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Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading (apnews.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 21 points 2 hours ago

In the month he has left in office?

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

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 21 points 2 hours 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

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Hahaha. Good one.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 55 points 5 hours ago

It’s a little late for that.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Don't worry. Whenever Biden calls for doing something, centrists will uncritically treat it as an accomplishment.

There are still centrists who falsely insist that Biden rescheduled cannabis.

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

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".

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Give them all 401ks like most people get.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 5 hours ago

Pelosi won't let that happen.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Wow. This guy was everyone's hope?

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago

you must not be very tuned in. we only voted for him because he was running against Trump.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

He's electable if you vote for him.

[-] enbyecho@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 9 hours ago

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

That's Joe's legacy, I guess

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I can hear Michael Cole from WWE:

Vintage Biden

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