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The Morning Rant - Rite Aid & Rapaport: Woke Corporations Siding With Criminals Over Communities
About two weeks ago, J.J. Sefton wrote about Michael Rapaport’s shocking discovery that when left-wing politicians decriminalize crime, it results in rampant criminality, including shoplifting in plain view of employees and “security.”
There is no way I could improve on the poetic invective that J.J. employed to describe Mr. Rapaport’s politics and sudden enlightenment, so I won’t even try. But I would like to comment on Rite Aid as a corporation closing the Upper East Side store that Mr. Rapaport watched being looted, plus many other Rite Aid stores that were overrun with crime. This was from the Breitbart article that JJ linked:The security guard seen in the video allegedly told Rapaport that the Rite Aid on 81st Street and 1st Avenue has been robbed on almost a daily basis and will be closing on February 15 along with 63 other locations due to the spike in thefts. Rapaport lamented that he relies on the neighborhood Rite Aid for his mood stabilizers and will have to travel further to another pharmacy now that the location will be closing due to theft.You can’t blame Mr. Rapaport for being frustrated by his pharmacy closing. I wonder how its executives feel about the crime wave destroying their stores? Well, it would appear that Rite Aid’s CEO tolerates criminal action against his stores, and will not criticize it. This lovely letter was sent out by Rite Aid’s CEO in the wake of the George Floyd riots:
Rite Aid CEO Heyward Donigan A Message From Our CEO June 2, 2020Ok, Ms. Donigan, what do you and Rite Aid stand for? First off, she stands for word salad about racism, diversity, and empathy:
To our Rite Aid associates and customers,
Like you, I am deeply distraught and heartbroken by the tragic death of George Floyd and the events unfolding across the nation. Our communities are hurting, and I am sure many of you are hurting.
While my words won’t take away the hurt, pain or frustration, I do believe – now more than ever – it’s important to let everyone know what we stand for as a company and what I stand for as a leader.
First, let me be clear: racism, injustice and intolerance have no home in the Rite Aid organization or in our communities. I do not accept anything other than the notion that diversity and inclusion make us better as a country and as an organization. I know we have many colleagues who are struggling at this time. We need to give our associates the support they need. Check in with each other, and show empathy while we all try to make sense of a situation that has decades of complication. And while I don’t have the answers, I know the worst thing we can do is stay silent.And here is where Ms. Donigan started making promises that she would not keep:
Second, my priority is the health and safety of our associates and customers. I’m grateful to share that all of our associates are safe. To ensure continued safety, we have temporarily closed a number of stores that were damaged or put at risk so we can assess the situation and make repairs. We have also adjusted store hours across nearly all of our 2,400+ locations. The situation is evolving, but know we will do whatever it takes to keep you safe.Abandoning her retail employees to the mercy of criminals doesn’t actually comport with her claim that the “health and safety” of Rite Aid employees was a priority. Hey, at least she states that she’s grateful to learn that no employees were killed in the stores she surrendered to criminals. (Note that she doesn’t say no employees were harmed, only that they were ultimately “safe.”
How about her empathy? She closed stores and reduced hours. Or in other words, to keep her employees safe, she simply eliminated their jobs. That’s known as “empathy” in the C-suites.
And here is where she just starts spitting out falsehoods:
Finally, if we’ve learned anything the last few months, it’s that we can come together to act on the core purpose of keeping our communities healthy and helping people thrive. We will continue to play an essential role to those we serve. While buildings and merchandise have been damaged, our commitment has not. We will fix structures. We will reopen stores. We will take care of our associates. And we will take care of ALL of our communities.“We will fix structures.” Structures were abandoned.
“We will reopen stores.” Stores were permanently closed, and others that were not damaged were surrendered to criminals until those stores were closed too.
“We will take care of our associates.” Associates were forced to co-exist with felons looting their stores…until the associates lost their jobs when the stores closed.
“We will take care of ALL of our communities.” As Mr. Rapaport learned, Rite-Aid sided with the criminals, and then abandoned the targeted communities and their law-abiding customers. You’ll never believe what happened next – the CEOs of 20 large retailers called on Congress to intervene in stopping criminals from re-selling stolen merchandise. Guess who was one of them…good ol’ Heyward Donigan of Rite Aid.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: GT 5.0 at February 11, 2022 11:02 AM (IajN0)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 11, 2022 11:02 AM (CKevK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 11, 2022 11:03 AM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Manco at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM (he2ZZ)
Buckle up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIjEClc4hAo
Posted by: micky at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM (3byMq)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM (APbwL)
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM (Q9LyE)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 11, 2022 11:05 AM (vI/Pp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:05 AM (trdmm)
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Harsh, but ultimately true.
Posted by: From that time at February 11, 2022 11:05 AM (4780s)
Buckle up.
Thats what happensnwhen you leak his phone calls.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2022 11:05 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: Jenn Psaki morning thoughts at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (vI/Pp)
Keep paying thugs to rob and burn your stores and endanger your employees, genius. See how that works out.
Posted by: naturalfake, Thought Leader for Crisco-Fascism at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (OMayC)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (CjFDo)
Posted by: Manco at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM (he2ZZ)
Then she can Jablow me
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (XvPQV)
I also see the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods. Heh.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (Ez6QX)
Hearing rumors that Ford is going to pull the vax passport mandate.
Anyone else hearing this?
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No, asshole Doug Ford is on-air right now declaring a state of emergency and shitting on the truckers applying to 400-series highways, airports and railways with up to $100,000 fines and up to a year in jail.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (CjFDo)
Well he's a Throckmorton, a think that's in the thrush family.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (trdmm)
Posted by: blaster at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (b/7jm)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (CjFDo)
Didn't he have a little monkey in a cowboy outfit riding a dog or something? Or was that someone else?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:08 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 11, 2022 11:08 AM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: mr tmz at February 11, 2022 11:06 AM (m/Gc2)
Yep. With geniuses like this running local stores, why endanger yourself or your children by going there?
Amazon will deliver directly to your doorstep.
Posted by: naturalfake, Thought Leader for Crisco-Fascism at February 11, 2022 11:08 AM (OMayC)
Buckle up.
Posted by: micky
Who is this Dr Moore he keeps referencing? The Canadian Fauci?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 11, 2022 11:08 AM (rz+/y)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (CqHIp)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (q5BCk)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (9KXDf)
to me he looks like the unlucky bro on the ill-fated West Virginia rafting trip
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:10 AM (j9HX3)
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Ontario's Fauci; Canada's federal Fauci is Dr Theresa Tam, Chinese agent.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:10 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:10 AM (trdmm)
I think the situation is far past that.
yeah Pudge doesn't realize that he's "trapped in there with THEM"
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:11 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Art Deco at February 11, 2022 11:11 AM (1BrBu)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (9KXDf)
that was his brother, who's now dead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:11 AM (trdmm)
I think the situation is far past that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Threats (vaxx passports) are what started this.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:12 AM (Hica+)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 11, 2022 11:12 AM (WEv0o)
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Safely unemployed and living in a pod somewhere. Just as it should be.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:13 AM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Ah, that's too bad. I thought he was a good egg. Comical.
This new Ford is a twat, though.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 11, 2022 11:13 AM (rz+/y)
I think the situation is far past that.
I've been looking at vids of protesters, organizers...their rhetoric is the exact opposite of folding/caving to The Man. And it's genuine.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:13 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 11:13 AM (q5BCk)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 11, 2022 11:14 AM (4I/2K)
They simply will not do what is righteous.
Remove all mandates and restrictions and put it in writing that such tyrannical nonsense may never be foisted ever again.
The deceased crack head brother was a better man.
Posted by: micky at February 11, 2022 11:14 AM (3byMq)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 11, 2022 11:14 AM (LaNzR)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 11:14 AM (q5BCk)
New Hotness: Stealing is part of being black and expecting them to not steal is racist.
