Zipitydew

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[–] Zipitydew 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Congress can.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-foreign-policy-powers-congress-and-president

Congress also plays an oversight role. The annual appropriations process allows congressional committees to review in detail the budgets and programs of the vast military and diplomatic bureaucracies. Lawmakers must sign off on more than a trillion dollars in federal spending every year, of which more than half is allocated to defense and international affairs. Lawmakers may also stipulate how that money is to be spent. For instance, Congress repeatedly barred the Obama administration from using funds to transfer detainees out of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

[–] Zipitydew 3 points 4 months ago

It was a gathering of trash people to celebrate a trash human. They're not going to care about it being clean.

[–] Zipitydew 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's always pissed me off how Franken got kicked out for a gag. But Bob got to stay while everyone knew he was a crook.

[–] Zipitydew 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Man that would have been wild. Iran has to be run by dumber people than I already assumed. That would be Article 5 and WW3 in a hurry.

[–] Zipitydew 3 points 4 months ago

Kinda. Bob was likely guilty the first time he got caught back in 2015. Only took about 10 more years to make it stick.

[–] Zipitydew 16 points 4 months ago

Then he fired his PR team not long after that. He pushed out all the people getting paid to help him not look like an idiot.

[–] Zipitydew 16 points 4 months ago

People this dumb always existed. We've just made it trivial for them to share their brain droppings with us.

[–] Zipitydew 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] Zipitydew 27 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Zipitydew 11 points 4 months ago

Wyoming has been taken over by billionaires. You can't just have people buying up land and not destroying it. There is value to extract.

[–] Zipitydew 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe Lardgolas?

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