Jaybird

Nobody gets my humor because it’s simply not funny. The sea is for pirates to fight on.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

Hella people be thinking anime is lame but Gojo is too fresh to not post.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@Teacherman1986 If you’re slow, just say so.

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

All I’m saying is maybe a lifelong liberal like RFK Jr backing Trump is an indicator of how extreme Kamala and Democrats actually are.

[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

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

I was right… look arounddddd

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

Take a good look around, 3 weeks from now youl never see these kids again

[Michal @itsmichalll]

”As Long as they're cool with Me I’m cool with them“❤️‍🩹

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Breaking: The chair of Yezidi Human Rights International says an 11 year old Yezidi girl kidnapped by ISIS to be a sex slave was found in the Gaza Strip.

These are the actions that United States professors and students are supporting.

[Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76]

Tbh, Kamala's plan to fix inflation is way better than Trumps.

Worth the listen.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Ok folks, the time has come. Listen up.

Israel will now send Lebanon back to the stone ages.

And here is your homework.

When Israel does what it needs to do and Lebanon begins to look like Gaza, before opening your mouth, go back and count the number of posts you wrote about the thousands of rockets that Hezbollah has fired indiscriminately into Israel for the last 9 months.

None? Not a single one? Then sit this one out and keep your mouth shut.

Hezbollah killed Druze 10 children today who were playing soccer.

Israel has the moral responsibility now to go to war.

Inevitably, as soon as Israel retaliates, the global media will go to work to try and vilify Israel.

Take a good look. This is Beirut, the before picture. Make a mental note because it’ll never look like this again after today’s massacre of children playing soccer.

Red lines weren’t only crossed today, they were decimated.

Hezbollah is about to find out.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Hamas seen taking part in Islamic prayer as 5 terrified teenage girls sit behind them, covered in blood from severe beatings with indications that one of them, Naama Levy had been brutally r*ped.

After the prayer, one of the kidnappers tells a girl “You are so beautiful.”

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@alexmakoske @BarstoolBigCat keeping you guys in the loop.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@JetBlue Had the polar opposite experience from my last tweet. You guys continue to be the undisputed champions.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@alexmakoske @united @BarstoolBigCat Make that 4/4 with a 40 minute wait for bags

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@united I’ve been on 3 of your aircraft’s this week and all 3 were broken. Get it the fuck together.

[Tyler Osik @TylerOsik]

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[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

My girlfriend subliminally bullies me by paying attention to one football game a year and it’s coincidentally her team knocking my team out of the playoffs annually.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

I just put the dealbreaker back on top of the deck so she could win.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

Kid can’t set an edge

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

I wonder why they aren’t naming the suspect. It’s a mystery I guess.

[Jaybird @JordanBlock2]

@barkxk @JujutsuTwts

[Brooke Goldstein @GoldsteinBrooke]

A hero calling out the obsessive Jew hatred behind the “Free Palestine” rioters around the world and the ugly bigots tearing down posters of kidnapped children. 👏