Posted by: If I understand the FNM right at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (ESjRY)
But I believe there's a difference between making an effort to appear compassionate to an employee base that's increasingly pussified -- needing to have daddy and mommy soothe their fears that "we are a good company and will take care of you" -- and dereliction of duty when it comes to providing basic security for your stores.
I understand that these thefts are allowed to continue in CA because the chiefs will simply not be prosecuted later on. But the proper response ought not be to roll over and have security badges affixed to stumps. It should be to have the biggest, baddest security guards at every entrance and exit to show that if you try to walk out of her with so much as a lollipop without paying, you're going to be eating your own teeth and be wearing your testicles as a charm bracelet.
What is criminal is not the cloying sentimentality of post-Floyd communiques, it's the indifference to petty thugs as they destroy the whole meaning of commerce -- with the laughable fig leaf of "reparations."
Posted by: red speck at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (9KXDf)
That was his brother who passed away a few years back.
Posted by: Liberty at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (0Z3fJ)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (t3/qz)
All the drugstore chains are too expensive now for what you get. Dollar Twenty-Five Tree has a lot of the same or similar products; Walmart, of course, and even Target both do too. For Rxs, I have the CVS in my Target.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (a/dOO)
515 I was wondering because just last night big boy pants Trudeau said he was going to get tough or something.
I can't imagine they're going to allow a third weekend of the Freedom Convoy Ottawa Block Party to happen.
One thing I'm convinced of though, whatever they do to end it will be a major catastrophe.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (DJFLF)
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Look here, Throckmorton. What's the point of being an elite member of the corporate ruling class if I can't virtue-signal for Twitter Points while offloading the consequences onto my employees and the neighborhoods they serve and then demanding that my partners in the government bail me out all while my Wall Street pals remain credulous and keep shoving money into my coffers? Why the hell do you think I got into this game?
Posted by: Heyward Donigan at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (DU+/6)
Rite Aid was founded and owned by a gentleman named Lew Lehrman who ran an unsuccessful bid against Mario Cuomo in the early 80s.
Oh well.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (s2VJv)
I tried to watch but his speaking cadence makes me want to smash things. Can anyone provide a summary?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (T7iTv)
Good and Hard > Good and Plenty
Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (743lG)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (Xrfse)
When Trudeau resigns next week, maybe he could come down and take over advising Kamala on improving her public perception.
Posted by: Jenn Psaki morning thoughts at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (vI/Pp)
Posted by: red speck at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (URNdm)
1999: Confined to a pod, experiencing life only through the internet, eating only what your masters let you eat is HELL
2022: Confined to a pod, experiencing life only through the internet, eating only what your masters let you eat is Utopia!
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (a/dOO)53 I caught the end of the Ontario speech. I think what he did let on is that this is heavily affecting the Canadian economy. The squeeze is on, and the politicians are sweating. He can try to sound tough, but the desperation leaks through.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (a/dOO)
I wonder if it would be a help or a hindrance if a Lech Walesa type leader were at the forefront of this.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (WEv0o)
People should start knocking the crap out of their hands and taking it. (Like the guys stealing steaks from Trader Joes).
What are they going to do? Call the police?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (fWTJL)
I vote for Viva Frei!
also he's v v handsome
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Trudeau at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (4I/2K)
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Nah - he's all bluster. It's all just Ford's theater.
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (APbwL)
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Nah - he's all bluster. It's all just Ford's theater.
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (VJsqe)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (geLO8)
People should start knocking the crap out of their hands and taking it. (Like the guys stealing steaks from Trader Joes).
What are they going to do? Call the police?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (fWTJL)
If the goof you're taking from is black, and you're not, you will be sent to the gulag faster than you can say diversity equity inclusion.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (s2VJv)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (BFigT)
New York and national politics would be entirely different today if Lehrman won.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (fWTJL)
Posted by: Some Emancipator at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (URNdm)
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (VJsqe)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 11:18 AM (LvTSG)
You don't have to. No one is putting a gun to your head.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (XvPQV)
Posted by: CN at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (LaNzR)
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (DJFLF)
That is because, historically, the only time they've "succeeded" is when the public accomplishes something in spite of their efforts and then they take credit for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (T7iTv)
I guess the truckers could use the contaminated fuel returned by the police and then their truck engines would break down and keep sitting.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (8C7+r)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:07 AM (trdmm)
I see no proof of that. He is a worthless piece of shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (t3/qz)
People should start knocking the crap out of their hands and taking it. (Like the guys stealing steaks from Trader Joes).
What are they going to do? Call the police?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (fWTJL)
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If you interfere with their pursuit of restorative justice, you're a racist and they can kill you with impunity. If you defend yourself, you'll be destroyed with the best outcome being your ability to stand up during a show trial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (dKiJG)
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Now, see, that's where you're wrong.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
1970s, 24 hour Hollywood ranch market, saw a bum hide a bottle of wine in the front of his pants try to leave - uniformed guard swung his baton and smashed the bottle. Good times.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (5P6Lv)
Of course, the truckers have to be united on a message and endgame. If the vaccine mandates are dropped, then let food and supplies flow. If blockades continue even after vaccine mandates go away, sentiment could easily turn against them and then even more punitive matters could be enacted with broad support.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (a/dOO)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (CqHIp)
Posted by: Jenn Psaki morning thoughts at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (vI/Pp)
I didn't know she *was* an advisor.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (t3/qz)
Trudeau/Castreau . . . Ceaucescu.
Ya follow?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (s2VJv)
Anybody else see Bloomberg as attempting to be Dr Miguelito Loveless with Michael Dunn chewing up the scenery? I really enjoy Dunn's portrayal and little Bloomie just doesn't measure up. [pun intended]
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (SZMaw)
Like you, I am deeply distraught and heartbroken by the tragic death of George Floyd
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This is one of my biggest single pet peeves, and it's much broader than Floyd, but that's a great example of it. For one thing, without regard to the propriety of Chauvin's actions, Floyd was a real bastard when he was alive, and I reckon very few people were all that sad to see him go.
But Heyward Donigan, a rich guy who didn't know this dopehead whackjob from Adam is "heartbroken."
American society is one big drama-queen pity party where everyone is expected to exsanguinate their emotions all over the place over *every little thing.* It's pathetic. No other culture does this, because it's gay AF.
Grow up, shut up, and quit the crying about every random thing that has nothing to do with you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (CARG2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (9KXDf)
No, that was his late brother, Rob Ford, who was twice the man Doug could ever hope to be.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (P3gRi)
If the goof you're taking from is black, and you're not, you will be sent to the gulag faster than you can say diversity equity inclusion.
We had a pretty notable case recently where some white guys chased down a black case casing a construction site.
There was a tussle, black guy got shot, and all the people trying to stop him all got convicted of serious crimes...
So, yeah, if you aren't black don't stop a black shoplifter it will not end well for you. If you are black? Why take the risk to protect your company that does not GAF?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (a/dOO)
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Only until it's actually gone. The 'ole switcharoo will be the first attempt, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (DU+/6)
Every major corporation has thrown their lot in with the Left, even energy and tobacco companies.
Count me as someone that would love a big tax decrease on individuals in exchange for a giant tax hike on MegaCorps. The fact the top tax rate is 21% on Google, but higher for someone making over $40k a year is an outrage. What did we get for that? A few measely checks to GOPe?
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (qTR92)
Those rats belong in a cage.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (JTztk)
It would make things very interesting very quickly if all truckers just stopped delivering.
Posted by: 496
Send in the military and that's what you'll see.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (Hica+)
Candice Bergen appears to be it by default at this point.
Remember, in politics, you can't beat somebody with nobody.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (fWTJL)
Posted by: CN at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (ONvIw)
What are they going to do? Call the police?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:17 AM (fWTJL)
He looked like an antifa soyboy. So, yeah, loot what he's looted, and you can get free steaks!
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (a/dOO)
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (Ynyl9)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (geLO8)
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No company ever pays taxes. This is known.
