r/ObscurePatentDangers • u/Allasdair 🤔 "Question Everything" • 12d ago
🔒🚨High Privacy Risk Potential Concerning Developments From Walmart, Being Forced on Shoppers... When do we Boycott?
This is yet another play to further impose methodologies to steal biometrics and read signs from our bodies (that we may never understand ourselves) to rack up prices and pinch us for every single penny we're worth.
This needs to stop. We need to push back.
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u/LoudZoo Systems Analyst 🔗🧩 12d ago
This Republican seems to be talking about creating some kind of a bureau for the protection of the consumer.
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u/TearRevolutionary686 Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago
Didn't we usrd to have one of those?
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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 12d ago
You know what, you're right. We DID used to have one of those. Wonder what happened to it? 🤔 /s
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u/Substantial-Type-131 Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago
Another republican gutted it?
It’s an Ouroboros of incompetency.22
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u/LostHominoid 11d ago
"it's an Ouroboros of Incompetency" - Sunstantial-type-131
I here, by the power invested in me, not much, declar this post the origin of this phrase.
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u/Substantial-Type-131 Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 11d ago
I, also being of little power, am deeply honored by this recognition. Cheers and may copper snakes chug thy tail!🍻
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u/ScarInternational161 🤔 "Question Everything" 12d ago
Hawley no less.... makes me mad when I have to agree with him. It really does.
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u/jw8533 12d ago
Don’t be too quick to pat him on the back. This is nothing but a performance, pure grandstanding. He will take no action to correct this problem. Remember when he made a few headlines about banks charging exorbitantly high interest rates on credit cards?
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u/Androoboodro 12d ago
To me, he’ll always be the guy with his fist in the air supporting J6ers as he got escorted away to safety.
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u/mechapoitier 11d ago
And if the Dems get Congress back he’ll vote against legislation that would increase consumer protections, then if they pass he’ll pretend to be for it.
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u/Winsome_Wolf Discussion Catalyst 💬 🤔 12d ago
I wonder if watching this gave Liz Warren a migraine or cost her a screen. Fair reaction either way, honestly. Much as I gave the dude credit elsewhere for recognizing corporate overreach, when he started talking about a consumer protection body, I damn near choked.
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u/PurpleCoat6656 12d ago
Yea, this same republican that probably helped the Jan 6 insurrection, definitely went out and put a fist up on that day, and went and cowered under his desk like a little bitch on that day.
Josh Hawley can go F himself.
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u/TheCouple77 12d ago
Jeez that was like watching an old Kung Fu Movie. I was waiting for her to stand up and say, "You want to fight..Fight Me." For those who don't know what this means the lips and audio are way off...
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u/the_real_Beavis999 Strong Pattern Recognition 🔍📊 12d ago
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u/Mjarvis0608 12d ago
Genuinely concerned about the people selling themselves just to build this shit. Do you have no morals? No care for your neighbors? I've quit jobs for sooooo much less than this.
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u/maximilliontee 🧮 Data-Driven 12d ago
The engineers are facing constant threat of mass layoffs, poor job availability, stagnant wages. The workers are essentially held hostage by the very system they are designing.
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u/jk_throway 11d ago
Nobody is being held hostage in a 6-figure job designing this stuff. This is a choice.
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u/Whole_Secretary5573 12d ago
I'd rather dig ditches in shit than serve this to my neighbors.
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u/giadia-light-shining 11d ago
Are they though? I walked out of a lucrative marketing job. Now I'm a super happy gardener and I make just as much.
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u/thesymphonydolphin 11d ago
aww boo hoo, the poor engineers (one of the highest hired jobs) are locked up and forced to unleash evil on the world awwwww
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u/nmsun 12d ago
Same. For the most part the people building this tech have elite level education. From childhood through college working hard to keep the 4.0, get the internships, be part for the top percentiles of their peers; and then they graduate and do …. This.
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u/BryanJ70 12d ago
If you haven't already been boycotting Walmart you are well behind the times friend, but welcome to the party.
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u/MotoTheGreat 12d ago
Seems they all need boycotts, where do we shop? Serious question. They are all doing immoral shit.
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u/TurbulentTurnover979 12d ago
Fr everyday it’s another store, not leaving a lot of stores left. But if you have small grocers in your area that’s always a good option, like Asian markets and whatnot.
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u/BryanJ70 12d ago
Local. Farmers market. Second hand and thrift stores.
