What Does Trump Mean For Startups?
Clearly the news that Trump will be the next President of the US is creating all sorts of financial jitters in the US and around the world this morning. There is a ton of uncertainty right now as many investors, me included, were not expecting this outcome. If there is anything that investors hate, it is uncertainty.
For me the best framework I have is Brexit. I feel that the economic and societal unease that has been brewing in much of the developed world over the past decade is coming home to roost and I believe that we will see more “brexits” in the coming months and years.
But more than that, going into a foxhole right now seems like the wrong idea. Some of the best companies have been created in times of great economic turmoil. And, because of that, some of the best venture capital investments have been made in times when everyone was risk averse. I am not for getting too excited when times are good and I am not for getting too conservative when times feel bad. I am all for looking for opportunity at every turn.
I am certain that USV will continue to invest capital in interesting startups. While the financial markets may be in for a tough time, possibly a prolonged tough time, there is no correlation between startup success and strong financial markets. And those investors who understand that will act accordingly and be rewarded over the long term for doing so.
For entrepreneurs, this means be cautious and maybe even a bit conservative while all of this shakes out but don’t panic and don’t confuse uncertain times with a lack of opportunity. If you were excited about your business yesterday, you should be excited about your business today. But don’t be blind about the macro environment you are operating in. It’s going to be choppy for a bit here.
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Well. that I anticipated this outcome as even a possibility is mostly due to folks I met here, people I came to know here, on Twitter, and some in real life. It’s important to see outside of our own bubbles…Not much of a thought, but it’s all I’ve got.
Not sure if you live in super liberal NYC but I know many others who post here do. You are in a bubble.In Starbucks yesterday (in a suburb of Philly) two upscale women whispered to me (you know in the ‘cancer’ tone people take when discussing that subject) that they were Trump supporters when I asked them who they were voting for. To them this is simply a big “fuck you” for liberal causes and the direction of that the country has been going in. These women drive nice cars… they are not working class and my guess is their husbands are the family breadwinners. (They are always dressed as if they came from yoga class when I see them).Driving though my neighborhood last night I noted that there were not any Trump or Hillary signs anywhere. I was surprised because it’s heavily democratic. I figured out that the Trump supporters must not have wanted to draw any fire from what they felt was overwhelming opposition to someone they wanted to support. And the fact that there were no HIllary signs was telling, most people aren’t ashamed to say they support her. So she had little support in an area that was clearly her turf by voting patterns. So there was clearly voters out there who weren’t answering honestly when asked by pollsters but when they got into the booth in private they did what they thought was best and brought Trump a victory.
I think there were also a lot of “unlikely” voters. These are the ones not counted by the polls.
I made this comment here after Brexit that the Brexit outcome had reminded me again of the filter bubble we live in despite our efforts to avoid.https://disqus.com/home/dis…After Brexit, was more conscious to try and look outside *my* information bubble in the past few months. Several instances pointed to the real possibility that ‘availability bias’ (information that is more easily available to you does not become more right) had seeped in to commentaries on both sides. Either outcome was equally possible. I did not anticipate or predict this outcome, but was not surprised at the outcome either.p.s. Don’t know if you read Chris Arnade’s posts. Or Naval Ravikant’s “American Spring” (I did not find American Fall as valuable, but American Spring was, to me atleast).
Looking at both vote maps now it is inevitable to think about how the people in the country, the inner cities feel abandoned or ignored by the elites living in the metropolitan areas and who are defining their lives.With the exception of Scotland in the Brexit case.
I joined Twitter after reading an interview with William Gibson where he called it a “novelty aggregator,” and spoke to exactly your point.So though I’ve got a wide range of people’s opinions in my “bubble,” I haven’t read either of these sources. Thank you, I will check them out.
I can totally vouch for Chris Arnade.Eye opening.
To echo what Donna said, Thanks and appreciation for your thought.
Oh, so lovely of you to say. Thank you so much!Onwards.
It is THE thought Anne.
I know lots of people that were very vocal about voting for Trump. Some of them are very smart and educated people. Many of my personal friends voted for Trump for a lot of different reasons. I also know many working class white people (I’m from a white working class background and still am close with many people from my childhood) who feel hog tied by the system. They are sick of being taxed and regulated to the point that it’s practically impossible to make a living. So, because of that I wasn’t surprised at the outcome. Disappointed, yes. Surprised, no.
Anne, this comment is an example of why I so respect and appreciate you.
Aww, thank you, Donna. You are so gracious.
He started out with a conciliatory speech. Hopefully, that sets the tone of what’s to come.
You are presuming that there is a connection between words, beliefs and actions of course.If so which words matter–those of the last 18 months or yesterday.We will be fine. There are opportunities but socially and culturally this is really a huge step backwards, dark ages shit.
On what I said: I’m not holding my breath.On the dark ages stuff: I agree.It’s still better in my mind that he at least started to sound normal in his winning speech rather than keeping going with the nonsense. It’s not much hope to go on, I’ll concede.
Financial markets? When I went to bed last night (roughly 2:30am) the dow futures were down roughly 800 points and I couldn’t wait to get some buy orders in when I got to work. Now I see they are only down 335 points. I was hoping to buy some stocks on the dip but I guess others were as well (duh).
Agreed, anyone betting on prolonged financial turmoil will be disappointed/surprised. The president doesn’t have that big an influence anyway.
The Trump Recession will make 08 look like a walk in the park. A Tariff War will hammer the middle class into the ground. Basics like food clothes will go through the roof. Your next pair of running shoes $2K , iPhone $5K.This one is one is on all of us for voting for him knowing the destruction he will bring.
LOWER taxesLOWER regulationHIGHER ENERGYPlenty of room on the Trump Train for all of the highest energy founders… no hard feelings and no brakes!
I expect the IT security sector will also do quite well.
That’s all good if you don’t mind the odd reality tv show being run by the Klu Klux Klan, et al, as the ‘new normal’. And don’t forget to set your clocks back 75 years folks!
