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Right when he's completely useless, he pushes for this. Pathetic and disingenuous.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:

  • HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!
[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for nothing dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Making the calculated decision to do this not only in his lame duck period but also right up against Christmas and before the new congress is sworn in on Jan 3. So brave.

Honestly this is more of an insult than helpful for those of us who actually want to see this happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In the month he has left in office?

This is just a fucking PR stunt and won’t go anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If it reveals GOP hipocracy on how they treat Pelosi vs their own stock traders, then maybe a little PR would do a lot of good.

The ball is in Republican court, money where their mouth is, the DNC is ready to ban stock trading for its members even if it means expulsion of Nancy Pelosi who married a stock broker decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

All presidents become lame ducks after their last election but before the next president takes office.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Just using it for a temporal reference as he's out of time in his presidency. Any other meaning not intended.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

It's funny how much tankies run this community. Very different from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

It takes a special kind of stupid to think much of anything on .world is run by tankies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you honestly consider anyone criticizing Biden from the left to be a "tankie"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Oh, crap—I totally misinterpreted your initial comment. My bad man! Thanks for clarifying!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

The term, already uncritically broad, has absolutely become laughably broad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

If you don't like it, go back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

Hahaha. Good one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Give them all 401ks like most people get.

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