Right when he’s completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.
Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:
- HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!
Thanks for nothing dipshit.
Making the calculated decision to do this not only in his lame duck period but also right up against Christmas and before the new congress is sworn in on Jan 3. So brave.
Honestly this is more of an insult than helpful for those of us who actually want to see this happen.
it says, “we acknowledge your concerns and will continue to do it because you’re helpless to stop it”
As if congress is going to bring up a bill that would restrict one of the quickest ways to make money for themselves.
Useless gesture that will never ever get passed. Thanks Joe.
“Look he said he was against something bad, that’s just as good as getting rid of it! Is nothing good enough for you?!”
how selfish of you not to blindly and emphatically support the person who is pretending to be on your side!
Correctly identifying a problem while doing nothing that could possibly change it.
That’s Joe’s legacy, I guess
It’s a little late for that.
Don’t worry. Whenever Biden calls for doing something, centrists will uncritically treat it as an accomplishment.
There are still centrists who falsely insist that Biden rescheduled cannabis.
It’s never too late for neoliberals to fuck shit up…
Pelosi just threw her weight around to get a 74 year old with terminal throat cancer as the head of the oversight committee…
Even tho he just broke the already weak insider trading laws 2 years ago.
Biden can mumble whatever he wants into a microphone, but it’s never connected to the reality around him.
If he really wanted this to happen, he’d have pushed for AOC over Connolly
the boomers are going to cling on to power until their dying breath, and on the way out, they’ll usher in some kind of apocalypse, either nuclear war, or we all get eaten by self replicating elonbots.
AOC talks big game but she’s just a populist. As a NYer, she hasn’t done anything useful for her constituents. Don’t expect anything from her beyond populist agendas
As a NYer, she hasn’t done anything useful for her constituents.
She’s got excellent constituent services, wtf are you even talking about? That’s why she wins big every cycle. Joe Crowley, the Dem she primaried out, had shitty services which ended up costing him the seat in 2018.
Don’t expect anything from her beyond populist agendas
Constituent Services are populist.
Why do people keep using “populist” like it’s a negative?
Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common people and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite group.[1] It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
Oh no! People like her and her policies are popular!!!
/s
Like, Pelosi just got a 74 year old with terminal cancer and recently involved with I aider trading violations on the top seat of the oversight committee over AOC because AOC would have weeded out corruption.
That’s what the people want, an honest party.
And you’re big take down of her is that would have been popular?!
Like “AOC” didn’t spend the last year talking out both sides of her mouth about a genocide, including endorsing one of its perpetrators. AOC isn’t a “progressive”, she’s the epitome of the Democratic party, all appearance and no justice, “where protest movements go to die”.
Activists have already moved on from her, what is taking the rest of you so long?
Why do people keep using “populist” like it’s a negative?
because it’s virtually always tied to policies that are meant to be easily digestible for the lowest common denominator. as it turns out, however, that complex problems virtually never have simple solutions.
ie Trump and his border wall in 2016. Populist with a populist platform to stop illegal immigration. What does it actually accomplish? Nothing because
a) it’s impractical to actually build a wall across the entire length of the border
b) majority of illegal immigrants come legally on tourist visas and then overstay
but why focus on “The Wall”? Because Trump understands that it’s an easily understandable symbol he can point to.
Left wing populism is similar. For example “tax the rich!” is a common mantra. And sure, taxing the rich is good. But what use is there in increasing tax revenue by a fraction of a percent when we are bleeding money at the seams to corruption? It’s not going to solve our deficit. It’s not going to lower taxes for the average American. Look at how the military will spend $100k on a bag of metal bushings that me and you can buy on Amazon for $100.
But how are you going to tackle the problem of deeply ingrained corruption? It permeates from our local institutions all the way to the upper echelons. Look how Haliburton got billions of dollars worth of “no-bid” contracts during the Bush administration. Just happens that Cheney, the most powerful VP in history, used to work there.
There is no easy solution. So populists come and say “tax the rich” or “build a wall” when in reality it does absolutely nothing to fix the actual problems. But the real solutions are complex and hard to relay to voters. and in fact, the solutions are painful and no politician would ever campaign on painful policies. For these reasons I think we are doomed as a society and that technocratic countries like China are going to dominate us in the next century unless we can radically change course
Your comment ignores that not all simple ideas are bad.
A lot of neoliberals just want an excuse to never go deeper than “I will fix ____” because they don’t have any policy or desire to fix shit
AOC of all people can give a broad message quickly and effectively, then deep dive into specifics.
If she gives policy they say she should be simpler, if she keeps it simple they say she has no policy
There’s no consistency, they just want to try and break her stride and keep pivoting.
