Nancy Pelosi was caught on camera asking Israel protesters outside her home to “Go back to China” and claiming that was where their “headquarters” were located
"If you don't like it, go back to $countryTheyAssumeYouCameFrom", yup. Just a further blurring of the lines between blue and red. By 2032, it'll just be varying shades of purple, and most of them will be angled toward the fuchsia end.
It wasn't a "zinger", I was drawing an equivalence between this lady's "go back to China" rhetoric and the language of the far right where anyone who doesn't toe the line is accused of being a foreign agent.
While I disagree with Democrats stance and agree it is a genocide, China would have the same stance as the Democrats as they don't support Taiwanese independence. They similarly tacitly support russia in the Ukraine invasion.
So I guess genocide is an American value, and if you oppose genocide then you’re unamerican.
Settlers built this country off inordinate amounts of slavery and genocide; this has always been the score. Why do you think they're so gung-ho, brook-no-dissent about genociding Palestine? Israelis are just Junior Americans at this point.
That's what I've been telling people who say "I won't vote for someone who supports genocide:" This is America. All our politicians support genocide. That and "more jobs" are the only things both parties agree on.
If you want to vote for someone who isn't pro-genocide you're gonna have to move, or get used to never, ever, ever getting what you want.
Yes, it sucks. But there's literally nothing we can do about it unless you want to get a degree in physics and build a time machine and sink Columbus's boat before he sights land.
The Dems and Dem-aligned corporate media have spent the last eight years pushing Russiagate conspiracy theories, and now they’re expanding BlueAnon to include China because the US is itching to ramp up Cold War II.
This happened more than five minutes ago so she forgot. Consequences of having an entire government filled with dementia ridden corpses. What can you do?🤷♀️
100% against the genocide in Palestine and think our representatives should be doing everything they can to stop supporting it but this video is clearly edited. Pelosi's mouth is moving basically the whole video yet you can hear absolutely nothing from her except the very end when she gets into the suv. You can very faintly hear the "go back to China" line. However if you look at her mouth it's not matching up with it at all. Someone clearly dubbed audio over video to make it sound like something it wasn't.
You might want to at least have a basic grasp of the conversation before chiming in.
I’m not arguing one way or another, but you completely miss the context. She’s referring to the alleged dis information campaign from Russia and China.
The video is fake and she said "go back to China where you are headquartered" to the Code Pink people, whom are in fact funded by China and have a history of echoing China's stances and propaganda.
Xitter moderation even called out the fake on the Twitter post of the fake video.
I remember that garbage NYT hit piece from last year. Global North corporate media gotta push the new cold war. Before that article it was secret Chinese police stations in NYC, and before that it was Chinese spy balloons. Burgerlanders will believe anything.
Is there any indication that this desperate ploy to reframe any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza or recognition of innocent Palestinians' basic humanity and rights as purely foreign propaganda is working at all? It's absolutely craven
How do these guys fuck up sitters every day. I'm not a yank but you fucks export all your rhetoric and issues anyway so can you get your shit together please.
This old bag of bones needs to fuck off, get out and vote for Christ's sake.
“For [the pro-Palestinian protesters] to call for a cease-fire is Mr. Putin’s message, Mr. Putin’s message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see.
Let's just put aside the fact that asking for a ceasefire for most people is a humanitarian request. You don't need to have picked a side to accept that the ordinary people need some kind of help getting to safety (or relative safety). I'm not commenting on that here though.
It may be that I'm missing something obvious, in which case fine. But, how does a cease-fire in Gaza benefit Putin? I would say that any instability elsewhere in the world (Gaza, Houthi rebels, the Iran Pakistan thing the other week) work entirely in his favour. While the west (and some of the rest of the world) need to move to stabilise problems aside from the war in Ukraine, they have less time, resources to spend checking up on his activities in Ukraine. The media time is split away from what's happening over there and of course, military budget is redirected away from arms for Ukraine, to operations in these other regions and arms for Israel.
It doesn't. A ceasefire in Gaza means the US wouldn't need to send ammunitions to Israel to massacre Palestinians, freeing more supplies to be sent to Ukraine to fight Russia.
The conflict continuing and spreading across the region and getting the US stuck in the Middle East distracting it from Ukraine though, does help Putin. So, this leaves us with a logical conclusion, Pelosi is either a Russian-asset or just relishes in genociding Palestinians.
However, Israel is buying ammunition (at least with an IOU), whereas Ukraine is just receiving charity. From that perspective, it's easy to see why politicians are more willing to support Israel than Ukraine.
