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THE MORNING RANT: An Outstanding Essay on How to Destroy a Company with Mercenary, Cost-Cutting Executives
”For two generations, American companies have been run to maximize short-term financial returns instead of to produce great products. In the long run, this approach fails disastrously at both.”
That is the thesis embedded in a great piece I just stumbled upon, written by a gentleman named Gautam Mukunda. It is also a subject I repeatedly revisit in my writing, but Mr. Mukunda’s piece may be the best I have read about the destruction being wrought on once-great corporations by executives obsessed with cost cutting to bring about short-term stock gains. There is one corollary he didn’t touch on, which is the damage being done to corporations by green and ESG distractions. I’ll briefly touch on that, but first here is a sample of Mr. Mukunda’s outstanding piece. I encourage you to link it and read the whole thing. “From 737s To Sneakers, It’s The Same Sad Story” [Forbes – 9/21/2024]The CEO of a legendary American company steps down after a series of reverses. His company used to dominate its industry, was the leader in innovation, and succeeded so massively that it became an icon of American success. Despite this track record, it had turned to an outsider with a financial background, but no experience in, or passion for, the industry when it hired him. The new CEO focused on cost-cutting and squeezing profits from older products instead of making the investments necessary to invent new ones. The result was a spike in short-term profits that thrilled Wall Street but was soon followed by a precipitous decline as customers turned to competitors who had new and innovative offerings. The outsider CEO, after receiving tens of millions of dollars for destroying tens of billions of dollars in value, retires, leaving a successor to pick up the pieces.Boeing and Nike are given as examples.
Nike has just provided us with another case study. Because the product life cycle in fashion is much faster than it is in airplanes, it took only years, instead of generations, to cripple a great company. When John Donahoe became the CEO of Nike in 2020, he was the company’s second-ever outsider CEO. Donahoe had been the CEO of eBay and Bain but – critically – he had no history in shoes, or sporting goods, or even in fashion.Mr. Mukunda goes on to discuss how CEO Donohoe was so oblivious to the products Nike sold, that several years into his tenure he referred to Nike’s proprietary “ZoomX foam” as “Zoom 10 foam.” But in the circles where Mr. Donahoe comes from, there is no difference between a widget and an airplane and a tennis shoe.
Donahoe slashed sales teams and R&D and shifted products from Nike’s retail partners to its own stores. Unsurprisingly, this boosted numbers in the short term.Cutting costs, reducing headcount, and slashing research and development is how the current crop of mercenary executives conduct business.
He laid off hundreds of marketers who had an intimate knowledge of Nike’s customers, intending to replace them with data driven insights. Product creation shifted from sports to demographics (instead of a department focused on creating products for basketball, it would have one creating products for men, like Zara, Gap, H&M, or any other generic fashion brand.)Not mentioned by Mr. Mukunda is the damage done to corporations by committing to unattainable green initiatives. As I wrote a few months ago, Hertz was destroyed by an outsider CEO who decided to impress his buddies in Davos by committing to remake Hertz as an EV rental company.
At the center of the Hertz debacle was its poorly thought-out commitment to electric vehicles. With Scherr at the helm, Hertz acquired 60,000 EVs, with a goal of putting over 300,000 into service. A CEO who understood his product and his customers would have understood what a calamitous mistake Hertz was making. Mr. Scherr, however, was not such a CEO. Customers didn’t want to rent the EVs, counter agents struggled to lease them, and make-ready crews struggled to keep them charged and road-ready.Corporate America desperately needs to move away from the existing model of recruiting celebrity CEOs from the outside, whose “expertise” is in financial gimmickry, and return instead to developing the best and brightest talent internally, from individuals who have a passion for the company and its products.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 10:57 AM (2sg1c)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 10:58 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 21, 2024 10:59 AM (6U1c2)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 10:59 AM (2sg1c)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 10:59 AM (2sg1c)
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2024 11:00 AM (ZbICR)
Posted by: Stateless at October 21, 2024 11:00 AM (jvJvP)
I wish that was the norm.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 21, 2024 11:03 AM (aD39U)
The end game for profit maximization thus is free labor, and we are working towards that now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)
Condolences on your father.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 10:59 AM (2sg1c)
Thank you very much.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NR Pax at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (+4yJ5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (LkLld)
https://tinyurl.com/56axzx64
Let's hope this is true, cause Big If True.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (2sg1c)
Big surprise that a German guy named Jochen Zeitz was so oblivious that he sparked a boycott against the company that got so bad that H-D had to furiously backpedal.
https://tinyurl.com/mdbv72bw
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (3iMA8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:05 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (LkLld)
Much appreciated, sir. Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 21, 2024 11:05 AM (N1DT3)
I need new tennis shoes. The ones I have are falling apart. Almost literally. But I do so haaaate shopping for shoes.
Not gonna get Nikes. Overpriced.
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:06 AM (BQlLi)
You are ABSOLUTELY right. In my consulting work for many different (some medium sized, some quite large, a few small) the CEOs obsessed with cost cutting never achieve sustainable above-average results.
What matters most is focus on excellent execution. Every time. Beats the best "strategy" as well.
Disciplined execution with good people wins the day.
Posted by: groovygirl at October 21, 2024 11:06 AM (erByC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:06 AM (L/fGl)
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A poor choice of words. It inevitably brings to mind the Robert McNamara generation, where this **** started to really take off.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (pGTZo)
Big surprise that a German guy named Jochen Zeitz was so oblivious that he sparked a boycott against the company that got so bad that H-D had to furiously backpedal.
https://tinyurl.com/mdbv72bw
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM
H-D, John Deere and Tractor Supply went full on woke. They were exposed, boycotted and forced to reverse direction.
However, not one of the CO's making those destructive decisions have been fired, so I do not take them as serious when it comes to changing course.
I will still not give them my money because they didn't really learn their lesson.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)
and good morning horde.
and you're not wrong, the amount of damage "cost cutting" can do is simply amazing.
I'm spending 90% of my day right ow managing 13 projects that are the direct result of some cost cutting measure that no one actually understood. Simply because they save about a dollar per unit on the front end but end up costing thousands over the life of the truck....
-_-
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
I never get tired of the fact that my team spends more time massaging numbers for the C suite than actually producing genuine consumer benefits.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)
Overpriced garbage.
ASICs. Brooks are my go to and recommended by my podiatrist
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (2sg1c)
A Free and Productive People have Absolutely Nothing to gain from War, and, in fact, a Great Deal to lose. War, in fact, is only possible when the Wealth of Nation is held by its leaders rather then rightly used by it's citizens.
LIBs hate the Man who has a dollar more than them, because they TRUELY believe that dollar belongs to them.
LIBS need you to believe that Some must be Sacrificed so that THEY may live -- cursing in the darkness because deep down, they know life has purpose and meaning which they've completely abandoned, and can only subsist on the handouts of others.
remember who did this:
"Every aspect of our Lives must be subject to an Inventory", Nancy Pelosi'07 while in Red China.
LIBS experience FEAR for having Abandonded their only means of survival, their Productive Mine, and unending GUILT, for knowing they have done so Willingly.
A Free Person supporting ctHARRIS is no better than a Chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
LIBs *PROUDLY* do unto their own people, PRECISELY what they for bid us to do to our Adversaries -- whom you must not only sponsor, but actively Defend.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (fDKMH)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:09 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:09 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 21, 2024 11:05 AM (N1DT3)
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Our? Or any country? There are two questions here.
1. How do they get to the top?
2. What do they do?
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:09 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (fDKMH)
Complaining about companies buying stock back instead of paying down debt is essentially the same same as arguing they should have issued stock instead of taking on debt. So then why exactly have companies bought back so much more stock than they've issued over the last several decades, while also issuing debt? Well, because they expect to make more profit than the debt costs -- it's a bet on themselves -- and that increases returns to shareholders relative to issuing stock.
Posted by: TallDave at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (qNa2s)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (OUMaO)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (2sg1c)
Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2024 11:11 AM (mSVFR)
https://tinyurl.com/326c5xny
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (2sg1c)
Should be a Rockwell painting.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 21, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (2sg1c)
Isn't that some kind of programming language?
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (BQlLi)
Not gonna get Nikes. Overpriced.
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:06 AM (BQlLi)
I'd like to recommend OC (On Cloud) sneakers. I picked up a pair earlier this year and have to say they are amazing. light as a feather and comfortable as all get out. a bit on the pricy side, but the quality has been fantastic so far.
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (cng8s)
Posted by: TallDave at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (qNa2s)
Unless it doesn't, which appears to be the case here.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (aD39U)
Posted by: look whats not at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (nakGR)
Every one of these mercenary CEOs swoops in with their brilliant "5-Year Plan" to maximize profits, then soars out on a golden parachute, leaving chaos and destruction in their wake.
Weirdly, if I tried to get a job at Boeing or Nike, they'd expect me to know something about the products they sell.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (7fElN)
https://tinyurl.com/326c5xny
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:10 AM (2sg1c)
Should be a Rockwell painting.
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 21, 2024 11:11 AM (CIS44)
I love the smell of fry oil in the morning.
It smells like . . . victory!
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (Aqu9a)
McDonald's 😂
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (cng8s)
Not if we can help it.
Posted by: Newsweek at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (pIfcn)
It used to be that Nike dominated, with maybe 70% of gym-goers wearing the swoosh. Now, I see Nike on maybe 25%. Yeah its anecdotal, but I think its a very bad sign for that company that people who used to buy Nike aren't buying it anymore.
I just replaced a 20 year-old pair of Nikes and my one requirement for the new shoes was that they weren't Nike.
