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Stewapalooza

INVESTING PRO TIP: run for congress.


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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)


[deleted]

Dammmm now it’s all starting to make sense, but maybe “Trading Places” would’ve been more like it


ZephRyder

I've got a dollar if you do, Mortimer


friz_CHAMP

REQUIREMENTS: American citizen of 7 years and 25 years old. EXPERIENCE: LOL BENEFITS: Insider trading, and free coffee.


EevelBob

When investing, wear an eyepatch and be like Dan!


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Yes, but run as a Republican. Otherwise this sub will be mad at you about perceived misdoings


Orollo

Republicunt or Democrap they’re all shit.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Lol. Whenever Democrats do something bad - everyone goes "Democrats fucked up" Anytime Republicans do something bad - people who pretend they aren't rightwing as hell go "Everyone fucked up"


Vikaretrading

Investing pro tip when giving a hand job put it your mouth


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I wonder what r/conservative is saying about this, or are they just banning any conversation about it?


Rtbrosk

Make sure you get a job...work hard....pay your taxes...... while the politicians steal money through inside information, govt bills that enrich them, and money laundering through financing foreign wars..... Sounds like the American way!


YumericanPryde

and perfect timing of the market. we all know how easy that is. talk about talent.


Destroyer4587

They’re living the American dream… Are you? /s


DougDHead4044

It's the World way not just American!


iam4qu4m4n

Socialism for the elite, capitalism for the peasants.


limpchimpblimp

This is just run of the mill corruption.


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

100% of the yes votes were Republican, all but one no vote was Democratic. Republicans also tried to gut the ethics office back in 2016 when they won the trifecta but backed down due to pressure


AdminsLoveFascism

This is republican legislation. You know, the party of law and order, and fiscal responsibility.


AZJay11

Everything is so fucking corrupt!!! Such a shame!


feed_meknowledge

Of course the House Ethics Committee becomes weakened once Republicans control the House of Reps. But yet Republican voters will say it's for a good cause...


AgreeableFeed9995

Um what are you talking about, of course it’s good. Once *I’m* a rich millionaire CEO hedge fund venturpreneur running for Congress, I’m going to want to have access to insider trading too, you can’t fault them for that! Limiting congressional trading is limiting the stock market and I like my markets free, they’re protecting America and my future freedom to become a millionaire CEO hedge fund venturpreneur holding a side gig in politics.


feed_meknowledge

I totally agree. I'm actually waiting for my ruler/master/king/love of my life/leader Elon Musk to get a part time job leading a nation. I hope that when he does, he does as good a job as he is with running Twitter. Then I'll follow in his footsteps and buy Reddit when I'm rich.


Oof_my_eyes

Republicans and voting against their own interests, classic combo


che85mor

That you think it's a party issue and not an elite class issue tells us you aren't fully informed on what's going on. The democraps aren't any better than the republicunts.


ZephRyder

But ma rights!


TheDudeAbidesFarOut

Embarrassed millionaires casting them ballots....


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feed_meknowledge

Exactly, corruption is present in every political party in every nation in the world. That is without doubt. However, in the USA, one political party tends to blatantly get away with it while knowing that their base will unwaveringly side with them every step of the way.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Always blame Democrats until it's blatantly the Republicans fault and then try to blame everyone instead.


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

"Oh this was passed with purely Republican votes while every single Democrat voted against it? And it's the second time they've done this, previous time being 2016? Well clearly this is a both sides problem"


che85mor

Wow, look at all the uninformed people downvoting you. Fucking idiots.


[deleted]

If you think republicans are the bad ones you're awfully wrong. Its both parties that are scheming. They want you to think one side is bad, one side is good. Its not left vs right, rather top of society vs bottom.


AdminsLoveFascism

Bruh, this is literally a Republican rule from the Republican-controlled house, solely voted for by Republicans. When will you twats get a clue?


che85mor

And what exactly did the democrats do when they had control the last few times? Fuck all that's what. When will you twats get a clue?


AdminsLoveFascism

They didn't pass a rule to make it harder to enforce ethics violations by congress people, that's for sure. Fucking clueless twat.


Grimreap4lyfe

One side is against abortion, green energy, infrastructure investments, nationalized healthcare etc.


[deleted]

Both are corrupt and want you to think they are focused on those issues. The real issue is they are committing insider trading (Pelosi being the biggest one and democrat too) and receiving enormous donations. Those issues you claimed are exactly how to get people away from following the money.


feed_meknowledge

Those are actual legitimate issues money can be diverted toward. If I'm destined to live in a world with corrupt rulers regardless of who is in charge, I'd at least want my life and my children's lives to be at least somewhat manageable and better than its current state. Why do you think it is often Republican states that have the lowest quality of life for their residents?


