barneypiccolo

I was an eBay power seller in the early 2000s, and it was becoming pretty lucrative, enough that i was considering making it my main gig, but PayPal ruined it.

Multiple times i would log in to find my online store suspended for some period of time, once for an entire month. There was no explanation, just a suspension. And they don't just turn off your store, they delete it entirely, so i would have to rebuild the store from scratch, relisting every item, and i had over 200 items.

Also, eBay did absolutely nothing about customers who would demand, and get, refunds with no proof of a damaged item. If you gave the crook a bad review, they'd do it back. They could always delete their account and start fresh, but my unjustified bad feedback from crooks would accumulate and lower my score and reputation.

Ebay and PayPal are two evil entities that deserve each other, and to this day i wont do any business with any PayPal associated business like Venmo.

He does work in the private sector, and it will happen, his board of directors will be forced to fire him. It's nearly inevitable at this point.

The CEO and all board members of ANY corporation are legally obligated to maximize profits for the shareholders, and if they fail at that, the shareholders can, and will, sue the company, as well as the board members individually. They have a personal financial stake in keeping him in line, and working to grow the company.

Instead, they allowed him to partner up with the loudest anti-ev voice on the planet, then run around for months behaving like a narcissistic toddler with a chain-saw, tanking the company's global reputation, to the point where nobody is buying Teslas, people are unloading them as fast as they can, and protesters are vandalizing amd destroying them.

All of it was easily predictable, and the CEO is supposed to be an unparalled genius, so he defintely should have been able to predict the results of his unhinged behavior.

There WILL be a shareholder lawsuit at some point, I'm sure law firms are looking into it already. The board will almost certainly have to fire him in order to be able to defend themselves from charges of negligence for letting him run wild and destroy the company image.

The Sgt Schultz Defense: "I know NOTHING!"

I'm surprised he got it right, and didn't say "deep throated," or something even more incomprehensible. That's how "big league" became "bigly," and "veritable genius" became "stable genius," etc.

He's classically ignorant, a person with an expensive education who was too entitled to actually learn ANYTHING. He almost certainly was the guy who bullied others to do his homework, so he learned literally nothing, except how to exploit others for his own gain.

He is proud of, and brags about, attending Wharton Business School, but one of his professors has said that he was "the dumbest goddam student I ever had."

There is a photo of a teen Trump standing in full military dress, along with his parents. That photo reveals a lot. There are only two reasons that rich parents send their kid to a military school. They are either a family with a long military tradition, and all of their kids are educated in military schools, or the kid is so incorrigible that they are threatened with, and finally sent to, military school. The Trump family has absolutely no military tradition, and in fact, Agent Krasnov's grandfather came to America specifically to avoid military sevice.

So he was so ill-behaved, that even his sociopathic father couldnt ignore it, and was forced to try to deal with this intransigent child by sending him to military school. History has proven that it didn't work.

Ultimately, the MAGATraitors will blame the mess on Democrats long-standing support of a corrupt incompetent system, and convince their followers that they'd be better off paying lower taxes because of the repeal of SS, and because the MAGAMorons have completely abdicated their responsibility to use critical thinking, they'll buy it.

They can try, but ending Social Security could very well be the biggest predictably avoidable political blunder in American history.

And these treasonous MAGAMorons are stupid enough to try it.

Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.

The biggest problem in American politics is money. They have worked very hard for many years to strip back the laws that regulate campaign contributions, ultimately allowing the wealthy to be able to donate as much as they want, which gives them the power to cut quid pro quo deals that benefit them, at the expense of the American people, in exchange for huge campaign contributions.

At the same time that those regulations were being shredded, the number of billionaires boomed, so we have more people than ever to take advantage of this corrupt, money-driven system, exacerbating it.

We've even reached the point where candidates are owned by specific Sociopathic Oligarchs. MuskRat owns HitlerPig, Theil owns Vance. Now that we've established that the wealthy can LITERALLLY purchase candidates, and steer them any way they desire, we can expect every wealthy family and corporation to start buying elected officials and alternately threatening and rewarding them to force them to comply with their selfish wishes.

I used to support Ross Perot, but I have come to disagree with his notion of Kitchen Table Economics, but I still like his proposal for political campaigns. He suggested a 90 day political campaign season, paid for by the Federal Government. The short political season would mean far less money in campaigns, and absolutely no private campaign contributions of any kind would be allowed.

That would mean that to win, the only currency for a candidate to go after would be every citizen's single vote. They no longer have to convince Sociopathic Oligarchs to contribute to them, forcing them to cut ugly deals at the expense of American citizens, they only have to convince citizens to spend their single vote on them.

Then you would have elected officials who are beholden to their constituents and their votes, and not be beholden to wealthy people who keep them on their leash, threatening to spend their political contributions on their primary opponents if they dont comply with their Sociopathic Oligarch Leash-holder.

Again, Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.

The one thing thay might ultimately save us is their virtuosic incompetence. They have been so busy purging anyone with knowledge, they havent realized that they've given the gift of competence to their opposition. Every competent person who has been replaced with a MAGA Moron Traitor, is now an avowed enemy of the administration, and knows more about the government than they do.

In addition, many of those left behind hate what MAGA is doing to their agencies, and are perfect candidates for leaks, intelligence, resistance, sabotage, etc.

They've forgotten that it's better to have your enemies in your own tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

I despise Chuck Schumer. I will never forgive him for stabbing Al Franken in the back.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

From a MAGA perspective:

Green card = foreigner, deport them.

It's amazing to me that Dems are always handcuffed by the "rules," but Republicans ALWAYS find ways to avoid them and get ANYTHING they want.

Weak excuses for the destruction of democracy on their watch.