Odds and Ends — 27 May 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Argentina aims to learn from El Salvador's Bitcoin success
https://twitter.com/MikeOkuda/status/1794808242578903251
Personal Politics Is Another Roadblock to EV Transition
Automakers are fixated on easing the practical concerns around electric-vehicle ownership, primarily high prices and charging hassles. But in the industry’s quest to persuade more Americans to consider EVs, a swath of the buying public could prove tough to convince: those opposed to EVs for political or ideological reasons.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Long Covid Patients Twice As Likely To Suffer From Depression & Anxiety
Politics:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794918150716441050
Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass
Ever heard of the “mudsill theory”? Well, it goes back to the slaveholding South. And it explains a lot.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1794749214263570523
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1794705060653404665
‘He’s more delusional than I thought’: Libertarians jeer Trump during convention speech
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1794400177542873241
Putin’s Estonia provocation rings alarm bells in the Baltics
130 people die at Sudan hospital amid city siege
If the past is any guide, even with a full acquittal, Mr. Trump will be angry and vengeful, and will direct attacks against everyone he perceives to be responsible for the Manhattan district attorney’s prosecution. He will continue to level the attacks publicly, at rallies and on Truth Social, and privately encourage his House Republican allies to subpoena his Democratic enemies.
The pattern is firmly established: After Mr. Trump escaped impeachment twice and survived a special counsel investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III into ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia, he immediately went into revenge mode — complaining about the injustices he was forced to endure and urging his allies to investigate the investigators.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1794833354728395099
Trump Ally Urges Senate GOP to Punt Funding Fight
Close Trump ally Russell Vought urged Senate Republicans in a closed-door lunch to delay this year’s government funding fight to 2025 — to maximize options in a potential second Trump administration.
It’s the latest of several early efforts to start clearing the way for an ambitious, rapid-fire start should former President Trump succeed in ousting President Biden.
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1794699239760802139
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/JimThomsen/status/1794806370493210773
Bringing One Hundred Years of Solitude to the Screen Took Decades
Gabriel García Márquez didn’t think his masterpiece could be adapted. His readers, and the country of Colombia, pray Netflix gets it right.
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