Amid pressure from both Democrats and members of his own party, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Louisiana) insisted he was in favor of stricter rules regarding insider trading in Congress, but stopped short of expressing support for an outright ban on stock trading for lawmakers. The statement from Johnson, reported on by Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman…
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I didn’t think he agreed with Nancy Pelosi on anything
Making money is pretty rad.
How do we know this will never happen?
Among all Americans, 86 percent are in favor of the idea. But a ban on stock trading is also supported by voters across all ideological stripes, including 88 percent of Democratic-leaning voters, 87 percent of Republican-leaning voters, and 81 percent of independent voters.
Fuck me! Can you name another issue we are all so closely in agreement with?
They can’t divide us on this so they’ll bury it instead.
Democracy at its best
I’m shocked he even knew what they were asking about.
Feckless fucking weasel.
“We don’t want people cheating the system and abusing their office,” Johnson told reporters on Wednesday. “So there’s probably a way to do that that still allows for lawful conduct by members.”
Mike Johnson is being a willfully ignorant asshole because you KNOW he knows what a mutual fund is.
Mike: “Look, I haven’t heard anything about…”
When is Mike Johnson going to get caught fellating his son in the cloak room, so we can be done with this mouthbreather?
