You know, it’s been a fairly slow and uninteresting day, politics wise. That’s nice once in a while even if it makes it difficult to come up with stuff to write about. Granted, that’s just my perspective and I’m still recovering from that Hank Williams biography. In any event, this is the last Friday in January and the world keeps turning regardless, so let’s check it out.
The saga of Redditors versus Serious Investors continue as The Man is finding different ways of striking back. One includes preventing people from trading stocks from the various companies in question. Even the laughably named Robinhood app participated in this, which led to a revolt from some of the employees. This led to the bosses settling them down with a $40 coupon for DoorDash. Now, I don’t know anything about that company – I live so far out in the boonies I can’t get pizza delivered – but from what I’ve been told it’ll cover one meal and the fees incurred.
The Security and Exchanges Commission said they’ll be getting in on the act. They’ll be looking into seeing who ain’t acting right, either investors or brokerage firms, and look to protect who needs protecting and punish who needs punishing. While AMC stock price has dipped some, GameSpot’s has stayed pretty solid and the Redditors are vowing to keep fighting. The general consensus I’m seeing is this whole affair is mostly showing how screwed up and one-sided the very thing this country bases its economic health happens to be the first time it gets shook.
Moving on, jealous of all the attention Lauren Boebert’s been getting for acting like a loony butthole, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene asked someone to hold her can of Natty Lite. Fellow freshman representative Cori Bush has requested to have her office moved after Greene went ham on her over wearing a mask. Older videos she voluntarily posted on social media show her screwy about the Parkland shooting and Jewish lasers causing fires out West. And, well, she’s handling it pretty much as you’d expect. She’s spent the day deleting old Facebook posts, claiming “the mob” is canceling her, and begging for donation money from people who think she’s perfectly reasonable so long as she cuts taxes on the rich. Don’t worry, though, because House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promises to speak with her sometime next week. Well, thanks a pantload, hoss.
Speaking of McCarthy being fairly useless, he’s catching heat for a recent visit to Mar-A-Lago. Apparently, Trump whistled for him and he came a-runnin’ quickly like an obedient toady. As much as the party heads would love to scrape Trump off their shoe, they’re being held hostage by the base who, let’s be honest, have been encouraged to get a boner for an authoritarian dickhole for the past 30 years. They just didn’t expect it to be some as stupid, incompetent, and crooked as Trump. Thoughts and prayers, y’all.
Finally, Joe Biden’s administration continues to keep its eye on the ball and is looking to see what changes need to be made to their COVID plan due to different strains making their way here. Dr. Anthony Fauci – grateful he’s not having to placate a toddler moron – has said the different vaccines will trickle down to young’uns sometime in the Spring. This is a good thing as way too many parents who didn’t think this far ahead are pushing for schools to reopen while teachers are hesitant.
So that’s that. There’s more to the day, of course, but it’s the weekend and we all could stand to chill a bit. Take care.
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