Nancy Pelosi: Democrat and ex-Speaker, 83, to seek re-election

Fuck’s sake *

She's only one more reelection to lichdom.

No, she's looking at her and her husband's bank accounts and thinking "well, I don't need to be propped up yet, so I can continue to be grossly corrupt and get even richer"

Younger by two decades is still mid 60s/retirement age

She predates the baby boomers. She was in diapers when pearl harbor was bombed. Two decades younger should be the mandatory retirement age for politicians.

Term limits and age limits.

Hey, they had to get rid of the public option part and gut the bill to get some republican support! Ignore the fact that it was still passed entirely from a down party lines vote with zero republican support. They had to make it a shitty gutted bill for some reason. It was such an accomplishment forcing everyone to get healthcare from multi billion dollar companies with fat profit margins.

Getting republicans to vote for

No Republicans voted for it.

In fact, she had to work to get Democrats to vote for it. It passed the House 219-212, with 34 Democrats and all the Republicans voting No.

Its a shame more people, especially younger people in the US, aren't more into things like primaries and other voting besides presidential elections. Makes me wonder who would break through future elections and who they would appoint as a result.

I think the local DNC would have to "allow" it. Otherwise you'd run as something-other-than-Democratic.

But all it would cost you is time, and maybe a small filling fee to find out.

I say, go for it! It would at least shake up the geriatric incumbents a bit.

Do it! As one of the most notable Democrats alive it'd be a near impossible task to unseat her, but maybe you get 20% of the vote and that's not a terrible result. After that maybe someone more notable like a Mayor or state rep would run and maybe win. Shoot your shot!

We need a competitor. Please do it.

Running in such a prominent campaign would probably make your life suck. Pelosi's seasoned team would probably go through your entire life with a fine-toothed comb and spin anything remotely negative about you to make it seem like you were a serial killer. The Republicans, meanwhile, might throw money into supporting you without caring if you wanted their "help" just to make Pelosi's life hell.

There are probably already real challengers who actually want the job who you could support instead. If you donated to them and volunteered for them, they might make enough noise to at least get some headlines. And, you wouldn't have to stick your own neck out.

have you heard of Shahid Buttar

"Nancy Pelosi should get out of the way of younger generations and let those who came after her have a seat at the table."

Don't stop with her. Make your platform about Glitch McConnell, Dianne "The Wraith" Feinstein, Chuck "Touch" Grassley, and every other member of Congress who can't even claim to be a boomer because they were born before the end of WW2. Their generation built the America we have now; how's it working out for y'all?

Here's what you do, announce that you're running, say your peace, and when you're surfing that publicity wave, announce that you're running for governor of California. No flaw!

Do it!

I wish you would. Get your friends to do it too... "Nancy Pelosi Faces a Dozen Primary Challengers" might draw some more attention.

I think we should also include term limits for these offices in addition to the age limit.

You can’t be president for more than 8 years, but you can be in the same political office more or less for almost 40? That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me lol.

Can't we just vote for younger candidates?

Doesn't make sense to subvert the will of the people when they clearly support this.

Also, her age isn't what makes her shit. She's a corporate democrat just looking out for different rich people.

Geriatocracy

Two party system that the party gets to choose who runs.

Settle down, trumper.

Blues and Greens...just like the Byzantines

Or they know how important it is that the Republicans not win.

It's not just about keeping score and keeping points for the red team. The blue team is currently fighting for white supremacy, christian supremacy, male supremacy, and to change the rules to make any other political party irrelevant.

If someone as wonderful as Mr. Rogers ran against Nancy Pelosi, but that person said he'd vote with his Republican colleagues on every important issue, his own personal qualities wouldn't matter. He personally might not lie, cheat or steal, but he'd be supporting a party that openly does all those things.

It sucks, but when it's a first-past-the-post system with 2 major parties, you mostly have to hold your nose and vote against the greater evil.

Because there is no corruption. Right wing conspiracy theories aren't fact

Term limits, too.

We do have age limits, but only minimum age. Any time there's a min age, there needs to be a corresponding max age.

But then again Bernie Sanders has done a lot to help "wake up" the minds of many millennials and zoomers.

And some psychiatric tests, to see if she still has all the necessary faculties for decisions. The cognitive decay is as sure as death and taxes

You don't think Pelosi has done anything to advance the Democratic agenda? I don't live in her district, so I'm not sure about locally, but I do think she's been highly influential nationally, and I personally think she has done a good job.

That being said, her district is safe Democratic even if she doesn't run. She should retire, enjoy the rest of her life with her family and leave feeling good about her accomplishments. It's someone else's job to carry on the work.

That’s what the plastics are for.. they never die…

Apparently not in California, home to both Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein.

Her district is jam packed full of the most elite liberals in the country. They love her. She's one of them. Realistically, the only one who'd replace her would be a carbon copy of her.

She is the generation before boomers: the silent generation.

With ants in her pants

Lol the hammer attack would have been a great exit strategy. Oh well would you look at that, ever since my husband got his head beat in with a hammer he just can't seem to pick stocks as well.

I think it got hammered lately. Too soon?

I'd vote against Pelosi in the primaries for the same reason I'd vote against Biden or Trump or McConnell or Feinstein in the primaries. They're all too fucking old. The average age of the Senate is 64 years. The average age of the House of Representatives is 57 years.

Here's every senator or congressperson age 68 or older.

Instead of being anti red or anti blue how about you be anti fuckwit?

Trump was not convicted of rape.

I'd make it whatever the retirement age is. In Australia, that would be 67. If we have an age where we agree it's time to collect your pension and live out your life, then it should apply to politicians as well.

No, we don't actually have this policy. Plenty of our pollies are over 67.

Wouldn't she be 86, not 88? House term length is just 2 years, so that term would end Jan 3rd 2027 and her birthday is March 26, 1940

(Not saying 86 is young, just want to be accurate)

Then the younger generation should vote and often

Democrats are a very frustrating party to be with. The alternative is 50 years out of date, racists, homophobic assholes, so you're stuck with democrats. So they put up the worst fucking candidates and we're just stuck with them because if we don't vote for them it's voting for some backwards asshole.

Worse is republicans think we love these people. No we fucking don't, get these old people out and get me someone who represents me. They're just the lesser of two evils