This is incredibly difficult to watch. I also think it’s perfectly reasonable to demand a serious examination of this man’s health and whether he is fit to serve
It’s pretty funny that the most reliable source of profit for hedge funds is a super leveraged arbitrage trade that has the capacity to blow up the whole system any time there’s a shock.
Why stop here? Hear me out. A single BNPL contract for a burrito is incredibly risky. Anyone willing to pay for a burrito in installments can't be trusted to pay their debt. But what if...we pooled the payments together? The risk would go away.
At this point she is a durational performance artist doing meta commentary on the girlboss economy. Each project a vaguer refraction of the one before. If Kim Kardashian is the Duchamp of Instagram femininity, Markle is the Marina Abramovic
i loathe tiny transactional “venmo me $9 for covering lunch” culture
no i’m gonna pay for you this time, you’re gonna pay for me next time, and it’s all gonna come out in the aggregate of our long and storied friendship
The tragedy here has levels.
It's not just that the U.S. has terminated congressionally mandated USAID contracts covering all of our global tuberculosis programs, all supplies of emergency food packets around the world, and malaria supplies for 50 million ppl.
It's also folks in the comments—many of whom are already paying the lowest effective federal tax rate in decades, for their quintile—cheering the end of life-saving programs they never knew existed. It's like:
"Hey bro, so we reduced your total federal tax rate several times in the last half century."
"Awesome."
"And we're gonna try to reduce it further."
"I love it."
"Oh, and for trivial savings you will never experience, or notice, or think about, we also canceled programs we had on the books that were saving millions of lives."
"Hell ya! Incredible stuff. Thank you so much!"