Tim Cook called Pelosi to warn her against disrupting the iPhone with antitrust

Post by crazygringo » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

Post by alisonkisk » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

fny wrote: post #2

Pelosi also owns somewhere between $5M-$25M of Apple stock. You'd think some notion of recusal would exist in the legislative process... https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/nancy-pelosi/a...

Post by hulitu » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

coolspot wrote: post #4

Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese wiki have an article about “Power of a phone call” (Law by a phone call), which is when in a corrupted state you can solve any problem by calling someone powerful you’re connected to. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%84... https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%...

Post by kats » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

fny wrote: post #2

Pelosi also owns somewhere between $5M-$25M of Apple stock. You'd think some notion of recusal would exist in the legislative process... https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/nancy-pelosi/a...

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 9:38 PM UTC

exabrial wrote: post #8

kats wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, she has 33 yoe in congress and only gets paid 225k salary, she better have stocks.

Yeah right. https://unusualwhales.com/