Communities, echo chambers, fan clubs, Big Red Car? What?
Big Red Car here, holding down the fort while The Cripple (The Boss and his little ruptured Achilles tendon, suck it up, buttercup) is in New York with the elites. [I think he’s been rioting in front of the Trump Tower, but he swears he hasn’t. Who really knows?]
So, the Big Red Car has been thinking about the creation of communities on the Internet, blog communities, to be precise.
Fundraising, Big Red Car? Really?
Big Red Car here on a glorious crisp day in the ATX — On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all!
[Somebody emailed me and told me that was an obnoxious way to open a blog post, so this one is for you, pal. You know who you are and I love you all the same. Get over your whiny, thin-skinned, defeated-liberal self and NO the popular vote is not the “thing.” Sheesh! Pay up on your bet, you deadbeat.]
Can a businessman run a more cost effective campaign than a politician?
The numbers are in and it appears to be the truth.
Let’s dig into the numbers — this is intended as a lesson for CEOs, not a political commentary.
Veterans Day after Election Day feels a little different to me. The Boss is a veteran as were both of his parents. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute — a hard place to be but a good place to be from.
Every veteran in America is in a better position today than they were on Monday. We have a chance that the Veterans Administration will get sorted out and that we will have a Commander-in-Chief who will actually respect and act on behalf of veterans other than on Veterans Day.
I should have a lot more to say but that about summarizes it.
Trump. President-elect Trump.
The election is over. Long live the election. Now, the winner gets down to the serious business of forming a government and beginning to convert campaign promises into plans and policies and then laws. Then, they have to govern and react to the world at large.
Already, President-elect Trump has met with the leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. He has met with the President.
When you know how to build 100-story skyscrapers, you learn to make timely and critical decisions.
The President-elect has enunciated a plan for his first hundred days. You can see it here: THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS <<< hyperlink, click on it
Trump won the Rust Belt, huh?
Big Red Car here on a day in which I am still feeling the glow of our new President-elect Donald J Trump. I voted for him though I admit it was by the process of elimination in that the other candidate was not a possibility.
I was not amazed that he won. For months, I have been saying that everybody has missed the anger which was demonstrated by the Republican sweep of the 2014 mid-term elections. It did not go away but it did fester.
America, in 2014, was so angry they gave the Republicans the Senate, a larger majority in the House, many Governors’ mansions, and many statehouses. It was the largest repudiation of a sitting President and his party since the 1920s.
President Obama chose to ignore it, instead whipping out his pen and cell phone resulting in a great number of Executive Orders which are slowly being dismantled by the courts and which will be put in their grave by the Trump administration (first time I have used those words together).
So, how, Big Red Car, did President-elect Trump pull this surprise off?
Veterans — one more attempt to screw our veterans? Shall we?
Big Red Car here. No niceties about the weather (OK, 62F low, 84F high, sunny as Hell) today.
The Pentagon is not a friend to our veterans. That is no revelation if you’ve ever served in the Army. You knew this.
The Pentagon can spend years gazing at their hairy navels to determine what you should call a rifleMAN which is non-threatening and accommodating to gender norming (haha, that’s an actual thing, did you know that?) while soldiers have been calling them GRUNTS for almost a century, but they cannot solve a problem they created.
Their answer, as it always is, is to SCREW OUR VETERANS.
Inspiration, Big Red Car?
Big Red Car here on a crisp — 54F at 5:00 AM — Texas morning. Ahhh, fall in Texas is a grand thing.
So, a year ago, The Boss is talking to one of his CEO clients and they get talking about a new hire.
This CEO runs an excellent company which he has for more than ten years. He is not a typical startup CEO and the company is profitable (always a good thing), routinely dropping 20% to the bottom line for years and years.
The company is growing at a steady rate but is poised for higher growth.
Aleppo, Big Red Car?
Big Red Car here on a glorious Texas sunshine fest. Ahhh, on Earth as it is in Texas!
So, the world is watching the death throes of Aleppo as the Russians and the Syrians of Bashar al-Assad destroy a modern city building by building. The Russians intend to level the eastern half of the city and destroy it using bunker busting bombs against hospitals in the process. This is destruction of the ghastly quality of the Allied efforts against Germany (well-deserved, mind you) in World War II. It is brutal, barbaric, horrific, real, and happening right now.
How did this happen, Big Red Car?
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