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@boldbully3 @mark_slapinski Bless your heart Cory. There really is no hope for you.

@mark_slapinski why would anyone stand for mentally ill men pretending to be women? why would anyone stand for a religion that says its okay to lie to and kill non believers, abuse women, and kill gays on sight? why would anyone WANT to support that? if you do, you're a fucking moron.

Conservatives have no principles They say they oppose cancel culture, then they engage in it They say they oppose pedophilia, then they support pedophiles They say they support individual liberty, but not for gays, trans people, and Muslims I'm not sure what they stand for!

@gothburz @deb41653 @drodvik52 Either name all or none. Naming Pelosi appears partisan and targeted implicating only one party. In this highly charged political era you must realize that.

The post names a senator on the Armed Services Committee, a representative on Energy and Commerce, and a member whose spouse manages $9.2 million. None of them are named because the point is not one member. It has 535 members, 14 years, and 0 prosecutions. Pelosi is named because her returns — 16,930% versus the Dow's 2,300% — are the most documented case in the dataset. The disclosure form does not have a party field. Neither does my waiver.

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.

@gothburz I appreciate this post and many of us also notice it (especially the money the presidents family and friends have made on the Iran war alone) but I wonder why you only mention Nancy Pelosi by name and shield the other members’ names?

@eric6161 @CliffW08950229 Trump: if I win it’s fair. If I lose they cheated. But yeah, totally a democrat problem. 🙄

That's not what happened at all and they know it. Democrats have been cheating for decades and even openly admit their cheating. Mayor Daly of Chicago admitted cheating in the the 1960 election, my dad, a precinct chairmen in '64 & '68 complained about the cheating going on by democrats back in those days. LBJ cheated in the '48 election with Coke Stevenson senate election. It goes on and on and the people are finally saying they've had enough of all this cheating.

@TJC3030 @FreeBird_2023 @CliffW08950229 The same could be said for you bud

@FreeBird_2023 @CliffW08950229 You did great buddy……

@TJC3030 @CliffW08950229 Pretty sure liberals didn’t storm the capital in 2016 and 2024. And you don’t hear them constantly saying Trump stole the election. And maybe read the SAVE act. It’s not what you think it is. Democrats have no issue with showing ID at the polls. That’s not what SAVE is

@CliffW08950229 I’ll leave this here. Take all the time you need……

@Speckle24 @krassenstein Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. She also conceded and never tried to overturn an election. You can think unicorns exist but that doesn’t make you fit to run the fed.

@krassenstein Who cares if he thinks Trump won? A lot of people do. The man is entitled to his own opinion. Hillary Clinton still says she won. So does Stacey Abrams. The Democrats are filled with election deniers.

Kevin Warsh flat out refuses to say whether Trump won the 2020 election when Senator Warren asks. He should be nowhere near the Federal Reserve if he can't even recognize a FACT.

@Julian17778Diaz @krassenstein Proof of this? And sure he can try to indict all he wants. And they’ll all be tossed out just like the other indictments he tried. I’d say the 60+ court cases, ballot recounts and disbarred attorneys prove otherwise.

@krassenstein You do know that the 2020 elections were stolen, right!? Or are you just pretending not to know? Everything Trump said was true about it! Looks like indictments are coming!

@Real_Dan_Fox @krassenstein @POTUS Proof please?

@krassenstein @POTUS definitely won the 2020 election, Democrats cheated! That's all Democrats are good at, lying, cheating and stealing!

@RMoreno404 @krassenstein Ummmm then why was it never proven in court. Why were Giuliani and others disbarred? Why did Fox News have to pay dominion for lying about the election? Because it’s a crock of shit that Trump won and a crock of shit that anyone stole the election.

@krassenstein What? Is this some kind of test??? Everyone knows Trump won the 2020 Election. There is proof the Democrats cheated. They want to continue to cheat by not passing the Save America Act. Cheating is the only way they can win; and they know it.

@KataklizmXL @BrittanyinTexas If he’s not in the files, then why doesn’t he just say “release them all”. No big deal? If you are so sure he’s not in the files, why don’t you say “they should all be released. He campaigned on it”

@BrittanyinTexas You're all so desperate for something that doesn't exist because you have nothing else. Democrats have no other hill to die on. He's not in the files, get over it and move in with your miserable life

The media moved on like nothing happened. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Keep sharing this so it doesn’t get buried.

