Chris Josephs
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1,553 appearances
9 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Chris Josephs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you invest in these funds? Yeah, you can't. So, I mean, you can and you can't. I don't buy like the Pelosi ones because I ethically, I don't like to buy the companies that I tweet about because I don't want to believe in like, if I tweet this, the stock will go up 20%. Right. You know, I just don't even want to get into that world. I, though, invest in some of these other strategies.
I have around 5K in a strategy provided by Quiver Quant. Great guys. They do what Unusual Wells does similar on Instagram and Twitter. They track the lobbying. So they see which companies are spending the most on lobbying in D.C. And then they build a strategy around it to see if a strategy like that outperforms the market over time. Well, I know what sector has spent a lot.
Really? We have a JD Vance portfolio. He has some Bitcoin. His portfolio is very good. He only is in ETFs. So kudos to him. But he owns some crypto.
And also credit to him. So he was a VC, Founders Fund. I don't come from this world, but I know this because our app is venture-backed. He had, again, credit to him, he had money in Rumble, so YouTube's competitor, via his venture capital firm. I can't confirm this. I've never met him. But when he got into office before he became VP, he sold out of Rumble.
So only the stocks that he owns are just the main ETFs.
Yes. Yeah. So, this is where it gets complex. And I'd be curious to hear your take on this. So... There's bills out there to get it banned. I think social media has done a tremendous job with this, with the Pelosi tracker, with all of us trying to call out with our app. Part of it is built to highlight the hypocrisy of just how big of a problem this is. $500 million shouldn't be copying Pelosi.
If they are, that's a problem. So to credit to some of these politicians, AOC has done a lot. She's a fiery figure, but she has had two bills. She actually just released a bill a week ago called the Restore Faith in Government Act, and it calls for banning political stock trading. There's been around five bills. It's good for her. Yeah. She had a bill with Matt Gaetz. Yeah. Yeah.
The bill that's got the farthest, and this is where this just frustrates me with all the stuff going on, is there was a bill introduced by Josh Howley, John Ossoff, and a couple other politicians. The reason why that one's important is because they got that to the Senate.
And in the Senate, while they were in one of the committees, the way that the bills enter the floor is they have to get passed off by the committee. This is the bill that made it the farthest. In that bill, though, they offered kind of four things. First, members can't trade stocks by 2025. This was introduced in 2024. Members can't trade stocks.
Second, spouses and dependents can't trade stocks through 2027. Third, any private investment you have, you have to sell out of to run, to become a politician. No one has ever asked for that. That has never come up and that became a big, big problem. This is where it gets scary and we have to be careful with what we're essentially pushing for.
So what everyone has asked for on these bills is no trading, No members and their spouses can trade, put it in a blind trust. Now this fourth bill, no trading, no members and spouse, blind trust, but also you have to sell out of every private investment. And that, when they started debating it, Mitt Romney, Tim Scott, and a couple other politicians on it were like, wait a second.
We can't vote yes on this. If you guys are telling me that any future politician that wants to run has to sell out of private investments, that could become a major, major problem. If you want to run and be a politician, you'd have to sell out of your businesses. If I were to run, I would have to sell out of my businesses. A farmer would have to sell out of his family businesses. Is that right?
Why are we essentially doing that? And when you take a step back at the time, this was Kamala versus Trump. Kamala just picked Tim Walz to be the VP. And you think about where the directions of each parties are going. If you have a bill out there that bans
Politicians from owning in private investments you are turning off kind of a whole part of future people yeah and I mean you know you do kind of want people who are invested in the country.
And you know what's crazy? You had Trump and J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance, probably the most, in my lifetime, the smartest, most accomplished guy running for politics that I've ever seen. I think he's just tremendous. I totally agree. You got him with Trump, business guys first, politicians second. You got Vivek, business politician second.
On the other side, you got Kamala, career-long politician, 20 plus years. Just parasite, yeah. Tim Walz. Tim Walz, you have to disclose what you own. He doesn't own anything. Like you even just said, like I own part of land in America. He doesn't, from my memory, he doesn't own a house. The only thing he owned on that public disclosure was a teacher's pension.
And then you start, it's like, where can we go with this path of, you know, pro-business, successful, competent people running our country versus career-long politicians that just know how to play the game of thrones in politics to be able to get to where they want? Exactly, nicely put. That scared the shit out of me when they started talking about that.
Well, it may be just a way to kill the whole idea. So that was the other thing, is it a kill pill?
Yeah.
And... Give me the incentive. I'll give you the outcome. It's like if you have politicians that are incentivized for the good of American families, you know, it's like I totally agree. Kids, Trump, pro family. Exactly. You're going to build for your grandkids, not for you.
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