Having conquered the fields of television (#1 talk show for virtually 25 straight years), movies (Oscar nomination plus hit films like The Butler), politics (played the decisive role in electing the first black president), and literature (dictated the New York Times bestseller list for over a decade), the richest black and most worshipped woman in American history, has now used her estimated 2,029 cm3 brain to figure out how to adapt to the Wall Street. Is there no environment she can’t adapt to?
Tomi Kilgore of Marketwatch writes:
Meet the new queen of Wall Street—Oprah Winfrey could make eight times her original investment, and lost some weight, in less than two years since buying shares in Weight Watchers International Inc.
Shares of the weight management company WTW, +0.82% rocketed 25.1% in active trade to $41.39, the highest close since Aug. 1, 2013, after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and sales, and raised its earnings outlook for the year. Trading volume exceeded 9.9 million shares, compared with the full-day average of about 1.2 million shares.
The stock has now nearly quadrupled this year, and has rocketed 510% since Oprah took about a 10% stake in the company 22 months ago. In comparison, shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B, -0.58% have climbed 34.5% in 22 months, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.13% has gained 21.8%.
All this success has people talking President Oprah in 2020, especially with polls showing she would crush her fan Donald Trump in a head to head match.
“She’s popular, she’s brilliant. She’s someone very special”, Trump told Larry King back in 1999, when he floated the idea of running for President as an Independent with Oprah as his running mate.
Although Oprah has consistently stated that she will NEVER run for public office, that hasn’t stopped people like Michael Moore from trying desperately to draft her as recently as last week:
Worshipped by the Michael Moore left for triumphing over racism, sexism, classism, weightism, poverty, and sexual abuse, without sacrificing her integrity, and by the Ayn Rand right for being the greatest example of a self-made rags to riches capatilist superhero to actually exist, Oprah occupies a deep place in the American psyche.
However billionaire David Rubenstein wisely asks “Why be President when you can be Oprah?” stating:
Oprah is higher than being president of the United States. … I mean she can do anything she wants. Nobody criticizes her and she is a terrific person.
Billionaire David Rubenstein
Reminds me of the time when Oprah asked Sting: “Is there anything better than being a rock star?”
His reply: “Being Oprah”
The audience roared with cheers:
Pumpkin Person 
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More about Idiocracy please
Entire human story has been based on useful idiots, clever assholes and … Idiocracy.
Akiane Kramarik
genuine indigo child
paints Jesus at 8 years old.
(I wonder what her IQ is?)
http://www.geniusexperiment.com/2011/11/akiane-kramarik-interview/
Pumpkin Person, please do an article on an estimate of Elon Musk’s IQ.
Trump + Oprah would’ve been even more absurd.
And Michael Moore is a hypocrite. he sux
Worshipped by the Michael Moore left FALSE! for triumphing over racism, sexism, classism, weightism, poverty, and sexual abuse, without sacrificing her integrity FALSE!, and by the Ayn Rand right for being the greatest example of a self-made rags to riches capatilist superhero to actually exist FALSE!, Oprah occupies a deep place in the American psyche. ONLY A DEEP PLACE IN YOUR PSYCHE PEEPEE.
1. her soul left her body on air 30 years ago peepee. no one in tv has any integrity. least of all people who interview freaks for ratings.
2. the very fact she had to overcome such things means capitalism SUCKS. the idea that a game is great if a tiny fraction of those who are handicapped can still win is RETARDED.
sad!
Compared to other billionaires and media figures, she has integrity. She stopped interviewing freaks circa 1995 when the religious right started attacking daytime TV, but in retrospect, all those freak shows were a progressive counterculture movement as documented by books like Freaks Talk Back.
another example of what’s wrong with capitalism: jack me.
jack ma was an english major. he has never written a line of code. but in 1995 he was able to raise 20,000 USD to start his first company, which made web pages for chinese companies. that was a lot in the PRC in 1995. so ma is like steve jobs. other people do the work and he gets the riches and the credit. this is a common story and a concrete example of what marx referred to as “expropriation of surplus value”. oprah on the other hand is the “talent”. i wonder how she negotiated to go from employee to owner? her show must’ve been owned by someone else initially.
if peepee thinks oprah is a plus for capitalism, she’s the exact opposite.
