As always Republicans are masters of projection...

Barbara Ehrenreich makes the exact same point as you in Nickel and Dimed (p. 202),

Unemployment typically does not cover 100% of your lost wages. Even with the $300 supplement, the Chamber of Commerce’s own analysis shows that 75% of people collecting unemployment are getting less than they got from working. It’s highly unlikely that there are a significant number of people turning down jobs because…

Lol “CarDad” would be a good name for the business.

For the longest time you would sell a person a cheap chevy in his 20s so that he’d buy a bigger one when his family started, a nicer buick when he got that big promotion at work, and a big cadillac in his old age.

I think it’s incumbent on manufactures to find relevance, and if they don’t it’s their own fault, not the “changing millennial tastes”. Millennials like cars, but they don’t like the cars our parents liked. In the latest CAR, Gavin Green mentions how his sons were more enthused by Citroen’s latest ultra-cheap Ami than…

This is exactly why I stopped selling Fords. Short term, yes, you can absolutely abandon your entry-level, low-margin vehicles and actually save some money overall.

If the Malibu was as good as a Carola - GM might have had Toyota’s profits today. People avoided corvettes later in life because of how shitty the Malibu was. It’s a double edged sword. The entry cars can’t be GM or Ford garbagemobiles. Toyota builds a good car for $25k. And that translates to a lifetime of consumer…

The pandemic has made me question many things, doubt myself, and reassess some long held beliefs. All of which is good, but there is something that I believed before the plague, right now, and will believe till I die: In NO FUCKING UNIVERSE DID BEYONCE GET INTO MUSIC BECAUSE OF THE SPICE GIRLS. Victoria Beckham, get…

He’s not “hoarding” wealth. He created it. He founded what under his leadership became one of the largest software empires in history and a little thing called Windows which runs the vast majority of desktop computers. (Among other things.)

And unlike a lot of very rich people, he created a huge non-profit foundation…

Yep. It’s a hit piece just to be a hit piece. The Gates Foundation has been investing a _lot_ of money into things that have the potential to improve quality of life for a lot of people. Drinking water, electric power, all sorts of things.

This. Whatever he’s like personally, his foundation - which, Jesus, Jezebel, do some research before you casually dismiss the Gates Foundation - has done an incredible amount to transform living conditions in the developing world.

It may be because I’m super-old, but one of the first things I remember about the Gates Foundation after it formed was all the mosquito netting it provided to countries in Africa and its dedication to family planning. This isn’t just another Bezos, folks, even if you do not like the man.

In fairness to Blackburn and Vance, they’re both colossal fucking idiots.

Bizarre how her mother was made fun of when she started a company that made an absolute fortune (not even close to an easy task) while the people ridiculing her had everything handed to them from the outset and some generations at that.

Kate ticks all the same boxes that made women appealing to the masses two centuries ago. She never complains. She always makes sure to look her best. She rigorously watches her weight. She makes sure she does whatever the Firm tells her to with a smile. She ignored the philandering before and after her marriage. …

I’m not Catholic and had the same reaction in the Vatican. Their art collection surpassed that of any museum to which I had ever been. Gold gilding, everywhere; luxurious doesn’t begin to cover it. Perhaps usurious would.

Your granddad was the true good Christian.

My grandad, a hugely devout Catholic, mass everyday, having the father over for dinner once a week, was sent to Italy during WWII. He never returned to church again after visiting the Vatican. They had so much wealth and used none of it to help the victims of the war. They hoarded it and continue to hoard it.

Wait until they find out he’s anti-pedophilia.