Let's just say I'm glad I'm not it Japan right now. My friend is having a difficult time there, wages have been stagnant for years and nothing seems to be working with fixing the yen. She can't just job hop to get better pay either, it isn't there.
It's not that the US economy is better than others, it is just trusted to be the default place for people to invest their excess money which has resulted in most of the US stock market being overvalued compared to the rest of the world.
"U.S. stocks' outperformance on average over the past half-century or so has simply been due to increasing price multiples, not an improvement in business fundamentals. That is, U.S. companies did not generate more profit than international companies; their stocks just got more expensive. [...] Cheap stocks have greater expected returns and expensive stocks have lower expected returns."
A Times-Picayune story about the immense heat inside prisons noted that voters in Jefferson Parish, the second-largest parish in the state, approved a new local jail in 2014 but only after leaders promised the jails wouldn’t be air-conditioned.
In other words, there are people who believe that people convicted of crimes, or merely accused of crimes, are supposed to suffer this way.
The government is subjecting people, even young people, in prison to extreme heat conditions, solitary confinement, violence and other abuses because it apparently doesn’t see such people as human. Adults sentenced to Angola have to do hard labor in the punishing sun. They are seen as the property of the state to be used as needed.
Emphasis mine. Jesus christ, people can be pure evil. I'm sure almost every one of them thinks they're a good Christian as well.
And there is basically nothing we can do about it, short of the 2nd Amendment. GOP will never remove one of their own for something as silly as ethics.
X and Facebook are allowing false claims about how the 2020 election was rigged. Hope that Nevada can get their findings out to help stop all the misinformation that Republicans and social media post.
I'm reminded of a very prescient joke that Seth Meyers told on his show back in 2016 that we were about to elect our first woman president ever (Clinton), or our last president ever (Trump).
Very chilling what Trump is proposing here with being the sole authority. You know damn well he doesn't actually want to work or evaluate things on a case by case basis. This will be a stream of overlapping edicts, each one trying to undo the logical inconsistency of the last edict because he can't think through to the natural conclusion beyond his petty resentments.
And ~50% of American people who will actually vote will check that box and be fine with it. I wish I could say I had faith in my fellow Americans to not do that, but look how 2016 turned out.
I'm convinced by the opinion that Putin will funnel money for this through Trump's golden sneaker sell scheme. According to this theory, Trump's not gonna pay with his money.
I wonder if this dark money would give him some consequence on its own. Maybe more kompromats in the US, I don't know...
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