I say we forcibly sign these senators up for vaccine testing as human guinea pigs, make them pay full amount of Pharma Bro’s insane price hike- 10x.
then quarantine them in an ICU filled with coronavirusis patients.
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And if that doesn’t work, we go back to the first comment.
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Both done together? Sure.
This was insider trading with a side order of grave harm to others with depraved indifference to life.
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Given all the corruption in today’s government the stock sales were just another ho-hum day-like-any-day in the Senate, but what really makes Burr deserve burning at the stake is his failure to help alert the country (and take on Trump) so we could be a couple weeks ahead of where we are.
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Yup. It was killing off hundreds of Americans unnecessarily to facilitate selling his stocks.
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The Feinstein sales feel to me more like bad optics than wrongdoing. The sales weren’t initiated by her, she lost money, and they were done during existing market volatility. There doesn’t appear to be any indications of insider trading here.
The two republican senators literally after getting classified briefings indicating the shit was going to hit the fan were pumping the economy to the public while at the same time dumping stock in airlines, casinos, and hotels. Loeffler in particular is married to the president of the NYSE. It just oozes corruption to the core.
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Ah, the GOP motto: “The buck stops somewhere over there with Tony. You’ll have to ask him about that. I take no responsibility at all for anything I did or empowered others to do.”
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Fire them. Confiscate the proceeds, use it to help those of their constituents who, because of the crisis, have no income.
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I appreciate the consistency, if not the vileness, of your views. Here’s another one who’s been consistent on the matter:
Great headline, Fox News!
I’m a little surprised they kept it so subtle, instead of posting:
“CORRUPT DEMOCRAT DIANE FEINSTEIN (plus 3 other senators) SOLD OFF STOCKS!”
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It is clearly insider trading.
Nothing vile about the death penalty against the worst of the worst. There is a value to retribution for crimes which shock and horrify society. (For me that would only include serial/mass murder, murder for hire, and sadistic torture murder but nothing else)
But unfortunately it is overused against people who clearly never reached such a category, based largely on race and economics and guided by state governments who are bloodthirsty dillholes.
Trump is sociopath scum, he never apologizes for his errors or acknowledges when they are made. Your article is hardly surprising.
Except that, so far as I know, there are still no laws preventing Senators from doing it.
Edit: confidential Congressional briefings are covered, see below.
Depending on where the total deaths curve finally plateaus, a couple of weeks could be dozens, hundreds, or hundreds of thousands. Those pesky exponentials . . . (Or in the case of total deaths, sigmoid curve.)
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“Should”. My favorite slippery word.
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It’s illegal for everyone to do it. Nothing exempts politicians.
Insider trading is defined by the venue by which the information was received. It appears that confidential Congressional briefings have been added to that list, but a prosecutor would have to prove that the briefing was what drove the stock sales, which the Senators in question of course deny.
The issues are much broader than these seemingly transparent insider trading examples:
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They should be forced to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer at local stores with their immoral profits, and then made to deliver them to charities in need.
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As far as I can see, the law just refers to material non-public information. I don’t see where it talks about the venue by which information was received, in either the STOCK Act or the law against insider trading. Where does it define insider trading via venue?
