It’s varies. Some are single store operations and some are large enough to be their own company

The company I work for has a massive revenue footprint by attaching fittings into hoses. Different size houses need different size and angle fittings and buying bulk hose and fitting then custom making the parts is very lucrative.

Listening to today’s episode of the Prof G podcast there is a new exchange trying to open that is lobbying for the same 6 month reporting structure. So it’s some sort of payoff in sure.

You’re forgetting that cults don’t continue when the leader is gone. Trump doesn’t his entire life getting people to believe him and love him or hate him he is good at it. Vance sucks. No one likes him and he will not be able to continue the grift when Donny dies. They have no one past him that can handle the base and the party. There is going to be a lot more pain when he is gone because of all the fighting. Better case unfortunately would be for midterms to happen then he dies then at least there’s a chance the GOP won’t have full control over the government

Just give them a dummy button and play the clip of the death star blowing up or something. They aren’t going to check to make sure it happened. Keep it sending the data just turn off the server side recording it then turn it back on when they inevitably forget about it in a couple weeks.

I don’t think I’ve ever run into anyone else who has seen or remembers surf ninjas. What a great fever dream of a movie.

*fiefdoms

If you like them The Agonist is a good band in the same vein. Alissa White-Glutz fronted them until she left for arch enemy and was replaced by Vicky Psarakis

Not if it is leveraged to hell and back. Odds are that a bulk is collateral for buying a social media platform and a presidency along with how he uses it to float his other companies.