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

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 days ago

Correctly identifying a problem while doing nothing that could possibly change it.

That's Joe's legacy, I guess

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Useless gesture that will never ever get passed. Thanks Joe.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I feel like if you want to hold government office you should 1. Give up all your wealth. 2. In exchange for this, you get a rock solid $500,000 salary. This isn’t because you are an elite, this is because paying you well makes it harder to bribe you. 3. When you lose your seat or step down, you can never work again in your life. This is to prevent you from ever taking on a lobbying job or otherwise using your power to enrich yourself and influence government for special interests. In exchange for this, you can take 80% of your salary that you had while in office until you die.

These changes hopefully would give office holders enough personal financial security to focus on making decisions without being influenced by external money.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We don't need to bribe them to do their jobs. We need to make them afraid of what will happen to them if they don't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It's both. Otherwise noone would be dumb enough to do such a high profile, high stress, and apparently low paying job. I do want the smartest, hardest working and best people leading my country, not some random guy would couldn't get a better job.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

As if congress is going to bring up a bill that would restrict one of the quickest ways to make money for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Fuck Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Four years too fucking late, asshole

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

Take what you can get. Bitching about how you got there isn't helpful.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago (9 children)

You're days away from the end of your entire run and now we grow morals.

This is like those old racist folks on their death beds trying to make amends to anyone and everyone in their final days.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (23 children)

You just never looked into what they're really doing, and for some reason media isn't keen on reporting all the good proposals and legislations they were doing, I wonder why.
This administration was the best one in centuries, both in terms of legislation and in terms of administrative work. The only question they aren't good on is Palestine, and incidentally it's the only thing that media suddenly cares about, I wonder why(2).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Because the media is owned by Republicans

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh come on, don't give these sandbagging stooges more credit than they deserve. The only reason what you're saying doesn't sound quite as batshit insane as it should is that we haven't had a government that prioritizes the working class even close to as much as the rich since WWII. Biden isn't terrible compared to his peers but his peers have all been sucking the same corporate dick for so long that no one young enough to know what Lemmy is have ever experienced anything else. Calling that greatness is not being objective it's just a lack of imagination.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, NOW he wants. The last 4 years wasn’t time enough to get this done.

Fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or any time in like the 40 years he was in congress….

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Next up, he'll try to introduce a bill that states free healthcare for all, paid through the taxes. Everyone wants it, but nothing will come of it, because America will be a fascist country in about a month. Good luck, America!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

LET'S GOOOO!!

Ignoring how long it took, big ups joey b

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

You could have pushed for it when there was actually an attempt to make that bill (before Pelosi killed it, she repaid you by pushing you out).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why wait until the last possible second to go for this? What a complete knob

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because he doesn't need to work in politics ever again and this is going to be a pretty unpopular policy to lobby for. No one who ever has to whip votes on the Hill would ever put this kind of proposal forward. It was always going to come from a fringe of a caucus or a lame duck President.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t check out. He wasn’t going to work in politics ever again 4 years ago.

He’s only doing it now because he knows he has no time to actually ever achieve it and is safe to play for optics without worrying about actually helping people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Well, he claimed that his intent was to be a one-term President. Now we see that was a lie.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Little fucking late, Joey.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Actually, the word is that there is a bipartisan bill moving though Congress to prohibit stock sales. Crazy, right? Anyway, this is just Biden saying he'll sign it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Well guess who makes laws on stock trading?

🙃

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

Jesus Christ Joe, are you trying to take food from their children's mouths? How dare you sir, insider trading is the only real perk they get...well Healthcare and insider trading.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Destroy Wall Street. Literally remove it brick by brick if you have to. That cancer is killing us all and we're all tied to it.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Biden had previously declined to take a position on congressional stock trading. When Jen Psaki served as White House press secretary two years ago, she said Biden would “let members of leadership in Congress and members of Congress determine what the rules should be.”

Back when it was up for debate and the party had the numbers....

I fucking hate how moderates waste the time for action, ignore everyone spending years demanding action...

Then turn around like that fucking pulp fiction meme asking why no one has thought to do the thing we've spent years telling them to do once there's no time.

At best they're completely incompetent, at worst they're not as dumb as a box of rocks and are just incredibly incompetent. Whatever the reason, we can do better. We have to do better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

moderates

Don't paint people who are against polarization with the same brush as incumbent old cash grabbing power hogs.

This is a class struggle and poor people on either side of the political isle get played against each other like a fucking Stradivarius. Poor and middle class (what's left of it) should unite, rather than fight each other.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

At worst it’s deliberate decision to go for it when they know they cannot win and don’t have time to fight for it.

This way they don’t have to ever enact these changes but they get voters to think they’re a progressive party who are pushing for them.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

im sure congress will get right on the thing that literally makes them all wealthy, and theyve made sure to enshrine as a-ok in their own rules.

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