Look at the companies who went woke: Levi’s, Budweiser, Tractor Supply, Carhartt, Harley Davidson, John Deere, all of the sports leagues, and now Cracker Barrel.
These are all iconic American brands, tied in to American identity. These are not companies built by soy boys, these are alpha male type companies.
American identity & conservatives are being targeted!
Look at the pattern. Then find the commonality: all these companies have BlackRock as the major institutional shareholder. Fink is now co-chair of the WEF, and is driving the erasure of American identity & culture. GET FINK. Then the problems will stop.
Massive class action lawsuits should be launched against BlackRock & Fink for destroying shareholder value.
Yes. I have dealt with Fink personally. You are 💯 correct. He’s EVIL. On his deathbed - hopefully soon - guaranteed he’ll be thinking, “Damn, I almost took it ALL!”
if our "friend" Larry Fink, gets what he deserves....he won't die in bed...he will die on the scaffolds while hanging from a rope...but let it be known....I personally am not advocating any such actions. However, I WILL applaud should they occur.
I believe Tucker Carlson said he knows someone who knows Fink well and who says Fink is the most unhappy person he's ever met. Nice of Unlucky Larry trying to force his misery on the rest of us, eh?
One reason BlackRock is the largest shareholder of all these major companies is that they run the largest index fund tied to the S&P 500. This forces them to hold a proportional interest in all these large businesses, simply because of the way the fund is designed. But the part they are missing is that they are just a street-name shareholder; they own all their shares for the benefit of the fund's unit-holders. They are supposed to vote their shares in the best interest of those unit-holders. Whether they always do that is an open question.
The only way that situation can be eliminated is if ETF's are eliminated, which will probably not happen.
The videos left me seriously giggling (again). My mood changed to somber pretty quickly after reading your comment. In an attempt to recover my lighter mood, I'd point out that Jaguar is not an American company and after the Good Jeans/Genes commercial, maybe things are changing. But I agree that Fink and the like have to go.
And on a completely different note… at one point in time (1979s, 1980s), Jaguar’s electronics were unbelievably awful. The reliability issues became so bad that the manufacturer - Lucas Industries - became known as the “Prince of Darkness” 😂😂😂
“British” no more…. “Jaguar Cars is owned by Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Coventry, England. Jaguar Land Rover itself is a subsidiary of Tata Motors, an Indian automotive manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai, which acquired Jaguar Cars from Ford in 2008. The two brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, were merged into a single operating company, Jaguar Land Rover, in 2013.”
On the topic of deliberate sabotage....take a look at this funny video about the hideous buildings that have infested our cities and the man who designed them.
The Man Behind the World’s Ugliest Buildings - Alternatino
Oh my goodness, finally an answer to the origin of those windowless AT&T buildings in Houston! I love this video. I immediately sent it to my daughter who is studying for a master’s in city planning.
It’s difficult to identify the source of the deliberate will of corporate self-harm/destruction. At first, I thought it was misjudgment, stupid decision-making. Then I thought ok… CEO DEI hires - external university grads with nothing but excellence in PC-speak and academically inspired, ‘radically left-wing approved’ hatred. Now I’m not so sure. Who gives the ‘go ahead’ on stabbing one’s own corporate success right through the heart with the sharpest of hunting knives? Certainly majority shareholders have a say in how corporations are shaped or mis-shaped, but even majority shareholders must answer to the other shareholders who would like a successful corporation to continue being successful. Who truly gives the ‘green light’ to willful self-destruction after the DEI tornado has already taken its toll and lost energy out into the yonder flatlands? It’s a special beast, one which can exert so much control over a corporation that even the rules of profit are abandoned for a ‘greater’ cause. In true Capitalism there IS no greater cause. Therefore, no matter the administration it seems, there is some presence of a ‘wannabe’ Command and Control economy, a post-Capitalist society which continues to wait in the wings until the yellow stars align…
It seems to be quite clear that they're hiring would-be elites who view the products as far too pedestrian. They hate the product. What could go wrong?
NPR is another example, with a CEO making speeches about how truth is inconvenient and not truly necessary. They lost me for good there (me, a former documentarian, editor and news announcer for NPR.)
This supercilious attitude to one's own customers is hard to stomach unless you have swallowed all the self-hate kool-aid.
I remember when Kentucky Fried Chicken was a restaurant with waitresses and a jukebox song selector at your booth at the end of the table by the window, that you would flip through the pages of songs to choose and you'd put a quarter in to pick 3.
