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AOC, Ted Cruz find common ground calling for Robinhood probe
NY Post ^ | January 28, 2021 | 2:14pm | Emily Jacobs

Posted on 01/28/2021 12:02:04 PM PST by conservative98

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ted Cruz have become an unlikely odd couple in calling for hearings over trading app Robinhood’s blocking of investors seeking to buy GameStop shares– and it has AOC scrambling for cover.

In a series of tweets posted Thursday, following wild price swings orchestrated by traders on Reddit, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Robinhood’s actions “unacceptable.”

“We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit,” the progressive pol wrote.

“As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.”

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Upon seeing AOC’s tweets, Cruz (R-Tx.) jumped in to offer his support, retweeting the message and writing, “Fully agree.”

It doesn’t seem that the Democratic congresswoman appreciated the offer, writing in response to Cruz that, “I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aoc; cruz; gamestop; robinhood; schwab; tdameritrade; tedcruz
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1 posted on 01/28/2021 12:02:04 PM PST by conservative98
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2 posted on 01/28/2021 12:03:55 PM PST by conservative98
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“As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.”

Way to lead from behind, AOC! You CALL for a hearing, or you DEMAND a hearing, you don't sit on your overly-glorified backside and wait for someone else to do the job for you to protect your phony-baloney job!

Man, I hate these people!
3 posted on 01/28/2021 12:06:12 PM PST by Retrofitted
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then she slammed cruz and told him to get off her timeline on twitter


4 posted on 01/28/2021 12:06:55 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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Puppeter: Peter Strzok’s wife.
The family is immune to felony, treason, sedition, murder.
Goes back to the Titanic (or its sister ship).


5 posted on 01/28/2021 12:08:53 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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One or both of them should call the CEO of Robin Hood and find out why the stopped trading GME


6 posted on 01/28/2021 12:15:13 PM PST by The Louiswu (HOLD ON GME)
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7 posted on 01/28/2021 12:15:25 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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did RH stop all buy-orders of Gamestop
or just margin- buys?


8 posted on 01/28/2021 12:24:23 PM PST by RockyTx
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It’s fine for billionaires to manipulate the market, crash prices, destroy retirement accounts and transfer wealth from peons to the uber-rich. But when peons join the game, the Sheriff of Nottingham wants blood.


9 posted on 01/28/2021 12:25:01 PM PST by ETCM
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What about probing the Hedge companies.


10 posted on 01/28/2021 12:25:54 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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seeing reports robinhood selling GME shares without account holders permission. No idea if true. If this isn’t part of a margin call issue...it is a huge problem.


11 posted on 01/28/2021 12:27:08 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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must be that unity thing they say they want,,,


12 posted on 01/28/2021 12:30:35 PM PST by Craftmore
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Is AOC Chicken Little, or Chicken Big?


13 posted on 01/28/2021 12:30:58 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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Exactly. She is on entirely different agenda than Cruz.


14 posted on 01/28/2021 12:36:11 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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It doesn’t seem that the Democratic congresswoman appreciated the offer, writing in response to Cruz that, “I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.”

Oh, he wanted to do so much more. Cruz was planning on eating your flesh, using your hair to fill out his beard and keep your heart beating in a lab in the basement of the Capitol as part of some dark Republican ritual. < /my hyperbole is better than yours>

15 posted on 01/28/2021 12:37:14 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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Uni partay Just have them change the name to Friar Tuck or AOCruz.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310025/


16 posted on 01/28/2021 12:38:34 PM PST by PGalt
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I thought she was deathly afraid of the republicans, theyz all gonna kill her??


17 posted on 01/28/2021 12:40:34 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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“you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.”


18 posted on 01/28/2021 12:42:24 PM PST by conservative98
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I missed that, didn’t read to the bottom...total bug-eyed two-bit twit.


19 posted on 01/28/2021 12:55:35 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 )
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Not a trader through Robinhood, but pulled up the app in the Google Play Store (which, for you Apple users, is the main place Android phone users get their apps). The app review rating is currently one star (out of five). You can't give zero stars, so one star is the lowest rating possible.

I read the most recent reviews. Brutal. The app's users are furious. Robinhood will not recover from this. Its users feel betrayed. There will be class action lawsuits.

20 posted on 01/28/2021 1:09:28 PM PST by AUTiger83 ( )
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