I'm not a leftist. Not denying scumbags were destroying shit. I am appalled nothing was done about that. It was clearly a political decision to let them go on. Thanks for insulting me, what a great intellectual you are.
Just because the guy is on the wrong side doesn't mean he is hopeless at everything. Actually, his composure is working to his advantage. If he acted like Boebert, he would be in a ten times worse position than right now.
Look at Hawley or Cruz, for example during hearings with Facebook or Twitter. They remain composed and that makes their message so much more powerful.
I don't get why people are so enthusiastic about her. Have you seen her "speak" on Jan the 6th just before the riot? She embarrassed herself, couldn't even deliver a coherent speech, just yelled at high pitch for a few minutes like some high school bimbo. Honestly, is she even emotionally stable? Right now she is posturing on gab tweeting "important questions". Everyone can do that. What is needed are determined people with composure. She lacks composure.
That just shows you how naive these people are. They are making a shitload of money by participating in what's left of capitalism and whom do they cheer? Wannabe socialists and communists. The same people who are now working behind the scenes to shut them down. Sad!
That's assuming you are coming in from the outside. The entire point of this situation is WSB found that there is a hedge found which has a massive short, i.e. they borrowed a massive amount of shares and sold them. So if the price falls, they buy back cheaper, give back the shares and the difference in price they borrowed at and the price they bought back at is their profit. That's how shorting works.
However, since WSB caught on to that, they started buying call options. When you do that, Market Makers have to buy stock, to protect themselves against options they sold to you. When Market Makers buy the stock, that creates demand and price goes up. When price goes up, those who are short are losing money. To close positions, they have to buy back the shares and give them back to those they borrowed the shares from in the first place. So, as you can see, it is a vicious loop of buying, buying, buying. Which creates more demand, which drives the price up. That's called a short squeeze.
The brokerage houses and banks now have to sell/short into the buyers trying to save themselves
You got it totally reversed. They are short and need to buy to close positions, but everyone is buying so the price continues up.
I am not making assumptions, I am pointing out facts.