It’s weird, because I’m watching and reading about how many investors seem to be “quietly” shifting into more international funds.

If you even look at ETFs like VTI (closely matches S&P 500) vs. VXUS (International):

VTI went up 11.3% in the past year. Hey, that’s beating inflation and not terrible.

But: meanwhile, VXUS went up 30.8%.

In the past, it was usually the other way around. ETFs that track things like the S&P tend to outperform ones that track the rest of the rest of the market.

I wonder what is different about the past year?

Also, I keep seeing articles like this. https://harveylawcorporation.com/why-more-americans-are-leaving-the-us/

They’ve been doing the starve the beast scam since forever.

Thank you. No fan of Donvict, but people tend to overlook MMT in all these discussions about debt.

Blondi was talking about the Dow Jones when she was trying anything and everything to distract for her coverup on behalf of the Epstein Class.

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So fElon’s illegal and fake “doge” didn’t dismantle CBO? Seems like an oversight.

Gallup == pussies.

So they are kidnapping more people.

I thought they were winding down this stupid “operation”.

I know these people are deeply moronic, but damn, it seems like all the cooling needs for something that is supposed to also serve as a bunker would be very, very stupid. DC is a freaking swamp in the summer. I would understand build-outs in places like Iceland where they can power them with geothermal and cooling might be a lot less problematic…

Also, I honestly have no idea how long the supposed need for all this AI processing will even be around as a general rule. I thought they were already admitting they were running up against limits on finding data they could train on and the kinds of returns they were getting. Not to mention that breakthroughs in chip design/algorithms etc., might make all this hardware very moot and I guess I don’t know if it could be repurposed for things (such as SETI or protein folding or crypto) or if it really is single purpose only…

It cracks me up that so many idiots think it’s the Republicans that are countercultural rebels or some such bullshit, when, really, they always come around to basically this archetype:

When she was spouting off with the “who is ____ ____?” or “you don’t want to talk about ____ ____” - which I assume is some bullshit talking points about certain people the fragile right wing is currently obsessed with, and I didn’t even want to search Duck duck for in case that would help boost exactly what she wants to have boosted by name dropping them, I wish the Democrats shot back, sarcastically, “who is John Galt?”

Honestly, they do this with everything. They chafed about “political correctness” and of course ignored all of their own that they constantly try to impose on others, most especially by the force of government.

They call their movement “teabaggers” because they thought they were going to get away with something about how they were going to “teabag” other people, meaning they were going to be owning them, etc (haw haw! we are talking about dunking OUR BALLS into your mouth and you don’t even know! Take that, liberals!).

The very minute Rachel Maddow and others started snickering at them, they realized that it made them look quite gay, and they tried to act like the name never existed, that the mean Democrats made it up, and so on. I used to get timeouts on certain forums because pointing out this history was too much for the fans of the “tea party”, the babies would queen out every time, argue a bit with me, see they were losing and go full snowflake and run to the mods and have my posts taken down for violating “community guidelines”. The mods, when not being overly bothsiderist, were in some cases known to be maga.

I found it really weird that that show was cancelled, by the way. I remember a lot of people speculating that it seemed very strange that something seemingly popular was cancelled so quickly.

I don’t remember a whole lot, but I seem to recall it had a fair bit of bothsiderist aspect. Even so, we know what snowflakes the rightwing can be.

She is just so very smug and arrogant in all of this. Even if she believes in the “cause”, she has to know she is so very full of shit, but she brings her little burn book and tries to distract and delay and scream and snarl and gaslight in these stupid performances.

If there is a common through-line to so many in this administration, it’s that, but Blondi is quite possibly one of the very nastiest.

I think most of America would love to watch her in a real trial where she doesn’t get to pull the shit that she does in these hearings.

I don’t understand why they’d want to install that there?

Well, at least Google News seems to have finally have two more important stories than that missing mother story - this story and right underneath, stories about Blondi not answering questions about how she’s not doing her job.

The missing mother story is #3 in the list now. At least it’s not in the #1 spot.

the republicans basically all voted against my country.

If you are referring to Canada, the cons also are voting against the USA, too.

They are fucking gullible idiots who think doing completely moronic things will own the libs because they “did their own research”.