Right when he’s completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.
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!
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.
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.
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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Little fucking late, Joey.
Lol what’s this from?
Dumb and Dumber!
Am I old?!
Honestly everyone in my friend group loved that movie but I never got around to watching it, so for what it’s worth imo it’s less that you’re old and more that I’m uncultured 😋
Thought it was Ace Ventura purely bc body movement so distinct!
No Hawaiian shirt. That’s the dead giveaway
Good call!
Actually, the word is that there is a bipartisan bill moving though Congress to prohibit stock sales. Crazy, right? Anyway, this is just Biden saying he’ll sign it.
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.
Well, he claimed that his intent was to be a one-term President. Now we see that was a lie.
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).
Pelosi won’t let that happen.
LET’S GOOOO!!
Ignoring how long it took, big ups joey b
Yeah, NOW he wants. The last 4 years wasn’t time enough to get this done.
Fuck off.
Or any time in like the 40 years he was in congress….
Or when he had the ear of the president from 2008-2016 as VP.
It’s funny how much tankies run this community. Very different from Reddit.
It takes a special kind of stupid to think much of anything on .world is run by tankies.
If you don’t like it, go back to Reddit.
Do you honestly consider anyone criticizing Biden from the left to be a “tankie”?
I’m not sure how much in the loop you are with USA politics, but Biden, just like every public facing member of the two party system, is a representative of private interests. The democratic party is incorporated, just like the republic party.
It only makes sense that a tankie wouldn’t be in support of a figure head of corporate interests.
What I’m asking is do you have to be “a tankie” in order to criticize Biden from the left? That seems like a laughably broad definition of “tankie”.
The term, already uncritically broad, has absolutely become laughably broad.
Oh, crap—I totally misinterpreted your initial comment. My bad man! Thanks for clarifying!
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
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.
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.
All presidents become lame ducks after their last election but before the next president takes office.
Just using it for a temporal reference as he’s out of time in his presidency. Any other meaning not intended.
