As reported by Politico, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) joined with all Democrats on the committee to advance a bill to ban stock trading by elected officials. However, to get Hawley's vote, Democrats had to agree to create a carveout for U.S. President Donald Trump and to apply the stock-trading ban only to future presidents.

The thin veneer of legitimacy has been completely eroded. Each branch of government is captured and completely controlled by a wealthy aristocracy, not unlike the aristocracy we fought a revolution to break away from. Dissolution is imminent.

Hawley took heat from fellow Republicans on the committee for advancing the legislation, including Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who accused his Missouri colleague of demonizing the wealthy.

"I don't know when in this country it became a negative to make money," said Scott. "How many of you don’t want to make money? Anybody want to be poor?"

The bill doesn't demonize the wealthy, it rightly demonizes those who use their public position to increase their personal wealth at the expense of their constituents, you dildo. If you are in public office to make money, then you should not be in public office.

This should be an absolute no-brainer, and should most ESPECIALLY apply to those in the WH - and their families. Especially if no one is going to stop the lawlessness of Taco and his illegal tariffs and the related market manipulation there.

Hell, those of use that are attached to companies that do anything in the financial space know full well that WE are under a microscope when it comes to OUR money moves - and there are tools that exist that attach to your bank account(s) directly to enforce this.

There is no FUCKING WAY that it's fair that all of us plebes that this applies to have this level of oversight and these motherfuckers haven't had it for years.

Honestly, fine, if it gets it through. He's not gonna make it much longer anyway, and he's doing it either way.

I think those in Congress should be allowed to park their money into a Boglehead style three-fund portfolio - with some percentage in bonds, some in S&P and the third portion in international stocks and you freeze the percentage at the outset of your term.

Each term you serve, you have a new opportunity to rebalance (based on risk you want to take on - less as you grow older), and that's it. They can do dollar cost averaging into those three funds, but that's it - it has to be at the same percentage split they decided at the outset of their term. No selling of any of these for their entire term - it's buy and hold, baby.

That's plenty of opportunity for them to still take part in the market - and they could dial up/down the amount of dollar cost averaging as much as they want and whenever they want (although those would get close inspection based on timing in the event of someone like Taco messing with the market over tariffs).

This is more than enough engagement with the market and plenty of opportunity to make money. Plenty of Americans do far less market engagement than this.