I’m not going to try for the last in trendy slang*. I’m middle-aged, amiable, and stout. But this is an awesome graph.
THE TRAGEDY OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND FREE TRADE @BERNIESANDERS pic.twitter.com/ImRGTb8FZT
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) December 21, 2015
Free translation of graph: global poverty rates are not so much falling as they are in a power drive. Because FUCK COMMUNISM, that’s why. And that includes the ones who would be Communists, only they don’t quite dare to be public about it.
*Honestly, I don’t really know if ‘upside his fool head’ (which is what I originally wrote) is in fact recognizably trendy slang. I’m not really what you’d call tuned in, if that’s what you’d even call it. I just hit the keys on the keyboard, and words come out.
There was a hilarious comment from the DiploMad on the latest Dem debate, to the effect that Sanders is continuing his long-term campaign to disprove the stereotype that Jews are intelligent.
Maybe he’ll become known as “the other Jew who knows nothing about money”, after Third Republic Finance Minister Lucien Klotz.