Basically a long story but soldier does it, punishment is harsh. Congress members do it, make fortunes, retire with it all, and no consequences. Has to stop!
HE is a big part of it and is complicit. Right near the beginning he confessed to waiving fines that would have sent most others to jail or triggered an audit.
This guy is just as guilty and is part of the machine, the problem.
You are right, but the consequences would be that they would file on time but still make sure they pick up their insider trading fortunes. And they wold fire him and hire someone less strict. And I know that still isn't an excuse to be slack. I laud him for telling us that Congress is stealing over !/2 billion dollars from us annually and putting it in their own pockets.
His responses are NPC hilarity. They sound so much like AI copy-paste
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to change this withoutt (IIRC) the states declaring a constitutional crisis & then creating a convention of the states to corrects these issues by forcing amendments.
Unfortunately we need to get every single state house & state senate in order before we do this or we risk a runaway convention that redesigns the constitution in ways it was never meant to operate.
I have also been told there was a SCOTUS step in there somewhere & if we didn't trust the SCOTUS, it could go south pretty quick if that claim is accurate.
BRILLIANT TIMELY POST. This Article says so much about this WAR! NO LAWS for the Elites and the Political and Bureaucratic Class that parasite off them. UNLESS there is MAJOR structural change to our ENTIRE POLITICAL SYSTEM, we are only ever 2 years away from what we have been fighting to eradicate!! And new elections wont change that as things stand.
After thinking about it this morning, if the tweet is based on something that actually happened, I’d wager that he soldier got in trouble for exposing classified information more than insider trading, which is a potentially extremely serious problem.
The insider trading in Congress problem needs to be dealt with as well, and is really part of a larger problem of bringing our laws into being directed by us instead of them. It creates an incentive for them to work for their side hustle instead of us, but would require them passing a law that worked to get fixed so… not likely to happen without some serious motivation.
I suspect there actually isn’t even a need for a lot of “representative government” in some senses, as the power could, in theory, be handed over to the people.
Imagine some sort of variant of this…
Every citizen has access to the “House of Representatives” to review and write legislation. Everyone with significant business interests can gain access to the “Senate” to be a check and balance on people who don’t have as much skin in the game. “Representatives” still exist, but more as outsourced legislation authorers and testers - basically giving “the people” direct control over the government. Problems to deal with would include “too many cooks in the kitchen” and checks and balances and management processes for and between the houses. May even want to turn the whole thing tricameral to give the states, as land/resource holding agents, some sort of long term vision planning check on the other two.
Obviously that’s just a high level thought, but is it a good idea? Right now? Probably not. Good governance by the people depends on having a righteous people. Eventually? If people get taught how to deal with the responsibilities in ways we haven’t been doing, perhaps…
I think your idea of involving the states in oversight is a good idea. Maybe a committee of qualified candidates formed by lottery. Right now, though, I suspect the government is (hopefully) being examined and upended where necessary due to corruption glut, so things are rather busy.
Yeah, and I’m just some account on the internet at that.
The thought couldn’t work right now, we don’t have the population, coherence, training, or character for it. The senate used to be state oversight before the 17th amendment.
Might be the start of a good thought at some point though.
Dear Cats5, I think you're the Bestests of Mods. You recently posted that all who ask, could get a special Icon by their names on GAW. Si i'm knidly asking.
AHHHH SirBudLight...YOUR SCREED has a lot too it and with PDJT in Charge, the DYNOMITE IS ABOUT TO BE SET OFF AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS GOING TO STOP WHAT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE.
What was just described in that document is a "TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM" and that system MUST END FOR OUR COUNTRY TO SURVIVE!!!!! The Military Court System is going to be mighty busy!!!!! Can't punish a soldier and not punish a congcritter for doing the samething...just sayin'!!!!!
I don’t think the law has caught up to his situation yet. If I was Trump, I would get the bet nullified, pardon the soldier and create an executive order to cover future situations.
Damn. I look back on my Navy time, on all the weapons and munitions to come out as part of the military's arsenal, and the weapons systems converted to civilian use since I was in from 95-04. Had I even considered to buy stocks in just 1/10th of the companies that DOD/DOW does business with, I'd have generational wealth type money for myself and my family. And not just my kids and grandkids. I'd have generational type wealth for my WHOLE family. Tons of Veterans could be super wealthy right now had it ever occured to us to think and work like these asshats do.
