Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some sort of financial influence over former President Trump. In an interview with MSNBC’s “I…

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some sort of financial influence over former President Trump.

In an interview with MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Pelosi said Putin is the “richest person in the world” and has “stiff competition” to being named the most evil person in the world.

Pelosi asked “what does he have on Donald Trump that he’d have to constantly be catering to Putin?”

Her comments came just after Trump doubled down on his criticism of NATO and said he would encourage Russia to attack U.S. allies who fail to reach the alliance’s defense spending goals. Trump has also declined to criticize Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison last week.

    • Flying Squid
      2•9 months ago

      I have never once done that. In fact, I have specifically asked who I should vote for in order for them to win and stop the genocide in Israel. You and everyone like you won’t tell me.

      Why? Because you want Trump to win.

      Because you and the others will laugh as queer people are marched into camps while pretending you told us so.

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
        1•9 months ago

        Neither Biden nor Trump will be able to stop the genocide in Israel. Only Bibi can do that and Bibi doesn’t care what the US says.

        If killing Gazans is your issue, you need to find a different one, because the US isn’t going to stop it.

        • Flying Squid
          1•9 months ago

          Nope. That’s a lie. Because no U.S. president could stop the genocide. Barring nuking Israel, which would also kill everyone in Palestine, that will not happen. Israel will continue its genocide with or without U.S. support.

          If I endorse genocide by voting for Biden, you endorse genocide by voting for Cornel West. Because neither of them would do anything that could actually stop it.

          And you’re not stupid, so you know that’s true.

          The fact is, you just want Trump to win to “punish” Biden because you don’t give a shit about queer people.

            • Flying Squid
              1•9 months ago

              [I know you aren’t going to read and respond to this substantively. Prove me wrong.]

              That is a lie. Biden does not control Netanyahu. Netanyahu has been planning this for decades.

              which is why you will only vote Biden or Trump.

              You have yet to explain why I should vote for someone who has no reasonable chance of winning.

              And telling me I like genocide when you are happy to deny the coming queer genocide is rich.

              At CPAC in 2023, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles gave a speech where he said, “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” In response to people who said that he was calling for genocide, Knowles stated that “nobody [was] calling to exterminate anybody”.[25] As part of his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to stop gender-affirming care for minors, calling it “child mutilation.”[26] Project 2025, a document outlining intended conservative policies, called “purveyors” of “transgender ideology[. . .]child predators and misogynistic exploiters of children.”[27] Project 2025 conflates transgender people with pornography, and calls for pornography to be outlawed, for teachers and librarians who talk about transgender people to be imprisoned, and all telecommunications that allows transgender people to talk on it to be shuttered.[28]

              Don’t think that’s genocide yet? I’ve got news for you. It’s already genocide.

              Some US laws have been described, including by journalists Emily St. James and Katelyn Jones, as meeting criteria mentioned in the United Nations definition of genocide, including laws banning gender-affirming care (“causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”), and those allowing child protective services to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children (“forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”).

              Every single one of those laws were Republican laws.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide#United_States

              I’m guessing you won’t read that since it proves that Trump is going to continue a genocide that is already happening.

              Or maybe you will read it and enjoy it. Since you don’t give a shit about queer people. Do tell me about how “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely” and “Project 2025 conflates transgender people with pornography, and calls for pornography to be outlawed, for teachers and librarians who talk about transgender people to be imprisoned, and all telecommunications that allows transgender people to talk on it to be shuttered” isn’t genocide.