She blocked it when it had a chance of passing. Of course she supports it now that she knows it won’t
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.
She already made enough money she can drop it in a fund and let it grow. Not going to affect her.
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 👍
She’s really going to get hers and then pull up the ladder behind her, eh? What a boomer.
She’s actually too old to be a boomer. Pelosi is silent generation.
No, no, the correct meaning of “boomer” apparently is “anyone older than me that I don’t like”
Attempting to explain anything meaningful by referencing generational cohorts is a lazy, useless pastime anyway. It has about as much intellectual rigor and explanatory power as astrology or the theory of humours.
I recently heard some teenager call someone that was Gen Y a “boomer”. IRL.
Yeah, I actually laughed out loud at that. 🤣
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 Pelosi-P000197
look at her trading history and answer that yourself
“Got Mine, Fuck You.”
because this is not how capitalists work, simply put.
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.
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.
Normally I’d agree, but she’s one of the old boomers. She’s planning to stay in power another 15 years.
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.
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’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
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…
I bet she tells her undertaker she’s for term-limits.
Cool. Also, fuck Nacy Pelosi.
This can only mean one thing… The market is about to tank and tank hard as fuch.
Typical boomer, pulling the ladder up behind her
What, for the next generation of unethical legislators?
🤣
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
She’s a fucking vampire, and she predates the Salem witch trials where she thinned out the competition.
More correctly, she’s actually a part of the silent generation.
So that’s why she never spoke out against insider trading
Huh you’re the third person who said this exact thing
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”.
Trump will do crypto, is that covered?
If it was itd never pass
By saying she supports it, she knows trump will block it
This is the on-brandest
Twist: It is actually a total ban on all stock trading thus eliminating stock markets forever.
Don’t stop, I’m finna chum
IMBATUKUM
Lol without the context of my comment I was just thinking what the fuck is this dude going on about. But you right
Now that would change things drastically. I would think for the better.