I hate that company even though their shoes were fine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (3iMA8)
Posted by: TallDave
Well, debt was cheap at the time. Another factor is the paranoia at the top. If you have a lot of cash, you are a takeover target, while if you buy back, you get rid of the cash and you reduce the number of shares a raider can access.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (lTGtQ)
https://tinyurl.com/56axzx64
Let's hope this is true, cause Big If True.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:04 AM (2sg1c)
I follow several Israeli accounts on X, people who live there and provide very good updates and analysis on the continuing fighting. In the beginning of the year there would be a great deal of arguing in their threads between those who thought Biden and Harris were the best for Israel and those (like me) who said that Biden would always betray them in the end.
A half a dozen betrayals later, and it easy to notice that virtually all of the pro-Biden/Harris voices on Jewish X accounts have disapeared. Can't say for sure that they've changed their minds but they don't dare speak openly about it anymore. Meanwhile it is easy to find those that agree that Trump is the only hope for Israel's future.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (wyMQY)
Posted by: Mishdog at October 21, 2024 11:13 AM (jUixk)
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I wonder how many zombie companies are out there right now. Companies swimming in debt to stay afloat as sales are tanking.
Lessons get learned from failures for individuals and companies but government helpfully bails everyone out until everything crashes and burns.
Separately..
The Detroit CBS station just had a threatening commercial by
"National Voting Record" or something like that. I actually remember seeing this around 2020.
Basically the message and tone was that your vote is private but whether you vote or not can be seen by your family, friends, neighbours and employers.
SO DO YOUR CIVIC DUTY AND VOTE!
Very creepy.
Posted by: Stateless at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (2sg1c)
Isn't that some kind of programming language?
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (BQlLi)
WWII British sonar, I think.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (nXhwP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.
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Ironically enough, he was beaten to death by a mall security guard.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (hovnC)
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Dear Kamala, instead of denigrating Christians, THIS is how you respond when someone in the crowd praises Jesus:
CROWD: "Jesus is King."
JD VANCE: "That's right. Jesus is King!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jen the original at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (+p0a7)
Yeah, but think of all the bologna and hot dogs we can make.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (nXhwP)
Very much appreciated. Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (XwzV2)
The Happy Meals are gonna be lit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
I thought this was going to be about Stellantis and that shitbag CEO Carlos Taveras.
Since the 2021 merger between FCA (Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles) and PSA, he has done nothing but use all the profits from FCA brands to fund the company's EV agenda and then destroy all North America brands by laying off half the engineers and management with experience, expertise and automotive knowledge in North America while replacing them with cheap "best cost country" remote workers in Mexico, Brazil and India who are not even worth the $53k they are paid.
And with that he has completely destroyed the morale of everyone in North America who works for the company... from engineers to management to dealers to the UAW workers at North America plants.
All due to the WEF and Deep State "climate change" and EV agenda, implemented by Deep State EPA regulations which ban ICE vehicles and mandate EVs.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (P5BPp)
Dear Kamala, instead of denigrating Christians, THIS is how you respond when someone in the crowd praises Jesus:
CROWD: "Jesus is King."
JD VANCE: "That's right. Jesus is King!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
The left has become inherently evil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (NFX2v)
They are both melting down simultaneously - Nike, for the reasons given above; and Intel, which missed the move to computer chips for AI.
There is going to be a lot less money available for Oregon to fund all of its beloved "progressive" measures.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:16 AM (uxCna)
I told him that in my opinion, the two occupations that were most responsible for the loss of quality in the military supply chain were accountants and lawyers.
He was NOT amused!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at October 21, 2024 11:16 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (hCzfy)
Whereas before, the corporation with profits had to either 1) invest in capital projects or 2) pay dividends.
And with so many CEO bonuses tied to stock price or paid in stock?
Well, a CEO would be insane not to buy back stock and artificially drive up the price.
Then, you couple that with being able to easily off-shore manufacturing?
Shut down the US plant, off-shore to China, take the profits to buy back stock and cash out like a king.
The corporate raiders of the 80s were less destructive.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Ui08I)
Posted by: Jen the original at October 21, 2024 11:14 AM (+p0a7)
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Meh. The big "scoop" made some 27 year-old journalism grad feel like Woodward and Bernstein combined.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (3iMA8)
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (NFX2v)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (hCzfy)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (aD39U)
Now the chickens have come back to roooost.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (YIxO9)
Posted by: Profit Thru Roof! at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (nS6qG)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (2sg1c)
Isn't that some kind of programming language?
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (BQlLi)
WWII British sonar, I think.
Leave it to the poofter Brits to use the wrong name. We call it sonar, so they should as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (ViCCR)
The Happy Meals are gonna be lit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
Guarantee the ice cream machines would be working 24/7...
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Jen the original at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (+p0a7)
Overpriced garbage.
ASICs. Brooks are my go to and recommended by my podiatrist
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024
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Last month it came time to replace my four-year-old running/walking shoes. I decided on a pair of ASICs. $160, but they are comfortable without being heavy. Here's hoping they can last me another four years.
I don't recall what the outgoing pair were -- Brooks, maybe. I should have hung on to them for car washing duty, but oh, well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)
This is usually more a case of "knowing how" rather than "knowing that". But strict logical analysis tends always toward the latter. (Which I do believe in, when used where it belongs.) A good example of what I mean is the way sailing navies took in midshipmen young. They literally learned the ropes.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: steevy at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (HJ9BW)
Posted by: Profit Thru Roof! at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (nS6qG)
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On the woke scale Adidas is almost worse than Nike.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (3iMA8)
I wonder what will now occur at Disney. They are naming Igers replacement and he's an investment banker from Morgan Stanley . Disney has a lot of problems, let's see if this guy cuts and slashes for short term profits
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (a7PbZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (AdHga)
It is. Both of my parents are now gone, so memories are all I have.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Leave it to the poofter Brits to use the wrong name. We call it sonar, so they should as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024
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ASDIC.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (WPL6O)
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It's not just stock it's the bean counters throughout the business.
Bean counters are as deadly as HR.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (bhSZH)
Now the chickens have come back to roooost.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2024 11:17 AM (wBaIH)
It is said that GM was a financing company with a pension overhang that occasionally sold a few cars.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (Aqu9a)
This has been an expensive lesson in business for many of them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (2sg1c)
The Happy Meals are gonna be lit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
And you can bet the ice cream machines will all finally work.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:08 AM (2sg1c)
Isn't that some kind of programming language?
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2024 11:12 AM (BQlLi)
WWII British sonar, I think.
Leave it to the poofter Brits to use the wrong name. We call it sonar, so they should as well.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
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They do now. And after all, they did come up with ASDIC.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Jen the original at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (+p0a7)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, a CEO would be insane not to buy back stock and artificially drive up the price.
Well, unless you, you know, actually cared about the company and the products it makes because that's what you'd dedicated your life to.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (xCA6C)
I assume you said something in an earlier thread, I'll go look.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (cng8s)
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I've asked this before, and I know we have lawyers here who claim it's almost impossible to prove in court -- and am curious if you have ever addressed this, Buck -- but WHY THE HELL AREN'T THERE HUNDREDS IF, NOT THOUSANDS OF CLASS ACTION SUITS BY SHAREHOLDERS AGAINST THESE CORPORATE SCUM VIOLATING THEIR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITIES to said shareholders -- which is maximizing long-term profitability and shareholder value?
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (uUdf4)
I wonder what will now occur at Disney. They are naming Igers replacement and he's an investment banker from Morgan Stanley . Disney has a lot of problems, let's see if this guy cuts and slashes for short term profits
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That's what finance guys do. He, nor Iger, are anywhere close to Walt.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (AdHga)
The moderated conversions will begin in Chester County, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia, at 11:40 a.m. EDT
... Chester County is a red county that has been invaded by blue refugees
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (RHGPo)
This has been an expensive lesson in business for many of them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (2sg1c)
Unfortunately, not enough of them.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
The Happy Meals are gonna be lit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
And you can bet the ice cream machines will all finally work.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
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See, he's just like Mussolini.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (WPL6O)
Greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: KT at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (2sg1c)
I wonder what will now occur at Disney. They are naming Igers replacement and he's an investment banker from Morgan Stanley . Disney has a lot of problems, let's see if this guy cuts and slashes for short term profits
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2024 11:19 AM (a7PbZ)
Tanned, rested, and ready.
Posted by: 'Chainsaw' Al Dunlap at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (Aqu9a)
H-D, John Deere and Tractor Supply went full on woke. They were exposed, boycotted and forced to reverse direction.
However, not one of the CO's making those destructive decisions have been fired, so I do not take them as serious when it comes to changing course.
They'll just tamp down the obvious DIE stuff and reintroduce it slowwwwly.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (8Hsmj)
This is exactly what shitbag Carlos Taveras has been doing with Stellantis North America operations. Only he is not reducing headcount. He is actually increasing headcount overall, only reducing direct employee headcount in North America. He's been firing experienced, knowledgeable experts in engineering and product development who make ~$100k with employee benefits (401k, health insurance, paid holidays, paid vacation, profit sharing) and replacing each one with 2 or 3 "best cost country" remote workers making $53k with no benefits paid by Stellantis.
They report in the media that these are headcount cost-cutting measures. But they are not cutting headcount, they are simply reducing salary and benefit obligations. But one engineer with experience and expertise is worth more than 5 BCC workers. No doubt Ford and GM did the same, using the excuse that they need to cut their experienced engineers in order to "transition to EVs". Which is bullshit. Experienced engineers can learn to engineer and develop EVs.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (P5BPp)
How does dragging that ingrate cow around help Harris?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
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They do now. And after all, they did come up with ASDIC.
It was just a joke. Admittedly, a weak one, but still a joke.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (pZEOD)
This is also the story of Cuba and Venezuela, and for that matter Argentina. Socialism focuses on extracting wealth to satisfy the populace and the important people and does not look to the future since the problems are now.
One of the reasons Cuba is in an island wide power outage is due to that attitude, little was diverted to capital investment or even maintenance.
