Posted on 03/19/2020 8:56:38 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
All they have to do is peel off 3-5 Pubbie senators
To be realistic, it would be EXTREMELY difficult to keep yourself from dumping your holdings if you became aware of an imminent drop in the market.
It would be against human nature to refrain from doing so.
Human beings are flawed, I understand and accept that.
I am reminded of the persecution of Martha Stewart who reacted normally when she learned of a similar situation and sold holdings.
I can dislike politicians for many reasons, but this ain’t one of them. I can see how I might be moved to do the same thing myself...and I am not a hypocrite so I won’t condemn them.
At this point, an independent audit needs to be held and show all 100 Senators and their stock sales over the past six weeks.
At the very least, each guilty party ought be put on unpaid furlough for 90 days, and upon returning to ‘duty’...be relieved of their previous committee action.
I’d like to even go one step further....force each Senator to admit the list of people they called and steered to selling their stock ahead of time as well.
Yeah, there are. feinstein is one but..........In all honesty, who among us would leave millions in jeopardy if we had knowledge of what was coming? AND, I know they told us one thing and then did another, but to try to stop a panic, they had to tell us what they did.
I’m mixed on this one. On one hand I want to put feinstein in jail for it, but the Republicans, I do not.
I HATE dim-0s, and will admit it.
Maybe it should be against a law for senators to be invested? Because for them, insider trading would be about the only way they could trade?
I mean, their job makes them privvy to changes coming, EVERYDAY!
PLUS, if these restrictions were put on them, MAYBE it would cut down on the career politicians.
Really? I never would have guessed. If Tucker doesn't mention it, it didn't happen.
If this is legal it shouldn’t be.But if it is I don’t care.
I’m waiting for the news to drop on graham that he did the same thing.
She wasn’t going to beat Collins any way.
This is a typical narrative being pushed so that the DUmocrats retain Congress. They’re always pushing the “inequality” class-warfare type of stories. Until Hitlery’s “cattle futures” are investigated, it’s a non-issue.
I’m waiting for the news to drop on graham that he did the same thing.
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Now that he’s safely past his every 6 year’s primary, Lindsey 2.0 has disappeared like a turd down a mineshaft and Lindsey 1.0 has re-emerged. Yuk!
Nothing like that is going to happen. Who is going to order it? Not congress certainly. And not Trump either, he has bigger fish to fry and doesnt need a crippled congress at this time. The consequences will come from voters. It’s one thing to enrich yourself in congress, people just shrug and say ‘they all do it’. But it’s another thing to lie to citizens in a national crisis so you can profit off them.
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