But why did they even interact with him in the first place? Yes, I read the article, but apparently my brain is malfunctioning. It just keeps talking about the interaction, not how it started?
This article is part of a pretty big investigation that’s worth reading. It talks about different kinds of “less lethal” force that can kill people. Tasers, punching, body slamming, restraining people face down.
And injecting them with sedatives. It happened to someone with schizophrenia who took meth and was wandering around at night. A guy whose mother made a mental help call when he was having a manic episode. And someone who was having a seizure.
If Democrats kept their promises we’d have codified Roe, have free healthcare for all, and literally no one would carry student debt but those that haven’t yet had time to graduate.
I don’t believe that is the case. There is no value in letting a property sit empty accumulating value, when it could be doing exactly that while pulling in a hefty monthly rent.
It may well be the case that there’s enough homes empty to house everyone, but only if they’re happy to move somewhere they don’t want to be, and where there’s no jobs to pay for them.
For context, I live in greater Boston. The state here has actually forced towns and cities in the inner belt around Boston to remove their zoning laws anywhere within a mile of a train or subway stop. Thousands of additional condos and apartments have been (and are being) built as a side effect and we will have dozens of new squares with shops and businesses on the ground floor and tens of thousands of new residences surrounding our transit hubs.
It’s not been smooth. Some towns are suing the state and doing other random bullshit to slow the process. Pushing these rules to the federal level would actually help states and metro areas consisting of multiple connected cities address the issues more efficiently.
“I know The Marvels bombed but how can we make sure the next one bombs even harder?”
“New Star Wars idea: Flubber crossover”
“X-Men cameo in Star Wars?”
“This showdown scene with the villain needs to be rewritten. There’s too much suspense. We need to break the fourth wall and insert some fart jokes. Otherwise, how else will the audience know it’s just a movie?”
Apparently people are burned out on super hero movies. At least the kind currently being made. I can’t wait for the next Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix.
Personally, I’m tired of the Deadpool-style dialog in every Marvel movie. I like when movies have tension, like that movie with Heath Ledger as Joker.
I have watched maybe 1% of them. There were occasional gems that may not even survive a rewatch, but it’s all just so tired rinse-and-repeat, with a booming soundtrack and swooping/jiggling camera angles that let you know how to feel at every second. There’s no creativity. The people making these movies should be forced to watch films from the 1920s-1960s to learn how easy it is to create drama with absolute silence.
I feel it’s also a disservice to reality right now in a time when everything is falling off the rails.
We shouldn’t be filling people with false hope that some magic superheroes are going to save us from our current plights and we all just gotta Disney+ and chill, and wait for the post-credit clip showing the next twist that the next superheroes will have hammer-shields that fall out of their butt, and their joking sardonic sidekick talking cactus pilot actually has a family.
Yes, that was a good film, although it didn’t stay completely true to the book or reality/history (which makes sense when making a film adaptation), but still was good cinema.
That’s probably exactly why it bombed. I burned out on MCU crap years ago. I don’t know how anyone is still watching it with however many movies they’re putting out per year that are almost all the same. Sure, they may be technically OK, but that only goes so far when it’s uninspired slop.
Yeah I skip the movies and all now. If I see something online (usually it needs to be multiple posts or comments) about the new show or movie, I might check it out. But even then it might be weeks or months until I get around to it.
I tried to watch the Black Panther sequel and I passed out in the first five minutes. I liked Loki though.
If he had fingerprint unlock it would be pretty easy to get in considering they have access to his fingers. Facial recognition… less successful in this case.
Most phones actually require pin/password on boot, and only let you use fingerprint/face unlock to unlock later in the session, as a security feature. So if he turned his phone off, even that wouldn’t work.
She is a stock trader who is bought by the owner-class while happily doing their bidding, like most of our politicians. There are reasons why they are allowed to be career politicians.
While AOC tries and fails to be her protégé, who knows she still has a lot of time, and looking at her record, she is well on her way to becoming the new Pelosi.
According to the alternative data platform Quiver Quantitative, replicating Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades would have yielded returns exceeding 720% since May 2014. Despite these impressive returns, the former House Speaker continues to face criticism for alleged insider trading and the potential introduction of new trade ban rules for Congress members.
Many have speculated that the California representative and other members of Congress benefit from insider information about laws likely to impact stock prices. For instance, the 2022 CHIPS Act, which offered subsidies for the semiconductor industry, has been a point of contention. Pelosi and her husband, Paul, sold 25,000 Nvidia shares at a loss when Congress approved the Act but later purchased Nvidia call options in significant quantities, as reported by Unusual Whales.
In November 2023, Pelosi acquired 50 Nvidia call options with a strike price of $120 and an expiration date of December 2024, well before Nvidia’s 10-for-1 stock split. “That was definitely one that caught a lot of people’s attention,” noted Quiver Quantitative CEO James Kardatzke in an interview with Business Insider.
For Nvidia investors, it might be reassuring to know that Nancy Pelosi is not the only member of Congress buying Nvidia shares. Representatives Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky and Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts have also added shares of the AI chipmaker to their portfolios.
Pelosi’s trades attract significant attention, but she is one of many Congress members with a portfolio generating substantial returns. Republican Representative Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has Nvidia as one of his top portfolio holdings, returning 512.8% since August 2019 and over 103% in one year. Similarly, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has invested significantly in the “magnificent seven” stocks: Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet. His portfolio has returned over 492% since February 2014 and over 50% in one year.
Many popular online trackers monitor the trades of US government officials based on the philosophy of “if you can’t beat them, join them.” …Given that the STOCK Act of 2012 requires Congress members to report trading activities within 45 days of execution, the trade completion date isn’t known until much later.