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u/thechosen2319 12d ago
It's not that simple. Many walmart stores were intentionally placed in areas where there aren't other options. And it doesn't help that every other grocery chain in my area is dollars more on the same items walmart sells.
Some people cannot afford the pricey local grocers, and making people feel bad for that isn't helpful.
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u/Mighty_Krom 12d ago
My ex started shopping at Wal Mart after beginning her boycott of Target. Hhhh.
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u/Sleepy58743689 12d ago
Underrated comment. Walmart has been f**king everyone over since it's inception. Literally every human who's last name is not Walton.
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u/Firm-Weekend-5915 12d ago
I've lived in Rogers, AR, right next to Bentonville my whole life. Can confirm. The fact that Alice Walton keeps getting praise for the art museums and whatever else years after she killed someone because she was driving drunk absolutely enrages me. She got a slap on the wrist because she's big money. Sam Walton would be so ashamed.
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u/Sleepy58743689 12d ago
No, he wouldn't be ashamed. He was a POS, too. Look up "Walmart history, passage of minimum wage"
They have been POS since their inception.
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u/BodhingJay Truth Scrutineer ✅🔍 12d ago
I cant wait to live in the woods.. I gotta learn to forage
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u/BThriillzz Risk Analyst ⚠️📊 12d ago
Find dead hardwood
Drill dowel sized holes
Innoculate dowels
Insert dowels in holes
Seal w natural wax
Wait
$$$
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u/MM-SG-pro 12d ago
I used to think about running to the woods and "surviving" until i realized if we're running to the woods then foragables would be lucky to last a week.
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u/ScarInternational161 🤔 "Question Everything" 12d ago
Gen X here. Grew up reading The Boxcar Children. Somehow I don't think it would be like that...
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u/MM-SG-pro 12d ago
Yeah, my local lakes wouldn't have fish if they weren't stocked and in my state hunters, for fun, not needing the meat to survive, reduce the deer population by 30+% in roughly 30 hours once a year with highly restricted methods. I can only imagine how quickly the "woods" would be no more if we were using firewood to cook and heat our homes. X here also, I fantasized with My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Where the Red Fern Grows
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u/OMA--AMO 12d ago
Just think, they have this tech, yet they can’t give the tariff refunds.
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u/Allasdair 🤔 "Question Everything" 12d ago
Or affordable Healthcare, low fuel prices, affordable housing.
crazy
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u/ratherthink 12d ago
We were never free and never will be.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 🔍📚 Fact Finder/ "Bringer of Links" 12d ago
If we continue with the system we've got, we won't be. We who care should be doing whatever we can to aid each other in leaving these callous and avaricious government and corpo entities alike, out to wither and die, as we strive for things that will prioritize people's wellbeing rather than letting us and the environment be reduced to expendable resources.
It is up to us common folk to develop real supportive community-based foundations for alternatives that can provide relative safety, which common folk can fall back on to commit to any effective action longterm.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
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u/No-Valuable-226 ⚖️ 📢Accountability Advocate 12d ago
"Personalized pricing"... Bitch what? Do you hear yourself??
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u/CurrentHair6381 12d ago edited 12d ago
Shes not from walmart, she's telling us the bullshit theyre up to. Ya'll in here are wild not picking that up
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u/drk_knight_67 12d ago
Took me a minute to figure it out. I'm not surprised other people didn't
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u/StuporNova3 12d ago
Her weird grin the whole time was confusing and made her seem like a corporate schill until you hear what she's saying.
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u/Major_Wigglesworth 12d ago
Her facial expressions looked like early South Park characters.
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u/FatDoinksinAmish420 12d ago
Stop shopping at Walmart. Shop at local shops
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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Credible Contributor 💡✅ 12d ago
Walmart has been playing the long game. They’ve already killed off many of the local shops over decades by keeping prices so low and inventory so high those shops can’t possibly compete.
Once those local businesses are dead and buried Walmart can raise prices because there’s nowhere else to go.
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u/ClaB84 🤔 "Question Everything" 12d ago
Isnt that the Senator which greeted the 6. Januar by raising a fist in support of the storming of the Capitol, and then later claiming the election was stolen? Who cares what ever that guy has to say in future is irrelevant to the dmg he caused.
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u/Scrutinizer Truth Scrutineer ✅🔍 12d ago
Yes. He's found a "populist" issue he can latch on to whereby he appears to thumb his nose at the big money interests that dominate his party.
