again, big picture, donald trump won an election about affordability and then he
- passed tariffs (which raise consumer prices)
- expanded the deficit w a ginormous corporate tax cut (raises interest rates)
- waged a stupid war (raises gas prices)
- and now refuses to sign a bipartisan bill to reduce housing costs bc he's protesting senate republicans for failing to pass voting restrictions
... while making $2 billion from crypto rug pulls that transferred income from his supporters to his bank account
americans hate the president for very good reasons
The point here about what books *are* selling is so depressing. People walk past Roth and Faulkner and Bellow to read YA Elf Slop IX: An Elven Wedding
https://t.co/cVaH5uqVQ4
The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.
But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's
Ivory Coast v Norway is the World Cup Round of 32 match that best shows the absurdity of the Mercator Projection.
Despite Norway being shown on most maps as far larger than Ivory Coast, the two countries are actually almost identically sized. Ivory Coast is 322,463 km², and Norway: 323,802 km².
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.