Sigh. Remember when Cadillac meant “premium” and not “re-badged and marked up bargain bin”?

AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA.

Tule fog is brutal. If you’re lucky, you’ll likely come upon a douche bro in a gigantic lifted pick up truck with lightbars for days, acting as a beacon through the fog. If you’re even luckier, they won’t be shagging ass so you can plod through at 60 instead of the nerve racking and barely enough time to break 85...

It’s that way in Yankee land too, “Democrat” usually meaning urbanite (aka minority). Unless they want to specify white democrats, aka “Coastal Elites”

Eh... There’s only 2 major differences between Trump and other Republicans. First, you’re correct Trump had the attention span of a goldfish and was constantly getting distracted and tweeting things that would come back to get the DOJ attorney’s asses beat in court. But the other is that Trump said the “in his head…

The system is 80 years old. There’s a constrained limited supply that was readily transferable and has been that way from the jump. They may not have originally intended for the medallions to increase in value, but they did absolutely nothing about it this entire time. NYC didn’t place any limits on the transference…

The medallions were a secured asset backed by the government. It conveyed certain exclusive rights and privileges, thus giving them value. That was their entire and sole purpose. The increase in value as they’re then resold is part of the design. The agreement was: you must have a medallion to legally operate. Yes…

The rising price isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Medallions are supposed to be an investment that increases in value.

NYC limits the ability to work as a taxi driver to those who own medallions. You cannot work in the industry without one. It’s an exclusive right. It’s based on the same concept as home ownership and mortgages. You get it up front and use it, paying it off over 30 years. Then when you’re looking to retire you have an…

A medallion was an asset, like your house. You get one and pay it off, and then when you retire you sell it. Had the effect of preventing a race to the bottom for workers, and provided retirement.

The problem is when you have outsiders looking to come on the scene as “disrupters” to the industry. What that ALWAYS means is, “what if we got in this industry, but didn’t have to deal with any of the taxes or regulations? We’d make a fortune!” Yeah, no shit, your profit margins are 10x better than your competition…

You can look to Big Tech taking a more active role now. They don’t want to be taken hostage again. For years they acquiesced because conservatives screamed censorship, and the GOP threatened them if they did anything. Finally culminated with them putting a label on a Trump tweet and him immediately retaliating with an…

Crucial to this is dragging the Overton window (the range of political views that are publicly acceptable) out of the far right neo-nazi gutter. 20 years ago, if a network said “fascism is bad, and we’re not airing content that promotes it” no one would have complained. Now conservatives scream censorship.

Bingo. Dems pussyfoot around getting socked in the jaw and then turning the other cheek, trying to win over Republican voters through logic and polite discourse. It won’t ever happen. For 30 years Fox has been programming their constituents that Democrats are evil. Not bad, not different, but “evil.” There isn’t a…

Big Tech doesn’t want to be involved. They do not want to be in the business of regulating all speech. Since 2012 and the Tea Party, every time they took an itty bitty step to moderating, they received massive backlash calling for boycotting, penalties and regulations, from Republicans in Congress, Senate, and then…

That’s the problem domestic manufacturers have when they compete with German. Why pay more money and receive a fisher price interior? A new M3 CS has 500 ponies with a sub 4 second 0-60 for $72k.

Eh. It’s probably less that they’re in cahoots with the shorters. They don’t actually process orders, they sell them to others to do so, and front the cash needed while the deal goes through a glorified escrow type process. Usually they need to front less cash to process an order, however given the extreme volatility…

No need. He’ll be cool as a cucumber, and they won’t get jack from him. The creative sorts like Jobs or Gates can sometimes be derailed and trapped because of their ego and god-complex. Timmy is an Ops guy. “Plan prepare execute” is the name of the game. They won’t be able to rile him up, get him off track, or to…

Except this isn’t a pump and dump. In P&D you buy them dirt cheap and then manipulate others into buying by lying about the condition of the company, that it’s undervalued, has some groundbreaking piece of tech not yet disclosed, etc. etc. and once it takes off, you get out leaving others holding the bag.

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