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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/trump-big-oil-campaign-pitch-corruptionquote:Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs. "I'm shocked! Shocked to find that "Here's your Koch check sir."
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pmchem posted:walgreens and target are perhaps not the best examples. their margins the past two years are lower than they were pre-pandemic and walgreens is not making money as a business: Are profit margins calculated before or after stock buybacks?
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pmchem posted:walgreens and target are perhaps not the best examples. their margins the past two years are lower than they were pre-pandemic and walgreens is not making money as a business: walgreens has made plenty of idiotic money-losing decisions tho, like "what if we replaced glass fridge doors with giant tv screens", which went about as well as you'd expect quote:“Customer experience is a top priority for Walgreens, and we terminated our contract with Cooler Screens earlier this year due to their failure to meet contractual obligations,” Walgreens senior communications director Emily Hartwig-Mekstan said. so, yeah, greed
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A.o.D. posted:Are profit margins calculated before or after stock buybacks? Neither. Stock buybacks appear on a different financial statement altogether.
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Discussion Quorum posted:Neither. Stock buybacks appear on a different financial statement altogether. So, before then.
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Zamujasa posted:walgreens has made plenty of idiotic money-losing decisions tho, like "what if we replaced glass fridge doors with giant tv screens", which went about as well as you'd expect quote:The doors’ digital screens regularly froze or went dark, preventing customers from seeing what was available inside, and some even sparked and caught fire, according to the court documents. A.o.D. posted:Are profit margins calculated before or after stock buybacks? Wasn’t one of Boeing many problems that they did way too much buybacks instead of investing in R&D?
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Looks like we now know how the Epoch Times makes their money, even as a kinda-sorta news outlet: cryptofraud! https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1797738958597619996 https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1797743446368891133
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"Falun Gong-affiliated MAGA outlet" was not a phrase I ever expected to see.
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Jun 3, 2024 22:55
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Nuclear Tourist posted:"Falun Gong-affiliated MAGA outlet" was not a phrase I ever expected to see. Some Snowcrash flavored poo poo for sure
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Jun 3, 2024 23:06
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Just tell me how Shen Yun is involved.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:"Falun Gong-affiliated MAGA outlet" was not a phrase I ever expected to see. Yeah that's usually Moonie turf.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:lol The current company I work for does a wave of layoffs shortly after every round of Stock buybacks they do.
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A.o.D. posted:The current company I work for does a wave of layoffs shortly after every round of Stock buybacks they do. That seems like they're doing it wrong? Shouldn't you do the buybacks before the layoffs? That way your getting a cheaper purchase price for the buyback?
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Grip it and rip it posted:That seems like they're doing it wrong? Shouldn't you do the buybacks before the layoffs? That way your getting a cheaper purchase price for the buyback? Yes that's what I said. Buybacks first, layoffs second. You get the price spike before the negative press hits. edit: They also keep the number of people laid off low so they don't have to do WARN notices. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jun 3, 2024 |
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Doh I misread that! Sounds hosed :/
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Nuclear Tourist posted:"Falun Gong-affiliated MAGA outlet" was not a phrase I ever expected to see. Yeah same.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:"Falun Gong-affiliated MAGA outlet" was not a phrase I ever expected to see. they have a very basic "trump mad at CHYNA, we are also mad at CHYNA" rationale for promoting him which, idk, afaik it's not like biden is a big friend of the PRC either, but whatever, cults with enough resources to wield political influence gonna do weird poo poo vov
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A brief look at Falun Gong's wiki page makes the story slightly less surprising. I know the CCP has been giving them poo poo for a long time but I wasn't aware how yay-MAGA they were. I also wasn't aware that the Shen Yun dance troupe were Falun Gong, their billboards saying CHINA BEFORE COMMUNISM make a bit more sense now.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I also wasn't aware that the Shen Yun dance troupe were Falun Gong, their billboards saying CHINA BEFORE COMMUNISM make a bit more sense now. It goes way deeper than that. poo poo's wild. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun quote:The dances continued, sleeves swirling, skirts rippling. A man came onstage to sing a song in Chinese, which was translated on the screen behind him. “We follow Dafa, the Great Way,” he began, singing about a Creator who saved mankind and made the world anew. “Atheism and evolution are deadly ideas. Modern trends destroy what makes us human,” he sang. At the end of the song, the row of older white people sitting behind me clapped fervently. In the final dance number, a group of Falun Dafa followers, who wore blue and yellow and clutched books of religious teachings, battled for space in a public square with corrupt youth. (Their corruption was evident because they were wearing black, looking at their cell phones, and, in the case of two men, holding hands.) Then think of all the know-nothings who wander out of these shows and provide the advertising sound bites about how much they "learned" about "Chinese history" from the show.
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Yeah the poo poo is wild: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D374Q253TA0
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Discussion Quorum posted:It goes way deeper than that. poo poo's wild. They want to do Boxer Rebellion 2 Electric Boogaloo. I call dibs on Dan Daly. Edit.: phone post fst fingering. Steezo fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jun 4, 2024 |
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Thwomp posted:Yeah the poo poo is wild: Yeah, I had somehow completely forgotten about how insane Falun Gong is.
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https://x.com/justin_fenton/status/1797767929892905169 Just casually riding in my Mazda 3 dropping off $120k in unmarked bills in a trashy gift bag on the front porch of a juror's father-in-law with a note that there will be another bag tomorrow if the jury acquits on the corruption and fraud case.
