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Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 05:33 PM - Edit history (1)
— George Conway âï¸ðºð¸ (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2026-04-18T15:47:50.241Z
This is in regards to an earlier post (thanks Cha)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221182320
WarGamer
(18,738 posts)dpibel
(3,989 posts)Since there are no secrets, you must know, or be able to find out.
Waiting with bated breath.
WarGamer
(18,738 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 18, 2026, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)
The trades themselves are public information...
You'll see "10,000 shares bought/sold" or "10,000 call options bought"
But to find out WHO bought them, you need subpoena power against the broker
dpibel
(3,989 posts)It appeared from your reply that you were giving information to Ossoff, or were helping us mere mortals understand how Ossoff knows not whereof he speaks.
Given that he is quoted as saying "I don't know WHO placed those trades..." [emphasis supplied], it seems from this most recent post of yours that you are in full agreement with him.
But your subject-line-only first response appears to be explaining the reality to the rest of the benighted world, and to be saying that Ossoff is just posturing, or doesn't know the simple fact that you know.
How else is a person to read that?
You are now, however, saying we of course don't know who; just that the trades were made.
But that's not something that the SEC needs to find out (per Ossoff). That's all over the media.
I am apparently missing the import of your initial response, even though I have studied it with great care.
Stryst
(727 posts)We all read what OP meant; that there are records. It was probably meant as a generically hopeful comment. But you got a bonnet full of bees for some reason, and not only are you putting words in someone else's mouth, you're using those words to get offended. You need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and think about this entire interaction.
ColoringFool
(815 posts)Because, frankly, neither Post #1 nor Post #13 add anything to that self-explanatory video.
Furthermore, please do not presume to speak for anyone other than yourself, never mind what "no one else" thought.
ColoringFool
(815 posts)DallasNE
(8,018 posts)Or is that just another layer to dig through?
KPN
(17,441 posts)ultra complex shell game already in place to make the trades ... but, presumably, a thorough investigation could unwind that ball of string and identify the "who".
This isn't something that should be ignored or given up on because it may be complex. The threast of a future investigation is real power and should be wielded as Ossoff has done. Good on him!
Cha
(319,584 posts)Not sure what he's talking about, but I very much like how he's stating it.
Swede
(39,737 posts)They made a bundle. But who is "they"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221182320
flying rabbit
(4,982 posts)popsdenver
(2,399 posts)when select number of Republican Senators got some insider information about just how bad Covid was going to be, and literally ran to their phones that afternoon and bought and sold Corporation's stocks based on information, that afternoon. The next day Trump announced that he had just learned how bad it was going to be and how hard it was going to hit the U.S.
By that time, the select Republican Senators had already notified their friends, family and Uber Rich donors the afternoon they had first learned it. The SEC broadcast that they had been seeing a fortune in stocks traded by individuals, and stated there were a huge amount traded by one particular U.S. Senator......from Louisiana? (I can't remember her name, but she was married to the head of the New York Stock Exchange) They noted that during that first afternoon, she had made 20?Million in trades, and they were still adding to it. They said it appeared that she was selling stocks her and her husband owned in Corporations that might suffer a collapse during covid, and buying corporate stocks in companies that would do well during covid......
That story appeared the day after the secret meeting of Senators had occurred, then nothing appeared after that, obviously Trump's CABAL had come down on the SEC like a ton of bricks for publicly stating that info......Sadly we could have learned about alot if they had investigated her trades, and all the other massive trades by people that afternoon......Other Republican Politicians, their friends, families and mega donors
After that, Stocks and other investments were the Republican Politicians playground for massive individual wealth building, with all the "Insider" information they were privy to, along with their friends, families, and mega wealthy Republican Donors.
With all the ups and downs in the stock market, caused by Trump's daily announcements, you all and I can only imagine the amount of money, corruptly obtained during the first administration and this administration in this way........
AND, we wil never learn about any of this....due to the SEC being run by a Trumphumper, and because all of the mainstream media is owned by the Uber wealthy, Republican Owned and Operated Media, here in America, who have an interest in also keeping their mouth's shut about it, and continually taking part in this black hole of corrupt insider trading........just like the Republican Politicians and Trump's CABAL.....
And people wonder how the top 1% has made an unfathomable increase in their net worth these past ten years.......
The perfect title for a book about the last 46+ years, and particularly the last ten years would be
WHILE THE NATION SLEPT...............especially the 70+Million Trump humping voters who can's see or comprehend anything literally....beyond the end of their noses.........
I stopped behind a most expensive Porsche in traffic a few months ago......... It had a bumper sticker on it....(Wondering what Porsche owner would put a bumper sticker on their car????????) It read, in large bold print: GOT MINE....FUCK YOU........it epitomized all that is going on in the U.S. today, by Republicans......
Cha
(319,584 posts)Sen Jon Offoff.
So Hope it comes true.. Justice needs to be Served to these Greedy Homicida Zombies.
magicarpet
(18,900 posts)Justice matters.
(9,908 posts)began.

Wonder "who" FIRED them all and for what... umm, maybe not.
paleotn
(22,442 posts)That was their own money so the pillaging may be a billion worse than the chart.
Justice matters.
(9,908 posts)No big deal. The gangster and his boys want to raid the IRS for $10 Billions and he's also suing the DoJ (for what, not sending him in jail for life?).
Tasmanian Devil
(184 posts)Subpoenas that can't be enforced are just a bad joke.
KPN
(17,441 posts)Russia 2, I'm thinking 2029 is the point when investigations can become real.
justaprogressive
(6,996 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(1,073 posts)It was supposedly an investment firm. Were they licensed? Firms that issue stock are required to file annual (10-K) and quarterly (10-Q) reports. They don't have the people to check everything even when a Dem is in office because the Repubs always cut the budgets of government agencies.
progressoid
(53,249 posts)not fooled
(6,720 posts)Ossoff certainly looks and sounds presidential. Just a thought...but I digress.
paleotn
(22,442 posts)Just need to work on messaging.
Javaman
(65,871 posts)and now it virtually exists only on paper.
calling for an investigation by the SEC is ridiculous in the very least.
paleotn
(22,442 posts)Which they haven't been for a very long time. Bad enough in the 2000's prior to the financial collapse. Today, the SEC is a sign on a building and some stationary. Nothing more.
Johonny
(26,352 posts)We all know that isn't happening, which is why it is so out of control.
KPN
(17,441 posts)nothing will ever happen. It is only hopeless if we believe it is.
OK, you can call me goldilocks now ... but I prefer to think we can be far more effective in 2029 than some of us think.