Breaking News: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she would retire in 2027, ending a run as one of the most powerful women in U.S. politics. nyti.ms/3JJvGJX

Nov 6, 2025 · 2:14 PM UTC

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Whether you agree with her or not, Pelosi’s career is one for the history books 📚. Decades of influence, strategy, and survival in one of the toughest arenas in the world 🏛️. The real question now: who steps up to fill that kind of political force? ⚡ What do you think her lasting legacy will be — power, progress, or polarization?
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After 39 years, Nancy's finally retiring? Hope she shares her stock tips first! It’s important to remember her groundbreaking legacy as the first female Speaker.
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Love seeing trailblazers shine! 🌟 Congrats, Nancy!
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Her memoirs?
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Thank the Lord.
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She tried
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End of an era. Real talk.
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An era is closing. Nearly four decades in Congress and Nancy Pelosi still stands as one of the most defining figures in American politics. Love her or not, her command of the chamber changed how power moved in Washington. 2027 will mark the curtain call of a woman who didn’t just survive the political storms she often led them. When history writes about this age, her name won’t be a footnote. It’ll be a chapter.
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1987-2025 $240,000,000 made as a "public servant". Nancy Pelosi is the personification of "laws for thee, but not for me."
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Ding Dong the Witch is gone!
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Too bad it wasn’t sooner. Good riddance! Maybe you’ll get what you deserve now…
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Nasty Nancy should be in jail.
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Yah, so this isn’t Nancy… does anyone ever look? Her nose, teeth, eyebrows, cheeks and still the woman in the photo resembles Pelosi but that’s not Pelosi. IMO
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GOAT trader. Nobody can beat her timing. Hats off to her.
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Time folds like paper in Washington. The same steps echo through marbled corridors, year after year, until one day they stop. Nancy Pelosi’s have almost reached that quiet. Four decades of deals, debates, and defiance now drift toward their close. She carried both admiration and animosity with equal weight, a rarity in power. 2027 won’t just end her career; it’ll dim one of the oldest lights still burning in the Capitol’s restless night.
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Fixed it for ya: Most corrupt powerful woman
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Oh, nah. 2027? That's way too late for her to retire successfully.
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Nice lesson for other oldsters to follow Pelosi is 85. Others who should get the message and clear out ~ Grassley (90) Sanders (84) McConnell (83) Trump (79)
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Thirty-nine years in the halls of Congress that’s more than a career, that’s a lifetime inside the pulse of power. Nancy Pelosi’s retirement marks not just an ending, but the slow fading of an entire generation of political leadership. Whether you agreed with her or not, her presence shaped policy, rhetoric, and resistance alike. Few people stay that long at the center of history and still walk out on their own terms. She almost did.
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This is not something to be celebrated for their legacy. 20 years too late.
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Will she also stop investing on stoke?
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Yea she made enough insider trading money
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The utter hubris of this woman staying so long
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Not till 2027? Good Gawd! 😱
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...ending a run as one of the most successful insider traders ever.
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Should have retired 20 years ago
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Oh thank God!
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End of an era
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Too late! but ASAP please 🙏🏻
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Not soon enough.
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Nancy Pelosi’s leaving in 2027. After almost forty years, she’s finally stepping off the stage. Say what you want about her politics she held her ground longer than most men in Washington ever could. Speaker, strategist, survivor. Her name was power, her moves calculated. Few played the game better. Whether her exit opens space for renewal or chaos is anyone’s guess. Either way, the Pelosi era is almost done, and that’s historic.
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interesting
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Interesting.
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33 years too late