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The Nancy Pelosi thread (1 Viewer)

Much ado about nothing and I think Nancy’s a toad. Slight nudge, probably doesn’t like to be touched. Other peoples kids annoy me too. Asking her nicely for a little room would have obviously been better but whatever. Response by her mom was even more over the top imo. 

 
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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased up to $5 million in stock options on a computer-chip company ahead of a vote on legislation next week that would deliver billions of dollars in subsidies to boost the chip-manufacturing industry, new financial disclosures show..."

nothing to see here. lol.

 
squistion said:
Let's not be ageist.
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Yeah, screw that.  I know enough 70+ people to feel very confident saying that nobody that old has any business running anything.  When I was younger, I thought it was weird that we used to have mandatory retirement.  Now that I have to deal with old parents, old in-laws, and old colleagues and get to see how good a job old people do running the government, I would probably support bringing mandatory retirement back in some capacity. 

Old people are objectively worse at doing things that middle-aged people.  It's good to acknowledge that, and it's also good for society to structure itself in way that allows old folks to have a pleasant, comfortable retirement while the rest of us tend to things.

 
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IvanKaramazov said:
Yeah, screw that.  I know enough 70+ people to feel very confident saying that nobody that old has any business running anything.  When I was younger, I thought it was weird that we used to have mandatory retirement.  Now that I have to deal with old parents, old in-laws, and old colleagues and get to see how good a job old people do running the government, I would probably support bringing mandatory retirement back in some capacity. 

Old people are objectively worse at doing things that middle-aged people.  It's good to acknowledge that, and it's also good for society to structure itself in way that allows old folks to have a pleasant, comfortable retirement while the rest of us tend to things.
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My kids, who are 30 and 32,  might agree with you. But there are many things that people over 70 can do as well as younger people, including being president. Reagan, one of your favorite presidents was a few days short of 70 when he started his first term. Older people can tutor and teach topics like math which don't change much. I hope to continue that into my 70s post retirement from my main job in a few years. Older people are often good at sales. Many cognitive skills decline with age, especially those related to processing speed and recent memory recall. But verbal ability increases into the 30s and then remains stable. 

I agree that some older people need to make way for and potentially help train younger people. Better to retire a year early than a year late when they might force you out. Feinstein comes to mind. And RBG. Pelosi was very effective in creating unity in the party when AOC became a member of Congress. I didn't realize Pelosi is 82.

Where I work, our 73 year old neurologist is slowly transitioning to retirement, but it's hard to find a replacement with his knowledge that would be able to do all of the clinical and research related things he does.  I think you're also getting at the decline that occurs with diseases such as Akzheimer's and increase with age. But there's lots of variability in people. Bernie Sanders seemed very vigorous and cognitively intact when he ran for president at age 74.  

 
timschochet said:
Humorous? No. Historically important? You’re talking about the greatest speaker in our history and an average (perhaps above average) President. 
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Lol, you’re in  the minority with those thoughts, but you obviously missed the point.  Above average President?  You’re a gas.

 
JohnnyU said:
Lol, you’re in  the minority with those thoughts, but you obviously missed the point.  Above average President?  You’re a gas.
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It's way too early to rate Biden. Wait until he completes his 2nd term. Reagan was very unpopular at this point in his 1st term. And Pelosi has been great.

 
timschochet said:
Humorous? No. Historically important? You’re talking about the greatest speaker in our history and an average (perhaps above average) President. 
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Biden is..well forget it.

Nancy`s rep as the best ever was getting the infrastructure bill passed when she already had a majority but had disgruntled Dems that were balking and wanted a little grease for the skids.

Pork grease works the best and she added plenty of that that to appease.

I know it is just the way the system works.

The Pelosi family has shamelessly worked the system for personal gains. But that is part of being in power and in the know.

 
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SoBeDad said:
It's way too early to rate Biden. Wait until he completes his 2nd term. Reagan was very unpopular at this point in his 1st term. And Pelosi has been great.
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Second term?  He will be lucky to complete one term and it can’t come soon enough.

 
Rich get richer.

“Big Short” fame investor Michael Burry said U.S. House Of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi “made a bundle” on semiconductor stocks she recently purchased because she knew a key bill would make it through the Senate.

What Happened: Burry made his comments on Twitter on Wednesday. He said tagging the Democrat politician, “So @SpeakerPelosi made a bundle on semiconductor stocks bought recently. Should be illegal.”

 
No shame for Pelosi`s.

Nancy Pelosi said her husband has never made stock purchases based on information she gave him when asked by Fox News Digital.

