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| We gonna miss her. Nancy Pelosi stood up to Bush, Trump and Biden, but not Israel. Still, a historical woman to be Speaker of the House. |
Finally, the old guard is starting to understand we are not playing games anymore.
The first woman to serve as U.S. House Speaker to four U.S. presidents is retiring.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, a staunch Zionist, middle of the road, feminist and Democratic leader has decided it is time to pass the baton to a next generation of Democrats.
Pelosi announced she was deciding on whether to carry on or retire. Had she carried on, she faced an onslaught of Democratic opponents this time. President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Gov. Gavin Newsom, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House and Senate members will react to her retiring.
Pelosi, 85, was the nation’s first and only female House speaker, and she will have represented San Francisco in Congress for 39 years when she leaves office. She has served during an era of seismic change for American society and her own city, from the throes of the AIDS crisis to the legalization of gay marriage, and through the meteoric rise of the tech sector and the nation’s extreme polarization.
She entered political office later in life and became a hero to Democrats for the way she wielded immense power to push Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress.
“With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” she told her constituents in a nearly six-minute video posted on X early Thursday morning, with clips of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars and colorful Victorian homes flashing in the background.
“My message to the city I love is this: San Francisco, know your power,” she continued. “We have always led the way, and now we must continue to do so by remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”
Pelosi, who likes to use the phrase “resting is rusting,” led the House Democrats for 20 years, eight of which she spent as speaker. She has also been a prodigious fund-raiser and raised more than $1.3 billion for Democratic campaigns, according to her aides.
But she was reviled by conservatives, who painted her as the scary embodiment of liberal San Francisco values and blamed her for what they considered the nation’s decline.
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| Nearly 40 years of service and Speaker to four U.S. presidents, Nancy Pelosi is one of a kind. |
She has been a chief irritant to Trump, even to this day, calling him “a vile creature” in a CNN interview that aired this week. She presided over two of his impeachment votes in the House. And he has called her “Crazy Nancy,” with no sense of fondness for his foe.
Pelosi began her term as House Speaker when Republicans lost control of the House in 2007. She was a thorn to then president George W. Bush. She never came close to impeaching him despite his chaotic failures. The far right immediately vilified her, San Francisco and California. During the presidency of Barack Obama, the Tea Party began. Pelosi labeled it a bunch of astroturf, smoke and mirrors. It led to the House being flipped in 2011. She returned back to Speaker position in 2019 when Trump served his first term. He was publicly shouting and disrespecting her on camera. It came to head when she twice introduced Articles of Impeachment against him. The first time was the infamous attempt to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to introduce criminal charges against Joe Biden. The second time was the Jan. 6 insurrection in which his protesters were attempting to destroy the electoral college and harm Pelosi and then vice president Mike Pence.
Pelosi's husband Paul became a victim of a near fatal attack. A Canadian American man broke into the home and used a claw hammer to bledgon Paul in the head. He was arrested and sentenced to LIFE in federal time out. The far right, Donald Trump, Jr. and the president (then ex-president) mocked the incident believing it was some gay love affair.
DeAnne Lorraine, Laura Loomer and even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have confronted Pelosi on her home property with conspiracy theories.
Protesters have called her out for supporting Israel.
CodePink had called her out and she flatly dismissed them as paid protesters from China.
Her ties to Wall Street were also controversial.
Allegedly she and a handful of House members are doing insider trading before the 2008 and 2020 stock market falls.


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