Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks
They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume
Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed
Here’s examples of just how good they were
@Sci_Phile@wizards_magic@ChannelFireball Obuun, Mul Daya ancestor. He was my first precon deck that I upgraded to be very useful. I love playing as many lands as I can and getting extra effects from them
“The Afghan government was easily overthrown because it never existed.” Amazing interview by @sfrantzman @Jerusalem_Post of an American ex-soldier. https://t.co/74S6jKte5R
With American power so visibly in retreat, and the vacuum being filled by regimes with no respect for the rights of women, gays, or ethnic or religious minorities, the wokist critique of America has never felt more anachronistic and wrong.
Bezos, Branson, Musk, and others have overtaken a wildly expensive, ineffective government program and built a competitive industry, driving down the cost of getting a kilogram into Low Earth Orbit by 44-fold already.
Breaking News: The U.S. is expected to formally accuse China of hacking Microsoft and is set to organize allies to condemn Beijing, according to a senior official.
https://t.co/egWwPV6LEz
There are days when you feel like you can just completely fill your timeline with example after example of attacks on both the law and culture of free speech in this country.
Trump's defenders argue that convicting a former president sets "dangerous president." But precedents are set either way. The precedent they seek to set is that fomenting an insurrectionary attack on our republic isn't grave enough to convict. Terrible. https://t.co/xlMqAc5Gg0
Enjoying the fact that under our current Constitutional structure, policy is essentially just a ping-pong match of executive orders, punctuated from time to time by a budget-busting spending spree approved by the vestigial organ legislature.
People really entertained that "well if we defund the police what are you gonna do when someone breaks into your home" and now we're watching an over-inflated, over-budgeted military police force literally do nothing as terrorists breach the nation's capitol building.