You really believe that KKK lie?Nearly all the delay in Trump answering the KKK question was inserted by editing the video tape.That whole KKK thing was just dirty politics.So, the charge was made. That the tape was edited was just ignored by the mainstream media (MSM). Then the charge was just repeated, over and over, without any details, evidence, references, etc., and a LOT of voters believed it.The whole KKK thing was yet another case of totally fabricated dirt with an organized, deliberate gang up and pile on by the MSM. Contemptible. I’m for a free press, but maybe we can and should have some laws that stop what the MSM just tried to do — they came close to ending the US and much of the world.There is no way I will ever forgive the MSM — the NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, LAT, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX (except for Hannity and a few more specific persons), MSNBC, NBC, Slate, Salon, Huffpo, etc. are all “dead to me”. They distorted, fabricated, lied, piled on, and came close, within 2% of the popular vote, to ending the US and much of the world.One lesson is how bad the MSM were, totally in the tank for Hillary, just a Hillary propaganda machine, as bad as Stalin’s Pravda and Hitler’s Der Sturmerand how they got that way.Another lesson is never to believe anything from a newsie without at least common high school term paper writing standards of complete context, complete quotes, primary sources with solid references. Then need more than one of such articles. And, when see a video clip, understand that it might have been edited like the KKK clip was. Remember that in debates, one side may have gotten ALL the questions in advance. Remember that debate moderators might deliberately lie to sabotage a candidate they don’t like. Remember that the MSM is for sale and can be bought, and for actually not very much money, all things considered. Remember that essentially everything you get from the MSM, even from all the MSM sources at the same time, might be, likely is, deliberately strongly distorted, totally fabricated from nothing at all, or just outright lies, and then promulgated with an organized pile on.Broadly, the MSM have zero, zip, zilch, zero, credibility, integrity, etc. Worse, the MSM are enemies of the US Constitution, the US, and the world — e.g., just came darned close to sending the US on the way of Rome and starting WWIII.Apparently the MSM have lost enough revenue to be close to going out of business (although that does not explain the fact that about 80% of the actual newsies in the news rooms are total leftists dreaming of various cases of socialism and globalism, totally devoted to affirmative action for anyone but a white male of European descent), and all wound up with political correctness that lets them get their coveted headlines and scoops from even the tiniest, cooked up, distorted, contrived, fabricated lies about offenses of someone’s hypersensitive feelings.Then with this MSM sewage, way too many voters ignored the really good view of Trump on racism is inhttp://spectator.org/64643_…where he worked really hard, and successfully, to get rid of the racism in the high end clubs in Palm Beach.That article has been there since 11/13/2015, but lots of people fell for the totally cooked up, Binary Options lying MSM propaganda.The popular vote was way too close to call. The US has maybe 40% of the voters willing to be lead around by the MSM sewage. Another 10% are drunks, deranged, delusional, druggies, etc. That situation is a serious threat to the US.With Hillary, the US would have sunk deeper into the outhouse Obama built, with the help of the MSM, and been well on the way to the fate of Rome. Hillary and the MSM came really close to ending the US or anything like it and via WWIII most of the world.With Trump we are moving in the direction of sanity, but that 40% and the MSM remain a threat to the future of the US and the world.My view is that the 40% is too much too bad; the US voters are not up to continuing the US; and the US is still about to die — give it a few more 4 year election cycles, and the US will be irreversibly on the way of Rome.In the short term, small players on the Internet will replace the MSM. So, NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, and more will shrink back to trivial entertainment and irrelevant to informing voters.It is still the case “A republic if you can keep it” — well, with the MSM and the 40%, we can’t. John Adams was correct: Our Constitution needs moral people and can’t stand otherwise., and we are very short on moral people and have far too many, e.g., ready to edit a video tape and then have a coast to coast MSM pile on promulgating that lie. Our Constitution and our country can’t take much more of that.Now Obama will pardon Bill, Hillary, Huma, Mills, and everyone who could be seriously prosecuted and, in particular, call Obama for testimony. As his last act as POTUS, Obama may take Air Force One to, say, Kenya and be gone.It would have been weird: If Hillary had won, then as Commander in Chief she would have needed the highest security clearance. That would have had to have been granted by the FBI. If Comey, with a 10 year term and difficult to fire, had granted the clearance, Congress should have impeached him. If he didn’t grant the clearance, then Hillary could not have participated as Commander in Chief. But if she did participate as Commander in Chief, as soon as she touched, saw, or heard anything classified, Congress could/should have impeached her.Look, we know now that five foreign governments got ALL of Hillary’s work e-mail with likely some thousands, call it 33,000, highly classified e-mail messages, and it was trivial and obvious that they would have. That witch — totally neurotic, pathological, disconnected, uncomprehending, clueless, nasty — was a grand disaster to the US and the world, and she came within a gnat’s ass of ending both.With such garbage as Hillary, our country can’t hope to stand. The MSM need to go, be replaced by small players on the Internet. The 40% need a good civics lesson. Voters need to insist on moral people in leadership in DC. Else we’ll go the way of Rome.Good news: I voted in Upstate NY. I didn’t know just where to vote so drove to the Town Hall of Lagrange. On the way, on Route 55 in eastern Poughkeepsie, I saw a just gorgeous new, huge Christian church. GREAT. The people at the Town Hall were REALLY nice, JUST the great US people Trump talked about yesterday. They found my actual polling place on Route 82 and gave me instructions. I drove out there: BEAUTIFUL, huge Christian church with REALLY nice people. A lot of old people but also a few families with several young children!The 40% still leaves 60%.But the MSM MUST be stuffed into the outhouse Obama and the MSM built and then covered over — say, with one of Trump’s kids driving a D-9. Then we need a civics lesson for the 40%. Then we need more, good, small news sources on the Internet.And now that we got rid of Obama and Bill/Hill and have Trump, we have a new chance, “A New Hope”, to save our country and much of the world.
You can see a screenshot of the KKK newspaper with the Trump slogan in the headline, along with his picture. https://www.washingtonpost….
I’m skeptical, that’s my point, but the good news is time will tell — in 4 to 8 years, I’ll know.
