Adults under the age of 30 have never really seen the stock market go down.
That’s pretty wild when you think about it. The market has had a near continuous rise young people’s whole adult lives.
“Whole adult lives.”
Jeez, the snarking by people who don’t read is tedious.
The funny thing is that I posted this after having had several conversations lately with young people who are “playing the stock market” who all but laughed when I said “it’s going to go down at some point.”
They truly couldn’t imagine it after years of it only going up.
And on that note, I walk in to pick up takeout from a pub. First thing the bartender says is that he bought GameStop stock.
This isn’t going to end well.
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Take the person executed last night: Dustin Higgs.
Higgs, another man and a woman were involved in the murder of two people. The trio had picked the victims up and taken them to a desolate area where they were shot.
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The reasons for the shooting were unclear. To make their case, prosecutors offered a deal to Higgs’ two associates: testify that Higgs had orchestrated the killing and they would be charged with lesser offenses.
A president who lost an election refused to accept his defeat and instead fomented insurrection.
A president violated oath and law at the moment when his duty most called for safeguarding our democracy’s sustaining principle.
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Donald J. Trump, having been defeated, led a two-month campaign in violation of the constitutional mandate that he effect a peaceful continuation of our democracy.
This is, in my mind, as vile a treason as any ever committed.
Somehow, the very worst fuckopotami (plural of fuckopotamus) have gotten the wholly errant message that the people they have horrified for four years are now hoping for a group hug.
Speaking only for myself: fuck the absolute entirety of that.
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We didn’t want to win the White House, Senate, and House because this is a playground game of kickball where you win or lose and then just play again.
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