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- It allows members with massive holdings to continue to own individual stock and buy using their dividends (!!) - It creates new exceptions for member’s spouses and child dependents to buy ON BEHALF OF OTHER PEOPLE (!!) - Wealthiest members can keep selling stocks

Thanks. I’m trying to be nicer 😌

Yes. Not sure what the panic here is about. My position is clear and restated many times. The journalist was specifically asking about the appropriations bill and I was answering his question re: finances.

It’s bullshit too. See how it’s not hard to say? I also condemn Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian targeting pretty regularly! Funny how some of us can condemn racism and dehumanization across the board but a sure lot of people seem to get tripped up over that.

I literally threw a Democrat out of office over it. And have supported plenty of primary challengers against Democrats engaged in corruption. So yes actually

This is how I feel about it. I loathe machine politics and got to office defeating an incumbent who got in that way. However there are quite a few problems with choosing to grind the entire House to a halt to force all 435 members across the country to do a rushed vote on this one individual instance (of many, mind you!). 1. Why is it that this objection wasn’t brought up until now? The author had no problem when Bill Posey did it, or even earlier this year when a member’s account was tweeting post mortem for an election. The standard of this resolution is unevenly applied and choosing to enforce it via privileged resolution for some but not others does open legitimate questions of rationale or motivation. Why not care about this for them, but care about it now? This question has not b…

Chai ☕️