This is the problem where the stakeholders have more influence over the company than the people who rely on it for their jobs. It is inevitable that this happens where the fastest and most sure way to wealth is borrowing it, because it gives the borrower (and the lender) great financial clout with only the problem of paying it back.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (D7oie)
https://youtu.be/_AWUAoKY1Q8
It's a little long and rambling.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (hCzfy)
... actually the SCOTUS made it harder to do class action lawsuits a few years ago
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: KT at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (xekrU)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)
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Usually with a multi-billion dollar "golden parachute."
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (uUdf4)
In my last company, after the new CEO took over
she brought in the consultants. All the older employees were pushed out. R&D was cut to the bone. If you weren't keeping the plant running or managing money you were a deadweight cost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (EsZUh)
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (1bNHn)
getting the trains to work on thyme?
or was it basil and oregano?
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (cng8s)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (LkLld)
ASDIC was the world's first practical underwater active sound detection apparatus, which was used to locate submerged submarines by using electronically transmitted and received sound waves.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (2sg1c)
I'm doing my part to make that happen. Not spending a dime of my money in their stores.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (8Hsmj)
Thank you. I am humbled.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)
Harris' staff really believes that there is a significant number of pro-Cheney Republicans still out there?
Astonishing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
upper body strength?
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (CIS44)
Probably not on topic but still important: PA Penn Live Patriot News, Pa.-based paint company to lay off 1,800 workers Updated: Oct. 21, 2024, 10:10 a.m. By Chris Mautner | cmautner@pennlive.com
It begins, "The Pa.-based paint company PPG Industries announced late last week that it plans to lay off about 1,800 workers and sell its architectural coatings business."
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:22 AM (pZEOD)
Well, he's not my actual brother, but thank you all the same.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (2sg1c)
They are opening a new one near me 30 miles north of Dallas around Thanksgiving. The second one in our small city. Rumor is that they are winding down operations at stores in Dallas proper due to theft.
Posted by: Mishdog at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (jUixk)
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (1bNHn)
getting the trains to work on thyme?
or was it basil and oregano?
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (nXhwP)
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No, they were a different Italian. The Seasonings was by Vivaldi, not Mussolini.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (1bNHn)
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A poor choice of words. It inevitably brings to mind the Robert McNamara generation, where this **** started to really take off.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:07 AM (1bNHn
Battlefield decisions at squad level decided in the oval office.
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (ZbICR)
https://tinyurl.com/326c5xny
Posted by: AlaBAMA
One of the great things about Trump is that he doesn't look down upon honest workers. He doesn't despise us peasants the way the Democrats do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Gorgeous day here though.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (YIxO9)
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (RHGPo)
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The Pierre Delecto of Sam Bankman-Frieds.
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (uUdf4)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (wBaIH)
https://tinyurl.com/3xdfe8ne
Barbarians to Bureaucrats
Posted by: KT at October 21, 2024 11:25 AM (xekrU)
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Its moar that Liz is a co-conspirator and they need to circle the wagons to feel protected from the Redskins. Life in the new world is just one slave rebellion and Indian attack after another.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Braenyard at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (bhSZH)
It is said that GM was a financing company with a pension overhang that occasionally sold a few cars.
Posted by: Count de Monet
Rush Limbaugh used to say GM was a benefits company that made cars on the side.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)
Wish I had said something to you and your brother 😥
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:23 AM (cng8s)
I thank you, regardless. He's just a really good friend, but it's all good.
I was good to meet you. Glad you made it out.
I found it a very good distraction for everything going on around here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, he's not my actual brother, but thank you all the same.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at
He probably still needs prayer for something, it won’t go to waste. But this is hard for you, I know. You are being strength for a lot right now. We got you here when you need to break down a little.
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (pZEOD)
Posted by: KT at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (xekrU)
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"AI" FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (uUdf4)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)
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That'll turn the tide!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
One of the reasons Cuba is in an island wide power outage is due to that attitude, little was diverted to capital investment or even maintenance.
No need to go overseas. I'm also reminded of the latter days of Marion Barry. He neglected all maintenance and upkeep, in favor of buying votes from his constituents. As a result, the city was falling apart. He did us a big favor by getting nicked for crack.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (xCA6C)
To the MBAs, a gallon of acetic acid is a sausage is a widget. To grow, merge. To cut costs, lay people off.
Organic growth? Innovation? What are they?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (EsZUh)
The is a finite, and diminishing return on cutting cost.
But, every time you hit a financial crunch in your personal life, that's what you're told to do: Cut costs.
Because, and this is the prison we're in: You can't increase your income.
So, it makes sense, if that's what you're trained to do in your personal life, it must make sense for corporations.
But, there's no limit on growth.
And, that's what I hate most about the Democrats and Biden-Harris:
The absolute stranglehold deathgrip the have placed on growth ... for short-term political gain.
How I hate them fuckers and their shitty, loser voters for trying to kill America.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (Ui08I)
https://youtu.be/_AWUAoKY1Q8
It's a little long and rambling.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024
***
That's who I thought it would be, but that beard looks like somebody pasted Spanish moss to his face.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (J2vNu)
He probably still needs prayer for something, it won’t go to waste. But this is hard for you, I know. You are being strength for a lot right now. We got you here when you need to break down a little.
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:26 AM (pZEOD)
I know. Most here really are the elites in society. I'm eternally grateful for them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (TSQkU)
That'll turn the tide!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
Or cause high tide. Whichever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
hello, sailor!
Posted by: second life at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 21, 2024 11:28 AM (TSQkU)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (v6JzV)
It worked for me!
Buy my book -
High Standards, Hard Choices: A Ceo's Journey of Courage, Risk, and Change/i]
See the glowing reviews on Amazon.com
(linky too long)
Posted by: Dana G. Mead, destroyer of Tenneco, Pentagon Papers asshole at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (v6JzV)
*high five*
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (CIS44)
This was a slight legitimate fear of Trump... in 2016.
Posted by: DaveA at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (FhXTo)
Harris' staff really believes that there is a significant number of pro-Cheney Republicans still out there?
Astonishing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:24 AM (uxCna)
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It's not really Cheney. They'd rather call themselves Haley Republicans, but there are some things Nikki won't do. Scarborough Republicans would be as good a term as any.
To me, though, it's always Rockefeller. (To give him credit, nothing in his life became him so much as the leaving of it.)
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Dana G. Mead, destroyer of Tenneco, Pentagon Papers asshole at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (Aqu9a)
And it was great to meet you. Believe it or not you were exactly what I expected 😊
Yes, that is a good thing.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (cng8s)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (v6JzV)
Life saving information.
Good luck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:29 AM (v6JzV)
Yay! I am so happy! Great news.
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (pZEOD)
DisneyChannel is crap and I used to have it on in the background after adult comedies died in 2001. Way back in the day, no gays or lectures on racism. Cute, family friendly stuff that made me laugh.
They cancelled all of their live actiom shows. In the last coupke of years, the shows were all blacks and minorities and cancelled after a season. Disney+ isn't even carrying those shows.
Crappy, cheap looking cartoons and a few reruns.
Going woke destroyed a channel that parents could plop their kids in front of and be advertised other Disney stuff.
Posted by: Stateless at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (jvJvP)
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Is Cuba still in the dark after the island-wide power failure? Or is the junta going to bail them out?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:31 AM (L/fGl)
I'm picturing an AoSHQ training montage ... it's frightening.
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 11:31 AM (OguvZ)
And it was great to meet you. Believe it or not you were exactly what I expected 😊
Yes, that is a good thing.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (cng8s)
Heh. Thanks.
He is a really genuine guy and has been there for me more than some of my own family, so I hold him in high regard.
And he dances with Cow Horse Queen, so Rancher Bob is happy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
A centerpiece of the firm's culture was the Friday 4 PM beer bust - kegs were provided in the central courtyard of the firm's building (it's California, so the weather is usually nice). People drank beer, and chatted - sometimes about weekend plans, but usually about work, since they were science nerds.
Want to talk to the CEO about something? Well - he's standing right over there. Having problems implementing a new process? Well. Fred in a different group is also working on that - why not chat with him.
Then they got taken over by a big Swiss biotech firm - which insisted that they didn't want to change the culture - they just wanted to provide capital and market the new drugs that the small firm developed.
The Swiss firm almost immediately canceled the beer bust. Guess who stopped innovating.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (uxCna)
I'm picturing an AoSHQ training montage ... it's frightening.
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 11:31 AM (OguvZ)
The Barrel, not just for punishment any more...
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 11:31 AM (OguvZ)
Heart attacks and vomit were not on the menu this year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tanned, Rested, Ready at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (nS6qG)
I'm picturing an AoSHQ training montage ... it's frightening.
Posted by: spindrift at October
I asked them all to get up one time and the entire group just stared at me. So I quietly sat back down.
Next year I come armed with weights, though!
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (pZEOD)
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Congratulations, Buck -- will read!
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (uUdf4)
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (ZbICR)
We used to have to chase people out of the lab to go to the Christmas Party.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (xCA6C)
Organic growth? Innovation? What are they?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I despise M&As. It's a huge pain in the ass from a legal and administrative standpoint. And it just smacks of laziness to me on the part of management -- like a lion scavenging off a carcass instead of killing its own prey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (v6JzV)
I know the last few months have not been easy for you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it.
No, they haven't. 2024 can EABOD.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Unsurprising to anyone, our latest polling results clearly show that our lord and savior, slay-brat kween kamala (pbuh), has cemented a commanding lead in the upcoming november elections1!!!11!
Poll question: Has our lord and savior, slay-brat kween kamala (pbuh), cemented a commanding lead in the upcoming november elections1!!!11!??
Yes: 1000,00,0,000,0,0,00,0000 infinity%
No: 0.000
Posted by: SEriOus poLlinG grOuP InC! at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (EFZgU)
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2024 11:33 AM (ZbICR)
Amen, brother.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)
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Well, they painted a target on their stores.
