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What do you know? North Carolina — where Holy Men mulct the regular folk so casually and confidently you’d think it was a birthright — has its very own Boss Hogg: Senator Richard Burr.<\/p>\nWhat do you know? North Carolina — where Holy Men mulct the regular folk so casually and confidently you’d think it was a birthright — has its very own Boss Hogg: Senator Richard Burr.<\/p>\n
Briefed that the CoronaVirus would provoke a major, disruptive, life-threatenining event, did the Senator warn his constituents to get ready? He did not. He warned big donors<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR.<\/p>\n The remarks from U.S. Sen. Richard Burr were more stark than any he had delivered in more public forums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And he unloaded a lot of stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government\u2019s most highly classified information about threats to America\u2019s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clearly, Burr should resign. He should also face an insider trading investigation, and prison.<\/p>\n Always, invariably, inevitably, reality gets the last word. Could we please abandon the Happy Fantasyland spun by idiot preachers and start paying attention to the experts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do you know? North Carolina — where Holy Men mulct the regular folk so casually and confidently you’d think it was a birthright — has its very own Boss Hogg: Senator Richard Burr. Briefed that the CoronaVirus would provoke … Continue reading \n
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