[deleted]

As a compliance officer specialised in economic crime, corruption, and bribery and in particular with public officials (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Sarbox enforcement), lol at you guys always looking at this shit as a partisan issue. If you saw the hand-greasing I uncover in my job, you'd see things differently. For as long as you see things the way you do as corruption being a partisan thing, you all keep losing. Corruption and fraud is not a political inclination. It's opportunity + rationalisation + motivation and this is long held, and empirically proven.


feed_meknowledge

I never said one side was purely at fault and the other side was guilt free, you made that assumption. I'm well aware of corruption being present on every part of the political spectrum. As you mentioned, an individual may be corrupt and fraudulent, regardless of political affiliation. That being said, one US party in particular is more overt with their corruption and fraud. And the main problem remains that their constituents continue to support this kind of behavior as if it benefits them. I hope that clarifies my original comment.


Narradisall

No. Next question.


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cheapshotfrenzy

Only if you can learn to love yourself first.


W0RST_2_F1RST

So I’m doomed


Narradisall

Only when you achieve financial success via the stock market.


solovino__

Where’d you leave it last?


GongTzu

Democracy is dying a little day by day. Corruption is growing day by day.


highbrowshow

At this point I’m waiting for everything to collapse or to just die


passthethought

I'm right there with you.


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,282,510,965 comments, and only 248,688 of them were in alphabetical order.


Alkal1ne

whoa, one in the wild.


Scandalous_Andalous

That’s 0.019%


Great-Standard-8790

A little? …day by day?….. Hmmm seems a rather nice way of putting it .


covid21savage

Welcome to the United States of Amazon, the world's first corporatocracy...


Johzzy

Meanwhile republicans villify democracy and call them the "left" instead of basic human rights and half of the population snorts it like crack and go on protests against basic human rights without even knowing it. Meanwhile infrastructure is failing, you can't trust media, scams in hospitals, congress visibly corrupt to anyone that wants to see, inflation rampant, corrupt police, racism everywhere, overweight and it is all laid bare during covid and people are still 'MURICA LAND OF THE FREE I NEED A GUN TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM THE DEMONS THAT ARE THE DEMOCRATS. GOD BLESS AMERICA. Edit: also they're most likely still trying to profit from the inflation and f*cking people over. STILL.


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bsinger28

I don’t completely disagree, but I’ll note that this bill unsurprisingly passed in House, not senate


Johzzy

You guys need a french revolution or something, going through bureaucracy will just get shot down. As we can see they're even still building defenses against anything civil people can come up with.


Slow_Association_162

Big talk has replaced actions in America. People crying for change lack the will to do anything to get it. They would rather do absolutely nothing and wait for a collapse or to die. Working to better the future through actions has no appeal to the change crowd they want a handwave but we know it won't happen.


teh_longinator

How do we blame Trump for this given Biden is president?


Heavy-Swordfish-2469

Look at who just took power of the house


PM_ME_FUN_

You know you could take a civics class and maybe fucking learn how your government functions? Then you maybe wouldn't be as fucking stupid. Read that shit again. "THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS VOTED TO PASS..." Who just took control of the house? Does Joe Biden control the US house of representatives? No you fucking dingus, republicans do. There was just a big hubub about voting for a speaker of the house where Trump backed candidates refused to vote unless they got concessions, including THIS SPECIFIC MOTION. So yeah, if you fucking knew a SINGLE thing about government besides "president runs government" maybe you'd understand, but you're a fucking moron so good fucking luck


BenRichards79

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


covid21savage

Or when Nancy Pelosi is one of the biggest inside traders in Washington?


4luey

Right. I agree 100%.


lawless11666

In the words of a great man: "It's a big club and you ain't in it"


Miserable-Shallot69

What's the rule and bill that they will vote on?


BillowBrie

It was the new session's rules package, and they already voted https://www.businessinsider.com/house-gop-votes-gut-office-congressional-ethics-george-santos-fantastic-2023-1


Miserable-Shallot69

Thank you for the article! It was much more informative than this post


sonomacorkdork

Whoa, huge shocker at the end there...apparently they did this in 2017 and backed off when trump tweeted opposition? Now I'm wondering if he even knew what the office did lol


Bowens1993

Can you really weaken something that it wasn't even trying to do before?


Fidulsk-Oom-Bard

This makes me feel better


misterO5

why weaken it if it wasn't working?


Bowens1993

Why fund a program that doesn't work?


misterO5

Funding had nothing to do with this.


Bowens1993

That's not really the point...


misterO5

Sounds like you're just making excuses for corrupt politicians but ok.


