US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.

If they're even a little bit smart, they'll donate a disposable percentage of their ill-gotten booty to a covid charity and come off like superheroes to the undiscerning public.

...and then all lez it up commit suicide.

Congress began requiring its members to disclose their stock sales in 2012, when it passed a law called Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, which was intended to prevent lawmakers from using inside information to profit.

If we just expose this wrongdoing and make it public, they’ll alter their behavior to avoid bringing shame on themselves!!

2012, man, those were some heady days

Seriously though, once you vote to acquit trump, what is the point of pretending

gotta build a nest egg for whatever happens in the end stage of life after you're out of office and the target of unremitting hate for your betrayal of your country, i guess

I'm trying to take these stock sales in. I'm naive enough to think he/they won't get away with it, and that watching them go down (resign, I guess; they'll get to keep their millions) will provide some small measure of vindication.

I'm tempted to sign up for Twitter so I can join in on the shaming going on on Burr's page.

Tucker would stab his own mother if it meant a chance at playing the Goebbels role in a Fourth Reich.

watching them go down (resign, I guess

but don't you see? that would just play into the hands of the DemonRats, who are all corrupt, communists, traitors, and would sell this country to Satan in a NY minute. so, what's a little harmless venality when weighed against destroying all that is godly and righteous in this world?!

there will be a point when the American Titanic finally begins sinking where these rich and well-to-do GOP Senators will try to get on lifeboats. do not let them on the lifeboats.

i think if theyre "smart" and have an (R) after their name they should just go full on dominionist, cf

During a sermon in 2012, Rafael (Cruz) had described his son’s Senate campaign as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy that “God would anoint Christian ‘kings’ to preside over an ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ from the wicked to the righteous.”

“According to his father and Pastor Larry Huch, Ted Cruz is anointed by God to help Christians in their effort to “go to the marketplace and occupy the land … and take dominion” over it, Fea continued. “This ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ will relieve Christians of all financial woes, allowing true believers to ascend to a position of political and cultural power in which they can build a Christian civilization. When this Christian nation is in place (or back in place), Jesus will return.”

obv Cruz isn't part of this (as far as we know), just pointing out there's an easy escape hatch if these ghouls want to commit to the bit

A lot of rumblings that the Burr news was a coordinated hit from Trumpland. Apparently there was plenty of bad blood there.

the only reason nothing will happen here is because nobody in the GOP is actually going to inquire in good faith, they're just going to hope for an explanation that is anywhere in the neighborhood of "plausible deniability".

I predict "what, I can't sell stock because I'm a Senator? Show me what law says that!" comes up a lot in the next month

if it was a coordinated hit from Trumpland, he'll be on TV tomorrow saying "and y'know I mean we have to look at this Burr thing. We have to. He sold a large amount of stock. Lots of stock. Big stock sale. And people are...people are saying that perhaps he used information that, uh, gave him advantages. An unfair advantage. He knew...they say he knew something...something was going to happen. I don't know what he knew, but....he bet against America. Bet against his own country. Despicable. Maybe it's not illegal but we oughta look into changing that law."

Senator Loeffler did this too

I think Burr is toast, possibly Loeffler too, don't know about the others.

xpost while simultaneously tweeting that everybody was blowing the crisis out of proportion.

of course conveniently the American people can't take to the streets and protest about this either rn

This fucking lady, her husband is the chairman of NYSE. Looks preeeeetttty bad.

Concerned about #coronavirus? Remember this:

The consumer is strong, the economy is strong, & jobs are growing, which puts us in the best economic position to tackle #COVID19 & keep Americans safe.

Update following meeting with @realdonaldtrump, @VP, & @StevenMnuchin1: pic.twitter.com/H9t2D6x19k

— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) March 10, 2020

she also invested in a work from home company

America is so bad and stupid

evergreen and otm

problem is, how hard is this going to be pushed at a time where they're voting on yet another relief package?

Her fucking husband is the chairman of NYSE!!!

What???!??!?

idk why after all the ridiculous brazen corruption that’s been happening for years that this is the one that sets me off but man, this administration is obliterating idealist thoughts I didn’t even know I had

like, “of course the chairman of the nyse wouldn’t insider trade, that’s absurd.”

