TheGerd

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Democrats want to shield criminal illegal aliens from deportation, even ones who harm American citizens. That’s why they tried to defund ICE. But they failed. Republicans are funding ICE and CBP for years to come.

INTERESTING: If the Supreme Court overturns the law that only ballots received on or before Election Day will be counted then 29 states are affected and have to change state law. How did we get to a place where 29 states are counting ballots AFTER Election Day?

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

@Roseluoabcd @Mcbustanut1 @Rightanglenews King was independent as he felt betrayed by Democrats and Republicans. His stances often straddled the line with some things republicans support and some things democrats support. 1960s democrats would call modern progressives communists...

@Mcbustanut1 @Rightanglenews Don‘t forget that Martin Luther is also a supporter of the Democratic Party, you idiot

US Navy Secretary Hung Cao: “They call me a white supremacist, but I have one request for them when they give me my hood, make sure it’s got the little slits and not the circles so I can see better.”

Trump on Truth - we all feel the same way.

Congress watching soldiers get arrested for insider trading

@FilmLadd @LegioEquestrisX Because we have a two tier justice system. Why is this hard to understand? He should be subject to the UCMJ, but civilian courts should GTFO if they aren't holding our elites responsible for the same bullshit.

@LegioEquestrisX People are absolutely arguing online that he shouldn't have even been charged, should get a pardon, on and on. Excusing bad behavior with someone else's bad behavior. You let it slide "because Congress" and you wreck the military immediately. 5th columnist talk and thinking.

Thought exercise: imagine if the Maduro bet tipped off the CCP. They tell the Cubans and the Vz's, who lay a trap for the snatch team that night. Everyone dies. On video. Bloody and horrible. Would you still be excusing the bet "because Congress insider information?"

A video of Senator John Cornyn arguing for red flag laws? Yes, we have that, too.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales NATO should be dissolved. I could write a book as to why. The US should drop NATO and create a new alliance with Europe that includes Russia and Ukraine for that matter. It would be far better to have Russia in an alliance than not.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales You DO understand why NATO is a good thing right??

“The vast majority of Canadians (78%) no longer consider the United States a friend or ally," per CTV

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Do you know what is happening in Iran right now? Is your news telling you about what is internally happening with the power vacuum in Tehran, versus the leadership in the IRGC? If you do not know these things, maybe you should look into it. Iran's military has gone rogue.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales How is the leadership fractured? They're just going to keep replacing them with the same fucking extremist, over and over again.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Sure. Under Obama and Biden we were basically the beaten husband providing money to our abusive spouse in Europe, China, and the ME. We were taken advantage of, and derided as uncultured, fat, weak Americans. While being forced to accept globalist bullshit.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales You’re being arrogant is what you're doing. America wasn’t looked down on by our allies UNTIL NOW. Respect is earned through stability, trust, and leadership, not by insulting partners and pretending isolation is strength. BTW nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/…

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Yes. It was expected. The fracture between the mullahs and the IRGC was probably not expected to be as pronounced, because the general thought was that the mullahs controlled with an iron grip, but now the leadership is fractured and we are cleaning up the scraps.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Dude… you’re seriously telling me that mess around the Strait of Hormuz was “calculated” and wasn't reckless? Are you fucking serious?

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales I'm not a child, I am a tax paying American who is tired of being looked down upon by our "allies" as we sink billions of our dollars into their defense and economies while they shit on us. It's fair turn and actually refreshing. Besides we shouldn't care what socialists think.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Are you a child? Holding allies accountable is fine. But humiliating them, threatening them, and treating every partnership like a shakedown is not strategy. America's respect has fucking fallen due to this reckless, bullying bullshit.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales I'm not for pardoning her, but I can see why it would be on the table, its a move to pressure someone, anyone to come forward and name names. She will never be pardoned, but I would be willing to bet that the prospect of it happening might crack the protection these people have.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales c'mon man, Lack of publicly named recipients doesn’t mean there was no exploitation or wrongdoing. And again, for the Republicans to even CONSIDER giving her a pardon is some sickening shit.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales She should rot in jail, but the reality is that she is currently guilty of running a prostitution ring that has never had a customer...its insane because we know she did, but no one will testify as to who those people are. There is apparently no evidence, and its a mess.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales There are ZERO people identified as being the recipients of any sexual favors or otherwise. Jesus, I'm not saying she is not guilty, the pardon itself implies it. But the reality is that if you have no proof of the prostitution then what does that mean?

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales What is reckless? Can you point to anything that was reckless, or is this just your extensive background in world geopolitics and deep understanding of international alliances, trade agreements, and protection? I have not seen anything reckless, its all calculated.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Oh please. Supporting Ukraine after an invasion is not the same as backing reckless escalation everywhere. How do you not understand this?

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales But the economy is great for everyone. I literally just said that the people having a hard time are the ones who are unwilling to make changes to find success, and instead expect the economy to cater to them. There are some who cannot, but the vast majority are just deluded.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales LOL, Glad you’re doing well, but your comfort doesn’t mean the economy is fucking great for everyone. If prices, healthcare, housing, debt, and job insecurity are crushing millions, dismissing them as lazy is exactly the arrogance voters punish. Good luck in the midterms.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Then there is this weird thing about national parks being handed over to private businesses...which is a fallacy because its all about natural resources and working with the park services to extract what we need with minimal environmental impact so we aren't reliant on China.

@TheGerdIsDaWord @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Which party is talking about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell ? Which party wants to pick fights around the world while the economy craters? Which party wants to hand national parks over to private business? Talking about wiping out logic... 🙄🙄

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Also holding our allies accountable is not picking fights, its rebalancing the relationships we have and dumping those that are not beneficial to America or its citizens which is how foreign relations should always work.

@SirCaptRoberts @BrandonFalco121 @unusual_whales Picking fights around the world, is also what a stupid person who will support Ukraine while condemning the destruction of the single most prolific financing mechanism for global terror, because it raises their gas prices.