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Thinking Prohibited!
It spreads like plague, contaminating and infecting more and more organizations. After all, it’s so much easier to just do things without having to think about their consequences, or the very next steps that you may need to take. Even the supposedly proactive MO of “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness,” that has been…
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And You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any More Unhinged
I was once told by a very good friend of mine (with slightly different points of view) that I was “stalking” the President, after I shared with them a couple of his social medial posts. In one of those posts, the President shared an AI-generated video showing a Trump hotel (or maybe casino) in what…
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Incompetence, Deception, and Cruelty
In an interview with Tom Klingenstein on October 18, 2024, then-candidate Trump was asked to describe his potentially incoming administration in one word. Below is the exact exchange: Klingenstein: I want a one-word answer.Trump: Go ahead.Klingenstein: Are you capable of one word?Trump: Yes. Well, sometimes you… Am I capable? If it’s doable.Klingenstein: Okay. Kamala says,…
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I Think, Therefore I Am. I Won, Therefore I Rule
René Descartes had famously used the statement “I think, therefore I am,” as a starting point for his philosophical inquiries, where he used the act of thinking as an evidence for the existence of the thinker. While most, if not all, philosophical statements are abstractions based on observations and not proven facts, their acceptance and…
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A Glimmer of Hope (2)
In the early hours of this morning, in a mostly unprecedented move and without waiting for the case to take its normal course through the lower courts, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order that temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center, in west-central…
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Weaponization of the DoJ
“President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials Thursday to investigate two of his former first-term officials who publicly refuted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and criticized his chaotic administration from within.” I wonder if Jim Jordan will make as much noise, or open an investigation, as…
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Beauty-Pageant-Style Tariffs
We are going to have a beauty-pageant-style announcement for the new tariffs, mostly on our ally countries, on the “liberation” day, April 2nd. That’s pretty much all Mr. President understands; a competition in a TV show, be it the Beauty Pageant which he owned for a while, or the Apprentice show, in which he actually…
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A Government “of Narcissists”, “by the King’s Cronies”, and “for Retribution”
In his Gettysburg Address in November of 1863, Abraham Lincoln famously articulated a core principle of democracy, the emphasis on citizen-led governance and representation, as a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Through all the variations in the policies and ambitions of administrations from different political parties since then, and the…
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The Glass Is Half Full
It has been about two weeks since President Trump has taken the oath of office (mind you, without placing his hand on the bible; not that it bothers me, nor is it required by the Constitution, but something that may be of potential interest or significance to the vast number of Christian and especially evangelical…
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Which Countries Released Their Criminals into the US?