Brant Huddleston

Disputatious Scrivener | Mad Inventor | Digital Docent | Optimistic Futurist | Peak Podcaster | Romantic

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This video is a reminder of just some of the psychological & verbal abuse that unvaccinated people had to go through. All of it was disgusting propaganda & lies meant to divide people & coerce people to accept a vaccine they did not want to take. This push to get vaccinated people to hate unvaccinated people was being pumped out every single day. Never forget.

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

https://t.co/UeTxSlS5Nv @elonmusk

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Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was 'Not Particularly Dangerous' https://t.co/3DJmLrYPSL via @reason

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

“They are directly speaking to millions & millions of people without oversight.”

Exactly. That’s free speech. No oversight by government bureaucrats.

@jaketapper looks genuinely dumbfounded that this could possibly be her actual position.

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

The key to understanding the conflict in the Middle East is found in the eschatologies (end time studies) of these three religions: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. #eschatology #ENDTIMES #Prophecy #ISLAM #Christianity #Judaism #armageddon #russia

[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

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

@elonmusk Kennedy

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

I have noticed that the more Progressive a #crowd is, the higher their mask density index, that is the number of people per 100 wearing #facemasks. An MDI of over 40 is most likely a gathering of The Woke. #maskdensityindex #woke #progressive

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@elonmusk Suggest he embrace the weird label and roll with it. Print up tee-shirts: I’m WEIRD for TRUMP

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

@realMaalouf No

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

Count me as weird

https://t.co/oBWZj8rAu7

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@RnaudBertrand This woman should be fired. Immediately

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Gentle parenting people confused by your white-people meetings.

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

Finished reading @WalterIsaacson biography of @elonmusk. Learned about @Tesla self-driving #Robotaxi . Watch for demand for carriages that hook to robo-cars tractor-trailer style as predicted by me in 2017:
https://t.co/AlYTqwG390

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

@IanCycles @anatijoux @AngelicaGarcia @DinaOgon @GirlandgirlM @Wilco @ElvisCostello @paulwellerHQ My fav show so far! ❤️❤️❤️

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Adventures in Azerbaijan, by @ByBrant https://t.co/WqlZiMpbi5

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I understand @JoeLieberman co-chair of the third party group #NoLabels died yesterday from a fall. He didn’t by chance fall out a window, did he?

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@nytdavidbrooks Good stuff. Bravo!

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2023 NEW HD 1080P Noise Reduction Camera https://t.co/AamZjMqc7p

[Brant Huddleston @ByBrant]

@brad_polumbo @janecoaston @nytimes Read the piece and think you hit the nail right on its head. Well done.