Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection
Thank God! Let's get in someone that will fight for the people. Let's pass universal healthcare, 6 months paternity and maternity leave, childcare, etc
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96674/nancy-pelosi-retireOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
She was a good Speaker of the House during her tenure, and she terrified the Republican caucus. Many thanks to her for that!
Maybe she stayed a little too long. She, and RBG, and Biden and so many more old-school Democrats that just couldn't let go when they should have. So many people will be remembered not for the things they accomplished, but for enabling the chaos that came after them because they were not willing to let go of power.
Tolkien was onto something with the rings of power. Humans can't let go of it.
She was certainly better than Mitch McConnell, but in addition to being there too long, she enriched herself by hundreds of millions of dollars with insider trading - making her corrupt like Donald Trump, he is just doing it more by several orders of magnitude.
Also, she could have pushed for more progressive reforms, but she didn't, she was/is a corporate Democrat. She knew who she was accepting donations from.
There is more to it than that. Her current net worth is $246 million. In 2021 it was $120 million. In 1987 she was worth $3m. Her stock returns put hedge funds to shame. I don’t see how that can be anything other than corruption.
Her husband is a professional finance guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pelosi
With some serious insider knowledge
Doing stock trades in what you think is about to happen is fine. Doing so while you work in Congress regulating the industries that you are betting on is corruption.
Look, Trump and his fascist ghouls are obviously a bigger problems. But let's not pretend like politician such as Pelosi aren't the reason he was able to gain support. This country will never heal or improve as long as we allow the establishment DNC to continue as they have been
I think AOCs former chief of staff has been running for this seat?
edit: AOC’s Former Chief of Staff: The Democratic Party Stands for NOTHING (w/ Saikat Chakrabarti)
For me, she lost all credibility when she refused to impeach Bush for war crimes. Seriously, Abu Ghraib? The torture memos? Nothing?
If we had gone hard on Bush, Trump never would have run.
Yes, I just saw an interview with him the other day with Mehdi Hasan and he sounds like he would be excellent!
https://youtu.be/zQVGqOa0Lr0
She only doing this because democracy is over and no one that will replace her will make the rich accountable.
It's sad that she will never get the firing squad.
She's leaving but someone has already been groomed to fill her shoes and will continue defending the status quo
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Yeah but they aren't going to win.