David

[David @bubbahudd]

Once you learn your worth, you'll stop giving people discounts.

[David @bubbahudd]

@IanJaeger29 Who?

[David @bubbahudd]

@miyacacia ✅
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[David @bubbahudd]

@AmericanAir No. How about you guys just stop being awful. It’s literally 80% of my flights. Oh yeah, and your gate agents were absolutely worthless to a lady that was trying to get them to assist her early.

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

TBS absolutely nailed the Emmanuel Clase x Wild Thing entrance 🔥🔥

[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

[David @bubbahudd]

Can’t believe neither @joerogan or @Jon_Anik have pointed out that this Fili/Swanson fight has to be the most cumulative tattoos in one @ufc fight.

[David @bubbahudd]

@gmfinancial @GMC I would love to except that I’ve already been working with Customer Care and that has been less that fruitful.

[David @bubbahudd]

My truck has been at a GMC dealership for over two months waiting on repairs with no end in sight and @GMC has been almost impossible to work with on this. I give them a 0 out of 10 and strongly advise anyone I know to avoid purchasing a GM vehicle. Big thumbs down. @gmfinancial

[David @bubbahudd]

Turns out, it really is “bad boy for life.”

[David @bubbahudd]

I used to think Southwest was the absolute worst airline when it came to delays with flights but @AlaskaAir is really making a strong case to be the worst airline experience that there is.

[David @bubbahudd]

@TheoVon I’ve been Covid negative the last three years as well and I have take virtually none of these precautions. I bet she’s stayed safe from having friends too.

[David @bubbahudd]

A visual representation of how the Georgia vs TCU game is going right now.

[David @bubbahudd]

@POTUS

[David @bubbahudd]

@elonmusk @Teslaconomics Talk to @jockowillink and let him pick a team.

[David @bubbahudd]

@shawna_m_martin 8 billion people and only one Shawna Martin!

[David @bubbahudd]

@stoolpresidente @BBSportsNeal

[David @bubbahudd]

@LRAaronK Tell them that you “wish they would make those with Velcro straps.”

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Angels AA affiliate Rocket City Trash Pandas lived up to their name tonight as they launched rocket fireworks into their crowd tonight

[David @bubbahudd]

@shawna_m_martin He was afraid it would make you too powerful.

[David @bubbahudd]

Being a @Cubs fan is hard enough. Being a Cubs fan when the Ricketts family and Jed Hoyer are running shit is borderline impossible.

The quality of players you have traded these last two years with nothing of quality in return is embarrassing. #GetFuckedJed