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They are unburdened by Bed Bath and Beyond. If they go tits up we might get one of the Green Egg grills nice and cheap. DIE Target, DIE.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (AdHga)
‘ As a former Fortune 500 corporate bean counter and reporter,’
I’m glad to know at least one accountant knows that actually can kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (jbnUc)
That's an excellent analogy.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)
Next year I come armed with weights, though!
Posted by: Piper
Hope they at least appreciated the kale.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (v6JzV)
No, they haven't. 2024 can EABOD.
Posted by: Sponge
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I hope that the rest of this year is all good news and am sorry about your dad. Fate has dealt you a cruel hand this year so far.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (Aqu9a)
Dave Ramsay called Victoria's Secret a credit card company with lingerie out front to entice customers in. There is more margin in credit card fees than in selling retail.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (D7oie)
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Exactly.
You used to hear about those all the time.
Every course on corporate law and governance discusses those.
And ... there are none anymore.
I mean, Disney just writing off a $2 billion loss on the Star Wars hotel? How in the f was that not wanton destruction of shareholder value? That's insane.
There has to be law that was passed by Congress that gutted those lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (Ui08I)
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 21, 2024 11:37 AM (TSQkU)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
My favorite part of M&A is when the boss tells me that the CEO promised X millions in savings and synergies, so I had better find a way to report it that way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:37 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: michelle fields at October 21, 2024 11:37 AM (sGtp+)
That's an excellent analogy.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C
Didn’t you mean vultures?
Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2024 11:37 AM (ZbICR)
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (ctrM5)
Thank you. Not sure what I've done to draw the ire of negativity, but I'm doing the best I can with it all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 11:31 AM (OguvZ)
The morning exercises routine from Gung Ho!
https://youtu.be/h9jsnAD4aNw
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 21, 2024 11:38 AM (Aqu9a)
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I always thought Airbus was the worst name. I'd have preferred Soaring Eagle or Pegasus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
I'm picturing an AoSHQ training montage ... it's frightening.
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024
***
"I CAN'T HEAR YOOOO!!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)
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For a while it was my wife's go-to alternative to Walmart. Not since their nonsense with the tranny bathroom shit. And that was years and years ago... before the overt ghey and transgender embracement they went through.
Yet, even here in nominally red KY the local store is doing business. Maybe not what they once did, but they're in no danger of going tits up. Yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)
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I always thought Airbus was the worst name. I'd have preferred Soaring Eagle or Pegasus.
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If they called it the Flying Carpet they would have nailed it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (AdHga)
This is madness.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (tT6L1)
Dave Ramsay called Victoria's Secret a credit card company with lingerie out front to entice customers in. There is more margin in credit card fees than in selling retail.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (D7oie)
Well Victoria's Secret became Victor's Secret. Explain it to me like I'm a 3 yr old on how a dude in a thong is sexy.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (N39Ws)
That's an excellent analogy.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C
Didn’t you mean vultures?
Vultures are scavengers by design; they can do no other. Lions are predators by design, and when they rely on others to do their work for them, it's disgraceful. It's not unlike the modern Democrat Party.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (xCA6C)
The justices turned away Cohen’s appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM
I read that toyota motor credit company makes more profit than toyota itself. Not sure if that's true though.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 21, 2024 11:40 AM (QNSds)
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024 11:40 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Doof at October 21, 2024 11:40 AM (/nbpY)
over here, we're transitioning from itanium to x86. haven't had a vax for years.
Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (sGtp+)
The Swiss firm almost immediately canceled the beer bust. Guess who stopped innovating.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:32 AM (uxCna)
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They weren't buying your brains or your talents, they were buying your IP. Workers are fungible components.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (EsZUh)
My wife used to shop at a women's clothing store called Dress Barn. I think that's your winner for worst name.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
The justices turned away Cohen’s appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
*insert Nelson Muntz laugh here*
I'm surprised he hasn't been invited to a Kumswala rally yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Still astonishing that the people who built the 747 were cast aside for the people who built the DC-10.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
I kind of admired their honesty. A Greyhound terminal in 1970 looked better both in architecture and passenger fashion than an airport terminal today.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Tanned, Rested, Ready at October 21, 2024
***
Continental -- the Proud Bird With the Golden Tail!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Doof
Welcome back, Sir. I presume that Disco Doof did not disappoint at the MoMe?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (v6JzV)
One of the more entertaining moments, for sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
I also saw executives at Compaq (before the HP merger) continually stuff the channel or rush products to market to "make the quarter," when all they were doing was hitting their bonus numbers.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (8GIFn)
Not if they have unique institutional knowledge and the ability to go elsewhere. It's like throwing away your corporate history, and letting someone else pick it up out of the trash.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (xCA6C)
I'm picturing an AoSHQ training montage ... it's frightening.
Posted by: spindrift at October
I asked them all to get up one time and the entire group just stared at me. So I quietly sat back down.
Next year I come armed with weights, though!
Posted by: Piper
You need a bullwhip or a cattle prod.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (3FQ2L)
In 15 days we’ll know whether we still live in a Democracy or a Fascist State. Oh, and the Convicted Felon is a shit candidate.
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Rob, we're holding you to your promise to set yourself on fire.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
You need a bullwhip or a cattle prod.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (3FQ2L)
I'm quite sure Rancher Bob can make that happen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)
You need a bullwhip or a cattle prod.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (3FQ2L)
Oooooo!!!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024
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There used to be a fashion store with "Ranch" in the title, though maybe it was only here. "Dance Ranch"? You picture a combo of disco clothes and urban cowboy duds on John Travolta.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
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their customer and service
Posted by: Braenyard at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (bhSZH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I despise M&As. It's a huge pain in the ass from a legal and administrative standpoint. And it just smacks of laziness to me on the part of management -- like a lion scavenging off a carcass instead of killing its own prey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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In some cases, M&A were specifically to remove potential rivals or to kill technology that threatens the acquiring company's core money making tech.
Google, IBM, Microsux, Intel, all have a long tradition of buying tech companies and then destroying the.
I think something that is key is to restrict or even deny interest writeoffs for M&A activity or for stock buybacks funded by borrowing.
Second, is to allow corporations to deduct dividends just like they can for interest. Dual taxation of dividends at the corporate and individual level makes little economic sense other than advantaging borrowing instead of capitalization. That forces a focus on returning value to the stockholders other than capital gains.
Also equal treatment of dividends to interest paid incentivizes preferred stock instead of borrowing.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
They finally brought back the "angels" and the runway show, but I think it's too late. The tranny damage is done. Also, it's only streaming on Amazon, so no one knows it's back.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (hCzfy)
Posted by: General Electric at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (a3Q+t)
In 15 days we’ll know whether we still live in a Democracy or a Fascist State. Oh, and the Convicted Felon is a shit candidate.
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Rob, we're holding you to your promise to set yourself on fire.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
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How does voting for his disfavored candidate mean that we'll be in a fascist state?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Most companies earn more margin on credit cards than on product. There isn't much you can do with money to earn more than 29 percent.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)
In 15 days we’ll know whether we still live in a Democracy or a Fascist State. Oh, and the Convicted Felon is a shit candidate.
Takes shit to know shit, but you're shit and Trump's yo daddy.
Where's spontaneous combustion when you need it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bearski at October 21, 2024 11:45 AM (Bhsk7)
Apparently the accountants back in Zurich figured out the labor cost of the beer bust (imagine the salary cost for the entire company for a couple of hours), and the liability involved in serving beer at a corporate function if someone got into an accident on the way home.
Just think of the cost savings! The accountants then congratulated themselves on a job well done.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:45 AM (uxCna)
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Exactly.
You used to hear about those all the time.
Every course on corporate law and governance discusses those.
And ... there are none anymore.
I mean, Disney just writing off a $2 billion loss on the Star Wars hotel? How in the f was that not wanton destruction of shareholder value? That's insane.
There has to be law that was passed by Congress that gutted those lawsuits.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2024 11:36 AM (Ui08I)
This. Making flopbuster after flopbuster specifically saying this movie is not for the paying customer and then trying to brow beat the population into acquiessence on the radical gay and trans ideology.
They are just burning shareholder money for political friendships.
Posted by: Kamalawannadingdong at October 21, 2024 11:45 AM (uBBbP)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (2sg1c)
Target lost about a billion bucks a few years back expanding into Canada. They lasted only a few years.
Posted by: Stateless at October 21, 2024 11:45 AM (jvJvP)
In 15 days we’ll know whether we still live in a Democracy or a Fascist State. Oh, and the Convicted Felon is a shit candidate.
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Takes shit to know shit, but you're shit and Trump's yo daddy.
Where's spontaneous combustion when you need it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024
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Ya gotta wonder what his father Carl would have thought of all this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)
The Happy Meals are gonna be lit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:15 AM (LkLld)
And you can bet the ice cream machines will all finally work.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:20 AM (N39Ws)
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See, he's just like Mussolini.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:21 AM (1bNHn)
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Similar to Mussolini, Trump kept the fries running on time!
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:46 AM (uUdf4)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Your thoughts?
… wonder how he got that idea ?!?
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:47 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024
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You misspelled "a rocket launcher" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:47 AM (uUdf4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2024 11:47 AM (a7PbZ)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Your thoughts?
About damn time.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (xCA6C)
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their customer and service
Posted by: Braenyard
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The guy that turned around Savage Firearms is one such but eventually they sell out or retire and the return to financialization, debt, and ill considered mergers or acquisition reoccurs.
Conglomerates are more for CEOs, investment banks, and the executive suite, than for stockholders, customers, or employees.
Individual investors can always do a better job hedging risk than a CEO can by M&A.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (ctrM5)
It's why me, and a lot of other people, don't think Work From Home works very well for a lot of jobs.