When we understand that everything is owned by BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, and these are all ethnically jewish corporations, and jews hate Gentiles, then you can see how they want to piss on anything Gentile that is iconic.
Jaguar's lead advertising manager was Rawdon Glover.
A little judicious manipulation of the name reveals a monstrous sodomite, which is of course the besetting sin of the jew.
No way. If it was, it would not be against Jews. Islam was created to motivate their soldiers as part of their territorial expansion. There was no Mohammad. Books by Robert Spencer are good. Others show how the language was originally Aramaic for verses that make sense but in Arabic don't. The virgins in heaven are grapes in Aramaic. Several others. It's all a sham.
Made my day, again, John Leake. Surely, you are the best. I suspect your suspicions are well founded. BlackRock's ESG and DEI ultimatums (my humble guess) resulting in corporate disaster.
Ok I’m going to mention another area of concern. (Experience: 18 yrs Level I Trauma SICU 30 bed unit, 7 yrs OR at same, 18 months IR, 3 years post op floor plus St Luke’s transplant ICU side job). I’m retired thankfully. I’ve been assisting fellow church members when hospitalized or injured. In past years physicians were aggressive in treating a person. They earnestly tried to heal. These days, they are generally sluggish and somewhat apathetic in their treatment plan. They seem to discourage proper treatment citing age etc. it seems they have resolved to let people die. I don’t believe in especially aggressive plans of care but certainty reasonable treatments. I’m not sure if the newer physicians lack basic desires to cure as we did in earlier years (we earnestly tried to cure everyone) or if they are being trained that way. One thing I do know. Physicians used to have much more autonomy in their treatment plans and now it is being dictated, monitored by insurance companies and administrators. I’ve gotten really frustrated advocating for treatment I knew was proper care. I’ve been successful and I know I would have at least one dead friend without my persistence. But I see a trend. ( I had to persist and actually mention that I was documenting with videos etc to nudge some physicians into proper treatment). Think about that.
Deliberate sabotage is what I’ve been pondering. There is no other explanation in my mind. I suppose it’s part of the plan which must include removing our joy in socializing, eating out, enjoying a drive with the wind in your face, removal of simpler pleasures.
If it’s a freedom thing they have it in the crosshairs. Cars are near the top of the list, as are airliners. Yes it’s deliberate, and if we allow the destruction to continue it will only get worse
Well I cannot think of any other logical reason for these actions...as every single movement by these criminal orgs is ALL ABUT THE MONEY with no thought about living breathing humans.
Cracker Barrel may be returning to the original logo, but are they still wreaking havoc sanitizing the physical interiors, and ‘improving’ the menu? Those two things also dilute the brand’s draw.
I knew they were doomed when they changed their recipes and dumped in the MSG a few years ago. Never went back. Used to taste good but I react to MSG. Can't sleep, extreme thirst, brain fog
There is stupidity in so much business advertising. I don't want to purchase an expensive beverage called "MUD" WTR (water). I won't buy an oatmeal mix called "Sludge". I won't sit and eat at a wiener place called "DogTown". I can't support an insurance company whose entire theme is "don't be like your {idiot} parents'. I can picture the punks, so proud to be executives, thinking how creative and edgy they are.
This is ALL by design. No mistakes were made.
Look at the companies who went woke: Levi’s, Budweiser, Tractor Supply, Carhartt, Harley Davidson, John Deere, all of the sports leagues, and now Cracker Barrel.
These are all iconic American brands, tied in to American identity. These are not companies built by soy boys, these are alpha male type companies.
American identity & conservatives are being targeted!
Look at the pattern. Then find the commonality: all these companies have BlackRock as the major institutional shareholder. Fink is now co-chair of the WEF, and is driving the erasure of American identity & culture. GET FINK. Then the problems will stop.
Massive class action lawsuits should be launched against BlackRock & Fink for destroying shareholder value.
Yes. I have dealt with Fink personally. You are 💯 correct. He’s EVIL. On his deathbed - hopefully soon - guaranteed he’ll be thinking, “Damn, I almost took it ALL!”
if our "friend" Larry Fink, gets what he deserves....he won't die in bed...he will die on the scaffolds while hanging from a rope...but let it be known....I personally am not advocating any such actions. However, I WILL applaud should they occur.
I believe Tucker Carlson said he knows someone who knows Fink well and who says Fink is the most unhappy person he's ever met. Nice of Unlucky Larry trying to force his misery on the rest of us, eh?