Then again, if more of us did, this society would be even worse off than it is right now.
I feel like a sucka after reading this post and looking back over just my naval career and all the tech I knew was coming and seeing how the disclosures of them made untold amounts of people über wealthy.
I left the Navy in July of 1966-had I been more aware of the hippie mode going on, I would have bought many bell bottom dungerees and made a fortune; OTOH, knowing and doing takes something I didn't have then.😎
The following gives you the basics of the "birth" of The Stock Act, which is a license to steal. It's from Wikipedia, which tells you how in your face the crooks have been operating
"The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–105 (text) (PDF), S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an act of Congress designed to combat insider trading. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The law prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including insider trading, by members of Congress and other government employees. It confirms changes to the Commodity Exchange Act and specifies reporting intervals for financial transactions."
AFTER THOUGHT NOTE: As always, the title is the reverse of the real purpose, just like The Affordable Healthcare Act.
You cannot see into the future. Do not beat yourself up over your observations. Just realizrme the corruption is coming to an end. I'd like generational wealth also, but I gotta do it the old fashion way, I work, toil and labor for it. It is good for the body and soul.
None of us should actually need generational wealth. Eliminating the waste, fraud and abuse in high places should provide everyone with secure, full and abundant lives.
Yeah the soldier did something wrong, but at the same time, he could have died in that operation. And we don't have the best track record of taking care of our vets. Could the op have been been compromised had anyone in Caracas looked? Sure. Then again, massive yolo bets are placed all the time on just about everything.
Compared to what the people in congress have done, have gotten away with, continue to get away with, I just can't seem to care that a soldier tried to get his.
No. He just put his body, his actual life on the line for a hopefully positive result. He gambled and won. He's 38. In SpecOps, that's retirement time. I actually don't know how our elite forces have sat back and accepted all the Presidential/Congressional bullshit without acting out..They deserve justice and free everything for the rest of their lives.
Every time I believe that I have reached the bottom of what I thought was possible in Washington, I am proven VERY WRONG. I am very grateful (and surprised) that Peter Girnus wrote this article. The facts in this document proves that there is no way to reform Washington, it needs to be closed. A complete reboot of the system with ALL new people is required, nothing else will work.
This is huge. When I worked for the Congress, this was not allowed. And we're hearing this from a clerk, not a member. Out of 535 over how many years, not one has explained the system. I am appalled. I am absolutely sick.
For some reason he is telling us what is happening, I believe they (members of Congress)are going to be prosecuted or they already are. Why is he telling this now? Probably to wake up people. White hats at work plus if they are prosecuting this soldier it is going to be the beginning of the prosecutions for the demons in the congress
I want to rally a militia and break the soldier out, whisk him away to freedom , donate farmland acreage of his choosing, buy him a shit ton of pickup trucks and give him a medal of honor. 💔
...reading this made me and husband 🤢 sick. Is this lanyard guy in witness protection yet?
So how do you get that story before Trump/Musk and whoever the hell else needs to hear it. Oh, and I hope that person who wrote the text isn’t suicidal…
i cant read things like this its too rage inducing. we really are powerless to hold people to account even with all 3 branches of government. totally sickening. How can we not even get justice with blatantly obvious fraud schemes and get pelosi in cuffs when we have the most patriotic justice administration in a hundred years??
Its getting worse than tiresome having these retards steal and abuse their posituons. Seize all yhe assets of these peiple made from stocks. We should assume its stolen even without an investigation.
What part of our "checks and balances" is supposed to deal with this stuff? Once congress members can't make a fortune from stealing from us, how many will quit?
Basically a long story but soldier does it, punishment is harsh. Congress members do it, make fortunes, retire with it all, and no consequences. Has to stop!
Not just congress members, he mentioned senior officials, the entire system is corrupted to the core.
HE is a big part of it and is complicit. Right near the beginning he confessed to waiving fines that would have sent most others to jail or triggered an audit.
This guy is just as guilty and is part of the machine, the problem.
You are right, but the consequences would be that they would file on time but still make sure they pick up their insider trading fortunes. And they wold fire him and hire someone less strict. And I know that still isn't an excuse to be slack. I laud him for telling us that Congress is stealing over !/2 billion dollars from us annually and putting it in their own pockets.
Exactly, the bad guys have the system for them and if we do something wrong we are going to end up in jail.