Informal communications are so important to the smooth functioning of organizations, and you lose most of those informal communications if people are only communicating via Zoom calls.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2024 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)
with the island wide blackout, civil unrest, threats by Diaz-Canel to use force to break up protests and now rumors of massive damage by Oscar at the Eastern end of the island, nothing is getting done
babalublog is a great resource for Cuba, though you have to take in their slant as well
https://tinyurl.com/y7yzhp22
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (D7oie)
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voter registration in the last week has favored Republicans by more than 2-to-1.
Republican: +27,673
Democratic: +12,722
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (hovnC)
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
The Biden economy is so strong businesses are willing to hire convicted felons out on bail.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (2bFN5)
I maintain my long standing belief that not a single leftist actually knows what the word fascism means. They just think it sounds bad.
They don't even realize how stupid they sound when they toss around words they don't understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (LkLld)
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That is one of the primary reasons to vote for him.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (lTGtQ)
it's funny because on a business trip to siemens in augsburg (yeah, yeah, germany ain't switzerland) i found out they have beer on tap in the company cafeteria.
Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (v6JzV)
One of the more entertaining moments, for sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Not quite back yet. Week 2 of my trip now. Currently in Nawlins. If I lived here I'd be as big as Tank Abrams. Sooooo much good food here!
I am glad everyone enjoyed this year's version of Disco Doof. He did level up a bit compared to last year. The bar has been raised - not sure how to surpass it now.
Posted by: Doof at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (/nbpY)
In 15 days we’ll know whether we still live in a Democracy or a Fascist State. Oh, and the Convicted Felon is a shit candidate.
Takes shit to know shit, but you're shit and Trump's yo daddy.
Where's spontaneous combustion when you need it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)
ITS FUNNY CAUSE MEATHEAD LIVES IN A ONE PARTY BLUE STATE THAT BANNED THE SALE OF ALL ICE AUTOMOBILES BY 2030 BY EXECUTIVE FIAT AND HE CANT RECOGNIZE HES THE FASCIST!
Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (uBBbP)
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:44 AM
At Microsoft and Oracle (and probably others) that was known as "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (a3Q+t)
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
The Biden economy is so strong businesses are willing to hire convicted felons out on bail.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
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Just keep amplifying a win on Trump's part, dummy Kristol.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
This is madness.
Posted by: blake -
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There's no other place to put your money to keep up with inflation.
The purpose of the federal reserve was to keep your saving consistent with inflation. hahahahahahah
Posted by: Braenyard at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (bhSZH)
In addition, those who stay home full time are going to be shocked when it's the people who go in to the office and have face time with management who will be promoted. You may accept that as worth it, but I suspect most people don't realize what they're losing.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (xCA6C)
They don't even realize how stupid they sound when they toss around words they don't understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (LkLld)
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Orwell called it in the 50s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2024 11:47 AM (a7PbZ)
Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)
So it came as quite a surprise when North American in Downey, CA scored the Apollo contract. In fact, McDonnell mistakenly informed their employees they had won the contract over their PA system, they found out the next day this wasn’t the case.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (lODnU)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Your thoughts?
… wonder how he got that idea ?!?
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:47 AM (RHGPo)
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Well dang. I can't vote for the guy any harder!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)
Dunno, but apple>>>tree?
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 21, 2024 11:42 AM (8GIFn)
Happened to Cabletron (Cisco competitor in the 90s and 00s) which became Enterasys Networks. SEC took exception to their practices. Worked there while that all went down. Good times.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (N39Ws)
Restaurants. Guy has a great idea and great recipes. Starts restaurant. Big success. Expands. Gets bought by Yum! Brands. Bean counters skimp on ingredients. Food tastes terrible. Loses customers. Stores close.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (EsZUh)
Posted by: Doof at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM
Call me.
Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (a3Q+t)
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That is one of the primary reasons to vote for him.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (lTGtQ)
ITS FUNNY CAUSE TRUMP IS ALWAYS COMING FOR THE FBI BUT ITS THE FBI THAT IS ALWAYS COMING FOR TRUMP!
Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at October 21, 2024 11:51 AM (uBBbP)
Posted by: scampydog at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (2bFN5)
Much appreciated, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)
German courts aren't California courts.
Yeah, there was a liability issue - but the communications value of the beer bust was worth tolerating the liability issue.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 11:51 AM (uxCna)
Posted by: Doof at October 21, 2024
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Doof, watch where you travel. A "good" neighborhood in this dump can shade to a "bad" one in the space of a block, crossing a main avenue, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:52 AM (J2vNu)
What I didn't know then was that the 401k had just been created in 1978 which put a different kind of pressure on publicly traded companies.
I occasionally get to talk to investors in their 80s who remember when you could pick stocks based on their fundamentals rather than on how they were goosing their reports.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 21, 2024 11:52 AM (GD2xa)
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Yeah, that's their problem. Too much freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (sGtp+)
Hasenbrau, brewed in Augsburg, is my absolute favorite bier!!! My best assignment while in the Army.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (W/lyH)
The unnamed Arab nations stressed that Israel's military action "should be 'Strict and Clear,'" but also requested "that they receive an Advanced Notice, so that they may be able to take Precautions in case of a Counterattack."
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
I used to shop at a place called "Wine Barn!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (d9fT1)
“There is no safe store of value. It there were, the government would make it illegal, as was done for gold.” Alan Greenspan 1966 “Gold and Economic Freedom”
Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (lODnU)
Tempting, but no. It would leak as surely as it would from the Biden/Harris administration.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:54 AM (xCA6C)
What is humanitarian parole for Venezuelans?
Humanitarian Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans is a program under which citizens of these four countries, and their immediate family members, can be paroled into the United States for a period of up to two years if a person in the US agrees to financially support them.
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30K a month.
And, no, it's doubtful it'll end in 2 years. What other such program has?
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 11:54 AM (NFX2v)
I used to shop at a place called "Wine Barn!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (d9fT1)
There's a "Beer Barn" drive through liquor store in Denton, just off the UNT campus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM
Thigh gap >>>>>>>>>>>>> Fulda gap
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2024 11:54 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
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Your thoughts?
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They misspelled "is coming for traitors to the nation and will convict & execute them pour encourager les autres."
Of course, I'm already voting for Trump so no need to sell me further ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (uUdf4)
Posted by: can of spam at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (7oNMO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024
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Dunno, but apple>>>tree?
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024
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H'wood wasn't quite so monolithically Dem in decades past. It was still possible to have a good career and be an R. Witness James Stewart and Ginger Rogers, for example. And Dems weren't quite as insane. Stewart's best friend Henry Fonda was a D, and they disagreed for years, until they realized that staying friends was more important to them than politics. Imagine that happening today. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (J2vNu)
They don't even realize how stupid they sound when they toss around words they don't understand.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (LkLld)
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Orwell called it in the 50s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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40s. He died in 1950. In January.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (1bNHn)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (KbCG3)
Appreciated, sincerely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Look of a New Generation at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (xtKM4)
Posted by: Brother Tim
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It is coming to an end as it always does. The coming sovereign debt crisis in the West means a reset of some sort. What we will get is about ten to twenty years of 'austerity' until the sovereign debt is repudiated or inflated away.
Stupid policies to prop up financial institutions results in more misery--to wit, Italy, Greece, Spain, etc. have lower gdp (adjusted for inflation) than they did before 2010. They need to ditch the Euro and repudiate debts to N. Euro banks. France is teetering on the edge financially too. Britain is heading the wrong way and even Germany is flailing economically. Debt is killing Euroland and will kill us too if we don't do something about it.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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40s. He died in 1950. In January.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM (1bNHn)
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Not in the alternate universe I came from where he survived until 1952!
Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
Joy Behar asks Tim Walz what he thinks about the "right wingers" making fun of his firearm skills.
"I can shoot better than them. I got the trophies to prove it."
This is a deeply insecure man.
Catturd ™ @catturd2 14m
"I've got the trophies to prove it" 😂😂😂😂😂
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (hovnC)
Posted by: Ripley at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (GUOwU)
The unnamed Arab nations stressed that Israel's military action "should be 'Strict and Clear,'" but also requested "that they receive an Advanced Notice, so that they may be able to take Precautions in case of a Counterattack."
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 11:53 AM (RHGPo)
Ummmmmmm....the time to take counter preparations was 6 months ago.
But yeah consider yourself notified
Posted by: Mossads third cousin but not actually mossad. at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (uBBbP)
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For a while it was my wife's go-to alternative to Walmart. Not since their nonsense with the tranny bathroom shit. And that was years and years ago... before the overt ghey and transgender embracement they went through.
Yet, even here in nominally red KY the local store is doing business. Maybe not what they once did, but they're in no danger of going tits up. Yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2024 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)
A month or two ago, my formerly Target-loving wife who ditched it in response to their tranny-gay bullshit, mentioned how she completely forgot Target even existed.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (KbCG3)
I suggest Comey is in the same boat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
Fashion Bug might have something to say about that.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (k9OZB)
Joy Behar asks Tim Walz what he thinks about the "right wingers" making fun of his firearm skills.
"I can shoot better than them. I got the trophies to prove it."
So, get ta proovin'!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (hovnC)
From Trophies R Us.
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: catman at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (3Kepb)
Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (lODnU)
Joy Behar asks Tim Walz what he thinks about the "right wingers" making fun of his firearm skills.
"I can shoot better than them. I got the trophies to prove it."
This is a deeply insecure man.
Catturd ™ @catturd2 14m
"I've got the trophies to prove it" 😂😂😂😂😂
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (hovnC)
Where? Inna drawer next to kamalas McDonald's paystubs?
Posted by: President Richard Punch at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (uBBbP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
When you inject race, religion (or lack thereof), and identity (like alphabet people), those differences cannot be bridged. Fonda and Stewart were both white males that were arguing mainly over economic policies.
That can be bridged. Make Fonda black, gay, and atheist, and Stewart as white, God fearing, and straight--they would never be friends in the first place given the tribalism built around those identifiers.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (ctrM5)
I suggest Comey is in the same boat.
