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Lumpy Tapioca ♨︎'s avatar

*sigh* can't sleep... but where were we? Oh yes.. per CNBC:

After becoming a U.S. senator this week, Kelly Loeffler won assignment to a committee that oversees the agency in charge of regulating her husband’s business, setting the grounds for a potential conflict of interest.Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and which owns the New York Stock Exchange. The Senate Agriculture Committee, which Loeffler joined following her Senate confirmation, oversees the CFTC.ICE’s annual report notes that the company is “subject to extensive regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.” Loeffler and Sprecher married in 2004, before the company went public in 2005. She had worked at ICE, leading the company’s investor relations and communications programs for 15 years before slipping into Bakkt, a crypto trading platform created by ICE, as CEO in 2018

These people, I tell 'ya.

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Cthulhu: Danger hugs!'s avatar

I had a departmental yeoman in the Navy who was named, "Hyman Lipshitz". The poor bastard.

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Moomin Maiden-fully vaxxed's avatar

Dear Pony, my big fat fingers hit the down arrow, for which I am sorry. I have amended my mistake

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PonySoldier's avatar

And you were worried? I am verklempt.

But doesn't Stone act like his Nixon tattoo has come alive, and is biting him in the spine?

P.S. Go Liz!

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Boojum's avatar

Step3: Owner sticks his tongue down your throat.

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Boojum's avatar

Treat everyone like a potential pirate.

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Edgar Allen Shmoe's avatar

It sure looks like a conflict of interest, but I’m confident Loeffler will handle everything above board and at arm’s length, you betcha yep sure uh huh.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

"But do we love our troops, folks?"

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Those are a bitch to parallel park. Or a breeze, if you don't care about the cars you're parking between.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

I'll pay for his flight.

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Skepti-KC's avatar

I will help him pack.

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FurryCaterwauling's avatar

The data show a clear correlation—causality may not be lurking far behind....

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SqueakyRat's avatar

Yeah. The Desk is in the Awful Orifice.

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SqueakyRat's avatar

Very gory, but maybe his best.

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SqueakyRat's avatar

That's why they call'em machines, Charles.

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