Posted on 06/29/2026 7:34:00 AM PDT by DFG
Expert stock picker Nancy Pelosi revealed her post-Congress retirement plan Monday.
The 86-year-old Pelosi has spent 40 years in Congress, building an incredible stock portfolio while leading the Democratic Party, and will finally retire in January. Her next project will be a fake “bipartisan” academic center at the University of California, Berkeley, aptly named the Nancy Pelosi Institute, where students and future civic “leaders” will be brainwashed beginning in January 2027.
“I think all of us in public service who have an opportunity to do so want to use our experience to train leaders for the future,” Pelosi told CNN.
“I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship. Because you’re going to an academic institution. It’s about what our founders had in mind with our Constitution, and it’s a beautiful story to tell,” she said.
Several professors and administrators approached Pelosi with the idea, leaving her “dazzled,” before she agreed to fundraise $25 million for the project, according to CNN.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and UC Berkeley are joining forces to launch the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, a new nonpartisan institute dedicated to strengthening American democracy.
Launching in January 2027, the institute will bring together…
— UC Berkeley (@UCBerkeley) June 29, 2026
“I loved it because they talked about human rights in the U.S. and in the world, talking about and addressing the challenges to our democracy, talking about challenges of the climate and economic income inequity,” Pelosi said.
The former speaker of the House said the institute will also display awards she received, bills she helped pass into law and some “personal effects” to make it “fun and interesting to get people there.”
In other words, a monument to her ego.
Everyone in politics, media and academia knows these high-profile “institutes” are giant cash cows. Wealthy people donate to the institute or the school, and then UC Berkeley administrators line their pockets and create more fake university jobs, leading to higher tuition costs for students.
It’s also good PR. Pelosi herself is famous, but she also knows a lot of famous people and Democratic donors. It’s not really about teaching kids anything useful; it’s about the networking benefits it brings the school.
And no one actually believes the Nancy Pelosi Institute will solve America’s biggest challenges. A bunch of rich Democratic donors and credulous college kids sitting around “talking about challenges,” patting themselves on the back as they pretend to make a difference? That’s what we call a circle j*rk.
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“ a new nonpartisan institute dedicated to strengthening American democracy.”
They obviously have a comedy writer doing their press releases.
The Chinese Communist Party offered her a deal she couldn’t refuse ,LOL
It will be anything but nonpartisan anything but "strengthening" American democracy."
Pelosi was the guest speaker at my daughter's graduation from UC Berkeley - my daughter knew I'd never attend so we went to the smaller department graduation instead.
Onecthig for sure, it’ll be a grift for her to line her pockets.
After all......isn’t it always?
“I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship. Because you’re going to an academic institution. It’s about what our founders had in mind with our Constitution, and it’s a beautiful story to tell,” she said.
IOW:
“I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship so we can indoctrinate gullible college students with communism and socialism all the while showing them how to become multi-millionaires on a $175,000 a year job in only a few years and not really caring about this country nor its people,” she really meant.
Nanzi's most evil production was her staged J6 riot. She needed an emergency to prevent the votes from being sent back to the states. After the success of the RAT's coup the Junta hunted down the patriotic Americans who protested Biden's stolen election that day. That was meant to send a message loud and clear to the opposition to her coup: the law is now weaponized and we will come after you if you oppose our Junta.
Just another way they launder money.
No money for the Biden library but $25 million for a Pelosi house of worship.
That’s going to piss off Dr. Jill.
Her $290M net-worth....was all for “the children”
People of her ilk always speak piously while looting the nation’s wealth for themselves.
Hopefully that's all that's holding up the SEC and FBI investigations.
Reminds me...needed to change my tagline
“I think all of us in public service who have an opportunity to do so want to use our experience to train leaders for the future,” Pelosi told CNN......Who’s going to train Nancy? We will need students at Berkeley who are smart enough to read between the lines & hopefully enlighten other students as to what she is REALLY up to.
.......Pelosi was the guest speaker at my daughter’s graduation from UC Berkeley - my daughter knew I’d never attend so we went to the smaller department graduation instead......
Did they do things like Harvard and have a big graduation, followed by smaller department graduations where they hand out the diplomas?
You should have gone to both, and blocked your ears when Pelosi spoke!
By the way, UC Berkeley is a great school!
My guess is that what will be taught will be 10 percent about our Country, its founding and the Constitution (as viewed by Leftists) and 90 percent about how being in power is all important and that any action that furthers that aim is all right, to include cheating and lying.
The massive graduation - with Pelosi as the guest speaker - was a bit before the smaller departmental graduations. We were able to beat the huge crowds, fortunately.
I could not have sat through a Pelosi speech.
In recent years, Harvard and MIT have had invited commencement speakers whom I did not like! No Pelosi, however.
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