It’s a little late for that.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
In the month he has left in office?
This is just a fucking PR stunt and won’t go anywhere.
If it reveals GOP hipocracy on how they treat Pelosi vs their own stock traders, then maybe a little PR would do a lot of good.
The ball is in Republican court, money where their mouth is, the DNC is ready to ban stock trading for its members even if it means expulsion of Nancy Pelosi who married a stock broker decades ago.
Correctly identifying a problem while doing nothing that could possibly change it.
That's Joe's legacy, I guess
He couldn't and didn't pursue this when he wasn't a lame duck. Get real on that fixing your legacy in a month thing
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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.
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You're days away from the end of your entire run and now we grow morals.
This is like those old racist folks on their death beds trying to make amends to anyone and everyone in their final days.
You just never looked into what they're really doing, and for some reason media isn't keen on reporting all the good proposals and legislations they were doing, I wonder why.
This administration was the best one in centuries, both in terms of legislation and in terms of administrative work. The only question they aren't good on is Palestine, and incidentally it's the only thing that media suddenly cares about, I wonder why(2).
Oh come on, don't give these sandbagging stooges more credit than they deserve. The only reason what you're saying doesn't sound quite as batshit insane as it should is that we haven't had a government that prioritizes the working class even close to as much as the rich since WWII. Biden isn't terrible compared to his peers but his peers have all been sucking the same corporate dick for so long that no one young enough to know what Lemmy is have ever experienced anything else. Calling that greatness is not being objective it's just a lack of imagination.
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This administration was the best one in centuries
Stop expecting progressives to buy this just because you love the slide to the right.
Because the media is owned by Republicans
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He's talking about this now because he doesn't have morals. If he gave a damn he'd have pushed and passed this within his first year. This is just him trying to get some headlines before he happily steps aside for the fascist to come in and reverse it.
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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.
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Yeah, NOW he wants. The last 4 years wasn’t time enough to get this done.
Fuck off.
Pelosi won't let that happen.
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.
Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:
- HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!
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.
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.
Why wait until the last possible second to go for this? What a complete knob
Because he doesn't need to work in politics ever again and this is going to be a pretty unpopular policy to lobby for. No one who ever has to whip votes on the Hill would ever put this kind of proposal forward. It was always going to come from a fringe of a caucus or a lame duck President.
Doesn’t check out. He wasn’t going to work in politics ever again 4 years ago.
He’s only doing it now because he knows he has no time to actually ever achieve it and is safe to play for optics without worrying about actually helping people.
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Four years too fucking late, asshole
Next up, he'll try to introduce a bill that states free healthcare for all, paid through the taxes. Everyone wants it, but nothing will come of it, because America will be a fascist country in about a month. Good luck, America!
You could have pushed for it when there was actually an attempt to make that bill (before Pelosi killed it, she repaid you by pushing you out).
I feel like if you want to hold government office you should 1. Give up all your wealth. 2. In exchange for this, you get a rock solid $500,000 salary. This isn’t because you are an elite, this is because paying you well makes it harder to bribe you. 3. When you lose your seat or step down, you can never work again in your life. This is to prevent you from ever taking on a lobbying job or otherwise using your power to enrich yourself and influence government for special interests. In exchange for this, you can take 80% of your salary that you had while in office until you die.
These changes hopefully would give office holders enough personal financial security to focus on making decisions without being influenced by external money.
We don't need to bribe them to do their jobs. We need to make them afraid of what will happen to them if they don't.
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Give them all 401ks like most people get.
Hahaha. Good one.
Fuck Joe Biden.
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