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.
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.