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@saniyafatma1278 They’re lovely and it’s a very acceptable gift!

Question: if you are invited to someone’s house for dinner would you consider garden flowers in a jam jar like this an acceptable small gift? My host says don’t bring wine or food, I don’t like shop flowers, I can’t bear being empty handed…

@cvpayne really struggled to understand your guest on Friday’s show, Pierre Ferragu because of his accent. I think it would have helped if he talked slower. Just thought I’d mention it for when you have him on again. Love your show so much! Thank you❤️

@elonmusk Can someone tell me who the Asian man is in the photo with Elon Musk?

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@Xbiohack 60 is young people! Don’t let these kinds of videos scare you. Human beings are designed to live in perfect health well passed 150 years old. Human beings are powerful, divine, extensions of God, and it’s time we all knew it!

6 Signs an elderly person may be in their last year

@TheFlatEartherr They said they used gravity to coast🤷‍♀️

@alt_w_v_g Excellent post! So true! eBay takes a huge cut of your proceeds and you have to pay to advertise too! It’s just not worth the effort of listing and shipping! I do appreciate those that do because I enjoy buying things on there occasionally but to sell on there is another story!

You used to sell stuff on eBay. Maybe an old camera. Maybe Beanie Babies. Maybe a coat that didn't fit. You paid a small fee. The buyer got the thing. Everyone went home. That eBay is gone. The website looks the same. The logo is the same. The 135 million buyers are still there. But the company isn't really a marketplace anymore. It is an advertising business with a marketplace attached for distribution. Last year, sellers paid eBay $2 billion just to make sure their own listings showed up. Read that again. The board calls this growth. A Canadian who runs a video game store called it something else. Here is what actually happened. In 2020 the board hired a new CEO. His name is Jamie Iannone. He arrived with a strategy called focused categories. In plain English, that means leaning into the stuff people pay extra for. Sneakers. Watches. Trading cards. Auto parts. The everyday seller, the person with the camera and the coat, was no longer the customer. The customer was now the seller who would pay to be seen. In 2025 eBay did $80 billion in transactions. They kept $11 billion of that as revenue. Of that $11 billion, $2 billion came from advertising. Sellers paid them $2 billion to promote listings on a website those sellers already pay fees to use. That is the growth story. In the same year, the number of enthusiast buyers, eBay's own term for their best customers, was 16 million. It was also 16 million the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that. Four years. Zero growth. They mention this on every earnings call without mentioning it. So what does a company do when growth stops? It buys back its own stock. In 2025, eBay returned over $3 billion to shareholders. Most of that was buybacks. In February the board authorized another $2 billion on top. Buybacks shrink the share count. Earnings per share goes up even when earnings stay flat. The stock price follows. The stock was $68 a year ago. It is $108 today. The company did not improve. The denominator got smaller. Then a man from Canada noticed. His name is Ryan Cohen. He runs GameStop. He started his career selling pet food online and sold it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion. He looked at eBay. 135 million buyers. $80 billion in transactions. Real margins. Real cash flow. A board harvesting the business instead of running it. He bought 5% of the company through derivatives and stock. Then on May 4, he offered to buy the rest. $125 per share. $56 billion total. On May 12, the eBay board rejected the bid. They called it not credible. The math is credible. What the board means by not credible is we would have to explain why we sold. Then Cohen went on Piers Morgan. He said eBay is run by a bunch of losers with perverse financial incentives. He pointed out that eBay's CEO has been paid $144 million over six years. He pointed out that he personally takes no salary and has put $128 million of his own money into the company he runs. You do not have to like Ryan Cohen to notice he is making a point that is hard to argue with. eBay used to be a place where regular people sold things to other regular people. Now it is a $48 billion company whose largest growth driver is charging its own sellers to advertise to a buyer base that stopped growing four years ago, while spending billions a year buying its own stock to make the chart go up. The board calls this strategy. A video game CEO from Canada called it what it is. The market is now waiting to see who else agrees. Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@KennyPolcari Loved this story and listening to you speak Italian! Thank you for sharing. I love Tarrytown. My first job out of college in 1986 was in accounting in Tarrytown, NY!

Papa Artie's Kitchen Blessing. open.substack.com/pub/kennypolca…

@RockyAtotheK Hands are not Michael’s

I hate to say it but yup. That is Michael Jackson.

Looks like another election-year lockdown virus lol… people testing positive, no symptoms, being quarantined. All sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it? Of course, Moderna already has a vaccine and its stock is soaring. I guess they think we’re stupid.

@SquawkStreet @andrewrsorkin Women are not getting more mammograms. Women woke up to the dangers of them quite a while ago. Pushing the mammogram agenda on your show was very obvious and thoughtless. Do better research and report on it.

@ValueAddedRS @rustysteelwool @ryancohen Thank you for sharing. Great interview!

@rustysteelwool @ryancohen That was a wild one for sure. 🤣 But this one was much better. I can't say I've ever seen this much genuine-sounding enthusiasm from any of eBay's recent CEOs. I guess like he said "we'll see what happens." x.com/tbpn/status/20…

I wonder if $GME @ryancohen knows about Walker's West - aka The Sellar - eBay's on campus pub serving free beer & wine at daily happy hour.🍻

@elonmusk If the government would stop dividing the people and embedding violence and racism, the people of our country would be united in support and love for each other.

@APompliano @ryancohen He is an excellent businessman who cares about shareholders and running a business for them as it should be with a public company. A rare breed I’d say.

I see a lot of people dismissing @ryancohen’s proposal for $GME to acquire eBay. Rookie mistake. He started Chewy (now $10B company), saved GameStop from its demise, and has created a fortified balance sheet. Ryan is a winner with a track record of doing the impossible.

@cvpayne @ThePPseedsShow @ryancohen Fantastic! Very much looking forward to the interview! Love your show so much! Thank you for all you do❤️

Breaking News @ryancohen will appear on Making Money With Charles Payne today 2pm. Please Tune In

@MbarkCherguia Could watch it, sounds were too gross😖

Do men out there think this is catfishing?

@elonmusk Without collective consciousness deciding to inhabit another planet, this won’t happen. Sorry Elon, but we like earth.

Yes

@VantagePointHQx @elonmusk This post made me lol👏

@elonmusk How can you not be excited about this.

@TheJudgeCNBC Nice to have you back!

Pretty extraordinary Fed meeting. The four dissents were historic enough, only to be overshadowed by Powell’s decision to stay on as a Gov.

@TrumpDailyPosts Incredible! God bless him!

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 - 𝟬𝟰:𝟬𝟲 𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟳.𝟮𝟲