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W_HAMILTON

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16. He is wrong.
Fri May 9, 2025, 11:31 AM
May 9

Nancy Pelosi isn't a billionaire and she did greenlight such a bill (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/09/congress-moves-towards-banning-members-from-trading-stocks.html), but Democrats ended up losing the House and there were much bigger priorities to get passed during their lame-duck session. And even if you did buy into this right-wing/far left propaganda, one instance doesn't make the rule.

And I don't know if you were paying attention, but those """Democratic oligarchs""" were hand-in-hand in solidarity with Bernie's disciples in wanting Biden to drop out. Also, let's not forget that Biden was opposed by this same unholy alliance in 2020 as well, when we DEMOCRATIC VOTERS rejected both the billionaire candidates and Sanders himself and propelled Biden to the nomination in the first place.

If Sanders thinks both parties is the same and he is still deluded into thinking he would have won on the back of the MAGA bro vote if he were the candidate in 2016, he should go caucus with Republicans and see how receptive they really are to him.

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