This old hag has clearly lost her marbles. She’s Feinstein now, replace her already.
She’s retired
Feinstein yes Pelosi has become the new Feinstein and needs to get the heck out of the way.
What? Feinstein is dead. Pelosi is retired.
She’s currently sitting in office is she not? Her actions reflected in this article are those of an official representative are they not?
She is not. She is currently retired. Might run again though
She retired from being leader, is she not still the representative? Her wikipedia page seems to indicate she’s active, the article indicates the same. Are you sure she’s retired LoL? Like from being a politician…not just from being leader.
I’m guessing she just sold a bunch of Lockheed Martin stock
Hmmhmmm. Shorted that shit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli strike while delivering food to Gaza earlier this week, House Democrats wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full investigation into the airstrike was completed.
The letter, spearheaded by Reps. Mark Pocan, Jim McGovern and Jan Schakowsky, was signed by 40 lawmakers including Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“If this strike is found to have violated U.S. or international law, we urge you to continue withholding these transfers until those responsible are held accountable.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, a spokesperson for Pelosi said she is “sympathetic to some of the thoughts in the letter, and she feels very strongly that there must be a comprehensive, independent investigation into the horrific killing of the World Central Kitchen heroes,” adding, “Speaker Pelosi knows President Biden’s support for Israel and empathy with the innocent civilians in Gaza, and she respects his judgment in how to proceed.”
The letter also addressed reports that an estimated 32,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7, and that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative (IPC) recently warned that widespread famine is imminent and “expected to occur anytime between now and the next month if there is not an immediate cessation of hostilities.”
We again strongly urge you to withhold any offensive weapons transfers until the investigation into the airstrike is concluded and, if it is found this strike violated U.S. or international law, those responsible are held accountable,” the lawmakers emphasized.
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AIPAC is losing its grip over the Democratic party.
That’s only true if there is any consequences. So far nothing has actually come about.
He means it used to be pure political suicide for anyone in congress to say a word about not funding and defending Israel no matter what war criminal shit they got up to, and now we have a Palestinian congresswoman who says stuff like “from the river to the sea” and no AIPAC-funded candidate has primaried her yet.
I’ll fully agree with you that it remains to be seen how much of that will turn into anything substantive the US decides to do to stop the killing, but the political landscape is definitely way way different than it used to be.
Israel might have gone one step to far with the world central kitchen killings
José Andrés is one of the most loved people in DC regardless of politics. Fucking with his people is very bad, to put it mildly.
We’ll see if Biden actually cuts off weapons sales.
Narrator: He did not
We’ll that’s interesting. She’s as mainstream as Democrats come. I was wondering a few days ago if Israel had had it’s Walter Cronkite moment with this strike. I guess I’ll be cautiously optimistic for a few days.
Walter Cronkite moment
Could you explain that to me?
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/war-public-opinion-myth-cronkite-moment/
Vietnam war, and Cronkite gave an editorial report that, ostensibly, shifted everyone’s opinion on said war.
Many thanks!
She should go back to her headquarters in China!
Lmao
Not sure why I got downvoted. She’s the one who said it.
I’ll wait and see if anything actually happens. When Bibi calls their bluff yet again by continuing the genocide with added aid worker deaths and embassy bombings, will he face any actual consequences?
I’m guessing no. This is all theater. The status quo will be maintained at all costs.
Halt transfers until the investigation is completed.
Israel’s own investigation, that is.
And starting back up again doesn’t even depend on the outcome.
On Reuters they’re reporting the representatives also want an American investigation.
Call your reps and get them to join into to the demand
40 reps is not enough to make it happen
Particularly when they signed the funding bill,
Biden will do anything that doesn’t stop the flow of money to the MIC. I guess taking the money and then NOT giving them weapons is a loophole.
Wonder if lemmy’s pro-genocide centrists are gonna start calling Pelosi a Russian now.
Looking over the comments I see absolutely no one that is pro genocide. Pretty much all the viewpoints are sensible: Unanimously anti-Israel, sometimes skeptically approving of Pelosi doing something good for once.
For what reason could you be painting the picture of an outlandish strawman view opposed to your own which doesn’t exist, I wonder
Looking over the comments I see absolutely no one that is pro genocide
I’ve successfully summoned two so far.
“Wonder if” are the first two words of my comment. I was speculating.
Wish it was my first day on lemmy too. Stick around, you’ll see them soon enough
Aaaand someone called her a Chinese asset in the comments here.