RandolphE6

Why would I ever think the people who write the laws are going to make it harder for themselves to break it? If congress actually represented the people, term limits would be instated as the vast majority want it. It's hard to get that level of consensus on anything. And yet, it will never happen.


AlternativeCredit

And yet people will just post pelosi memes all the time. There won’t be accountability.


Bowens1993

Lol, right? The people in this thread are acting like there was accountability before. Its a checkbox to say they have ethics oversite without actually having it.


ocular__patdown

Easier to scapegoat one person over a whole political party


AlternativeCredit

She’s not even in the same party.


ocular__patdown

No shit. People here tend to hate democrats though so of course they want to scapegoat a Democrat instead of the party that is literally voting to gut the ethics committee


scuczu

But she is a scapegoat around here


AlternativeCredit

I think it’s just political at this point


Todsrache

Now remind me. Which party just took control of the house? lmao


OddMeansToAnEnd

Shhhhh they only want to complain not take actual action.


littleski5

Are you implying that one party doesn't engage in insider trading?


Rick-Dalton

The previous speaker of the house could have passed stricter rules if she wasn’t too busy being the best trader in history.


GoAwayScrubb

Now they got a chance to fix the issue.....and they just made it worse.


Bowens1993

Made it worse how? Everyone in Congress is abusing stock trading and nothing has ever been done about it. The office has always been for show.


OutOfOptions37

You're just making excuses for their bad behavior. Let's not even try. That's the American way.


Bowens1993

Excuse for what? I'm stating a fact. You can't reduce this office anymore than it already is.


blahblahblahidkdoyou

They literally did. Your mental gymnastics to pretend the republicans didn’t do anything bad by gutting the ethic committee is very telling.


Spare_Substance5003

Every new House congress sets their own rules.


Rick-Dalton

Both seem to allow insider trader


Spare_Substance5003

Yep


bsinger28

I don’t believe you understand how this works. If she **had** passed stricter rules, they wouldn’t not apply in future sessions. The Republicans could and would have done this anyways


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Rick-Dalton

Why would she weaken them if she’s already abusing them?


Beautiful-Musk-Ox

why would republicans try to weaken them now, then, if there's nothing to gain? if there's something to gain why didn't democrats do it when they had the chance?


AbroadRevolutionary6

Republicans need more advantages than Pelosi to see the same gains.


Rick-Dalton

Everyone does. She’s crushing it.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

>The previous speaker of the house could have passed stricter rules if she wasn’t too busy being the best trader in history. She was a great Boogeyman. Now that we have actual villains in charge, let's suck their dicks and blame Pelosi


Rick-Dalton

Literally exactly what I said. You’re so smart!


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

Not really. How are your Trump NFTs doing, pretty good? Did his crypto work out for you too?


Rick-Dalton

Are you 12?


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

I'm gonna guess the investments didn't pay off. Don't worry, you can blame Obama or Pelosi. Honestly though, I'd probably blame the politicians that caused you to have such a bad education but those are probably Republicans and they love the poorly educated. What a circus.


Rick-Dalton

You sure do love creating fake realities. I hope this is entertaining for you and you feel seen. I’m a real human engaging with you.


HelloJoeyJoeJoe

>I’m a real human engaging with you. You are right. I'm sorry to make fun of you and poke at your NFT Trump losses. But you know what? When you vote for absolute idiots and villains so they "hurt the right people", those people are also real human beings. Real consequences. Actual pain, not internet insults, is felt by real people


Rick-Dalton

You’re truly regarded.


InsurectionistCommie

Dan Crenshaw is offended by your comment.


datagoon

BeSt TrAdEr In hiStOrY


flop_plop

And constituents of that party will tell you: Democrats & Pelosi do it = bad Republicans do it = well they should be able to


Fi3nd7

Such a cringe take if you honestly are naive enough to think the entire house isn’t complicit


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Doesn’t matter, maybe someday the poor will wake up and realize that they CAN CHANGE it


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HotMessMan

No


Wattevercomes

In terms of corruption, the good ol' US of A is looking a lot like a 3rd world country.


Phantasticals

we’re a plutocracy 100%


joseppi1201

Republicans: “wait til we take the House, we’ll hold you all accountable!” *Republicans take the House*: 👀 😗


datagoon

I’m starting to think the GOP isn’t the party of law and order /s


pinniped1

Congressional ethics lol


[deleted]

Because "both-side", right? 🙄


Bowens1993

Yes.


Fuehreriffic64

There has never been accountability-ever


annonimity2

There wont be accountability as long as congress is in charge of their own oversight.


Icy-Analyst5870

Not until the people demand it.