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (qTR92)
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Those checks might be "measly" in the grand scheme of the scale of those enterprises, but they're enough to have us farting through silk and you'll have to take our ricebowls from our cold, dead hands.
Posted by: GOPe at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Jenn Psaki morning thoughts at February 11, 2022 11:16 AM (vI/Pp)
I didn't know she *was* an advisor.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM
It would explain a lot, though, wouldn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 11, 2022 11:23 AM (RkC6l)
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:24 AM (DJFLF)
Just made second donation.
Turn it up to 10.
Posted by: I Mean at February 11, 2022 11:24 AM (sonVw)
End the income tax and pass a 100% import tax instead.
Want cheap plastic junk from China? You pay. Want to put in some overtime at work? You don't pay.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:24 AM (ESjRY)
The irony of a conservative named Candice Bergen.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:24 AM (s2VJv)
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I, too, am forever haunted by the following questions: Did the police ever recover the drugs he had up his ass, and can I have it?
Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 11, 2022 11:24 AM (fWTJL)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon
And this problems disappears immediately the second the government revokes the mandates. It's that simple. A stupid mandate for a fake vaccine that is neither safe nor effective for a virus that has a 99.5% survival rate (higher if we could use therapeutics).
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (rz+/y)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (APbwL)
there's this Pierre Poilievre fellow, some of our canuck morons can expound. And I'm certain I mangled his name.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022
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Having her as VP certainly is. But she herself is UN-advisable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (txdEq)
who will successfully outlast whom
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (geLO8)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (sI15f)
But.. but... CORPORATIONS ARE OUR FRENZZZZ!!! WE HAVE TO BAIL THEM OUT!!!
Posted by: GOPe Inc at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (qAR6u)
I do love the "we hear you, now go home" thing.
They don't get it. Not yet anyway.
Posted by: micky at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (3byMq)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at February 11, 2022 11:09 AM (9KXDf)
No, that was his late brother, Rob Ford, who was twice the man Doug could ever hope to be.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Lincoln said he should ship a case of the brand of crack Rob used to all the mayors.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Justin Castreau at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (ZW1rs)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (Ez6QX)
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No company ever pays taxes. This is known.
Posted by: 496
Then why do they squeal about it so much?
Corporations do pay taxes, unfortunately Big Tech has the ability to pretend they make zero because they just roll everything into R&D and acquisitions.
A company like Procter and Gamble can't get away with that, they need earnings. I just looked it up and p&G paid around $6 billion in taxes in 2020. You could "pay" for a lot of individual tax cuts jacking that up.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (qTR92)
Saw a clip of CNN's Don Lemon discussing the trucker situation and he almost sided with them -- he ended with something like, "I can't tell you what to think on this one."
For CNN, they are all about telling you what you should think, who you should side with, so it was striking for Lemon to have no predetermined narrative, lol.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (URNdm)
they seem amazingly cozy
remember these are truckers - not just that but ones that work in very tough conditions.
I have a feeling they can outlast basically anyone
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: PabloD - Hail Botar! at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (0SmVT)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (lz5hY)
Every major corporation has thrown their lot in with the Left, even energy and tobacco companies.
Count me as someone that would love a big tax decrease on individuals in exchange for a giant tax hike on MegaCorps. The fact the top tax rate is 21% on Google, but higher for someone making over $40k a year is an outrage. What did we get for that? A few measely checks to GOPe?
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (qTR92)
Corporate taxes are laid on top of capital gains taxes. Corporations also have a great deal of resources and incentives to minimize taxes. Properly, it makes more sense to unify all of that into the capital gains rates in some fashion.
You might be able to do a small tax decrease on individual rates in exchange for a very large rate increase on corporations, but nothing like comparable rate shifts. It's just not a very good revenue generation method.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (APbwL)
If so, I missed it, but that's pretty funny.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (Ez6QX)
This is the theory of how protests of this type work.
There are a lot of government/big business types that want to virtue signal and order around the little people.
But for the truckers this is life and death. And so by shutting down transport they are making the elites pay a price for what they want.
At some point then you make the elites choose virtue signaling versus having things. I guess we'll see what they care about more.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (Q9LyE)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (t3/qz)
That right there is very telling. Hillary was brought in as a "fixer" for the failing VP in an attempt to help Harris focus and get around the unlikability issue.
Weird that
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (BFigT)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:04 AM
Sell?
Posted by: BLM thug (BIRM) at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (EughT)
Should be another slam dunk win, but it would have been nice to get rid of the entire 2.5% - less money in gov, less ability for liberal graft...
Posted by: Nova local at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (exHjb)
Blindfold yourself and throw a dart
Guaranteed you'll hit an incompetent sociopath
Posted by: kbdabear at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (qAR6u)
Translation: We can't survive the optics of our police harming children, whether by use of force or depriving their parents of diesel and firewood.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (URNdm)
who will successfully outlast whom
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Are the police even on the govments side? I heard this is in question.
Posted by: Haywood at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (NfyQ7)
THAT is a threat.
that is not going to go over well.
Dumb bunnies these globalists.
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (qTR92)
This is like saying employers pay social security taxes.
No, the shareholders of P&G paid $6B in corporate taxes in 2020.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (z5Vrg)
For CNN, they are all about telling you what you should think, who you should side with, so it was striking for Lemon to have no predetermined narrative, lol.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (URNdm)
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"I heard the new owners, who just took down the boss, are tired of all the constant Left-wing Democrat advocacy. I'm toning it down. See how I'm toning it down, new bosses? See? Please see."
---Don Lemon
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (CARG2)
Also: it ain't just looting that's causing the closures. It's competition from online stores and pharmacies and foolishly over-aggressive expansions. In most major cities, there's a big-block pharmacy (CVS, Rite-Aid, Walgreens, Duane Reade, etc.) on literally almost every street corner. That was never sustainable even if there were no scumbags stealing shit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (fWTJL)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (q5BCk)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (p+1gI)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (0Uf+z)
absolutely this is in question
this is a time for choosing
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (APbwL)
If so, I missed it, but that's pretty funny.
Posted by: Jordan61
Hey! You got chaos in my anarchy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (FVME7)
remember these are truckers - not just that but ones that work in very tough conditions.
I have a feeling they can outlast basically anyone
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:27 AM (j9HX3)
Except the Paolo
Posted by: The Paolo at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (Q9LyE)
If so, that sounds like a warning shot to me. Hope it's just more soi saber rattling.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (Xrfse)
Politicians figured out long ago that it sounds great to 'stick it to those evil rich corporations' via taxes. They know damn well it's a tax passed on to us, but they're too chicken to just tax us.
No company ever pays taxes - we pay the company's taxes.
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:29 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Jen Psaki, Interlocutus of the Republic & Fake Redhead at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Hitlery Clinton at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (ZW1rs)
The ACLU, SPLC, and all the other Usual Suspects will file lawsuits to stop any new crime crackdown efforts. They'll as work hard as they did before, to get the courts to restrict new police search, pursuit, and arrest policies, to get arrested "minor" thugs out on low or no bond, and to get the convicted shoplifters and thugs who only slightly beat-up Asians and old ladies quickly released from overcrowded jails and prisons.
Posted by: Gref at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (AMIL/)
If they fold, they will have to get the clot shot in order to work. It truly is a matter of life or death.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (Hica+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 11, 2022 11:21 AM (txdEq
Our independent pharmacist is one who was willing to fill an ivermectin prescription.