She was able to negotiate ownership because she was smart enough to fire the agent she had and go looking for the toughest most aggressive lawyer in Chicago. She felt she needed someone super tough because she herself was so nice.
Also, her ratings were so incredibly high and syndicated television was so lucrative in those days (when media was much less fragmented) that she had enormous negotiating power. TV stations depended on her, not just for the ratings of her talk show, but as a lead in for the local news.
I don’t necessarily think capitalism is good for society, I just find it a fascinating experiment in Darwinian competition for resources between different individuals and races. It’s fun to keep stats on who wins and loses since almost everyone is motivated to play the game. To me it’s just a spectator sport.
slave, master
serf or peasant, lord
employee, business owner or capitalist
what all of these have in common is that rather than one class of workers there are two classes. those who work and those who own.
there’s nothing wrong with profit or rewarding the entrepreneur for risking his own money. but that’s not what large business organizations and their very concentrated ownership is.
the reward for the successful entrepreneur is perpetual. he is rewarded with passive income long after he’s made more than enough. such a perpetual passive income and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice is NOT necessary to motivate people or to run an efficient economy.
One solution could be to make it illegal for people who already own a business to buy another business in the same industry, thus preventing anti-competitive monopolies (even Oprah acquired a bit of a monopoly at the end, owning not only her own show, but part-owning Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and Rachael Ray and so none could air opposite her). Another solution might be to say the bigger your business, the higher a minimum wage you must pay your employees.
the amount by which the value of what workers produce exceeds what workers are paid is termed “surplus value” by marx. the owners expropriate this for themselves in the form of profit.
this is an extreme example of what marx meant by the “expropriation of surplus value”.
The economy is mainly based on the production of gold from nearby gold mines, many artisanal.
Many miners work at the gold mine owned by Corporación Ananea. Under the cachorreo system they work for 30 days without payment. On the 31st day they are allowed to take with them as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.
to what extent are all employees treated in the same way?
Oh dear
In this climate Oprah would be crushed by Trump. The media polling of Trump is lies, just like their electoral polling. A lot of people would never vote for a black person again following the dark pit of horror that was the Obama years.
Also, Moore is a good man but he makes a deeper assumption evil comes from the ways legal contracts bind relations between people in the economic system rather than genetics and more succinctly, racial genetic disparities.
There is no doubt in my mind, majority white countries revert to norway sans jewish elite propagation.
And all black countries would revert to Kinshasa.
And all asian majority countries to China.
However Indians would not revert to India. India has a malthusian issue with births, the fundamental stock of its people is actually quite eu-civilisaitonal.
The national polls for the election were actually pretty accurate, showing Hillary beating Trump by a few percentage points, and she did indeed win the popular vote by several million votes. Where the polls got it wrong was at the state level, and in particular they underestimated turnout among non-college whites, which allowed Trump to sweep the electoral college. As Robert Lindsay noted, there were some towns where virtually EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE TOWN voted Trump. Michael Moore comes from one of these Leatherface towns so he was one of the few elites who predicted Trump’s victory. I should have seen it coming because even in Canada, when I’d talk to whites in working class bars, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE BAR was for Trump, especially the bartenders. But in elite bars it was very different.
But it goes beyond Trump’s views on immigration though that’s a huge part of it. Trump is a folk hero for working class white America. His appeal is similar to Oprah’s in that they’re both powerful billionaires who look and sound like average Americans.
My sense is that the neocons would try to get rid of Oprah or co opt her in the primaries.
I think the jews preferred candidate is kamala harris or cory booker. Another plastic diversity servant.
booker hanged his political future after…
he voted against importing of drugs from canada.
why?
lots of drug companies have their HQs in new jersey.
sad!
so pill is indian?
Philosopher
You have an interesting take about India..You mean to say that since Brahmins are emigrating out of India, and are also not reproducing enough, India will never reach its natural developmental stage? a bit of fleshing out of your last few sentences would be highly desired, thank you…Is there any possibility that some new cities in India can be Singapore level, eventhough vast majority of India will be current Ethiopia level? I think a strong internal visa system would be a requirement of that, and that means abolishing the current electoral democracy system
My observation is that unlike east asians, indians have verbal intelligence and social intelligence and are not sadistically tribal like jews or their northern neighbours in ak-pak area.
I am not familiar with the caste systems of india/bangladesh/sri lanka.
