Baylor Lanford ‘20

On April 5, 2019 @benshapiro answered one of my questions. Gig’em

[Baylor Lanford ‘20 @BaylorLanford]

'Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.' - George Bush.

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Johnny Manziel says $20,000,000 wouldn’t have moved him out of Texas A&M but one man could have

Caller: “If Johnny Manziel played in today’s era with the whole NIL, do you think Texas A&M sells out for him, or do you think they let him go?”

Johnny: “I wouldn’t have left. No matter what. I could have got a $20 million offer from somewhere else and I wouldn’t have left.”

“The only place I would have even considered, if the money was that way, would be to go reunite with Kingsbury...”

“And it was really tough for him. I went over to his apartment the night he was going to take the Tech job, and he was really emotional about it. I was too, because we had built such a bond.”

“That Heisman year was special, to go to New York together. That was sick. And I love that dude so much.”

(via @almostathletes_, ft. @JManziel2)

[Holly Rowe @sportsiren]

Well this was precious and now I am weeping. Our @delta pilot came on and said the crew wanted to honor the joy @DollyParton brought to the world. This is how taxied in to gate!

[Baylor Lanford ‘20 @BaylorLanford]

@TheMilkBarTV The one that gets me, that didn’t make the video, is “burial”.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I don't know who needs to hear this…but if I'm ever murdered at one of these events and someone claiming to be my friend proceeds to try and destroy everything I love based on vibes, ghostly visits and innuendo...please side with my wife…not the person claiming to be my friend.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Golden Retriever wearing a hat went viral devouring a full hot dog at the ballpark. Dude was in heaven

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

As we gathered for our meeting at the White House yesterday, JD Vance mentioned to us that he had never before visited the Oval Office. I told him and President Trump that I HAD to capture the moment on video. Only in America can a hardworking young man from Appalachia rise from his humble circumstances to enter the Oval for first time as VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. What a country! 🇺🇸

[H. F. @MayBeHunterF]

Literally 95% of female Democrat voters...

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

He is not female & he is not “the highest paid female CEO in America.” He climbed none of the mountains we did, overcame none of our challenges. He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40. He knows nothing about being a woman & will never be one no matter his costume.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🧐

[Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany]

The ABC moderator decided to inject herself into the debate.

HERE is a fact check on babies left to die after surviving abortion in Tim Walz's Minnesota:

https://t.co/mpFMhmH11H

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

Trump is right

Virginias governor endorsed post birth abortion https://t.co/N3wJXIvIJM

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

It’s absolutely tragic and heartbreaking that the only women who have made it this far in a presidential election are obsessed with defending the killing of babies. As a woman, I’m ashamed.

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Great to meet you today!
Congratulations to your Horns today-they looked incredible!

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second

[Sophie Martin @SophieLMartin]

“What media bias?”

[IceBorg @IceBorgRevived]

ESPN CLIP FOR THOSE WHO WANT.

[Baylor Lanford ‘20 @BaylorLanford]

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[Baylor Lanford ‘20 @BaylorLanford]

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