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It was included in an actual NYT story. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/business/fast-food-prices-inflation.html

Similar to the NYT story yesterday about the stock options bro complaining about a $9 burrito. The industry appears to increasingly outsourcing their shoe-leather journalism to scrolling on Twitter. It's a shame.

The special teams will wear it, but their offense deserves a share of the blame as well

At it's most simple, they are coworkers! We all have coworkers who we may disagree with things on but get along with or are friends with. Maybe it's magnified to an extent when you are a Supreme Court Justice, but they still need to show up and coexist with their coworkers. When you add in the privilege that comes with reaching that level of the profession, It's not hard to figure out.

My read of this scoop is that the administration is trying to figure out a way to help ameliorate the EU need for Russian gas. I get what you are saying on sacrifice, but the thing is that while we are the alpha dog, we are also on a different continent. The threat of a Russian invasion is existential to Europe (particularly Eastern and Central Europe) but, just as was the case during both World Wars, it's a lot more abstract to us. After all, it took until 1917 for us to enter WWI and Pearl Harbor (undertaken by Japan) for us to enter WWII. Personally, I think we need to go to the mattresses for Ukraine. But I dont know that a lot of Americans feel as I do.

My understanding is that they don't... I seem to recall some reporting a while back that they have had good rapport

A deal like NAFTA is a multiple administration ordeal. If it was negotiated across administrations, everyone has their fingers on it IMO. But again, NAFTA is complicated... whether one sees it as good or bad really depends on what industry one is in or what part of the country one lives. Go tell someone down in the Rio Grande Valley that NAFTA is terrible... you won't find a ton of agreement.

Tapper was the last weekday cable show I would watch/listen to regularly. The latter half of the show with the talking heads panel is just terrible... I really don't care to hear what partisan randos like Nina Turner or Mary Katherine Ham or Scott Jennings think about the world. Doesnt add anything constructive whatsoever.

Remember when Colin Kaepernick was gonna bankrupt Nike? Pepperidge Farm Remembers....

A company like Mars reformulates an ad campaign for one reason only: to make money. That's it... to the extent that "virtue signaling" or "snowflakes" or whatever enters into it, it is subsidiary to the ultimate goal of making money. You say they are losing customers, but ultimately a major company has probably done market research and has determined that they can increase market share by adopting a new campaign. That's capitalism, Archie, this isn't anything new. The bigger thing at play here, and why Tucker cannot resist the urge to waste time talking about this issue, is that cultural conservatives no longer have the same monopoly on commerce that they used to have. Companies have to market to their customer base that exists today, not what existed back in 1986 or in 2003 (ie. Leading up to the Iraq War). At the end of the day, it's whining and crying that the society has changed and that what customers want is different than it used to be. In a capitalist society, companies need to adapt. Sorry that those adaptations don't fit your view of the world I guess... not sure what else to say.

Exactly, somehow the fact that this is news (and distracting from bigger issues) isn't the responsibility of those who are dedicating airtime to it during their "news" programming (ie. Tucker).

Incredible. But on par for the Times, they do this kinda stuff all the times. Particularly in their political reporting. How freaking hard is it for a reporter to park themselves outside of a Meijer or Wal Mart in a middle class suburb or smaller town and get a quote on the issue that is most prevalent for average Americans? It's just lazy as hell.

It's amazing that with inflation at the top of everyone's mind, they go to one of the wealthiest cities in Illinois and interview a guy who lives in a million dollar house and took thousands in PPP money. Is it that hard for the Grey Lady to just go and talk to normal folks?

I would just add that, while there's a debate to be had over whether NAFTA has been good overall, it's also worth noting that NAFTA hasn't been universally bad in every corner of the United States - it absolutely has been a huge boon to the economy in my state. That tends to get lost in these discussions... it's less a situation where it's universally bad for everyone, more a situation with tradeoffs where some make out better than others.

I'm not surprised about it (those have always been his politics), but it's definitely sad nonetheless. Really talented and gifted performer.

I'd only add the fact that they have a lot of guys who project to be serviceable versus superstars plays into it as well.

If Kreidler performs as he did in Toledo at the end of last year and he's still in the minors by that point, I could see a chance of him cracking Top 100. But I think its a combination of having some guys who haven't had a chance to prove it (ie. Madden, Campos, Pacheco, Sequera) and the fact that they have graduated some guys off the list plays into it

Pretty much. Within the context of BBB, find out what he will do, and take the deal. It sucks, but until you hold your current seats and add some from PA or WI or NC, it is what it is.

His departure was announced on December 14, effective December 23. The announcement lines up with the dating of the EO (although correlation =/= causation)

Going back to the BBB debate, if it isn't clear already, Manchin is a lot more in-step with what the voters in his state want than perhaps we give him credit for.

I tend to be on the more "glass half full" side of these debates, but don't get me wrong, I am definitely concerned about our trajectory after what happened in this last election.

I mean, the memo about Antrim County was basically used as a pretext in this draft EO, which basically would have given discretion to his own Secretary of Defense to seize whatever machines they wanted. The order would have faced a ton of legal challenges and who knows if it would have been allowed to be carried out (objectively, it very well may not have considering how the SCOTUS has handled questions relating to the election aftermath), but it is so painfully obvious what was going on. And yet we'll still hear from the usual suspects doing their Leslie Nielsen impression saying "NBD, y'all are hysterical, move on"

From the memo. Just insane.