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enjoy the journey

[caranicas @caranicas]

Is there anything more pathetic than a foreign right wing grifter trying to cos play as an American for clout?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Hi @patrickbetdavid ,

Last year, you lamented that US companies have shipped their manufacturing abroad, taking advantage of low-cost labor in other countries. This, you suggested, is why we need tariffs.

I happen to know where your shoes are made, as you showed clips of the Tuscan factory in your video. I was surprised to see that you're retailing them for $600. That's a handsome mark-up!

As you may know, many companies offer full-grain leather sneakers made in Tuscany for a fraction of the price. I've attached a screenshot of some from Gustin ($199). These are also made with a stitched-on cup sole, like the ones you're selling. Gustin's prices are uniquely low because of their pre-order business model, which allows them to cut waste. But lots of companies use the same factory as you and charge considerably less than $600.

Curious, why not make the sneakers in the United States? There are many factories still here, such as Opie in North Carolina. They retail their US-made sneakers for $428. Their business model allows third parties to work with them while maintaining a healthy profit margin. Faherty, for instance, made a leather deck shoe with them this season with a stitched-on cup sole. Their retail price is $398 — $30 less than Opie's direct-to-consumer price.

In a 2023 interview with DJ Vlad, you said that you're worth $450 million. That was three years ago, so perhaps you're worth more today. Yet all your merch is made abroad, including in South American countries such as Nicaragua and El Salvador. Even your Tuscan factory is cheaper than a comparable US factory.

On your show, you often lament how greedy executives have screwed American workers, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Would you be interested in moving all of your sneaker production to the United States and charging a fairer price? This will create jobs for US workers and allow consumers to get a fairer value.

[caranicas @caranicas]

@ASvanevik Why can’t capitalists build things in a barren hellscape devoid of government grants or public utilities like roads, water treatment plants and electricity. Fuckin brain dead.

[caranicas @caranicas]

@SchmittNYC @Variety Yeah. We should listen to Kid Rock instead.

[caranicas @caranicas]

Matt see something happening at night and his pea brain is terrified.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@nicksortor @ThomGallagher27 Oh my gosh man, it looks like a war zone.

How the hell is the happening in the United States????

WE NEED MASS ARRESTS!!!!!!!!!!

[caranicas @caranicas]

Yeah. Just look at all those violent people holding cameras… just brain dead boot licking.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: MAJOR clashes underway between NJ police and anti-ICE rioters in Newark

SUPER physical fights

WE NEED NATIONAL GUARD!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.'

The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

My plan for solving the housing crisis:

1. Arrest Hasan Piker
2. Name every street after Charlie Kirk
3. Nationwide ban on the 3 trans athletes that play volleyball

[caranicas @caranicas]

When everything you don’t like or don’t understand is fraud….

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Holy smokes. Stephen Miller says he believes that the fraud and waste being uncovered by the Anti-Fraud Taskforce is so widespread, that dealing with it could balance the budget:

"This is the fastest in history that a government task force has traveled from creation to action."

"Fraud is every bit as bad as President Trump said it was, and even worse ... I believe from what I've seen, from what I've heard, that we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the Treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible."

If that's even 50% true, we owe it to the American people to not stop until every red cent of fraud is rooted out.

[caranicas @caranicas]

More like David Asinine takes.

[David Asman @DavidAsmanfox]

If you’re pulling into a gas station this Memorial Weekend, complaining about the inconvenience of paying more at the pump…consider the sacrifice of the soldier, sailor, or Marine, making their sacrifices for our lives and our freedom. Exchange your complaint for a prayer.

[caranicas @caranicas]

🙄

[@jason @Jason]

I'm just here for the MAGA civil war in the replies 😂😂😂😂😂

[caranicas @caranicas]

Look, he has learned about satire.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Truth via Humor

[caranicas @caranicas]

The speaker of the house apparently doesn’t know what a Utopia is.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

There are little Mamdanis popping up all around the country, and they're openly avowed socialist Marxist ideology. This is something that we have never seen before in American history. 

This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology, and that's a dangerous thing for the future of the country.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Speaking of fraud

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender.

AOC: It’s not a secret the disdain Ted Cruz has for people who work working-class jobs. It’s not a secret what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks—he thinks we’re less than him. He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and has never scrubbed a table that it makes him better than someone who has actually had to work for a living.

I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

[caranicas @caranicas]

Saved you from having to travel to gargle his tiny nut sack.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It is impossible to overestimate the historic importance of @elonmusk purchasing this platform. He saved freedom of speech. He saved truth.

[East Village Guy @eastvillageguy]

The All-In pod talking about @elonmusk

[caranicas @caranicas]

@theobjectivist You braindead or blind?

[caranicas @caranicas]

@HistoryBoomer Also to actually answer your question is that you aren’t paying your labor enough. Almost certainly taking advantage of undocumented migrant labor. Fucking doofus.

[caranicas @caranicas]

@HistoryBoomer How are they growing without competion eating into their margins, how are they expand into regions they aren’t familiar with. This is a moronic analogy, It’s burgers. There is no moat. You are clearly no even as close to as smart as you’d like to think you are.