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Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by tick_tock_tick on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:52PM (#32268649)
Trump is still proof an outsider can win. He needed money but someone outside the political class still came in and won despite his parties best efforts against it (at the beginning when he was just a primary candidate they made their bed with his now).
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Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by altruios on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:02PM (#32269436)
"outsider" trump couldn't be outside himself... if he ever found the will to try he would just reflected back at himself thanks to his Lovecraftian narcissism.
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Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by nextstep on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:58PM (#32268703)
“An outsider”? Trump is a billionaire who has been directly involved in politics for decades.
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Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by fellowniusmonk on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:12PM (#32269533)
If anything doesn't he represent a more direct "taking of the reins" by the lobbyist/corpo class? Even most lifer politicians themselves are more "outsiders" than he is/was.

It's weird that people believe he is a political outsider. I've never heard a holistic/logical argument showing he is somehow more divested or decoupled from the implicit oligarchy class that ultimately is deciding legislation/law/executive orders these days.

I guess it's because he's bounced around parties and people are really firmly sold on the republican/democrat binary, seems superficial to me but I'd be willing to hear any cogent argument made.

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