Vice President and Dem Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has never spent a day in business. Not an indictment, but something that bears consideration by discerning voters when listening to the charming lady.
“Hahaha, WTF do I know about business? Nothing. I’m running on JOY, baby, and make believe startup first year business deductions.”
Most politicians work on getting out the vote, driving the voters in their party to the polls to vote for them. In the USA we will only see 60-70% of registered voters cast a vote — a bloody inexcusable miserable performance — so if you can get YOUR voters out, you can win.
BTW, believe it or not, there are still millions of “eligible voters” who are unregistered and every year a new crop of voters becomes eligible to vote.
But, this post today is not about GOTV (get out the vote), but the seeming war of crowd sizes and the lengths that candidates will go to brag about their crowd size. Continue reading
I was looking back at some old notes from when I first got into the CEO coaching business a dozen years ago and reflected on the nature of my relationships with CEOs. One of the things that bubbled to the surface is I have been involved in a lot of internal and external dispute resolutions.
There is a distinct difference between internal disputes such as removing a key C-suite team member and external disputes such a dealing with a board of directors or venture capitalist. Some are both internal and external — a board of directors fighting amongst itself about replacing a CEO.
[Almost every startup company CEO will be replaced within 5 years of venture capital funding.] Continue reading
Last night I went to the movies — probably haven’t been three times since the beginning of the Pandemic — and watched Reagan, the movie about . . . wait for it . . . Ronald Reagan our 40th President.
I was in my thirties and out of the Vietnam Era Army in the 1980s when he was President so I was intimately familiar with his presidency, but not his entire life. I learned a few things.
The Democrats are filled with joy — joy and hating Trump is the campaign strategy for the Dems — at the replacement of the cadaverous, demented Joe Biden with someone with a heartbeat even if it is Kamala Harris. Who would not be?
“I borrowed a few pants suits from Hillary. So what?”
Do you remember that Nascar feeling when Joe Biden spoke publicly, holding your breath to see if he’d shit himself verbally or get lost in his own conversation with the voices in his head.
Now, with Kamala, we don’t have that fear, but we do have THE CACKLE. Well, sure, partly because Kam Girl doesn’t actually speak to the press, but she’s not demented like Joe. Continue reading
Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism acting through Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others. They also have their own home grown thugs called the Quds Force which only operates abroad.
The political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, greets the actual ruler of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the inauguration of the titular ruler of Iran, its new President, Masoud Pezeshkian. A short time hereafter, the Israelis assassinated Haniyeh in Teheran in a clever scheme wherein a bomb was placed months earlier in a secure accomodation where Iran hosts visiting terrorists. Boom!
In addition, the Iranians are closing in on a nuclear weapon. Imagine how much fun the Middle East will be when Iran has a nuclear weapon. Continue reading
I lived in Texas for 42 years and had business interests in the Rio Grande Valley. I used to pass through immigration checkpoints traveling back from the Valley to my home. I have a sense of the culture in that part of Texas — fantastic citrus and Mexican food. Lots of palm trees. Very nice people. Huge drug cartel gateway to the US including for deadly fentanyl.
The Rio Grande — border between US and Mexico — east of El Paso.
I keep hearing the Dem presidential nominee for President, our current Vice President since January 2021, say she is going to “fix” things like inflation and immigration as soon as she is elected . . . . . on Day One.
“Day One, baby. Just vote for me and I will fix all the problems me and Joe created on Day One. Come on, y’all.” Imagine this in a faux Southern accent.
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