Samuel Alito sold AB InBev stock and bought Molson Coors on the same day, according to a financial transaction report on the Supreme Court justice.
  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    7322·
    1 个月前

    Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold shares of beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev as conservatives were ditching the Bud Light brewer…

    I don’t like this guy’s decisions but this is just a guy seeing what the trends are and selling stock.

    There’s no insider information, why the fuck is this news?

    • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      586·
      1 个月前

      The implication is it was politically/ideologically motivated. Says it right at the start under “Key Points”

      Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with insider trading.

        • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          217·
          1 个月前

          I’m simply pointing out that this was never about inside trading and it was never mentioned in the article. I’d say it certainly counts as worthy of suspicion, however, given the recent revelations about how he responded to January 6th. Which is also discussed in the article, mind you. But I don’t want to debate that. Just making sure you guys going off about insider trading actually read it.

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
            1316·
            1 个月前

            Insider trading would be one of the few reasons why this would be illegal which is why I brought it up.

            Why is this news in your mind?

            • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
              145·
              1 个月前

              AGREED! Why is it news that Justice Alito is LITERALLY doing everything the January 6ers who were found guilty of Sedition are TELLING him to do? It’s not like Justice Alito is CREATING Laws for which you and I must follow!

            • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              137·
              1 个月前

              I’d say it certainly counts as worthy of suspicion, however, given the recent revelations about how he responded to January 6th.

              But I don’t want to debate that.

              Have a good one

            • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              1 个月前

              In itself, this isn’t really news. But that together with the other news about him, I think that’s pretty obvious.

              Why fight this so hard if this isn’t “newsworthy” according to you?

    • ALQ@lemmy.world
      161·
      1 个月前

      From the article:

      The transactions have bred fresh accusations that Alito, one of the high court’s six conservatives, is engaging in or aligning with partisan politics, despite a recently adopted code of conduct that directs the justices to “refrain from political activity.”

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      117·
      1 个月前

      Yeah I was thinking the same, this isn’t insider trading. In fact I don’t think it’s even vaguely sketchy.

        • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          1 个月前

          If the complaint is that the move was politically motivated in violation of the new code of conduct, that code of conduct only came into effect a few months after the shares were bought and sold. Even then, a reasonable argument could be made that he was instead motivated by the shift in share price. Don’t get me wrong, I think the dude is a piece of shit that should step down for the good of the country, but this is not where we should be wasting our energy caring about.

          • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            94·
            1 个月前

            Feel free to address the contents of the article now that you read it. I was just pointing out that what you were talking about was completely irrelevant.

  • Delonix@lemmy.world
    282·
    1 个月前

    This guy just oozes contempt for his fellow man, imagine the damage he’d do if he was a supreme court judge…

      • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        31·
        1 个月前

        I’m sorry, why do you think SCOTUS has become so politicized? Could it be because the GOP stole 2 seats and have made a series absurd rulings because of the 6 conservative justices’ clear political leanings?

          • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            1 个月前

            Then I don’t see the issue here. They turned it into a circus, so yeah, people are gonna come after them when they show clear political bias. Because we don’t trust them to keep their personal opinions out of it.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 个月前

    Ironically Boof was buying up a ton of Bud Light. Boy that guy loves him some beer, huh?

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      131·
      1 个月前

      Never forget a sitting Supreme Court Justice committed perjury to avoid admitting he likes to squirt beer up his ass.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 个月前

          For the record, I believe her, andI don’t believe the rapist who lied under oath.

          But we can’t prove he was lying about raping women. We can prove he was lying about he and his friends squirting beer up each others’ asses. We know he and his friends squirted beer into their asses, because they documented a bunch of times they squirted beer up inside each other. That happened, and after swearing an oath to tell the truth in front of Congress and the American People, he lied about it. We know he lied. We can prove a current Supreme Court Justice lied under oath during his confirmation hearing.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 个月前

    Honestly, I’m kind of surprised this guy is buying and selling stupid beer stocks and isn’t just letting a brokers and funds deal with that crap.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        13·
        1 个月前

        I love when liberals scream ‘whataboutism’ then invoke Trump in every conversation critical of Biden

        • jaschen@lemm.ee
          0·
          1 个月前

          Your comment was as dumb as you probably look. What does Nancy have to do with the OP? You might as well name a bunch of other crimes that don’t relate. It might be more entertaining.