AOC Asks MTG One Damning Question on Tariffs

[Celerity]

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has one question for Marjorie Taylor Greene on what she did during the tariffs whiplash

https://newrepublic.com/post/194004/aoc-marjorie-taylor-greene-question-tariffs

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At a rally in Nampa, Idaho, on Monday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a message for her colleague, Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

“How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on health care, energy, or war when their own money is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stocks? You can’t. And we saw it just happen with Trump’s corrupt and disastrous and rushed tariff scheme,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd at the Fighting Oligarchy rally with Senator Bernie Sanders.

“We saw Marjorie Taylor Greene buy that dip,” Ocasio-Cortez added to boos from the audience. “I got one question for her: How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering?”

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According to a public disclosure Monday, Greene bought between $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks last Tuesday and Wednesday in 17 companies including Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and Palantir, just hours before President Trump announced he was partially pausing some of his tariffs and deepening a possible ethics violation. Trump later bragged about how much money his friends made off of the pause, blatantly admitting to market manipulation.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. There's something about eMpTyGreene that makes me think she is not a stock picking genius or market timing wizard. . nt

[Iamscrewed]

2. Knowledge

We've known for decades that insider trading has been going on in the house and senate. At one time it was illegal but our law makers changed the rules to their advantage without our vote or consent.

[markodochartaigh]

3. One of the ads that keep popping up

for me on YouTube is an ad for a company proudly selling information on which stocks leading politicians are buying.

[Attilatheblond]

4. Interesting. An insiders' guide to raking in the dough?

Thinkin it's one of the reasons some of them get into politics: Inside information to make portfolios bloom.

[the nelm]

5. Was the response a one hoof stomp or two? n/t

[Trueblue Texan]

6. Feeling very lazy this week, didn't want to respond to any thing...

…But I almost peed myself laughing at this! Thanks for that!

[jalan48]

7. Go AOC! This is how to talk back to these fools, especially when you have a big audience.