re: Trump doing to China what Reagan did to the USSR?

My fricking business partner is such a GD idiot.

A vendor with whom we do a lot of business and from whom we buy several of our bestselling products called yesterday to offer us an opportunity to buy what’s left of remaining quantities of some of our core products before calling other customers. He told us how much he had remaining (a 15 month supply at current sales rates for a product which won’t expire for nearly 3 years.

He went on to explain that the disruption in global shipping and supply chains caused by the virus - whether legitimate or not - would prevent his company from being able to produce any more for 9 months in his best case scenario, likely more like 12 or more z.

If we bought all he had less, we’d sell it all before it expired even at current sales figures which have only grown significantly every month since we began to stock it (my idea).

More importantly, we’d ensure that our competition had none and would have none for several months to a year at the least. If we’re the only company who has it, eventually all global buyers will find their way to us via the internet while much competition would never bother restocking once available again.

The idiot vetoed my purchase attempt pending a meeting later in the week.

The last time I deployed this strategy (that vendor was ceasing production indefinitely to settle a legal dispute among ownership), we had the product when no one else did, got the #1 and #2 spots overall result in Google results (and 6 of the top 10 results including our feeder sites), and never surrendered the first page SERP (search engine results page) domination for four years after the dispute was resolved and production restored.

Now we have a chance to legally monopolize supply for the product and my idiot business partner is wasting valuable time. I can’t wait for 2022 to arrive when my stake will increase to above 50% and I won’t have to deal with this BS ever again.