The newsies really like headlines and will go low without bounds to find some.There are a lot of wackos out there, including some KKK wackos.A politician can’t know about all the dirt in the lives of everyone who votes for him, but that a person in the KKK votes for a politician does NOT mean that the politician agrees with the KKK. Of course, the newsies want to shock and scare people with hints, etc. that a KKK person voting for Trump means that Trump supports the KKK. Dirt.Or to respond to your newspaper image, that some KKK people voted for Trump means nothing about Trump being racist.Trump is just not racist. Lots of media people kept claiming otherwise, but it’s just not true. I’ve explained here several times. But, there’s just no solid evidence that Trump is racist.The bigger picture is that we “Have a republic if we can keep it”. For that, we need some reasonably smart voters. If dirt bag politicians can win elections by stupid stuff such as the Hillary claims that Trump is racist, sexist, etc., then we are very much in line to losing our “republic”.We are very close to losing the US now. The last election was very close, what, Hillary won the popular vote by a gnat’s ass, and Trump won the Electorial College by, what, 9 votes? We have about 40% of the voters really in need of a serious civics lesson, and until then they are a threat to end the US and much of the world.We can’t keep the US going with 40% of the voters dumb enough to be influenced by the Hillary dirty tricks or vote for someone as bad as Hillary.God or whatever gave us Trump and four more years,but due to that 40% the US is still at risk. A few more election cycles with candidates as bad as Hillary, and a Hillary will win and destroy the US and much of the world. That KKK headline was a symptom of something ready to KILL the US.
Alright, read it all. As usual, thanks for taking the time to communicate your views.I must say you convinced me more about the algebra vs machine learning thing a few months back, ha ha!But I get what you’re saying and I’ll mull it over.Take care.
.Be just a little skeptical about the media, if for no other reason than how completely wrong they got everything. Why would they be right on this?The big loser in all of this is the media and the revelation of their wholesale lack of fairness and objectivity.I wouldn’t trust they get the date right on their newspaper.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
In my original comment, I’m using the KKK more as a metaphor for what Trump stands for as an American.
You’re just wrong. Trump used shock radio tactics to dominate the news cycle, leveraging the financial shortcomings of traditional electronic media to his advantage.No one seems to see that Trump is a new media genius, smarter than every Dem strategist on the planet.Why does everyone think that’s how he will govern? Did Obama hold big rallies and talk about Yes We Can in the first 100 days ?And if you want to think about just how clueless HRC is on the people left behind, staying at the Peninsula last night was a less than stellar call.
.The symbolism of staying at The Peninsula says it all.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
I’m not sure what we’re arguing about. I hear you and I want to agree, but you’re just speculating. He could turn out to be the best leader that there could be, doing what’s right and not caring what people think; or he could be a catastrophe. Maybe you’ve got a crystal ball, or maybe you’re more intelligent than all the world leaders and financiers who’ve been talking about that very uncertainty all day today; but I maintain that only time will tell and either one of us could be wrong. And trust me, I want to be wrong on this one.
.Mario, you can’t trust me with a metaphor. I’m still struggling analogies and similes are killing me.Remember the average Trump supporter is poorly educated, ill-informed, and basketed deplorable. We have no capacity for metaphors.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
Being blinded by bias, media companies taking one side or the other and leveraging their reach to manipulate, and someone rallying the troops by tapping into anger via a racist, sexist, and bigoted stance are all different and all play a role in the election result — in part assuming that people wouldn’t elect such an openly racist, sexist, and bigoted person – which in reality is a more civilized person projecting their own place in evolution onto others.The media didn’t lose anything, they are wanting profit – and the industrial complexes are starting to (hopefully) reach its extremity.
.The media lost their souls and they didn’t end up in Lost & Found. They destroyed any shred of credibility they had. The NYT is not even a bird cage rag any more. They are an adjunct to the DNC.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
“Be just a little skeptical about the media”I’m more than a little skeptical. I don’t believe much of anything they publish anymore.
“You really believe that [insert scandal here] lie?Nearly all the [negative inference] was inserted by editing the video tape.That whole [scandal] thing was just dirty politics.So, the charge was made. That the tape was edited was just ignored by the [other side’s] media. Then the charge was just repeated, over and over, without any details, evidence, references, etc., and a LOT of voters believed it.The whole [scandal] thing was yet another case of totally fabricated dirt with an organized, deliberate gang up and pile on by the [other side’s media]. Contemptible. I’m for a free press, but maybe we can and should have some laws that stop what the [partisan media] just tried to do.”It’s very easy to swap the brackets out for the Comey-email scandal and be just as indignant on the other side. Can you see it as clearly? Hopefully you can.We have a media problem in this country. And we are culpable because we continue to eat up the sensational and largely bypass the thoughtful.I can imagine the rest of the world thinking today, “Americans, bless their hearts. They are so easily duped.”
Yes, but:The MSM/Hillary side of the media was MUCH larger than the, say, PoliZette, etc. side.Just because I HATE the NYT doesn’t mean I like the National Review. I also HATE the National Review.What I HATE are distortions, fabrications, lies, manipulations, incompetence, waste, lost good opportunities, and big disasters.E.g., for socialized medicine, I’m willing to consider it — carefully. Then much more CAREFULLY. Then much, much, much, much more CAREFULLY. Then maybe do some small scale but VERY well designed trials where have about 10 researchers watching every medical test, needle prick, prescription, result, collecting the data, etc. For some years. Build some theories. Test them, over and over and get repeatable results. Then do it all over again. Several times. Then try a SMALL roll out with THOROUGH monitoring and analysis. Hope it’s a lot better. Else junk it.For Comey, I don’t know what the heck he did. I don’t think he is really partisan. I conclude gutless and incompetent. He did badly fumble the ball. Coming out with that weak statement a few days before the election and then a weaker statement just hours before the election was just plain stupid in all respects. What he did in July was equally stupid.Usually there are (A) many ways to be badly wrong and (B) only a few ways to be really right. I want (B), not (A).Shouldn’t all this be totally obvious?Just why should we insist on having half of our soup total BS?
IF analyzed, there is no real difference between open aggression or passive aggression except elements of style. Both usually wind up doing more harm to the aggressor in attempting to elevate themselves, by putting down another.
