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a Lowes employee who monitors the self-checkouts (which is all there is in my area) came up behind me and said "If I had a dollar every time I heard that I could quit."

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 Trump is a pawn for Big Sprinkler.

Brenda (2,226 posts)

Lowes was empty today

Rare to see almost no customers in the one around here. I needed to replace a broken cheap yard sprinkler to try to keep my shrubs and gardens alive since it's only rained about 3/4 inch in the last 2.5 months and hell, I can't remember when it was below 95 for a high. Well, who knew Kobalt sold sprinklers. For 60 ****ing dollars! The $10 odd brand was junk so I got the almost junk for $20 but it does have brass nozzles.

Large flashlights ran from $30-$90 ****ing dollars!

As I was mumbling to myself that "we all know WHO is responsible for this" a Lowes employee who monitors the self-checkouts (which is all there is in my area) came up behind me and said "If I had a dollar every time I heard that I could quit."

His approval rating is not "just below 30% for the first time." It has to be like 15% but I know the rich ****s who never actually buy sprinklers, food or gas for themselves are the majority of the ones giving him that 15-29% nod.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221518383

its Monday  and nice bouncy added and what is your point?

‘I’m out’: California wealth tax sparks stark business warning from entrepreneurs

https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/business/california-entrepreneur-warns-billionaire-wealth-tax-could-trigger-giant-sucking-sound-of-business-exits/

California entrepreneur Eric Schiffer warned that the state’s proposed billionaire wealth tax could drive some of its most successful business leaders out of California, predicting a “giant sucking sound” of entrepreneurs heading for the exits if voters approve the measure.

Schiffer, chairman of family office Patriarch and CEO of Reputation Management Consultants, told FOX Business that he works with several billionaire clients, including some in California, and said many are unhappy about the proposal.

“I think the impact of this passing in California is a giant sucking sound of all of these entrepreneurs being sucked out of California because they’re just not going to want to stay,” Schiffer said.

“Why would anyone stay if they have spent their life building wealth that they were already taxed on?” he continued.

“You’re going to see some of the most brilliant, most successful men and women that have been the cornerstone of tax revenue and donational revenue and leading companies that are employing fleets of individuals and scores of individuals, they’re going to say, ‘No mas, I’m out. Goodbye,’ because they don’t feel respected or appreciated and they feel under attack,” Schiffer said.

Goobernor Noisome, goobernatorial candidate Becerra, and gubernatorial candidate Hilton, and multiple unions have been campaigning against this bit of envy-fueled moronicity. Besides the fact that billionaires and their businesses won't lay back to get raped, some ads point out that the "one-time" and billionaires-only provisions can, per the initiative be expanded into multiple times and extended to more than "just" billionaires (when ordinary middle-class homes in areas like SF, Silicon Valley, the Land of LA, and Orange County can top 1 or even 2 million $$, much of the state's population could get financially raped by this initiative).

I think the Germans like their nazis.

9th Circuit Panel Overturns Ruling on Oregon Trans Prisoners

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/21/9th-circuit-panel-overturns-ruling-on-trans-prisoners-n3819198

Last month I pointed out that there was an ongoing battle over the status of trans prisoners in Oregon. A pair of trans women prisoners had sued because they were being housed in a male prison. And back in April, Judge Mark D. Clarke ruled in favor of two trans women prisoners. He ordered that prisoners be housed with the gender they identify with absent extenuating circumstances.

But here's the obvious catch. The two prisoners who filed the lawsuit arguably represented a danger to other inmates if placed in a women's prison. The class action lawsuit included one plaintiff convicted of rape and another who beat his then-girlfriend to death. Another plaintiff was convicted of molesting a female child. But Judge Clarke apparently didn't consider any of these circumstances worthy of note.

Last week, a panel from the 9th Circuit reversed Judge Clarke's decision.

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A federal appellate court Thursday threw out a lower court order that had directed the Oregon Department of Corrections to stop housing transgender women in men’s prisons.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke improperly concluded that the state corrections department had a default policy of placing all transgender prisoners in men’s prisons without individual evaluations or that officials were “deliberately indifferent” to the safety of transgender women.

“The district court improperly disregarded the overwhelming contrary evidence presented by Defendants in favor of baseless speculation,” 9th Circuit Judge Eric C. Tung wrote for the three-judge panel after hearing argument last month.

Judge Tung being ethnic Chinese, it's all but obvious he was appointed by Trump, FWIW, in 2025.