“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz,” Franken wrote in the book, an excerpt of which was published by Axios. “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

That’s what a try/catch is for!

You’re legitimately the most optimistic person I’ve talked to since November 5th.

I like you.

“all the food coming in at the docks is covered in human spit for some reason”

You’re a silver linings kind of guy. 🙂

It’s a fire sale for people who moved to more securities and cash earlier when trump signaled that he was going to crash the market. Also his billionaire buddies when he said he was going to do this, got a heads up.

They’re going to buy premium stocks for dirt cheap now and clean up if/when it recovers.

The issue this time around is, trump destroyed the fundamentals of trade between literally every other country on earth outside of the US.

There’s literally no way for the market to recover when it’s largely based on the same global trade that trump just destroyed for the next generation or two at least.

Allies will not trust the US anymore. We just pulled a Brexit and gave up our seat at the head of the table in world trade.

They may recover, but not to the pre-trump tariff’s level.

The fax received would have been a great historical artifact.

Wonder how they’d preserve the heat paper.

Rhyming here, but yeah, basically.

They started deporting and when countries stopped taking the “undesirables”, they concentrated them in a few camps and then they decided that killing them was the same as keeping them alive.

We’re not there yet, but this administration just rhymed “Nazi” with “Natsi” thinking they were clever by using the phonetic pronunciation and nobody would notice.

Narrator: “They listened to him.”

Just a minor correction: There is no herpes vaccine. It’s the HPV vaccine you’re thinking of.

Would be nice to get a herpes vaccine, but they’re not there yet.

Not much of a replacement.

This was a long, but great read. Listen to this man. I have had similar experiences and outcomes, though not nearly as deep as the OP above me.

I like the subtle use of the two different color backgrounds to indicate a frame/perspective shift from within the same room. Well done.

Fuck that last line slaps. Going to steal that for the future mate.

I work in the library system. This is so stupid and will do so much damage. Fuck musk and trump. Fuck them in their traitor nazi fascist narcissistic stupid face.

Edit: is there some sort of pro trump/musk bot that just goes around downvoting anything negative said about them or something?

10% so far unfortunately.

Recessions officially require a slowdown of an economy over a longer period of time. Usually the stock market has nothing to do with it, though it can be a canary in the coal mine for it.

A recession has more to do with unemployment rate rising, negative GDP growth and consumer spending indexes falling.

Essentially it’s just a fancy way of saying the economy is slowing down in every category.

The stock market is a rich person’s playground in this day and age mostly.

Do you only fuck sharks that are communists, or are you a communist that fucks sharks?

I suppose that’s not mutually exclusive, after thinking about it.

What are you talking about? Trump is isolating us from the rest of the world day by day.

We’re rapidly approaching the level of Russia, as considered on the world stage. Nothing about what is happening is a good thing. Nothing.

I am assuming this is satire and everyone missed that?

I was unaware of this. Thanks for the info!