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Below is a chart of DJT, which is extraordinary, if nothing else, in its consistency. This investor came up to me – – big guy, strong guy – – with tears in his eyes – – and he said to me, he said, “Sir, why does DJT go down almost every day, even during days of market strength?” And I looked behind him, and there were these two flags, and I was amazed at what I saw. What happened, and many people are saying this, is that they became an angel.
It will be no surprise to long-time readers that I’m very picky about my work environment. In particular, I cannot stand sitting at a desk. I need to stand.
Since most of the world is designed for people to sit their rear ends on a chair and stay planted there all day, I have to improvise. Sometimes with boxes. Sometimes with boxes of games. And, this time, with two squishy pillows on top of a table. One does what one must.
We’ve all heard the stories about the tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to government programs that, in the end, wound up providing things like broadband Internet access to eight houses or, like here in California, the decades spent on the high-speed rail system which has gone absolutely nowhere (and never will).
I seriously wonder about our fellow humans sometimes.
