Today’s weather is mostly sunny with a high near 78, which means half our fair city will pretend it’s a heatwave while the other half will refuse to give up their Patagonia fleece.
Trump Hangs up Faster Than You Can Say “Flight Log”: Despite Speaker Johnson abruptly shutting down the House, this scandal just won’t die. Turns out Donald Trump was personally told by Attorney General Pam Bondi back in May that his name pops up multiple times in the Epstein files—the very same files the feds promised to release before pulling a hard U-turn. According to The Wall Street Journal, both Bondi and FBI-director-loyalist Kash Patel warned Trump, brushing off the mentions as “unverified hearsay” about his old Epstein hangouts. And Trump? He responded the way any totally innocent person would: by hanging up on CNN. With even some House Republicans now backing Dems to get those files out in the open and Ghislaine Maxwell freshly subpoenaed, the Epstein vortex is sucking DC back into its sleaze orbit. Trump, reportedly “furious,” says there are way more important stories—like his latest attempt to accuse Obama of treason. Uh huh…
Gaza Is Starving While World Leaders Stall: While world leaders churn out limp press releases and squabble over phantom “humanitarian corridors,” more than 100 aid organizations are shouting what should already be unbearable to ignore: Gaza is starving, and Israel’s blockade is to blame. In a searing joint statement titled “As Mass Starvation Spreads Across Gaza, Our Colleagues and Those We Serve Are Wasting Away,” they describe skeletal children, aid workers collapsing from hunger, and food distribution sites turned into massacre zones. As of July 13, more than 875 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food. Meanwhile, trucks packed with food, clean water, and medicine sit idle just outside Gaza—trapped by a siege designed not to fail, but to punish. “Each morning, the same question echoes across Gaza: will I eat today?” one agency rep said. The answer, too often, is no. This isn’t just a famine. It’s a war crime, and every day the world delays, more lives are lost to the politics of cruelty.
Hellfire Roast: Turns out Starbucks isn’t just serving up venti-sized lattes—it’s pouring out infernal levels of executive greed. Per the AFL-CIO’s new Executive Paywatch report, CEO Brian Niccol made 6,666 times more than the company’s typical worker last year. That’s right: six-six-six-six—a number so cursed it practically demands a goat sacrifice. While Niccol sipped nearly $98 million in compensation, the average barista scraped by on less than $15K. Starbucks claims this is because many workers are part-time, but that hasn’t stopped the company from dropping millions on union-busting lawyers and listening sessions instead of just, you know, paying people more. Workers have been striking, organizing, and dragging the company into court for years—meanwhile, Niccol’s getting a fat Trump-era tax cut on top of his stock-heavy bonus package. That mocha latte might taste a little more bitter now.
The Government Just Ghosted Your Debt Relief: So, the Department of Education just hit pause on student loan forgiveness for folks in Income-Based Repayment plans. Which means if you’ve been grinding for years thinking you were finally done, the government’s like, “Actually, we need to recalculate your trauma first.” Interest kicks back in August 1, the tax break on forgiven debt expires in January, and a Trump administration, already hostile to student debt relief, most likely slow-walking the loan forgiveness process like it’s a hostage negotiation. God forbid working people catch a break without crawling through a decade of red tape and moral judgment.
Now, let us get into the tragicomedy that is our local news…
Fergie Has Some ‘Splaining to Do: While Gov. Ferguson was thwarting taxes on billionaires last budget session, he somehow missed the stack of misconduct allegations piling up against his right-hand man, Mike Webb. Axios reports that although Webb resigned this year after multiple women accused him of creating a hostile work environment, red flags on the guy go back to 2013, with state auditors raising alarms as far back as 2019 with Ferguson’s office. The paraphrased response from Ferguson’s crew at the time? No formal HR complaint, so we’re good. Political code for “If you didn’t notarize your trauma, it doesn’t count.” And the kicker? Webb’s still tagging along and flying shotgun on campaign trips with Ferguson’s team as recently as last month. Apparently, in state politics, being a powerful creep doesn’t get you canceled. It gets you extra leg room.
No Last Words, Just Lasting Rage: At his sentencing for the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students, Bryan Kohberger sat stone-faced and silent—offering zero explanation, zero remorse, and zero closure to the families he devastated. Prosecutors didn’t bother pushing for a plea deal that would force him to speak, because let’s be real: no one needed more self-serving nonsense from a guy who thinks silence makes him mysterious instead of monstrous. The Goncalves family, especially Kaylee’s sister Alivea, didn’t hold back—calling him “pathetic” and making it crystal clear he only succeeded because he attacked in the dark, like a coward. No motive, no mercy, no justice—just a courtroom full of grief staring down a man who will never give them what they actually deserve.
Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, for Now: A federal appeals court has ruled Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, echoing a previous decision from a New Hampshire district court. Essentially, Terror 47 tried to rewrite the Constitution with magic marker, and the courts just reminded him that reality still exists. The ruling simply states what every exhausted civics teacher in America has been screaming into the void: you can’t undo the 14th Amendment just because it ruins your fascist fantasy. Washington was one of the states to bring the case against the administration.
Fire in the Central District: A fire tore through Seattle’s Chinatown International Central District early Thursday, starting in a vacant home under construction and spreading to several neighboring homes, displacing multiple families. Thankfully, no residents were seriously hurt, although one firefighter was treated for minor injuries. The city is currently investigating the cause of the fire.
Can’t Win in Court? Block the Judge: Municipal Court Judge Damon Shadid just dragged City Attorney Ann Davison’s office in open court for what looks like a power-hungry, politically motivated stunt—blocking Judge Pooja Vaddadi from hearing DUI and domestic violence cases based on what Vaddadi says are straight-up lies. Davison’s move, which sidelined a newly elected judge and basically turned a voter mandate into a desk job, has now triggered a formal bar complaint and serious questions about ethics, transparency, and who actually gets to wield power in Seattle’s justice system. And now, as Davison runs for reelection with MAGA baggage and a suddenly fat campaign account, she’s facing three challengers who seem more interested in actual justice than playing courtroom politics.
Do Not Sign This Shit! In a raging case of voter suppression FOMO, Washington state conservatives are pushing a ballot initiative to literally gatekeep democracy. It’s the bureaucratic equivalent of “Show us your papers, comrade,” as if the right to vote should come with a TSA checkpoint and a scavenger hunt for your birth certificate. No more checking a box. It would now be, prove you’re American enough, or get the hell out of the ballot line. Let’s just be real: the GOP doesn’t fear non-citizens voting. They fear citizens voting against them. If they can’t win your vote, they’ll sure as hell try to make it as hard as possible to vote in the first place.
Waterfront Park Officially Opens: Our Emerald City officially unveiled its latest glow-up moment with the opening of the new Waterfront Park. Yes, 50,000 square feet of vibes where a collapsing highway used to loom like a concrete guillotine. After 15 years, we get a jellyfish-shaped playground, a fountain plaza, and 270 free events later this Summer. Essentially, it’s the city saying, “Sorry about the viaduct drama, here’s some yoga and a couple of food pop-ups.”
Seattle Loves Renters So Much It Won’t Even Let Them Meet: For 18 months, Cathy Moore basically ghosted the Seattle Renters’ Commission. There were no hearings, no appointments, nothing, while she pushed bills that would’ve made it way easier to evict people. Flash forward: she resigns, and just when it looks like the commission might finally get seated, Councilmembers Rob Saka and Sara Nelson pull a classic “Sorry, can’t come, super busy avoiding the duties we were elected to fulfill” move and tank the meeting by skipping it. Meanwhile, renters—many of them volunteers who took time off work—showed up ready to serve their community, only to get hit with silence, shade, and a 404 error from Saka’s office. You can’t make this up.
Donnie Chin Honored: Ten years after Donnie Chin was shot and killed while responding to a 911 call, the Chinatown-International District showed up, not just to mourn, but to remember a man who basically did the city’s job for it. Donnie wasn’t just a first responder; he was the first responder, often beating cops and medics to the scene because the system didn’t care enough to show up for his community. And here’s the part that still stings: a decade later, his murder is still unsolved.
Your Obligatory Seahawks 411: For the 5 percent of you who actually care and the 15 percent who just want to survive small talk with your partner’s meathhead sibling, here’s your Seahawks update. They just kicked off training camp for their 50th season with a new offensive coordinator, a quarterback best known for seeing “ghosts” mid-game, and the kind of blind optimism usually reserved for football fans and people joining multi-level marketing schemes. Last year, they went 10-7 and still missed the playoffs. But hey, if the defense stays mean, the rookies stay healthy, and the offense stops self-sabotaging, they might just luck their way into the postseason.
