say what you will about Nancy Pelosi, but she was smart and competent enough to recognize the need to bring progressive insurgents into the fold
the establishment now just whines that their voters wont give them infinite turns after failing time and time again. its embarrassing.
As an upwardly mobile young white professional, if you didn't want this outcome perhaps we shouldn't have locked this cohort out of career progression and homeownership for the past ~15 years.
People don't rebel against systems that benefit them!
The amount of damage that downwardly mobile young white professionals are going to inflict on this country is going to be extreme. They are largely fueling this socialist insanity.
Trump says he took Iran deal to prevent economic calamity: “If we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years…You would never have the Hormuz Strait open…Your market would have, instead of going up…would go down at levels that nobody ever saw before, maybe except for 1929…
I did not want to see economic catastrophe
By saying I think Platner can probably weather this latest story, and also that personally I wish he weren’t the candidate, I have successfully threaded the needle of getting both centrist libs and progressive electoralists really mad at me
@wilding_gyres Unemployment is measured in several ways. In the measure we most commonly cite, anyone who is not actively seeking work is not included in the calculation.
Two thoughts on this IPO (and others):
1.) I am very grateful that almost all of my money is directly indexed by myself, sometimes painstakingly, as opposed to held passive funds.
2.) Whatever happens in H2 2026 is going to be fascinating / hilarious.
The world breathlessley reads a papal encyclical and enters anither week of hotly debating the Odyssey
Yet humanities programs are being closed all over.
As an unrepentant Romney voter, I’ll say this: the time has come to join the side you’re on. If you’re a staid, upper-middle class, educated man who values civic virtue, your place (and mine) is with the Democrats.
@ikerock@elliew0lfe BSU state support has increased by 11+% per year since 2022. The only colleges that experienced faster state support growth were Morgan State and UMES. Clearly Bowie is doing something wrong
@D1ngusMcBringus@MRatable You're misunderstanding the point. Bubbles occur when prices become disconnected from underlying earnings. In this case, prices have not diverged meaningfully from earnings – whether or not those earnings are sustainable long-term does not make this a bubble. It's cyclical.