"No, absolutely not," Pelosi said, before quickly walking away from the podium. 

A video of the interaction quickly spurred conversation online, with many Twitter users accusing Pelosi of lying and partaking in insider trading, a felony that could land someone up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

"No, it's just an absolute coincidence that Pelosi's husband bought shares in a semiconductor company that Nancy is about to give over $50 billion in tax dollars," Greg Price, a senior digital strategist at X Strategies quipped. He subsequently replied with a meme of Anchorman character Ron Burgundy saying "I don’t believe you."

ELISE STEFANIK RIPS PELOSI'S HUSBAND'S COMPUTER CHIP STOCK PURCHASE: 'STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN'

 
kodycutter said:
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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased up to $5 million in stock options on a computer-chip company ahead of a vote on legislation next week that would deliver billions of dollars in subsidies to boost the chip-manufacturing industry, new financial disclosures show..."

nothing to see here. lol.
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Jesus.  Pretty obvious what’s going on here.  This is more blatant than the movie Wall Street.   This is the problem with bureaucrats — they think the rules don’t apply to them.

 
Alex P Keaton said:
Jesus.  Pretty obvious what’s going on here.  This is more blatant than the movie Wall Street.   This is the problem with bureaucrats — they think the rules don’t apply to them.
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“The most valuable commodity I know is information,” Gordon Gekko..or was that Paul Pelosi who said that?

Paul has the "Midas Touch" when it comes to stocks. Seems to always buy before huge government contracts are handed out. Like he knew something.

 
We're just now discovering that congresspeople regularly engage in insider trading?  This has been going on for decades.  

Remember those people who got special briefings about covid and rushed out and bought shares in Zoom?

 
kodycutter said:
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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased up to $5 million in stock options on a computer-chip company ahead of a vote on legislation next week that would deliver billions of dollars in subsidies to boost the chip-manufacturing industry, new financial disclosures show..."

nothing to see here. lol.
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Wow, $5M in options is a ton, depending on the strike that’s easily $100M+ of underlying stock or potentially a lot more.  It’s a big bet

 
djmich said:
Wow, $5M in options is a ton, depending on the strike that’s easily $100M+ of underlying stock or potentially a lot more.  It’s a big bet
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The link itself says he bought 20,000 shares (not 20,000 options).  I think it’s just lazy or inaccurate reporting that the first sentence says he bought 20,000 options.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
We're just now discovering that congresspeople regularly engage in insider trading?  This has been going on for decades.  

Remember those people who got special briefings about covid and rushed out and bought shares in Zoom?
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Well when you have a well researched author get poo poo’d here and from the corrupted media, why would you expect them to care? Throw Them All Out was published 11 years ago. Schweitzer was discredited simply because he is a Republican and has been fully bipartisan in his work and went after the Trump family pretty aggressively -

“Biggest concern remains the Trump family (including the Kushners) seeking or receiving sweetheart deals from foreign governments or entities. Commercial activities with China, Russia, and countries in the Middle East are of immediate importance. These are of most concern because they are difficult to detect and can be enormously lucrative. And foreign powers can be winners and losers on a variety of issues from trade to national security, meaning they will be highly motivated to strike bargains.”

Here’s the board authority on all things take on Schweitzer -

“Schweizer is another guy who the right wing media treats like some sort of deity, despite the fact that he writes one garbage book after another filled with half lies and downright falsehoods.”

https://forums.footballguys.com/topic/769419-conspiracy-theories/?do=findComment&comment=22202021

I miss this guy. He was a lefties lefty.

https://forums.footballguys.com/topic/769419-conspiracy-theories/?do=findComment&comment=22202610

I particularly like this one -

“I'm President of the Peter Schweizer Is Wrong Institute, and I can confirm that he is, in fact, wrong. No need for me to provide a link, of course.”

https://forums.footballguys.com/topic/789455-the-biden-years-every-day-something-more-shocking-than-the-last/?do=findComment&comment=23036563

 
Da Guru said:
“The most valuable commodity I know is information,” Gordon Gekko..or was that Paul Pelosi who said that?

Paul has the "Midas Touch" when it comes to stocks. Seems to always buy before huge government contracts are handed out. Like he knew something.
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He's like Biff in Back to the Future part 2...he has a secret weapon.

 
I just received a very odd briefing about Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. Biden is not overly supportive of this trip and there is a lot of concern that the "reward" isn't worth the risk in this situation. Mitigation strategies are in the works.

 
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