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points by georgemcbay 1 day ago | 0 comments

Good.

Congress has to start working for the people it represents again, so I really hope the Democrats start pushing lots of legislation that addresses the real needs of the people. Even if every bill gets vetoed, make sure Trump and the Republicans around him own the lack of progress in a very visible way to ensure 2028 is an easy-mode Democratic win.

But... they also have to undo the damage to the rule of law that has been supercharged by the Trump administration.

Letting bygones be bygones and trying to move back to the old status quo without addressing actual wrongdoing is how you end up with Trump getting reelected even after January 6th.

If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.

[–] demo4567 1 day ago

Precisely. No bygones this time.

[–] AnimalMuppet 1 day ago

Where just and applicable.

Not "where it will score political points" or "where we really want to get that guy". Where just and applicable.

[–] smallmancontrov 1 day ago

So, in any of 100 blatant and obvious places that Republicans will nevertheless whine relentlessly about.

[–] AlexandrB 1 day ago

> If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.

So the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?

[–] _DeadFred_ 1 day ago

Actually Ro Khanna is one of the highest traders

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Ro%20...

[–] JumpCrisscross 1 day ago

> the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?

If Todd Blanche weren't busy pursuing Trump's political enemies with frivolous lawsuits, maybe he could have gotten around to this.

[–] bryanlarsen 1 day ago

How about something much larger, like investigating Biden's second largest donor and throwing him in jail for 25 years for fraud?

Wait, SBF is already in jail.

[–] wasfgwp 1 day ago

It makes sense to start with the biggest offenders though? Pelosi’s net worth is peanuts compared to what Mango Mussolini and his friends and family made in the last couple of years.

[–] smallmancontrov 1 day ago

POTUS graduated from pumping and dumping crypto shitcoins to pumping and dumping the American Economy with Iran announcements and then lining up his billionaire friends to brag about how much money they made insider trading it on public television.

Against this backdrop, it takes some truly extraordinary selective attention to be scandalized by the Pelosis managing to beat QQQ by one percentage point last time I checked.

[–] stogot 1 day ago

One percentage point? Her own party lampposted her over the corruption and hundreds of millions. They’re both corrupt

[–] smallmancontrov 18 hours ago

Sure, like LeBron James and I are both good at basketball.

The disparity is so large it's dishonest to "both sides" this one. Because with orders of magnitude to separate the severity, it really isn't both sides.

[–] georgemcbay 1 day ago

> So the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?

I'd support it.

By the same token, if Bill Clinton gets damaged by a full release of the Epstein files? Good. Fuck 'em then. I'm not a team booster. Investigate likely wrongdoing and punish the guilty, regardless of their politics.

Though of course... Nancy Pelosi isn't remotely the only one who likely benefited from insider knowledge, there are long lists of people from both parties who are in the same boat. Pelosi just gets elevated as a figurehead here because of her high profile (and despite not being a big Pelosi fan myself I still think, if we're being honest, at least a smidge of misogyny)

We should also just ban trading for all elected officials during their terms in office.