Klaatu Carpenter

@doogadoo11 You’re already in one

We can only take so much. Is a Civil War inevitable?

@ScottPresler Considering the elections are all rigged, it’s happening

If democrats ever gain power again, they will try to bankrupt us. They will weaponize the IRS against us. They will pass laws to take away our gun rights. They will use red flag laws & turn the courts against us. They will try to imprison us.

@EricLDaugh @carolina_bonita Obviously, the answer is NOT “voters need to wake up”. People are NOT voting their way out of the current situation.

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Spain is now breaking out into chaos as they legalize up to 800,000 THOUSAND illegal migrants Local infrastructure is starting to get overwhelmed Voters must WAKE UP and remove the leaders destroying their civilization with the 3rd world!

Call me crazy, but arresting a soldier for insider trading when Congress have been doing it for decades seems like a double standard. If we won't arrest politicians for it, then the soldier should be free too.

@RepLuna It’s getting so tiring

If members of Congress are caught insider trading, it’s a small, couple-hundred-dollar fine. If you’re caught doing it in the military, like in MSgt Dykes’s case, you could be facing up to 50 years in prison. Anyone who cannot see that members of Congress are insider trading is either low IQ or willfully ignorant. Let’s take Nancy Pelosi, for example, it is statistically not possible for her to make a 17,000% return and outperform Warren Buffett without insider information. 🤡

@JamesOKeefeIII @newsvoicemag @WestPalmPD

🚨WATCH: West Palm Beach Police Department Enters O'Keefe Newsroom To Confiscate My Firearms Last Night @WestPalmPD

@mickitiki Republicans are going to help them

Democrats are going to cheat and republicans are going to let them.

@gothburz @Ne_pas_couvrir

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.

@jeffreytucker They develop some chemical cocktail, attach it to already trending lower situation and claim success.

You need to see this chart. The keys to public/private health and better lives are clean water, sanitation, fresh food, and good hygiene. Vaccines have historically played a minor/tiny role at best. The reason we keep talking about them constantly pertains almost entirely to industrial interests.

@MAGAVoice The uniparty is controlling the country

I DON’T GIVE A F*CK WHAT ANYONE SAYS. THE GOP IS DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR US ABSOLUTE LAZY LOSERS PRIMARY ALL RINOS

@rushicrypto Doesn’t matter if owned by a private company. That private company uses the government to get what they want anyway.

Services that should not be owned by private companies. Why? It’s a conflict of interests. Health care Clean water Gas supply Electricity supply Prison service Can you think of any more?

@mattvanswol That’s a rhetorical question, right? It’s obvious what is going on, has been for a long time.

So let me get this straight... The EXACT SAME GOP who gave Elon Musk a standing ovation for DOGE, and then only voted on 1 DOGE cut... ...are the SAME GOP saying gender ideology is evil, but just voted to give BILLIONS TO TRANSGENDER CHILD EXPERIMENTS??? WHAT IS GOING ON?!!!

@TheAfrocentricI No. Pretty much ALL elections/votes are made to look close. It’s all theater.

This is exactly why we say every single vote matters.

@MatrixMysteries It’s basic economics. As long as people are willing to pay, they’ll keep charging.

An American grabbed a simple meal at Park MGM Las Vegas. Just a bowl of pasta and a water. Then came the bill: $52.95. This is what unchecked corporate greed has done to Vegas.

@mattvanswol Nope. It’s all expectation management. I know they are just playing a role in the uniparty (the WEE of Organized Crime) and won’t do a thing except act. Nothing will change until enough people do something. Tax revolt, etc

IS ANYONE ELSE SO SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING FOR THE GOP TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE??? WHERE ARE THE DOGE CUTS?! WHERE IS THE SAVE ACT?! WHY ARE WE STILL FUNDING THE TALIBAN?! WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE?! …COULD THE GOP DO SOMETHING????!!

@mxrorywomack @stelzner_n1150

@stelzner_n1150 America First is a KKK initiative. Always has been.

To all my MAGA friends, can I recruit you over to America First? Here is the America First platform: - No foreign wars - Mass deportations - Reducing the national debt - No AI data centers - Pro First Amendment - Pro Second Amendment - COVID arrests - Epstein arrests You in?

@MichaelH_MN So, having dead people on voter rolls is legal in MN?

☠️ MN Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to OPPOSE removing dead people from the MN voter rolls. It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act.

@CharlesMullins2 What happens when AI starts recognizing and calling out the lies in “science”?

🚨 BREAKING: AI designed a rocket engine in just two weeks… then engineers 3D printed it. Not by copying old aerospace designs. By searching geometries humans rarely imagine. This may be where engineering starts evolving. What happens when machines begin discovering physics-shaped designs we wouldn’t have drawn ourselves? Follow me for frontier science and emerging tech.

It is mind-boggling how pretty much every “right-wing conspiracy” is proven to be 100% true. Over and over again. So many of the things I thought I knew as a fact when I was a liberal, have all come crashing down.

@Sassafrass_84 They don’t want the power. They’re only good at talk/complaining, not actually doing anything.

If Senate Republicans fail to pass the Save America Act while they still hold the majority, we risk losing our republic. The GOP currently controls Congress, yet it feels like they're deliberately running out the clock until the midterms, setting themselves up to claim they can no longer act once they potentially lose power. This is the playbook.