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384 points

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don’t support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

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152 points

Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Quip aside, let’s bring on the sunlight.

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119 points

Honestly don’t know anyone that likes Pelosi.

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I don’t know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She’s a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society’s catastrophic expense.

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She has famously had an abysmal approval rate nationwide, but she gets more votes than her opponents so she gets to keep her seat.

Like Mitch McConnell, MTG, Lauren Boebert, or Matt Gaetz.

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Ugh… I don’t really want to be that guy, but she was well liked when she was first in office. In fact, I dare say she was cool once when she advocated for more AIDS support in the late 80s and pissed off Reagan, which is always good. But that was around when I was born, haha.

Unfortunately House seats rarely see competition, and I’m certain she grew complacent with age. Almost 40 fucking years, oof.

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She’s not the best, but she’s not the worst. Her biggest crime is what, using insider knowledge to trade stocks?

It’s not like she gave a list of our spies to the Russians. Or likely sold classified documents. She didn’t betray our allies. (Do I mean the Ukrainians, the Afghanis, or the Kurds?)

She was miles better than Manchin or McConnell. She wasn’t our best, but she sure as hell wasn’t a Republican. She got vilified primarily because she was a prominent Democrat for years. And it stuck because there was more than zero legitimacy.

They vilified her so much that some douchebag went after her and her husband with a hammer. There’s a reason they didn’t go after Manchin or Sinema or Menendez or McConnell or Gaetz.

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13 points

I like Pelosi, mostly cherry Pelosi. I’ll usually go for Coke or Dr. Pepper, but soda is soda and Pelosi is soda.

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This is funny because an “elder statesperson” is valuable because they’ve been in the room for allllll the dirt, over decades. They are a walking blackmail bomb and are tolerated because they can call in “favors” when compromise is really really needed.

Edit whoever downvoted this, care to comment? If you think this was a “yay pelosi” comment you’re wrong.

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I can tell you, that i truly and honestly think that Nancy Pelosi is the greatest! She’s never wrong about anything, and I’m totally not eating my own vomit as i type this!

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And yet here she is wielding enormous power.

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Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Still not progressives… :)

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1 point

Sunlight? With this global warming? Are you nuts???

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23 points

Or it reveals an intention by the republicans to release a flood of bad faith ethics reports on Democrats

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Oh no, republicans released the kraken.

Oh wait, nevermind, it looks like trump just scribbled with some crayon. And the occasional sharpie

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10 points

Magic the Gathering supports a lot of things. I don’t know if it supports this; I’ll ask.

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