Pelosi’s main remark was “People will do what they do”. If her indifference to violent mob rule is the official stance of her and her party, she after all is the highest ranking member, then does it not apply to other targets? How about the Golden Gate bridge, I wondered? The following satirizes her commentary, while retaining nearly all of it, its point of view and its rambling, stumbling, bumbling and near incoherent pattern of “thought”.
Q: Madam Speaker, this question is close to home for you. The city of Los Angeles is obviously in sync with your desire to get rid of white male statues. But in San Francisco, the Golden Gate bridge was blown up, or taken down, and I wonder if you have anything to share with that.
Pelosi: Well, I’m not — you know, I don’t even have my grandmother’s earrings. I’m not a big let’s-see-what-we-have-in-bridges, and this. I’m more interested in what people have accomplished. I think that it’s uptimes to the communities to decide what bridges they want to use. But I think that it’s very important that we take down any of the portraits of white men who built engineering marvels in California, like Joseph Strauss and Charles Ellis as those portraits exist in the halls of Congress, in the Rotunda — not the Rotunda, I don’t think, but in the Statuary Hall and the rest, some of them are. But I’m not one of those people who’s wedded to, oh, a bridge, to somebody someplace is an important thing. I don’t — again, if the community doesn’t want the bridge there, the bridge shouldn’t be there. Doesn’t diminish my pride in my Italian-American heritage, and the fact that it was a bridge financed by an Italian, named Amadeo Giannini. So — I have that pride. But I don’t care that much about bridges.
Q: Shouldn’t that be done by a — respectfully, shouldn’t that be done by a commission, or the city council, not a mob in the middle of the night, throwing it into the harbor?
Pelosi: People will do what they do. It’s a — I do think that from a safety standpoint it would be a good idea, to have the bridge taken down if the community doesn’t want it. I don’t know that it has to be a commission, but it just could be a community view. And sometimes it’s something that’s been there, that bridge has been there for a while.
Pelosi’s original remarks are here.
9:52 pm on July 14, 2020