Its just an intuition that these places are a lot poorer than they should be.
Maybe there is a lot of cousin marriage. Idk. But there is more potential in India than east asia in certain ways.
What Oprah did was give weight watchers $15b worth of endorsements, marketing and advertising.
Thats why the stock went up.
A clever strategy now is to see what other business could benefit or will benefit from shadow marketing spend.
To my knowledge very few celebrities could juice a business with the right fit in such a way. Maybe dr dre and the headphones was another example.
Rubenstein is co-founder of Carlyle Group. He is one of the cabal I keep talking about. Carlyle is rumoured to be one of the CIA/deep states investment managers on the darkweb.
https://www.carlyle.com/about-carlyle/team/founders
Very gentile though for an elite level PE firm.
If I’m not mistaken the CIA also has a venture capital arm.
If trump wanted to guarantee his win, he would follow through on his illegal crackdown and investigate illegal immigrant voting as well.
I think he could clear 1-2% points in the popular vote by weeding out Cholo Mendez or arresting hispanics and some blacks for just putting them in prison for crimes.
In my perfect world, all illegals would be executed.
I’m not joking. I would let the police do spot inspections on id and if they were not right theyd be wiped out.
Then watch America/Europe become Denmark. The real denmark. Not the evil parody one.
But the south is mostly Irish/Scotish (warrior genes)
Irland and Denmark are super different.
New York is mostly Italian.
And also you forget about the English and German Regions.
I am 3/8ths German and I could pass for Nordic. (I could be a Viking in a movie)
I had super blond hair as a kid.
A video on YouTube said there are 13 American Accents.
America would not default to a homogeneous Denmark.
it might not be norway but it would be closer. the “solid south” used to mean solid democrat. lincoln was a republican. nixon’s “southern strategy” changed this. in a homogeneous society there is no southern strategy. the problem is heterogeneity not denmark.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
—lee atwater
How come pumpkin never writes about how beautiful oprah is? As a woman in transition to alien life form, I find that disrespectful, sexist and blasphemy.
Well for the record, I find oprah and all black women to be beautiful and feminine.
Speaking as a transfat bi curio xenu person.
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pray!!1
I’m scared. (am praying really hard)
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“80’s”
I like people from Indonesia.
I already hate (despise is the correct term) my neighbors, imagine all people on the indo-media or australiesia or Malayeia, or microcephalonesia, or . Hey
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Description of some people… That…. Already comment..es
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I am confused by what Mugabe thinks is a good system.
My view is the government and the economic system product the results of civilization.
(as long as property right exist, capitalism exists)
(But governments change how property right are enacted)
The government has Science Fiction like technology that money develops and is used for social control.
Trump was elected to push social controls on the employees of the government
A social movement (with big internet media influence) to force the government to change policy.
Capitalism, as it is manifested, is resultant of government policy.
What South Park Teaches Us About Economics – Wisecrack Edition
Pumpkins minimum wage variance by corporation size idea is actually very good.
the question is whether or not anyone should have the economic power that bezos or schwarzman has. that is, even if they earned it.
taxing capital gains and dividends and consumption very progressively (which is my solution) still doesn’t solve the problem of a few people being so powerful. that is, even if bezos would have to pay through the nose when he sold his stock or bought a yuge yacht, he’d still control AMZN and WaPo. is it a good thing that anyone no matter how worthy have so much power?
i think that after a business has survived and reached a certain stage it should be mandatory to offer employees an equity stake in lieu of salary. how much of an equity stake would depend on the employee’s tenure at the company and rank within the company.
by progressive taxation of capital gains and dividends i mean that the larger one’s income from such sources the higher his tax rate. i don’t mean that people who made a small amount from investments would be taxed at a high rate. people with modest investment portfolios shouldn’t be taxed at all.
by progressive taxation of consumption i mean that mansions and yachts and poly ponies and million dollar paintings come with a yuge tax bill. a tax bill that could more than double the cost.
Keynes proposed a tax on wealth itself, or hoarded savings which makes sense.
There was the land value tax as well which is very efficient macroeconomically.
With taxes you always want:
1. Ability to collect
2. Punish bad behaviours
3. Incentivise good behaviours by relative tax rates.
4. Stop oligarchy
The tax code of most countries should be 10 pages. max.