I think neither one actually expects repercussions, although there should surely be severe ones. No, this is about self-dramatization. "I'm so important, and such a threat to Trump, that I'm at the top of his hit list".
You know what people at the top of a hit list don't do? Go out in public and trumpet why they are at the top of the list. They run and hide.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (xCA6C)
A month or two ago, my formerly Target-loving wife who ditched it in response to their tranny-gay bullshit, mentioned how she completely forgot Target even existed.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 21, 2024
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The CVS where I get my Rxs filled is in a Target. Not the closest to my house or work, but it's convenient enough, and the employees actually are on the ball. The pharmacy, I mean; not so much the rest of the store.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: The Look of a New Generation at October 21, 2024 11:55 AM
The
Posted by: Guptay McGuptaface at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 11:56 AM (hovnC)
From Trophies R Us.
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (Yj6Os)
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Well, they're his. He paid good money for them.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (1bNHn)
I suggest Comey is in the same boat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (tT6L1)
Milley should be busted to private and court martialed. Upon completion of his prison term, dishonorably discharge him.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024
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Fashion Bug might have something to say about that.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 21, 2024
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Wet Seal has entered the chat
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:00 PM (J2vNu)
https://tinyurl.com/3pfxbmsx
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 21, 2024 12:00 PM (iODuv)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Your thoughts?
i'm already voting for him, you don't HAVE to encourage me further...
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 21, 2024 12:00 PM (nXhwP)
I suggest Comey is in the same boat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 11:57 AM (tT6L1)
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IAW the UCMJ, these come to mind:
Conduct unbecoming an officer
Disparaging words and phrases
Disobeying the order of the CinC
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 12:00 PM (W/lyH)
@realTrumpNewsX
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
and
Your thoughts?
Get ready, little lady Comey. Hell is coming for breakfast, Jan 21, 2025.
Posted by: Lone Watie at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (Aqu9a)
1) Publicly announcing that he would tell the Chinese first if he was ordered to take military action against China.
2) Refusing a direct order to provide military personnel to protect the Capitol on January 6th, after Nancy Pelosi told him not to.
He should be executed, but I'll take life in Leavenworth.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (sGtp+)
Germans drink beer like water, especially at lunch. Even the military where I was stationed allowed a beer with lunch.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (ekupY)
Walz proclaiming mad skilz without admitting any sort of failure is someone who has issues.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (tT6L1)
A reminder that the whole Trump McDonald's thing yesterday was fake.
Just like him.
Store was closed. "Customers" were Trump Cult Members. They had scripts. They had rehearsed.
There is NOTHING Trump won't lie about.
Catturd ™ @catturd2 3h
Yellow Tears is triggered again - 😂
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (hovnC)
Joy Behar asks Tim Walz what he thinks about the "right wingers" making fun of his firearm skills.
"I can shoot better than them. I got the trophies to prove it."
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So, get ta proovin'!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM
When it's time to shoot, shoot! Don't talk.
Posted by: Tuco at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 11:50 AM (EsZUh)
The local cafe that is known for pastries has started to skimp on ingredients and their pastries and coffee is now merely tolerable.
I think they are using shortening instead of butter in the dough. Best damned economy evar!
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:54 AM (xCA6C)
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The treasonous scum who are leaking are likely going to be guilty of conspiracy to commit murder -- is there likely to get undercover spies outed & killed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 12:01 PM (uUdf4)
Posted by: Avi at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (D4h3z)
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (QSrLX)
Their competitors were smarter. Recently I was on a business trip and had reserved through Hertz. When I got the airport's rental car area, the Hertz counter was backed up with frustrated customers and when I finally got to a desk agent I was told there were no vehicles ready. I walked over to the Sixt counter and not only did they have vehicles available, when asked what kind of vehicle I wanted and replying, "I don't care, as long as it's not electric" the agent smiled and said, "No problem! We don't offer those!".
Posted by: Bert G at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (uUdf4)
and
Your thoughts?
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Dude I’m already walking over broken glass to vote for him. I dont need even more incentive.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (ekupY)
Posted by: SouthCentralPA at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (muRIc)
Walz proclaiming mad skilz without admitting any sort of failure is someone who
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024
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Fixed
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:03 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at October 21, 2024 12:03 PM (Pz3g2)
Posted by: SouthCentralPA at October 21, 2024
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Imagine if he'd called it the "Hawk 2-A"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM
Diego Garcia always needs E-1s.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (a3Q+t)
And speaking of Boeing, The Blaze has just published a piece of mine discussing how Boeing spent $43 billion in stock buybacks in the past decade, but now the aerospace giant is in a cash crisis and choking on debt, so it is about to do a desperation stock offering of up to $15 billion at a far lower price that what it paid for all its stock repurchases. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
Paywalled. Sorry, no can do.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (mSkAy)
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (OguvZ)
You know what people at the top of a hit list don't do? Go out in public and trumpet why they are at the top of the list. They run and hide.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (xCA6C)
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Normally a guy like Milley would walk into a nice cushy Defense contractor job and live well for the rest of his days. When Trump wins, he will be kryptonite to any firm that hires him.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)
Kamala spent most of her teenage years in Canada.
The Establishment Media, which regularly investigates what Republican candidates were doing in junior high school, is completely disinterested in what Kamala was doing while in Canada.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: SouthCentralPA
Hawk Tuey?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 12:05 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:05 PM (ekupY)
The Establishment Media, which regularly investigates what Republican candidates were doing in junior high school, is completely disinterested in what Kamala was doing while in Canada.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
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I'd bet money that Kamala actually speaks better in French than in English.
Essentially, she's probably close to fluent in it but out of practice, so she'd have to think longer and harder about what she's saying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
Joy Behar asks Tim Walz what he thinks about the "right wingers" making fun of his firearm skills.
"I can shoot better than them. I got the trophies to prove it."
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So, get ta proovin'!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM
When it's time to shoot, shoot! Don't talk.
Posted by: Tuco
You should see the video on facebook where he can't even load s semi-auto shotgun.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 12:05 PM (3FQ2L)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ
Same here.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Avi at October 21, 2024 12:02 PM (D4h3z)
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Have never seen that movie -- nor the speech (other than the "greed is good" soundbite) -- but always imagined it being something out of Ayn Rand, an appropriate defense of "rational greed."
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (z0sRI)
You know what people at the top of a hit list don't do? Go out in public and trumpet why they are at the top of the list. They run and hide.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 11:59 AM (xCA6C)
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I think you're right but hope Milley and Comey are surprised.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
Working at McDonald’s while living in a middle class home. And if you question any of it you’re a KKK member.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (ekupY)
Essentially, she's probably close to fluent in it but out of practice, so she'd have to think longer and harder about what she's saying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024
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Did they live in Quebec? Or is French widely spoken in the other provinces too?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (J2vNu)
Low bar.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)
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Merde.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (W/lyH)
The Establishment Media, which regularly investigates what Republican candidates were doing in junior high school, is completely disinterested in what Kamala was doing while in Canada.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
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*polite cough*
Uninterested
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (EsZUh)
Endless Shrimp
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Common Tater at October 21, 2024 11:58 AM (lODnU)
Up until 2012 or so, several of the Oregon state agencies that set their own HR policies had a formal policy that restricted drinking to 2 drinks at lunch.
(those that relied on the executive branch to set their policies were SOL though)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: John "Blue Falcon" Kerry at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
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*polite cough*
Uninterested
*cough, cough*
Misinterested, or malinterested.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (xCA6C)
Incarnation Catholic Church in Orlando, Florida, burned down a year ago right after the Dobbs decision. They moved masses to the church hall temporarily.
Now the church hall has. Een burned down.
It's being investigated as arson
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:06 PM (J2vNu)
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I assumed Quebec because *snooty finger gesture*.
I'm probably wrong because I assumed, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:08 PM (ekupY)
Montreal, although I think Kammie went to an English-language high school.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:08 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (a7PbZ)
Give me liberty or give me death!
I have not yet begun to fight!
Julia Louis-Dreyfus@OfficialJLD
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (a3Q+t)
Diego Garcia is reputed to have the best R&R facilities in the service.
Make him military attache in Sierra Leon
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:08 PM (ekupY)
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I'd assume it's required to teach French pretty rigorously in even private schools in Quebec. Because Quebec is a tyrannical cesspool.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 11:52 AM (J2vNu)
Thanks brother. I grew up in Baltimore so I'm kinda familiar. I can get back into city mode quickly when necessary. Head on a swivel and as little eye contact as possible.
Posted by: Doof at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (/nbpY)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024
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Why am I not surprised
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (SDM/J)
Essentially, she's probably close to fluent in it but out of practice, so she'd have to think longer and harder about what she's saying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
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"Libéré de ce qui a été."
Posted by: ShainS -- Musk May be The X-Factor in Overcoming Fraud at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (dQfoN)
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Discovered it would reflect poorly on the chosen one, so the information was buried.
SOP for the propaganda press.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (Q4IgG)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (L/fGl)
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In exchange for legalizing abortion, we will dismantle the entire HHS and strike every law dealing with medicine in America.
Because those laws saying you can't take meds for off-label purposes are the government getting between you and your doctor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
See the bed. -identify a solid industry leading company
Buy the bed. - take it private and chain it in the basement
Shit the bed. - fire 1/3, make it suck so bad another 1/3 quit
Spray Febreze on the bed. - hire back 1/3 Indians at 1/2 price
Cover the shit in a new blanket - release shady financials
Sell the bed - sell the Elizabeth Shue-crying remains at $$$
Posted by: Sifty at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (XD4NY)
They were offering incentives to managers of every stripe to reduce costs. It got so bad that they cut the heat to the cafeteria to save a few bucks on the gas bill.
Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (6mFrH)
Cheryl Ainoa, the Chief Technology Officer of Walmart-owned Sam's Club, is reportedly leaving the company over a new relocation policy that would shift her from the West Coast to Arkansas.
