What is the deeper meaning of this tweet, exactly? She’s presenting two facts as if we are supposed to just take it for granted that they are mutually exclusive, but she fails to actually make any point or prove how they are.
Well, if the argument is that you can't succeed in California under Democratic leadership... Musk proves that is not the case. As have many others including Bill Gates with Washington, and Jeff Bezos, also with Washington... Phil Knight here in Beaverton. Really, the list goes on. If the argument is that less regulation in Republican controlled areas are more friendly to the established wealthy elite... Elon musk has also indicated by his actions that that may in fact be the case. There is no proof needed. She made no claims, other than stating the verifiable facts of what actually happened.
You simply filled in the blanks according to your own political bend though. You inserted your own strawman argument nobody tried to make, then proceeded to explain it in detail. That woman was obviously asserting that Musk was in a slump as a result of relocation, but there’s nothing to actually suggest that. Oh hey did you see the Nike thread, by the way?
But people do make those arguments all the time. Musk himself has engaged. She is clearly making a post in response to those arguments. I did see the Nike thread. It also supports what I've been saying for years. I appreciate you noticing that.
Nike going down the shitter in a Dem state supports your assertion that companies are doing great in Dem states?
Nike became the largest athletic wear company in the world in a Dem state. Every company stumbles. Nothing lasts forever. And no company can survive trying to be environmentally responsible when their competitors are not doing so. You simply can't compete. That requires government regulation.
Nike was founded at a time when Oregon had back to back Republican governors, and subsequent ones before and after that. Hardly a “Dem state” in the hardline sense it has been in modern times, when you guys decided to let the inmates run the asylum and, coincidentally, Nike has begun to slip in this era along with other businesses.
It’s hard to measure dementia in Trump because it renders you emotionally 9 year old, and that would be an improvement in him.
And Nike grew most (by far) under Democrats... It was a small podunk company under Republicans. It didn't grow because of Democrats. But Democrats certainly didn't hurt it. And it certainly didn't grow because of Republicans, either.
Nike grew by positioning themselves as Pro Gear for the Rest Of Us, a scrappy, inclusive “if you have a body you’re an athlete” message, and something approaching a stance on social equality. The new CEO doesn’t believe in any of that, and got caught trying to freeze out wholesale partners to get a bigger piece of the pie by selling direct to customers, not caring (until it was too late) that customers stop buying Nike if they can’t find it at the stores they shop. Hubris and greed.
Pretty sure that's from Trey Parker and Matt Stone in BASEketball, then used in South Park thereafter.
to be fair, searching that specific phrase ("herp de derp") in this forum, I found 3 posts by @julius, and none from you (except this most recent reply of yours to him). "Derp" by itself has many repeat users.