However unhappy Fink is, it’s not unhappy enough 😁
Yep, I've looked every one of them up, even Target, you are right...and Harley even has a DEI CEO now...geez!
One theory on Cracker Barrel is they want to run the business into the ground to sell the prime real estate.
Curious why they are called Soy boys. Is it because they were fed soy milk full of estrogen? I think this is a major factor these day.
That’s absolutely the implication. It’s a pejorative term suggesting weakness, & lack of masculinity & strength.
One reason BlackRock is the largest shareholder of all these major companies is that they run the largest index fund tied to the S&P 500. This forces them to hold a proportional interest in all these large businesses, simply because of the way the fund is designed. But the part they are missing is that they are just a street-name shareholder; they own all their shares for the benefit of the fund's unit-holders. They are supposed to vote their shares in the best interest of those unit-holders. Whether they always do that is an open question.
The only way that situation can be eliminated is if ETF's are eliminated, which will probably not happen.
The videos left me seriously giggling (again). My mood changed to somber pretty quickly after reading your comment. In an attempt to recover my lighter mood, I'd point out that Jaguar is not an American company and after the Good Jeans/Genes commercial, maybe things are changing. But I agree that Fink and the like have to go.
And on a completely different note… at one point in time (1979s, 1980s), Jaguar’s electronics were unbelievably awful. The reliability issues became so bad that the manufacturer - Lucas Industries - became known as the “Prince of Darkness” 😂😂😂
This has been a longstanding issue with all British automobiles for decades.
“British” no more…. “Jaguar Cars is owned by Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Coventry, England. Jaguar Land Rover itself is a subsidiary of Tata Motors, an Indian automotive manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai, which acquired Jaguar Cars from Ford in 2008. The two brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, were merged into a single operating company, Jaguar Land Rover, in 2013.”
Oh good catch!!!
On the topic of deliberate sabotage....take a look at this funny video about the hideous buildings that have infested our cities and the man who designed them.
The Man Behind the World’s Ugliest Buildings - Alternatino
https://youtu.be/uvU5dmu4sl8
John, Thank you for all your great work.
Thanks for this, Marie-Louise! One of the best things I've seen in a very long time. Regards, John
You’re welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it, John:) Best, Marie-Louise
That was hilarious. Lots of architects in the comments section who say this is the kind of rubbish they're teaching these days.
"Gerhardt F." must be the unheralded 'genius' behind all the residential roof solar panels blighting our neighborhoods.
Making fun of "The Brutalist" perhaps?
This video censored in Australia, cannot view
Why am I not surprised?
Also unavailable in Canada...
You just have to do a youtube search for it Ruth, you will be able to view it.
Wow. I am shocked and horrified that this video is censored in Australia and Canada! Any idea why? Thank you, Judy.
Oh my goodness, finally an answer to the origin of those windowless AT&T buildings in Houston! I love this video. I immediately sent it to my daughter who is studying for a master’s in city planning.
Comedy Central should do a similar piece on Fyink. Or Syoros.
hahahaha!
Jaguar sales dropped 97%...I wonder, if the company learned a lesson? It is amazing what the wrong kind of advertising can do..
It can make people feel you hate them.
It’s difficult to identify the source of the deliberate will of corporate self-harm/destruction. At first, I thought it was misjudgment, stupid decision-making. Then I thought ok… CEO DEI hires - external university grads with nothing but excellence in PC-speak and academically inspired, ‘radically left-wing approved’ hatred. Now I’m not so sure. Who gives the ‘go ahead’ on stabbing one’s own corporate success right through the heart with the sharpest of hunting knives? Certainly majority shareholders have a say in how corporations are shaped or mis-shaped, but even majority shareholders must answer to the other shareholders who would like a successful corporation to continue being successful. Who truly gives the ‘green light’ to willful self-destruction after the DEI tornado has already taken its toll and lost energy out into the yonder flatlands? It’s a special beast, one which can exert so much control over a corporation that even the rules of profit are abandoned for a ‘greater’ cause. In true Capitalism there IS no greater cause. Therefore, no matter the administration it seems, there is some presence of a ‘wannabe’ Command and Control economy, a post-Capitalist society which continues to wait in the wings until the yellow stars align…
Fink🤢🤮WEF continues to become desperate
It seems to be quite clear that they're hiring would-be elites who view the products as far too pedestrian. They hate the product. What could go wrong?
NPR is another example, with a CEO making speeches about how truth is inconvenient and not truly necessary. They lost me for good there (me, a former documentarian, editor and news announcer for NPR.)
