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Robert Groom<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/autumn?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autumn</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/afternoon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#afternoon</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/walk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walk</a> in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/forest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forest</a> with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/curvy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curvy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/green?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#green</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/leaves?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leaves</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/moss?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moss</a> on <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rocks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rocks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/onThisDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onThisDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fourYearsAgo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fourYearsAgo</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwbackThursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwbackThursday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Hobart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hobart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tasmania?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Australia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photoOfTheDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photoOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/iPhoneOnly?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhoneOnly</a>

Robert Groom<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/autumn?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autumn</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/afternoon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#afternoon</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/walk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#walk</a> with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trees</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ponds?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ponds</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/onThisDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onThisDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fourYearsAgo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fourYearsAgo</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwbackThursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwbackThursday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NewNorfolk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewNorfolk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tasmania?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Australia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photoOfTheDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photoOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/iPhoneOnly?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhoneOnly</a>

Robert Groom<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lookingUp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lookingUp</a> at <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reflection?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reflection</a> of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/historic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/building?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#building</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blue?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blue</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sky?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sky</a> in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/windows?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows</a> of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/colorful?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colorful</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/modern?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#modern</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/building?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#building</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/onThisDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onThisDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fourYearsAgo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fourYearsAgo</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwbackThursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwbackThursday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Hobart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hobart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tasmania?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Australia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/architecture?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photoOfTheDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photoOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/iPhoneOnly?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhoneOnly</a>

Rob PegoraroNobody should look back on <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2020/12/31/2020-in-review-persistence-required/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2020</a> with anything but a mix of relief that it’s over and dread about what we watched. And yet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump keeps asking voters if they’re <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-asks-pennsylvania-crowd-are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-four-years-ago" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">better off now than they were four years ago</a>.So I had to go look up my receipts from back then. Here is what they reveal about where things in my life stood on Oct. 25, 2020 versus today: <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/worn-american-flag-2020.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <ul><li>The nation and the world were in the grip of the deadliest pandemic in more than a century, and those of us <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2020/08/22/the-wrong-kind-of-endless-summer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hunkered down at and near home</a> could only hope that vaccines would <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2021/04/09/sore-feet-for-a-shot-an-afternoon-as-a-virginia-medical-reserve-corps-volunteer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arrive and work</a>. Today marks a week since my latest covid booster; four years ago, I did not expect to keep getting vaxxed every year, but I don’t mind that brief annual investment in helping to ensure that a case of covid <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2023/05/11/covid-continued-im-once-again-housebound-for-at-least-the-next-few-days/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">feels no worse than a mild cold</a>.</li><li>I did not leave my house at all that day four years ago, per my <a href="https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Maps timeline</a>, and had last ventured out for a work event in <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2020/03/15/weekly-output-elon-musk-pga-tour-fubotv-inflight-wifi/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">March of 2020</a>. Today began with me landing at Dulles International Airport on a red-eye from Los Angeles that in turn followed a flight from Maui, where I’d been <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">covering Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit</a> (with that company covering my airfare and lodging).</li><li>My interactions with people beyond family members on that Sunday in 2020 consisted of <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2020/10/25/weekly-output-open-ran-5g-marketing-googles-display-ads-business-tech-and-journalism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a Zoom appearance before a friend’s college journalism class</a> in the early afternoon, followed by the Sunday Dungeons & Dragons game via Zoom with friends that had become the only way I would see many of those guys until 2021. This Friday began in a crowded LAX. </li><li>The Vanguard S&P 500 Index fund that represents my primary investment vehicle closed at <a href="https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/tools/pricehistorysearch?radio=1&results=get&FundType=VanguardFunds&FundIntExt=INT&FundId=0540&Sc=1&fundName=0540&fundValue=0540&radiobutton2=1&beginDate=10%2F23%2F2020&endDate=10%2F25%2F2020&year=#res" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$320.02 a share</a> on the previous business day back then. Today it’s at <a href="https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds/profile/vfiax#price" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$536.30</a>.</li><li>My income though that point of 2020 was about 20% below my income so far this year–and the previous three months of 2020 had been especially brutal, with my income over that span barely over half what I made in the most recent three months (which still falls below my most profitable period of freelancing, around a decade ago).</li><li>My own recollection and Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that some groceries–for example, <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000709112?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">milk</a> and <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000708111?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eggs</a>–were cheaper back then.</li><li>After three years of seeing the Trump administration luxuriate in lies, corruption, bigotry, incompetence and cruelty, my optimism about my country was fraying like the worn American flag hanging from our front porch (pictured above as it looked in July of 2020). Four years later, the Biden-Harris administration has disappointed me on occasion but has not had me cringing about the state of the union; more often, this White House has surprised me with its progress in such areas as building out infrastructure and greening our economy.</li></ul>Looking over all of this anecdata, none of it makes me pine for four years ago. But in this election, none of that should even matter. Beyond Trump’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">open fondness for fascism</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">weird Hitler admiration</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/25/trump-words-speeches-campaign-president/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unhinged incoherence onstage</a>, and<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> relentless lying</a>–traits notably absent in Democratic nominee Kamala Harris–he instigated the <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2021/01/08/journalistic-accountability-for-seditious-legislators/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jan. 6 insurrection</a> because he could not accept getting fired by the American people in a free and fair election. <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2023/08/03/attempted-murder-of-democracy-remains-a-crime/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Attempted murder of democracy</a> is among the most serious crimes an American president can commmit, and Trump’s guilt there should alone rank him as the <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2021/01/22/surfacing-after-surviving-the-worst-president/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">worst president in American history</a> and disqualify him from any return to that office. <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/25/four-years-ago/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/25/four-years-ago/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/biden-harris/" target="_blank">#BidenHarris</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/covid/" target="_blank">#Covid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/election/" target="_blank">#election</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/four-years-ago/" target="_blank">#fourYearsAgo</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/inflation/" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/joe-biden/" target="_blank">#JoeBiden</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/kamala-harris/" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/pandemic/" target="_blank">#pandemic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/trump-2024/" target="_blank">#Trump2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a>

Robert Groom<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rocks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rocks</a> with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/moss?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moss</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lichen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichen</a> (and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blue?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blue</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/paint?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paint</a>) and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tree</a> with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/textured?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#textured</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bark?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bark</a> are <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/thingsOfStoneAndWood?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thingsOfStoneAndWood</a> from <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fourYearsAgo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fourYearsAgo</a> for <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwbackThursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#throwbackThursday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Hobart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hobart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tasmania?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tasmania</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Australia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photoOfTheDay?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photoOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/iPhoneOnly?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhoneOnly</a>

Crooks&LiarsWere you better off four years ago? NO. Trump failed at covid testing, and the Wall Street Execs who were able to attend his shoddily arranged conference call all knew it. <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/FourYearsAgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourYearsAgo</a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/Fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fail</a><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/four-years-ago-trumps-shtshow-call-wall?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=87398" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/four-years-ago-trumps-shtshow-call-wall?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=87398</a>

AbsintheMeidas Touch: Trump’s FREAK OUT Leads to HIS PAST RESURFACING.includes a <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/tfg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tfg</a> press briefing from <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/FourYearsAgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourYearsAgo</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/LevParnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LevParnas</a> hearing, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gop</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171TIFzk7_M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171TIFzk7_M</a>

Jorge Caballero, MD<a href="https://fedified.com/tags/FourYearsAgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourYearsAgo</a> I was providing FEMA mission-critical data that the Trump Administration would publicly attribute to some random startup funded by someone with connections to Jared Kushner

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