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I keep seeing this dow jones over 50,000 meme, but I don't get where it came from?
Pam Bondi tried deflecting from questions over the Epstein cover-up by saying how the DOW is over $50,000. Insanity.
To add some extra detail to this, she struggled for a second after saying the dow was over 50,000 with what unit that was, started to say dollars, but interrupted herself halfway through the word dollars to accuse Sen Jamie Raskin of being good at stock trading (hinting at the admittedly pretty open trading by congress members and senators that definitely resembles insider trading).
But the point I was trying to get around to was that the DOW is an index, and unit she should have used was "points" not "dollars." And then Peter Navarro got on Maria Bartatomo's Fox News Sunday show and also referred to the DOW being over "50,000 dollars."
So, yes, fundamentally Pam Bondi gave a really callous non-answer to something anyone with a functioning heart really cares about, but in her deflection/non-answer she also showed her own ignorance about the subject she was trying to use as a deflection.
Fascist Attorney General Pam Bondi was forced to testify before Congress this week on the handling of the Epstein Files. When she was asked why nobody had been indicted for all the kidnapping, human trafficking, torture, child rape, and murder she unironically answered “The DOW is over 50,000 dollars!”
So a meme was born - when you don’t want to answer a question, you ignore it and simply respond “The DOW is over 50,000.”