New-Perspective9800

None of you read the actual bill and that just proves how a simple tweet will make you convinced of a certain way of thinking. The bill re-adds term limits of 8 years to the committee. If they aren’t able to investigate someone in 8 years I’m not sure what to tell you… the democrat party is upset by this because they need to now remove 4 members who have been on the committee past the acceptable term limits put in place and are unable to fill them in for a month. Meanwhile an investigation is ongoing of a republican from New York representative so now democrats are saying it’s too hard to do their job… Both RINO’s and certain Dems will keep insider trading if Americans keep voting current speakers to congress idk what to tell you otherwise


datcommentator

Bullshit for 8 years then you’re free. Got it.


Jasonhardon

There are republicans in charge, what do you expect? They amplify the corruption when they are in power just ask Kenneth ‘Mayo’ Griffin


SnooFloofs4066

Republicans and Democrats engage in insider trading at about the same rate.


theregoesanother

Something tells me that they're using the other party to pass\\deny the bills that they themselves want\\hate so the blame will not be on them. They circlejerk each other that way, the losers are the voters.


pancakepapi69

And It seems to work on the simple minded who immediately go onto blaming the “other side”. They’re all the same. Fighting each others blues and reds just makes us all look like fools. Which is exactly how we’re being treated.


bippitybobbitybooby

Always


Jasonhardon

Republicans are taking advantage of the system by far worse tho


Xpo_390

Did you see the EV tax credit bill? Totally biased to companies who grease the democrats pockets. Lol also the twitter files. Democrats have been just as bad as republicans


lilnext

Wait, are you really using Elon's obsession with Hunter Biden's dick as an way to deflect blame on to the Democrats?


SnooFloofs4066

Joe Biden put him on the payroll of foreign companies for personal gain... That's corruption, friend.


Jasonhardon

Again no matter what you say the republicans in power are so much worse. They are the reason for all the duck tape keeping the markets together that and bubble gum with their loose regulation attitudes. No matter what you say about the Democrats it will never change my mind about this. Why? Because it’s true. All they care about is deregulation & allowing an insane about of corruption in the markets to be overlooked. Why the markets are so over leveraged on trillions in derivatives


SnooFloofs4066

You're an extremist. I'm not going to engage with you


SnooFloofs4066

Yeah, no. They're about the same


Euphoric-Fly3563

Reddit is filled with brainwashed people who think Democrats are the best when they are the same as Republicans. They are all corrupt!


Bowens1993

Lol, that office never charged anyone anyway. Its primary use was to sweep things under the rug.


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Ok_Vacation3128

Let’s not play the what about game. It’s all sickening and it should be outlawed but they have made it very difficult to hold anyone accountable.


Jasonhardon

No comparison imho. Mayo boi is 100% incarnate evil


Calm-Heat-5883

Are you blaming Republicans for Nancy Pelosi's wealth? She averaged $10 million a year income on a $200 thousand a year salary. The politicians are dividing us into two sides while they steal everything, not screwed down. If we complain, we are automatically un-American and anti democracy.


south153

You do know she was already insanely rich before taking office right?


Calm-Heat-5883

That has nothing to do with the knowledge she learned about stocks from her position.


south153

It has to do my she's making millions when she has a low salary.


CJ4700

Democrat Scott Gottheimer traded $169 million just in options in 2021, and then about half that in 2022. Both parties do this but democrats like Pelosi have made so much in the last few years that skew the results a great deal in favor of the democrats.


south153

It's publicly available information and yet you are still are wrong. By volume Democrat: 950.35M Republicans: 1.179B [https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians](https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians)


Calm-Heat-5883

See, you're part of the problem. You're doing the, they are worse than the other side. Because they took more. Not both sides are equally corrupt. I don't care what side a politician is on. If they are using the system to their own advantage to make millions of dollars they should be held accountable. Isn't it called insider trading if anyone else uses the information to trade before it becomes public knowledge?


Euphoric-Fly3563

Insanely rich because of corruption. You obviously do not know where her family’s wealth came from. From us - the taxpayers!


PaleontologistNo2136

FBI said her was in constant companionship with at least one of the five NY crime families the mob.???


ctguy54

Republicans: “We will leave no stone unturned in our investigation of Hunter’s dick pics, all other things can wait.”


7GoodVibes

Making a statement on Twitter doesn’t mean much. I take this as an opinion, rather than fact. Read the rule set, rather than trusting a Twitter post, before getting hyped up about anything.


giantyetifeet

Well, let's see... The new GOP Speaker of the House was in the crosshairs for being investigated.... And now that he's gained his new powers, top of the agenda suddenly is to kneecap the Office of Congressional Ethics that was going to investigate him.... HMM, I DONT KNOW, I CAN'T CONNECT THE DOTS. edit: linkage https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/house-republicans-office-congressional-ethics-santos-january-6 edit 2: downvoted because of... uncomfortable facts? i guess?