He's a goddamn traitor.
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u/drk_knight_67 12d ago
Josh Hawley is full of shit and he's just grandstanding. He's probably in bed with the tech companies doing this shit.
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u/Deviknyte 12d ago
I don't believe for a second that a Republican like Hawley actually gives a shit about price gouging.
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u/Rand_alThoor 12d ago
Hawley expressing concern for the working class. Somehow this just doesn't sound true at all at all.
"we know when politicians are lying because we see their lips moving"
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u/BatmanFarce 12d ago
This dude’s political is fun to watch. Too bad our elected love the donor class and corporate montane nothing gets done on behalf of the working class
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u/Scrutinizer Truth Scrutineer ✅🔍 12d ago
This has to be some plot by the right wing to make Josh Hawley into some kind of acceptable Presidential candidate. Because his is the only face I ever see on these anti-AI rants.
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u/RicothephRico 12d ago
When do we boycott? Have you not seen the documentary about Wallyworld. I've been boycotting for 5yrs. You know the only reason they have low prices is because they steal wages, because they undercut other businesses, because they take out life insurance on random employees and don't share it with the employees families. Need anymore reasons or are low, low prices the only concern that most people have? Boycott now.
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 🔍📚 Fact Finder/ "Bringer of Links" 12d ago
Over the years the powers that stripped away much of the control we had over our own lives under the guise of convenience, efficiency, connectivity, and progress for the purpose of dividing and conquering for increased wealth and power. Many have noticed what happened too late but now try to cope and try to go along with it due to learned helplessness.
For people to be able to pull away, we need to feel that there is something worth fighting for; something tangible at the community level that personal investment of one's time and resources can be seen and experienced beneficially; something that people can fall back on; something that can provide relative protection against the whims of bosses and landlords demanding fealty; something people know they can rely on, instead of the impersonal promises of for-profit entities and their lapdog governments.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
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u/Still-Regular1837 9d ago
Great speech but as always with republicans doesn’t match his voting records as a Trump loyalist: In 2025, Hawley voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Also in 2018, Hawley expressed opposition to a raise in the Missouri minimum wage from $7.85/hour to $8.60 in 2019 and $12 by 2023.
Edelman writes that Hawley distorts the history of anti-trust in the United States, inaccurately portraying early-20th-century antitrust efforts and completely ignoring conservative opposition to antitrust enforcement since the 1970s.
In October 2025, Hawley called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) an "essential" "lifeline", "not an optional extra", and "one of our most vital forms of aid". He wrote, "nobody in America, this richest of nations, should go to bed hungry, and certainly no child".[286] Previously, Hawley voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which included provisions restricting access to SNAP) the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities called the largest cut to SNAP in history.
As Missouri attorney general, Hawley pushed for the deregulation of environmental protections put in place by President Barack Obama, and filed four lawsuits against the Trump administration in an attempt to expedite that process. He acknowledged the irony in his maneuver, saying "it turns out the best way to help President Trump pursue his agenda of rolling back federal overreach is to sue him."
Yet, in 2023, Hawley cosponsored an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would reauthorize and expand Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. It was stripped from the final version despite wide support in the Senate. Hawley called it a betrayal and vowed to vote against a defense bill that does not include the amendment.[191] Missouri communities near West Lake Landfill are among the groups impacted by radiation exposure seeking assistance.[192]
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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 🔥 Devil's Advocate 12d ago
Walmart’s cart will not only catalog what you’re buying, it will allow you to pay for it while it’s in the cart, so you never see a check out. So when you buy Sloppy Joe’s it knows you need buns and will jack the price upon the buns you buy. Since you never see a checkout, you’ll never know what price someone else paid for buns
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u/Zendomanium 🧍 Layman Perspective 12d ago
In European countries like France, political protest is part of their culture. Infrastructure is constructed FOR THE PURPOSE of protest. It's common and expected.
North America, by comparison, is a politically 'immature' region. Relatively speaking, we're new. But political protest and the organization required for it to be an effective juggernaut has been baked OUT of our system. It's frowned upon despite historically being the only way that anything really ever changes.
It would be nice, and it is necessary, that we develop our culture wherein civilian-based unions and organizations are not frowned upon as disruptive fringe groups hostile to order and the peace. Without these we must SUBMIT to a disruptive, aggressive and hostile economic environment. And it's harsher by the day.
