@SamuelPGonzales@ryancohen Most likely yes because apes like me sold a lot of shares today knowing it would dump because nobody wants to fucking support trump
@Atreyuisreal@ryancohen I respect what he has done for Gamestop and the movement against Wall Street crime but lets be real there are better people to be CEO who actually understand the vision of the shareholders and how many avenues there are to fuck wall street at its game. If he rage quits as CEO 🤷♂️
@Atreyuisreal@ryancohen He better be preparing because I'm a Gamestop ape with 5,000 shares and I will be voting NO to his options package.
Sorry Ryan. I want money. You post dumb shit like this the day we are about to finally gamma ramp through an OPEX date. No options package for you.
Travelers are facing MASSIVE security lines at Newark International Airport and airports around the country because Democrats continue to refuse to fund DHS and pay our TSA officers.
It is time for Democrats to END the DHS Shutdown.
@Glovepirate@gamestop Lol this is such a cliche response but idk where Gamestop even has funkos anymore that shit died years ago.
I feel like most people genuinely haven't been to a Gamestop since cohen took over as CEO
@Ephedra007@gamestop You guys literally act like ebay doesn't charge 15% seller fees, shipping costs haven't tripled since covid, and facebook isn't full of scammers and creepy ass people lmao
@Ephedra007@gamestop No you can't lmao.
Gamestop offered me $330 for my PSA10 mega evolutions stamped bulbasaur.
It's selling on ebay for $390-410, but after like $35 in ebay fees, $5-7 shipping, and the effort of finding a time to go to USPS, it's barely even worth the extra $20 or whatever.
@dhurstell@michaeljburry So what you are saying is Burry is based?
Plenty of reasons to hate Palantir, its leadership, its mission, its conduct, profucts, and think their customers are lying scumbags lol.
Fair to hate anyone who disagrees with that assessment.
Fair.
@michaeljburry We get it.. you hate Palantir.
Its not just an investment thesis. Its personal.
You actually hate their leadership, mission, product and think their customers must also be lying scumbags.
You hate anyone who even dares to disagree with you (unless they are paying you).
$PLTR's 10-K, released yesterday, deserves some discussion. Palantir: An Accounting does not stand alone, and should be read in conjunction with Palantir's New Clothes.
open.substack.com/pub/michaeljbu…
@ryancohen Cohen is damn correct and every corporation in America should be paying close attention to how Gamestop survived imminent bankruptcy under his leadership, if they want to still exist in 20 years.
The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
@JanetG988@megynkelly Lmao you sad people are hilarious.
"Stop being a miserable bigot"
"Wow! So I just can't be myself huh? Fine, I'll leave, you are making me!"
How do you people actually function outside. Do you ever touch grass? Like literally ever?
@megynkelly Lately you've been responding to any opposition with your reactionary profanity, showing immaturity, impulsiveness, & lack of self-control. The result is you have alienated many who used to respect your opinions and content. You're losing us, partly because you told us to leave.
What I figured out, you pathetic sweaty man, is when an idiot Muslim says “no dogs in NYC,” instead of attacking the person or the policy, you went full bigot. Fuck off.
@Unapologeticzzz@megynkelly Imagine unironically thinking Mamdani will ban fucking dogs and simaltaneously having the audacity to say shit like "trump derangement syndrome" lmao.
Reality murdered satire
@megynkelly Hating dogs has already become a mainstream teaching in Islam.
The one calling for banning dogs is an activist close to Mamdani, not some random Muslim.
Do you really think Mamdani and all his officials wouldn’t ban dogs, Megyn?
You’re becoming more and more pathetic.‼️
@Cynthia95001250@DeniseBuss71706@FmrRepMTG@RepThomasMassie@HasanKhxnx I don't know how these people look at themselves in the mirror and convince themselves they are good people let alone that Jesus loves them lmao.
Jesus would fucking rather tie a rock around this evil women's head and throw her in the ocean - his own words.
Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”
Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.
The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.
Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!
The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.
Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.
Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.
The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.
There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.
This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.
The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.
The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.
The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.
If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.
@DeniseBuss71706@FmrRepMTG@RepThomasMassie@HasanKhxnx The coverups, the gaslighting, the lies, it's the most fucking obvious thing happening right now you need to be braindead to seriously think Epstein was a lone actor and not a fall man for nasty fucking rich people.
I genuinely wish death on you all. You basically already are
@DeniseBuss71706@FmrRepMTG@RepThomasMassie@HasanKhxnx You're a fucking ghoul, you and other vile people like you are seriously siding with a literal billionaire pedophile ring over America.
I hope you get stage 4 cancer. You're fucking evil in the flesh, and I cannot stand sharing a world with any of you people.
@RepThomasMassie@HasanKhxnx The comments here are fucking deranged. It's so fucking clear that you have been a thorn in the side of the most evil and powerful criminal ring in USA history, I want whatever the fuck crack these people are smoking who are calling you a drama queen
@HasanKhxnx I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.