JFC. “WE NEED TO LET THEM DO INSIDER TRADING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES”
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Pieces of shite..........all of them
This is truly one of those both sides issues.
And yet spending on congressional elections has doubled since 2009. Wonder why they spend so much to become so poor?
Also, maybe if they actually did the work they were elected to do people wouldn't care so much about their personal profits.
Also, maybe if they actually did the work they were elected to do people wouldn't care so much about their personal profits.
Yet, only MAGA is standing up there with Johnson
Of that I agree.........but they have enough couth to not try to gas light that it's to feed their families
Between the insider trading, money being speech, corporations being people, the quid pro quo of dark money bribes, SCOTUS self policing their corruption, oligarchs formerly paying for a ballroom on the White House grounds, oligarchs packing out the inauguration, oligarchs joining Trump to meet Xi, and many such other examples makes me think there will have to be a reckoning in the near future.
$173K isn't a lot of money in civilized locations ... that's especially so if you essentially have to establish 2 bases of operation while working.
He's correct to point that out.
However, the answer isn't to allow them to "do some stock trading" ... without a heckuva lot more in play ... like ending lobbying, ending all the money pouring into campaigns (and elsewhere), actual enforcement of securities laws, etc.
If you give Congresspeople a raise ... the questionable financial behavior ... the kickbacks, the bribes, the money pouring in and the big pay off at the end of it all for a "job well done" while in office ... they aren't going away ... nothing will change except taxpayers will be paying even more in to support the higher salaries ... unless you fundamentally change the system in ways I indicated.
Meanwhile Trump and kids are out trading stocks left and right while Trump’s publicly pumping them up.
The Trump boys even have defense contracts for three drone companies they are involved in. We are massively cooked.
President Donald Trump scooped up shares of artificial intelligence software maker Palantir weeks before he famously lauded the stock, with its ticker symbol, on his social media platform Truth Social, according to records released this week by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
The records show thousands of transactions during the first quarter totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, with each trade listed as a price range.
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The records show thousands of transactions during the first quarter totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, with each trade listed as a price range.
Trump touted Palantir on Truth Social after buying the company's stock, records show
During the first three months of the year, Trump purchased between $630,000 and $247,008 worth of Palantir stock and sold at least $1.1 million.
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