Republican "god" can do no wrong, though. The man could walk into the middle of 5th Avenue, shoot a woman in the head, and then fuck her shattered skull, and they'd still sing his praises. Indoctrination. Cultism. Brainwashing. So many different names for how they idolise this man.

I imagine we're conserving our energy.

People know what to do in November, and then after.

Shellshock. Cowardice in the face of maga republicans blatantly abusing state power to punish opponents. TPTB shielding maga republicans because they are needed for the war.

I used to think holding your nose and supporting the US was needed when the alternative was greater power of China, power jumpstarted by the US in the first place though, which is both totalitarian and out for territorial expansion. Now I don't give a shit any more. The US is not the lesser of evils any more, maybe they never were.

> Why aren't we freaking the fuck out right now?

Because there are four categories of people here:

1} Non-indoctrinated non-investors... are freaking the fuck out right now but are powerless.

2} Indoctrinated non-investors... don't have money so don't care what Trump does to the stock market.

3} Non-indoctrinated investors... are quietly more interested in any money-making opportunity than principles.

4} Indoctrinated investors... have been encouraging all of this.

Category 1 is way, way outnumbered.

Remember when the very hint of being shady like this

I never see Democrats defend Pelosi trading. I see maggots defending Trump grifts constantly. I hang out in places where I'm exposed to both. Stop making shit up, maggot.

1. You have no evidence that Pelosi insider traded anything and her husband has always been a wealthy real estate investor and venture capital guy.

2. The Pelosi's are worth somewhere in the $300m mark and she has served 20(!) terms in Congress, that's 40 years.

3. Trump and his family have made north of $2 billion since 2025

4. Democrats have for years had bills to ban stock trading with scant Republican support.

So who's ignoring what again? TDS is what you are infected with.

Wrong answer, dipshit.

1) Nobody ignores Congress insider trading.

2) Even that filthy practice comes nowhere fucking near selling early access to your posts because you know your elected office moves markets.

There's no TDS involved here. Your bootlicking is a fucking cancer.

Is the person who ignored Pelosi in the room with you right now?

Courts won't do anything.

And given that attendance for the No Kings protests was half to a third of BLM, there is really little incentive for office holders to change course. The American people just aren't that interested in what goes on in the nation's capital.

What in the fuck are you talking about?

The Congress says precisely 1 thing about the Speaker- that Congress shall chose (chuse, if we're being accurate) it, which puts its firmly outside of the enforcement of the other branches.

The Constitution also says that only Congress shall set its rules, which also puts enforcement of those firmly outside of the enforcement of the other branches.

You need to be put before a court of law for your fucking ignorance, and desire to wield the state in ways it is prohib

Getting the votes to impeach is easy. Getting the votes to convict is de facto impossible.

At this point, do we really need more impeachment theater?

How about maybe just once this time, and then we can get them doing important work like trying to fucking curtail his ass with laws they can actually get through the Senate.

A gift of Trump is the openness with which he does it. But as said above, no-one with any ability to do anything about it seems to care. I guess we have to wait for the whole system to collapse.

> All presidents end up quite wealthy after one or two terms. They all do this. Trump just does it at an entirely new level, and doesn't even try to hide it.

Oh look! It's more of the bOtH sIdEs bullshit.

Ford made most of his money AFTER he left office. Few presidents get rich while they are still president. Jefferson went bankrupt because he served as president and neglected his farm.

Both sides, am I right guys?

Moron.

It's to set the stage so every new president can do it. Obama wanted to send Americans to die for Israel in Syria and then carpet bombed Libya. This was after he got the noble peace prize. He also stirred up racial tension by declaring a fucked up kid who was addicted to Lean and got into fights constantly could have "been my son." Fuck that guy, and Trump and Biden and Clinton and W and HW and all the rest. They're all pedophiles. Most have ridden on the Jet or been to Zoro ranch or had Epstein in their ho

> They all do this

NONE of them have done this, not in 250 years. Not until Trump. Presidents make a lot of money after they leave office, yes, especially in recent decades. They command incredible speaking fees (Obama famously got $400k for one speech), they write books that make millions, etc. There are lots of people who are willing to give them money to get close to them, get their advice, etc.

But until Trump, none of them has used the office of the president to make money. No one else has sold pardons. No one el

> This is different.

It is.

> It's advance insider access to announcements that cause real changes.

Stop using the word insider. It's a weasel word. There's nothing insider about this.

It's a markedly different form of ick.

Imagine someone finds out that the SEC is going to ban the trading of cryptocurrencies.

Imagine he tells the world.

Everyone who trades on that is guilty of insider trading.... for having traded on public information about entities that did not have that information in confidence?

No, this is someone monetizing their market moving power. It's fucking vile, but there's nothing "i

It isn't because he doesn't stay bought

> Maybe paying Trump $100,000/month is worth it just to get on his good side? Even if there is no value whatsoever in the access, funneling money to him might be worth it for some.

Worth it for what? If the answer is a different financial motivation, then it's just a different form of corruption.

If that is the way to the money? Expect large queues.

The random garbage can also move markets, so that's material as well

The distinction here is that they are in that situation getting information about what the market is doing slightly faster, or sending an order slightly faster. But here the information is information that is not publicly available. So yes, the distinction here is clear. This is insider trading. (That the other stuff should also be illegal but isn't is a secondary issue here.)

> Are those connections all insider trading?

You're confusing speed of a transaction with advanced market knowledge. Sporting analogy: Me running faster than you just means I am fitter or bought better running gear, or paid a better running coach to give me an edge. On the other hand me beating you to the finish line because I started running before the starting gun would disqualify me in the race.