If Wall Street can be ‘brought down’ by a bunch of ‘novice investors’, don’t you love the pejorative words that get used?
It would say a lot about Wall Street and Professional Investors.
I will also take advice in the future from the Novice investors … at least they think.
“If Ulysses is not worth reading, then life is not worth living”
James Joyce
”People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. They pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
James Baldwin
”A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”
George Orwell
Hell just froze over …
”Apple’s no GameStop, but they have a nice little business selling phones, computers, and services.”
John Gruber / [@gruber](https://micro.blog/gruber)
CEO’s Newfound Concern for Democracy is Bunk … well yes … but nice to see it all wrapped up and explained in a nice short article.
‘The Office Of The Former President’.
Riiiiighht ….
”This seems rather obvious, and a good idea, so I’m sure Twitter won’t do it.”
Gruber
I think there’s a lot of people out there that visit friends for a weekend and stay two weeks - or go to the party and still there after the hosts changed into their pajamas …
Time to start crossing them off my Christmas card list / it’s only a digital one - but still a list
2021
“For the party to move forward, we got to move the party with Donald Trump. There’s no way to be a successful Republican Party without having President Trump working with all of us and all of us working with him. That’s just a fact. And I think we got a decent chance of coming back in 2022. But we can’t do it without the President.”
Lindsay Graham, 2021
2016
“If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”
Lindsay Graham, 2016
UPDATED - 26-01-27
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
Both Signal and Telegram alert me daily about people I know that have joined one or the other - after years of ‘crickets’.
Just ‘normal', non geek, non techie people
I don’t know whether they have stopped using What’s App.
To put what just happened into perspective …. David Frier on Vice Presidents … you know … the ‘forgotten ones’.
Arnold Kling asks whether we should have zero tolerance for zero tolerance … he makes some good points.
Bernie Meme
I keep reading headlines in my feed and think to myself … yeah makes sense … no surprise there … only to realize a minute later that it’s ‘The Onion’.
Some relevant links
Why Biden Can’t Govern from the Center
One of my favorite Bernie memes
The Model T economy and the wealth-work economy
Relevant to who?
Me.