Posted by: Emmie is unacceptable, eh at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (6RgRK)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (a/dOO)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
I'd like to see how often they've been to Delaware where there isn't a visitor log and Biden spends his "weekends".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:31 AM (T7iTv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:31 AM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Nova local at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (exHjb)
That's awesome, I hope they can keep it up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:32 AM (Ez6QX)
Well said.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 11, 2022 11:32 AM (WEv0o)
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I wouldn't mind that if we enlisted all the Nepalese into the Army after -- better than today's 'immigrants' and 'refugees'.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:33 AM (UHVv4)
Wash the dirty mop in dirty water first.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:33 AM (t3/qz)
Individually owned stores or truly regional chains with family ownership might be a different matter. Stealing from them might be literally taking money from their pockets. Their employees, if not family, may be more like kin. I would love for a few owners to go all Paul Kersey on the thieves, and when the police show up to clean up the mess, somehow all of the cameras were malfunctioning and nobody saw nuthin.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:33 AM (a/dOO)
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:15 AM (VJsqe)
Heard somewhere plants are shutting down for lack of parts. I wouldn't want to be a Canadian trucker working right now.
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 11:33 AM (MLw1k)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (t3/qz)
Well, there was no such thing as a filthy rich politician.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (sI15f)
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (t3/qz)
Where es Le feelthy Minkey Buck!
Posted by: Justin Castreau
I read that as filthy minkey bunk then looked at the nic and shrugged. Yeh he would fuck a filthy monkey.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (Vxu+H)
Death is a kind of prison. Let's send the thugs there.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (JTztk)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
I'd like to see how often they've been to Delaware where there isn't a visitor log and Biden spends his "weekends".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:31 AM (T7iTv)
Exactly. That's why he's hardly ever at the WH save for occasional photo ops, built a replica stage across the street and basically spends most of his time in Delaware. Probably in some sort of cryogenic storage.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 11, 2022 11:34 AM (wAnMi)
https://bit.ly/3HFEIRU
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
I'd like to see how often they've been to Delaware where there isn't a visitor log and Biden spends his "weekends".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:31 AM (T7iTv)
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They already announced that in the interest of transparency they do not consider Zoom or online meetings to be meetings, and they are not logged.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (CKevK)
there's this Pierre Poilievre fellow, some of our canuck morons can expound. And I'm certain I mangled his name.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:25 AM (DJFLF)
At the moment, all "conservatives" are suspect.
Bergen and Poilievre are not to be trusted.
Posted by: Union of Theoretical Physicists at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (BgMrQ)
There are a significant amount of truckers protesting.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (sI15f)
Grumpy Monkey
https://tinyurl.com/2ptmz5w4
Capuchin Sticking out his tongue Getty Images
https://tinyurl.com/2p8bxbm8
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (08b8z)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (t3/qz)
No social security, no medicare, etc.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (BgMrQ)
Candice Bergen appears to be it by default at this point.
Remember, in politics, you can't beat somebody with nobody.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:22 AM (fWTJL)
Did that blonde chick - sorry, don't follow Canadian politics - who was mocking him in Parliament take over the Conservative party?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:35 AM (T7iTv)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:28 AM (t3/qz)
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This presupposes that we're functioning as a country right now!
Posted by: 496 at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (VJsqe)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:19 AM (t3/qz)
He's probably looking for his Che right now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (nRMeC)
well that's ...not good.
that's way beyond "doubling down"
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (j9HX3)
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Is that before or after they get an arraignment hearing?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (cTRv9)
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 11, 2022 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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CVS bought all of Target's pharma business a few years back.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:37 AM (Iq9dF)
Red Turban Someguy
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It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
I no longer buy into the Koch Brothers "corporations are people" type arguments.
MegaCorps also want 100% free trade and 100% open borders...to benefit the shareholders. It's all about us, the little people.
I'm not interested in jacking up taxes for the sake of revenue, but conservative politics loses a lot of support because we are looked at as the party of Big Business. And do we get for this?
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (qTR92)
so Canada is mostly empty?
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (geLO8)
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 11, 2022 11:30 AM (a/dOO)
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But as you said, they'll survive it. They can send a bag man to Jesse Jackson next time the topic of "_____ Deserts in the ghetto" come up, and keep on keeping on. The small guys - the independents with one store or maybe a small local chain - cannot survive under these rules. And that's the goal. No more small businesses, just the big guys and they'll serve you or not as they see fit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (DU+/6)
Premier Doug Ford announces Ontario is entering a state of emergency. The premier outlined how protesters could face fines of $100,000 and a year in jail, saying that "there will be consequences for these actions."
MORE: ConvoyReports.com
Premier Doug Ford announces state of emergency
Ezra Levant @ezralevant; 12m
Who wrote Doug Ford's speech -- Justin Trudeau, Pfizer, or Castro?
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (CqHIp)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (t3/qz)
I think almost all their population is within 100 miles of the US border.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (JTztk)
Where's Trudo? If only he were the one laid out in the jab booth.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (W3ofY)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 11, 2022 11:39 AM (CqHIp)
free* speech
*except for the things that the government does not like
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (vuisn)
Premier Doug Ford announces Ontario is entering a state of emergency. The premier outlined how protesters could face fines of $100,000 and a year in jail, saying that "there will be consequences for these actions."
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Jury nullification ?
Posted by: Haywood at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (NfyQ7)
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:36 AM (j9HX3)
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Nothing says "healing the divide" like the permanent acquisition of unaccountable power used as a cudgel to keep the peasants in line.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (Q9LyE)
If so, that sounds like a warning shot to me. Hope it's just more soi saber rattling.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Tiananmen that square!
Posted by: Doug Ford, Canada's Fredo at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (FVME7)
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Interim leader until a Party convention elects a new Party leader.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (lz5hY)
Posted by: I Mean at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (KlDJX)
Who wrote Doug Ford's speech -- Justin Trudeau, Pfizer, or Castro?
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (UHVv4)
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"And buy prescription drugs."
-The ending
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (LvTSG)
so Canada is mostly empty?
Posted by: DB
Outside of a few big cities? Yes. Mostly.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (Hica+)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (t3/qz)
yes but not yet tho.
no more "two weeks"
announce it's done TODAY
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (lz5hY)
well, what's going on in the rest of Canada?
if no one's there, it could be anything up there
aliens, Cloverfield monsters, moose the size of city buses...
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (geLO8)
Posted by: Haywood at February 11, 2022 11:40 AM (NfyQ7)
Do they have trial by jury there? If so, does the populace know of the concept?
Despite it being completely valid (and purposeful here in the states), in the lovely state of IA, the concept of nullification is anathema to/from our top judges.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (P3gRi)
I wonder what would happen to associates who paid attention to the lessons being taught and decided to increase their employee discount to 100 percent?
Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (urY6u)
Wasn't that the name of the mark played by Robert Shaw in The Sting?
Damnit. Now I guess I have to go rent Jaws again.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (8gxrg)
Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico went public with the revelations on Thursday.
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Remeber when you two voted to impeach Trump based on obviously laundered results of the CIA spying on US citizens?
You told then it was okay.
Posted by: Well at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (PbJYs)
Posted by: I Mean at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (KlDJX)
correct and BTW I never ever ever EVER skip your posts!
they want us to be afraid of them, what they'll do.
because they are paper tigers. (in Canada they are tigres de papiers or some such.)
stop being afraid. it's time to stand up - NOW!
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (geLO
Pretty much...
Most everyone lives along the border, especially around the Great Lakes / St Lawrence Seaway
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (BgMrQ)
The 5th Circuit...is complicit in anti-vaxxers' corrupt quest to transfer a core executive power from the president to a single unelected judge. Liberal Hawaiian Judges not available for comment
Brown's decision was not just laughably wrong, radical, and arrogant; it was, itself, unconstitutional; a staggering violation of the separation of powers. Never before in U.S. history has a single federal judge attempted to seize the president's authority over his own employees to such a brazen and extreme degree.
Stephen A. Higginson, a moderate Barack Obama nominee aren't they always? penned a dissent 'The public interest is not served," Higginson wrote, "by a single Article III district judge, lacking public health expertise and made unaccountable through life tenure, telling the President of the United States, in his capacity as CEO of the federal workforce, that he cannot take the same lifesaving workplace safety measures as these private sector CEOs.
Posted by: Schadenboner Guy at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (JCZqz)
Hmmm
Posted by: I Mean at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (KlDJX)
Goose, meet gander.
