As a wise man recently said,

They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.

Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

Needed more accordion hands. And it should have been one sentence with about ten different tangents.

Also orange.

The queer community will be marketed to if you do right by us. Break that trust and it can be earned back.

Which is how it should go, because it give corporations incentives to do socially moral things.

Thing is, the economic indicators will still be there.

If there’s been two full years of recession because of GOP policies, what do you think the odds are they’ll go into a third year if the GOP is allowed to stay in power?

“If” they cause a recession?

Raphael, you’ll be fucking lucky if the economy just stops at recession.

“Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests,” the organization said in a statement on Friday.

AKA Obeying in advance.

My dude, it sounds like you’re being needlessly accusative.

I never said InBev was in trouble; I said they fucked up their response to the Dylan Mulvaney backlash. Which they absolutely did, and it caused their most popular American beer brand to lose sales.

A lot of people at the time were (correctly) pointing out that most of the beers the MAGAts decided to switch to in their performative protests were also owned by InBev.

InBev is doing fine, because they own over 600 brands globally.

Bud Light sales however are not doing fine. Its sales are down about 40% compared to pre-2023 levels, and has dropped from most-popular to third most popular beer. They pissed off the no-taste mouthbreathing MAGAts who were their primary customers by mailing Dylan one fucking can, and then pissed off everyone else when they threw Dylan under the bus immediately because the MAGAts started all bleating about it.

Target is now literally in that same position.

Just goes to show how bending the knee to the bigot brigade doesn’t work. Are more of the fat orange traitorous fuck’s cult shopping there?

No.

Target did exactly what they wanted- first by hiding their Pride merch last June, and then by eliminating their diversity programs- and the only result is the people who didn’t shop at Target still aren’t, but the people who did shop there are taking their business elsewhere.

Soon Target’s going to have to either try to reverse course to save face with their former clientele, or they’re gonna have to double down in an effort to attract more MAGAts to their rotting corporate corpse. And as InBev learned with Dylan Mulvaney, that’s not a decision you want to fuck up.

Make America Great Depression Again!

Costco has increased foot traffic for 13 consecutive weeks, so not a bad guess people are going there.

All across the idiot America.

Man creates capitalism.

Capitalism creates climate crisis.

Climate crisis destroys capitalism.

Climate crisis destroys man.

…Woman inherits the earth?

Dow drops 1200… so far.

Who derives joy from that?

-Man who was gleefully swinging a chainsaw on stage, deriving joy from stealing taxpayer dollars and cutting government services.

The Department of Education announced Monday it’s investigating 60 colleges and universities over allegations of antisemitic harassment anti-Israeli sentiment and discrimination hurting conservative feefees.

And since auto jobs have been exported to Mexico since NAFTA.

The big 3, sure. But there’s many automakers who still do manufacturing in the US- Toyota, VW, Rivian, and Tesla (lol) come to mind. However, they’re also building those plants in the South because of crap labor protections for workers and no unions.

And that just goes to show:

The only time rich people are held accountable in the US, is when they fuck with other rich people’s money.

Why is that odd? It makes sense that as the automotive industry has increasingly become automated, there would be less of a need for human labor.

Call me a traditionalist, but it seems to me that if you’re going to be advising the President on digital assets, it’d be nice to have an economics background.

None of the rest of Trump’s cabinet have any qualifications, so why should this guy?