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Jeff Tiedrich - this week in stupid: August 10 edition
monday: the Great Crashening of 2024on Monday, we all woke up to the news that overnight, Japan’s stock market had lost 12% of its value — and, as always happens with these sorts of things, Japan’s slide affected markets worldwide. every international exchange had a miserable day.
naturally, the stupidest fucking people on the planet — by which I mean Republicans — knew the exact cause of this global financial meltdown: Kamala Harris — because, as everyone knows, the vice president of the United States directly controls Japan’s markets
Link to tweet
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tuesday: the Great un-Crashening of 2024
on Tuesday, the markets shrugged off their one-day blip and completely rebounded, leaving Republicans who spent all Monday screaming KAMALA CRASH once again looking quite foolish.
Marjorie Screwloose Greene wasn’t fooled for one minute, though. she could smell the pernicious fuckery that was afoot from a mile away, and took to not-twitter to let everyone know exactly what was going on.
Link to tweet
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-august-10-edition
