Nobody is saying put your rent money into the market.

Everything he does makes sense if he’s a Russian asset. Why make fun of a logical and frankly reasonable possibility?

Tbf now is a good time to open a retirement account.

That and quick sand turned out to be significantly less of a problem than my seven-year-old mind had anticipated.

No need to guess, it wasn’t enough. I think in hindsight, Covid is going to seem like a pleasant nostalgic time.

Because it isn’t a conspiracy theory. It isn’t even that complicated. He’s an extreme narcissist (born with a gold spoon up his ass). They make him feel good, and he’ll do anything to keep getting the ego stroke.

They loan him money, bail him out, stroke his ego, and he’ll happily burn the country to the ground. And when it is said and done, he’ll be incapable of understanding his part in it.

This is like The Machine Stops by EM Forster but intentional.