In my office I keep a clock that tracks our national debt in real time. This morning it read nearly $40T.
Washington taxes you, borrows against your grandchildren, then sends billions out the door without knowing who receives it or if any service was ever performed. No private business survives that way. The government shouldn't either.
.@ZachLahn: "If I'm looking at a [state] contract, it's very simple: There will be measures and oversight in place to make sure those jobs are not going to H-1B employees and that Iowans have first right at those jobs."
This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.
A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.
It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:
56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.
More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.
343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.
That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.
The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:
The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.
Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.
Now look at the individual leaderboard:
- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade
And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.
She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.
The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.
The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.
And the cruelest part is this:
A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.
But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.
They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.
The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
Feel horrible for Canada that they lost on the 4th of July after spending the last year booing the US national anthem at every opportunity. Just awful.
Caitlin Clark needs to leave the WNBA and start her own league. I’m not kidding. I bet I could raise $500 million for her new league in two days. She could take 20% of the league and bank a hundred million in equity, more than she will make in a career in the WNBA.
"We have socialism already...the fire stations we call upon"
Sure, if we ignore the fire engines, PPE, hoses, gated wyes, tankers, retardant, copters, chainsaws, and everything they use to save lives are created by private industry and only made possible through capitalist private sector supply chains.
Let's not forget, while the rest of the Palisades burned to the ground because our socialist government leaders slashed the LAFD budget by $17M, Rick Caruso hired private firefighters to successfully save all of his assets in the Village.
Fire departments aren't socialist...they operate in a MIXED ECONOMY. This is basic economics, folks. I can't tell if these socialists are filthy liars, or they're really just this stupid. Maybe it's both?
Ro Khanna: Hold Epstein’s friends accountable, except Stacey Plaskett, because she’s my friend.
Also Ro Khanna: Members of Congress shouldn’t trade stocks, except for me.
Also Ro Khanna: Extremely rich people should pay a wealth tax, but not me.
Also Ro Khanna: Sexually assaulting women is wrong, unless it’s Graham Platner, because he shares my politics.
Also Ro Khanna: Trump should release his tax returns, but not me.
• You and your friends would steal 80% of it
• you’d come in 300% over budget and still spend 3x what you taxed
• you’d start 2 useless departments that soak up billions yearly forever going forward
• the entire mess would be riddled with bribes, fraud, and fake daycares
• you’d be proposing a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then permanent wealth tax to deal with the “gross underfunding” of your corrupt “childcare for everyone” empire.
The icing on the cake? Childcare costs in the US would increase by 40% in 2 years.
out of all the rich people you can hate, mfers chose the *one guy solving rocket science* instead of having orgies in the Aegean
youd retire after 2M in net worth but yes, the guy choosing to still work for civilization after 1 TRILLION is the problem
derptardio
The government created over $37 trillion in debt.
Yet people believe that if the gov’t only had Elon‘s trillion, hunger would be solved and everyone would have healthcare.
Hard to get much more stupid than that.