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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 118 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That's why Pelosi chose them, specially over AOC. She's the other side of the US oligarchy, the one that's ok with the slice of cake they have now and don't want to push the US into a complete dictatorship just to try to get more. She's one of the people in the democratic party that's most abusing federal insider trading and conflicts of interests.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Seriously. She's just a smarter oligarch than Trump. She's smart enough to realize that keeping a flawed and corrupt democracy is better than no democracy at all. She realizes there's no real point in having wealth if you and yours have to live in some totalitarian shithole. And also, wealth tends to be very vulnerable to arbitrary confiscation in authoritarian regimes. Trump is an oligarch, but he's just stupid and prideful enough to think that he and his will always remain at the peak of the pyramid, and that autocracy will work in his favor.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She’s smart enough to realize that keeping a flawed and corrupt democracy is better than no democracy at all.

Playing Jenga with my democracy, smugly certain I won't be the one who pulls the last block.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

She's one of the ones we need to eat imo

He is smart in that sense. He will be dead and gone. If he ever did love anyone he'll be sure to tell them fuck you, too, because the man hasn't felt joy since maybe being a small child.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

She is smart enough to make sure the democracy remains flawed and corrupt.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

The fact that we need to check for a D or R next to this person's record just tells you that emphatically the two parties lines have been increasingly blurred.

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pelosi and all other geriatric politicians need to retire

[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

more like these scammers should be jailed. only good thing that trump would do in his presidency is to send doj after them, but pelosi might already have made a deal with him.