Death gives Hogan the big boot: I’m a firm believer that you shouldn’t valorize people, simply because their heart stops beating. So, I won’t pretend Hulk Hogan was anything but what he was. He died at 71 from cardiac arrest in Florida, leaving behind a legacy as bloated and performative as pro wrestling itself. Yes, he helped turn wrestling into a pop culture juggernaut, but he also brought us sex tapes, racist rants, and more tall tales than a televangelist on mushrooms—Elvis was a Hulkamaniac? Really? Even in death, Hogan is less a man than a cautionary tale—part myth, part lawsuit, and all-American spectacle, brother.
I’ll Leave You With this: someone just randomly texted me that it’s Jennifer Lopez’s birthday. I’m not a fan, so I’m not sure why I needed that information, but apparently she’s completed her 56th lap around the sun. In honor of the occasion, and because LL Cool J is involved, here’s her most tolerable song.
“[Starbucks] Workers have been striking, organizing, and dragging the company into court for years”
But it never occurred to them that it was just a temp gig and they could get a better job in another profession?
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We need to protect motorists from reckless and deadly pedestrians that use transit.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/motorcyclist-dies-in-interbay-after-crashing-into-pedestrian/
If a starbucks worker leaves for a better job their previous role will be filled by someone else working for a starvation wage. You can’t fix systemic problems by changing jobs.
Credit to Mark Solomon for trying to actually do his job as a CM, which disturbingly by itself makes him above average for this Council. I particularly appreciate this quote, from the Publicola article, throwing Nelson et al’s buzz-phrases back at them:
“I believe it’s common-sense good governance to promptly seat all vacancies on City commissions.”
@4, My service job growing up wouldn’t support me either. It was a placeholder for cash for school or other training, so I could upskill into a living wage at a job that required me full-time.
That’s the problem, is we aren’t creating the means for people to be upskilling and upwaging so that a Starbucks job is a means to a career, not a career. A job them move through, not into. A trampoline, not a hammock.
Now if consumers were willing to pay $10 for Pike Roast, black, and pay extra for cream, sugar, milk, and syrup shots, then being a barista at Starbucks could be a career. But they aren’t. If they were, they would need wage increases of their own to cover the increase in discretionary spending, which means their employer would need to raise the price of the cost or service that employer produces. TLDR: Inflation.
4: “starvation” LOL
@7 ???? it’s the technical term for the problem you acknowledged in your otherwise ignorant comment
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/starvation-wages
“While world leaders churn out limp press releases and squabble over phantom ‘humanitarian corridors,'”
Right on The Stranger!
Ckathes, Greenwood Bob, Thirteen12, Barth, et. al. have been posting here for years about the words needed to end the Gaza conflict. Words printed on a paper by a feckless world court without police or an army to forcibly enforce their orders. Words printed in a U.N. or NGO report. How effective have those words been.
The only thing worse than limp press releases by the nations in question is limp stories and comments at The Stranger that don’t call for actual boots on the ground by those countries.
When will The Stranger and those commenters actually call for something that does a Gazan some actual good. Like boots on the ground to make force Hamas, the IDF, or both to lose the will or capacity to fight in Gaza. How many Gazans will be killed in the crossfire between international boots on the ground and Hamas and/or the IDF? Will that be more or less Gazans than are caught in the crossfire between the current combatants?
$271. That’s how much more each Starbucks employee would have taken home if Niccols salary and bonuses were divided by Starbucks 361,000 workers. When you look at it this way, his compensation package looks completely reasonable to me.
Is eating important enough for the Palestinians to surrender the remaining Israeli hostages? Apparently their elected leadership doesn’t think so. You gotta respect Democratic outcomes.
I’ve never understood why anybody with student loans should receive any kind of a break (IBR, public service debt forgiveness). Those students, adults at the time, promised to repay their loans with interest. I didn’t force them to attend college. Why should I be forced to pay for it?
Proof of citizenship to vote? Of course I’m signing that shit. (In this case, “shit” being very much a term of endearment.)
Considering the renters commission is likely to come up with a bunch of policies that force rents higher, it’s for the best they don’t meet.
Apparently the top leadership position at Hamas is vacant and they have no direct line to Netanyahu so even if a few in Hamas did want to meet Israel’s demands they couldn’t so that’s just another way this situation incomprehensibly ghastly.
@6 You people always say the same thing about service jobs. “They’re meant for children/teenagers, not adults.” You even said it yourself. “My service job growing up…” If thats the case… who is supposed to work there during the weekday mornings and afternoons when the kids are in school?
