Matthew Giraldi

@mgiraldi.bsky.social

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Sports watcher, book reader, beer drinker.

Star gazer, cynical sonofabitch, weed smoker.

Nature lover, music listener, food eater.

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I think it's because a lot of those posters went from being an "anon" to being a blue checkmark. They substituted the medium they used to post vile content to a much bigger and broader platform. It's the exact same content delivered in the exact same fashion but on a "legitimate" host site.

The New York Times has always been a severely right leaning publication. Having said that, it's kinda funny that back in 2016 Donald Trump convinced so many liberals and conservatives that it was a liberal newspaper...and then so many liberals spent money subscribing to "save democracy" Wild times

Trump is literally a convict that ain't a painting, it's a photo

Apparently there is a bitcoin conference coming up and this is who they have as keynote speakers

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Matthew Giraldi

Big Lots announced they are closing 35-40 stores. “In 2024, the U.S. economy has continued to face macroeconomic challenges including elevated inflation, which has adversely impacted the buying power of our customers” They spent $600M in stock buybacks since 2020. www.tipranks.com/stocks/big/b...

Big Lots to close 35 to 40 stores this year amid 'doubt' the company can survivewww.usatoday.com A financial filing by the company showed not only that it plans to close 35 to 40 locations this year, but also reported millions in lost sales.

1,314 people have been laid off from GM this calendar year in Michigan. They are in the middle of a $6 billion stock buyback program approved last month. So while they fall behind in the EV market, the shareholders enjoyed a few more cents in dividends. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

GM board approves new $6 billion share buyback authorizationwww.cnbc.com The new buyback authorization comes as a previously announced accelerated $10 billion share repurchase program is expected to be completed this month.

You know people are going to blame "woke" & "pride" on the John Deere layoffs. More than 1,000 people have lost their jobs in the last three months. This year to date, John Deere has spent nearly $2.5 BILLION on stock buybacks. It is part of their "equity buyback plan" www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Over 300 additional John Deere employees to be laid off in Waterloo, Iowawww.wqad.com Over the past three months, John Deere has laid off more than 1,000 employees across the company.

Intuit (Turbotax) is laying off 10% of its workforce. The CEO said >1,000 of the layoffs were employees that were not meeting the company’s elevated expectations. But Intuit is in the middle of a $3 billion share repurchase authorization & moving to AI. investors.intuit.com/news/news-de...

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization planapnews.com Tax preparation and financial software company Intuit announced an AI-focused reorganization plan Wednesday that includes laying off about 10% of its workforce.

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Denny Carter

Someone really needs to do a blended faces reply to that of Klip and Greenwald.

I'm vaxxed and three times boosted too. This recent variant kicked the shit out of me. Three straight days over 103° fever, congestion, loss of smell/taste for a 36 hour period, massive dry cough. And the severe stuff didn't happen until around day 7-10 post infection

US: Kamala Harris' Husband Tests Positive For Covid. She Is Negative. "He is fully vaccinated and three times boosted," she said, adding that the Second Gentleman is "currently asymptomatic, continuing to work remotely, and remaining away from others at home" www.ndtv.com/world-news/k...

Kamala Harris' Husband Tests Positive For Covid. She Is Negativewww.ndtv.com US Vice President Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for Covid-19, the latter's office has announced.

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Coach Finstock

Beat wishes. This FLiRT variant messed me up bad

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Denny Carter

It's what always slays me about the distribution of polling post 2020. The distribution of partisan percentages on an 1,800 person poll won't really change. 30% D. 30% R. 35% I. 5% etc. But man I wonder how often they get the following answer calling some of the Repubs...

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🌊🔔🌊live hamás

That would make sense too lmao. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Denny Carter

Aside from an antiquated methodology conducting polls, they focus far too much on nationally generalized samples rather than smaller regional samples. I'm also insistent that the massive area polling doesn't account for is COVID death disparity from 2020-now. Lotta GOP boomers are polling 6ft under

Dude. Re-read what you just wrote. And please while doing that add some emphasis to that last bit. It's the part of this discussion that is constantly evading your grasp.

Lol I got blocked by the OP for this? This website slays me.

"They're not attacking your policies they're attacking your age" Watching Independence Day and that quote is pretty fucking hilarious given the current political climate

Jaws alternate ending: After Chief Brody blows up the shark, 20 other sharks come racing to the area because of all the blood and meat now in the water.

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Dunkin' Idahos

Shouting "You can't do that, it's illegal" at the people that already got away with doing illegal shit while in the White House

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Iron Spike

Stay safe. I am currently on ≈Day 13 post infection and I've never been this sick in my life. First week was just the dry cough. But around day 10 rapid fever 102+°, congestion, headaches, etc. Pretty sure it's the FLiRT variation that's going around for me and it suuuucks

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🌻Sandi 🍝🌊

Honestly, just check in on the gift articles sub here and you'll often see most NYT articles that are actually worth a damn.. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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kilgore trout

Just spitballing here...but I think the reason these publications and pundits aren't equally attacking Trump is because they're fearful of his followers and the possibility they'd come after them. For all the [redacted] suggestions towards certain people in robes, maybe [redacted] towards suits too

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DodgerFanLA

The one difference (imho) is that I feel like a lot of people this go-around *know* this playbook and are of the mind that Biden could die two days after inauguration day and it wouldn't change the fact that they'll vote for the soon-to-be corpse and his competent staff vs. Trump and his sycophants.

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Denny Carter

The three liberal SCOTUS judges will be in danger too. He will say that Ketanji Brown Jackson was DEI and an illegitimate appointment. And if he can't remove them, he will make an executive order packing the court with 10 more judges. Aileen Cannon is guaranteed going to the SCOTUS if Trump wins.

Seriously y'all...be safe out there with this new COVID variant. I've never been this sick in my life. Past three days I've been bed ridden. Body aches, fever, congestion. Finally feeling better this morning but fuck. It's kinda scary

If Trump loses this election, he's done in politics. And for all the MAGA movement and all that, we have repeatedly seen that there isn't someone in the passengers seat. It is beyond cliché to say defeat him at the ballot box, but legitimately if he's defeated at the ballot box in Nov he's done.

Harness all this negative energy over the next four months and bring it to this motherfucker. MAGA is not America. They can be defeated again.

This is why the moderators allowed both candidates to act like they were in a WWE in-ring promo. There's like 10,000 undecided voters in this country iwbh. We have 4 years of literal policy *as POTUS* from each candidate to analyze. Anyone who watched did so for entertainment or masochism or both

OMG WE ARE SO TIRED

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max rez

Using PredictIt as any indicator ignores the fact that a month after the election in 2020 you could still get Biden at like 86 cents. There is a ton of dumb money on that website.

A best of both worlds here: Biden preemptively uses immunity to fix the SCOTUS situation. Monday, they say no immunity.