Republicans purposely downplayed COVID-19 warnings so they could offload stock.

I’ll wait for more info to come out, thanks.

That’s right, we should have a scrupulously fair trial before we hang them.

I can’t but it’s okay since I’m not a federal prosecutor. I’m sure they won’t find it difficult.

I’m not one either.

New York Times editorial:
Profiting from a Pandemic?
At least two senators engaged in suspiciously timed stock sales. All stock trades by members of Congress should be barred.

New York Times opinion piece:
They. Sold. Their. Stock.
They could have made a difference, but they made a profit.

As sentient adults, we are permitted, even encouraged, to seek information from trusted sources and make up our own minds. Or we can just keep saying over and over, “Ya can’t prove it! Nya-nya-nya!” and wait for someone else to tell us what to believe. Anyway, this isn’t a courtroom. No one is going to the gas chamber. Opinions are okay to have and to express.

A certain segment of the population doesn’t trust the New York Times, but I do. Note that even the Fox News guy is pissed off at this.

You are one crude and stupid little shit, aint’cha? The man sold off biotech stock when it was low, right before a pandemic, and it started rising right after that. :smack:

Can we stop calling them the GOP? There’s been so much change, it really doesn’t fit the party anymore.

KInda fits that Bush,* fils* should be the last true GOP pres.

Plenty of people have questions about Burr’s acts, not just a few Dopers.

Sen. Burr asks ethics panel for review of his stock sales

You’re a fucking idiot, but you’re right about one thing. I am pretty cute.

The stock is currently $19.25, the stock is down, it’s really irrelevant anyway you have to look at the long trend not day-to-day ups and downs. And also it’s not unlikely someone would pull their money from the stock market to invest in something else if they knew hard times were coming.

As far as what I’ve read right now the only one I’m comfortable saying is guilty as hell at this point is Burr but I think they should all be looked into and investigated. I think there are crooked types on both sides of the political divide and it’s naive to pretend it’s only the GOP.

Regardless Feinstein is a crooked piece of scum who works vicariously through her husband from wiki:
Blum’s wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband’s government contracts and extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Blum has denied any wrongdoing.[13] URS Corp, which Blum had a substantial stake in, bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002; EG&G subsequently won a $600m defense contract.[3]

Blum and his wife have also received significant scrutiny and criticism due to his 75% stake in contractor Tutor Perini which received hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan during the US occupation of those countries.[14][15] Critics have argued that business contracts with the US government awarded to a company controlled by Blum raise a potential conflict-of-interest issue with the voting and policy activities of his wife.[16]
In 2009, Feinstein introduced legislation to provide $25 billion in taxpayer money to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a government agency that had recently awarded her husband’s real estate firm, CB Richard Ellis, what the Washington Times called “a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.”[17]

By all means go ahead and defend her.

GOP is a fine name, just capitalize it as Gop, pronounced like it appears, maybe call Republicans the “Goppers”. “Did you heard the latest whopper from the Top Gopper?”

Don’t you mean Eisenhower?

I think Grand Old Peckerheads suits them just fine.

Likely candidate: the STOCK Act of 2012. It stands for “Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge”.

As a side note: Burr voted against it at the time, although it did pass.

The will certainly find it difficult with Bill (Belongs Behind) Barr(s) running interference.

Gee, it’s almost like you read the third post in this thread.

Although Republicans, are, as we know, vermin, most of the accused have been more or less exonerated (NOT Burr).

I’m opposed to the death penalty in all cases; I think it’s barbaric and corrosive.

Some people do deserve it, though, even though I would never in any way support actually carrying out the execution, Richard Burr deserves to be executed. This is as bad as treason.

What - read all posts in threads before responding? Do you think I’m made of money?