Supply Chain and Kris Bryant

Politics

There was a video trending on Twitter yesterday about a woman who was complaining about milk prices increasing (they are) are alarming rates and that her family is scaling back a lot on food purchases. That led to the tolerant Twitter community mocking and insulting her while basically saying "don't buy as much milk." And here in lies the problem with certain political groups that now exist our in the open: a lack of civility. These same people attempted to torture and "cancel" those who didn't post a black square during the BLM rise in early June 2020. They cried, complained, and then went to the streets to destroy billions of property in communities they didn't live in because of what they felt "wasn't enough action."

I would assume that it would be a better strategy to convince her why your candidate will fix those issues and improve her life. Instead of targeting Joe Manchin outside of his home, boat, or car, maybe understand that he is representing the people of his state, not a 25 year old girl from Seattle? The need to dunk on voters and those attempting to represent their state or district is only alienating voters from progress. This problem exists among both sides of the aisle at a time where the vast majority of this country wants civility and normal. Talk about a lack of awareness....

By the way, those supply chain issues are real. Fast food and other chain restaurants are limited on options (think Starbucks, McDonald's, Popeyes, etc.) and your local grocery store has bare shelves with higher prices. This country will struggle through the holiday season and economic growth will continue to falter. But keep insulting working class families. That's exactly how you want to grow your party and values.

Sports

Kris Bryant back to Chicago? How about Nick Castellanos? The NL is set to establish the DH full time (thank god) and give those guys a massive pay raise. Bryant is versatile defender and quite good, but it allows his "off days" to still keep his bat in the lineup. Castellanos can now worry about mashing home runs and not trying to navigate right field. Both would be great fits for a Cubs team that is 1-2 years and 3-4 pieces away from being really, really good again.

Business

NFT is the future of everything. Maybe that's a strong statement, but I believe the concept is what is going to take us to the next great technological age. The concept of NFT is online trading and collecting using unique blockchain codes. It incorporates real world with virtual (hi Facebook's Metaverese) and this is what our society will continue to become. At a time where we push for either all technology or all traditional, the combination of both is what is driving successful companies into a new age of business. Those that can incorporate a traditional business model with next century technology to assist (not lead) will reap the benefits of a society continuing to adopt these ideas. NFT is the next great concept with endless possibilities for collectors.  

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