Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC's former chief of staff, thinks the Democrats need a bolder vision.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1081·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • takeda@lemm.ee
    761·
    12 days ago

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

    • theherk@lemmy.world
      461·
      12 days ago

      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.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      12 days ago

      Meh, I know I’m in the minority here, but I’d rather it was based on merit and policy positions.

      I DGAF about someone’s age as long as they are still fit and they have the right policies. Assuming someone like AOC stays in until she’s 84 and shows no sign of moving to the right and no sign of slowing down?

      Going forward, I think we will very likely have even OLDER politicos than we do now, assuming breakthroughs on slowing down aging, even age reversal. Of course, that assumes that Bronzo the Clown and fElon and Brainwormz don’t completely break our system of innovation and healthcare. But if it doesn’t happen here, it will happen in other countries…so I don’t think the ageism we see right now will itself age all that well…

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Assuming someone like AOC stays in until she’s 84 and shows no sign of moving to the right and no sign of slowing down?

        Just imagine how many rail union strikes she could vote to prevent in all that time!

      • takeda@lemm.ee
        41·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, it’s not just mental capacity, her decisions right now no longer will affect her. We should have a younger people whose these policies will also impact.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    621·
    12 days ago

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

    Fuck yes they do!

    • Toto@lemmy.world
      161·
      12 days ago

      The message that could be sent by a champagne to kick NP out could start a left wing movement.

      • Logi@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        This is going to be a California Bubbly at best though. But they can be tasty too.

  • TemplaerDude@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    231·
    12 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.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    12 days ago

    Surprising New Primary Challenger

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

  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
    21·
    12 days ago

    SF is incredibly liberal, I could absolutely see Nancy losing and finally being forced to retire. Just gotta get people out to vote during the Primary.

    Pelosi was elected when she was 41-42. Saikat Chakrabarti is 39, so only a couple years younger than when Pelosi was put into Congress. This is the perfect time for her to be forced to retire.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      4·
      12 days ago

      SF is incredibly liberal

      It really isn’t. Local politics in SF has long been a struggle between property developers and tech bros versus community-based groups. Pelosi, like Feinstein and Newsom, are from the corporate faction. And San Francisco has, over the past few decades, been changing into a theme park for trustafarians and high-tech drones, as artists, musicians and other interesting people have been priced out.

  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    205·
    12 days ago

    Good.

    Much like the appeasers that enabled Hitler, history is going to look back on Pelosi, Schumer, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Jefferies, and other democrats who stood by and let all this happen on their watch without so much as a wimper.

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 days 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.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    13·
    12 days ago

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