Shock report informs us that many people in Congress own STOCKS!
Normally I report on partisan reporting, which is basically all reporting these days. But in a rare moment of seemingly non-partisan reporting on the part of many different organizations including Conservative Brief (wow), this was actually pretty unbiased outside of the catchphrase that they used in order to get people to read it.
It say "Nancy Pelosi may flee the country!"
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The headline being deceptive and the story twisting around to be about something that has nothing to do with proving or even stating anything to back up what the headline says was still true though, and this, as well as the fact that their big closer is to point out that 61% of the members of Congress own stocks.... as if this was meant to be at all shocking to anyone that is reading it.
I own stocks, you likely own stocks, virtually every successful person I have ever met has owned stocks. Is this really meant to be shocking that the people who managed to finagle their way into the highest offices that the United States has also own stocks?
I'm just kind of surprised that it is ONLY 61% but then again, this is the MSM we are talking about so they probably just pulled some number out of the sky and based that information on nothing.
In one of the articles in question, the article stars out talking about how Elon is planning on investigating members of Congress for accepting payments from organizations that received money from USAID in the form of transfers or other things that would obviously be a crime.
The suspicion here is that these grants were made to various NGOs and then once the money is there, the US Government no longer has any control over it and then some of that money could make its way back into the bank accounts of the people who would have been in charge of making that sort of frivolous spending possible. Obviously, anyone caught doing that would be in very serious trouble and perhaps that is why there is so much pushback against DOGE. I seriously doubt that anyone is ever going to take the fall for this though and despite what the text said in the clickbait link that lead me to the article in the first place, no, Nancy Pelosi is not going to flee the country.
Even if they caught her red-handed she wouldn't flee and she is not going to get caught either. She an other established politicians are too well-connected to ever get in trouble for anything.
The articles also manage to transition away from talking about USAID and its connection to congress and then try to make a very weak and unsubstantiated correlation between USAID and the stock market. In particular, they were trying to make a connection between certain Congresspeople and insider trading, as if that had anything to do with Doge or USAID.
The connection they attempt to make between Elon Musk and investigating insider trading is a complete lie and there is no part of the article that even suggests that Elon is involved in such. However, I think they are putting the two things inside the same article so that people will somehow walk away from this article (and many others like it) with a feeling that Doge is going to investigate Congress' personal stock portfolios, which they are not.
Deceptive reporting is everywhere and I hope that people are smart enough to realize that basically all of it is lies.
The purpose of this article is two-fold: To make people think that DOGE is going to go after particular people in Congress, which they are not and also to attempt to make some sort of connection between certain members of Congress and insider trading which is something that almost certainly happens but as of yet there is no solid evidence that this is the case and there likely never will be.
It's a nothing-story but I guess it was kind of nice to see that articles written by obviously biased publications did mention that both R's and D's have become suspiciously wealthy during their time in office.
