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"GameStop" & Donald Trump Are the Same - Both Hijacked a Rigged Game
Is America Up to the Task of Reforming Both the GOP and the Options Markets? GameStop and Donald Trump are the same thing. In both cases, outsiders saw a decaying, billionaire-run and corrupt insider-only system, figured out how it worked, and used that system's own corruption against it.
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-Thom
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Friday's Daily Stack
Hour One: "GameStop" and Donald Trump Are the Same - Both Hijacked a Rigged Game. Is America Up to the Task of Reforming Both the GOP and the Options Market?
Tweet: " Here's the Jan. 4 memo from former acting Defense Secretary requiring "personal authorization" for DC National Guard to employ riot control agents & other tactics at Jan. 6 "March for Trump." This same day Capitol police knew of a "strong potential" for violence against Congress." by Luke Broadwater.
Hour Two: Issues of the Day- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)
Tweet: " A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media. I'm moving my office away from hers for my team's safety. I've called for the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from Day 1. Bring H.Res 25 to a vote." by Cori Bush.
Article: " Preamble to the Constitution of the United States". " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Hour Three: Anything Goes Friday...Thom Takes Your Calls
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Book: " Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. " And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
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