Too bad Carter isn’t the Democrat candidate for Governor, instead of that corrupt, Clinonite oaf McAuliffe.
“Former Department of Health data analyst Rebekah Jones announces campaign for Congress” [WPTV]. “Jones has alleged that she was forced to manipulate COVID-19 data while working for the Department of Health. DeSantis and other state officials have denied this. Gaetz, meanwhile, is embroiled in scandal involving a federal investigation into whether the Republican congressman from Florida’s panhandle paid underage girls or offered them gifts in exchange for sex.”
“The Story of How Same-Sex Marriage Went From Fringe to Mainstream” [New York Magazine]. “I think that there’s really an elite opinion story here that’s different than the popular opinion story. There were three trials over gay marriage: In Hawaii, in 1996, in federal court in San Francisco in 2010, and then, a few years later, in federal court in Detroit. And every time, the problem got worse and
Speaking to the Spectator, Simon Jenkins today criticised the involvement of left-wing politics in organisations such as the National Trust - which he chaired for six years between 2008 and 2014.
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When Charles Mackay wrote about “extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds” he obviously couldn’t have foreseen what’s occurred in the markets for GameStop, or AMC Entertainment, or Dogecoin but the title of his 19th century treatise on crowd psychology would appear to be applicable.
Earlier this year GameStop shares soared, and then crashed, as a horde of retail investors, motivated by internet chatrooms and facilitated by the no-fees Robinhood brokerage platform, imposed a massive short squeeze on hedge funds in an exercise that had a crusading, “stick it up Wall Street” undertone.
The AMC surge looks to be the latest example of investors taking aim at the Wall Street establishment.