It should be illegal for congress or any public official to trade any stocks. It is an inherent conflict of interest.
His responses are NPC hilarity. They sound so much like AI copy-paste
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to change this withoutt (IIRC) the states declaring a constitutional crisis & then creating a convention of the states to corrects these issues by forcing amendments.
Unfortunately we need to get every single state house & state senate in order before we do this or we risk a runaway convention that redesigns the constitution in ways it was never meant to operate.
I have also been told there was a SCOTUS step in there somewhere & if we didn't trust the SCOTUS, it could go south pretty quick if that claim is accurate.
BRILLIANT TIMELY POST. This Article says so much about this WAR! NO LAWS for the Elites and the Political and Bureaucratic Class that parasite off them. UNLESS there is MAJOR structural change to our ENTIRE POLITICAL SYSTEM, we are only ever 2 years away from what we have been fighting to eradicate!! And new elections wont change that as things stand.
NOTE:
That guy is not who he says in that tweet, though he likely IS putting out a story of someone who actually exists.
https://nitter.poast.org/gothburz/status/2047793527778898148
Thank you, this is important to know. Still it is imperative to investigate insider trading. Who can confirm the numbers? Trump administration? FBI?
After thinking about it this morning, if the tweet is based on something that actually happened, I’d wager that he soldier got in trouble for exposing classified information more than insider trading, which is a potentially extremely serious problem.
The insider trading in Congress problem needs to be dealt with as well, and is really part of a larger problem of bringing our laws into being directed by us instead of them. It creates an incentive for them to work for their side hustle instead of us, but would require them passing a law that worked to get fixed so… not likely to happen without some serious motivation.
I suspect there actually isn’t even a need for a lot of “representative government” in some senses, as the power could, in theory, be handed over to the people.
Imagine some sort of variant of this…
Every citizen has access to the “House of Representatives” to review and write legislation. Everyone with significant business interests can gain access to the “Senate” to be a check and balance on people who don’t have as much skin in the game. “Representatives” still exist, but more as outsourced legislation authorers and testers - basically giving “the people” direct control over the government. Problems to deal with would include “too many cooks in the kitchen” and checks and balances and management processes for and between the houses. May even want to turn the whole thing tricameral to give the states, as land/resource holding agents, some sort of long term vision planning check on the other two.
Obviously that’s just a high level thought, but is it a good idea? Right now? Probably not. Good governance by the people depends on having a righteous people. Eventually? If people get taught how to deal with the responsibilities in ways we haven’t been doing, perhaps…
I think your idea of involving the states in oversight is a good idea. Maybe a committee of qualified candidates formed by lottery. Right now, though, I suspect the government is (hopefully) being examined and upended where necessary due to corruption glut, so things are rather busy.
Yeah, and I’m just some account on the internet at that.
The thought couldn’t work right now, we don’t have the population, coherence, training, or character for it. The senate used to be state oversight before the 17th amendment.
Might be the start of a good thought at some point though.
You are so right
This is so disheartening. Damn.
It is being exposed and talked about openly now. We are getting closer to the Heart of issues Fren.
You look good with your new avatar. Does it make you feel more special? lol
I would by lying of I said it didn't. Apparently you don't have to wait for 40k upvotes now. Schmooze C5 and you can get one as well.
I'm been thinking about it, just not for sure how to ask...
Dear Cats5, I think you're the Bestests of Mods. You recently posted that all who ask, could get a special Icon by their names on GAW. Si i'm knidly asking.
Awesome Thanks....
AHHHH SirBudLight...YOUR SCREED has a lot too it and with PDJT in Charge, the DYNOMITE IS ABOUT TO BE SET OFF AND THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS GOING TO STOP WHAT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE.
What was just described in that document is a "TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM" and that system MUST END FOR OUR COUNTRY TO SURVIVE!!!!! The Military Court System is going to be mighty busy!!!!! Can't punish a soldier and not punish a congcritter for doing the samething...just sayin'!!!!!
I don’t think the law has caught up to his situation yet. If I was Trump, I would get the bet nullified, pardon the soldier and create an executive order to cover future situations.
Damn. I look back on my Navy time, on all the weapons and munitions to come out as part of the military's arsenal, and the weapons systems converted to civilian use since I was in from 95-04. Had I even considered to buy stocks in just 1/10th of the companies that DOD/DOW does business with, I'd have generational wealth type money for myself and my family. And not just my kids and grandkids. I'd have generational type wealth for my WHOLE family. Tons of Veterans could be super wealthy right now had it ever occured to us to think and work like these asshats do.
