Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was violently assaulted in the Pelosi home in San Francisco in late October. A stranger broke into the Pelosis’ home late at night and accosted Paul when he was in bed. The man was “looking for Nancy” and he clearly planned to hurt/assault/kidnap/murder Speaker Pelosi. Paul Pelosi managed to call 911, but when the cops arrived, the man hit Paul in the head with a hammer several times. Paul Pelosi was rushed to the hospital and he’s stable, although he’s still traumatized. Speaker Pelosi sat down with Anderson Cooper on CNN last night and she gave an update on Paul’s attack, his recovery and how she feels about all of this. Speaker Pelosi is 82 years old and she’s still sharp as a tack, but you can tell that she’s still really shaken up about the assault on her husband and she’s experiencing her own trauma about it. Some quotes from the interview (the video is at the end of the post).

Where she was when Paul was assaulted: “I was sleeping in Washington, D.C. I had just gotten in the night before from San Francisco… And the — I hear the doorbell ring, and it’s 5-something… [I think] it must be the wrong apartment. It rings again, and then bang, bang, bang, bang on the door. So I run to the door. And I’m very [scared].” She said she saw Capitol Police outside of her door, and they told her they needed to speak with her. “I’m thinking my children, my grandchildren. I never thought it would be Paul because I knew he wouldn’t be out and about. They came in, at that time we didn’t even know where he was or what his condition was. We just knew there was an assault on him in our home, and now they were taking him to a hospital, which turned out to be [Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital]. … It wasn’t the closest but it was the right place to go for that.”

Paul Pelosi is such a baller: As Nancy rushed to the hospital to see him, Paul was already out of surgery. According to her son Paul Pelosi, Jr., her husband said, “Oh, your mother’s going to be very happy because the Ravens won last night. [We have a] Baltimore connection,” Nancy said, adding that her husband’s comment reassured her that he would be okay.

Misinformation: “For me, this is really the hard part because Paul was not the target, and he’s the one who’s paying the price. It’s really sad because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation and all of the rest of that, which is most unfortunate and has no place in our democracy.”

Republicans need to stop being f–king terrorists: “You would think that there would be some level of responsibility, but you see what the reaction is on the other side — to make a joke of it — and really that is traumatizing, too. But nonetheless, forgetting them, there has to be some healing process. Democrats and Republicans, members of Congress, anybody can be a target. In our democracy, there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election, feeding that flame and mocking any violence that happens. That has to stop.”

On Trump & Musk: Nancy went on to address those like former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk who have “[cast] doubt” on attacks that have occurred. “It’s really sad for the country that people of that high visibility would separate themselves from the facts and the truth in such a blatant way. It’s really sad, and it is traumatizing to those affected by it. They don’t care about that obviously. But it’s destructive to the unity that we want to have in our country. There has to be some adult supervision on the Republican side in order to say, ‘Enough. Enough.’”

[From People]

I remember a time during the W. Bush administration where there were moments that Republicans were faced with some dire realities about the state of their party and the future of their party, not least of which was the financial collapse of 2008, in the last months of the Bush administration. Instead of really dealing with their own nonsensical social and economic policies, 2008 marked the dividing line when the GOP made this turn to Sarah Palin/Donald Trump cult-of-personality fake-populism politics. Trumpism took it to a scary new level, and Americans are still grappling with it, clearly. My point is that I don’t even think there are “adults in the room” in the GOP anymore, which is why we should treat the GOP like what it is: a Christofascist terrorist organization.

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