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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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Nancy Pelosi Comes Out In Support of Stock Trading Ban After Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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    Of course she doesn’t care now, she’s only a few years away from retiring or dying on the job anyways

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      Retire? Oh you’re funny.

      She is 100% planning on dying in office. She’s obviously one those people who are obsessed with leaving a “legacy”. In her mind she’s going to be remember as the first female member of the House and a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others, etc.

      Which would have probably stuck if she’d retired a decade ago. Now she’s going to remembered as a greedy ghoul who intentionally sabotaged other politicians and held back society to enrich herself. This is too little, too late.

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        Yea, I have nothing but disdain for Dianne Feinstein who did great things like 300 years ago and then held on to her position so long that it all got ruined and thrown away.

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          RBG did the same thing.

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      … and has her coffers more than filled 👍

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        She’s really going to get hers and then pull up the ladder behind her, eh? What a boomer.

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          She’s actually too old to be a boomer. Pelosi is silent generation.

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            No, no, the correcteaning of “boomer” apparently is “anyone older than me that I don’t like”

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              I recently heard some teenager call someone that was Gen Y a “boomer”. IRL.

              Yeah, I actually laughed out loud at that. 🤣

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      Yeah I was gonna say, she’s 85 and has insider traded her way to a net worth of ~$250 million. No wonder she’s like yeah fuck it lol.

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      This is a huge about-face by her. Why couldn’t she have done this when she was still in power?

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        Pulling the ladder up behind you and boomer shit, name a more iconic duo.

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        She supported it in 2022: https://www.willmarradio.com/news/politics/pelosis-support-of-bill-banning-congressional-stock-trading-clears-path-forward/article_610170a0-6df6-5a36-b99a-f986756545e2.html

        And in 2019: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/473281-house-passes-bill-to-explicitly-ban-insider-trading/

        And in 2012: https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-on-senate-passage-of-stock-act

        But yeah she made money on stock trades, and famously did not support it in 2021. So there’s that. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/15/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-opposes-banning-stock-buys-by-congress-members.html

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          Nuance is always appreciated

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          She stopped supporting it when it had a real chance of passing. Performative progressivism is the Democrat way.

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            Nah it looks like she was for banning trades using insider trading, and against banning Congress members and their spouses from trading stocks.

            If your husband/wife’s entire career is trading stocks I highly doubt you’d be for such. It’s hypocritical that she would be for it now though. She should have kept her stance that she had in that 2012 article, that increasing scrutiny and verifying their trades should be done to make sure no inside information was used.

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        “Got Mine, Fuck You.”

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        https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy Pelosi-P000197

        look at her trading history and answer that yourself

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        because this is not how capitalists work, simply put.

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      Normally I’d agree, but she’s one of the old boomers. She’s planning to stay in power another 15 years.

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        Well, kids these days only care about TikCrafts and their MineToks, so it’s our fault she has to stay in power. If we cared more about governance by the people, for the people, instead of streaming Fartnight, she could learn what skibidi toilet Ohio means from her great-grandkids and know why Democrats lose there.

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      she doesn’t care now

      She still cares and if this had a chance to pass shed vote against it

      We’ll see neoliberals claim to want progressive policy now, because they’ll never have to vote on it.

      The same way Republicans spent four years demanding Epstein lists, and now that they can release them they won’t.

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