This supercilious attitude to one's own customers is hard to stomach unless you have swallowed all the self-hate kool-aid.
Most of us haven't.
I remember when Kentucky Fried Chicken was a restaurant with waitresses and a jukebox song selector at your booth at the end of the table by the window, that you would flip through the pages of songs to choose and you'd put a quarter in to pick 3.
"That'll be the Day" "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Only the Lonely" being the ones you picked, of course.
When we understand that everything is owned by BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, and these are all ethnically jewish corporations, and jews hate Gentiles, then you can see how they want to piss on anything Gentile that is iconic.
Jaguar's lead advertising manager was Rawdon Glover.
A little judicious manipulation of the name reveals a monstrous sodomite, which is of course the besetting sin of the jew.
This antisemitism is horrid. No doubt about it.
What's actually horrid is semitism, according to which, "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
You've never read the Talmud, obviously.
There's a lot worse than that in it, if you care to look.
Just like Islam. All infidels are to be beheaded if they don't convert or pay a tax.
Islam is a jewish front, and always has been.
No way. If it was, it would not be against Jews. Islam was created to motivate their soldiers as part of their territorial expansion. There was no Mohammad. Books by Robert Spencer are good. Others show how the language was originally Aramaic for verses that make sense but in Arabic don't. The virgins in heaven are grapes in Aramaic. Several others. It's all a sham.
They always leave the synagogues untouched.
Made my day, again, John Leake. Surely, you are the best. I suspect your suspicions are well founded. BlackRock's ESG and DEI ultimatums (my humble guess) resulting in corporate disaster.
You have GOT to find the Jag ad on You Tube! The comments are comedy gold.
Jaguar’s pronouns are “was/were”.
Ok I’m going to mention another area of concern. (Experience: 18 yrs Level I Trauma SICU 30 bed unit, 7 yrs OR at same, 18 months IR, 3 years post op floor plus St Luke’s transplant ICU side job). I’m retired thankfully. I’ve been assisting fellow church members when hospitalized or injured. In past years physicians were aggressive in treating a person. They earnestly tried to heal. These days, they are generally sluggish and somewhat apathetic in their treatment plan. They seem to discourage proper treatment citing age etc. it seems they have resolved to let people die. I don’t believe in especially aggressive plans of care but certainty reasonable treatments. I’m not sure if the newer physicians lack basic desires to cure as we did in earlier years (we earnestly tried to cure everyone) or if they are being trained that way. One thing I do know. Physicians used to have much more autonomy in their treatment plans and now it is being dictated, monitored by insurance companies and administrators. I’ve gotten really frustrated advocating for treatment I knew was proper care. I’ve been successful and I know I would have at least one dead friend without my persistence. But I see a trend. ( I had to persist and actually mention that I was documenting with videos etc to nudge some physicians into proper treatment). Think about that.
RN here, insane.
Deliberate sabotage is what I’ve been pondering. There is no other explanation in my mind. I suppose it’s part of the plan which must include removing our joy in socializing, eating out, enjoying a drive with the wind in your face, removal of simpler pleasures.
If it’s a freedom thing they have it in the crosshairs. Cars are near the top of the list, as are airliners. Yes it’s deliberate, and if we allow the destruction to continue it will only get worse
Deliberate attack on stock price... so BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street can acquire more at a discount???
They already have all the money in the world, so it's not about some crackpot company called Cracker Barrel.
Deeper agendas are afoot.
Well I cannot think of any other logical reason for these actions...as every single movement by these criminal orgs is ALL ABUT THE MONEY with no thought about living breathing humans.
You have swallowed the lie that we are humans.
The word is legally defined as "A kind of monster," so if that's what you want to be, then so be it.
As for me and my house, we are men, women, and children, as God made us.
Cracker Barrel may be returning to the original logo, but are they still wreaking havoc sanitizing the physical interiors, and ‘improving’ the menu? Those two things also dilute the brand’s draw.
I knew they were doomed when they changed their recipes and dumped in the MSG a few years ago. Never went back. Used to taste good but I react to MSG. Can't sleep, extreme thirst, brain fog
There is stupidity in so much business advertising. I don't want to purchase an expensive beverage called "MUD" WTR (water). I won't buy an oatmeal mix called "Sludge". I won't sit and eat at a wiener place called "DogTown". I can't support an insurance company whose entire theme is "don't be like your {idiot} parents'. I can picture the punks, so proud to be executives, thinking how creative and edgy they are.