Where was this Rand Paul in 2016?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:43 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: NCKate at February 11, 2022 11:43 AM (z5Nun)
no more "two weeks"
announce it's done TODAY
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11,
Truckers aren't leaving.
Posted by: I Mean at February 11, 2022 11:43 AM (KlDJX)
Posted by: Gref
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I remember the 70's and then the 80's. Only took several years to put the criminals back in the prisons. The key is whatever the Democrat leaders of the party want--if they think crime is hurting them, then they will turn on a dime and put them back into prison with no second thoughts. Remember Biden himself spouted tough words on the 1994 Crime Bill shepherded by him through Congress (he was Chair of Senate Judiciary).
When enough of the wealthy feel vulnerable to crime as it was in the late 60's and 70's, then they will flip the switch and their bootlicking NGO's will follow suit.
Dig up the article on Radical Chic by Tom Wolfe and read it. It explains the whole scam.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:43 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 11, 2022 11:43 AM (SZMaw)
I know the patriots will prevail but it will not be without cost.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (DJFLF)
If so, that sounds like a warning shot to me. Hope it's just more soi saber rattling.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Tiananmen that square!
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If this does turn into a tianenmen square scenario it will tell the rest of the world this is indeed a hill to die on ...
Posted by: Haywood at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (NfyQ7)
Wasn't that the name of the mark played by Robert Shaw in The Sting?
Damnit. Now I guess I have to go rent Jaws again.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (8gxrg)
Lonnegan...Doyle Lonnegan!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (BgMrQ)
It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
I no longer buy into the Koch Brothers "corporations are people" type arguments.
I'm not interested in jacking up taxes for the sake of revenue, but conservative politics loses a lot of support because we are looked at as the party of Big Business. And do we get for this?
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (qTR92)
How can you tax corporations if they're legally not people? That is a legal distinction that allows them to own property, be sued, and be taxed.
You can't tax a car in a vacuum, you're really taxing the car owner. The corporation itself is just a legal entity that exists on paper. They are owned collectively by the shareholders.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (t3/qz)
He blusters; he flusters; he spits and he spurts, but only in the wind it seems.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (sI15f)
They worry about the safety of their stock options. If theft is cutting seriously into their quarterly earnings, their options could go underwater. Then how will they cover the down payment on that 3rd home beachfront mansion in Palm Beach?
Posted by: kbdabear at February 11, 2022 11:45 AM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Schadenboner Guy at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM (JCZqz)
That's pretty good, right there. How does he feel about a president exerting his authority over people's medical decisions to such a brazen and extreme degree? Thought so.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:45 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Clay
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Internal theft generally is higher than external when I worked retail back in the day. That is why so many products are actually in lockup--it is as much to deter internal theft as external. The theft of lockup products cannot be easily blamed on outside theft.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:45 AM (Iq9dF)
All Canadians should be like you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:45 AM (JTztk)
they could tag-team it, with Justine yelling while Dougie talks, and then he has to go "shut up!"
it could be really cute
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (j9HX3)
Fuque Castreau
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (MdN7r)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (geLO8)
No doubt there are some. The question is, are there enough. Ceausescu thought so but thought wrong. Remains to be seen if the Canadians are correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (T7iTv)
Personally I was not. He is the right kind of vapid to get elected over and over. But some of them insist it had to be fraud.
If they are right Trudeau will ride this out and get "reelected" again. Guess we will find out soon.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (Adlwz)
BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a state-of-emergency for Ontario due to the protests in Ottawa and the blockades on the Canada/U.S. border.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford added that they intend to put some of these new powers into law, the government has "every intention to bring new legislation forward that will make these measures permanent in law."
This is exactly the reason I have hit on 'ruling by emergency orders and decrees' because it was only some time till they wanted to put these powers into permanent law.
Just like Quebec, Ontario wants to do the same.
CTV News is now trying to hit Doug Ford on going "snowmobiling" on Saturday while the "insurrection" took place in Ottawa.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (UHVv4)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (geLO
========
Everything else she says is even tempered and well thought out, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 11:46 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Haywood at February 11, 2022 11:47 AM (NfyQ7)
I'd love to see the donut-loving Premier of Ottawa having trouble getting a copter to fly once his ass climbs on it
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:47 AM (j9HX3)
I know the patriots will prevail but it will not be without cost.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (DJFLF)
Freedom isn't free. Only crack pipes are.
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 11:47 AM (Q9LyE)
This right here is the trait of the left that freakin drives me batty - they always assume everyone thinks and feels just like them.
Posted by: InCali at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (eFvmN)
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)
If the canuck authorities go balls to the wall up there, yes - you had better believe this revolution will be televised.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (DJFLF)
I wish some idiot would actually try.
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (vrz2I)
Posted by: MikeN at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (o/eHL)
Posted by: JT at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at February 11, 2022 11:49 AM (arJlL)
'The key is whatever the Democrat leaders of the party want--if they think crime is hurting them, then they will turn on a dime and put them back into prison with no second thoughts. '
See. This is the problem. Waiting for Democrats to do the right thing.
Sometimes they don't have everyone's best interests at heart
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:49 AM (JTztk)
Did he write a tweet? An email? Do a press release?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 11, 2022 11:49 AM (KiBMU)
And those who don't are expendable.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Xrfse)
its fun to see as he ages, Justine looking more and more like his dead father.
Fidel reborn! there's no way to argue against his true provenance now. maybe he should have some kind of face accident or big plastic surgery or something? maybe that was why he was so into blackface and other cosplay?
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:49 AM (j9HX3)
This right here is the trait of the left that freakin drives me batty - they always assume everyone thinks and feels just like them.
Posted by: InCali at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (eFvmN)
Eh, it is BS ribbon effect. WHO DOESNT WANT TO WEAR THE RIBBON?
Ergo, everyone must be distraught, else you are not the right side of the issue, which could lead to the CEO no longer being the CEO.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (SZMaw)
From the comments at TGP.
https://youtu.be/SoKaOkqnW9c
Posted by: micky at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (3byMq)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (geLO8)
Just like Quebec, Ontario wants to do the same."
It will take weeks for them to get it written into law, even if everything goes smoothly. Meanwhile, he's got about 72 hours to figure out how to get the Truckers to leave the bridge, or his entire provinces economy goes up in smake.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (trdmm)
New Hotness: How dare a judge rule the president can't unilaterally mandate healthcare decisions?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (APbwL)
it's a normal marketing/proppo tactic .. social proofing
the people writing their speeches know this and how it works
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (j9HX3)
I wish some idiot would actually try.
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (vrz2I)
And videotape it. It'd be cool to see a person's head blown off and rolling down the bridge into the custom's inspection zone. Might help pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (Q9LyE)
*****
Thus causing unnecessary disruption in what we like to refer to as "the alternative supply chain", now with new and improved middlemen.
/criminals re-selling stolen merchandise.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (m45I2)
They feel they have a blank check and there's almost zero consequences for throwing their lot in with the Left, and for the most part they are correct. The GOP will give them massive tax cuts and block any sort of talk about going after monopolies. Because "conservatism" for the last 20 years was basically defined as giving Big Business exactly what it wanted.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (qTR92)
We can vax if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't vax and if they don't vax
Well they're, no friends of mine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (FVME7)
You can't tax a car in a vacuum, you're really taxing the car owner. The corporation itself is just a legal entity that exists on paper. They are owned collectively by the shareholders.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Corporations are treated as 'limited' persons for the purpose of contract law and the legal process (not taxes)--otherwise partners owning equity in a firm could be held liable for all of a corporations liability with no limit or face even criminal liability for issues that other persons in the company did. It is a way of limiting liability.
Increasingly though, as Walter Burnham predicted, corporations are really just a way of the managerial class actually acting as owners while the shareholders get a pittance in dividends and have to rely on increase in base stock price for any gains.
