luke thomas

[George @BehizyTweets]

BREAKING: Trump just unleashed a GENIUS ad of Kamala Harris debating herself. Each clip show her saying something, and the following clip shows her disagreeing with herself 😂

Voters will be seeing Comrade Kamala exposed as a flip-flopper

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

*Endorses Trump*

Less than 12 hours later:

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

😂 These people at the DNC had no idea this dude is making fun of them.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Share this with your friends and relatives who still get their news from the media

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President. Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. She will abolish private health care, and make California's ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If you want more CASH and less TAX, VOTE TRUMP!!!

[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

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Rescue the republic. Unify.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

If @CNN had been around in 1963.

[◼️ @anymorejake]

We should start a gofundme for those poor kids :(

[Jared @Jrods_Tweets]

Imma start a petition to Bring back “Pros vs Joe’s”

[Thomas Falgout @tgoo3]

This is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

The hard truth: as long as wild conspiracies spread more rapidly on the internet than mundane facts - and are propagated by political leaders - we can only expect more destabilizing events as more people genuinely believe them & turn to extremism.

[luke thomas @LukeThomas2015]

@Moodyboodyy Now that’s just a bad take

[rone’s gamblin corner @rone]

Got in a rap battle with a Christmas tree

[UTSA Football 🏈 @UTSAFTBL]

Kelechi Nwachuku posted a career-high 16 tackles vs. Army. That total is tied for the second-most tackles in a game in UTSA history and ranks No. 2 on Conference USA's single-game tackles list this season.

#BirdsUp 🤙

[Bayley Currey 🇺🇸 @BayleyCurrey]

How it started How it’s going

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

The Cant Lose Parlay Has Lost

[james padgett @Padgett730James]

@kfdmnews Damn! We gotta do better than that. We will never achieve herd immunity at that rate.

[Carp @robcarpenter81]

We got a real live Dave Chappelle skit 😂😂😂😂