I think Trump may support renewable energy like wind farms. Imagine if we killed the corn subsidy and filled those fields with windmills? Results:-Killing an “establishment” subsidy -Jobs for Americans (to plan, build, and run it)-Payout for farmers who own the fields (I know a guy here in CT who is putting together financial packages for doing solar on farm fields and it has positive financial outcomes for every participant in the deal. Farmers are scrambling to sign up.)-Possible manufacturing jobs (though almost all of it comes from China right now and I haven’t really done the math. just throwing out ideas here.)-Lower CO2 emissions (and, hell, it’s way better than fracking if you want to further the discussion)I spent election day (I voted ahead of time) out on Block Island checking out the first U.S. Offshore Wind farm. While chatting with the innkeeper, she told us how excited everyone on the island is about the wind farm. The inn was filled with consultants, mechanical engineers, etc. out there working for the wind farm. If you’ve every been to BI in November, it is highly unusual to see so many off-islanders there. She also told us some of the details in how much it’s going to reduce electricity costs on the island. So, double whammy in returns: lower electricity costs, Inn and other businesses in town are making money off season. She also told us that lots of tourists who had never come to the island before were coming just to see the wind farm, though, obviously, that’s a short-term perk.https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Jeez change is opportunity in business. It really doesn’t get any clearer than this actually.On another note Gini Rometty CEO of IBM and an all in positive opinion piece on the blockchain yesterday in the print WSJhttp://www.wsj.com/articles…… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
.She was never with us. She was only with herself.JLM (deplorable)www.themusingsofthebigredca…
I’m with you.but… how bout *him*?!
The Divided States of America:Blue/RedUrban/RuralHaves/Have NotsNever more clearer.
Yes. In Illinois, Cook County was the only county that went for Clinton, and she won the state.
That played out everywhere: FLA, PA, OH, MI, WI, MN.
WITH republicans getting congress Obamacare is finished. CORP taxes probably going down. We might also see gay marriage and abortion go the other way with supreme Court nominees, which I think I’d the most troublesome part of trump. the other stuff especially Obamacare going away will be great for entrepreneurs. National debt remains huge risk.
We might also see gay marriage and abortionWow you might be surprised that a large amount of the population that is suffering [1] doesn’t give two shits about gay marriage and many other progressive and liberal achievements over the past years.And Obamacare (and medical care in general) ? My daughter called me for money to pay the high deductibles for some physical therapy that she needs. The initial appoint was $250 (not covered) and follow ups (not covered) are $180 until the deductible is met. And this all runs yearly so it will rest in January I can’t even imagine what people do who don’t have a dad to bail them out and I feel bad for them. And the high costs are not exclusively as a result of Obama the entire system (and regulation and tort bar of the past) bears much of the blame as well. Time for a reversal of that entire nanny state way of thinking that has gotten us into this mess.[1] And of course a significant amount of the population that isn’t suffering doesn’t care either.
All true but why didn’t your daughter set aside money for her heathcare? The problem is people just don’t take redponsibility for their healthcare costs. If you have a car you set aside $ for maintenance, this is a educational issue as much as anything.
She actually does have the money. It’s a divorced dad thing (see ‘disney dad’). Besides I was the one who pushed her to get a job in NYC so I feel partly responsible to kick her some extra money if she feels she needs it.
That about sums it up. Could see end of several departments? Could see end of carried interest?
More generally – and especially if you were pulling for HRC – I hope we all recognize that the tone we set today and this week is the vibe our kids will pick up on and that’s important. Not surprisingly, the tone on social media is pretty panicky by some, but we need to think about what our kids pick up on. As a parent of 3 I can tell you first hand – they don’t know what to make of it all and are looking for models of reaction.I also think we need to put things into perspective. Things – both societal and financial – could be tough (though, on the latter, the rebound in the futures markets is noteworthy). Our grandparents faced the Depression and World War II. I don’t think a Trump presidency reaches that level of crisis, again despite all the social media posts saying otherwise. As always, perspective.As far as startups there could be numerous new opportunities. I think IT security, privacy, will be a huge growth opportunity for example.All in all, the tone we each set over the next few days is crucial.
If everything was going great we wouldn’t be starting companies that solve problems.
Long Bitcoin, technology & entrepreneurship-Short politics, popular media & centralization.
I am feeling more bullish than ever about http://www.ifundwomen.com When women own their own money, they own their own power. For anyone reading this, please go support women-led startups on iFundWomen.
Before the election, SV’s position on a Trump presidency was about concerns with:(1.) H-1B visas;(2.) US hardware makers like Apple needing to produce in US instead of China (which may impact their profit margins); and(3.) Tech cos being forced to unlock devices such as in San Bernadino case.http://uk.businessinsider.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…If Trump can do these three things, it would help the US:(1.) Implement STEM training programs for the disaffected and under-employed who voted him in, moving them on to higher paying skills sets and redistributing opportunity beyond the coastal metropolises.(2.) Reduce energy costs — maybe this will help with the Bitcoin mining thing.(3.) Keep the current CTO and team of the US and get up the curve (FAST) about how inclusion and diversity are VITAL for data and AI to be representative rather than biased and holding back innovation.What’s at stake? https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Sure because SV (and the tech sector) needs to continue gobbling up all the money in this country (as does Wall Street). [1] I have benefited from much of this but even I think it’s enough already. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. The cheer has not been spread around and the answer is not more handouts for those displaced. Tech is not the answer (and to repeat I benefit from this so it’s not sour grapes) to every ill in society. Honestly I’d be fine w/o being able to get something from Amazon overnight if it meant that people got to keep their jobs.[1] Just read where Goldman is doing high fives because they will be able to now do deals in China w/o partners. As if they aren’t doing well enough at the expense of others already. (As is NYC for that matter)….https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
If STEM training is not the answer then what do you propose? Reopening places like Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania and/or creating FoxConns in Ohio?I was in Vegas earlier this year and they’re building north and south of the Strip, a lot of it via Chinese investment. This includes a huge production plant for electric cars over 18,000 acres by the Chinese version of Tesla. “We are now looking at over a quarter of a trillion dollars over 20 years for the impact of the whole build out,” said Dr. Robert Lang, Brookings West economist.Meanwhile, David Dowell, Executive Director of Hong Kong-Apec Trade Policy Group, writing on 6 November 2016:”Note one set of Trump’s inflammatory claims thrown out at a rally last Sunday: "America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organisation [in 2001]. They [Chinese] come in. They take our jobs. They take our products. They make a fortune. And we owe them US$1.5 trillion." In Trump’s fact-free universe the fact that not one of these claims stands serious scrutiny does not matter a jot.According to the US Government’s Reshoring Initiative, 100,000 manufacturing jobs have returned to the US from overseas over the past five years – 60 per cent of these from China. Add in plants in the US opened by foreign investors, and the number of jobs created jumps to 250,000.It is true that there are fewer manufacturing jobs in the US today than there were at the peak of 19.5 million in 1979, but from a low of 11.45 million manufacturing jobs in 2010, nearly 1 million new factory jobs have been created. Most of those lost since 1979 have been lost because of automation, robots and improved productivity and have nothing to do with outsourcing to China and offered the kind of paltry wages that no self-respecting American would be willing to accept.As for China’s manufacturers making a fortune at American’s expense, you need look no further than Foxconn’s iPhone manufacturing headquartered in Dongguan. Out of a price at the point of export from China of US$179, China’s manufacturers capture just $7 of value. The rest of that price was made up of components imported from overseas, often from the US. And who captured the value from US$179 to the retail price of around US$500? Why, Apple in the US of course. But in Trump’s fact-free universe, such untidy and inconvenient details will never get in the way of a rabble-rousing story.It is also true that the US runs a large bilateral trade deficit with China – it exports about US$100 of goods to China for every US$300 it imports. But remember that the US runs a very significant trade deficit not just with China but with the whole world – and has never recorded a trade surplus since 1975 – while at the same time it is the world’s biggest services exporter, never having run a deficit in its services trade since 1970.”The US banks weren’t able to do independent business in China before for a very simple reason: the banking infrastructure was under-developed so it would have been too risky.