While AOC tries and fails to be her protégé, who knows she still has a lot of time, and looking at her record, she is well on her way to becoming the new Pelosi.
AOC doesn’t buy stock and is against trading for people in her position
I think she and her fellow insider traders have a different perspective of what is or isn’t a ‘good look’. Will the news affect her negatively? No. Could it affect her positively? Absolutely, within her circle. Good look.
Professional portfolio managers, who do this for a living, with teams of intelligent and educated people working for them, struggle to consistently outperform the market in any meaningful sense.
if you’re willing it risk it and use leverage (borrow money to multiply your return, but also multiplies the down sides) sure she could’ve aimed for the moon. but theres no need to be risky when you’re her age and already rich and have a crystal ball.
It’s no real secret. Her husband has been buying tech stock LEAPS this whole time. Her portfolio took a huge hit during the tech sector downturn a few years back. Paul doubled down on the tech stocks which have all shot way back up. He put a bunch of money on Nvidia during the GPU shortage well before all this bullshit AI run. Nvidia is up something stupid like 800% since then.
If anything I’d bet it’s because she’s connected in Silicon Valley. Nancy has the same info everyone in Congress would. But since her district is in the bay area she gets to rub elbows with the right people.
A person like that doesn’t handle her own portfolio, and their trades are public. Nothing prevented you from trading the exact same stonks they did.
Politicians shouldn’t trade because they can still manipulate the bigger picture, favor corporations and move the economy a certain way. Not because they are sitting on Robin Hood at night making money.
While not technically insider trading because they don’t work for the companies they’re trading, they definitely have access to privileged macro economic knowledge
That they can’t really use because they don’tanage their portfolios. What they can do is make policy that benefits them instead of the other way around, that’s why they shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks.
Now what happens is you say they are inside trading, they say “impossible we don’t manage our stocks” and everyone goes in circle. Stop attacking the part where they are gaming it by managing stocks, and instead focus on them not being allowed to trade in general, for a multitude of reasons.
And Pelosi’s trades are all tech which makes perfect sense because she’s the rep from San Fran. Most of them are long big tech which would have crushed over the past decade or two.
They a billion percent are doing their own trades if they want. Do you remember Covid? Do you remember how many of our politicians made a mint because they had the inside track?
That’s why I said she is definitely using her position to make money.
What i’ve said many times now is she does it through policy, not through robin hood. If everyone would just wake up and stop asking for laws to keep them off robin hood, and start asking for laws to keep them out of the money entirely so they have no incentives to help corporations for personal gain (through their portfolio managers).
So, like every other political system since ancient times. So what you are proposing is the common sense that every single other country and system ever existed had. Bold
They report 45 days after, and buying their stocks at that point is just even more stupid… A completely hyper capitalistic idiotic system that is going to be laughed at in history books as the moronic tragic catastrophe it is
just looking at the website, you can tell the target audience is specifically the 1% who want republicans to win. it’ll be the same shit with pretty much anything with “business” or “financial” or “economy” in the name of the site
so yea, they will NEVER talk about the insider trading, cheating, fraud, etc. done by republicans
But even in social media, people have been so focused on her while ignoring that she’s never #1 (heck, in 2022 she got beat by the S&P500) that I can’t help but wonder if there’s some underlying misogyny that explains it…
everyone’s absolute top priority for the next three and a half months should be keeping trump out of the white house. complaining about dems doesn’t help to achieve that objective, it hinders it. when trump loses, by all means–criticize all the dems all the time. but at this point, bOtHsIdEs-ing anything is accomplishing nothing but strengthening an R win and weakening D
Please note that my original comment was me pointing out that people complain about a democrat while ignoring all the Republicans that do better than her, so please don’t tell me I’m complaining about the elected Democrats, my only criticism of Democrats was against electors hating on Pelosi instead of their true enemy.
Why is buying LEAPS of the biggest tech growth stocks in the S&P 500 wrong? That’s literally Paul’s strategy. It isn’t much of a secret.
He’s even lost money plenty of times on individual trades. He sold out of a 25,000 share Nvidia position. That at the time would have been worth around $600k. Had they held that position it would be worth $31M or so now. That’s a huge miss for someone supposedly getting insider info.
Copying a comment from a couple of weeks ago, the source is the website that made everyone really start paying attention to her by posting an infographic that made it easy to visualize the gains compared to the S&P500 but somehow it’s only Pelosi that people complain about
2021 she’s 6th behind 5 Republicans, 2022 she’s under the S&P500 in 27th place, 2023 she’s in 9th place
The article title is too early to be correct though. There is a good chance this decision gets judge Cannon removed from the case. Clarence may have made it much worse for Trump.
Even this supreme court is not going to allow the case to be dismissed over the appointment of a special counsel. No other judges joined Thomas’s concurrence because it was clearly wrong. He might pick up Alito when the district sides with Smith on appeal and Trump sends it back to SCOTUS. But 2 to 7 doesn’t give them the majority.
Smith may (and should) ask to have her removed over this and previous obvious bias/errors which I believe the district judges would also approve at this point.
All that is correct. But it’s a good reminder that the point of Cannon’s move is not to finally resolve the case. It has always been to delay the case until after the election. At that point, Trump will appoint an AG that will kill the case on day one.
Cannon also has one more goal - auditioning for a new job. I’m not a gambler, but if Trump wins I’d put money that the first open Supreme Court seat is hers.
Allegations are rejected, of course, but given that our esteemed president keeps getting in disputes with his former religious cult leader buddies and mafia friends, who’d disregard the possibility of having such an unofficial and denounceable arm of his injustice and ruination party government?
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