One way to turn off the spigot for the managerial class is to give capital gains treatment to dividends (which means actual profitability) instead of capital gains via stock price increase.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:52 AM (lz5hY)
Oh, okay. All is forgiven. You worthless commie bint.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2022 11:52 AM (Xrfse)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:50 AM (geLO
Except when it's BLM or Antifa, right? Thought so, you disingenuous scrunt.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:52 AM (Ez6QX)
Puzzled I am.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 11, 2022 11:52 AM (eGTCV)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (geLO8)
* notes herd of Gadarene swine running by in a landscape of non-Euclidean geometry *
* doubles down on building escape rocket *
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (NouFn)
https://is.gd/ZM5fLz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (DU+/6)
'Might help pour encourager les autres.'
I'd settle for an angry mob with jack handles, but the outcome would be similar.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (JTztk)
Posted by: Schadenboner Guy
Except FJB tried to force it on most employers as "contractors"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (t3/qz)
actually I'd really like them to STOP DOING THAT
I don't think they DO have that responsibility in the USA.
protect our borders first and then we can talk, mmmkay?
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (j9HX3)
They feel they have a blank check and there's almost zero consequences for throwing their lot in with the Left, and for the most part they are correct. The GOP will give them massive tax cuts and block any sort of talk about going after monopolies. Because "conservatism" for the last 20 years was basically defined as giving Big Business exactly what it wanted.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (qTR92)
And also Republicans are getting monetary benefits for siding with the left. The political class is only looking out for themselves; they give no real thought to the citizens, which is exactly what the Founders were afraid would happen.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (sI15f)
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Blago
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Has more or less been that way since McKinley's Boss Hanna in 1896. The Republican party became beholden (aside from TR) to Northern capitalists--you just did not see as much negative effects to the US as those capitalists still identified as Americans, not as a global class and truly transnational corporations were rare.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (ESjRY)
You could do that, but now what are you going to do about your supply chain? Driving a big-rig is a no-joke skilled operation - there is not a hidden segment in the population who can step and drive a truck cross-country to keep the goods flowing.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (Hica+)
https://is.gd/ZM5fLz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (DU+/6)
Oh hell, the Stupid Bowl is on Sunday, isn't it? I'm going to have to go find something to do all day since my house will be full of yelling people.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 11:55 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (Iq9dF)
That first part doesn't sound quite correct. The corporation has unlimited liability, the shareholders have limited liability(excepting that they are directly involved in running things). That would make the corporation the general partner and the shareholder a limited partner in a parternship set up.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:55 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (TDj17)
That's where Xi sends his detachment of chicom drivers
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:44 AM (t3/qz)
A scaffold makes a nice speaking platform, and rapt attention of the crowd is assured.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (P3gRi)
We can vax if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't vax and if they don't vax
Well they're, no friends of mine
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (FVME7)
"Look, Fat. I wear Safety Pants."
- - Joey Soft-Serve
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (s2VJv)
Finally! The story of the fringe on top!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (lz5hY)
Wasn't that the name of the mark played by Robert Shaw in The Sting?
Damnit. Now I guess I have to go rent Jaws again.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 11, 2022 11:42 AM
The name's Lonnegan! Doyle Lonnegan! You're gonna remember that name or you're gonna get yourself a new game! You follow?
Posted by: Doyle Lonnegan at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (EughT)
Changing a tire on a semi is little bit more involved than changing it on your car.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (JTztk)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (W3ofY)
***
I seldom laugh at the afflictions of others...but in this case....
Seriously???
Mood stabilizers?
Hey Rapaport...how about getting out of the city? Instead of eating pills, try more greens in your diet. And exercise. And someplace with less noise.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
Driving - semi skilled
Backing up - skilled
Backing up between two other parked trailers at a loading dock without hitting EITHER one?
Highly skilled.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (Hica+)
Posted by: Jordan61
Invite Yoko over to sing.
That'll get rid of 'em !
Posted by: JT at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (t3/qz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (lz5hY)
You can pry my 5-speed from my cold dead hands.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (TDj17)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (m45I2)
I don't know how you do it, but you always do it! LOL.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (trdmm)
Finally! The story of the fringe on top!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM (m45I2)
Isn't that a lyric from an old song?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (s2VJv)
-
Slashing truck tires.
https://bit.ly/3uJOP4z
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (FVME7)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (SZMaw)
Sometimes they don't have everyone's best interests at heart
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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It is no less the same for Republicans in office and the party, the only difference is what issues that the Republicans screw their voters' interests.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: kallisto
US big rigs ain't like Chinese rigs. Good luck seeing over the dash.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (Hica+)
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (NouFn)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (APbwL)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (SZMaw)
Red Peterbilt Dawn...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (s2VJv)
so Canada is mostly empty?
Posted by: DB at February 11, 2022 11:38 AM (geLO
My country reeks of trees, at least south of the tree-line (yes, that's a real thing.)
Look at a night time visual satellite photo of the USA and Canada with the state and province lines drawn in and you'll see where most of the population is located.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (nRMeC)
They feel they have a blank check and there's almost zero consequences for throwing their lot in with the Left, and for the most part they are correct. The GOP will give them massive tax cuts and block any sort of talk about going after monopolies. Because "conservatism" for the last 20 years was basically defined as giving Big Business exactly what it wanted.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:51 AM (qTR92)
Again, remember the corporation is just a legal entity. It's not the trucks protesting up in Canada, it's the truck drivers. You are essentially avoiding naming the enemy here.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: CN at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (ONvIw)
Because Congree should be involved in every little thing in our lives. This is a local matter. Hey CEOs, write to the friggin' mayors.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (axyOa)
'Surrey with a fringe on the top' Rodgers and Hammerstein Oklahoma
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 11:59 AM (JTztk)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (sI15f)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (R0Tis)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (t3/qz)
Pro tip: no helmets.
Posted by: Zombie Darth Dukakis at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (s2VJv)
STOP STEALING MY LINES!
Posted by: Ben Rothlisberger at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (trdmm)
Probably no help to to you since presumably your spouse will be one of those people, but for some of us...
Super Bowl Sunday is a great day to go out to your favorite restaurant. You can get in anywhere with no wait.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: #twoweeks at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at February 11, 2022 11:58 AM (Fs5vw)
unfortunately if you live close enough to a blue shithole, the cancer spreads.
In the collar counties of PHL, the smash and grabs have migrated to the burbs.
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (DJFLF)
Some people say that life's a game
Well, if this so
I'd like to know
The rules by which the Game of Life is played...
Posted by: Pre-Zombie Ray Davies at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (OMayC)
Posted by: sidney at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (LJJah)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
That's because of Covid. Trucking companies were offering $50,000 sign on bonuses.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (Hica+)
It's also a splendid time to go food shopping.
No lines!
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (UHVv4)
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The only expertise required of a judge is expertise of the relevant law. Our so called 'experts' are really kind of dumb. Sheesh.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (fs1hN)
Backing up - skilled
Backing up between two other parked trailers at a loading dock without hitting EITHER one?
Highly skilled.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 11:57 AM (Hica+)
I used to work with a bunch of former truckers. Just getting the stupid thing to move forward can be tricky, depending on the exact set-up. So, now you are moving - how is the transmission set up? Do you need to push the clutch to move out of gear, then again to put it into gear (Yes, that was/is a real thing in semis)? Is there a switch on the shifting handle to access the high range gears on the same pattern?
Do not forget, even if you get it moving, now you weight 45,000 - 50,0000 pounds, with itty bitty cars driven by idiots zippy around you. Hope you dont crush someone because they are a moron.
Then, yes, there is backing up a trailer, with terribly restricted visibility.
Yup just going to magically find people to make those trucks move.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (TDj17)
Finally! The story of the fringe on top!
Posted by: Muldoon
OooooooooooooOttawa where the nuts comes sweepin' down the plain
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:00 PM (t3/qz)
And who needs both when you can just go to the Rite Aid on the corner for food?