Then again, if more of us did, this society would be even worse off than it is right now.
I feel like a sucka after reading this post and looking back over just my naval career and all the tech I knew was coming and seeing how the disclosures of them made untold amounts of people über wealthy.
And I hate feeling like a damned sucka.
That’s the difference between being honourable and being a treasonous rat public parasite.
I left the Navy in July of 1966-had I been more aware of the hippie mode going on, I would have bought many bell bottom dungerees and made a fortune; OTOH, knowing and doing takes something I didn't have then.😎
The following gives you the basics of the "birth" of The Stock Act, which is a license to steal. It's from Wikipedia, which tells you how in your face the crooks have been operating
"The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–105 (text) (PDF), S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an act of Congress designed to combat insider trading. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The law prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including insider trading, by members of Congress and other government employees. It confirms changes to the Commodity Exchange Act and specifies reporting intervals for financial transactions."
AFTER THOUGHT NOTE: As always, the title is the reverse of the real purpose, just like The Affordable Healthcare Act.
You cannot see into the future. Do not beat yourself up over your observations. Just realizrme the corruption is coming to an end. I'd like generational wealth also, but I gotta do it the old fashion way, I work, toil and labor for it. It is good for the body and soul.
None of us should actually need generational wealth. Eliminating the waste, fraud and abuse in high places should provide everyone with secure, full and abundant lives.
Yeah the soldier did something wrong, but at the same time, he could have died in that operation. And we don't have the best track record of taking care of our vets. Could the op have been been compromised had anyone in Caracas looked? Sure. Then again, massive yolo bets are placed all the time on just about everything.
Compared to what the people in congress have done, have gotten away with, continue to get away with, I just can't seem to care that a soldier tried to get his.
Did the soldier actually leak classified information about a critical mission, rather than engage in insider trading?
No. He just put his body, his actual life on the line for a hopefully positive result. He gambled and won. He's 38. In SpecOps, that's retirement time. I actually don't know how our elite forces have sat back and accepted all the Presidential/Congressional bullshit without acting out..They deserve justice and free everything for the rest of their lives.
Every time I believe that I have reached the bottom of what I thought was possible in Washington, I am proven VERY WRONG. I am very grateful (and surprised) that Peter Girnus wrote this article. The facts in this document proves that there is no way to reform Washington, it needs to be closed. A complete reboot of the system with ALL new people is required, nothing else will work.
This is huge. When I worked for the Congress, this was not allowed. And we're hearing this from a clerk, not a member. Out of 535 over how many years, not one has explained the system. I am appalled. I am absolutely sick.
The tree is very thirsty...
I was thinking the same thing. Not belittling the national security implications, but this isn't much different than ol Nancy and her investments
For some reason he is telling us what is happening, I believe they (members of Congress)are going to be prosecuted or they already are. Why is he telling this now? Probably to wake up people. White hats at work plus if they are prosecuting this soldier it is going to be the beginning of the prosecutions for the demons in the congress
The little people are held to higher standards….
characteristic of authoritarianism, corruption, and elite privilege
We elect seemingly good people that find out they can do whatever they like because they are self governed. Laws may apply but have no consequences.
I want to rally a militia and break the soldier out, whisk him away to freedom , donate farmland acreage of his choosing, buy him a shit ton of pickup trucks and give him a medal of honor. 💔
...reading this made me and husband 🤢 sick. Is this lanyard guy in witness protection yet?
So how do you get that story before Trump/Musk and whoever the hell else needs to hear it. Oh, and I hope that person who wrote the text isn’t suicidal…
i cant read things like this its too rage inducing. we really are powerless to hold people to account even with all 3 branches of government. totally sickening. How can we not even get justice with blatantly obvious fraud schemes and get pelosi in cuffs when we have the most patriotic justice administration in a hundred years??
Its getting worse than tiresome having these retards steal and abuse their posituons. Seize all yhe assets of these peiple made from stocks. We should assume its stolen even without an investigation.
Well first someone had better investigate if this post is even true or if it is a hint of what is going on.
What part of our "checks and balances" is supposed to deal with this stuff? Once congress members can't make a fortune from stealing from us, how many will quit?