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Right when he's completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago

Thanks for nothing dipshit.

[-] themaninblack@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

it says, "we acknowledge your concerns and will continue to do it because you're helpless to stop it"

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:

  • HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!
[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago
[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 142 points 1 week ago

Little fucking late, Joey.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 27 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 week ago

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).

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[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 1 week ago

Correctly identifying a problem while doing nothing that could possibly change it.

That's Joe's legacy, I guess

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 70 points 1 week ago

It’s a little late for that.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago

In the month he has left in office?

This is just a fucking PR stunt and won’t go anywhere.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Yeah, NOW he wants. The last 4 years wasn’t time enough to get this done.

Fuck off.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Or any time in like the 40 years he was in congress….

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[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SpikedPunchVictim@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago

Please describe how he has been a lame duck president. Given he represents a party that is outnumbered in the Senate. And let's table the Israeli/Palestine conflict since this forum of discussion doesn't really work well for full history and geopolitical strategy history lessons.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

lame duck

noun

An elected officeholder or group continuing in office during the period between failure to win an election and the inauguration of a successor.

He's the definition of a lame duck president right now. That's not saying anything bad, or good, about the man, just the fact of his current position.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

All presidents become lame ducks after their last election but before the next president takes office.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Just using it for a temporal reference as he's out of time in his presidency. Any other meaning not intended.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago

Useless gesture that will never ever get passed. Thanks Joe.

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[-] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Why wait until the last possible second to go for this? What a complete knob

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

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).

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Four years too fucking late, asshole

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