• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    59
    9 months ago

    Some other fun facts about her

    When asked about her relationship with Beijing, Feinstein said, "I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese."

    In September 2016—in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories—Feinstein signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging Obama to veto "one-sided" resolutions against Israel

    At an April 2017 town hall meeting in San Francisco, Feinstein was booed when she stated that she did not support a proposal for single-payer health insurance. Feinstein said, "[i]f single-payer health care is going to mean the complete takeover by the government of all health care, I am not there."

    Following her 2012 vote to extend the Patriot Act and the FISA provisions, and after the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency (NSA), Feinstein promoted and supported measures to continue the information collection programs. Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss also defended the NSA's request to Verizon for all the metadata about phone calls made within the U.S. and from the U.S. to other countries.

    At an August 29, 2017 event in San Francisco, Feinstein expressed hope that Trump could become a good president. "The question is whether he can learn and change", she said. "If so, I believe he can be a good president".

    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      45
      9 months ago

      Look, my grandmother didn't have a single racist bone in her body, but all of these things sound like stuff she said after she began to decline due to dementi- ahhhh... fuuuuu.....

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
        hexbear
        26
        9 months ago

        My grandma just started openly calling trump a dickhead, which was extremely funny

        • D61 [any]
          hexbear
          21
          9 months ago

          This reminds me of my spouse's grandma who kept talking about doing a

          Show willem-van-spronsen
          on right wing politicians as she figured, "fuck it, I'm old and a widow."

          • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            hexbear
            9
            9 months ago

            Fuck I want to see this action movie, basically Inglorious Basterds but an elderly woman just blasting chuds, with fitness and graceful combat prowess.

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
            hexbear
            6
            9 months ago

            doing a

            Show willem-van-spronsen
            on right wing politicians

            Shooting out the tires on their cars?

            • D61 [any]
              hexbear
              6
              9 months ago

              That's on the more polite end of things...