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Huh? This is idiocy. And he was never successful at "business".

That's not the problem. It's the unsuccessful business people who aim to make a killing on insider trading. Like Trump and the rest of his cabal of corruption.

If he were truly successful, he wouldn't need to commit insider trading in order to feed his family.

Oh my God why don't you just say out loud we want to continue being able to rip off people and manipulate the market?

Yes we fucking do

That's funny because government has been shown to be the last place "successful business people" should be. Profit is not and never should be the government's primary goal. Apparently around children is the second to last place... 🤦🏻‍♂️

senator Ricketts must be worried about a future candidate, certainly not the current occupant:

How a out criminals? What can be done to keep successful criminals out of office?

Parasites are not successful business people. They're vampires.

Yeah 6 bankrupties say it

But but but Hunter sold a pic. And the brother of Joe paid back his borrowed.

Oh NOOOO we can't keep OLIGARCHS from running the government!!!

He digs corruption.

Same guy that just built a 6 million dollar 222 acre hunting cabin for eating bags of dirty dicks !!!

Fck you Pete...shove it up your fkn ass

The fuck.

Cankles McFatass successful bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha wow thanks for the laugh dipshit.

Unbelievable! Who raised these people?

Nepo baby going to the mat for a fellow nepo baby. MBA grads will be the death of us all.

Not for MAGA…

can’t trade mutual funds or ETF like the rest of us?

Word salad 🥗

Why not?

Our Founding Fathers would be revolting again today.

But a "successful business person" can be President...

Amazing.

Note the underlying definition of “successful business man”: one whose business is mainly finance/trading (and/or inherited). Not one who built a successful manufacturing company, not a successful contractor, and god forbid a successful scientist or [ugh] plumber…

Senator Ricketts, success is not by any means a measure of intelligence. We are seeing that now in real time with the republican reign of terror. We want intelligent, educated people in office. Not people who failed up through school and life.

😂. Trumps taj mahal comes to mind

5 bankrupt casinos is successful???? No that can't be the reason.

Sen. Picketts apparently needs to take (& pass) a Business Ethics 101 course so he might maybe possibly wrap his brain around the concept of Conflict of Interest & why it should be avoided.

How about... No.

I'm sorry, is he saying Trump is a successful business person?

what if we didn't want business people in congress?

So he's saying no successful businessperson would go into politics unless they can use their office to corruptly enrich themselves? Good to know.

But Congress isn’t the president. WTF is he talking about?

Absolutely astonishing that this is a thing he said as if it were an actual argument

Bs

Again, once you enter congress or become president you become a successful *former* business person.

Other than altruism (a very, very good motivation), a successful business person (will leadership punish Ricketts for using gender neutral language?) has no reason to run for office. Also, holding Trump to a *lower* standard than we do members of Congress is preposterous.

Fraud for me but not for thee.

Bull💩

So it only applies to the poors? Got it.

7 bankruptcies proooobably means you're not a successful businessman and should be locked out.

WHAT SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS?????????

This is ridiculous. He is ridiculous.

Oh c'mon

I’m thinking that “successful business person” is code for corrupt business people. As IMO the more successful businesses become the more corrupt they are and the more they exploit & oppress their employees. Just saying.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪🤪

And we define “successful” as bankrupting six casinos, after wasting the money his Daddy gave him. Then rescued him again … Sen Ricketts wants to destroy our economy as much as his boss does…

Do they realise how shitty this looks. Keeping Orange Shitler happy to the detriment of the electorate. Good luck with that guys, because you are going to get screwed so bad it will have its own PornHub category.

you aren't preventing successful business people from going to congress. You're preventing them from using congress for profit.

Trading stocks isn’t a business. It doesn’t produce anything and doesn’t employ anyone. I support disincentivizing candidates who would put their business interests on par or ahead of the public interest. Be a successful little business owner or stock trader if you want. Stay out of government.

All that good money they've made on oil stocks.

The Trump Administration is Congress?

United Theft of America Incorporated Very successful.

Used to be, people wanted fewer lawyers in Congress. Now, I just want these ‘business’ people to climb back under their boardroom tables!

If you want to continue your grift while in Congress, that’s cool. Just don’t join Congress intending to begin your grift. Got it.

I don’t really want a businessman in Congress, I feel like they’d just try to pass laws that would benefit their business over anything else

Pete Ricketts….should be ”Pete Rackets”

No, that's exactly what I want. No reason for you to be in government if you're a successful business person ,billionaire or trillionaire, run your business, congress isn't supposed to be a lifetime position and is supposed to represent the majority of voters not the 1 percent.

Grifter class.

Wasn't Rockefeller in congress?

"We don't want to keep a successful business person from coming to Congress." Who is 'We'? I absolutely want to do that, having a stock trader in Congress is a conflict of interest.

"Lucky for us. All members of Congress, once elected, are considered 'successful businessmen'"

Yes we do. We have too many billionaires who some care more about keeping their wealth and less about making the country better for everyone. They’ll never change the tax codes to insure the rich pay their fair share either.

