Corporate greed is Microsoft making $134 billion in profits last year, receiving $19 billion in tax breaks under Trump, paying a lower federal income tax rate than a nurse and getting rid of 60,000 workers.
“Corporations will create jobs if they get tax breaks” is a total scam.
@AriWasserman They also lost their star QB in that game and he is now out for the season.
When you have a NIL budget like Pitt and the 1 player that takes about 20% of that pie is out, it's going to go south quick.
Details matter.
@Mikey5Aces@TruRift He is a shit coach that has won more at Pitt than anyone other than Wannestedt in the last 40 years. He's shit coach that has done more with less his entire career. Okay...
That's lazy commentary.
Are his methods getting stale? Sure, but someone please tell me the alternative.
@Mikey5Aces@TruRift There is absolutely zero chance they lose that game vs BC with Mason. Dailey was as bad as could be after that 1st throw.
Imagine complaining about a team that was undefeated and ranked with a healthy QB, a team that would be 7-1, probably ranked in the top 20, if he's playing.
In 1941, a Spaniard walked into the British embassy in Madrid and offered to spy on the Nazis.
The British turned him down.
So he went to the Germans instead, pretended to be a loyal fascist, and got hired as a German spy. His plan was to lie to them for the rest of the war.
It worked better than anyone could have imagined.
His name was Juan Pujol García. Before the war he had tried his hand at running a chicken farm and a movie theater. He had no spy training. What he had was a deep hatred of both fascism and communism after the Spanish Civil War, and an incredible imagination.
The Germans gave him a codename, invisible ink, money, and orders to go to Britain and recruit spies.
He didn't go to Britain.
He went to Lisbon, Portugal, and made everything up.
Using a tourist guidebook, maps, magazines, newsreels, and a British railway timetable from the library, he wrote long, detailed reports about life in England. Military movements. Morale. Ports.
He'd never been there. He made mistakes. He didn't understand British money. He once reported that dockworkers in Glasgow would do anything for a liter of wine.
The Germans loved him anyway.
Then British codebreakers reading German messages noticed something strange. The Germans were hunting for a convoy that didn't exist, based on a report from some agent in Britain they'd never heard of.
The British went looking for this mystery spy. They found Pujol. In 1942 they finally took him on and brought him to London.
Now he had real help. MI5 gave him the codename Garbo, after the actress, because they thought he was the greatest actor in the world.
Together with his British handler, Pujol built a fake spy network for the Germans. It eventually had 27 imaginary agents. Each had a name, a personality, a job, and a backstory. A Welsh nationalist. A Venezuelan student. A Greek sailor. Some of them recruited their own imaginary sub-agents.
When they needed to explain why one agent had gone quiet, they killed him off. They even put a fake obituary in a Liverpool newspaper. The Germans reportedly paid a pension to his widow.
Who also didn't exist.
Then came D-Day.
Hours before the landings, the British let Pujol send a message warning the Germans that the invasion was coming in Normandy. It was timed so it would arrive too late to matter, but it made him look brilliant.
Three days later he sent the most important message of his career. Normandy was a trick, he said. The real invasion was still coming, at Calais, led by a huge army under General Patton.
That army was fake too. But the Germans believed him.
German forces that could have been rushed to Normandy were held back near Calais for weeks, waiting for an attack that never came.
The Germans were so grateful they awarded him the Iron Cross.
A few months later, King George VI made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
He's one of the only people known to have been decorated by both sides of the war.
After the war, afraid of revenge from surviving Nazis, he faked his own death from malaria in Africa and disappeared to Venezuela, where he lived quietly running a shop.
For decades the world thought he was dead.
In 1984, a British writer tracked him down. Pujol came back to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and met veterans who had landed on the beaches.
Some of them thanked him.
Also stop building new stadiums with tax payer's money. Owners are worth more than ever, yet they continue to hold cities (and fans) hostage with threats of relocation and funding new stadiums (see KC & Chicago).
https://t.co/auEctc0wHR
There are 30 NFL stadiums -- 27 (90%) used direct public funding. The other 3 got tax breaks/publicly funded infastructure.
Stop taking games from fans, stop stealing rev you promised tax-payers when asking for their $, stop diluting the product, and stop risking player health.
There are 30 NFL stadiums -- 27 (90%) used direct public funding. The other 3 got tax breaks/publicly funded infastructure.
Stop taking games from fans, stop stealing rev you promised tax-payers when asking for their $, stop diluting the product, and stop risking player health.