Buyers' Remorse setting in quickly from CEOs - Wall Street Journal

[hawkeyetraveler]

or they would just read the article you copied and pasted that explains why the people making that request think its necessary

Why would they bother to read when they can just listen to Trump, Musk and Tucker. Surely those fine upstanding gentlemen wouldn’t mislead MAGA disciples for their own selfish aims?

 

[tumorboy]

Consumers especially on the lower ends have been getting squeezed for years. Going into debt to take vacations for instance. Didn’t matter who won in November a slowdown was coming. Now how big and duration might be debatable. Prepare the buttocks folks.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

A non-dumb person would differentiate between crimes that physically harm humans versus crimes that are essentially geographic bad luck.

But here we are.

So what you’re saying is we now get to pick and choose which laws we will obey. Now THAT is dumb.

 

[artradley]

I mentioned this before. I work for a small shipping company that only does military cargo. Tanks, helicopters, supplies, etc. Our bigwigs always talk about how things are better when the GOP controls government, and I’m sure they all voted for Trump.

In January, however, due to the chaos at DOD, bookings started not getting placed and our volume plummeted. We were projected to run a profit of $20M in January but we lost $10M. The CEO and others are in a total panic, and it doesn’t appear to be getting better any time soon.

 

[tumorboy]

So what you’re saying is we now get to pick and choose which laws we will obey. Now THAT is dumb.

We already do that. Some crimes we treat like speeding tickets. Which is how businesses that operate with illegal labor are treated when caught.

 

[torbee]

I mentioned this before. I work for a small shipping company that only does military cargo. Tanks, helicopters, supplies, etc. Our bigwigs always talk about how things are better when the GOP controls governing, and I’m sure they all voted for Trump.

In January, however, due to the chaos at DOD, bookings started not getting placed and our volume plummeted. We were projected to run a profit of $20M in January but we lost $10M. The CEO and others are in a total panic, and it doesn’t appear to be getting better any time soon.

Welcome to FAFO TOUR 2025

Hope it doesn't impact your employment, but your bosses sound like dumbasses if they didn't see it coming.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

We already do that. Some crimes we treat like speeding tickets. Which is how businesses that operate with illegal labor are treated when caught.

Nevertheless, it is still a crime. If I keep a library book past due, I still have to pay the fine.

Regardless, harboring illegal aliens, who are in fact lawbreakers, is not a 1A right.

 

[tumorboy]

Nevertheless, it is still a crime. If I keep a library book past due, I still have to pay the fine.

Regardless, harboring illegal aliens, who are in fact lawbreakers, is not a 1A right.

Neither is committing fraud. Embezzling various white collar crimes. Dumping waste and other hazardous materials in ground water. But how is all of this cured by the system. Some fines. Similar to speeding tickets.
Get the illegal labor into a system that we control. Have them and the companies pay some fines. Far easier than this wack a mole of deport and return. Until the magnate of the jobs are addressed anything we do is a band aid. That’s what drives the numbers and movement at the border or by planes.
If we can do the Visa program for tech workers. We can certainly do one for laborers.

 

[artradley]

Welcome to FAFO TOUR 2025

Hope it doesn't impact your employment, but your bosses sound like dumbasses if they didn't see it coming.

My job is fine. But I am working on a massive, high-visibility project all by myself and have been working my butt off for the last six months because I had a $50k bonus carrot. It looks like that is gone. Even our regular annual bonus was in jeopardy, but I've been told they have decided not to tamper with it.

 

[Hans81]

Let it burn.

Numpties deserve all the pain they receive.

Like I said, in four years another Dem President will be tasked with picking up the pieces of a Republican Presidency.

People never learn.

Get back to us in 4 years as the Dem “sky is falling” predictions are getting old. 🥴

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

Neither is committing fraud. Embezzling various white collar crimes. Dumping waste and other hazardous materials in ground water. But how is all of this cured by the system. Some fines. Similar to speeding tickets.
Get the illegal labor into a system that we control. Have them and the companies pay some fines. Far easier than this wack a mole of deport and return. Until the magnate of the jobs are addressed anything we do is a band aid. That’s what drives the numbers and movement at the border or by planes.
If we can do the Visa program for tech workers. We can certainly do one for laborers.

What does that have to do with whether churches have a right to harbor criminals?

 

[MitchLL]

Get back to us in 4 years as the Dem “sky is falling” predictions are getting old. 🥴

You gotta be trolling.

The first month has been a fvcking disaster.

 

[LunchBox50]

I wish these titans of industry had warned all of us before the election that Trump would have a profound negative impact on our business economy.

Oh wait, never mind, they did warn us. Unfortunately our electorate isn’t paying attention to the important stuff.

TRANS! DEI! CARAVANS!

 

[HROT]

I mentioned this before. I work for a small shipping company that only does military cargo. Tanks, helicopters, supplies, etc. Our bigwigs always talk about how things are better when the GOP controls government, and I’m sure they all voted for Trump.

In January, however, due to the chaos at DOD, bookings started not getting placed and our volume plummeted. We were projected to run a profit of $20M in January but we lost $10M. The CEO and others are in a total panic, and it doesn’t appear to be getting better any time soon.

This, like most Trump stuff, will be hard to quantify the damage. The amount of contractor related hits. Or if Iowa cuts jobs, how many will relate it to losing NIH funding?

 

[pjhawk]

Why should immigration criminals be allowed sanctuary in churches, but not drug pushers, murderers, rapists, thieves, etc. I’m just not seeing why a particular class of lawbreakers should get special treatment. Kind of like a particular class of perverts getting special treatment with all the LGBT shit.

They're not criminals. It's a civil violation.