It doesn’t need to be said and would serve no purpose if said. The incident speaks for itself to any rational viewer.

No quibbles there!

To be fair and if I’m not mistaken, the hat-stealer was also Polish

He is, but Nixon really would like a word

Agree and should be a perspective we hear more. Maybe more than 45 years though.

Would be interested to hear your thesis on why - and if you have a specific type of “radicalized,” or “adoption/evangelism,” you mean in this context. Not agreeing or disagreeing and no value judgments personally, just curious for more specificity on your views on this.

The answer is that it recovered.

We can agree on the first part. Your point about the Dow not so much - unless by that you mean, “directionally both up but one by many multiples of the other.” One could also rhetorically ask what happened to the Dow in the years following 2008. Have a nice day!

How would you respond then?

People’s continued insistence that “crypto” describes anything coherent without an acknowledgment that Bitcoin is the world’s best performing asset over the last 16 years is just wild. Akin to: hey, investments are a scam, get with the times.

Bitcoin outperforms those index funds.