Nancy Pelosi: Democrat and ex-Speaker, 83, to seek re-election

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Nancy Pelosi: Democrat and ex-Speaker, 83, to seek re-election
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Well, she is the queen of congressional insider trading…

She was # 6 in 2021, # 1 to 5 were all Republicans.

Then things didn't go as well in 2022

So how about we start paying attention to Republican tradings? 👍

Republicans are masters of messaging. They latch onto one thing for one person and pound it over and over again. The left accepts that these are bad things (they are) but won’t whatabout enough about the Republicans that do it worse, so this becomes Pelosi’s image while those that do it worse are unknown.

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While you are right this has zero to do with whatever party you want to idolize it’s a problem for all sides we need to focus on all of them, none of these clowns should be able to make trades, they are in positions where they actually can shape the outcomes of their trades that’s fucking ridiculous

And on topic there needs to be some realistic term limits for these jackasses especially when they start to get older, nothing wrong with being old but if you are running a country and you get stuck staring at cameras in a daze it’s time to go.. ffs most people I know can’t wait to retire and would do so even earlier if they could yet these goblins are slopping it up at the trough

This is a class issue always has been

Never said it wasn't the case, I just pointed out the Pelosi is always the target when the fact is she's not the worst and there's zero attention put on any Republicans regarding that.

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Explain how. Can you cite any trades that are particularly suspicious?

You're basically espousing right wing talking points that they came up with to divert attention from the republicans who are actively insider trading. There are plenty of things to criticize pelosi for rather than this stupid argument which isn't backed up by facts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-07/pelosi-s-husband-locked-in-5-3-million-from-alphabet-options?srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg Paul Pelosi is forever making suspiciously well-timed trades. When it became a scandal, they intentionally sold Nvidia shares at a loss to try to end scrutiny of that trade.

It’s not a Republican talking point. I’m as far left as they come and I’m offended by her corruption (even if Joe Manchin’s family seems worse).

So, he exercised his options he held for quite a while, a "week before House panel considered antitrust bills". What exactly was the insider information? And, he just exercised the options to hold the stock. Not sure how that's evidence of insider trading

I mention her trading because this is a post about her.

Corruption is corruption and it spans both chambers and all layers of government.

So you don't care if it's true or not, you're just mentioning it because you associate insider trading with pelosi for just random unrelated reasons?

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