Mr Brian
Something old, something new
Category: politics
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It's depressing to start the week with the same misadventurous nonsense and increasingly outright bile for themselves and us from Dear Leader and his ilk of henchpersons. There is not an iota of shame, humility, compassion or intelligence in the people that work for, and support, Donald Trump. They know not what they do was…
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Fetterman and his ilk remind me of the story I read yesterday about when Steve Jobs told Corning CEO Wendel Weeks in 2007 that he was too chicken by thinking about himself and not the company when he initially said no to Jobs request to providing all the glass screens for new iPhone. Politicians are like…
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The man that brought a thousand people to town. now young and old where before they were boomers playing dress-up hardly breathing is there a pulse? A beast, you say? History proves one thing that things don't end well for despots on wrong side of the people. Two counties south of me, in and around…
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Mobillize.us gmail, docs/sheets wordland wordpress.com Mobilize.us which is bit of amorpheus organization with some technological chops supporting diverse sets of grassroots advocacy groups. What they do that is great is they handle event sign-up and follow-up end-to-end with SMS, email, web support in highly automated manner. You really don't have to do literally anything but…
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I find it incredibly disturbing that republican senators have no problem deploying troops into the street against fellow citizens. To think the small government, law and order party finds no problem with the central government taking over policing in a major US city because a couple hundred people got together and burned some waymos is…
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Billionaire Class Growth (Wealth Accumulation) Total number of billionaires in the U.S. has grown over the past two decades, but very slowly in absolute numbers (from ~400 in the early 2000s to ~750–800 in 2024). However, their collective wealth has exploded: During the COVID pandemic (2020–2023), U.S. billionaires gained over $2 trillion in combined wealth.…
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to say it is a tax cut misses the whole story. It is not a tax cut for the poor far from it. It is devastating and cruel and repudiation of 50 years of what repubulicans have said about protecting social security. Let me clear It is a tax cut. For the rich. Include and…
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I am old and Congressman Don Beyer is even older than me and he is on TikTok. I think things are moving so quickly politcal operatives are having trouble integrating the myriad of tools they can use to communicate with constituents and the media. They all seem to have a web site and facebook. Some…
