Team Pelosi posted a video of their beloved Nancy to social media, which they surely thought would be received as evidence of their warrior princess heading back to Congress to take part in the Trump resistance.
Judging by reactions to the clip, it served more as a reminder that swamp creatures still exist.
"Hi, it's Nancy," she revealed. "I'm on my way to Washington to proudly represent the people of San Francisco in Congress. I'm honored to do so to share our San Francisco values."
"Thank you for giving me that honor."
Imposing "San Francisco values" on the rest of the nation sounds like both a threat and a promise. One which the 84-year-old no doubt intends to follow through on.
While comments were turned off for the video both on Instagram and X, those who shared the clip had some thoughts. If you're wondering, a solid percentage of the remarks involved some mention of her tipping back on grandma's cold medicine.
"This is why we need term limits," Turning Point USA contributor Graham Allen observed.
"There's something clinical about being as old and frail as this woman and still refusing to retire," added RedState reporter Bonchie. "She just had to have emergency surgery in Germany because she can't be trusted to walk safely."
Sadly, that is true. As chronicled on these pages, Pelosi reportedly got into a brawl with a pair of black stilettos and lost. The former House Speaker fractured her hip in a "hard fall" while attempting to navigate a marble staircase, eventually leading to a hip replacement surgery.
Pelosi’s Stiletto Stumble: Inside the Fall That Left the Former Speaker Hospitalized
"Because if there's any city in this country we associate with 'values,' it's San Francisco," RealClearInvestigations columnist Mark Hemingway quipped after viewing the new video.
Ah, yes, those good old San Francisco values. The same values that prompted San Francisco Giants co-owner Buster Posey to admit his team may have lost out on the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes to the Los Angeles Dodgers before last season due to crime in the city. The same values that led to San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall being shot in the chest during an attempted robbery.
They make apps to track where people defecate on the sidewalks in Pelosi's hometown, for crying out loud. Keep those values on the left coast, Nance.
Settle down, Nance https://t.co/M3eSJ5nEXl pic.twitter.com/rA9NSzAugo
— StoneWallStogie (@WallsOfSteel1) January 2, 2025
How bad are San Francisco's values when it comes to crime? Frisco didn't even want it. The Bay area defeated those values in the last election, ousting their mayor and rejecting several other left-wing candidates.
As the Los Angeles Times reported, the Bay Area delivered "a stunning rebuke to the progressive movement to reform criminal justice that the region once championed."
"A majority of voters in all nine Bay Area counties voted in favor of Proposition 36, a statewide ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeated thefts and crimes involving fentanyl."
Proposition 36 reformed Proposition 47, a decades-old law that was supposed to usher in criminal justice reform but instead encouraged the escalation of crime.
The voters voiced a very vocal condemnation of soft-on-crime policies in California. Even those who harbor San Francisco values.
Pelosi has been in Congress since 1987, which amounts to over 37 years of service. She was reelected in 2024 to her 20th term upon convening the 119th Congress, which begins on January 3, 2025.
She'll be closer to 90 than 80 by the end of the term. But she's still clearly a little spitfire filming social media videos on the airplane.
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