Political analysts and observers were aghast on Monday after a new report revealed that President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary has reached a new "height of criminality." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's stockbroker looked into purchasing a defense-related fund ahead of the Trump administration l...
    • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
      41·
      3 个月前

      Yeah it’s probably not going to happen until after the Republicans are out of office and someone can fix the DOJ.

      • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        28·
        3 个月前

        Republicans being held responsible and suffering consequences after leaving office? That’s a funny joke, but I’ve already heard it.

      • e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        3 个月前

        even if at some point the rule of law returns and they will prosecute, this unhinged piece of shit would rather murder-suicide his whole family than assume any responsibility and consequences

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      3 个月前

      Yeah the editor toned down the quote in the headline. The actual quote from the article was:

      “Firing this drunk idiot is the bare minimum. @PeteHegseth should be prosecuted.”

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    3 个月前

    “Under fire”? Man that sounds serious. What are they actually firing at him, though? Like how is he being penalized by being “under fire”? What does that mean?

    • slemptastrophe@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      3 个月前

      It’s like when a corporation gets “SLAMMED” for some anti-social act, or policy. It means theyvare being criticized for it, but the accountability ends there.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 个月前

      It doesn’t mean anything. These headlines might as well read, “quell your rage, educated masses: the bad people are finally getting the negative attention they deserve, so put down your pitchforks…”

      It’s a slow drip of hope that consequences are just around the corner. It keeps uprisings at bay. Until decades later people realize, “wait a minute… how’s this guy running for President? Wasn’t he ‘under fire’ for some shit not long ago?”

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      That requires more energy than shooting him out of the solar system.
      I’m all for energy efficiency!
      Nice side effect: he has more time to contemplate the reason behind his long journey.

      • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 个月前

        Alternatively, launch toward the sun, include a solar power tracker, and track and follow the trajectory for science/physics class work!

        Based on trumps speed and position today, calculate where his bloated corpse will be in 9 hours, the length of a workday, which is something he never personally experienced, but tried to make worse for the average person.

        Double whammy of learning about history and science!

          • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 个月前

            I mean I’m including the hour lunch there or it would be 8… pretty sure y’all aren’t working substantially less than that…

            • HermitBee@feddit.uk
              1·
              3 个月前

              Fair enough, that does change things. 7.5 is pretty standard, but I’ve generally been contracted for 7. Which is significantly less than 9.

              • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                3 个月前

                It would be, yeah, and a lot of people here do work 60+ hrs because our country fucking sucks, but that’s not at all the norm for most jobs. If anything, most places that can swing it try to keep you under the hour threshold to qualify as full time (30 hrs in a week or 130 hrs in a month) so they don’t have to offer you benefits like health insurance or vacation days… so most low-wage workers have multiple jobs and work more than 60 hrs, but still have to pay for their own health insurance or do without it.

                I’m not a big fan of mocking exploitation of the working class, regardless where they are from. You have it objectively better, act like it instead of punching down.

        • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 个月前

          Maybe you’re right.
          But what about: we shoot him there and make him pay for it (preferably before doing the shot)!

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 个月前

        Yeah, but on the off chance aliens pick him up and he’s their first contact, they’d probably destroy the planet.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 个月前

      I’m always so angry when this gets brought up. He loved that fucking peanut farm and he gave it up! That’s how much he cared about the American people. We didn’t deserve him.

  • the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 个月前

    Who would fire him? Trumps entire administration are the most corrupt officials to ever take office. Insider trading is the least of their many criminal offenses. The entire lot should be thrown in prison!!

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    3 个月前

    ‘Fire this idiot’

    Followed immediately by “arrest this criminal”.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    7·
    3 个月前

    Someone more knowledgeable clarify this to me ?

    “Pete Hegseth tried to make a LOSING insider trade on his advance knowledge of Trump’s Iran war plans, which he advised to start,” Grant Stern, managing editor of Occupy Democrats, posted on X. “This is the height of criminality and incompetence.”

    How was the trade losing ? whatever stock it was went down ? was it something akin to weapons manufacturing ? and if I understand correctly, it was expected to go up because of their involvement in the “war effort” ?

    • Shirasho@lemmings.world
      7·
      3 个月前

      You can gamble on whether a stock price will rise or fall. When going to war, stock prices for war companies rise because they are expected to get a lot of business, but if that call to war is suddenly canceled, then the stock price for that company decreases.

      If he made a losing bet, one of two things happened:

      1. The value of the stock was going to drop way below the value it started at, so he would earn a large payout on that gamble.

      2. He was funneling large amounts of money to other insider traders.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        2·
        3 个月前

        Thank you. I didn’t know that was possible. How do you do such a gamble, practically ? Is it something that banks offer, or something you can do from a smartphone app ?

        Additionally, how does #2 work ?

        • Shirasho@lemmings.world
          2·
          3 个月前

          You can trade outside of trading hours by paying extra for the trade. When you do this, you can buy/sell only to others who have also paid extra. This means you have some extra control over who gets your shares and when. In addition, you can sell shares directly to other people anytime if you physically own them.

        • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          3 个月前

          You can get a brokerage app, exactly what app and how they work are dependent on your region.

          #2 just involves knowing the right people.

    • Ænima@lemmy.zip
      4·
      3 个月前

      Don’t have to be a good criminal to do crime! Dude’s an amateur at insider-trading!

    • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
      2·
      3 个月前

      The tweet is linked, but doesn’t give any details. So we don’t know - and it might well not be true. What can be asserted without proof, can be rejected without proof.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    6·
    3 个月前

    not at all corrupt. Nothing this regime does is corrupt, because it’s only corrupt if you get charged and convicted for it, which I’m sure you can all imagine is never going to happen. Not while daddy dumpy is in power, and certainly not after, because the democrats are spineless fucking dipshits. (ugh. Fuck this idiot.)