Britni de la Cretaz
Wed, January 27, 2021, 10:38 AM

Nancy Pelosi made some stock purchases last month that are raising eyebrows — and questions — about the ethics of Congresspeople buying and selling stocks. In December, Rep. Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, purchased 25 call options of Tesla stocks, along with a few other stock purchases. Why does this matter? Because under the Biden administration’s new agenda, with its focus on environmental protections and combating c*****e c****e, Pelosi could benefit financially from those political plans.

President Joe Biden is currently encouraging the purchase of electric vehicles, and that could mean lifting the cap on sales, providing tax credits to buyers, and a potential program incentivizing people to trade in used vehicles to buy an electric one. Biden also announced on Monday that he would be replacing the entire fleet of 645,000 federal vehicles with electric ones. This could create a conflict of interest, as part of Pelosi’s job will include working to pass these environmental and clean energy initiatives — initiatives from which her family now stands to profit handsomely.

According to the disclosure, Pelosi (or her husband, Paul, who runs a venture capital firm) purchased call options at a stake price of $500. Since the calls were bought last month, shares of Tesla have risen from $640.34 to over $890. The call options are now valued at $1.12; they were purchased for between $500,000 and $1 million.

Questions of whether it’s ethical for members of Congress to buy and sell stock are not new. Last year, former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler was accused of insider trading and profiting off the c****av***s p******c when she sold between $1.275 million and $3.1 million in stocks right after being briefed in January 2020 about the seriousness of the v***s. In June of 2020, the investigation was dismissed by a Senate ethics panel. And since then, Loeffler lost her seat in the Senate to Democrat Raphael Warnock.

Another former Georgia Senator, David Perdue, was also criticized for potentially unethical stock purchases during the six years he spent in Congress. The Republican was investigated by the Justice Department for his stock market activity, though no wrongdoing was found (he, too, lost his recent re-e******n campaign to a Democrat, Jon Ossoff).

In the past, there has been legislation aimed at combating this. The STOCK Act, passed after the 2008 financial crisis, attempted to stop insider trading by making it illegal for government officials to trade stocks after receiving material or nonpublic information “derived” from their jobs, or information that they received while performing their jobs. In light of the Loeffler and Perdue activity, that bill has been re-examined and some people have argued it did not go far enough.

“Given that Congress’ first obligation is to the American people and that serving that obligation so often requires having more knowledge than ordinary American investors, why should members of Congress be permitted to trade individual stocks at all?” Tyler Gellasch, a former Senate staffer who helped draft the STOCK Act, wrote last year in a piece for Politico. “Why should we expect them to even be capable when making business decisions of separating what they know as a result of their governmental job and what they might otherwise know as private individuals?”

Other lawmakers agree, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley. Currently, there is proposed legislation that would ban individual stock purchases by members of Congress. “After nearly four years of the most corrupt president in American history and with U.S. senators brazenly trading stocks to profit off a raging p******c, the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act is more urgent than ever,” Warren and other lawmakers said in a joint statement.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nancy-pelosi-recent-stock-purchase-173817407.html

And the trucks and trains should stop too - very bad for the air. And those thousands of people who lost their jobs and income should be glad they can now get their food, health care and housing from the government now (that YOU will be paying for), right? Meanwhile, what are we supposed to do for utilities while Biden tries to implement his "energy agenda" that will take thirty years to kick-start? Go back to burning trees?....or I guess we will have to rely on China and Russia to help us out. You probably think that's a good idea - but you're too ignorant to see what the cost will be for America.

You l*****ts want us to admit there was no e******n f***d. How could you know??? We want you l*****ts to admit that evidence has never been examined and certainly not adjudicated. You call us liars but you are lying when you make the claim for no evidence or that the cases were tossed out of court because there was no evidence. The is a lie, so stop saying it.

Also, four states violated the constitution by changing their v****g laws by passing their legislatures. Those v**es are then, illegal, and should not be counted. These states also allowed mail in b****ts without addresses claiming that there were no addresses some how due to the p******c. How stupid. Did the p******c make them forget their addresses.

The only thing you can point to is that Bar said there is no evidence of "extensive" e******n f***d. That is true, The fraud in just these four, but significant states, is not extensive but it is enough to alter the entire e******n. That was the plan. Change just enough v**es in the key purple states and there you have it.

But that's a lie, you say. Maybe it is but since it hasn't been tried we will never know for sure and thus, future e******ns will not be trusted by us OR other countries. They will view us like we view countries like Russia and their e******ns, or Turkey or any other place where we know the e******ns are f**e.

You l*****ts have made us no better than them with the taint of tyranny h*****g in the air. And now listen to your ilk and their calls for deprogramming those who believe the e******n w*s f********t. LOL! Your buddy Biden is no better than Hitler and you and your ilk no better that the Germans who were complicit with the Hitler admin and subsequently, their actions.

Hey Roy..is biden and his son going to give up their incomes from China and Ukraine while he's occupying the WH???

BTW.. I'm just asking to possibly settle a difference of opinion I am having with a friend... I-like most people with functioning brains realized quite awhile back-have no doubt he's not giving up squat.. but, b/c this friend (I'm in this dispute with) is a little slow witted and gullible, he won't budge from thinking biden will forfeit this income. We need another person's input to possibly settle this matter-who do you agree with???

Thanks in advance for helping us...mike