If STEM training is not the answer then what do you propose?STEM training for who? How many blue collar factory types have you ever worked with? You are not going to give these guys things you learn by studying and reading books.As far as the rest of your facts and figures I would rather believe my lying eyes.
So you’re saying that blue collar factory worker types can’t be STEM trained to fix and/or make robotics and electronic devices in the same way they might have repaired car engines or assembly line faults before?If what you’re saying is that blue collar workers don’t have the intelligence to be STEM trained, then Trump is in trouble in his plans for regeneration and if he means to repatriate production of electronic devices like Apple’s back to the US. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…+++++++I started working with blue-collar factory types when I was 17. I invented flavors in my lab and then went to get the flavors carbonated by guys who’d left education at high school. Then I went across the yard to the blue-collar types who helped me with packing my drinks for delivery.That’s why I have utmost respect for their intelligence and their adaptiveness.They sure as heck can be STEM TRAINED.
It is much easier than this. Silicon Valley is afraid of Trump because they all hide billions of dollars in tax revenue and reinvest it overseas. (All of the big ones do the Irish or double-Irish.) If you lower the corporate tax rate and then start exposing this scam – a huge amount of money (I mean a massive amount) goes out of their pockets and into the US economy. Bad for them and VC’s? Sure. But very good for the US.
It’s called “Double Irish Dutch sandwich”.Recently, Trump discussed his corporate repatriation plan whereby companies like Apple can bring their overseas profits back to the US at a one-time 10% tax rate rather than the current 35%.Of course, the DID sandwich is also the mechanism that caused the UK to threaten boycotts of US techco’s a few years back. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
My understanding is that this “holiday” was done in the 80s and was a huge success. I don’t see any losers in this scenario.
The world will continue to turn.US foreign policy will be less bloody, and fewer people will be killed over the next four years than if HRC had won. That’s a good thing and we should be pleased about it.Petroleum politics is in decline. Information politics is on the rise. That means better democracy…because the people produce the information.Clearly the 1%’s mass media machine is slowly grinding to a halt. That’s another good thing that we should be pleased about.This is a new era of disruption,…and the world will continue to turn.
I think the best thing we can do is hold our breath, and wait to see what this all means. Predictions about Trump have been wrong before. It would be unfathomable to think that someone who has been in business all his life is going to do anything that would hurt businesses. I’m sure that many Trump extremes will not be realized, and that the pendulum will swing to more realistic and sensible changes. The Internet, the web, online businesses, network effects, the blockchain, cryptocurrencies are all very permeable. They know no borders, and innovation will continue to float seamlessly. To my friends in the US: move on, and make the best out of it. The US is still the most entrepreneurial country in the world, and the envy of many others. Keep producing Teslas, Googles, Amazons, Apples, Kickstarters, Twitters, Facebooks, etc.
Well that is why Bezos bought WAPO. By the way Bezos and his world beating Amazon (I am a happy customer) are certainly putting lots of people out of work with that disruption. And quite frankly the world was fine before I had the ability to go to a convenient website for everything I need and have it show up the next day at my door.Last several deliveries were by Amazon driver (finally made it to where I am). Used to be UPS and Fedex provided good jobs (union even) to delivery guys now they will end up being on the skids in coming years because of Amazon and alternate delivery methods.
Amazon driver on our last pkg was an indept contractor too.
Like Otto, self-driving truck, soon to be followed by Uber self-driving deliveries.https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Exactly. So will put more people out of jobs.
and create new ones.
Yes but not the blue collar ones that are being replaced.Honestly my pet peeve is no brains and no effort going into helping people living in the shitty neighborhoods who make their living doing nothing or in crime professions.
Truck driving is one of the more popular jobs in America. The real disruption will be when a single team directs five trucks headed down say the I-80 corridor. These super convoys are already being testing in Europe. Two thirds of those driving jobs will disappear in just a couple of years.
Uh, no. The last thing we should do is hold our breath and wait and see. Policy changes in the first 100 days are going to be swift and stunning. We need to be prepared for that.The pendulum only swing the other way if millions of people push against it.
Outside of executive orders, the GOP does not have the seats in the houses to smash through legislation (e.g. ACA). It is possible the GOP could gain the super-majority in 2018 mid-terms. I expect that President Elect Trump will be able to act unilaterally about immigration, but other things will take time. It will be interesting to see how quickly he establishes a cabinet.
.The House Republicans (in the next Congress) will hold 239 seats. The Dems will hold 192 seats.The Republicans can do whatever they want to do if they can keep their caucus together.Obamacare was passed in March 2010 when the Dems held 255 seats and the Republicans 178.It only takes a simple majority to advance legislation to the Senate.The Republicans should ensure legislation is advanced in regular order meaning subcommittee meetings/discussion/votes, committee meetings/discussion/votes, hearings (if necessary), floor debate, amendments, sufficient time for the Congress and the people to read and react to the proposed legislation.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
I was referring specifically to the ability to end a filibuster.
