Basically, the wild policy churn we see is designed to enable insider trading profits rather than benefit the country

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    ridiculous. over 55 trades per day. If you looked closer at timings, I’m sure there’d be plenty of reversals pre/after TACO events.

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    No one is actually astonished, unless they’ve been in a coma for the last ten years.

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      23 hours ago

      “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it”

      • George Carlin
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    And that’s just him. Imagine what the rest of his family is doing. Total scumbags… However… It’s not illegal, they all do it. I’d be happy to see officials make it illegal and not just frowned upon.

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      they all do it.

      No they don’t. And definitely not to this extent. And especially not past presidents.

      Stop acting like this shit is normal.

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        Congress does this all the time. Why do you think career politicians become so wealthy.

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        It isn’t normal but it was only a matter of time. We keep NOT holding our leaders accountable for the things that ARE crimes. this was inevitable.

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      Legal, illegal, doesn’t matter. When you are a rich pedophile they let you do it.

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      Us poor people treat fines, charges, lawyers and court proceedings as deterrents against doing certain things … especially if they are illegal.

      Rich people treat fines, charges, lawyers and court proceedings as the cost of doing business … and it doesn’t matter if its legal or illegal to them … they just throw money at everything and they don’t care if it’s right or wrong or moral or immoral.

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        Yes true they’re supposed to report any trading that might be non public info buuuuttt this whole administration is wonky illegal shit. And in this case … we find it and I bet you absolutely nothing is going to change. What’s he concerned about his polling numbers?

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    The problem is not that these wealthy owners and political insiders are doing this …

    … the main problem is an entire country of complacent morons that allow it all to happen, passively support it, casually ignore it, pretend it isn’t like that and vote accordingly to put these idiots or idiots like them back into power every single time.

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      His followers have been trained to knee jerk it away.

      If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc

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        If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc

        You are correct of course. And the answer people with two braincells would give is

        “Good we both agree its wrong, so let’s hold them to account”

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      I still can’t get over the amount of open public support he gets from people in the US. It’s like we are so fucking lazy that we just absorb whatever propaganda is blinking in front of us at the time.

      Or maybe that’s what I’m hoping is the case for most people rather than being well-informed true believers.