Posted on 07/31/2025 9:00:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
Also, thanks for keeping us up to date on the world of Chy-nah! I know that some of it is an educated estimate of what’s going on, but when all the evidence you see indicates something, that something is probably true.
Ahhhhh, the Lincoln Continental Mark IV - perhaps the pinnacle of exuberance. I washed and waxed a few of those in my late teens. Very luxurious indeed. As were its Cadillac competitors.
Yeah. The Don is getting blackmailed.
I heard Vlad has video of trump getting a golden shower at a moscow motel
Sad, isn’t it?
MarQ
Unfortunately, in my futile attempt to wake up the brainwashed few of my friends that haven’t awakened, I’ve sort have come to the conclusion that some people just can’t be saved.
I also know that when they or their loved ones potentially succumb to the harmful effects of these jabs, these same individuals will continue to be in denial so that they won’t have to admit the horrible reality of their own choices that they stubbornly imposed on those they claim to love the most.
I concur. LP, don’t change ANYTHING about your posts.
Whoa. Sounds like if I were to fall back to using English Leather or Brut.
. . .
He will reap what he sowed one day.
I hope I’m here to see it—and to help if possible!
Anger, if not restrained,
is frequently more hurtful to us
than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca
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OK, This BCU will generally take the form of a link. Please listen carefully as there is a lot to unpack.
Lei's Real Talk - Factions, guns, and the fight to end Xi’s rule from 9 August 25.
I have found Lei's coverage of Chinese history/culture in general and the personalities making the news in West Taiwan to be first rate. As long as she sticks to these two areas she is spot on. Economics and the military, aside from personalities, not so much. This is fine as her strengths cover my weaknesses, and vice versa.
I use her YouTube videos as a sanity check on other cultural/personality reporting I see.
WWG1WGA
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Corporate America is eating its seed corn — and our future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/corporate-america-is-eating-its-seed-corn-and-our-future
Has a paywall.
Excerpt:
Private equity firms are devouring healthy businesses, stripping assets, firing staff, hiking prices, and leaving nothing but debt and broken customer service behind.
“Don’t eat your seed corn.” Every farmer gets it. Every American with common sense gets it. The only people who don’t? The people who run corporate America.
A farmer keeps part of this year’s crop for planting next year. He could sell it now and pocket more cash — but then there’s nothing to plant, nothing to harvest, nothing to live on later. That’s obvious to anyone who works the land.
Capitalism creates wealth. But when wealth is extracted at the expense of the product, the people, and the future — that’s not capitalism. That’s predatory ransacking.
But in today’s boardrooms, the rule is reversed. Short-term profit is all that matters. Strip the future bare, cash out, and leave the mess for someone else to clean up.
The rewards for this corporate vandalism are massive: fat bonuses, stock windfalls, golden parachutes. The damage — lost jobs, gutted industries, shoddy products — is someone else’s problem.
And the fastest way to pull it off? Slash costs to the bone. Ship jobs overseas. Push out the people who know the business best. Kill innovation. Downgrade quality until the product barely passes as the same thing you used to make.
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Wall Street has been doing this since the late ‘90’s which coincides to when Glass Steagal was gutted. Private equity, hedge funds et al are thieves that have destroyed American business, spending their money on stock buybacks, golden parachutes instead of product development. There needs to be a reckoning for what these ‘vampires’ have done to America. They are as crooked as the DC swamp. Bringing manufacturing back to the US is a good start but more needs to be done to destroy, yes destroy, the current Wall Street and its thieves. It’ll take more than the CB collapsing to do it IMO.
That guy would have an aneurism in my house…
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