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (Q9LyE)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
******
Thanks, BEN ROTHLISBERGER (RET.)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 12:03 PM (m45I2)
Just like farming.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
Just ask the CHAZ denizens.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Hica+)
VA666INE PAPERS PLEASE!!
Posted by: Passport Nazis at February 11, 2022 12:03 PM (5P6Lv)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (EGSGm)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 12:03 PM (m45I2)
Now that he is retired, he can hang out at the HQ all day staying on top of the puns.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (APbwL)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:56 AM
Pffff. Most of us don't even have a driver's license. Public transportation, Uber, and parents are all we need!
Posted by: Lefty Zoomer at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (JCZqz)
Just ask the CHAZ denizens.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Hica+)
Farming is EAZY!!!!
- Michael Bloomberg
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)
https://is.gd/ZM5fLz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 11, 2022 11:53 AM (DU+/6)
I hate that a big Kardashian ass on skinny legs is now considered desirable. That's one cultural appropriation I could do without. A peach should be the proper comparison , not a watermelon.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (W3ofY)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
RTG, I was discussing how limited liability corporations became 'persons' in the 1800's via legal decisions. Not current law. The easiest corollary today is a Subchapter S corporation with no publicly traded stock but partners owning specific stock percentages of equity. These 'stockholders' where the stock merely reflects the equity contributed were the origins of today's contract law treating them as persons. As the numbers of individuals 'owning' the corporation grew, the courts had to invent the idea of a fictitious person to reconcile existing common law with these new hybrids.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (q5BCk)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (EGSGm)
Tell her she's got junk in her trunk, so no biggie.
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Q9LyE)
https://tinyurl.com/mwzd583s
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
That's because of Covid. Trucking companies were offering $50,000 sign on bonuses.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:01 PM (Hica+)
I'd trust any 18-year old who's smart enough to make $200K in four years working than go $200K into debt for a worthless degree.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Q9LyE)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 11, 2022 12:04 PM (APbwL)
*snort*
I mean, he can try. It won't go like he thinks it will.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (/ggQd)
THIS IS FUNNY BECAUSE THE CLUELESS COMMENTER FORGOT TO SOCK BIG BEN.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (JTztk)
Mr Ford's coming out in a flurry
Although his words all sound a bit slurry
He's gonna be the story with the fringe on top!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (q5BCk)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (yrol0)
I'll see if I can find the vid
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2022 12:06 PM (DJFLF)
THIS IS MY FROWNY FROWNY SAD FACE AND VOICE WHILE UNBIASED JOURNALISMING HERE!!
Posted by: Television "News" Readers at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (5P6Lv)
I wish some idiot would actually try.
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2022 11:48 AM (vrz2I)
Not sure I would want to slash a truck tire. It might go boom rather than sssss.
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (MLw1k)
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 11:26 AM (qTR92)
I think the actual point is that corporate taxes are just pass throughs to the government, because every increase in cost (defined here as tax) is merely passed on to the consumer.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (MFphb)
I don't know, for some reason I can't help thinking that there's something else going on with these crimes that's really the issue here, and what's more, that these giant corporations aren't really siding against "communities" per se, either.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it almost like this is all part of some larger pattern that's being implemented throughout all aspects of our society.
Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (0Uf+z)
----
Getting the truck to move is the easy part. The hard part is getting it to stop...
Posted by: junior at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (t9h2q)
258 One hundred shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be one hundred. One hundred one shalt thou not count, neither count thou ninety-nine, excepting that thou then proceed to one hundred.
One hundred one is right out........
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 11, 2022 10:17 AM (MkuC5)
It never gets old..... laughing!
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at February 11, 2022 12:08 PM (457XW)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
Good eyesight, fast reflexes, excellent hand/eye coordination. What's not to like? After a few thousand miles, they'll have it licked.
Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2022 12:08 PM (Q9LyE)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 11, 2022 12:08 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: junior at February 11, 2022 12:07 PM (t9h2q)
Thats what the sand extension at the turn on a switchback is for. ;-)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:08 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (JTztk)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Eat me last, pweeze at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (GC1p7)
Posted by: Justin Castreau at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (ZW1rs)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (W3ofY)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: junior
While keeping it in a straight line.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Hica+)
They worry about the safety of their stock options. If theft is cutting seriously into their quarterly earnings, their options could go underwater. Then how will they cover the down payment on that 3rd home beachfront mansion in Palm Beach?
Posted by: kbdabear
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Compensation through stock options and golden parachutes are part of the problem of the managerial class screwing actual equity owners in name which is aggravated by tax treatment of dividends versus gains in stock price.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Iq9dF)
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Why, that could never happen!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (eGTCV)
Those in power never relinquish it peacefully....and they always cry hen they have to....no matter who they are or what they've done.
Just look at cops crying about losing qualified immunity.
Posted by: Organ Grinder Monkey at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (oDkgN)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 12:09 PM (W3ofY)
Fondly remembers tearing across the county roads of SW WI, finding out where Ford Co. put the governor on the contour
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:11 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Cage. Chains. Prayers.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:11 PM (Hica+)
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Politics is downstream of culture
Culture is down stream from Family (and its modern surrogate - education).
Posted by: This is Sewious at February 11, 2022 12:11 PM (GC1p7)
Mr Ford's coming out in a flurry
Although his words all sound a bit slurry
He's gonna be the story with the fringe on top!
Posted by: Diogenes
*******
Noicely done!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 12:11 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Organ Grinder Monkey at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (oDkgN)
I missed when they lost QI. Pretty sure it is still in effect..?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:12 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 11, 2022 12:12 PM (sWM8x)
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Politics is downstream of culture
Culture is down stream from Family (and its modern surrogate - education).
Posted by: This is Sewious at February 11, 2022 12:11 PM (GC1p7)
Which brings us to the true necessary first step, destroying the colleges.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 12:13 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 12:13 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
1969 Ford Country Squire Station Wagon - no governor
2007 Ford Ranger - 93 mph.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Hica+)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Recently someone did the math and only AWS is making money with the rest of Amazon losing it. Which is the story of conglomerates and why they generally produce mediocre or worse results for equity holders. Google is similar, most of their 'businesses' are loss leaders designed to funnel information to AdSense. Fakebook probably has similar financial issues.
So, Amazon being broken up would have one company making money and the others would be scrambling to actually appeal to customers or go under. For the most part, applying general ideas to specifics generates suboptimal decisions.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 11, 2022 12:12 PM (sWM8x)
Meade Lux Lewis
[ X ] Sympathetic
[ ] Not Sympathetic
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Hica+)
96 Ford Contour ~103/104 mph
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:15 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 11, 2022 12:15 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:15 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 11:52 AM (lz5hY)
Simply because so many were sold cheaply as surplus. I paid $19.95 for one once. And a very slick bolt action, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:10 PM (Iq9dF)
Yep. They can (and often do) completely fuck things up then walk away with tens of millions of dollars. Then go do the same thing at another company, or get a sinecure on a paid board of directors somewhere. Fuck up, move up.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. Honker. at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Iq9dF)
If you break it up into specific business lines sure. That's what drives waves of mergers and then waves of breakups. Lots of vanity projects in big corporations these days. I was envisioning something more like the breakup of the Bell System.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (LvTSG)
Obviously, the Truckers already have a lot of boots on the ground. You can't beat them if you don't play on their turf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: 18-1 at
They f***ed up and waited too long,. they should have squashed this weeks ago when it was just being talked about. they probably dismissed it out of arrogance. They never imagined the peasants could have pulled this off.
Posted by: Ripley at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (MxEKc)
Disturbing, to say the least. Not surprising, tho. Welcome to 2022/1984.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Part of the reason these companies feel they can shit on us is they usually OWN the market they are in.
If there was healthy competition, you would see much more fear from them engaging in the culture war.
If a company like Google just decides they are going to war with conservatives, they'll still own like 99% of the search engine market.
