A conservative provocateur slipped through security at a recent book signing featuring Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), peppering her with questions about her favorite stocks before angry liberals shouted him out of the store.
Alex Strenger, who wore a face mask and “White Dudes for Kamala” t-shirt for his skit, initially attempted to win Pelosi’s favor by expressing his fear about former President Donald Trump returning to power. “I honestly think the only change, like, we have is for him to spend the rest of his life in prison,” the undercover conservative said in a video clip of the exchange. “We just have to win the election first,” Pelosi replied. As security guards closed in and attempted to shuffle him away, Strenger unleashes the real reason for visiting Pelosi: to ask for her best stock tips in a slow September market.
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“What stocks should I buy, Nancy? You’re the greatest options trader of all time. I just want to know what stocks I should buy,” He yelled over security guards forcefully pushing him toward the exit. “I just wanna know! Income inequality is your biggest concern.” He tried pivoting to question why the California Democrat has a protective detail around her at all. “The police are an institution of white supremacy and racism. I don’t understand why they’re around at all, they should be defunded,” he tells a Black officer.
Before leaving Strenger played to the line of single women waiting for a chance to meet their idol, most of whom screamed for him to leave the store. “I just want to know – she makes six figures a year and has a $100 million net worth. Don’t y’all want to know what stocks you should buy!” A chorus of women yell “no” and “go away.”
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Assaulted by @SpeakerPelosi’s Security Detail when all I wanted was stock advice 😢 pic.twitter.com/QwEbtxfRQk
— Alex Strenger (@TheAlexStrenger) September 7, 2024
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Pelosi’s penchant for savvy stock trades has become a meme unto itself. A social media account on X known as the “Nancy Pelosi Stock Trader” keeps a running tabulation of which companies the former House speaker invests in, offering everyday Americans the chance to emulate her moneymaking moves. An averaging of values places Pelosi’s net worth around $106 million, according to USA Today.
Since stepping down as speaker in 2022, Rep. Pelosi has remained silent while more progressive members of her caucus have pushed to ban stock trading by sitting members of Congress. In July, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) filed bipartisan legislation in partnership with Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). “Georgians overwhelmingly agree: Members of Congress should not be playing the stock market while we make Federal policy and have extraordinary access to confidential information. We still have a long way to go to pass this bill, but today’s bipartisan announcement is a major step forward,” Ossoff said in a release.
Rep. Pelosi has previously pushed back on the notion that congressmen should be restricted from buying stocks. “We’re a free market economy,” Pelosi told reporters in 2022. “They should be able to participate in that.” Her remarks came shortly after a colleague, former Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), became the focus of a federal investigation exploring whether he used insider information during the Covid-19 pandemic to sell $1.65 million worth of stocks shortly before the market collapsed in March of 2020.
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