America is so bad and stupid

― silby, Thursday, March 19, 2020

yes

Surely this story won't be lost in the tumult.

Gee, I hope trump didn’t tell his whole family to sell stock in February. After all he did see the pandemic coming before anyone else did

Congressional Democratic leadership made it clear a while ago that they are uninterested in corruption either ethically or strategically https://t.co/H9jcIEUWqH https://t.co/E4GngORaRn

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 20, 2020

If I had the cov, I would stagger to each of these motherfuckers' places of residence just for the chance to rub my plaguey mitts all over their faces.

I think Burr is toast, possibly Loeffler too, don't know about the others.

Fucking LOL, we'll get Mueller right on it!

Absolutely nothing will happen to these people.

if it was a coordinated hit from Trumpland, he'll be on TV tomorrow saying "and y'know I mean we have to look at this Burr thing. We have to. He sold a large amount of stock. Lots of stock. Big stock sale. And people are...people are saying that perhaps he used information that, uh, gave him advantages. An unfair advantage. He knew...they say he knew something...something was going to happen. I don't know what he knew, but....he bet against America. Bet against his own country. Despicable. Maybe it's not illegal but we oughta look into changing that law."

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Gotta say, in addition to rocking the uke, Neanderthal has the Trump cadence down pat

The hits keep coming

On February 28, Sen. David Perdue told his constituents he's regularly attended meetings of the Coronavirus Task Force, reassuring them that "we’re fortunate to have the best and brightest at the CDC working to prepare the country."

That same day, he sold Caesars stock. pic.twitter.com/OJeNWtvPPA

— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) March 20, 2020

everybody's saying Feinstein did too but then I saw others pointing out her situation wasn't the same, that she sold later?

oh guys he's TWEET-STORMING

In a tabloid-style hit piece today, NPR knowingly and irresponsibly misrepresented a speech I gave last month about the coronavirus threat.

Let me set the record straight. 1/

— Richard Burr (@SenatorBurr) March 19, 2020

Good morniing!

lol he mentions nothing about the stock at all

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heads-fema-amid-reports-equipment-shortages-data/

A closeup photo from Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford of the president's briefing notes revealed in a section where the prepared remarks read, "Corona Virus," "Corona" was crossed out and "Chinese" was written in its place, in what appeared to be Trump’s handwriting.

lmao what the hell

#New National @HarrisPoll (3/17-18),

Trump's Approval Rating

Overall: 53%
Handling COVID: 56%
Stimulating jobs: 60%
The economy: 60%
Fighting terrorism 58%
Immigration: 53%
Foriegn affairs: 52%
Administrating the government: 51%https://t.co/xLRxtvgAf9 pic.twitter.com/YhZjcPldmc

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) March 20, 2020

great!

fighting terrorism? why are they even asking that anymore?

tbf After literally years of being a total confrontational asshole, toning things down and conducting long, daily press conferences is by definition an improvement, even if he's still a stupid asshole. So yeah, I'm not surprised his numbers are not tanking. I can't wait for this to be over and his rallies to resume for him to boast that while other countries had tens of thousands of deaths, he managed to keep our deaths down to mere thousands, like a hero.

Lol Harris is an extreme outlier poll, if you look at polls from the same date range on 538 it's like 9 points higher than most polls, six higher than Rasmussen. Nate handicaps them with a 4% Republican lean

Americans have a storied tradition of rallying around presidents, no matter how pustulant, in times of crisis. No surprise if his numbers increase.

The Trump years are going to turn me into a full-blown nihilist yet.

Just use that anger to defeat him in November

The Burr story, which was one of the three leads on the CNN page, is nowhere that I can see right now--not on the front page, not on the politics or business page (they don't have a crime section). Unless I'm missing it. I hope I am. (I'm not trying the downplay the main story...if they're even separate.)

Breaking!

The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, who had expressed confidence in the country’s preparedness for the coronavirus outbreak, sold a significant share of his stocks last month, according to public disclosures.

Burr said he relied solely on public news reports on the sales but asked the chairman of Senate Ethics Committee for a complete review.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.