• Unlike brands and stores that lock in their inventory six months to a year in advance, TJX and other off-price chains buy surplus merchandise to sell it right away. They also capitalize on orders that have been canceled or when companies manufacture too many items.

• Former President Barack Obama chastised how Democrats can sometimes be a “buzzkill,” too often framing issues through the lens of identity politics that force people to feel as though they’re “walking on eggshells.” “Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes,” he said on the podcast “Pod Save America.” He later added: “I think where we get into trouble sometimes is where we try to suggest that some groups are more—because they historically have been victimized more—that somehow they have a status that’s different than other people and we’re going around scolding folks if they don’t use exactly the right phrase.”
• Nobody likes people they feel like they have to walk on eggshells with. I felt that way the majority of the time I spend with my older brother. I hated the feeling so much I told my wife at the time that if she ever felt she was walking on eggshells with me, to let me know, because I don’t want to be that person. But, instead of working through that problem together, she chose to internalize it and literally run away from the problem. The thing that puzzled me the most was wondering what else could I have done or said to prevent a separation? I guess nothing, especially since she wouldn’t go to a single counseling session together.

• “We all know he will lose, or let me put it this way: we all know he’s much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle. So why would we want to go with that? “He’s going to try to intimidate people out of the race as long as he can,” Ryan continued. “Whether he runs or not, I don’t really know if it matters … He’s not going to be the nominee, I don’t think.”The stuff he said about cycles is an interesting political insight that I’ve often been fascinated with. Running for office, especially the presidency, is all about timing and being at the right place at the right time.“There’s a handful of people that are going to run, because it’s the only cycle they can run in. They can’t wait until 2028,” he said. “They’ve got to go now, if they’re ever going to go. And they don’t want to die without ever trying.”

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