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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Pelosi is the poster child (though "child" in this case is woefully inappropriate) for why such a ban is needed.
If it weren't for insider trading, she'd be living in a trailer.
The fact that she's speaking on the topic at all bespeaks a breathtaking level of arrogance and hypocrisy.
If it weren't for insider trading, she'd be living in a trailer.
I don't get what the point of saying stupid shit like this is. She had been speaker of the house for years, and in Congress for decades. Making 170-190k/year. That's not trailer money. Her husband also was wealthy prior to this.
Did they abuse her position for personal gain? Yes.
Would they be poor without it? Fuck no
Is she the worst offender? Also no, but Republicans refuse to admit their own politicians do the same shit, more blatantly and more often. Do she gets criticism from all angles while Republican politicians get it only from the opposition. Being the most prominent member of the house also gave her advise more visibility.
The fix is in then. We know this greedy inside trader doesn't want that.
She definitely got some kind of cutout.
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.
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.
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.
She already made enough money she can drop it in a fund and let it grow. Not going to affect her.
I bet she tells her undertaker she's for term-limits.
She's fucking 85. It's not like it will fuck up her retirement plan or something.
She's following the Feinstein Retirement Plan.
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.
I loathe agreeing with that, but when a political system is so self-serving, that's the only way.
It wouldn't have changed her retirement plans when she blocked the last attempt several years ago
This can only mean one thing.... The market is about to tank and tank hard as fuch.
That's like Trump saying they should ban pedophilia now that he can't get it up anymore.
You don't think he'd down a whole case of coke and as many male "enhancement" pills as he can‽
People have actually died from too many enhancement pills...
Of course she doesn't care now, she's only a few years away from retiring or dying on the job anyways
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.
a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others
Ah, right, he "woman CEO" 1970s bourgeois feminist trope. But experience has now demonstrated that here's no difference between a male and a female corrupt weasel. Capitalists are still capitalists, and their weasel mouthpieces are still weasels.
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.
Feinstein never did anything significant.
RBG did the same thing.
RBG actually did some good, unlike Feinstein. She hung on too long, but it was for honorable reasons, she just didn't live long enough for the benefits to materlialize.
... and has her coffers more than filled 👍
This is a huge about-face by her. Why couldn't she have done this when she was still in power?
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
She stopped supporting it when it had a real chance of passing. Performative progressivism is the Democrat way.
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.
Nuance is always appreciated
https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197
look at her trading history and answer that yourself
"Got Mine, Fuck You."
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Cool. Also, fuck Nacy Pelosi.
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”.
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