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Fox News actually covered this for about 2 minutes and their talking points were as follows:
- HuNTeRs LaPToP ThO! HIPOCRIT!
Thanks for nothing dipshit.
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.
it says, "we acknowledge your concerns and will continue to do it because you're helpless to stop it"
In the month he has left in office?
This is just a fucking PR stunt and won’t go anywhere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hahaha. Good one.
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