Pelosi Wants FBI to Investigate Pro-Palestine Protesters for Financial Ties to Russia

Yeah, because it couldn't possibly be that Americans are opposed to genocide.

For fuck's sake, Pelosi. Witch hunts are supposed to be a Republican thing.

Imagine how out-of-touch you have to be to represent San Francisco and not realize sincere antiwar protesters exist.

Sure, but lets also investigate the House for financial ties to billionaires.

Vietnam war all over

"Foreign agents are brainwashing our youth to be against the war"

Man, these fuckers really fucking hate their base.

"Hey guys, we need a surefire way to make our base stay home instead of vote when we have a literal fascist running who will end the Republic if he's allowed to win!"

Nancy: "Say no more fam, I got this."

What the fuck, Nancy???

Anything to not have to stop a genocide.

Wish I was getting paid to support Palestine.

You guys are getting paid!?

This cunt needs to go the fuck away.

Dividing the party sounds like a Russian ploy. Can we investigate her first?

Shouldn't we instead be investigating the politicians currently in office that we have a really good reason to believe have a monetary tie to Russia and have a mountain of evidence of being coerced or controlled by them due to said politicians' past actions (going to a secret meeting to Moscow on July 4th, ect)?

What an utter bitch. Your finances are the ones that should be investigated.

Pelosi is just saying that opposition to genocide means you must be Russian, which is what I keep hearing from pro-genocide centrist Democrats on lemmy.

I don't get why those same centrists are turning on her.

Let's concede that the people organizing protests are receiving money from Russia. Is that actually a criminal matter? Apparently Trump's campaign working with Russia wasn't.

Those stupid fucks really want to lose the election

“Disinformation” has become to the left, what “fake news” is to the right - a cudgel to deflect dissent or crush differing options as false or astroturfed, and therefore not even worth discussion to dismiss

Literally this comic

"Eat the 1%" isn't a strong enough punishment for this kind of statement

As a liberal, peolsi is sham lol anyone not pro Palestine is just evil

If the cons want to understand (ah, who am I kidding, they don't want to understand anything) why many of us in the reality-based community chuckle about the idea of Pelosi even being half the liberal they seem to think she is...they might take a closer look here.

So this November Americans will be able to choose between literally a Nazi and someone who strongly supports genocide and treats anyone who doesn't support it as a traitor.

Good luck with that

Can they also investigate her insider trading?

I hate this timeline.

Yes, there probably are Russian agents trying to sow division any way they can, and they latch onto anything they perceive as potentially divisive. She's not wrong.

At the same time, the way Netanyahu has prosecuted this war is horrifying and reprehensible, actively costing Israel the moral high ground after Hamas' terrorist attack (something I wouldn't have believed possible) and basically doing everything Hamas could possibly want for their propaganda needs.

This situation is fucked and I hate every single thing about it.

"If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best." - Establishment Democrats

Pelosi and Biden are really making me regret defending them against right wing BS conspiracy claims and tankie conspiracy claims for the past decade.

Shouldn't we also investigate pro-Israel defenders for Financial Ties to Defense Contractors?

So, the way these comments read there is no Russian influence campaign. Interesting.

I need someone to ely5 how to get to this conclusion.

"For them to call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin's message. Make no mistake. This is directly connected to what he would like to see”

How? What does he gain from it?

I bet he loves how she just added fuel to more devision.

Put her to bed. Her legacy is shit. How many bills have you passed that never got enforced Nancy that wound up getting you and a bunch of dipshit Republicans rich? How much more are you going to shit on the youth with your limp dick Catholic degenerate bullshit? Fuck her. She’s so clueless and useless.

Can't she just wither away peacefully.

I could kinda believe that opponents of supporting Ukraine are Russian shills, but supporters of Palestina? If anything Russia is happy to keep the US army supply chain to be diverted to Israel instead of Ukraine.

#NotTheOnion

The only thing shocking here is that commenters seem outraged that this would be considered a possibility.

There is a hell of a lot of a lot of foreign interference in American news and politics. Russia, China and the Saudis know no one can defeat the USA except the USA so they push as much division as possible on both ends of the political spectrum.

Anything left of the Democrats is Russian propaganda because it has to be. If there exists a big constituency left of the Democrats than that would mean that that constituency has no political representation, due to the first pass the post system and systematic suppression by the Democrats of their left flank within the party. This would mean American democracy is hugely flawed and extra-electoral action is justified to manifest change, but this can not be the case so Q.E.D. it is all Russian disinformation. Google “Russia BLM” for some more concern trolling of this kind.

It makes perfect sense to check if there's a good reason. I'm curious because many of the protests recently at US universities were supported or started by people who weren't students.

Stop resisting Genocide you filthy Commies! Vote for Genocide Joe!

These fucking dinosaurs just don't get it, do they? They come from a time when Israel and the US were blood brothers, one and the same, when it would be unconscionable for the American public to have any other view than carte blanche 100% support for Israel.

Now that view is finally (slowly) changing but they're too old and come from too different of a world to realize it, or if they do realize it (they have plenty of smart people working for them) then they just don't grasp the changing tides

Lot of rage in the comments. Surely the easiest thing is just to investigate them and prove her shamefully wrong?

I never thought they were paid by Russia till I saw this chat brigaded.

rUsSiA!

It sounds stupid but she's right. The new crop of loudly political "Protesters" is fueled by a Right Wing astroturfing campaign to get people to throw away their vote this November. The Right Wing is a huge, global group of rich and powerful dickheads who are slowly but surely taking over control of all the world's governments, and this is gonna be the next one, because all you kiddos can't pay attention long enough to realize that you're getting played RIGHT NOW.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nancy Pelosi suggested that Russia may be funding pro-Palestinian protesters who have been interrupting Democratic campaign events, saying that some calling for a ceasefire are promoting “Putin’s message.”

At an event focused on abortion rights, protesters interrupted Biden’s speech at least a dozen times, demanding a ceasefire, and they were removed from the venue.

They also appeared at his speech in Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church and at a United Auto Workers event last week.

The spokesperson also noted a post on X from Ian Bremmer, a political scientist and professor at Columbia University, who wrote in response to Pelosi’s comments on CNN, “Putin benefits from continued war in Gaza and expanded chaos in the Middle East.”

Russia and Putin have supported a ceasefire and have used Israel’s aggression in Gaza to criticize the United States for its role in the conflict.

Biden also warned Israel in December that it was losing international support due to its “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza.

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She is right