upset that Israel is indiscriminately killing Palestinians. At this point, anything Hamas did on 10/7 pales in comparison to Israel’s response.
It’s no secret that there are corrupt politicians either. I think we should investigate this ghoul and her financial ties to supporting genocide first before we use the secret police on citizens expressing a desire for peace.
If she was calling for both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protest groups to be investigated for potential monetary ties to Russia, then I’d consider her claim to be more valid.
Sure, but lets also investigate the House for financial ties to billionaires.
…and Russia, probably.
And investigate both sides - Russia will support both extremes in any issue that causes unrest in Western democracies. So investigating only one side is a useful propaganda tool but kind of misses the mark.
Financial ties? She is a billionaire.
Vietnam war all over
“Foreign agents are brainwashing our youth to be against the war”
“Hey guys, we need a surefire way to make our base stay home instead of vote when we have a literal fascist running who will end the Republic if he’s allowed to win!”
Nancy: “Say no more fam, I got this.”
Weird way to say 3rd party
Weird way to say secure Trump’s victory.
A vote for a third party is a vote for Trump. Don’t be an idiot
Could you please write out the math where my 3rd party vote adds a tally to Trump?
Every vote that Biden loses to a third party means Trump has a better chance of winning the state. Unless you are voting in a pure Blue state like NY,CA, etc or a pure Red state like FL, OH, etc then you are giving Trumptard a better chance to win by not voting for Biden
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Then Biden and the people who elected him in the primaries should do some self reflection.
Contrary to popular opinion on this site, most Americans don’t support a cease fire in Israel. I don’t either. Not until Hamas is gone
Latest polling shows over 2/3 of Americans want a ceasefire, that’s both Dems and Repugs.
Consider examining your own bias for bloodlust instead of pulling sentiment out of your ass.
Then find the votes you need elsewhere.
Man, these fuckers really fucking hate their base.
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The only reason Israel courts Russia is to let them bomb Syria without Russians shooting them down. Russia constantly calls everyone Nazis. No one in Israel actually likes them
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What the fuck, Nancy???
She’s been woefully out of touch on a lot of things for at least a decade at this point
You guys are getting paid!?
Turns out you don’t need to get paid to support Palestinians, you just need to not be a huge piece of shit!
Wild I know.
I am once again waiting for my Soros Check. Is there a helpline I should call?
Yeah, but in roubles. May as well be monopoly money.
Anything to not have to stop a genocide.
Or at least stop supporting it.
Wish I was getting paid to support Palestine.
Yeah, pretty sure the money is on the other side.
This cunt needs to go the fuck away.
What an utter bitch. Your finances are the ones that should be investigated.
Sadly, she’s following the rules that she and her colleagues made. That’s the worst part
Following the rules has no relation to behaving ethically
The rules weren’t given to us by God or any moral authority - they were written by lobbyists and trllion dollar corporations. Aka, entities whose self-interest is radically opposed to that of a normal American
What an Unusual Whale. In a market that averaged just under a 25% return in 2023 Pelosi managed to get 65%. Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that she and her close colleagues are in charge of regulating industry and allocating government money. It’s just that she’s an extra smart and talented trader. And so are a lot of her colleagues. Like, a lot lot. Beating the market is the only thing Congress is good at.
Brian Higgins is killing it.
Shouldn’t we instead be investigating the politicians currently in office that we have a really good reason to believe have a monetary tie to Russia and have a mountain of evidence of being coerced or controlled by them due to said politicians’ past actions (going to a secret meeting to Moscow on July 4th, ect)?
No, no, no. We have to capitulate to them.
Yep, but we won’t, because they’re paying people to pose as leftists supporting Palestine in order to get all the others riled up on that cause using half truths. This drives the attention towards the left (the primary intention of Right Wing propaganda). We can’t ever change this until people stop being afraid to admit the truth about the Right Wing.
Dividing the party sounds like a Russian ploy. Can we investigate her first?
Netanyahu has much to gain from a Trump presidency too.
Then he should be thanking Pelosi right now.
Let’s concede that the people organizing protests are receiving money from Russia. Is that actually a criminal matter? Apparently Trump’s campaign working with Russia wasn’t.
It’s only legal when it’s Israel doing it.