Full grown adults who have to pay for rent and childcare and groceries and bills… that’s who. And those people also need and deserve a living wage and benefits.
@11 – Starbucks has the greatest benefit package in the food service industry. Hell, when I retire early, I may pick up 24 hours a week at the Siren just for the health insurance (free coffee is another nice perc I’m sure.)
900 block of 20th Ave = Marion and 20th, which is in the CD, not the International District (or C-ID)
@11, Some college kid that has scheduled afternoon classes. Some union apprentice that has afternoon training at the union hall. A vocational student at a community college with afternoon and evening classes. Some senior that wants a part-time job that won’t nuke their Social Security, gives them something to do, and a few extra bucks to spoil the grandkids rotten with. Some 20 or 30 something adult that hasn’t yet grown tired of having 6 roommates in a 3 bedroom apartment and figured out what they want to do when they grown up. An aspiring artist or band member still waiting for their big break while they default on their loans from now defunct Cornish College of the Arts, or their Drama or Music Degree from the U.W. An English Lit. major in their 50’s who hasn’t sold out to the man yet, and is still working part-time until their literary genius is recognized and someone publishes their Great American Novel. You know. Real people with real issues, moving along through life, rather than stagnating in a dead-end job with no growth prospects.
@11, Someone writing at The Stranger, who is paying off Ivy League school loans who thinks $70k and benefits isn’t enough, and isn’t going to school to learn to be plumber (in short supply), chemist, bioscientist, lawyer, or supply chain manger, accountant, or learning how to use AI to replace an accountant or coder..
8: So obnoxious of you to disregard my scare quotes to play professor. Also, it’s a slang term, not a technical term.
@10, $271, So at 24 hours a week, year round, another $0.22 cents per hour. At 40 hours a week, $0.13 cents per hour. Those high CEO wages are what is preventing a living wage. It’s nice to know such a small raise is all that is needed to put these workers over the top into a living wage.
“The city is currently investigating the cause of the fire.”
We’re all looking forward to the Stranger’s follow-up once the cause is known.
16 again, ????
You said nothing of substance for me to respond to. You just used scare quotes to mock the idea that someone living on $15K/year might go hungry, and now you’re splitting hairs over it being technical or slang. It’s a commonly used and widely understood term to describe wages that fall below the poverty line and you have nothing to dispute that. You’re just letting us all know you’re a dim bulb and kind of an asshole. Keep up the good work, you’re doing great, feebs.
@18 – Oh please, very rarely does the even Seattle Times do that – unless a famous landmark burns or something. Find something else to arbitrate.
To be fair, it is pretty easy to mock someone in WA earning 15k. That’s less than 1/2 time work with our minimum wage and assuming no tips. (Who doesn’t tip at Starbucks?)
Before they bitch about being hungry, they can pick up an extra 1000 hours a year. Otherwise it just sounds like “ho-hum” to me.
19 – “You just used scare quotes to mock the idea that someone living on $15K/year might go hungry”
Darn right I did. Take a bow, loser.
@19., Let’s get rid of their CEO and his compensation. That will raise their income to $15,271 per year. That will make all the difference.
Are you prepared to pay $10 a cup for an 8oz drip coffee, so they can double that wage? Didn’t think so.
How about we reduce the profit margin from 10% for shareholders to 5%. Now you are talking. They can make $20,000 per year. Of course they won’t have shareholders anymore, or Starbucks, because no one will buy their stock. The share price will drop so fast, it will get delisted.
Are you prepared to reduce the return on your 401(k) to a measly 5%? Didn’t think so.
22 yes we’ve already established you’re a miserable piece of shit, no need to keep hammering it in
24: I know this might sound off-topic, but are you one of those types at wits end over Stephen Colbert getting cancelled?
I’ve never been at wit’s end about anything let alone a tv show. Why do you ask, phoebe?
26: Hiding behind your sickpuppets menagerie again? You seem to resort to it when egg’s on your face.
https://youtu.be/rDWalFmERhY
I understand the reasoning behind the sock puppet allegations. It’s due to the old guard Stranger staff being too fragile to read a few comments that offended them. Rather than embrace free speech principles they would lock the account, forcing a new one to be created to be able to participate in the conversation.
I’d much rather still be using my original account circa 2008 but it was locked because my view of biological reality didn’t match the Strangers. Still, my views have been widely adopted by the public, so I guess I won that battle. 😀
another day of shit comments on Slog.
please don’t use any photos of President Toxic Narcissist on Slog, even if you crop half his bloated head off.