They’re mocking her earlier comments about protesters. I don’t read that as being a serious claim.
He’s clearly upset that people call him a “Russian”. It’s that simple.
My point is that his coming in here saying “genocide is bad!” is meeting with 0 resistance but instead full throated agreement from everybody, yet he’s still claiming there must be pro genocide people, I guess implying that is the only reason anyone could possibly disagree with him or accuse him of being a Russian plant (*) is that they like genocide and for no factual well reasoned reason
(*) Or, more generally, dishonest; I have no idea if he’s Russian specifically or not
My point is that his coming in here saying “genocide is bad!” is meeting with 0 resistance
What unmitigated horseshit. You dare call me dishonest after posting this lie. I’ve attracted the attention of lemmy’s two most strident supporters of Netanyahu’s genocide. I don’t like mentioning downvotes, but you brought up resistance. Have a look at how many genocide loving centrists took personal offense at my speculation about Pelosi and downvoted me.
So then I said, you’re conflating someone disagreeing with you which lots of people do for valid reasons, with supporting genocide which pretty much no one on Lemmy does.
And then you said, how DARE you say no one supports genocide when so many people are disagreeing with me, which by definition means they’re pro genocide.
So then I said, you’re conflating someone disagreeing with you which lots of people do for valid reasons, with supporting genocide which pretty much no one on Lemmy does.
They don’t tell me their “valid reasons.” They just scream the usual garbage “Russian Chinese Tankie Republican child shill bot” shit that centrists say when they can’t actually argue their point.
What “valid reasons” are there to support the continued sales of weapons that are being used for genocide?
So then I said, dude no one’s actually supporting genocide
And then you said la la la, I can’t HEEAR you, they’re such bad unreasonable people all these people in the thread who love Israel’s war and want the weapons flow to continue, like look at the top 3 comments in this thread for example and see how not at all unanimous is the “genocide bad” consensus, that’s totally exactly why people are downvoting me is because they love love love genocide sooooo much
Something on your mind? Guilty conscience?
You don’t know what a conscience is, genocide apologist.
Jerrrrr nerrr serrrrd
It’s like the only word you people know. Back in my day, trolls used to put in effort.
You would mock genocide.
#oneword
Which obfuscatory polite euphemism would you prefer I use?
Well, I would suggest you find something new pretty quickly, because things are changing with Israel. And I know you don’t actually care about Israel, you just want to attack Biden.
Nah they’ll claim Nancy is voting for Trump.
This one of those “I’m going against it solely because I know opposing it at this point won’t do anything.”
Are not all these weapon transfers laws that have already been voted on months and even years ago sometimes? Didn’t she probably vote for some of these?
The laws include stopping transfers to anyone who the president determines to be interfering with [US] humanitarian aid.
Not quite that simple - authorization was voted on long ago in some cases but it’s up to the executive branch how and when to actually send them. They’re usually approved in big blocks which go out over time on no required-by-law schedule.
I think she probably voted for them back when being for Israel was a way to get votes, and now being for Israel is a way to lose votes, and now she’s alarmed and deeply concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people, all of a sudden. Whatever. If it leads to less support for Israel I’m at least happy that her insider trading ass is on the right side even if only very slightly and only by accident.
I also 100% agree with whoever it was that said call your representatives and encourage them to get on board too.
Lol these people were sleeping till now because it was just a bunch of brown people getting murdered en-mass. The moment some white folk died they care.
Not just sleeping, Pelosi herself accused protesters advocating for this exact thing of being “paid by Putin” back when it was “just” tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and hundreds of Israel-critical journalists being murdered by the fascist apartheid regime…
And then she changed her mind and picked a more moral position. Would you rather the letter that Pelosi signed help end the US arms transfer to Israel or not?
I’m not complaining about her changing her mind, I’m complaining that she didn’t do so 30k+ dead civilians ago and pointing out that her reasons probably have nothing to do with morality or listening to the people.
This is my favorite iteration of this meme ever ❤️😄✊️
Something must have affected her portfolio…
Probably because lord knows effecting her conscience isn’t the way to make her change course.
True, however, when you’re asking for political change you don’t refuse the help of politicians switching sides. Especially senior ones, because they may be doing a trial balloon. And if the public refuses them they won’t see an upside to continuing that change. Instead they will retreat and focus on their base. So on the off chance this is a real attempt to shift policy we should be nicer to her for a minute. Show the mainstream democrats that we’re willing to vote for them if they meet us.
Fuck Israel.