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Make sure you click through to see a picture of how they left over a hundred grand on someone's doorstep.
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Verdicts in all federal trials must be unanimous. Getting a hung jury is one thing, but flipping the whole dozen? lol good one
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smdh, make the money disappear and vote guilty cause they are obviously crooked as hell.
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Stealing money that was supposed to go to kids? Hope they rot in the pen a little longer thanks to that stunt. Speaking of stealing money. https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-06-03/veterans-affairs-senior-managers-bonuses-14069378.html
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Arrath posted:smdh, make the money disappear and vote guilty cause they are obviously crooked as hell. Nah, they'd flip on you, probably have proof, and they'd end up with an overturned conviction, your own rear end in jail, and no money to show for it. Don't do stupid crimes, people.
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Elviscat posted:Stealing money that was supposed to go to kids? Hope they rot in the pen a little longer thanks to that stunt. I haven’t had a primary care doctor since January because my old one left for a much higher paying and less stressful job.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I haven’t had a primary care doctor since January because my old one left for a much higher paying and less stressful job. Same, there's a local clinic I use and they keep telling me I need a Primary Care Doctor but every doctor I try isn't taking new patients.
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golden bubble posted:https://x.com/justin_fenton/status/1797767929892905169 I'm surprised the orange one didn't do this.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I'm surprised the orange one didn't do this. He doesn't pay anyone for anything. His MO would have been to make vague threats and promises, and then renege on his end of the bargsin when he gets what he wants.
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A.o.D. posted:Nah, they'd flip on you, probably have proof, and they'd end up with an overturned conviction, your own rear end in jail, and no money to show for it. Don't do stupid crimes, people.
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Looks like Farage got milkshaked again, this time banana  https://x.com/Millar_Colin/status/1797986387381342437?t=zkC42N2w-KKh9KQPrL2nYw&s=19
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golden bubble posted:https://x.com/justin_fenton/status/1797767929892905169 Hm, but would this fit the Supreme Court's definition of bribery? quote:The defendants — Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Mohamed Jama Ismail, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Said Shafii Farah, Abdiwahab Maalim Aftin and Hayat Mohmed Nur — are the first to go on trial out of 70 people charged in the massive federal case so far. Oh yeah, they're hosed.
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Is this the first big case of this nature from Covid relief funds?
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Cugel the Clever posted:Since they dropped the money off at the home, there's also the whole "we know where you live" implication. Reporting the bribe attempt likely gets some degree of Federal protection for a time. They also specifically went after the youngest juror - a 23 year old woman. There definitely was an intended intimidation message here. Here’s a thread from the reporter with more details https://x.com/deenafaywinter/status/1797623367157322205?s=46 Also, this must suck https://x.com/deenafaywinter/status/1797745478601490609?s=46
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Speaking of bribes https://x.com/drvolts/status/1797704022234927233?t=XT-Z3b4vIzV-nhNqbOAMAQ&s=19 https://x.com/ericuman/status/1797612481688519153?t=rEmaYtT9pO-uq2dmXGkmrA&s=19
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If anyone wants some hearty lols at a despicable shitstain of humanity, Alex Jones is apparently having a real one. Over the weekend he was apparently so drunk on air that it appears the co-hosts turned the camera around off of him so he could vomit in the studio. The co-hosts didn't even bat an eye at this and seemed to have some practice at it, and for someone with as much of an apparent alcohol problem and tolerance as he has to be that drunk it must have been a real solid bender at a high rate of intake. It gets better. He then apparently slept in the studio overnight, claiming after the fact the justification was that he had to do it to protect the studio after god gave him psychic vibes through his bodyguard (or some poo poo, it was really confusing what the gently caress he was saying) that his court-mandated restructuring officer was going to be sending law enforcement to shut down the studio and change the locks but good old Jones' knows the law and if he's there in the studio nothing can be done because he's just protecting his property or, again, some poo poo. Anyway he has multiple recording of the restructuring officer taken in secret that he played live on air before going into a profanity laced tirade. I hear people in the legal profession enjoy having secret recording of them taken. We aren't done yet. On Sunday he took a flat-earther guest on the show that he was extraordinarily hostile towards, which resulted in the new catchphrase going around "They burn to the loving ground, Eddie!". It makes about the same amount of sense listening to it live, but is a lot funnier. At some point he had what could probably be considered a nervous breakdown for a normal person. Blubbering in tears and all, but which, Alex being Alex, was probably faked to get more clicks and hock more dick pills as it doesn't seem he actually was crying and he's done this poo poo before. Almost there. So it came out around Sunday evening to mid-day Monday that all of this was maybe prompted by him getting notice that the lawyers for the families suing the gently caress out of him for the Sandy Hook poo poo have finally given up playing his bullshit games, and the courts are apparently agreeing with them, and are moving to have his corporation liquidated since he refuses to do anything, at all, period, resembling making progress with his bankruptcy proceedings that are being used to hold off collection of their judgement. So, yeah. I think I have that right, it's been a wild loving weekend and I might have the chronology of some stuff mixed up. If you have nothing better to do for an entire evening than laugh at a hateful rear end in a top hat coming apart at the seams the Knowledge Fight guys have an almost 4 hour podcast episode covering it so far, because poo poo is apparently still happening with Alex. I'm doing about an hour a night and enjoying every minute of it. https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/
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