Nancy Pelosi just posted something on Twitter that has the whole internet buzzing, and the comments? Oh, from juicy hot to bleeding savage. The former House Speaker is on X (formerly Twitter) to rally supporters for Social Security against the Republicans who cut benefits to give billionaires tax breaks. Responses? Well, let’s say people were not really buying what Pelosi was selling.
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This was how she framed her part at the event of #SaveSocialSecurity Day of Action: Valiently fighting to give all benefits earned as expected in latter portraying Republicans as the bad guys in doing this. She even mentioned that 109,000 people were getting paid Social Security in San Francisco. As soon as it hit the timeline, the wrath of social media were incurred.
Bob Brown started off with some cold reality, reminding folks that states such as California, New York, and Massachusetts blew more than $300 million on fraudulent unemployment payments. Ouch. Then BUCK put it, calling Pelosi an “insider trading liar, corrupt, anti-American.” Oh, now that’s personal.
Madalyn Ross even took this up a notch and told Pelosi she should first mop the streets of San Francisco before preaching about Social Security. And someone even termed it a Ponzi scheme. Ouch.
But wait; it can get even better. Some replies took this opportunity to throw shade by alluding to Pelosi’s infamous stock trades, with one lady snarkily asking, “What are you trading this week, Auntie Nancy?” Before telling her she had “outperformed every hedge fund in America.” That’s a bit of shade.
Then we had some people flipping the argument, saying it was actually Democrats who were draining the Social Security fund rather than Republicans. Alicia Barrasso was calling out Pelosi’s party for letting in fraudsters and illegal aliens to, in her words, “drain funds needing to go to lawful citizens.” And tfrizzco? They actually called Pelosi a “ghoul” for allowing illegals to take the money that her 50 years of labor had earned.
More poured in the insults: liar..criminal..jokes about vodka habits, denture cream needs. One user even teasing that her tweet got 125 likes in nine hours, proving “no one’s listening to your fear-mongering anymore.”
But out of all that screaming, one actual policy argument managed to break through. Al Benne even stated how Trump’s tax cuts had been best for his blue-collar family, rebuffing Republicans as to their fixing fraudulent schemes. The rest? Pure unvarnished rage.
And what does it tell us? That tweet by Pelosi was intended to drum up support but, instead, acted as a lightning rod for frustration, distrust, and outright hatred. Whether Social Security itself or the troubles of San Francisco or even her very own controversies, one fact remains: talk about Nancy is still being done. Mostly, screaming at her.
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And let’s face it, if nothing else, this is a good example of an age-old lesson learned in politics: “Tweet with care; the internet never forgets.” It surely doesn’t forgive either.
