Criminal Representatives - Insider Trading.

[Belligerent Savant]

As one example:

@unusual_whales
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Dianne Feinstein, 90, has now ceded power of attorney to daughter, but still serves in Congress, per NYP.

Feinstein has incredibly unusual trades over 30 years in Congress.

In that time her net worth is up over $200 million.

Let's look at some of her unusual trades:

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In July 2011, the Postal Service entered into an exclusive contract with the real estate firm CB Richard Ellis Group.

Feinstein’s husband was the chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Furthermore, he served on the global development counsel on Obama's counsel.

These are some of the many examples.

Despite thirty years of conflicts, Feinstein paid zero fees and broke the STOCK Act numerous times.

Truly unusual.

You can see all of her financial history forever at http://unusualwhales.com/politics

Aug 4, 2023

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/stat ... 99310?s=20

http://unusualwhales.com/politics

[Grizzly]

Waiting on the usual crowd to come in and defend this...

[Belligerent Savant]

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Point of clarity -- the link (https://unusualwhales.com/politics/politicians) includes trading activities from both Republican and Democrats. This is a bipartisan issue.

[DrEvil]

:popcorn: Waiting on the usual crowd to come in and defend this...

Sure, I'll defend it: she isn't the problem, she's a symptom of a sick society. This isn't something that suddenly popped up and became a huge scandal, it's something that's been going on for decades, business as usual. The state religion is worship of Mammon, and it should come as no surprise that your leaders are avid practitioners. Hell, you yourself have been posting stuff from Vivek Ramaswamy lately, and he's already a high priest of Mammon (libertarian hedge fund manager, net worth: $630 million). The whole system is so fucked you can't even tell the lizard people from the humans any more.

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"
- Oscar Wilde

[Belligerent Savant]

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Yes. It's for these reasons that I sometimes yearn for a massive EMP bringing us back to analog in earnest.

[drstrangelove]

Insider trading doesn't leave a paper trail like the paid speech circuit, which is at least a legal way of paying off politicians along with book deals. The amount of political autobiographies that have been mass produced, purchased and then destroyed to launder payments in this way is probably so damaging to the environment that nakedly corrupt methods like insider trading are probably for the best. Trying to retain the legitimacy of democracy is exhausting and no political system can withstand the flagrance of the current setup for long.

[DrEvil]

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Yes. It's for these reasons that I sometimes yearn for a massive EMP bringing us back to analog in earnest.

I agree with the sentiment, but an EMP would just fuck over the poor. The rich would buy all the generators and solar panels and be prioritized when the grid is brought back online. They might even decide that some people shouldn't get their access to electricity back at all. They wouldn't say it outright, but there would be "delays" and "problems" and endless excuses. It would be disaster capitalism cranked up to eleven.

A smaller EMP right in the middle of Wall Street however... Or take some inspiration from Ron Pearlman (or the French if you're feeling particularly repressed. Put a new - sharper - spin on the "are you experiencing Frenchness" meme):


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EcdvuV81F_M

[Belligerent Savant]

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Of course I was being facetious*, though the poor/working & middle classes are already getting fucked hard many different ways — they have been, incrementally more so as years pass.

*however: smaller EMPs in the financial sector/Wall St is a good suggestion. I would also absolutely fully support a return to dial-up internet speeds so that most content online would be relegated to text only, or otherwise much slower speeds. This would (thankfully) kill much of social media, insipid memes, video, etc. But text and typed words will thrive again as primary forms of communication.

And I know you may not see it this way, but ‘net zero’/green’ agendas will fuck them (the poor/working/middle classes) up very hard as well, just as Covid policies did, demonstrably, since it was the minorities and working classes that were most discriminated/segregated against, particularly in urban areas, during the height of Covid policies, while most of the white-collar/corporate/comfortable (and fearful) classes dutifully complied (or they had the means to purchase quality fake vaccine cards/passes, etc).

Same will happen with any current/looming restrictions to be applied in the areas of finance and ‘climate mitigation’ in the years ahead. Those with means will find loopholes/exceptions; everyone else will have their rights/livelihoods negatively impacted. There is no ‘greater good’ to any of the policies implemented, regardless of marketing/advertising insisting otherwise.

(We should take this convo, if it continues, to the other appropriate threads, FYI, so we can keep this focused on political reps getting away with brazen insider trading or other overt ‘benefits’ for compromising whatever character/principles these politicians may have once maintained (in practice or in their rhetoric)).