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Nancy Pelosi Gets a Surprising New Primary Challenger (newrepublic.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26024422

Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Back when Pelosi was pushing the Affordable Care Act she came on KQED and railroaded the host, basically just ignored all the questions to deliver the party line. I was bruh this is your home base and acted like it was hostile territory.

Pelosi has been a huge fundraiser and leader for the Democrats, but might as well live on planet Mars when it comes to understanding working class people, even in the Bay Area.

We need a leadership vacuum in the Democratic Party to even hope of changing anything significantly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Pelosi has been a huge fundraiser and leader for the Democrats

One reason why Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman got the old heave-ho. Pelosi has been instrumental in bankrolling Congressfolk like Henry Cuellar and Richie Torries while undermining candidates like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Her leadership has largely lead to the current moment in Democratic Party Politics, with a handful of insiders growing obscenely rich while the rank-and-file voters are told to suck eggs every time their favorite legislation fails.

We need a leadership vacuum in the Democratic Party to even hope of changing anything significantly.

The real leadership of the democratic party is within the donor class. Women like Nancy get to hold the gavel, but its the Gettys and the Buffets and the Thiels who ultimately hold the power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

She going to be another Feinstein?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Clickbait is not including the name in the post title.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

... is it Father Time?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why the fuck is this ghoul still running in the first place? Please primary her ass CA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You think too much of CA. CA is INCREDIBLY liberal, so much of CA loves her and worships the memory of Dianne Feinstein.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So incredibly liberal they voted to keep prison slavery

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That is liberal honestly. Punishment of any crime means you are now an indentured servant of the state.

And we have homeless basically illegalized as rent goes up, so the forces who put out our fires are the ones who lived in those areas when rent was lower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I have family and friends in California. They all thought Feinstein was way too freaking old.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Trump got 38% of California to vote for him last year. We are nowhere close to “incredibly liberal”. Also I hate Pelosi.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Undereducated people who can't stand the cognitive dissonance of the liberal control of CA, paying lip service to issues that actually affect the working class while enriching the elites, restricting freedom and protecting the stability of the status quo above all.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Term and age limits will be needed if the Constitution is improved, alongside ditching first-past-the-post voting. A great deal of America's rot comes from the stagnation caused by career politicians who simply exist to occupy a seat.

Sure, we might lose 'wise' leaders, but it has become pretty damn clear that archaic politicians are the plugged toilets of Democracy. All they do is cause a mess if not promptly handled. The Geronocrats must go.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

It comes from citizens united as well. We are a country whose government runs on bribe money and little else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Fuck yes, let's go with it!

Politician age range 30-50
Background check
Minimum Education Requirements
Understands science (including biology) and technology thoroughly at minimum high school level
200 hours of community service working with the poor
200 hours of community service working with the elderly
200 hours of community service working with immigrants
Debt, Funding and Corporate Alliance check
Blocked from stock market trades along with immediate family
No bribes
No Lobbying
No ex C-STAFF for major companies.
Paid enough to be single yacht and a summer home kind of rich.

What else we need in here or what have I gone wrong on?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Limit every office to 1 term

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Will all these hours of community service be paid or are we restricting public office to those who can afford to work for free?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have no issue with politicians up to age 65, if we want to capture the breadth of their experience. After 65 though, they're out. Cognitive decline is a sharp dropoff, and we want politicians who are a going concern for the decisions they make.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

A way to get politicians to vote against their own self interest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

It's probably easier to make it so their self interest is best served by serving the people, by doing something along the lines of tying their pay to the median pay of their constituents.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Anybody

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (12 children)

“I’ve got some news: I’ve decided to run against Nancy Pelosi to represent San Francisco in Congress. I know some of you might be surprised that Speaker Emeritus Pelosi is running again, but she is—for her 21st term!” Chakrabarti’s post read.

I fucking hate boomers in political office. They refuse to let go of the reins. They want to hold on until death. Selfish.

I saw a video last year asking people in the UK about USA politics and someone commented how old our leaders are.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think she is too old to be a boomer, that generation was 1946 to 1964. She was born 1940

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.

Fuck yes they do!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All these fucking useless Democratic leaders are so selfish. You've failed and failed over and over again, miserably, yet you still insist on trying to lead? Do the right thing. Step down. Quit. It's truly disgusting how they've strangled their party and country with their incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

And let progressives who actually have plans to stop Trump win for once? Never!

[–] [email protected] 138 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

GOOD.

Pelosi has been in congress for 36 years. To put this in perspective, that's longer than I've been voting. Time to retire.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (9 children)

To put it further in perspective, Nancy Pelosi isn't a boomer. She's silent generation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are generation labels getting closer together in time?

Greatest generation- 26 years

Generation Alpha - 13ish?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't find a good summary and am not in any way an expert in this field. But I think these generations are technically based on defining events in the world and likely common experiences more than a close tie to biological generations. If you look at the page for the Silent Generation wiki page there is some explanation of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation#Terminology

TL;DR it's all very loosey goosey.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 days ago (32 children)

No matter, your view on her, it really is time to retire, she is 84.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was time to retire 20 years past. It’s time to give back all the money she stole from her communities with all the insider trading bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She always gets shit for insider trading, as she should, but she's not even in the top 10 worst. And it's not a party thing, it's freaking systemic

Member 	Trades 	Volume (millions) 	Estimated Return
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) 	        4,013 	66.76 	19.1%
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) 	1,925 	167.63 	22.7%
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) 	575 	91.44 	21.8%
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) 	270 	7.16 	5.7%
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC) 	186 	13.58 	56.3%
Rep. John James (R-MI) 	        164 	1.33 	N/A
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)160 	4.13 	30.2%
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) 	143 	1.26 	16.3%
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DL) 	        100 	3.32 	32.6%
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) 	97 	6.54 	28.0% 
       -Source - https://www.fool.com/research/congressional-stock-trading-who-trades-and-makes-the-most/

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

Kick her the fuck out. Kick all the useless democrats out. Fuck all of them. They lost. They're done. Go the fuck away.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's not surprising. The left has been looking for someone capable of primarying her for years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

And for years she's always held onto her position because of name recognition and money from Super PACs. Ratfucking is a bipartisan tool.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Surprising New Primary Challenger

That's not that surprising. I was hoping it was like a golden retriever or something.