.The cloture rule, Rule XXII, is likely one of the first casualties of the new Senate. Harry Reid already revised it as it relates to judicial appointments other than SCOTUS.The ability to limit debate is applicable only in the Senate and by a vote of 60 Senators.There is no necessity to limit a filibuster in the House as there is a strict time limit to consider bills. One cannot really filibuster in the House.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
It will be interesting to see just how creative the republicans will be at discovering novel new way to obstruct themselves now that they control both houses and the executive branch of government.Now that they are in charge it is time to put up or shut up.No more blaming the democrats. It is show time!The next four years mandates them to show us”the goods”or “be ideologically unmasked”.
Adam Sher:Trump’s Billionaire’s club cabinet is really the Populist theme the deplorables were brainwashed into thinking they wouldn’t get. People get the government they deserve. Shameful con job.
It’s fun to revisit posts. No one was brainwashed, and in many cases, Trump is working to deliver on his campaign promises. What was upsetting were some of the Philly and PA election results.
But the election is over.
Thanks for the wisdom from the North.Except, instead, slow, deep breaths.
Really appreciate the tone of your first message, post election. Totally agree, there are things/risks we need to be aware of and watch closely, but we shouldn’t bury our heads.My view, How we treat one another and work together is ultimately what will propel us past political and philosophical differences. Perhaps government has become more of the middle man but there is plenty of operating room for creativity and innovation to continue to lead change and our future.
George:We have no idea if you live in the United States or are a citizen. If you viewed how the Republican party obstructed Obama for seven years and you are suggesting a prescription of some Utopian Kumbaya work together.The weak progressives need to follow the exact playbook. Scorch the earth. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren platform. Stop with the meek Kumbaya. The Ult-Right has completely tilted the Republican party.Cry corruption even when none exists, hearings, witch hunts, Conspiracy theories. A viable prescription that ultimately elected a (No one word describes him)The Progressives will bow down.Do what Trump would have done. The election is rigged folks. The election process is totally rigged. (Trump speak=dumb speak)No matter how you dress it up a pig in a dress and lip stick is still a pig.
He’s consistent on the business front.He says he loves his country and I believe that much.He’s clearly a top notch negotiator.He’s street smart, hence he puts Russia on his side, for example.His children are respectable.He has the potential to do good things,…that is if he doesn’t bankrupt America and then tries to buy it back for pennies on the dollar.And…if you stand in his way, he might just grab you by the ‘p_____’.
Well said. The media and establishment will continue to attack him. But he seems very capable of learning and delegating. And the lobbyists are going to be VERY nervous. It should be fun.
Isn’t america already bankrupt (based on our massive debt)?
I was in Atlantic City in 1997, staying at the Trump Hotel & Casino. I asked the person at the registration desk how they liked working in a Trump property. He said, “Are you kidding?” He’s a f***ing crook. He hired the whole town to build this and instead of paying for it, he declared bankruptcy and then bought it back for pennies on the dollar. He f**ed the whole town.”That’s the ethics standard I was referring to.
Business shouldn’t be afraid of Trump – depending on what area of business they are in.People should be afraid of un-checked business however — yes, regulation to make sure a business isn’t killing people or the environment.
Plenty of new business opportunity for analytics companies that can accurately predict outcomes.
Peter:Every polling agency that predicted HRC would win needs to close immediately.Anyone using their services would be ignoring their fiduciary duty.
Maybe. But there is a HUGE problem: Tough, super tough to sell the truth to people to pay cash for it. Why? Nearly no one with any cash to spend is willing to tolerate the truth — they “Can’t handle the truth.” More generally, any help in their business they take as an insult to their competence.The polls and pundits were wrong because the people paying the bills WANTED what they got. Someone who walked in and said “Here is how to do a poll with some good predictive accuracy” would get tossed out on their ear.But there CAN be good value in “analytics”, but have to be careful about who the customer is and where the money comes from. There are some good opportunities in ad targeting if just do the targeting yourself, that is, for your own Web site, and collect the extra money from getting paid by the click. If go to someone else and claim that you can do better targeting for them and make them more money, then you will be laughed at, sabotaged, resisted at every turn, resented, feared, etc. — no possibility of success.This situation is quite general: For big success, you need to do better than nearly everyone else, but none of those people will tolerate having you around their operations since you would hurt their egos, threaten their jobs, etc.So, if you have something better in “analytics”, then you also need to have a business were you can exploit that advantage internally out of sight of everyone else. The most anyone else sees is your nice business success.That’s what my startup is doing: It uses my original math derivations for both the content the users see and like and also the targeting of the ads they see, but no one but me has or will have any idea at all about what the math is or even that there is some math involved. They don’t want to hear about the math details, and I don’t want them to know about them.Never again will I try to sell some powerful, valuable math to someone who doesn’t understand it and, thus, will be resentful, fearful, angry, etc. And if they did understand the math, then they’d do it themselves.The more fundamental problem is professionalism — law, medicine, and some parts of engineering have that, and customers are willing to respect and accept the work/advice. Math doesn’t have that, and at first people don’t want it more than snake oil and later, if it does work, are just afraid, resentful, etc.
Great words Fred. Thanks as usual _
By the way, we can look at Thiel’s graphic from ‘From 0 to 1’ and decide for ourselves which characteristics Trump showed.It certainly wasn’t “average”. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…Thiel wrote that “competition is for losers” and founders need to swing for the fences by creating whole new markets and monopoly domination rather than make incremental improvements.So Trump is a ‘From 0 to 1’ type in political terms. Whether he and his policies are good/bad for the US and RoW remains to be seen.As an outsider aiming for ‘From 0 to 1’ to happen in data and AI, to break us free from the limitations of binary logic and Bayesian probability (which means the machines can’t understand us and our values), I can identify with that “Go for it!” quality in Trump — even if a lot of his campaign rhetoric was, “Seriously?! Did he really say that?!”Trump doesn’t change the vision-mission of my system.
Tribal is the scary mortal ingredient. Aleppo is all about leverage NATO based in the Ukraine & russia having to reassert its position, what would the USA do if Mexico decided to become part of a Russian or Chinese alliance ? Guessing Noam Chomsky would tell.
It might actually mean good thing for US businesses because he might actually understand the problems of running a business.Lets hope so at least!
