House Speaker Mike Johnson said that members of Congress should be able to continue owning stocks.

He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.

Earlier this year, Johnson expressed support for a ban, citing the “appearance of impropriety.”

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    He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.

    People like you maybe. Hopefully.

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    I wonder if Johnson is honest with himself about being a vile, corrupt piece of shit. Or if he kids himself that he’s righteous and doing good things in Congress.

    When all this is over for maga, he’ll still carry the Trump-sized hand impression up his puppet ass for the rest of his days. History will paint all of them exactly as they are.

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      Pretty convinced at this point that all these dickweeds are in some kinda shared psychosis, where in their world of entitlement they get to have it all and being all righteous about it because it’s their God-given right goddamn it. Money, power, control over other humans because they never learned how to control themselves.

      Buncha king wannabes.

      Fuckers be living in fantasy land.

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    He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.

    Good. The type of people who would be discouraged by this are exactly the people we want to keep out of power.

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    If Carter was willing to give up his farm, you can muster up enough balls to stop trading stocks while you’re in office.

    And if it discourages people running for office, that seems like a feature, not a bug.

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    You can still own stocks, you just can’t TRADE on insider information, dipshit.

    Keep in the indexes like every other schlub has to. That’ll give you a bit more incentive to not sell out your fucking country and ensure a HEALTHY market instead of tilting it every which way in favor of whichever lobbyist is currently licking your taint.

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    Hard no. Govern for us and not for your purse. Represent the people — not yourself.

    If it discourages people running, that’s great. We don’t need them.

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    Good! The LAST thing we Want is for Politicians to take the Job to HELP people! That would be TERRIBLE! I WANT my Politicians to ONLY do whatever will Make them RICHEST!

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    We SHOULD discourage people who want to run for office for the stock trading opportunities from running for office. FUCK those people.

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    This fuckwad wouldn’t know a conflict of interest if it bit him in the ass or his son found it while searching through his father’s porn history.

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    He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.

    That’s exactly the fucking point. We don’t want stock trading people running for office.