But you are the type of conservative that is going to think we need to grovel to the C-Suite forever and never strike back.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (qTR92)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (LvTSG)
*golf clap*
Great timing. Well done.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Roy
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Experience in driving under different conditions. I used to drive delivery trucks a long time ago. You learn how to handle vehicles in all sorts of weather and in varying states of repair and most importantly predict what other drivers are going to do before they do it.
You have to acquire that via actual experience as there is no other way and new drivers of any vehicle are more susceptible to accidents regardless of their reflexes, eyesight, etc.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (q5BCk)
So, real-life "The Producers", with worse music?
Posted by: Ian S. at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:15 PM (t3/qz)
Nah, mon. Everyting irie, mon!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. Honker. at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (II3Gr)
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Very true. I sometimes play truck simulator games (American and Euro 2). Driving forward in a straight line is about the only easy part of the job. I've accidentally knocked over street signs while going around a corner. And when I deliver a load, I almost always pick one of the (very unrealistic) delivery options that the game provides that don't require me to back up to a loading dock. The trailer does *not* want to back up straight, no matter how straight you think your can is going in reverse.
Posted by: junior at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (t9h2q)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (t3/qz)
I see you drive I-80 between Des Moines and Omaha.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (TDj17)
........
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:02 PM (TDj17)
New trucks might be different but on the ones I drove the synchronizer, the part that matches the engine rpms with the drive shaft rpms allowing you to change gears, was the first thing that quit working. From then on it was the drivers job, It's called slip shifting, no clutch involved, and it takes a while to get good at it.
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (MLw1k)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Hica+)
My 96 Ranger can travel through time topping out at 88 MPH. You gotta time the lightning strike just right tho.
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 11, 2022 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Trudeau will ride this out and get *reelected* again. Guess we will find out soon.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated
Ween dee feex es een, dee feex es en!!!
Posted by: Justin Castreau at February 11, 2022 12:19 PM (ZW1rs)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 11, 2022 12:19 PM (W2Pud)
If a company like Google just decides they are going to war with conservatives, they'll still own like 99% of the search engine market.
But you are the type of conservative that is going to think we need to grovel to the C-Suite forever and never strike back.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 12:17 PM (qTR92)
Raising corporate taxes won't make them not woke. It's almost entirely irrelevant. Breaking them up won't make them not woke. People aren't Muslim in Saudi Arabia just because they have oil.
You're just afraid to do anything impactful.
Not every industry is as monopolistic as tech. Nevertheless they are woke.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 12:19 PM (z5Vrg)
A mirror, is a negative space with a frame,
And a place for your face
It reveals, what the rest of us see
It conceals, what you're likely to be
Vanity's a deadly sin
It's what the flesh is packaged in
Vanity's a deadly sin
It's what the flesh is packaged in
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (MLw1k)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (T7iTv)
https://twitter.com/TheMenzoid/status/
1492179977995014148#m
Livestream doesn't work on nitter.net
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (UHVv4)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 11:54 AM (TDj17)
"My pal Louie got murdered by the Government. Now you are driving Louie's truck. That's not good for your life expectancy, sport."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (MLw1k)
One of the guys I worked with did that in the F-750s(850s?). He did it poorly. Hated riding with him.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (TDj17)
I'll post my address.
#1. The pussies won't come to Texas
#2. To knock on my door you have to pass 4 No Trespassing signs and 2 You Are Now A Target signs.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Hica+)
That would be cool.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 11, 2022 12:21 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 11, 2022 12:05 PM (q5BCk)
My how things escalated from just a few protestors to needing martial law.
God help us all if shots are fired.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 11, 2022 12:21 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 11, 2022 12:21 PM (W3ofY)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 11, 2022 12:21 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Javems at February 11, 2022 12:21 PM (MLw1k)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 11, 2022 12:16 PM (LvTSG)
My inner geek is laughing bigly. Thank you!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 11, 2022 12:22 PM (nRMeC)
Posted by: Iris at February 11, 2022 12:22 PM (DibdT)
You just sound like some Koch Bros apologist.
If Big Business is getting everything they want from the GOP, why wouldn't they start making this an abusive relationship?
We should stop giving them their wish list every time we have power.
But your idea of simply removing woke CEO's through government action sounds way more realistic and levelheaded/
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 12:23 PM (qTR92)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Analogy does not work well on Amazon or Google. The Bell system was conglomerated but kept operating companies separate by geographic area. Same as Std. Oil did it back in the day. Easier to deconglomerate those via anti trust into competitors.
What happened is that anti trust regulators led by libertarian lawyers and economists in the 70's decided that the anti trust std should be no harm to consumers financially rather than to competitors. This is an aberrant ahistoric take on anti trust and one that Europe ignored. So you get Amazon using AWS to support the other companies that are all designed to feed AWS. It is difficult to measure harm to consumers under such a standard as much of the harm accrues to competitors and thus indirectly to consumers.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:23 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Javems
My father had drivers that could do that. Difficult to do and most drivers even then could not do it well. You must have been a good driver.
Posted by: whig at February 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
I want consequences, genius.
If Big Business knows there is a price that costs them BILLIONS of dollars, they will think twice.
Right now, there are no consequences.
But even getting rid of a woke CEO through some jackbooted government takeover is not going to fix it, guarantee you the C Suite of most businesses located in places like the Bay Area are full of these people.
Posted by: Blago at February 11, 2022 12:26 PM (qTR92)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 11:41 AM (P3gRi)
Death seems a little harsh, but death is often the punishment for small crimes when society breaks down.
Back in the really old days they'd strap your ass to a pole and give you a couple of lashes across the back. Hurt like hell and left lasting scars and memories.
And it was over as far as authority was concerned right then. You paid your price, now go and sin no mo.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 11, 2022 12:26 PM (MFphb)
The only exceptions to this are recently founded Tech Giants ... which strangely enough run/ran rings about their older mass-owned corporation competitors.
Posted by: Match Checksout at February 11, 2022 12:27 PM (dYe5S)
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The military has been teaching 18 yr olds this for ages.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 11, 2022 12:28 PM (LClE5)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 11, 2022 12:18 PM (lz5hY)
Yes, I believe they did.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2022 12:31 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 11, 2022 12:31 PM (LClE5)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 11, 2022 11:20 AM (fWTJL)
The've been going to either the EOB/OEOB or the Blair House across the street, so they don't actually go to the White House, and don't appear in the visitor logs. Maybe they use Joey's Oval office set.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 11, 2022 12:36 PM (qyH+l)
You can perform clutchless shifts on a synchronized or un-synchronized transmissions. Usually just upshifting. It's a lot harder to do on downshifting. Race car drivers will use double clutching (which was the old technique used on unsynchronized transmissions) because it is a much smoother shift that won't upset the cars balance when it is on the edge of it's traction. This is even though all trans are synchronized nowadays in cars..
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 11, 2022 12:37 PM (UuD2k)
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Waaah, waaaaah, waaaaaaaah!
George Floyd was a career criminal and drug addict/dealer with a badly-diseased heart. He died of heart failure, complicated by his recent ingestion of meth from swallowing a fistful of the speedballs he'd been illegally selling on the streets.
Floyd did not die because a cop put a knee on his neck. Floyd died because his heart was badly diseased and he was a junkie who'd just sucked down a bunch of amphetamine after fighting with cops. The ME's original report (before it was revised in response to thug BLM threats) said that there was no sign whatsoever that the cop's knee had injured Floyd or obstructed his airway in any way.
Blacks are killed by cops in lower percentages than whites are, despite the fact that blacks engage in far more violent crime than whites do.
The false narrative built around Floyd's death was meant to bolster the other false narrative about the "systemic racism" of cops abusing blacks.
It's all bullshit.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 11, 2022 12:37 PM (k4dH2)
I knew Miguelito Loveless. And Michaelito Bloomberg is no Miguelito Loveless.
Posted by: Fox2! at February 11, 2022 12:41 PM (qyH+l)
After I hit post, I realized that I should have socked that as James West.
Posted by: Robert Conrad at February 11, 2022 12:43 PM (qyH+l)
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