Nancy Pelosi just won’t retire. Why? I have no idea. She’s three years older than dirt and has been in Congress since the planet cooled, yet she’s still there. It can’t be that she wants to feed her husband even more insider stock tips; unless she’s discovered a way to load her Earthly fortune onto a debit card in Hell, she won’t be able to take it with her. So why won’t she, and so many other Democrats, just go away and retire like normal people do?
You really have to assume someone like Pelosi either doesn’t like her family or her family does not like her. Both options seem believable to me.
But it’s not just Nancy, it’s so many of them. Joe Biden stayed long past his “use by” date because, well, if he’d retired his family would have had absolutely nothing to sell. What do they do for money when their sole reason for employment is no longer in a position that matters?
The Bidens are in the process of finding out now, with Joe’s kids and siblings having, for the first time, to survive on their merit and abilities. Poor bastards.
Pelosi’s kids are rich – where Joe is dumb, Nancy is smart but evil. She racked up hundreds of millions of dollars through stock trades and options, mere mortals without the power of government and the ability to direct spending would never come close to getting. One of her kids is a marginal “documentary” filmmaker. Still, her movies are nothing special and literally nothing without the access being the daughter of the leader of the Democrats in the House affords her. As for the other kids, who cares?
Remember Sherrod Brown? Probably not, unless you live in Ohio, and maybe even then, as he was a wildly ineffective Senator from there.
He lost the Senate seat he previously held to Republican Bernie Moreno by 3.5 points in 2024. He’s 72 years old. He’s the father of 2, presumably old enough to have kids of their own, making him a grandfather. Wouldn’t you think he’d like to spend the time he has left enjoying that time with family and friends? After all, he’s been working in Washington since 1993, which is a lot of time away from the people you claim to care about most.
Nope.
Brown is running again, this time for the Senate seat vacated by Vice President JD Vance. Why? Because why not? What’s he gonna do, be with his wife? Yuck!
He announced he’s running, and just Monday alone, I received six emails from his campaign. Actually, I received six emails from his campaign between 11:26 am and 3:15 pm. He really wants money.
Brown, who sounds like Cookie Monster, wrote in one of them, “I never planned to run for office again. But when I see what’s happening in Washington, I know I can’t stand on the sidelines. D.C. politicians are raising prices, gutting health care, and rigging the system to benefit their wealthy donors and corporate special interest friends. It’s government for the rich and powerful, always at the expense of workers. That’s why, today, I’m getting back in the fight: I’m announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate. I’m running to be a voice for Ohio families and to take on the billionaires and corporations that make it impossible for everyday folks to get ahead.”
Was there no one else in Ohio on the left to run? As a Michigander, there are no good people in Ohio. But you’d think the people there could cough up someone.
But everything old is new again. Some people just don’t have the sense to go away.
It’s not just Democrats, Scott Brown is running for Senate (again) in New Hampshire. While he had been a Senator from Massachusetts, he lost and then ran in New Hampshire a few years later. Now he’s back, running anyway. Why? I have no idea.
Maybe these people genuinely believe the world can’t live without them, or maybe they don’t like their families and need a hobby. Whatever the case, we’d all be better off without the elite who are convinced that they and only they are capable of representing people they hire security to keep away from them.
We don’t need them, they desperately need us. Those are the exact kind of people we should not allow anywhere near the levers of power.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.