@27 no i am just calling it as i see it. You made a comment last week using a bunch of weird words only raindrop would say, like barbs and orthogonal. No one else on earth talks like that. If you want to push back on anything i said go for it but all you’ve said so far only reveals your contempt for working class americans.
“No motive, no mercy, no justice—just a courtroom full of grief staring down a man who will never give them what they actually deserve.”
So what Marcus is justice for a quadruple homicide (life in prison seems reasonable – I’m not a big fan of the death penalty)?
And speaking of justice delayed, the audacity of anyone at TS to call out unsolved crimes given their attitudes towards our justice system is beyond rich. No snitching, amirite.
Of course republicans are trying to cheat. They always try to cheat because their positions are horrible and their candidates are ridiculous.
They always try GOP has become a pedophile death cult
Oh dear. That last sentence should be “The GOP has become a pedophile death cult”
Mrs. Vel-DuRay regrets the error.
30: especially the orthogonal ones.
34: So Trump is dead then?
@31, You still haven’t addressed what to do about the plight of service workers at Starbucks given the tyranny of the math described accurately to you @23, @17, @10.
I am with @30 on the latter of his two comments.
@30 Max Solomon: +1 Thank you for beating me to it, and forewarning about shit comments by the usual gang of trolling idiots. Duly noted and scrolling past the repeat offenders.
@33 Catalina Vel-DuRay: +1 Like you say, Republicans are horrible people.
@34 Catalina Vel-DuRay: +1 No worries. I knew what you meant.
Oh wow yes, that’s definitely math you did there and it’s certainly been described. Good job.
39: Obama begat Trump, and Biden begat Trump. That’s what’s horrible.
@41 Ah, yes. It’s absolutely Obama’s fault that Trump made racism acceptable enough that he could win the Electoral College.
@40, So given the reality of the math how do we move numbers and standards of living for Starbucks Baristas.
The benefit to workers for redistricting the CEO’s has been quantified for you. It doesn’t move the needle.
Cutting stock holder returns in half has been quantified for you. Its a 1/3 increase for the workers, but still doesn’t approximate a living wage. You willing to take 5% returns on your 401(k)?
Likewise with raising drink prices. Is $10 for a basic coffee you can brew at home for less than a dollar a cup a price your willing to pay?
What should we choose?
@43, Do you think economics is just a bunch of one-dimensional math problems that can be solved by any idiot with a calculator because lol
All those words and not a single thing warranting a response because you’re completely out of your depth. I am too but i know enough to know how much I don’t and have the humility to admit it. You could never because you’re too dumb to even know dumb you are.
I have never met someone so thoroughly impressed with themselves they think they are an expert in every topic because they read an article or took a class in high school. You make every discussion less clear and less interesting for your contributions. You add nothing of value, except perhaps for the many, many clicks you feed the stranger. I’m sure they appreciate it but I promise you no one else does.
@44, TLDR: Barth’s got nothin’
@3 what the fuck? You’re just posting random things now?
yes bc nothing is all i was given to work with
46 when he’s not dazzling us with his superior intellect he likes to nurse his various political grudges by making jokes at the expense of dead people
@49, Dry, gallows, graveyard humor is always welcome. The more off-color the better.
You were given a numeric pie to divide up. If the workers get more, the investors get less. If management gets more, the worker bees get less. The amount of dollars that the consumers have given them to fight over is fixed at what consumers are willing to buy from Starbucks. At $2 for plain drip coffee they are willing to buy a fair bit. At $10 a cup, not so much.
Retail, outside of a very narrow set of staples required to sustain life, is always a discretionary purchase by the consumer. Consumers will literally spend 20 cents worth of calories to walk 1/2 a block to save 15 cents on a cup of coffee, assuming they are relatively the same in terms of bean, customer service, etc. If coffee gets too expensive, they might even switch from coffee to tea, or coffee to water. They might brew it at home.
You can apply that same analysis to just about any retail product or service.
That is why retail has always paid poorly, had poor schedules, poor reliability of employment, and poor working conditions. It’s brutal on investors, employees, and management alike. Today’s retail, rocket growth rate retail phenomena, is tomorrow Chapter 11. Consumers are fickle.
It’s why its not a good career or path to financial stability, and never can be. It’s a temporary place to trade your time for cash, while you figure out what real job or career you are going after. No matter how we regulate wages and working conditions in retail, you can only get so much blood out of the turnip.
