{"id":109146,"date":"2020-11-23T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=109146"},"modified":"2020-11-23T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:59:41","slug":"notes-from-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/notes-from-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from all over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a motive for one of great crimes of the 21st century:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wealth increase in the pandemic for founder\/CEOs of<br \/>\nAmazon: $91 billion<br \/>\nWalmart: $38B<br \/>\nGoogle: $37B<br \/>\nMicrosoft: $33B<br \/>\nFacebook: $28B<br \/>\nNike: $8B<br \/>\nApple: $8B<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses: collectively lost over $200 billion<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re witnessing a record wealth transfer<\/p>\n<p>Amazon: profit up 100%<br \/>\nWalmart: profit up 80%<br \/>\nTarget: profit up 80%<br \/>\nLowe&#8217;s: profit up 74%<br \/>\nMicrosoft, Facebook, Apple, Google: stock at record high<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses: 21% closed; revenue for rest down 30%. They&#8217;re gonna go extinct in the lockdown without help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/clarissasblog.com\/2020\/11\/23\/wealth-transfer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Clarissa<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wmbriggs.com\/post\/33613\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">William M. Briggs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These fine people all say \u201caccept the results.\u201d We cannot. There are no results.<\/p>\n<p>That is the point of investigating the fraud, to prove any claim of results is premature. Surrendering when the battle can still be won solely to save your \u201creputation\u201d is pathetic and cowardly. The one conservative thing about the left is that they never go down without a fight. The one constant of the limp-wristed right is being nice at the expense of victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/extremism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/extremism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/noisome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/noisome.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-109156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/survival.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/survival.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-109157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trap.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trap-640x199.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-109158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trap-640x199.gif 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trap-768x239.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-109159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/they-all-laughed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/they-all-laughed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sM9nx3rUdSg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/aaaBrain-Police.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a motive for one of great crimes of the 21st century: Wealth increase in the pandemic for founder\/CEOs of Amazon: $91 billion Walmart: $38B Google: $37B Microsoft: $33B Facebook: $28B Nike: $8B Apple: $8B Small businesses: collectively lost over $200 billion We&#8217;re witnessing a record wealth transfer Amazon: profit up 100% Walmart: profit up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/notes-from-all-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Notes from all over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-soq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109162,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109146\/revisions\/109162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}