He should release his tax returns so voters know if he has paid California taxes.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

How big was their empire? I've never heard of them. Were lions common in the region and that's why they guarded the gates?

And the State Dept fired several thousand people just a few months ago with others retiring early. How will they even manage this? It's State which handles the visas.

100%. I'm not buying ANY consumer-focused stocks right here. Retail, housing, auto, food, travel. It's terrible right now. Imagine how bad it will be in a recession?

Prayers.

If it was only Campbells suffering and not ALL of the others, then I would say it's something to do with their brands. But it's just awful in the food industry right now. Tariffs are killing them. Rising prices in coffee, chocolate and other items, even outside the tariffs, doesn't help either.

Nope. I buy Campbells products just like everyone else. In fact, at least with their soups, when times get tough they actually sell MORE because it's an affordable food item.

Those of us with aging parents know that the "turn" in health can happen quite suddenly. They're doing well and then they aren't. What we are seeing is pretty normal in a 79-year old man who didn't take care of his health.

ACA subsidies expiring should be the bigger issue right now. Impacts on people are happening right now.

Nothing new about what's in the food. All the food companies are reporting the same bad numbers. They've had to raise prices and now consumers are buying less. Campbells has a big coffee business and they are just getting killed by the tariffs.

Right. All the retailers are raising in the US only. But, of course, for many that is their largest market. Agree that prices are unlikely to ever come down, even if the tariffs go away.

But why? Other professions certainly have kept up. Is it because it has become female dominated from publishers, to editors, to agents, to writers? Just wondering as they say when a profession becomes 51% female, the pay goes down.

The mid-list writer mostly doesn't exist anymore. $200k to $400k deals used to be the mid-list writers. 30 years ago, you could make a living being a novelist. Even 20 years ago. But it hasn't inflation adjusted. People are still getting the same deals but after all fees/taxes, it doesn't add up.

No era bigger in TV than the 1980s when novelists were getting big book contracts.

The son-in-law isn't even working for the US government or the American people.

We have seen too many sci-fi movies. Even this summer's Superman movie has a "human" like robot they want us to care about (and we do).

They have been making the rounds. Watch George Conway's podcast. He calls the book the most important since All the King's Men.