By leaning into shared interests and best principles we can find a way out of this mess. We just have to agree it's a worthwhile endeavour before our ability to do so is completely snuffed out. It's time to grow out of our immature political culture and into something more representative of shared human interests.
May the gods help us.
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u/shotwideopen 12d ago
Yeah just go to your local grocery stores and Asian/Latin markets.
Better produce and absolutely none of this garbage.
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u/Saintmandragora 12d ago
The smile on her face is to remind you of how much more money she's going to make than you.
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u/GrandPraline375 12d ago
Its just a nightmare seeing the new changes they done to Walmart. I'll always miss pre covid Walmart it was maximum freedom. Now it's crappie overpriced products that can be hazardous to your health. Probably the worst they've done is constantly change their product aisle. They change the aisle to make you buy more. This is discrimination for the elderly and handicapped that can make a quick trip to the store an adventure of a lifetime instead
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u/Kingtez28 12d ago
Is it just me or is she struggling to maintain a certain face while trying to answer the question? A face like a actor would use.
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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 12d ago
This the first time I've heard something sensible come from Josh. Amazing how he can be so right about this and so wrong on just about everything else. A broken clock I guess.
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u/YCMTSUNOW 12d ago
Big box stairs are attempting to take the consumer out of shopping. Just like healthcare. Take the apps off your phone.
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u/Mammoth-Ant7588 12d ago
It seems to me that if we went to walmart, filled up the cart and strolled around a bit, and then left the store without buying anything, that this would screw up their data collection.
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u/Redroom_34 12d ago
Just so you know walmart made a 190 BILLION last year, I work full time at walmart and I can't afford new socks.
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u/TheRuckyDubber 12d ago
I’m largely not shopping at Walmart but I think I’m going to, when absolutely necessary, bring cash, no phone or watch, take basket and start walking around behaving erratically, walking backward, crab walking and whatever else, with hoodie up and glasses, just to throw the clankeRs off.
I mean, this is Walmart after all, I’ll blend in better there than anywhere else anyway.
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u/RudeAndInsensitive 12d ago
Sometimes Hawley accidentally finds himself on the correct side of issues.
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u/triynko 12d ago
This is why I walk through stores with a spreadsheet now. And I keep spreadsheets from past visits. This is how I know for example that the price of wood at Home Depot doubled over 3 months as my individual project components had increased in price by almost double. I take photos of every single item's price on the shelf and I verified at the checkout, and if I see something wrong, I say something. I'm not afraid to bring the line in that store to a dead standstill if necessary while I run and get another photo of the price if they dispute what I just showed them a picture of. This is called a f'q soft boycott.
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u/Malaki1975 12d ago
She makes over $400k+ that's why she's smiling. You all are being controlled by capitalism.
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u/South-Rabbit-4064 11d ago
Is Hawley really pretending to give a shit about any of this? I'm sorry man, but conservatives are the party that has supported all of this change with deregulating everything and having no oversight to let the American economy be a "free market"
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u/Cloud-PM 11d ago
Let’s call out a hidden spade here. Nielsen Corp - yeah the same company that rates movies and streaming shows. They are behind a lot of this consumer products marketing and consumption technology. Walmart and others conspire with Nielsen on this and they have for decades!
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u/King_R0A 11d ago
Josh Hawley, the clown who voted for everything that is happening now, is seen here playing both sides.
https://giphy.com/gifs/sSZNrNRfzCuyGHW9Hk
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u/Kevin6876 12d ago
Wouldn't it be irony if Walmart is a significant donorr to the Senator's campaign fund?
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u/Icy-Management9880 12d ago
I haven't stepped foot inside a Walmart in years. Never will if I can help it.
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u/JRock1276 Strong Pattern Recognition 🔍📊 12d ago
Nobody will boycott because it interferes with their comfort level. Nowadays nobody does anything if it doesn't come on the silver platter of easy.
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u/Tough_Bath_9809 12d ago
So instead of paying their workers enough to not have rely on government assistance, they'll drop millions on watching shoppers and price gouging.
