November 18, 20241 yr Sheetlib policy is so breathtakingly awful, even with complete control over sports and entertainment, they still couldn't win the election. Now that they no longer have the monopoly, it's a whole new game.
November 18, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, mikemack8 said: You have every reason to be happy. You should celebrate by blasting YMCA and dancing like you're **** 2 guys at once.
November 18, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, Gannan said: You have every reason to be happy. You should celebrate by blasting YMCA and dancing like you're **** 2 guys at once.
November 18, 20241 yr 54 minutes ago, Gannan said: You have every reason to be happy. You should celebrate by blasting YMCA and dancing like you're **** 2 guys at once. So, @Gannan, @VanHammersly, and @dawkins4prez were on a camping trip, but due to a miscommunication in planning, they only had one small tent. They decided to be adults about it and just share the tent for the night. @VanHammersly and @dawkins4prez slept close to the sides of the tent and @Gannan slept in the middle. The next morning, after a peaceful and satisfying night's sleep, they were cooking breakfast by the campfire. @VanHammersly said, "wow, guys... I had the best dream last night. I dreamt that I totally had sex with a really hot chick!" Then @dawkins4prez said, "Hey, no way! Me too!" They looked over at @Gannan who had a really angry look on his face. @VanHammersly said, "What's wrong with you?" @Gannan replied, "This isn't fair! You both had sex dreams and I dreamt I was snow skiing!!"
November 18, 20241 yr In my lifetime as a word-nerd, I have known "skepticism" to refer to a sort of stubborn insistence upon rigor and evidence in place of things like dogma and "common sense." A skeptic, by those terms, is someone who questions what they are told. Crucially, a skeptic actually questions, as in seeks answers. A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter. A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic. They're the exact opposite of that: a mark. A sucker. A credulous boob.
November 18, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: In my lifetime as a word-nerd, I have known "skepticism" to refer to a sort of stubborn insistence upon rigor and evidence in place of things like dogma and "common sense." A skeptic, by those terms, is someone who questions what they are told. Crucially, a skeptic actually questions, as in seeks answers. A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter. A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic. They're the exact opposite of that: a mark. A sucker. A credulous boob. This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. Daft contrarians claiming to be skeptics.
November 18, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, jsdarkstar said: You're a brainwashed cult member. Need deprogramming or more alcohol? How does that statement make you any less an idiot?
November 19, 20241 yr Higher prices is what Maga voted for. A running list of companies preparing to raise prices if Trump's trade plan is enacted President-elect Donald Trump proposed broad tariffs on imports, including up to 60% on goods from China. Economists say his proposals could spike inflation as companies tend to pass costs on to shoppers. Some companies have already said increased tarriffs would force them to raise prices. Some executives have warned that price hikes are on the way if President-elect Donald Trump's trade plans go into effect. On the campaign trail, Trump proposed a 60% tariff on goods imported from China coupled with a 10% to 20% tariff on goods imported from other countries. While the president-elect could choose not to enact tariffs at that scale once he assumes office, economists and the market have predicted that his proposals would spike inflation and force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Several companies have already begun responding to Trump's election victory and the implications his tariff proposals would have on the costs of their goods. Executives have told analysts on earnings calls that it would be difficult to maintain current prices under Trump's broad tariffs. Other companies are still waiting for more information from the president-elect. Tarang Amin, the CEO of ELF Beauty, told Business Insider that the company must first see the policy Trump enacts before making any changes to its pricing and that a new policy wouldn't affect the business until after its 2025 fiscal year. "We don't like tariffs because they are a tax on the American people," Amin said, adding that the company had been subject to a 25% tariff since 2019 because of policies from Trump's first term. "And at that time," he said, "we pulled all the levers available to us to minimize the effects to our company and our community." Karoline Leavitt, a Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman, told BI: "In his first term, President Trump instituted tariffs against China that created jobs, spurred investment, and resulted in no inflation." She added that Trump will "work quickly" to lower taxes and create more American jobs. Below are the companies that are warning of price increases if Trump's tariff proposals are implemented. AutoZone Philip Daniele, the CEO of the auto-parts company AutoZone, told analysts on a September earnings call that tariff policies had "ebbed and flowed over the years," and if Trump implemented more tariffs, "we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer." "We generally raise prices ahead of that," Daniele said, adding that prices would gradually settle over time. "So, that's historically what we've done," he said. Columbia Sportswear Tim Boyle, the CEO of Columbia Sportswear, told analysts on an October earnings call that the company was "very concerned about the imposition of tariffs. " He said that while he considered Columbia adept at managing tariffs, "trade wars are not good and not easy to win." Boyle also told The Washington Post in October that the company was "set to raise prices." "It's going to be very, very difficult to keep products affordable for Americans," he said. Stanley Black & Decker Donald Allan, the CEO of the manufacturing company Stanley Black & Decker, told analysts in an October earnings call that the company had been evaluating "a variety of different scenarios" to plan for new tariffs under Trump. "And obviously, coming out of the gate, there would be price increases associated with tariffs that we put into the market," Allan said, adding that "there's usually some type of delay given the processes that our customers have around implementing price." Allan also said the company would consider moving its production out of China and to other countries, such as Mexico, to reduce the impact of a 60% tariff on Chinese imported goods. Steve Madden was among other companies that announced plans to import fewer goods from China, with its CEO, Edward Rosenfeld, saying on an earnings call that the company had already started that process. Walmart Walmart CFO John David Rainey told CNBC on November 19 that if implemented, Trump's tariff proposals could force the company to raise prices. "We never want to raise prices," he said. "Our model is everyday low prices. But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers." Rainey added that the company is "pretty familiar" with tariffs, given Biden and Trump's policies over the last seven years, but he said they're "inflationary for customers, so we want to work with suppliers and with our own private brand assortment to try to bring down prices."