@49 “It’s brutal on investors, employees, and management alike. … It’s why its not a good career or path to financial stability, and never can be.”
The CEO is doing great though, or haven’t you been paying attention?
50: CEOs get fired by the boards if they’re not doing a good job. Why be against someone doing a good job?
SBUX is $97.00 a share – for a food and hospitality company – that’s really good. In addition Starbucks employees, referred to as “partners,” are eligible to receive stock options through a program called Bean Stalk. This program, which is a cornerstone of Starbucks’ employee benefits, awards shares of Starbucks stock to both full-time and part-time employees, making them shareholders.
Good lord man. I have no sympathy for a disgruntled Starbucks barista, neither should you.
45: Yup, he, and his puppet here, haven’t so far.
@51 good point retail hasn’t been “brutal” for Starbucks investors either, so really just the employees
@14 Most of those people you listed still not only have to pay for rent and groceries and cars and cell phones like everyone else but you also added college expenses to half of them. lol. Do you know how much one quarters worth of college text books costs?
You’re so fucking out of touch with reality.
53: The employees are investors. A typical Starbucks barista has about 15K in SBUX now after just a couple of years employment.
This comment section is starting to remind me of that Jubilee episode that went viral a couple days ago… a bunch of white dumb fascists who clap for themselves.
54: But yet they can always budget for nose piercings and weed. Go figure.
@55 sure but the typical McDonalds employee has $1.2 million in their stock after six months employment. See I can make up numbers too.
Anyway the point was the CEO does not deserve to make 6000+ times more than an average employee, and you clowns have not even attempted to refute that point, because you can’t. Executive pay is out of control and everyone knows it.
58: Who are you to say what income someone deserves? If you want to dictate what people deserve, you don’t deserve to live in a capitalist society.
58: Not made up. AI:
A Starbucks employee could potentially accumulate around $15,000 in company stock in approximately 1 year.
This calculation is based on recent average closing prices of Starbucks stock (SBUX) over the past few years. To estimate how long it might take an employee to accumulate $15,000 in company stock, the approximate number of shares needed was calculated by dividing the target amount ($15,000) by the average closing price of SBUX in a given year. Then, assuming a standard restricted stock unit (RSU) grant of 252 shares annually (a hypothetical figure for estimation purposes, as specific grant sizes are not publicly available), the years needed to reach $15,000 were estimated.
The data shows that, based on average closing prices between 2021 and 2024, it would take around 1 year to acquire $15,000 worth of Starbucks stock through RSU grants.
Calculated using Google Finance data. Might be shortened for brevity.
@60 “assuming a standard restricted stock unit (RSU) grant of 252 shares annually (a hypothetical figure for estimation purposes, as specific grant sizes are not publicly available)”
Oh this account is satire my mistake
61: Enter “How long would it take a Starbucks employee to get about 15K in company stock?” in Google and you’ll get the same or similar responses. If you want to quibble with Gemini generative AI modeling, that’s another topic.
“Not made up. AI” lol
My dad had a high school friend who took a “commercial course” in high school (he graduated in 1940). That woman could sell you the shirt off your back, and made a very good living, retiring just before the department stores became the victim of 80’s business sleaziness. And I had an aunt and uncle who both worked at Sears – she sold small appliances, he sold big appliances. It was entirely possible to have a career in retail. The key was training and……commission.
Oh, and our tax code should be structured so that no citizen can become a billionaire. And no inheritance over one million dollars, with an exemption for farms and businesses, with a cap on them of 25 million.
@42 boatgeek, re @41: Never mind Calvin dipshit. His head is so far up his ass it’s amazing he can even see where he’s going. And the Fox TeeVee misinformed MAGA turds just keep on getting dumber, inbreeding with sewer rats. Like everyone else, they’ll get reamed by Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf’s Big Billionaire Coddling Bullshit Boondoggle. They’re so woefully ignorant they’ll bite the hands off the very people that fed, housed, insured, and provided safety nets for ALL U.S. citizens—We, the People and dumbass MAGAs included–NOT just for a select few of the wealthiest and most corrupt. When MAGAs lose everything they’ll stupidly blame the Democrats, as usual. Meanwhile, the REAL criminals are squatting in the White Trash House, laughing their batshit crazy fascist asses off.
It’s time to drain the swamp. Judgment at Nuremberg!
@64 Catalina Vel-DuRay: Keep on rocking the house!