Nancy Pelosi’s husband makes millions in tech stocks while tech reform bills work their way through the Congress
According to this story Paul Pelosi purchased somewhere in the neighborhood of $11 million in tech stocks over the last several weeks and it looks like he made millions in the deals. Terrific! Wonderful! This is what it is all about, I always want to see people succeed fairly and honestly in this country.
However, when your wife is Nancy Pelosi and you made these stock purchases while at the same time tech reform bills are working their way through the Congress it does call into question just how fair and honest these dealings were. Here is more:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, bought up to $11 million worth of Big Tech stocks in the last two months as an anti-tech package of bills makes its way through the House at the same time.
In May and June, Pelosi purchased $4.8 million worth of Google shares, up to $1 million worth of Amazon call options, up to $250,000 of Apple call options, and up to $5 million of call options for Nvidia, the large semiconductor, graphics, and electronics company, according to a financial disclosure form filed last week.
The stock transactions were completed just weeks before the House Judiciary Committee passed six bipartisan antitrust bills aimed at reining in tech giants such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
Paul Pelosi’s purchase of Google stocks, through its parent company Alphabet, have already netted him more than $5 million in gains after his $4.8 million stock purchase doubled in value to more than $10 million.
Of course Nancy Pelosi is denying she knew anything about this:
Nancy Pelosi said she was not aware of her husband’s stock purchases.
“The speaker has no involvement or prior knowledge of these transactions,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg on Wednesday, adding that she doesn’t own any stocks.
She doesn’t own any stocks?! Is all their money separate?! And why would she know of her husband’s millions of dollars in business transactions? Doesn’t the ordinary married couple spend millions without informing the other what they are up to?
Of course, in order to keep up the defense of plausible deniability in place Nancy could have told her husband at the dinner table one night what bills were working their way through the Congress and then told him not to tell her about his upcoming business deals. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink…
John Kerry violates mask mandate at Logan Airport
Despite the fact that Joe Biden claimed he was only “asking” Americans to wear masks for 100 days (although nobody has been able to explain to me how making something mandatory was considered “asking”) the Federal mask mandate remains in place. Of course part of that mandate means that you must wear a mask while on public transportation and at airports and the like.
Apparently that only depends on who you are: You might remember back in March John Kerry was caught violating the Federal mask mandate while on an airplane. He defended himself by saying that he only pulled the mask down for a second and somebody just happened to snap a picture at the opportune time.
Well, now he has been caught again and this time it might not be so easily explainable. This time he was caught walking through Logan Airport and going through the metal detector sans mask.
It’s good to be the King…
New York Governor declares gun violence a public health crisis, seizes emergency powers
I really do hate to be the guy who says I told you so but back when Donald Trump was threatening to declare a national emergency at the Southern border to circumvent the Congress and fund the border wall through fiat I warned people that eventually a Democrat would be back in the White House and he or she could use Donald Trump’s example to declare global warming or gun control a national emergency to push forward his or her radical agenda.
It did not take Nancy Pelosi long to come to the same conclusion back in 2019 and now New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is making a test run of his own, preparing the way for a national emergency declaration if all goes well. The would-be dictator has declared gun violence in his State to be a public health crisis and has usurped emergency powers to fight the epidemic. Here is more:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued the first-in-the-nation Executive Order declaring gun violence in New York as a Disaster Emergency — the first step in a comprehensive plan that aims to tackle the surge in gun violence throughout the state.
The disaster emergency status will allow the state to address the gun violence crisis by expediting money and resources to communities so they can begin targeting gun violence immediately.
This new strategy treats gun violence as a public health crisis, using short-term solutions to manage the immediate gun violence crisis and reduce the shooting rate, as well as long-term solutions that focus on community-based intervention and prevention strategies to break the cycle of violence.
Here are some of the key points:
Treat gun violence like the emergency public health it is;
Target hotspots with data and science;
Positive engagement for at-risk youth;
Break the cycle of escalating violence;
Get illegal guns off the streets;
Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people;
Rebuild the police-community relationship
What is the reason the police-community relationship needs to be rebuilt for in the first place? Could it be Democratic politicians supporting the defund movement? But I digress…
It sounds all very well and good on the surface but we know what is going to happen when more and more of the States start following suit, and then what will happen when the Federal Government decides to take a crack at gun control through Executive Order…
You might remember that during the 2020 Presidential campaign whenever a question came up about Hunter Biden’s illicit business dealings and the possibility that he was cashing in on his father’s name and position as Vice-President that Joe Biden claimed he never even discussed Hunter’s business dealings with his son.
Now new emails, with pictures, have surfaced and we are getting more details as to why Hunter Biden once called his Dad his “office-mate” despite Joe Biden’s calm they are two separate adults leading two separate lives. It turns out that Joe Biden did in fact host Hunter Biden’s billionaire business associates in the White House after all, and also flew then on Air Force 2 to Mexico so they could discuss a business deal. Here is more:
Joe Biden entertained his son’s business associates in the vice president’s office, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.
The then-vice president also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán’s son for meetings over a ‘flippin gigantic’ business deal.
The revelations, laid bare in photographs and emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, are the latest in a growing body of evidence calling into question the president’s claim that he never spoke about business with Hunter.
In the light of shocking documents uncovered by DailyMail.com from the laptop, the president now faces serious questions – not just whether he knew about Hunter’s controversial business dealings, but also whether he was involved in facilitating them himself while vice president.
