• Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org
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    Of course she doesn’t care now, she’s only a few years away from retiring or dying on the job anyways

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          She’s actually too old to be a boomer. Pelosi is silent generation.

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            No, no, the correct meaning of “boomer” apparently is “anyone older than me that I don’t like”

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              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.

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              I recently heard some teenager call someone that was Gen Y a “boomer”. IRL.

              Yeah, I actually laughed out loud at that. 🤣

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      This is a huge about-face by her. Why couldn’t she have done this when she was still in power?

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      Normally I’d agree, but she’s one of the old boomers. She’s planning to stay in power another 15 years.

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        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.

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    That’s like Trump saying they should ban pedophilia now that he can’t get it up anymore.

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    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”.

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    Twist: It is actually a total ban on all stock trading thus eliminating stock markets forever.

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    She blocked it when it had a chance of passing. Of course she supports it now that she knows it won’t

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        I loathe agreeing with that, but when a political system is so self-serving, that’s the only way.

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      It wouldn’t have changed her retirement plans when she blocked the last attempt several years ago

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    The fix is in then. We know this greedy inside trader doesn’t want that.

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      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.

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    Make it retroactive to Trumps first term and see how much she supports it.

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      I mean they are. She publicly posted every trade she made for like 2 years and they beat every model out there, and none of the companies had ongoing congressional votes.

      Has she made stock trades in the past, probably/possibly. But if you look at the stocks she invests in, it’s mostly all large tech companies. She was up 74% in 2024 which is rediculous. That said NVIDIA was up 190% in 2024, which is where she likely got a lot of her gains. She started trading a bunch in 2020.

      That said I’m sure her trading will slow/stop soon enough, it appears her husband just had a kidney transplant (her daughters kidney) so I imagine he’ll kick the bucket soon enough. He’s 85 from what I just saw.

      https://valueinvesting.io/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-tracker

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        Maybe Warren Buffett should hire her then, since she’s so good at stocks without any insider information at all.

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          Buffett is what, 480x her worth, with most of his money coming from investment banking as well. The Pelosis out performed him for the last ten years but she only made 250 million in that time supposively.

          To put that in perspective buffet makes her net worth twice a month. That’s at 5% growth, and the 10 year market average is over 10. Meaning he really should be making $1 billion dollars a month with average market investments.

          If you have money to invest the markets make you stupid money, the problem is that most people will never have money to invest like they do. Then again if everyone did, inflation would skyrocket as well.

          Our capitalistic system is designed around those who get ahead taking off, and the majority griding day after day filling their pockets. Banning Congress from trading stocks may help some day, but only if there was some way to make people impregnable to greed. Otherwise guess what, Buffet who wasn’t in Congress keeps going, Pelosi’s kids take control of assets and invest, the Trump organization is split between names, so nothing stops Ivanka/Jr/the rest of them from making the trades. Hell they can just make the trades in their kids names and the kids can say they are just taking care of their elderly parents anytime they want to buy something. (Those people are to old to use anything really) But the same principle applies elsewhere.

          Its better to just make strict regulations with a 3rd party investigative body… or put wealth caps, or if we could, come up with a new system. A democracy would be nice. A democratic communist society could be nice as well. Haven’t seen many of those outside of small pirate crews.