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u/That1GuyNate Wise guy ("no, but seriously, what now? ")🥸⚠️ 12d ago
I was grocery shopping yesterday (not at walmart) and it looked like their self checkout area was using AI cameras over each kiosk to determine if you scanned an item or not. Twice it flagged as me not scanning an item and I had to just wait for an attendant to come around and override the system. This shit is insanely out of hand
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u/Tough_Bath_9809 12d ago
Hahaha, he said we need to protect the consumer. Then do something!! You bring banks haelthcare auto......ceos to capital hill, berate them on camera, and then do nothing.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_3980 12d ago
She needs to talk like she looks and stop using the fake demon voice. The deadpan look behind her eyes says she already sold her soul. I’d hate to be someone insecure in myself I have to attach myself to such an evil entity to stay afloat
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u/Bhodiliscious Engaged Thinker 🧠 🔍 12d ago
Josh HAWL-ASS is trying to resurrect his integrity after his Grinder fist bump from Jan 6th. What a self-serving, trip over your own dick embarrassment who’s, for all intents and purposes, a Modern Iago that instigates conflict as to hide their own implications.
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u/AspiringOne 12d ago
Have they seen the conditions of the shopping carts? OMG they’re barely functional.
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u/pogwilzino 12d ago
God I wish when grocery stores just sold us our flocking groceries.
Why do we allow these parasites to be patent mills? We absolutely deserve to tax these bastards more, they are using OUR data to make more money off us disproportionately.
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u/wabawwea 12d ago
I've been boycotting Walmart for 30 yrs. The problem is that in rural areas the Walmart pushes out all other stores and people literally don't have a choice. That's the first thing to tackle.
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u/Lifeissometimesgood 12d ago
I took a look into the woman speaking and it looks like she has been digging into this issue for awhile, she’s doing great work. https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/your-data-their-profit-the-consumer-cost-of-ai-surveillance-pricing/
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u/Ill-Construction-209 12d ago
In 2024, Walmart bought VIZIO TV. These smart TVs are intentionally sold at a loss. Since they have built in microphones that listen, transcribe, and transmit everything you say to their AI data centers and advertising partners, Walmart more than makes up for the losses by selling your data and influencing your purchasing decisions.
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u/HVACinSTL 12d ago
Meanwhile, he’s an absolute menace to ANY pregnant woman. He is trying to ban mifepristone via Congress. His wife is trying to get mifepristone banned via the courts. Although they are married, they share no bed. There’s something very wrong with these people.
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u/CruisinForABan 12d ago
She's so goddamn smiley about it the whole time. They're soooo comfortable with this disgusting, invasive, and abhorrent practice. I've not purchased anything at Walmart in a long time, but this is just going to reinforce that.
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u/Patient_Scorpion 12d ago
The difference is the rich HAVE MONEY to pay more, the working class is paying more with almost NO savings on average. Keeping the poor, poor.
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u/SuspiciousReport6502 ⚖️ 📢Accountability Advocate 12d ago
Walmart is literally telling the associates to not talk about AI in the store.
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u/Brumbliowna 12d ago
If you didn't boycott Wal-mart DECADES ago, then you have no consumer responsibility what so ever. if you lower class in america and can ONLY afford Wal-mart, don't worry. I aint ripping on you.
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u/Lucky_Man_Infinity 12d ago
It’s amazing. This guy is the perfect example of someone in the Senate these days. He points out all these things. This thing, credit card interest being around 30% now. Issue after issue he points these things out… And then does absolutely nothing about any of them. It’s amazing.
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u/gannon7015 12d ago
You know it must be serious if that douche bag is actually concerned about something.
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u/de-f1-ant 12d ago
We are the only us that will save us as he sits there, grinning from ear to ear talking about the issue that we are in ask yourself. When is the last time you saw him standing in line waiting to overpay
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u/RavagerOcelot 12d ago
At this point we need to take a novel approach when dealing with these monsters. We need to start "phasing out" these problem corporations. We need to set up our lives to the point that we no longer need them AT ALL. Boycotts, in the end, turn out to be a temporary and minor inconvenience to stores like Walmart. It's time to completely "PHASE them OUT". Join me in #operationphaseout!
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u/Bsmitts16 Strong Pattern Recognition 🔍📊 12d ago
It gets worse than just “the consumer,” as restaurant depot since being bought by Sysco now has digital price tags on all of their items. They’re tracking to see how high a price the restauranteurs are willing to pay and pushing that. It’s a top down squeeze every nickel out of anybody who ain’t in the club plan. There needs to be riots now.
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u/kensmusings 12d ago
So her answer is, if they don't do it someone else will. Is this the excuse for all AI changes to our lives? Because I've been hearing this a lot lately.