A memo from Walmart Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer Suresh Kumar, which Bloomberg first obtained, specifies a new relocation policy that forces thousands of corporate employees to headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (63Dwl)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM
But I'm still good, right?
Posted by: The sponge (no relation to Sponge) at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (a3Q+t)
Well, sort of. My brother booked a 3-series BMW with them for a vacation, wanting to do a bit of, er, spirited driving between points of interest. Arrives at the airport counter and they offer him a Grand Cherokee.
"Anyone can *take* a reservation ..."
Posted by: spindrift at October 21, 2024 12:11 PM (OguvZ)
The Establishment Media, which regularly investigates what Republican candidates were doing in junior high school, is completely disinterested in what Kamala was doing while in Canada.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:04 PM (uxCna)
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That shows that at least she knows how to keep her knees warm when kneeling in the snow.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:11 PM (1bNHn)
What a shock they emphasized short-term gains in for those 3-5 years so they could get their bonuses.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (setIA)
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey says that former President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice.
You're outfitted in the finest drapery camo, Jimmy, so it'll be no problem for you to skeedaddle away.
Putz.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (wBaIH)
I assumed Quebec because *snooty finger gesture*.
I'm probably wrong because I assumed, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:07 PM
She lived in both Quebec and Montreal, 12-18 in Montreal. They speak French in Montreal as well, but aren’t as awful about it as they are in Quebec, who gave my mom, who was from France, English was her second language, a hard time. 😂
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Sifty at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (XD4NY)
They were offering incentives to managers of every stripe to reduce costs. It got so bad that they cut the heat to the cafeteria to save a few bucks on the gas bill.
Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2024
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In the early and mid-Eighties, when I used to pick up packages there, they had their offices set at 78-80 to save on cooling. It was beter than outside here, but only just.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (J2vNu)
Big corp buys companies, slash employees, slow fade to BK.
Then I think, oh well, this is making my 401k go up, I guess.
They need to stop using head hunters and promote from within the industry.
Posted by: PJU at October 21, 2024 12:12 PM (RRCAT)
That shows that at least she knows how to keep her knees warm when kneeling in the snow.
Posted by: Eeyore
Poutine and baby batter.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:13 PM (xG4kz)
Fuck that guy in particular.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at October 21, 2024 12:13 PM (luW68)
Posted by: Al Bundy, who scored 4 TD's at October 21, 2024 12:13 PM (OXI3H)
They also need to be paid for on 4 to 7 years averages.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 21, 2024 12:13 PM (gbOdA)
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They don't have a location here. If they have any sense, they'll stay away if they don't want their cars rented by gangbangers and returned trashed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:14 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Paul D Bauer at October 21, 2024 12:14 PM (eszRs)
She was born there, but didn't live there until she was an adult (if then).
Saying she grew up in Berkeley and Montreal doesn't quite provide the necessary amount of blackness that she wants to claim.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 21, 2024 12:14 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Sifty at October 21, 2024 12:15 PM (XD4NY)
Consultants are to entrepreneurs as college administrators are to scholars.
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Consultants are to entrepreneurs as bubonic plague was to 14th Century.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:15 PM (EsZUh)
They were offering incentives to managers of every stripe to reduce costs. It got so bad that they cut the heat to the cafeteria to save a few bucks on the gas bill.
Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2024
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In the early and mid-Eighties, when I used to pick up packages there, they had their offices set at 78-80 to save on cooling. It was beter than outside here, but only just.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*IBM has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 12:15 PM (3FQ2L)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October
She went to Howard! What more do you want! 🤣
Posted by: Piper at October 21, 2024 12:16 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Gonzotx at October 21, 2024 12:16 PM (YjECI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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*IBM has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024
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I used to pick up there too. At least they had their offices properly cooled in 90 F. and humid weather, which is most of the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:16 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:16 PM (pGTZo)
... but about now she is in Chester County PA with Liz Cheney
Two buffoons with a combined IQ less than air temperature
Posted by: SMOD at October 21, 2024 12:17 PM (RHGPo)
Nikkilia Lu, Campaign Manager
Building power with diverse coalitions | facilitating strategic conversations | organizing people to win
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
....
In part, In 2020 she served as Deputy State Director for President Joseph R. Biden's campaign in Pennsylvania -where she managed the campaign's political, communications, coalitions, and trips/surrogates teams for the state.
Nikkilia is a former political appointee. She served at the U.S. Department of Labor as Chief of Staff to the Women's Bureau. She was appointed to the position by President Biden on June 6th, 2021 and served at the pleasure of the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
In 2022, Nikkilia served as a full time detailee (taking an approved leave of absence from DOL) in the Office of the Vice President at the request of the White House.
Nikki currently serves as Campaign Manager for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, working to elect Vice President Harris as the first woman President.
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Poor kid. But, unfortunately, that's also the USDOL Women's Bureau, too. 😜
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:17 PM (NFX2v)
‘ How does voting for his disfavored candidate mean that we'll be in a fascist state?’
It’s the ‘everyone that disagrees with me is Hitler’ principle.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 21, 2024 12:18 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2024 12:19 PM (i24o9)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus@OfficialJLD
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
The government already has Death Valley National Park -- they do not need another desert to manage, sugar tits.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:19 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:19 PM (pGTZo)
Why does she need to prepare for an interview?
Complete fraud.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)
See the bed. -identify a solid industry leading company
Buy the bed. - take it private and chain it in the basement
Shit the bed. - fire 1/3, make it suck so bad another 1/3 quit
Spray Febreze on the bed. - hire back 1/3 Indians at 1/2 price
Cover the shit in a new blanket - release shady financials
Sell the bed - sell the Elizabeth Shue-crying remains at $$$
Posted by: Sifty at October 21, 2024 12:10 PM (XD4NY)
I've been there. It's like watching a train crash in slow motion and the uppers never get it
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (ekupY)
Why do they need a Women's Bureau? Do they have a Men's Bureau? How about a Heshe Bureau?
Posted by: fd at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (vFG9F)
Why does she need to prepare for an interview?
Complete fraud.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)
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This feels like low-effort campaigning.
Like she's giving up.
Give some interviews in a small geographic location for the next 2 weeks, and that's all she wrote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
The government already has Death Valley National Park -- they do not need another desert to manage, sugar tits.
I was thinking Grand Canyon, but Death Valley just works better.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (17s+e)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:09 PM (L/fGl)
I'm trying, and failing, to come up with any possible way that the government is interfering with her nether regions. Unless there's some "sexual health" treatment that involves aborted baby parts.
Posted by: Emmie at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (tt83y)
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Not sure how I feel about this. Sam's online and app systems are far superior to Costco's. Scan and Go just works. Costco doesn't even have it.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (hCzfy)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
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Can anyone imagine this kind of low class trash talk coming out of Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day, Cyd Charisse, Grace Kelly's, or any of the other 100s of starlets of old's mouth?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (pGTZo)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.
The government already has Death Valley National Park -- they do not need another desert to manage, sugar tits.
I was thinking Grand Canyon, but Death Valley just works better.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (lUFok)
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So, she's advocating for the end of all regulations regarding how OBs and GYNs operate, right? Because regulations on what those specialists can do is getting between women and their doctor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Harry's Shave Club is a good example of this. Now, they are part of the large corporation...in this case...purchased by Edgewell for $1.37 Billion...and folded into overpriced, slipshod produced land.
Posted by: Orson at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (EsZUh)
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
https://is.gd/3w3HTq
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (L/fGl)
Quebec: all the faults of France without any of the accomplishments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:22 PM (EsZUh)
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And they don't even speak French right!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD
Probably in Joe & Jill's family neighborhoods. Safe. See Chester County demographics...$$$
>Conversation in Chester, PA w/ VP Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney & Sarah Longwell, The Democrats, on YouTube.
The running transcript is a hoot.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:23 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Tallulah Bankhead, maybe. Other than her, no.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 21, 2024 12:23 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 21, 2024 12:21 PM (17s+e)
If you want to blame someone, it’s Jack Welch. He’s the guy who became obsessed with stock performance above all else at GE. Everyone else started voting him since he was the greatest CEO in the history of CEOs
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (ekupY)
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damn- how hard did the other computer hit you
Posted by: Don Black, bringing the funk at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (/7KEl)
***
They don't have a location here. If they have any sense, they'll stay away if they don't want their cars rented by gangbangers and returned trashed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 21, 2024 12:14 PM (J2vNu)
I am a big fan of Sixt. Great cars, great customer service and real quick too, even at the LAX location.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (ZtyUu)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: XTC at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I was in France with a Canadian colleague. They were not impressed with her French, to say the least.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (lTGtQ)
another treatment had ted forstmann as the good guy in barbarians, played by david rasche, sledgehammer of all people,
forstmann wasn't so popular by the time he bought gulfstream
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:24 PM (pGTZo)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch."
Which government? Cuba's?
Posted by: fd at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (vFG9F)
Like she's giving up.
Give some interviews in a small geographic location for the next 2 weeks, and that's all she wrote.
Agree. It confirms that she was never a real candidate at all. They have "fire in the belly", and campaign til they drop. She can barely manage to leave lunch to campaign.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: fd at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (vFG9F)
No, she's not there.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (NFX2v)
Two buffoons with a combined IQ less than air temperature
Posted by: SMOD
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She and Liz must get along just peachy.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 21, 2024 12:26 PM (bhSZH)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (xCA6C)
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She spoke for 6 minutes in Detroit over the weekend.
Her campaign's flailing about McD's.
The early voting numbers paint a very red portrait on balance.
We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)
The incentives now are to produce good results for a couple of years, but if you want the long term view it is much harder.