@BlueCollarStorm @LincolnShepher @Acyn But but but Biden!!!!

@LincolnShepher @Acyn Well— since it is well-documented that the Bidens never owned legitimate businesses, only 20 shell companies that laundered the influence peddling money, the Biden Crime Family can be officially reported as Corrupt!!

Ossoff: How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner—Ivanka’s husband? He’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion. And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently, while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs to give him billions more. Can you imagine a normal sitting U.S. ambassador just hitting MBS for billions? But he’s a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them. And it’s not just Jared. Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.

@ILikeBatsTho @LucifersTweetz So you are aware, a majority of pedophiles are NOT gay. In fact, 80% are straight. Sexual abuse is a crime of power and control. Do some research.

@LucifersTweetz mind you pedophilia is one of few unforgivable acts to god btw. unlike being gay which was made up by pedophiles to be pedophiles

If your religion told you to forgive a pedo and disown your gay child, you're a cunt and your religion is shit.

@MolotovAbe @LucifersTweetz That does not happen. You are basically taking the fact that Jewish law considers 13 the age in which a Jewish person becomes a Jewish adult by Bar Mitzvah. There is nowhere that Jewish children are marrying at age 13.

@LucifersTweetz so it says the minimum age for marriage under jewish law is 13 for boys and 12 for girls... but like is judaism straight-up pedophilic af? is it just a shitty fucking religion? x.com/LucifersTweetz…

@atrupar It’s ok that we’re paying $5 a gallon which is significantly more than it was when Trump was elected in 2024 on a promise of affordability because it’s less than it was in 2022. Got it!

Chris Wright: "I think we've managed it fantastically. Here we are in the middle of the largest interruption in flow of energy ever, and gasoline prices peaked a week ago about a dollar below the peak during the Biden administration."

@allenanalysis To all of you saying it’s BS and insulting Lieu, why aren’t you instead saying “let’s see the full files that exonerate Trump” - things like this are very easy to prove. Also it’s interesting that Trump sues everyone but never threatens to sue people who accuse him of this…

🚨 Rep. Ted Lieu says the full unreleased Epstein files contain evidence that Trump raped children. That’s what’s being hidden. Trump started a war with Iran days after Epstein release pressure peaked. The Senate gave him unlimited war powers. The files stay sealed. The arrests never come. And the war keeps everyone looking the other way. Release everything.

@DreamBird386989 @glenn_tunes Yes! Everything is Biden’s fault. When can we be done with this blaming Biden? 2030? 2040? It’s really f ing tired. Countless investigations, recounts, court cases and no fraud or stealing was found. But Trump says Trump says so it must be so.

@glenn_tunes And NONE of this would have happened, even J6 would not have happened, if BIDEN hadn't stole the 2020 election from Trump! That's where the evil started...Joe Biden and Democrats.

YOU MAY DISAGREE, BUT THE 168 IRANIAN GIRLS WOULD BE ALIVE AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WOULD BE OPEN, AND THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOULD STILL BE ALIVE AND GAS WOULD BE $2.58 A GALLON IF TRUMP HAD BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS CRIMES AND LOCKED UP AFTER J6✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

@Cobra__Driver @glenn_tunes It is interesting though…. That we are fighting for Iran’s right for free speech while suppressing our own citizen’s rights…

@glenn_tunes meanwhile iran has murdered 30K of their own for speaking and you liberals are sucking the iranian cock, choking on it and not saying a word fuck you all and your garbage bullshit

@GTeaman @glenn_tunes Wow - you must get all of your news from Fox and newsmax and X

@glenn_tunes Since the evidence shows he did not commit any crimes concerning J6, that’s why he’s not locked up. The real criminals are the J6 committee. That’s why Joe Biden pardoned all of them on his last day in office.

@Christi13689763 @glenn_tunes Trump is the deep state

so let me get this straight, all of the accusations against Eric Swalwell are real according to the Republican Party and he must resign..🤔but the hundreds of accusations against Donald Trump and the fact that he's actually guilty of rape don't mean a damn thing to the Republican Party 🙄my Norwegian opinion is that Republicans are sick repulsive people🤬😤