The SCOTUS appointment will be more disconcerting and far reaching than anything else. A GOP led Congress will aprove someone who, minimally, makes Scalia look like a left wing liberal.That said, our country isn’t a dictatorship and many in the GOP were disillusioned w/ Trump’s extremist views and rhetoric. He’s not operating in a vacuum. Many of the things Trump says he wants to do, in all practicality, can’t be done. All these policy issues are far more nuanced than he was willing to, or even able to, admit. Healthcare reform, yes. Dodd Frank, prob. Job creation, needs serious corp tax reform and repatriation. Deportation, not practical. Build a wall, get real. ISIS, more bluster.Trump’s positioned himself as some kind of savior for the downtrodden and disenfranchised. I do agree our reach abroad is far too expansive and neglects too many needs at home. The Presidency has both strengths and limitations. There are circuit breakers and stronger voices of reason in DC to keep his inexperience, impulsive and short-sighted policies in check, though he’ll continue to blurt shit out, which the media will eat up, but now he’ll face far more accountability. The system is still larger than any one individual and let’s all pray the circuit breakers keep him in check, for his good as well as ours.
.The appointment to the Supreme Court will replace a Justice, Antonin Scalia, who was conservative. It will have no impact on the Court or the country. The man has already revealed 20 judges he would appoint to things.If you want to worry, worry about the next three SCOTUS appointments.This one will just put the Court right where it was before Justice Scalia died. Territory we’ve lived in and through before.It’s all going to be fine.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
My american cousin just asked me if I felt better about Brexit “now that you’ve seen what we’ve done?” My first impression was yes, it puts Brexit in the shade as Trump has such a potentially global impact (US economy/foreign policy/environment). However, what I have realised is that a lot of this comes down to what it makes you feel like as an individual. The UK choosing Brexit has had such a big impact on me as it is so opposed to my view of what the UK is all about, and my identity is inextricably linked with that. I imagine many US citizens are feeling the same this morning.
.There are a lot of Americans who are feeling pretty damn good about things this morning. Count me amongst them.This will be the best thing to happen to the US in my lifetime.Give it a chance.Everything is going to be fine.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
Hey JLM – yes, likewise in the UK, although I’m not sure it is still the entire 52% who voted for Brexit.I sincerely hope it works out. None of us will benefit if it does not.Keep well.Henry.
.Same to you, Henry. Get ready, the $$$ flowing into your industry are about to explode.Guess what I was drinking last night, my friend?Haha, did you ever think that I’d be toasting the election with THAT vintage?Be well.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
Congratulations for your winning preference and sharp and clear diagnostic JLM. Today I’ll do your lawn, wax BRC, or whatever you want.I am concerned about the implications this has for my US business, mostly because I don’t know what will they be, but always prepared to correct course.
.What America needs to do right now is to process the info, take a long walk, heal a bit, and get its work clothes on cause we’ve got a lot of work to do to Make America Great Again.Trump needs to form a gov’t.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
He talked about infrastructure in his speech, that should work for a while. The rest of the book in unwritten.
.Not really. We know that Federal revenues go UP when taxes go DOWN. We learned that from every tax cutter since JFK.We know that the military is going to be rejuvenated and that our enemies will not be as adventurous.We know that ISIS will receive its due.We know that American corporate funds overseas will be repatriated.We know that immigration will be tightened up and legal immigration will become more important than illegal immigration.We know that the contraction of illegals with low skills and low wage expectations will become real which will make American wages go up with their resultant increases in the quality of those people’s lives.We know that Obamacare will be repealed and a better plan featuring no state boundaries, tort reform, and market driven pricing will come to life in its place.We know that there will be real pressure on the swamp in DC and that people will be looking for the drain plug.We know that the Keystone pipeline will be built and that the US will attain energy independence.Any book is a compilation of words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters before and after its written and read.We know that America is a good and generous people who can accomplish anything when their minds, hearts, souls, muscles, voices are united.Everything is going to be fine. This is going to be one of the greatest times to live in the history of the world.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
I sincerely hope so, and that it all works out as intended. For the good of the US and the rest of the world.Ending the campaign is certainly a good thing.
.We are not even at the end of the beginning yet.I do suspect Pres-elect Trump, Sen McConnell, and Speaker Ryan may have a chat with an empty yellow pad in the next week.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
They will both emerge from the meeting with orange faces and a surplus of orange powder for 4 years. Respectfully, orange is the new black.
I see what you did there.
We’ve still got the destructive, essentially subversive, MSM and about 40% of the people who drink that toxic Kool-Aid. We’ve got to stuff the MSM into the outhouse Obama and the MSM built and cover it over with a D-9, support small news organizations on the Internet, and give a really big, remedial civics lesson for the 40%.We came within 2% in the popular vote to an irredeemable path of following Rome and, for the rest of the world, WWIII.Hillary is a profoundly sick, destructive, dangerous person.Due to nukes, Hillary would have been more dangerous to the world than Hitler.
Sigma, you won.. stop trashing Hillary, you can even keep the Skittles now. I saw Donald yesterday began to play the rigged election script in advance, just before the balance tipped his way. It is over.
Yes, the rigged election stuff, the NV suit attempt, etc. look like defensive, preemptive stuff to forestall dirty stuff. I didn’t really like it, but I don’t blame him; the threats of dirty stuff were very real (e.g., letting 60,000 felons vote in VA thus giving VA to H); it was crucial that he win; and, thankfully, he did.Hillary deserves no sympathy. But IMHO Obama will pardon her (he doesn’t want to have to testify in court),and then we can all f’get about Hillary.Maybe God just smiled on the US.
“We know that Federal revenues go UP when taxes go DOWN. We learned that from every tax cutter since JFK.”–Except during the disastrous presidency of George W Bush. During his tenure, taxes went down, yet debt as an overall share of GDP incerased.”We know that the military is going to be rejuvenated and that our enemies will not be as adventurous.We know that ISIS will receive its due.We know that American corporate funds overseas will be repatriated.”–Good on all of this stuff, except overspending on the military at the expense of everything else.”We know that the contraction of illegals with low skills and low wage expectations will become real which will make American wages go up with their resultant increases in the quality of those people’s lives.”–I’m fine with the wall and tightened border security, but I think raiding low income neighborhoods for illegals is going to be a disaster if he is serious about this. I think it has the potential to create a secondary internal US ‘army’ under the Homeland Security Dept. which will remain long after Trump leaves. I sincerely hope this part of his agenda never comes to pass.”We know that Obamacare will be repealed and a better plan featuring no state boundaries, tort reform, and market driven pricing will come to life in its place.”–We needed something like Obamacare to address millions of uninsured and under-insured people. I think tort reform, less regulation on the plans, no state boundaries are all great things — but the outline of an exchange based healthcare platform not linked to your employer needs to stay. I sincerely hope Trump gets this part right, that it looks largely like Obamacare but more market based, and frankly I don’t care who gets the credit for it. This is in my opinion, probably the most important thing for him to get right.”We know that the Keystone pipeline will be built and that the US will attain energy independence.”–This was going to happen anyway. Fracking has made that a reality. Climate change is real, and what worries me the most about Trump Presidency is that he believes the entire thing is a hoax, as does everyone whom he is seriously considering for his cabinet. We really don’t have another 8 years to putz around on this. This is going to be one of the worst aspects of the next 4 years.”Everything is going to be fine. This is going to be one of the greatest times to live in the history of the world.”–What you haven’t mentioned here is any of the white supremacy rhetoric present at his rallies. Honestly, for a lot of people it probably won’t be – minorities, muslims, LGBT. But I hope I’m wrong.