If it turns out in a few years time that Russia leant on Iran to lean on various Middle East actors to stir up trouble at that exact point to distract from Ukraine, you can colour me unsurprised.
We need to pass a constitutional amendment that sets the maximum age to hold public office (including judges) to 67 years old. You can do whatever you want past 67, but you can't hold public office.
Individual encounters may have to do with the declining mental faculties of geriatrics, but the superstructure of the capitalist class (who are the ones pushing the stories about foreign interference and terrorists and red/yellow/brown scare all that pro-empire propaganda) that must change. Voting in yet another capitalist sponsored imperialist drum beater (the only type of candidate that's allowed to run for election) who's a bit younger than these should-be seniors home residents won't change anything at all. Pointing the finger at the advanced age of elected officials is a distraction, simple as that.
I fuckin wish China was where I came from. I am literally so ashamed of, so vehemently, hatefully disgusted by the nation I was born into, a nation in which white settler ghouls have indicated they're going to keep their foot on the entirety of my race's collective neck (thanks Joe, will never forgive you for Cop City or for RICO charging the protestors against it), that I wish they'd deport me to China.
It'd save me about ten, fifteen grand in travel costs, I'd probably find better work, better living conditions, and most importantly, a sense of belonging that I haven't had since some old settler hag decided she wanted to call cops on me for going for a fuckin walk. I fuckin wish. In fact, I pray the Anglo settlers try to start a war they couldn't possibly keep the materiel up for. I'd defect in a New York minute.
Ah, a kbin poster. I can safely assume hazardous, nigh-fatally toxic chauvinism and insufferable settlerism out of you, can't I? Dollars to donuts says what you refer to as a "chinese history book" is really just what your masters tell you; and I have no interest in your skewed perspective.
As long as I have to hear about Black folk getting slabbed out by pigs, as long as I have to hear about protestors against the regime getting locked up on federal racketeering charges (and then carcerally enslaved after the fact), as long as I have to hear about how 'this is the best place for people like me' when the settlers are trying to put civil rights in front of the same firing squad that erected concentration camps for migrants on the southern border while putting Roe v. Wade and affirmative action to death (and the guy we were told would stop that has thoroughly reneged on any promises he made), anywhere is better than here; especially the people you try to convince me are enemies.
Do people really expect that there comes something meaningfully out of such a old brain under that kind of pressure? Have you never talked to such old people? They need way more time to think compared to young people. Americans should stop voting such old people into politics, it is just not efficient. But of course, we have the same problem here..
Individual encounters may have to do with the declining mental faculties of geriatrics, but the superstructure of the capitalist class (who are the ones pushing the stories about foreign interference and terrorists and red/yellow/brown scare all that pro-empire propaganda) that must change. Voting in yet another capitalist sponsored imperialist drum beater (the only type of candidate that's allowed to run for election) who's a bit younger than these should-be seniors home residents won't change anything at all. Pointing the finger at the advanced age of elected officials is a distraction, simple as that.
Fair enough, well said 😇 only voting young people because their young doesn’t solve all issues, but I guess most young people would at least get what’s going on in the world compared to all that old folks walking like zombies trough that big white building without even knowing how the internet works.
You're bordering on an ageist take; but by all measurable data, the fascist thanatocracy we're living under absolutely isn't it, and is probably prompted by boomer lead poisoning.
Sorry, I have hard time understanding what exactly you want to say to be honest
So first, thanatocracy means something like being ruled by a dead person 🤨? And those dead leaders are not old 🤨🤨? And now what has this to do with lead poisoning 🤨🤨🤨?
Sorry, I’m a bit confused about what you want to tell me..
Yea but she is still old and unter heavy pressure, I even would not be surprised if she’d have peed in her pants out of fear.
Guess what, US leaders are as well just humans after all.
This is so misleading. The headline plus thumbnail makes it look like she got up on a stage and said that , but the article just embeds a shoddy phone video where you can barely understand her.
I'm not defending Pelosi but can we at least have some journalistic standards? This isn't worldnews, and it's barely USA news.
"I'm not defending Pelosi but" [proceeds to try and defend Pelosi bc "shoddy phone video"]. Journalistic standards in America are dead. There are none. The only standard is "whatever lets these corrupt boomer ghouls commit more war", so my 'standard' is whatever puts these people's true faces in the public discourse. I'm not about to discard CODEPINK's word just because a bunch of bougies have issues with cell phone videos.
Politicians should be retired at the age of 70. These old fucks are so out of touch, it would be comical if it wasn't costing human lives every fucking day.