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
    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.

      • Flying Squid
        -1•9 months ago

        Well. I think we’ve established very clearly that you denying a genocide that is happening right now is going on proves that you don’t give a shit about queer people.

          • Flying Squid
            1•9 months ago

            Nope. In fact, as I already told you, I talk about it regularly. It’s horrific and it won’t stop until Israel controls the entirety of Palestine.

            I, unlike you, do not deny genocides.

            But then you don’t give a shit about queer people.

              • Flying Squid
                0•9 months ago

                I’m not talking about Cornel West. I’m talking about you.

                I’m guessing if Cornel West were asked if there was an ongoing queer genocide in the United States, he would not deny it like you did.

                You are the one who doesn’t give a shit about queer people, not Cornel West.

                • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
                  1•9 months ago

                  There is no queer genocide the link you sent implies that there will be one in 2025. Consider doing reading.

                  You like to throw the word Genocide around so much that the gun-control issue could be classified as a “child Genocide”.

                  And you’re the one voting for Genocide just keep that clear.

                  • Flying Squid
                    1•9 months ago

                    The link I provided and quoted from specifically says that the queer genocide is happening right now.

                    I will quote it again:

                    Sue E. Spivey and Christine Robinson have argued that the ex-gay movement, which encourages transgender as well as other LGBT people to renounce their identities, advocates social death and therefore could meet some legal definitions of genocide.[32]: 68–70  Spivey and Robinson argued that “by waging a culture war using hate propaganda and misusing scientific research to gain public legitimacy, the movement seeks to deploy state powers and the medical profession to perpetrate genocidal acts on its behalf.”[32]: 83

                    Cornel West would not deny this. Because he gives a shit about queer people.

                    You deny it because you do not give a shit about queer people.