Blind Item #2
This former A+ list politician who is running again for yet another position he has not held before is trying like crazy to keep his name out of the fact that he is now at least partly responsible for the two largest toy chains in the US to go under and this time around 33K jobs.
Giuliani?
ReplyDeleteMittens?
ReplyDeleteMITT
ReplyDeleteYup, Bain and Toys R Us
DeleteSHABBAT SHABBAT GOTTA GET DOWN ON SHABBAT
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0
Mitt Romney-Bain
Venture capital strikes again
ReplyDeleteIt ain’t a Clinton. Neither one knows how to create a job just rip off charities
ReplyDelete+100 😂
DeleteNow that Clintons were associated with Pizza gate they need to keep off luring kids with toys.....made them go under.
ReplyDeleteThis is untrue.
ReplyDeleteWhen you murder a person you create many jobs.
Someone has to pull the trigger and dispose of the body.
Someone has to bribe the police.
Someone has to clean the scene.
Someone has to sign the death certificates saying they smoked pot and fell asleep on the railroad tracks.
Someone has to "repair the tracks."
Someone has to cater this production.
Romney
ReplyDeleteThis isnt even a blind...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.joemygod.com/2018/03/15/mitt-romney-helped-kill-toys-r-us/
Romney. The man in the magic underwear and Bain capital. Another part of my childhood dies.
ReplyDelete33 degrees of buggery and nonsense
DeleteOh please. Tots R Us was DOA as soon as Walmart and Target outsold them
DeleteI stopped shopping for kids there in 2005. There stores were filthy the employees were surly and Walmart was way cheaper.
Not to mention Amazon. I shopped at Toy R Us for the first few years of my kids' lives (I agree about the stores), but then switched to online for almost everything.
DeleteWas whoever (or whomever?) this is a hatchet man for the Man?
ReplyDeleteToo bad about Toys'R'Us - they have good stock, but most things are so overpriced. The Canadian stores are still running, but not for long.
Bain is also responsible for wiping out iHeartRatio.
ReplyDeleteNot a blind. Bain Capital fucked up Toys R Us. I saw tweets about it this morning. Must be a REALLY slow news week.
ReplyDeleteAt least Old Yeller got some mercy, but these old failed politicians keep stumbling around, snapping at anything that gets too close.
ReplyDeleteAn apt reminder that much like Old Yeller, you're supposed to be living in a decentralized, agrarian society.
DeleteToys r us was in big trouble regardless. I'm not trying to defend Mitt by any means but there was no way for them to survive in this age regardless.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Old Yeller, remember that time Romney put his dog on the roof of his car? And he still nearly beat Obama??? If it wasn't for how weird that made Romney look and Michael Obama being so popular as the first husband, Barack might have lost. Then we wouldn't have the correspondence dinner, Obama wouldn't have made a joke about how a certain someone would 'never be President'. That shit is the butterfly effect right there.
ReplyDeleteButterfly effect?
DeleteYou mean like the MKULTRA Monarch butterflies?
Did my fingers accidentally slam that across my phone?
Behold the Butterfly War
Omg. Lmfao. I totally forgot about Romney putting his dog on the roof of the car. Thanks for that (horribly) hilarious image @vessimede barstool. He is such a doofus.
ReplyDeleteNot a Mittens fan, but the only surprise here is that Toys R lasted as long as it did.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a single thing that killed Toys. It is a combination of 1) the big box stores with competitive pricing and selections and that are also attractive for selling more than toys, 2) online retailers like Amazon that offer the same benefits as the first item, 3) heavy debt load, and 4) a movement of kids to online entertainment.
ReplyDeleteThey f*cking killed geoffrey the giraffe, that's what did it :(
ReplyDeleteanother one bites the dust
ReplyDeleteanother 20k people fighting for jobs
Get real! If anyone shops for toys and such at a brick and mortar marketplace, it’s eother Walmart or Target! Everyone else goes thru Amazon. Amazon is killing brick and mortar like Craigslist killed newspapers!
ReplyDeleteAmazon and its business model has done in a lot of businesses and threatened the longevity of a lot more. That is undeniable.
ReplyDeleteWhen did the alt-right take over CDAN?
ReplyDeletePut your mind at ease.
DeleteThe alt-right is as fictional as antifa.
Imagine that.
No one has even been able to explain what the fuck alt right means either. And apparently Tay Tay is the high priestess.
DeleteAbout 4 months ago, I think.
DeleteClinton Derangement Syndrome is strong here, as you can see by comments under a Romney blind 🙄
But her emails.....
Delete@Normal. Yes indeed.
DeleteThis is what alt right means:
http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html?m=1
Beware imposters wearing swastika panties.
The other toy company was K-B Toys.
ReplyDelete:( My first job as a teen was at Toys R Us. Insane but great. RIP Geoffrey.
ReplyDelete" I'm not trying to defend Mitt by any means but there was no way for them to survive in this age regardless."
ReplyDeleteYes, but Bain Capital inserts itself into dying businesses and vacuums up things like pension plans and retirement accounts for its own profits.
THAT'S the point. Toys R Us was circling the drain and Bain/Romney picks the last meat off the bones.
Mitt's been off the Bain payroll since 2009, though.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/07/when-did-romney-leave-bain-updated-128735
Good point!
DeleteMittens was an A+ list politican?
ReplyDeleteRepublican nom gets you that
DeleteGeoffrey is/was an anthropomorphic pedo, just like pedobear (check out the end of the old ad linked below). Didn't they also have that most annoying Ginger in history (and that's saying a LOT), the neighbor of Small Wonder Vicki - Harriet I think her name was, in their ads? Also looks like Chunk is the kid at the desk:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY
"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid
There's a million toys at Toys R Us that I can play with!
From bikes to trains to video games it's the greatest toy store there is!"
Does anyone moderate comments?
ReplyDeleteToys R Us was on the decline before Amazon gained traction. Part of the reason was poor shopping experience.
ReplyDeleteiHeartMedia just filed for bankruptcy, another Bain company. I see a trend.
ReplyDelete"Why do you need to wreck this company?"
ReplyDelete"Because it's WREAKABLE, all right?..."
oh my gosh LOL how in the world did I ever miss the story of mitt romney strapping family dog to the roof of his car for cross country trip? I mean I honestly haven't ever heard that before surely it was big news and for more than a day! what in the world was going on in my life where I missed *that* and LOL at pic of air force one with dog carrier strapped to top lmao wow
ReplyDeleteI miss Kiddy City and Kaycee. Fuck, I'm old.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Toys R Us troubles date long before 2009.
ReplyDeleteIt's mitt but with eBay, Amazon, Walmart, and Target this was inevitable
ReplyDelete@Bostonian
ReplyDeleteAgain, it's not that their failure as businesses wasn't inevitable. It's that Vulture capitalism, in the form of Mitt's Bain, came swooping in to gobble up the remains in the form of retirement accounts or IRAs or any savings that companies were holding for employees. This is what companies hire Bain to do - screw the workers out of what they are owned and split it with Bain.