When you’ve lost Nancy Pelosi, you might as well clear out your desk.

Amid all the chaos and whiplash in US politics over the past few weeks, one law remained constant: Pelosi is uniquely influential and has the power to make or break careers – even those of American presidents.

The former House speaker did more than anyone else to re-engineer the race for the White House, breathing new life into her Democratic party and sending Donald Trump’s Republicans into a tailspin.

Pelosi, 84, publicly encouraged 81-year-old Joe Biden to make a decision about his re-election campaign when he had already insisted he had no plans to step aside. Once he did drop out and endorse Kamala Harris, Pelosi scored another victory when former congressman Tim Walz was named as running mate.

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    3 months ago

    Even anarchy is rolled by the person with the biggest guns.

    Anarcho-capitalism? Sure. Left anarchism? Nope, only according to the deliberately misleading establishment narrative 🙄

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      3 months ago

      There is no organization of people, from a marriage to a nation, that can’t be unbalanced. Someone always has influence (wealth, power, knowledge) that can be used corruptly or violently to take from another.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah yeah, the world is unfair and we’re all powerless to influence anyone so we should just give up now 🙄

        Isn’t it exhausting to go through life with such an utterly defeatist attitude?