Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

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I did not know about this, but it makes complete sense. I just posted about Amazon being like Standard Oil of 130 years ago on the main board. This just confirms how evil Amazon is.

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Over 270 was listed who supported burn loot murder lie cheat steal.
The agency issue is the main issue also.

A Karen Tries to Burn Walmart Down for Not Having Almond Milk.

Trump still is confused on the second amendment and these damned lunatics who will not stop
to destroy normal.

Example of the same rot.

In 1918, less than a year after communists overthrew the Russian government in the bloody October Revolution, IWW members were convicted for sedition in Chicago, and a bomb went off in the old Federal Building , killing four people—reportedly a young Walt Disney was almost killed in the bombing. Police believed that the union was responsible, though it denied involvement.

Disney is on the rot list 270. Wake up the hour is late.

Years of grinding stupidity is not going away. They are the pit of darkness. Bella V. Dodd is still correct.

The adults know when the weapons go so will you. For over two decades Teachers tell us we know they are producing ditch diggers.
My Wife quit the College as a math tutor for Graduate Students. Depravity masked as Choice.
The march is already completed as we see what Gramsci instructed.
Grade School teacher bitten by a feral who was asked to sit. Another bludgeoned and skull fractured by a chair to head.
These are not educational centers anymore. They still cannot fill in the blank's as in the Day of Noah.

[Higgenbotham]

This is a summary of what I have said about Amazon in this Dark Age Hovel.

The final part of this post is to consider whether high tech companies wanted to foment BLM chaos to benefit their bottom lines. During that time, Amazon in particular was voicing support for BLM. Without digging up the details, I left 2021 with the clear impression that was the case. More BLM chaos equated to more bricks and mortar destruction, more deferred rent, more government paid rent, more people afraid to venture out of their homes, more tacit support for lockdowns, etc., all of which means more business for Amazon, less competition for Amazon, and probably higher fees for Amazon (finally getting back to the original topic).

As for the rest of it, it's sort of like the discussion about Amazon openly supporting BLM and Defund the Police. They cannot not be aware that doing so will wreak havoc on bricks and mortar retail businesses. Many less directly connected to any vested interest might shrug their shoulders and say, oh, well, we can just order it online and pretty soon online retailers will be able to deliver via drone to my front porch in my gated community in less than 24 hours anyway. But if that wasn't possible or assumed to be possible, they might think a little harder and advocate for bricks and mortar retail businesses quite a bit more, perhaps enough to make a difference.

There are other aspects of that too. Amazon launched a program in 2018 that basically targeted immigrants for cheap business management labor. I'll just take a few snips out of an article that describes it.





https://www.geekwire.com/2018/owning-am ... epreneurs/

I remember an immigrant asking me about this. My response was typical of what I say here - that Bezos became a billionaire off the backs of hard working people. That didn't seem to resonate. I think some immigrants are sold on the idea that they can be "just like Jeff" if they go ahead and join the club. What did resonate was when I said to think of that business in terms of what you will be making per package delivered. I said figure on delivering about 2 million packages per year working 7 days a week 365 days per year and only God knows how many hours per day, if you even make it, while making less than 10 cents net profit on every package delivered.

Also, has anyone seen the crappy Amazon boxes that say "Now Made With Less Material" on them? They send stuff out in these crappy, cheap boxes trying to appear environmentally friendly and it all has to go in the trash. Even Wal-Mart can send a decent box that is reusable.

Amazon is fueling decline in many ways.



https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments ... _material/

Looking at just the issue of the crappy boxes Amazon uses, if we go back to metrics used 40 years ago, a large corporation might do an objective calculation of the cost savings. Probably it's all been done many times by many different companies and that's why boxes are what they are. On one side would go things like cost savings for cheaper boxes, fuel savings due to shipping less weight, and maybe throwing in some increase in efficiency due to delivery people handling slightly less weight. On the other side would go things like increased damage of product during shipping, decrease in efficiency due to employees needing to be more careful handling the crappy boxes, and maybe some harm to the company's reputation for appearing cheap.

I'm not on the inside but I don't believe Amazon thinks that way at all. It seems like they believe they can justify any situation with public relations - in this case by sloganeering, "Hey guys, we are using less material! Yes, we are great and we just proved it to you again! We are Amazon!" while pinning the damages due to the crappy boxes on somebody else like their delivery contractors or third party sellers.

Filling one-third of a box? No problemo, our algorithms prove that saves money!

Bottom line:

Data analytics company Fastmarkets says that shopping online uses seven times more cardboard than shopping in a store.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90564818/in ... -cardboard

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Post election rally like 1928. No one here needs to ponder what is really going on
and who is selling at its fastest pace to who.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/the ... rd-economy

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/the ... rd-economy

05:22 on the video in the article.

"...we've never seen such unprecedented fraud and manipulation..."

Yeah, I agree.

These kinds of job numbers (a drop to somewhere around 100K per month) have historically gone hand in hand with a stock market decline. However, there's so much manipulation and fraud of all types propping up this economy and stock market (even in the jobs numbers themselves) that it's hard to point to history and expect the same result.

He also makes the point that the financial markets could collapse at any time or maybe run all the way to March.

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We are watching sector rotation and Opening Range Breakout algo mapping.
Short hand would be algo food as smart to dump money idicators will matter.
Follow up from our hedging discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJ41tmQAQ8
Calls will fund SDS for hedging.

Mashers are seeing the trend lag and rotations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUFTule2JU

Moved out od GGN at 6k SPX as indicated.
Disconnnects are evident as the hookers are to be set on fire.
Copper to producers equity proce rope burn noted.
Bonds smell the alcohol as ZEW Euro survey paints the obviuos.
Early on our part does not we did not hedge the General Dissaray and Captain Obvious.

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Sprint to the mud huts ramping up.
https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-cont ... d__700.jpg
Over 60 percent thought it was a real event.

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Back draft burned them to a crisp from the burn loot murder crt cult.
Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Brothers, Discovery and Lionsgate Entertainment have all resumed ad spending on the social media giant - albeit this is more of a toe-dip than a full recommitment.

Not my monkey not my circus was mentioned.

[Higgenbotham]

It's been said by Ed Dowd and others that Trump is inheriting "a turd of an economy" and needs to get out in front of the narrative so he won't be blamed for it. There's another possible strategy he could use and it's the one he is actually using. He doesn't need to have a narrative. Instead he can do what he is doing - for example, appoint Elon and Vivek to head DOGE and have them talk about how they will cut trillions in government waste and throw useless bureaucrats out. They can throw out numbers that are high enough to spook Wall Street and cause a substantial stock market decline before Trump assumes office, which he can blame on Biden. Then when he assumes office he can tell Elon and Vivek to say they are throttling back the cuts and taking a more gradual approach. He can use that tactic for any number of things.