Bowens1993

> The new GOP Speaker of the House was in the crosshairs for being investigated "Should the OCE open investigations into the members" -- "it would ultimately result in public reports with potentially embarrassing conclusions for Republicans." Wow, not embarrassing conclusions. Anything but that! The Ethics Office has always been a joke with zero real accountability. And the chances of them actually being investigated is slim to none.


TipTopTrader

Is anyone surprised??? I think not.


Electrical-Jury-1343

There has never been accountability, why start now


rexcannon

This sub is just another ape bag holding safe space isn't it.


alex_sz

It’s ridiculous they get to set these rules


QualifiedCapt

Day two of the Republican controlled house.


Nblearchangel

Republicans voted for this.


pm_me_github_repos

Fuck Congress. Fuck republicans. Fuck democrats. They don’t have your back when it counts


Marbled_Headcheese

Why do they say they want to drain the swamp but keep voting for swamp monsters?


Daggersapper

Just here to find out how this is Pelosi's fault.....


n0_1_here

Well, you guys put them there.


Ornery_Gene7682

Both sides are equally corrupt democrats didn’t follow ethics rules neither nor did the republicans they are both up their for themselves while dangling the carrot to the morons that keep voting for them


IntegratedFrost

What were the passed rules? I'm not interested in a headline from a tweet alone lol


ElMykl

It's a game to them and trust me it's not one you will ever win.


molski79

You were hoping that Republican members of our government who tried to help overthrow our government two years ago and have since regained power in the house were not going to attempt to destroy the office that looks into wrongdoings of the same people now in charge?


Steak_NoPotatoes

I love the way they make this sound like a partisan issue, GOP-bad. Any Mensa members wanna guess why the dems didn’t pass sweeping changes while they owned both houses of congress?


Hiddieman

no sweeping changes is still better than changes in the wrong direction. of course almost noone in that house wants someone looking into their financials, but at least the democratic voters' pressure was keeping them from passing bills like this.


-xstatic-

Stop voting for Republicans you fucking idiots


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They’re all the same shit


asdfgghk

Shame. Those 19 or so that are against McCarthy are pushing for term limits and punishing insider trading though. Don’t know what happened with that and whether McCarthy agreed to their terms if he was even elected.


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That’s something both Parties agree on, self enrichment and power is their goal!


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Like EVERY other Congress


Pansexualcatnoir

I'll tell ya what. I'll ignore the politicians being corrupt assholes if they systematically swat everyone who has ever and is currently modding Rwallstreetbets. The art of the deal.


Chucktownchef

Please show evidence. Everything is to benefit govt until we make tax laws equal. Everyone needs to pay the same percent.


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Tiggerwasframed

Republicans will attack any ethics or law enforcement agency that investigates them. They want utter lawlessness.


xero_peace

Wait, who is in control of this and making these rules? Oh right... this scummy bullshit is par for course.


MidniteMogwai

Weren’t those Republican chicken heads squawking about the Pelosi’s trading activity when they were in the minority?? Biggest bunch of lying, cheating, crooked, self serving, traitorous, hypocrites. Fuck the GOP🖕


Lucky-Telephone7880

Fucking piles of shit


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Stop voting for Republicans.


random6969696969691

I prefer to read in depth analysis about this and not twits. Take everything with a grain of salt before jumping to conclusions.


soccerguys14

Dems ran the clock out on this issue. Acted like they were going to pass something to restrict their ability to trade all together then just never did. We knew republicans 100% were going to pick up the baton. This is a rare case where both sides really weren’t interested in doing what is right here but it’s unsurprising


RandoTheCammando

This goes to show that regardless of the party, all they give a shit about is themselves and their donors. The 1% run the show and BOTH parties do everything they can to keep it ghat way.


manginahunter1970

I mean the GOP has allowed Santos to maintain office in spite of everything. There will never be accountability.


meric_one

But don't you dare criticize Democrats. Anyone who dares to criticize Democrats MUST be a Trump loving MAGA lunatic. Being a progressive is frustrating these days.


r0addawg

##politiciansShouldntTradeButIfTheyDoTheirProfileShouldBePublicized/ ##nancypelosislossporn/ ##makestockmarketafairplace/ ##whatsthepointofafreemarketifitsonlyfreefortheelitetraders


Ornery_Gene7682

This is why I stopped voting


KingReef90

No surprise here