Christopher 🇺🇸

I am conflicted about this whole thing. I think these betting markets are a cancer, but how is what this guy did any different than a U.S. senator buying up $50,000 in Chevron stock days before the Maduro raid (after liquidating his position in Chevron earlier in 2025)? Are we supposed to believe it was just a coincidence one of the most notorious traders in Congress bought a bunch of stock in the only American company with oil operations in Venezuela just days before we black-bagged Maduro? I don’t think what the Army guy did is good at all, but why we are throwing NCOs in prison for this when U.S. senators who do the same thing get cabinet secretary promotions instead of jail time?

Anna is correct. The amount of corruption we’re seeing on a daily basis is mind boggling, but an actual hero warfighter soldier is the one chosen to take the fall? Absurdity.

How is this legal? We posted this report in August. Intel stock has now risen 227% since then. $INTC is up another 22% today.

So, the official position of the Justice Department is that warmongers can insider trade BILLIONS off the war in the financial markets, but warfighters themselves cannot win $400k in prediction markets? Neither are okay. But only one is hypocritocal. x.com/i/trending/204…

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.

🚨 THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL What happened to CAR this week should not be legal. A company with $8.6 billion in debt, losing money, no major news, no earnings beat. Stock goes from $107 to $850 in a month. Then crashes 80% in 2 days. Here’s exactly what happened, read it twice: Two funds, RS Investment and Pentwater Capital, quietly bought up over 71% of the entire freely traded float. At the same time, 86% of that same float was shorted. Once they controlled that much of the supply, short sellers couldn’t buy back their positions without pushing the price up themselves. THEY WERE TRAPPED. So the stock went vertical. Not because Avis suddenly became a great business, but because two players engineered a situation where the other side had NO EXIT. That’s a corner. In most markets, cornering a stock is ILLEGAL. In the US equity market in 2026, it just gets called “a short squeeze” and ends up on CNBC. By the time retail saw the headlines, it was too late but they bought it anyway. Every single person who bought above $300 because they saw a number going up fast is now underwater, waiting for a recovery that WILL NEVER HAPPEN. The funds that built the position are GONE. THEY SOLD INTO THE “SQUEEZE”. Into the retail buying. The SEC will probably open an inquiry, write a strongly worded letter, and close the file in 18 months. Absolutely NOTHING will change. And the next one is already being set up somewhere else. If you want to know where I AM deploying capital, turn on notifications and pay close attention. A lot of people will regret not following me.

The @DOJ arrested a service member who placed a bet on @Polymarket before Maduro raid meanwhile some in congress are insider trading yet facing no charges. 💡

@TeamCornyn @realDonaldTrump No amnesty. By the way, your video is still up.

So is the DOJ going to arrest members of congress for insider trading? Because if not this seems awfully hypocritical. Just saying.

AVIS ( $CAR ) is squeezing hard up +579% in just 1 month. Has the BUY button been turned off? NO Will SRS & Pentwater Capital be hauled before Congress like Roaring Kitty was? NOPE CORRUPTION IN PLAIN SIGHT. TICKTOCK HEDGIE🦍🦍🦍#GME #AMC $GME $AMC

Barclays has been charged with effecting short sales without locating shares available to borrow. Also known as...Naked Short Selling

WTF have you delivered? You're still not protecting the retail investors and shutting down the fraud. When you have 90% of buy orders being routed off lit exchanges, front running with PFOF, then it's not a new day, just the change of guards. So please go in a corner defecate on the SEC. Really at this point the SEC needs to be shut down also. I don't see how you can have all your attorneys in house later on go work for the people that they are trying to litigate against.

Let's just make a list of the things that you have refused to do for the American people shall we? Save America Act Confirm appointments Codify DOGE Codify Trump agenda Support Trump Realize that Republicans are in power because of Trump and not because of your donors. Probably worst of all is the smug and a total disregard for the opinions, desires and needs of the American people. On behalf of an ungrateful nation I would just like to say FK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!

@BrendanPedersen Banks refuse to let go!

News: Sen. Tillis (R-NC) told Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) the panel should not plan to advance a major crypto bill in April. Negotiators need more time to finalize a bank-crypto compromise on stablecoin yield, Tillis said, pointing to a potential May markup

$GME WHY NOW?

Just so America knows, after two weeks in recess, John Thune is no longer considering the SAVE America Act.

WTH ⁉️🤬 @GregAbbott_TX @TXsecofstate

Now trending +380K posts After @RepLuna called @LeaderJohnThune a "problem" “It’s him that's blocking Voter ID[Save America Act].” FULL Q & A with/Luna 👇 17:13 SAVE ACT/Voter ID - Thune “If we can’t deliver on (SAVE Act) then people like John Thune do not deserve to come back to Congress.”

They have found Noah's Ark! They have found the real Mt Sinai! They know where the Ark of the Covenant is! There is archeological evidence of hundreds of places mentioned in the Bible! They have found coins, idols, cutlery, trinkets..... Yet billions of people think it's a fairytale!

This is so rich coming from Jamie Dimon. It's the sound of a man who rode the China gravy train to the end of the line, pocketed the loot, and is only now saying the "right things" because it led his country straight toward a cliff. He and his fellow elites sold out America's industrial heartland, its workers, its security, and its future, all while making themselves and some commies very rich and powerful. How many of you know about the "Sons and Daughters" program scandal? From 2006 to 2013, JP Morgan created a special fast-track hiring program that gave cushy internships and full-time jobs to the unqualified kids and relatives of powerful CCP officials and state-owned company bosses. They're collectively known as the "princelings." Bankers kept spreadsheets explicitly tracking which princeling hire led to which big deal. Hooking up the right connected kid suddenly brings you IPOs and investment banking business worth over $100 million in revenue in China. America's biggest bank systematically sold out its hiring standards to suck up to the Chinese regime's elite, bribing them with prestigious Wall Street jobs for their spoiled kids in exchange for lucrative contracts. This is textbook corruption. The US government called it what it was - violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and JP Morgan had to pay a $264 million fine to settle the scandal. For years, JP Morgan made billions in China. Dimon himself joked that JP Morgan would outlast the Communist Party. Now Xi has tightened capital controls, imposed more restrictions and retaliatory regulations, showed state favoritism toward SOEs, and the macroeconomic environment (slowing growth, property sector woes, etc.) has now changed so much that returns for US companies in China are diminishing while compliance and legal risks increase exponentially. So the cynic in me says this isn't a real Come to Jesus moment; that fateful decision to court and do business in China wasn't a well-intentioned error in judgement to "democratize and bring freedom to China." It was just greed. And now the taps have run dry and the bill is coming due for the rest of America.