{"id":168556,"date":"2025-04-16T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168556"},"modified":"2025-04-15T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:29:48","slug":"wednesday-weirdness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168556","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Never thought I would ever say this – but I found myself agreeing with the Squad briefly. Damn, feel like I should wash my mouth out after saying that.<\/p>\n

AOC is up first on the list. Yeah, little donkey-toothed Sandy managed to slip a decent statement between those tombstone teeth of hers.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday renewed her call for a ban on lawmakers trading individual stocks after a disclosure filing showed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) bought shares in a number of companies just before President Donald Trump announced a pause on tariffs.<\/p>\n

She slammed lawmakers for using their access to\u00a0\u201csensitive information\u201d to make trades ? and said Trump\u2019s on-again, off-again tariffs were part of that scheme.<\/p>\n

The disclosure this week revealed that Greene bought between about $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of Trump\u2019s tariff pause announcement, the New York Times noted.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats and Republicans alike should be united in opposing the practice in all cases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She’s right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMembers of Congress holding and trading individual stock is wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is corrosive. It is destructive. And it needs to be banned.\u201d\u00a0 HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not sure I would go as far as saying they can’t OWN any stock, but trading based on insider info obtained while in government? No.\u00a0 Blind trusts exist for a reason.<\/p>\n

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Moving on….damn, this one REALLY hurts – Jasmine Crockett, the Dem congresss-scrunt from the DFW area, raised a good point: if we are so anxious to save money, why must our President insist on traveling to Florida every weekend<\/em> to play golf? Numerous sources say he has missed one weekend since being inaugurated… at about $2,600,000 per.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are gonna talk about efficiency\u2026 let\u2019s talk about the fact that, as of March 30, Trump\u2019s golfing has cost us approximately $26 million,\u201d Crockett said.<\/p>\n

Crockett\u2019s numbers didn’t take into account the cost of Trump\u2019s latest golf trip in the first days of April, which was longer and more expensive than his previous weekend trips since Jan. 20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HuffPo estimates each golf weekend costs us $2.4 million, and last weekend was $4.2 million.<\/p>\n

Friday, April 4, marked Trump\u2019s 20th day of golf at one of his courses since he was inaugurated on Jan. 20 \u2014 totaling 27% of his second term.\u00a0 People<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t begrudge him some play time – it’s a high pressure job, they say. But there are a LOT of decent courses in the Washington area, some even on military posts who would no doubt comp his party.\u00a0 I recall one on Ft. Meade which had a green on the back nine directly under the same antenna that was pictured on the old classic 1982 book “The Puzzle Palace” which introduced many Americans to No Such Agency. It may still be there…I hear the agency is. Regardless, when making economic times uncertain for many of the country, blowing that much money on golf<\/em> makes you understand the Octoberists a bit better.<\/p>\n

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Last we see Dan Caldwell, getting the comeuppance we asked for. Remember the “Signal” snafu?\u00a0 Multiple high-dollar officials turned out to be unwittingly sharing battle plans etc. for our strikes on the Houthis with a senior editor from the Atlantic. (Note – this is not the same Dan Caldwell who founded TapOut MMA-linked clothing.)<\/p>\n

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Caldwell, who served in the Marine Corps, was one of several senior advisers who worked closely with Hegseth. Caldwell\u2019s ties to the secretary go back to Hegseth\u2019s time as the head of Concerned Veterans for America, a nonprofit that fell into financial difficulty during his time there. Caldwell worked at CVA beginning in 2013 as policy director and later as executive director.<\/p>\n

He also was the staff member designated as Hegseth\u2019s point person in the\u00a0Signal messaging chat\u00a0that top Trump administration national security officials, including Hegseth, used to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen. The chat, set up by national security adviser Michael Waltz, included a number of top Cabinet members and\u00a0came to light because Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, was added to the group.\u00a0 Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At the time we said whoever was responsible needs to go away. Caldwell was walked out of the Pentagon Tuesday on ‘administrative leave’ (ironically, according to sources who remain confidential because they are not authorized to talk about it. Heck, fry THEM.) H\/t to Jeff LPH for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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