This is a feature, not a bug.

“Are you a successful businessperson but you don’t like following all these pesky rules and regulations? Then join Congress so you can get rid of them!” We used to have a government. Now it’s just organized crime.

His logic is I will only join Congress if the *president* can do insider trading.

Ok, BS, but how does that apply to Trump? Of all the things he wasnt, “successful businessman” was the thing he most WASN’T. Presidency is his most successful business

One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors. The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” -Plato

Translation: we want the ultra wealthy to be attracted to public service by offering them a new path of corruption.

Doesn't the Congressional trading ban prevent business people from running for Congress? How does omitting the president lure business people to Congress?

They are petrified of Trump. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Bankrupt. Six times.

Bullshot

Criminal.

We have Senator Pete Ricketts' political snapshot for anyone unfamiliar with him 📸

corrupt corrupt corrupt that sly grin is punchable

Yet another MF that belongs on jail for a very long time. The cleanup list for the next administration is historic. Deeper down it's the cleanup that Abraham Lincoln didn't get to do. Perhaps then the US can again move towards becoming the nation it has always tried to be.

Liar?

Multiple bankruptcies = successful business man. MAGA logic. 🤣

Shocker. He didn’t answer the question. I didn’t hear anything in there about why it shouldn’t be extended to the admin.

Only elect the unsuccessful....Idiocracy

And people wonder why the Cubs are so loathsome.

Hilariously stupid! So ‘successful businessmen’ are exempt from insider trading?!!

Ah yes, the "If you're famous, they let you do it" clause

Bankruptcy is the Republican idea of a successful business??

Really? Because I’m fine with that.

Ricketts is running cringey anti-trans ads on TV and is in a fight against Independent Dan Osborn. Similar ads backfired on Omaha’s former Republican mayor, who lost to a Democrat, Omaha’s first black mayor John Ewing Jr. Ricketts’ support of Trump isn’t close to the flex it once was in Nebraska.

Please. In business, the word "Trump" is associated with: bankruptcy, failure, crappy, cheap, fraud, bribe, skim, illegal, scam...etc. But never "success".

So again, to repeat the question: why isn’t the Trump administration included in the trading ban bill?

No restriction on Trump b/c don't want to stop businessmen from running for congress? But ban congressment from trading individual stocks?

Narrator: In this instance, "successful business person" is code for unadjudicated rapist.

So GOP members of Congress consider themselves part of the Executive Branch administration? I mean, yeah… I just thought they were still pretending to be a separate branch.

Again, another one not listening to answer the question he’s listening to remain in proximity of a pardon. The question was clearly not about Congress it was about the administration.

Bankrupting multiple businesses is a success now?

These people think that corrupt and successful are synonyms

FFS

Lock the fuckers out We need intelligent & compassionate people in government who want to help solve our nation’s problems, not working towards dynamic pricing healthcare, grocery and fuel costs their voters into poverty while they stock trade themselves into multi millionairedom

And this guy was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple money wise.

He was a successful money launderer for Russia. As a businessman, he ran bankrupt and fraudulent companies

Un-Fucking-Believable

I mean, we desperately NEED to keep businesspeople from coming into Congress!

Thats exactly what we want to do

🤢🤮. Some folks have no shame.

“We don’t want to keep a successful business person from….[whispers] don’t make me say it! I can’t make him mad. I don’t want to be sent to the cornfield!”

Why bother passing Rickett's half- assed stock trading ban if it doesn't apply to the worst chief of lies offender and his unscrupulous gang of corrup carnival freak culprits otherwise known as the closetocracy. Too many secrets, not enough closets to hide them.

😂😂😂😂 The twists and turns of the cult to now to their orange god

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Term limits for Congress are needed. Also, lower pay and fewer benefits. It should be a civil service short term job and not a profit making career.

Pete Ricketts is a cowardly enabler of the Demented Pervert Grifter

So, in order to be deemed unsuccessful, you have to file bankruptcy for your businesses at least 7 times... Got it.

hogwash from a top hog.

God I hope Nebraskans vote with their common sense this time and get this MF out! I’ve never voted for him and will dance when he’s gone. He can take his buddy Pillen with him.

Crooked as the day is long. Sneaky Pete.

Q so it’s a bribe? A no, it’s an allowance. Q created to benefit a specific person family at this time? A well, he was such a great businessman. Q and you were told he wouldn’t sign it if he was included? A well, he wrote the Art of the Deal Q so it’s a bribe?

bsky.app/profile/nome... Cone head gop No king Vote Blue✍️ Reject magop from all offices

Anyone know how much Sen Ricketts made from stock trades?

Sen. Pete Rickets is a quintessential “IDIOT ELECTED BY IDIOTS.” Please, please, please can somebody stop this lying monumental idiot from talking such total rubbish? He is out of his bloody mind, doesn’t know what he is talking about, and hurts our ears and brains.

Only being successful at stealing and profiting from being the president does not make a successful business man

"Look at me, being sensible and fair to business owners! I'm not a complete weasel at all!"

Too many crooks spoil the broth