It doesn't help that no one cares about failure anymore either. In the past a CEO that drove his company into the ground but got a golden parachute would always be "That man that failed". Now he's just another rich guy.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2024 12:26 PM (oZhjI)
No, she's not there.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (NFX2v)
Might be on the campus of Widener.
Posted by: XTC at October 21, 2024 12:26 PM (UnA8+)
Lists all food recalls across the US for whatever various reason. I'mm seeing a lot of unrelated Listeria recalls.
Like A. Lot.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (3FQ2L)
I had a German colleague who apologized for his English. I said that if I spoke German as well as he spoke English I could consider myself an educated man.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (EsZUh)
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:25 PM (xCA6C)
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She spoke for 6 minutes in Detroit over the weekend.
Her campaign's flailing about McD's.
The early voting numbers paint a very red portrait on balance.
We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Please stop that. It reminds me of how most conservatives sounded in 2022 and 2020.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (1bNHn)
Two buffoons with a combined IQ less than air temperature
One woman that got ahead by giving head and the other that got ahead by birth on so she'll never have to.
Posted by: Obligatory at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (oZhjI)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch."
Those 2 surname people? I generally dismiss them out of hand.
Posted by: BignJames at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (Yj6Os)
But with the massive cheat operation, it’s a toss up with a slight edge to Trump.
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (ekupY)
Posted by: Braenyard "
They probably get together and chatter about how awful Trump is. Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
Posted by: fd at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wine Box Snob at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (nS6qG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 21, 2024 11:49 AM (a3Q+t)
And it worked for them, up until Java. They tried to triple E that too but failed. Ironically the failure led to Microsoft producing one of its only big tech successes in the past 30 years: C#. I still say it's a better Java, though unusable for me as I'd rather drink bleach than develop on a windows platform.
Posted by: Marcus Gravey at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (TIizU)
Quebec: all the faults of France without any of the accomplishments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Were the Québécois involved in clubbing baby seals back in those salad days, or did they farm that task out to the Newfies?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (xG4kz)
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BREAKING: FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY starts campaigning for Donald Trump.
Posted by: Simplemind at October 21, 2024 12:28 PM (h1PXw)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (ekupY)
Please stop that. It reminds me of how most conservatives sounded in 2022 and 2020.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (1bNHn)
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The 2022 House national vote was 50 (R) to 47.3 (D).
It was a red year. It was a red wave.
The problem was the Senate map wasn't great, especially with PA sending out 250,000 illegal mail in ballots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
I saw it coming back in the 80s ... the people who didn't mock me still thought I was wrong and ignored it.
fuggemall. die of what you voted for, I'll just stand here and laugh.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (J6S9v)
Sorry. We're doomed. DOOOOOOMED! Better?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (xCA6C)
use it as toilet paper
use it in the fireplace
line a shelf with it
Posted by: Don Black, bringing the funk at October 21, 2024 12:30 PM (/7KEl)
Hiring a destructive CEO requires a clueless board of directors, doesn't it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 21, 2024 12:30 PM (QwK6F)
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I'm already voting for Trump, you don't have to sell me!
Posted by: WisRich at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Halfhand at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (6mFrH)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (EsZUh)
In the Army I was a duty driver during REFORGER '90. The German officer I was assigned to spoke English better than I, but apologized when there was a word he did not know. He was a really nice guy. I recall trying to explain baseball to him.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Balding American at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (ekupY)
But still wants taxpayers to foot the bill for the abortion her barren snatch can't have.
The only thing coming out of that are scarab beetles.
Posted by: XTC at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (pGTZo)
NOOD
McDonalds shits on Red Kammie's "I worked fries" lie ...
... and PDJT's baller moves at the fries' station.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (xG4kz)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch."
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well- who or what was in there last? we'll start there
Posted by: Don Black, bringing the funk at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:20 PM (ekupY)
There was a skit about a restaurant in Quebec that was forced to frenchify its menu, "what do you mean I have to call 'toad in the hole' 'crapaud dans le cavite'? No one is going to buy that!"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (D7oie)
I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch."
Which government? Cuba's?
Posted by: fd
Classy fucking broad.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (pErzK)
Posted by: Settled Science at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (ekupY)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 21, 2024 12:31 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: anachronda at October 21, 2024 12:32 PM (sGtp+)
Please stop that. It reminds me of how most conservatives sounded in 2022 and 2020.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:27 PM (1bNHn)
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The 2022 House national vote was 50 (R) to 47.3 (D).
It was a red year. It was a red wave.
The problem was the Senate map wasn't great, especially with PA sending out 250,000 illegal mail in ballots.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes, and we sure kicked ass in the House, too.
Giving the total vote nationally makes as much sense in this context as it does for President. Which is to say, none. The Dems are just better at electioneering. Remember, the French had more tanks in 1940 than the Germans.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:32 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at October 21, 2024 12:32 PM (L/fGl)
ASDIC was the 'sonar-like' invention from WWI.
Posted by: Ciampino - I like FPLAs at October 21, 2024 12:32 PM (qfLjt)
Like A. Lot.
Posted by: rickb223
They are not unrelated. Literally a million illegals are working in food processing plants, after the feds airlifted them to put Americans out of work. The illegals we are getting don't recognize modern plumbing, having never encountered it before.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 21, 2024 12:33 PM (lTGtQ)
No, it's in Chester County with largely older White, a Black adult or two, a few persons of Asian nationality, indicative of that county's demographics.
Liz is warm and gentle and preaching kindness - the opposite of Trump, "they say." Kamala is Kamala even with a written script obviously not of her doing. A whispering Democracy, a promise of being a president for ALL Americans.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:33 PM (NFX2v)
Westinghouse came back, bought up by foreign companies. I think it went through bankruptcy in the early 2010s.
Posted by: butch at October 21, 2024 12:34 PM (uHkxj)
Posted by: no 6 at October 21, 2024 12:36 PM (pGTZo)
Giving the total vote nationally makes as much sense in this context as it does for President. Which is to say, none. The Dems are just better at electioneering. Remember, the French had more tanks in 1940 than the Germans.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 21, 2024 12:32 PM (1bNHn)
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Essentially, it's an argument about two different things:
Voting and election results.
Voting: hot damn did people vote Red.
Election results: hot damn, was it a wash.
Since the election results are...fortified, yes, skepticism is required. Hence my "we'll see". However, the idea that America is hot in the face actively demanding more of this bullshit is obviously nonsense.
We do not have a 50/50 nation, is what I'm saying. It's probably 45-55 at best, in our favor. That's how bad fortification is. The game is no longer about votes but who wins lawfare.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at October 21, 2024 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
use it as toilet paper
use it in the fireplace
line a shelf with it
Posted by: Don Black, bringing the funk at October 21, 2024 12:30 PM (/7KEl)
NO on 79
Posted by: El Gorro at October 21, 2024 12:40 PM (v1eJ7)
Posted by: Yikes at October 21, 2024 12:43 PM (h1PXw)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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And the USDA is oft nowhere to be found as it was pre-C19 and the unions are happy for some reason.
Perhaps to be seen and heard at the NLRB?
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:43 PM (NFX2v)
Both ConAgra and UP were headquartered in Omaha, and Qwest had a significant presence here. I had friends who were employed by all three who were thrown into the street as a result of those tactics. Other friends remained employed and told horrible stories about how employee morale dropped into the toilet and stayed there because everyone knew no job was safe. But the executives were happy as could be.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at October 21, 2024 12:46 PM (lAAta)
Pharmaceutics years ago - QC/QA at every turn. Hairnets, gloves...
Bread, cereal plants - Boards of health, etc. hunting for weevils in flour sacks, etc. Dumping sacks with a few seen.
See the government. Where is it working now?
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 21, 2024 12:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: 10x25mm at October 21, 2024 12:51 PM (jOiRk)
Posted by: Beverly at October 21, 2024 01:02 PM (Epeb0)
managementconsulted.com/mckinsey-bcg-bain-top-5-alumni/
Posted by: Marooned at October 21, 2024 01:07 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Fox2! at October 21, 2024 01:12 PM (GkLB4)
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 21, 2024 01:17 PM (gAuAm)
But spreadsheets and data models cannot, and never will, capture spirit, nor client-personal preference, nor tastes, nor culture, nor anything that cannot be measured to multiple decimal places. So the engineers and the operations managers were shoved aside in favor of slick presentations by folks who came through finance and/or HR. Within finance GAAP is GAAP, regardless of the enterprise (government excepted), and within HR the standard became compliance to DC-based EEO regulations. Accountants and bureaucrats are not noted for their corporate vision, but they became the managers of the enterprise.
I watched goals and visions shrink from looking decades ahead to just quarterly analysts numbers.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at October 21, 2024 01:18 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Fellita at October 21, 2024 01:49 PM (Pf2gG)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 21, 2024 02:11 PM (osTz+)
Of course, it's not always a good bet
Nike's business plan amounts to "American kids are stupid enough to pay 100 times our Vietnamese labor/materials costs if a pro athlete tells them to." Unethical companies go woke so that like the Bidens they too can enjoy a modicum of immunity from prosecution by Democrats (though as SBF learned, it has limits).
Posted by: TallDave at October 21, 2024 03:41 PM (qNa2s)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 21, 2024 04:12 PM (wGqjj)
Driving ALL benefit from stocks to stock price gain made "growth" the only thing that mattered to stockholders. The ONLY gain they now got from stock was if the price went up. And, of course, with bigger companies (again, an incentive for growth, so companies could reach that strata) it was the only way to see real returns on your investment. So it became the only goal when investing - even long-term investing became almost entirely set on stock price.
What happens when company growth becomes the biggest thing? They expand into niches they shouldn't, and they buy up all the competitors and smaller companies in adjacent niches.
Posted by: GWB at October 21, 2024 05:34 PM (E8qwH)
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Posted by: Sorry Folks, My Last Nic Upset Everyone, the Moose Out Front Should've Told You at October 21, 2024 07:36 PM (7kSOl)
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