Category: Politics, Religion & Money

Along with Covid, we continue to live with the profoundly harmful effects of the 2008 financial crisis. I don’t know if this documentary is any good. I’m putting it here to watch later. Maybe you’ll see it before I do.

Follow-up: There’s no new information, but I liked that somebody brings up how the excesses of the trading floor spilled over into the private lives of the brokers; i.e., cocaine and hookers.

The documentary begins with an independently operating Ponzi schemer who got caught and went to prison. He’s the sort of guy who you’d expect to see on an episode of American Greed. From there the theme is, “Why him and not the big Wall Street bankers?” The most interesting comment, and one that I agree with, is at 46:45.

Listen to this installment of Fresh Air and imagine what would happen to the Department of Justice under a second Trump presidency. Every time he says “America First,” you can safely substitute “Me” or “Russia” for “America.”

The USDA is building hospitals?

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-hospital-new-construction-wyoming-kansas-usda/

It makes sense the government agency that is most involved with rural America would step in where there is a need beyond providing farm subsidies. What I don’t understand is why the people in rural America who benefit from the federal government’s direct assistance hate the government and support Trump.

https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/07/25/biden-harris-administration-helps-expand-access-rural-health-care

Trump refused to say what nobody was asking, about Arnold Palmer’s swinging club, but of course he said it anyway.

And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.'”
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/20/g-s1-29100/trump-pennsylvania-rally-arnold-palmer

Who else should Trump be praising for their legendary mighty manhood?

Stupid and shameless. He’s never worked an honest day in his life.

There was nothing honest about this staged event.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/trump-mcdonalds-minimum-wage/

The restaurant was closed to the public during Trump’s visit, and the motorists whom Trump served were screened by the U.S. Secret Service and positioned before his arrival. No one ordered food. Instead, the attendees received whatever Trump gave them.