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12-28-2024, 05:09 PM
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#8651 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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He’ll experience that for the rest of his life, deservedly so.
To me it’s yucky and I’d never confront anyone in person but he leaves a legacy of making Canada and its individuals worse and have made people hate him.
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12-28-2024, 06:20 PM
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#8652 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Kevin O'Leary is a smug asshole who's literally a nobody but acts like he's the Canadian version of Elon Musk. One day he's hawking crypto; the next, he's claiming to build data centres.
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12-28-2024, 08:28 PM
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#8653 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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Speaking of this O'Leary con man, he has been openly begging on Fox News to have Trump invite him to Mar-a-Lago to propose some BS pipe dream where 99% of Canadians would lose, but he and some of his 1% friends will win big.
When I heard this latest BS of his, I dunno if I wanted to puke more, or if I wanted to bash his face in more. All 41M Canadians want him to represent them to talk to Trump? To propose a fxxking union of some sort? (Complete with a unified passport too.) Who da hell does he think he is?!  As bad as Turd is, at least he had an official mandate from Canadians 3+ years ago...
The ridiculous thing is -- some idiot Canadians / PRs actually think this is a good idea... 
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12-28-2024, 09:03 PM
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#8654 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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12-28-2024, 09:27 PM
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#8655 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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More on Kevin...
But while O'Leary says in his memoir, Cold Hard Truth, that TLC was a money-making machine, an SEC filing shows that TLC suffered net losses of $376 million in 1996, $495 million in 1997 and $105 million in 1998. Moreover, TLC's accumulated deficit topped $1.1 billion by the end of 1998. In an interview, Scott Murray, TLC's former CFO, attributed the losses to goodwill write-offs that stemmed from buying other firms. He concedes there were a lot of "accounting losses" but contends that if one looked at EBITDA—earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization—it was a different matter. "So the company was making $800 million in revenues and about $120 to $125 million of operating income before goodwill, depreciation and amortization," Murray says.
Mattel purchased TLC for about $4 billion in the spring of 1999. (Depending on how debt is considered, the figure ranges from $3.4 billion to $4.2 billion.) O'Leary took over as president of Mattel's new TLC digital division, having received a hike in salary from $400,000 to $650,000 and an increase in his severance package from $2.1 million to $5.25 million. A few months after the sale went through, O'Leary sold most of his Mattel stock and pocketed nearly $6 million, according to a court document.
Weeks after the sale, CFRA produced a critical report on Mattel, claiming TLC was already experiencing collapsing revenue, a surge in receivables and a deterioration of operating cash flow. In the third quarter of 1999, Mattel expected profits of $50 million from the TLC division. When Mattel revised that estimate to a loss of between $50 million and $100 million, the announcement wiped out more than $2 billion in shareholder value in one day, as the company's share price slid from nearly $17 to $11.69. The actual divisional loss for the quarter turned out to be $105 million; the next quarter, the loss was $206 million.
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12-28-2024, 09:30 PM
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#8656 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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I have an idea, how about Kevin heads down there to chat with Elon, trump and Vivek with a few bottles of wine, and o'Leary's wife can take them on a late night boat tour.
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Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
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12-28-2024, 09:38 PM
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#8657 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Originally Posted by westopher I have an idea, how about Kevin heads down there to chat with Elon, trump and Vivek with a few bottles of wine, and o'Leary's wife can take them on a late night boat tour. | Savage.
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12-28-2024, 10:12 PM
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#8658 | | Performance Moderator
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That sounds like a lights out plan
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