Senators Who Should Resign (and/or be locked up)

Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions.

Tucker Carlson was not amused.

You may recall that, when legislation was enacted to criminalize legislators using nonpublic information to trade on stocks, Burr was one of the few to vote against it.

He was not the only one using his privileged position to make money.

The Senate’s newest member sold off seven figures’ worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S. equities.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on Jan. 24, the very day that her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private, all-senators briefing from administration officials, including the CDC director and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on the coronavirus.
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“Concerned about #coronavirus?” she tweeted on March 10. “Remember this: The consumer is strong, the economy is strong, & jobs are growing, which puts us in the best economic position to tackle #COVID19 & keep Americans safe.”

Other senators to sell off a lot of stock before it became apparent to the general public what we faced were James Inhofe and Dianne Feinstein.

They're pretty much all claiming that either their spouse did it or their "blind trust" did it. Funny how their spouses and trust managers all seem to figure out that bad shit is going to happen before everyone else.

They all need to go and, if the evidence supports it, Lock Them Up!
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Changing gears:

On Thursday, police in Purcellville, Virginia posted a bulletin which said “juveniles” had been observed coughing on produce at a grocery store while filming the stunt — presumably for social media.

Long prison terms and/or beatings are called for.