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[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 170 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Of course she doesn't care now, she's only a few years away from retiring or dying on the job anyways

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 78 points 3 days ago (1 children)

... and has her coffers more than filled 👍

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No, no, the correct meaning of "boomer" apparently is "anyone older than me that I don't like"

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[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

Nuance is always appreciated

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

"Got Mine, Fuck You."

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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] JavaStack@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Typical boomer, pulling the ladder up behind her

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What, for the next generation of unethical legislators?

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Boomer. lol no. Words do have meaning and you’re using that word wrong. She predates the baby boomers, that’s how fucking old she is

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 days ago

Cool. Also, fuck Nacy Pelosi.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's like Trump saying they should ban pedophilia now that he can't get it up anymore.

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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol, she already made her money. I agree with removing it, but that’s a very boomer way of seeing…. “I’ve got mine, so fuck you”.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump will do crypto, is that covered?

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[–] Notserious@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By saying she supports it, she knows trump will block it

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This is the on-brandest

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

She blocked it when it had a chance of passing. Of course she supports it now that she knows it won't

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Twist: It is actually a total ban on all stock trading thus eliminating stock markets forever.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't stop, I'm finna chum

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Well, there goes the Nancy ETF.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

She's fucking 85. It's not like it will fuck up her retirement plan or something.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's probably the only way to move things forward though. Implement rules that only affect future politicians. Let the current generation have their cake. We can gradually transition to something more sane as they get replaced.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I loathe agreeing with that, but when a political system is so self-serving, that's the only way.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fix is in then. We know this greedy inside trader doesn't want that.

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

She already made enough money she can drop it in a fund and let it grow. Not going to affect her.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Clearly Nancy doesn't believe in a word that she's saying. It doesn't take decades to figure out that you're getting rich because you have insider knowledge. Which means she knows there's no chance the legislation would pass, and she's just grandstanding, and hey that's better than nothing, so we can give her a golf clap.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It's cynical, dishonest, manipulative, and completely unproductive.

Based on that alone I completely believe that Nancy Pelosi did the math and realized that Democrats could argue for this out loud maybe even vote for it but there's no chance that it'll ever happen so it's a great chance for her to actually do politics with the voters which I thought she had considered beneath her.

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Make it retroactive to Trumps first term and see how much she supports it.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

She's really good at stocks though.

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[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To everyone here dismissing this and saying “too little too late..”

What are republicans doing or saying that comes even close to this?

Like sure this is bullshit, but can anyone say when republicans even came close to the lowest fake ass shit you’d pretend this to be ?

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago

Hey, she already got her millions, so who cares. In fact, she's a hero for supporting this legislation that would have prevented her insider-trading husband from accumulating so much wealth had it been in place when she took office. Let's throw her a parade.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I don't trust these kinds of bills because voters don't know enough to have a say.

Politicians will announce policy MONTHS in advance. People don't care because CNN or whatever didn't make it consumable. And then politicians make moves on the stock market. And then people accuse them of insider trading.

The last few times Pelosi has went viral, the policies were hashed out ad nauseum and even made headlines well in advance. Way before she made her moves.

People have no idea what's going on and then a bill like this appears?

Edit: the amount of people who take this further is rare. It's all about "insider trading." But what about the things they actually do to profit off governance?

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Know About It

I feel like this is a big list.

[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dang. I was already up 30% by mirroring her portfolio. Now we'll have to play fair again if we cant know her trades.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

This can only mean one thing.... The market is about to tank and tank hard as fuch.

Yeah, she can go F' herself here. She blocked it last time progressive brought this up and this just more performatory BS from disingenuous Democratic leadership.

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