.Sach, I’m feeling a little fatigued today. Up late last night. Could I just say I disagree with most of what you say and go get my nails done?The Bush tax cuts (just for the record, Bush was a fabulous Texas Gov but I was never impressed with him as President and I am against the financial investment in the wars. I like cheap wars.) had a two year lag before revenues blossomed. Don’t make me send you a chart.I guess since I have criticized Pres Obama from time-to-time, I have somehow inherited the full throated defense of George W Bush — who I think is a cowardly punk for his “no vote for president” femininity. So, pardon me for not rising to his defense.I am going to have to call “bullshit” on the white supremacy rhetoric threat at his rallies. I saw some bikers there but I’m not out buying a Harley Davidson.Believe me, you have a great capacity to be wrong, so don’t fret.JLMwww.themusingsofthebigredca…
No effect on startups. If anything positive for them. Deregulating gives them a better chance at unseating big corporate. The march of technology won’t get slower. I saw an article about AI in meat processing robots: http://www.porknetwork.com/…If the Republicans are smart (questionable), they repeal Obamacare and separate work from insurance once and for all-good for startups. If they do immigration correctly, it will be good for startups. Repealing Dodd-Frank and Sarbox would be good for startups.If they focus on social issues and trod down the familiar path they did in 2000, it will be bad for everyone. If they are vengeful it will be bad for everyone. But, Trump isn’t Bush (thankfully) and Ryan isn’t Hastert (thankfully).
We agree my friend.Business will be OK. That is not all there is to life.I see a dark ages of social reform and freakin horrible consequences for the social causes I have fought for my entire life.Ethnicity, face, gender, choice, environmental concerns are what scares the shit out of me.
> Ethnicity, face, gender, choice, environmental concerns are what scares the shit out of me.You have been profoundly misled by people with just ugly techniques.Ethnicity? We are, and should be proud about it, a country of English and European descent.We are a lot like Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Baltics, more in Central Europe, Western Russia, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, the British Isles, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.We are not much like Africa, Turkey, the Mideast, South Asia, India, Pakistan, SE Asia, the South Pacific Islands, Eastern Russia, China, Korea, Japan, or Central or South America. GOOD.For “environmental concerns”, I responded above to the flim-flam, fraud, scam of human sources of CO2 causing climate change.”Gender”? We are going extinct, literally, and, thus, need renewed emphasis on MOTHERHOOD.Just what is it about motherhood so many people are having such a tough time understanding?Hint: Motherhood is not the same as feminism. Feminism is weak, sick, dead limbs on the tree.But, for the importance of motherhood, we have Darwin on our side, and he is very much in the process of winning again.Any questions?
Many.None that i need you to school me on.
I never wanted to be a college prof. And there I learned that some students are just hopeless.
how does that relate to me or the comment?
Hopefully it doesn’t.
technically @SixgillBlog:disqus and I are of middle eastern and mediterranean descent (via Israel, but that country technically did not exist, alongside Judaisms as they exist today, when Philo of Alexendria was alive)
Ah, you are wildly wrong. _ You can’t fool me, not this time. I’m talking culture, not genetics, and you are solidly from European culture, no ifs, ands, buts, exceptions, excuses. And I’m not going back to ancient Egypt if only because nearly all the European culture happened since then. And that culture goes, went, two ways so that you have even more trouble escaping: A LOT of European culture is from Jewish culture! That is you are even more European!Heck, I don’t know from which direction came the sour cream, perogies, potato pancakes, etc.!And geographically, where the heck would you escape to? I’m not well informed on the diaspora, but it has appeared to me that a huge fraction of Jews of the last few hundred years have lived in the geographical areas I mentioned. Right, I omitted the details of Spain and the move to Poland, etc., sephardic versus ashkenazi, Russia, Kiev, the Baltics, etc.Sorry, Shana, you have at least 1.9 feet in the areas I mentioned. Own up. And for Arnold, gee, I was no good with French so in college took German. I’m no good with language, but, let me see, in German, Wald is forest and Stein is rock or some such, so Arnold is forest rock or some such, but, details aside, definitely from Germany, that is, part of the area I mentioned.Gee, the guy who got me started in violin was Waldman from Kiev and a student of Gingold, music prof at SUNY, etc. It was European, Shana. And it was a lot of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. and not all just Ernest Bloch and Baal shem!Gee, sure, it would be good for me also to understand Japan, China, SE Asia, Pakistan, India, …, etc. but there’s no chance and no hope. I wish them well, but I can’t understand them.
I can’t muster any semblance of patriotism today – only shame, disgust, concern for friends, family, colleagues and deep re-evaluation of what continuing to live here means for my own moral compass.As a business owner I am shellshocked.
Same. At a loss today. Completely.
Hugs and love, K. Let’s go catch that Stooges movie.
Have hope. Maybe this incredible, strong, smart, eloquent and considerate talent will run in 2020.* https://uploads.disquscdn.c… [email protected]:disqus.
Psst, hey America, lets stop trying to get our leaders wives, sons, and daughters elected. Doesn’t reall help the whole “elites” thing.
This is the only comment I will comment on. I agree +100. That is what got Trump elected.
That was the top highlighted comment in American Spring written 10 months back.”Statistically speaking, what are the odds that the two most qualified candidates to be president out of 300 million people are siblings? Or married?” – American Spring, Naval Ravikant.https://medium.com/the-miss…
Yeah, why this wasn’t a