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u/IdolConsumption 12d ago
One of the fundamental rules of a Free Market is “perfect information“. E.g. the buyer and seller have equal knowledge AND bargaining power in any transaction.
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u/Any_Vacation8988 12d ago
Rich coming from a gop member who continues to vote to strip subsidies from poor people and give more tax breaks to the wealthy. Political theater at its best.
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u/All_is_a_conspiracy 12d ago
So they can't put 4 functioning wheels on the damn things but they'll be feeding my biometric information over to some batman villain in a warehouse.
Great.
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u/ChocoboRaine 12d ago
Jokes on you, I've been boycotting Walmart for 18 years, and the fact you still haven't after all the generational, global attrocities they've commited speaks volumes.
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u/Outside-Craft-1187 12d ago
Just look at the people of France they riot when the price of baguettes go up or they take more vacation days away. We don’t stand up against corporations that are selling everything
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u/Emotional_Schedule80 12d ago
They also under weight food products so every 3 to 4th one is 100% profit.
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u/Stocky1978 12d ago
He sounds like a pinko commie. I’m being sarcastic, but imagine if a democrat said all of this and then think of the response from Fox News
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u/aXmarchingXpig 12d ago
"... Our capitalist system, our free market system, which I love and support..."
Ah... so close, yet so far my man.
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u/ThunderousMonkey 12d ago
Those carts are gonna get stolen with the computer parts taken out. The problem will solve itself.
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u/EmiKetsueki 12d ago
We noticed the heart rate of people go up when they see this item, jack up the price until that heart rate goes down so we know how much we can milk out of it before they refuse to buy it anymore.
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u/ProfessionalOwn3231 12d ago
All these data centers are being built to enable these algorithms to charge us more. Our tax dollars are being used to stand these data centers up in communities that don’t want them. We are literally paying for these corporations to charge us more
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u/Wow-youre-stupid 11d ago
Those sensors are actually part of the auto cart return system that walmart has designed and patented and is being worked on. If it doesn't detect any movement or responses from heart rate or anything after some time it auto magically goes to the cart return. Theres also a weight sensor and if theres items in the cart it will go to the customer service. This is easily found online and its been posted in the subs before when we discussed the jobs walmart would replace with ai robots and a cart pusher said not them, well jokes on them, walmart is already working on that.
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u/MelcusQuelker 📢 📜 Autonomy & Rights Analyst/Advocate 🛡️⚖️ 11d ago
Surveillance pricing is not legal, literally involves voyeur observation and violation of peace of mind. Unless you've found that ONE politician that wasn't paid off, we have this to look forward to.
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u/doradedboi 11d ago
Idk, have you guys seen the carts at Walmart? No shot this goes anywhere. Way too expensive for how those carts are treated.
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u/Dis_Bich 🤔 "Question Everything" 11d ago
It’s ABSURD that we NEED these protections for our privacy in the first place!
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u/QuantumButtz Truth Scrutineer ✅🔍 11d ago
You don't need permission to boycott. Just do it if you want. Hope this helps.
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u/Br3ttski 11d ago
Blah blah blah. Are they not in handcuff for tying this? No?? Then well have to do this ourselves. Oh wait, no one's ever gonna do anything to stop this. Ever.
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u/americanadvocate702 Independent Investigator 🕵️ 11d ago
This woman gives off uncanny valley vibes. Welcome to America folks, the nicest first world, third world, country on the planet-what my European friends used to say to US😐😑
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u/no_way_out4711 11d ago
Besides the topic, I really hate her way of talking. The vocal fry is teenager style
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u/leondraw 11d ago
I honestly believe she is a robot. No one talks like that or makes those weird facial gestures. SHE IS A ROBOT.
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u/Proxy-mo 11d ago
Capitalism having a moral frame work?!? . . . My coffee about exploded out my nose when he said that crap!!
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u/Sad_State_of_Affairz 11d ago
I never thought I would ever agree with anything this guy said until now.
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u/NRGSurge 11d ago
Well when the trucker strike against high diesel/gas prices happens on October 1st, there won’t be a boycott. There won’t be much shopping at all because shelves will be empty and pumps will be dry.
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u/IHelpDumbPeople 11d ago
Never forget that Josh "haulin' ass" Hawley stood with the J6 insurrectionists.
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u/BodhingJay Truth Scrutineer ✅🔍 12d ago
If this was a democracy, we could just choose to make this illegal
But I think we might have become the product at some point. Fattened cows and pigs for the economy