A lot of neoliberals just want an excuse to never go deeper than “I will fix ____” because they don’t have any policy or desire to fix shit
And most of them never go further than “shut up, we’re second worst.”
i gave two examples of simple ideas that don’t fundamentally change the status quo yet are popular
that doesn’t mean that simple ideas can’t work
there are simple ideas, I think, that would work very well. however a populist would never go for it because it’s bad marketing.
for example I think in all cities with significant junkie populations we should have clinics giving out free heroin shots to addicts. simple idea. i think it’ll work
but the majority of the people would not approve of this. they don’t want to see the data and research about lowering HIV rates, lowering crime, lowering healthcare costs, etc. they don’t like junkies and they feel icky giving out free heroin to addicts
i’m not saying simple idea = bad. I’m not even saying populist = bad. i said that in practice it’s usually tied to ideas that seem good on the surface but when you scratch the veneer off it’s not nearly as good as it seems.
like i brought up above, if we restructured how our government spends money we could increase our effective spending while lowering taxes and it would have magnitudes more impact than the marginal increase in revenue from taxing the rich. so why don’t we do it?
because it’s a complex overhaul that would require a large initial investment and you wouldn’t see the fruits for more than a couple election cycles- something a populist cannot afford.
If he really wanted this to happen, he’d have pushed for AOC over Connolly
If he’d wanted it to happen, he’d have pushed through Pelosi’s HR 1 back inside his first 100 days, rather than sitting on this for his last three weeks.
Liberals are going to be doing so much “You could have had nice things if you hadn’t voted for Trump” whining and complaining and hand wringing over the next two years. Its going to be awful. But none of them want to talk about how they had both Exec and Leg branches of government twice in the last sixteen years and deliberately squandered it sucking up to Big Business both times.
Pelosi won’t let that happen.
I’d be fine with congressional stock trading if congress members were required to immediately report trades instead of the 45 days or so they are currently legally required to
nah, they should be forced to divest. Insider trading at an extreme. If you or I commit insider trading it’s jail time.
Nah, they already got their money by then. Their trades go through first then everyone else’s? And prereporting trades is ripe for stock manipulation. They should not be able to personally manage a portfolio and imho insider trading should carry hefty corruption penalties for congress.
If they wish to invest, it should be in a fund that is managed for them by people without insider knowledge.
I’d only be okay with it if those trades were reported and published publicly within the hour of the trade.
Let everyone benefit from inside trader or do the right thing and make everyone subject to the law.
I thought that was currently the case they just had a 45 day max reporting timeline, unless my Nancy pelosi clone portfolio has been lying to me. Apparently her average reporting time is 14 days
Just curious… How is your Pelosi clone portfolio going? Is it a legitimate investment strategy compared to the usual suggestion of index funds?
There’s two ETFs now for tracking democrat trades and republican trades if you have any interest in tracking this kind of portfolios performance! I don’t think there’s an ETF for Nancy specifically but she’s definitely a part of the dem ETF
Cool, I tried looking it up.
Seems like the tickers are NANC (D) and KRUZ ®
Are those the ones you are taking about? If so, I love the tickers.
Yes! I had totally forgotten the names and just remembered theyre silly, those are the ones!
That would be so funny if the ETF for the Dems was called Nancy
So far over the past year I’ve had it active, I’m up 40%. It seems to be working well, I have it automated through a service called Autopilot and it has already paid for itself. I wish I put more into it at the start but so far I’ve got no complaints.
Wow. This guy was everyone’s hope?
No
you must not be very tuned in. we only voted for him because he was running against Trump.
He’s electable if you vote for him.
im sure congress will get right on the thing that literally makes them all wealthy, and theyve made sure to enshrine as a-ok in their own rules.
Jesus Christ Joe, are you trying to take food from their children’s mouths? How dare you sir, insider trading is the only real perk they get…well Healthcare and insider trading.
Biden had previously declined to take a position on congressional stock trading. When Jen Psaki served as White House press secretary two years ago, she said Biden would “let members of leadership in Congress and members of Congress determine what the rules should be.”
Back when it was up for debate and the party had the numbers…
I fucking hate how moderates waste the time for action, ignore everyone spending years demanding action…
Then turn around like that fucking pulp fiction meme asking why no one has thought to do the thing we’ve spent years telling them to do once there’s no time.
At best they’re completely incompetent, at worst they’re not as dumb as a box of rocks and are just incredibly incompetent. Whatever the reason, we can do better. We have to do better.
At worst it’s deliberate decision to go for it when they know they cannot win and don’t have time to fight for it.
This way they don’t have to ever enact these changes but they get voters to think they’re a progressive party who are pushing for them.
we have to do better
I agree, but we won’t.
moderates
Don’t paint people who are against polarization with the same brush as incumbent old cash grabbing power hogs.
This is a class struggle and poor people on either side of the political isle get played against each other like a fucking Stradivarius. Poor and middle class (what’s left of it) should unite, rather than fight each other.
Unite behind whom? The fascist that hates them openly, or the “moderate” that will preserve the status quo set by the previous fascist?
Well both of those are upper class and hence antagonistic. A leader of the people.
Well, we don’t ever get better options.
Destroy Wall Street. Literally remove it brick by brick if you have to. That cancer is killing us all and we’re all tied to it.
Well guess who makes laws on stock trading?
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