Knowing Joe Biden’s mental decline it is very possible that he has no recollection of this meeting or who those people were, however this happened five years ago, before the decline really started to take place, so I am not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Doctor Fauci accused of HATCH Act violation
Things are going from bad to worse for Doctor Fauci, he is now being accused of violating the HATCH Act for an interview he conducted shortly before the election. Here is more:
A complaint against Dr. Anthony Fauci alleges that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) violated the Hatch Act—which prohibits government employees from “us[ing] his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.”
The complaint, filed on Wednesday, was made by Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), a non-profit organization “dedicated to promoting compliance in government and restoring the public’s trust in government officials.”
“PPT respectfully requests that you investigate whether National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci violated the Hatch Act in the course of conducting an interview with The Washington Post just days before the General Presidential Election in November 2020,” the group asked.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci’s evaluation of the two candidates running for President during his interview with The Washington Post on October 30, 2020 demonstrated a clear intent to use his influence as one of the nation’s leading COVID-19 experts to affect the outcome of the coming national election,” the complaint reads.
Honestly, I think we all know this is going nowhere…
Hunter Biden’s investment firm has ties to company which helped fund Wuhan clinic research
We already know Doctor Fauci is up to his eyeballs in scandal for not only helping to fund gain-of-function COVID research in Wuhan but for also stating he thought the research was so important that the risk of creating a pandemic was worth it, but now we are learning, that Hunter Biden’s firm also has ties to funding the research. Here is more:
It has been revealed that Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), of which Hunter Biden was managing director, was one of the main financial backers for a company that partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Metabiota. Metabiota has partnered with both EcoHealth Alliance and with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Financial reports show that, in Jun. 2015, RSTP did a round of capital funding for Metabiota, which brought in around $30 million.
Metabiota was already partnered with EcoHealth Alliance under an umbrella bringing several related companies together in the year 2014. This umbrella eventually led to a study on bat infectious diseases in China.
Is it any wonder why people like Doctor Fauci and Joe Biden are so quick to dismiss the China lab leak theory…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a theory about the recent spike in violent crime. For lack of a better term she believes it is fake news, media-driven hysteria designed to counter the defund the police movement. Here is more:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on defunding police this week, asserting the crime surge is just “hysteria” and that making “responsible decisions about what [funds] to allocate” away from police departments is “important.”
“We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases,” she explained about a recent New York Times headline about surging crime:
Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.
Ocasio-Cortez continued to say the establishment media is perpetuating “this idea of crime” surging throughout America.
“I agree with Representative Bowman, that I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away and that a big, you know, major causes of this — and by the way, I also think it’s important context because we hear on the news and media, they perpetuate this idea of crime wave, crime wave, crime wave, right?” she continued. “And so this idea that a lot of us are panicked thinking that we are at some unprecedented level that we’ve never seen before.”
She did not come right out and call the reports fake news but it is pretty evident that is what she was saying in her remarks. Personally I am glad to learn the crime wave we have been hearing so much about is nothing but media driven hysteria designed to hurt the defund movement and that she is concerned about overreaction because this is the very same crime wave Democrats have been using to push their radical, draconian gun control measures. Apparently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez either did not get the memo or else she did not think through the ramifications of claiming there was no crime spree.
Once again a Democrat is caught talking out of both sides of their mouth–there is no crime wave when they want to defund the police however there is a crime wave which only restrictions on those who are not participating in the crime wave can stop. Just once I would like a reporter to follow up when a statement like this is made and ask the interviewee to rectify their two simultaneously conflicting views.
Republican Senators introduce resolution calling on CDC to loosen Federal mask mandate
While many States are finally loosening mask restrictions and life is returning to normal the Federal mandate remains in place with no sign of being lifted anytime in their near future. But if a few Republican Senators have their way that could change soon. Here is more:
Republican senators this week introduced a resolution aimed to urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update the federal mask mandate requiring face coverings to be worn on modes of public transportation.
The resolution, offered by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), calls on the Biden-led CDC to “review and update its guidance relating to mask-wearing in confined places.”
The resolution states that the Senate:
…encourages the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review and update its guidance relating to mask-wearing in confined places to clarify that individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear a mask on public transportation networks throughout the United States, including at airports, onboard commercial aircraft, on over-the-road buses, and on commuter bus and rail systems.
The resolution also states that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should update its mask requirements:
…to be consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, to permit fully vaccinated individuals to travel on all transportation networks throughout the United States without wearing a mask.
Using language like “urge” “encourages” and “should” should get results…
By the way, I thought Joe Biden was only going to “ask” us to wear a mask for 100 days? Whatever happened to that promise and where is the mainstream media with the lie-o-meter they were so found of breaking out over the last four years?
A few weeks ago a Federal Judge declared California’s “assault weapons” ban unconstitutional and issued a permanent injunction against the ban. But apparently “permanent” does not mean what I think it means because today the 9th Circuit Court blocked the decision and reinstated the ban. Here is more:
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a federal judge’s ruling Monday that overturned California’s ban on assault weapons.
The three judge panel issued a stay on Judge Roger Benitez’s ruling, which means the current ban on the firearms will stay in place while other proceedings continue.
And so on and on it goes, this one will be headed to the Supreme Court and the only good news to come from this is that the 9th Circuit Court remains the most overturned court in the nation. Donald Trump made some headway reforming this circuit court but just not quite enough.
Sunday, June 20th open thread: ‘Why Can’t I be You’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
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