November 19, 20241 yr 16 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: So, @Gannan, @VanHammersly, and @dawkins4prez were on a camping trip, but due to a miscommunication in planning, they only had one small tent. They decided to be adults about it and just share the tent for the night. @VanHammersly and @dawkins4prez slept close to the sides of the tent and @Gannan slept in the middle. The next morning, after a peaceful and satisfying night's sleep, they were cooking breakfast by the campfire. @VanHammersly said, "wow, guys... I had the best dream last night. I dreamt that I totally had sex with a really hot chick!" Then @dawkins4prez said, "Hey, no way! Me too!" They looked over at @Gannan who had a really angry look on his face. @VanHammersly said, "What's wrong with you?" @Gannan replied, "This isn't fair! You both had sex dreams and I dreamt I was snow skiing!!" all that work for one laugh. you're definitely getting better at this.
November 19, 20241 yr 20 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Higher prices is what Maga voted for. A running list of companies preparing to raise prices if Trump's trade plan is enacted President-elect Donald Trump proposed broad tariffs on imports, including up to 60% on goods from China. Economists say his proposals could spike inflation as companies tend to pass costs on to shoppers. Some companies have already said increased tarriffs would force them to raise prices. Some executives have warned that price hikes are on the way if President-elect Donald Trump's trade plans go into effect. On the campaign trail, Trump proposed a 60% tariff on goods imported from China coupled with a 10% to 20% tariff on goods imported from other countries. While the president-elect could choose not to enact tariffs at that scale once he assumes office, economists and the market have predicted that his proposals would spike inflation and force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Several companies have already begun responding to Trump's election victory and the implications his tariff proposals would have on the costs of their goods. Executives have told analysts on earnings calls that it would be difficult to maintain current prices under Trump's broad tariffs. Other companies are still waiting for more information from the president-elect. Tarang Amin, the CEO of ELF Beauty, told Business Insider that the company must first see the policy Trump enacts before making any changes to its pricing and that a new policy wouldn't affect the business until after its 2025 fiscal year. "We don't like tariffs because they are a tax on the American people," Amin said, adding that the company had been subject to a 25% tariff since 2019 because of policies from Trump's first term. "And at that time," he said, "we pulled all the levers available to us to minimize the effects to our company and our community." Karoline Leavitt, a Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman, told BI: "In his first term, President Trump instituted tariffs against China that created jobs, spurred investment, and resulted in no inflation." She added that Trump will "work quickly" to lower taxes and create more American jobs. Below are the companies that are warning of price increases if Trump's tariff proposals are implemented. AutoZone Philip Daniele, the CEO of the auto-parts company AutoZone, told analysts on a September earnings call that tariff policies had "ebbed and flowed over the years," and if Trump implemented more tariffs, "we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer." "We generally raise prices ahead of that," Daniele said, adding that prices would gradually settle over time. "So, that's historically what we've done," he said. Columbia Sportswear Tim Boyle, the CEO of Columbia Sportswear, told analysts on an October earnings call that the company was "very concerned about the imposition of tariffs. " He said that while he considered Columbia adept at managing tariffs, "trade wars are not good and not easy to win." Boyle also told The Washington Post in October that the company was "set to raise prices." "It's going to be very, very difficult to keep products affordable for Americans," he said. Stanley Black & Decker Donald Allan, the CEO of the manufacturing company Stanley Black & Decker, told analysts in an October earnings call that the company had been evaluating "a variety of different scenarios" to plan for new tariffs under Trump. "And obviously, coming out of the gate, there would be price increases associated with tariffs that we put into the market," Allan said, adding that "there's usually some type of delay given the processes that our customers have around implementing price." Allan also said the company would consider moving its production out of China and to other countries, such as Mexico, to reduce the impact of a 60% tariff on Chinese imported goods. Steve Madden was among other companies that announced plans to import fewer goods from China, with its CEO, Edward Rosenfeld, saying on an earnings call that the company had already started that process. Walmart Walmart CFO John David Rainey told CNBC on November 19 that if implemented, Trump's tariff proposals could force the company to raise prices. "We never want to raise prices," he said. "Our model is everyday low prices. But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers." Rainey added that the company is "pretty familiar" with tariffs, given Biden and Trump's policies over the last seven years, but he said they're "inflationary for customers, so we want to work with suppliers and with our own private brand assortment to try to bring down prices." Sounds like they're price gouging the consumers! We need price controls! Am I doing this right, libtards?
November 19, 20241 yr 23 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: all that work for one laugh. you're definitely getting better at this. This is what I do. It's my burden. It's my cross to to bear.
November 19, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, jsdarkstar said: Screwing workers wherever he can. Salaried workers shouldn't get overtime pay. Don't know the case, but that's a stupid position to advocate.
November 19, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, jsdarkstar said: For the love of God, someone get jsdarkstar off the single wine aunt section of Facebook.
November 19, 20241 yr Hacker steals Gaetz evidence. It's a matter of time before the evidence against the rapist is made public. Nancy Mace proposes bill to ban sex change women from using the bathroom. I say the new House Member should use Mace's office as her personal toilet.
November 19, 20241 yr 11 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: Nancy Mace proposes bill to ban sex change women from using the bathroom. I say the new House Member should use Mace's office as her personal toilet. Yes - she is proposing that trans women have to hold it in from now until the end of time. F 'em!
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