When you’ve lost Nancy Pelosi, you might as well clear out your desk.

Amid all the chaos and whiplash in US politics over the past few weeks, one law remained constant: Pelosi is uniquely influential and has the power to make or break careers – even those of American presidents.

The former House speaker did more than anyone else to re-engineer the race for the White House, breathing new life into her Democratic party and sending Donald Trump’s Republicans into a tailspin.

Pelosi, 84, publicly encouraged 81-year-old Joe Biden to make a decision about his re-election campaign when he had already insisted he had no plans to step aside. Once he did drop out and endorse Kamala Harris, Pelosi scored another victory when former congressman Tim Walz was named as running mate.

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    229 days ago

    No. Only the most corrupt politics, of which Pelosi is a chief proponent.

    Corruption is unacceptable, especially on the scale of the likes of Pelosi and most if not all Republicans.

    Politics are NOT as corrupt in every system and even if it was, that would be something to fight to change, not “make peace with” like a good little slave.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 days ago

      What are you going to do about it? Money and power dominate every system. Monarchy. Feudalism. Communism. Democracy. Even anarchy is rolled by the person with the biggest guns.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        29 days ago

        Even anarchy is rolled by the person with the biggest guns.

        Anarcho-capitalism? Sure. Left anarchism? Nope, only according to the deliberately misleading establishment narrative 🙄

        • @[email protected]
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          129 days ago

          There is no organization of people, from a marriage to a nation, that can’t be unbalanced. Someone always has influence (wealth, power, knowledge) that can be used corruptly or violently to take from another.

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            -229 days ago

            Yeah yeah, the world is unfair and we’re all powerless to influence anyone so we should just give up now 🙄

            Isn’t it exhausting to go through life with such an utterly defeatist attitude?