In secret meeting 3 weeks ago, Intelligence Chairman told rich and powerful people to prepare for pandemic

[anon48584343]

Of course it f’ing did.

For f’ks sake insider trading takes place on the White House lawn these days. Look it up.

[bric]

@anon48584343

insider trading takes place on the White House lawn these days. Look it up.

Thanks, just did! Spectacular story. So there was a tape, the guy got indicted, convicted and sentenced to 26 months.

In this case NPR has a tape, who here is going to call the SEC and what are they going to say?

[dug]

Don’t know and don’t really care. But if they wanted to have a secret convocation to discover what the rest of us had already worked out by looking at the news, good luck to them. It doesn’t commend them as experts, however (see first sentence).

[anon61833566]

I work in financial services (20 years now) Insider trading ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY took place.

If you don’t think it did, then you don’t understand the reality of how those conversations go. If you believe it did but think it’s no big deal or there are bigger fish to fry, then you have no clue how harmful it is to our economy.

Either way have a nice day. I have jack shit else to say to you. Social distancing and all.

[anon61833566]

This. Fucking this this this. And the fact we have to even point it out makes me see a fucking droll.

[gatto]

@mguerena

Anyone that was taking the Presidents words seriously was not paying attention to what was happening all around us? Ignorance was bliss for a little while at least.

@Pensketch

Sure, if you believed him you’re a sucker, like anyone who has believed anything he has said, but we have an enormous number of suckers seeded among us.

yes, but this:

@Shuck

and set policy that’s disconnected from the reality

the whole point of government is that it can do things collectively that we can’t do individually.

i stocked up on groceries ( granted i work at a grocery store ), got money from the atm, made sure my gas tank was full, talked to friends and co-workers. but can i direct national testing, can i institute self-isolation for travellers, can i close public and private establishments?

only the government is empowered to do that. and that’s exactly what government is for.

so here’s a senator abdicating his job to make he and his friends richer at the expense of people’s actual lives.

Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About...

he should go to jail for it. it’s like what martha stewart did ( years ago, now ) - only she’s wasn’t in government, and people didn’t die as a result.

[FGD135]

[Shuck]

@gatto

he should go to jail for it. it’s like what martha stewart did ( years ago, now ) - only she’s wasn’t in government, and people didn’t die as a result.

Yep, and those are some pretty darn big differences.

[TheDevil_LLC]

@Fred_Cairns

It seems to me there is an air of tragedy about situations like this. I don’t mean the pandemic, and I mean “tragedy” in it’s dramatic or philosophical sense. It’s the inevitability, that you can see coming from a long distance, like a slow-motion train-wreck. These greedy characters stab each other in the back and commit all kinds of nefarious deeds in order to climb the greasy pole; but when they reach the top, there is inevitably a situation where they have to appear good, righteous, morally upstanding. And that’s the point when the nefarious deeds start to unravel. They are doomed. Even they should be able to see that they are doomed, now. It’s just a matter of time.

That’s a very insightful analysis. I wonder how many of these people realize that they are actual monsters? That they’re living embodiments of our media stereotypes for the greedy heartless villain that everyone knows will be consumed by a horrible fate in the third act?

[anon29537550]

This is true. I was saying the same thing 3 weeks ago also. I am not telling rich SOBs one thing while telling the public something totally different, though, which is what was happening here.

[Carbonman]

@anon32019413

Bezos’ sell off was about 2 weeks before the meeting. Could be a coincidence, or it could be that multiple meetings among powerful people occurred.

For all his faults, Bezos is a very smart businessman. He has ongoing daily feedback on what’s happening in his business empire (Amazon, Whole Foods, Washington Post et al) and his other investments around the world. He listens to his experts on finance, supply chain, human resources and risk management, then modifies his existing action plans to protect himself and his wealth.

[anon18417063]

wait, really? February 27? I got a call in January telling me to prepare. If “rich and powerful people” were anywhere close to being in the know, they’d have gotten that same call. The intelligence chairman would have gotten that call waaaaaaaaay before I did, likely in December. The real question is - why the LAG in response? Oh yeah, the markets…heh

[FloridaManJefe]

Why would that be questionable, when overall, Amazon stocks should be poised for a big spike (see WalMart stocks rising as more supplies are being hoarded - erm… purchased) as people “self-isolate” and order in?
Unless Mr. Bezos knows something about his own supply chains that common investors do not.

[NoThisIsPatrick]

[anon62122146]

[anon18417063]

@FloridaManJefe

Unless Mr. Bezos knows something about his own supply chains that common investors do not.

It is certainly plain as day to see the results of Mr. BEzos actions. Months before the ‘pandemic’ thing, the amazon shipping containers were stacked up on the port, 10 high, full of supplies from china. If that wasn’t the “buy” signal I dunno what was.

[dazz]

The shitpile was a nice touch.