Posted May 10th, 2017 @ 9:41am in #Comey #Trump
What do Bernie Sanders’ hair and CNN have in common today? They are both saying, “Comey” every time you look at them.
The news coverage of Comey’s firing has become excellent entertainment. This is the biggest cognitive dissonance cluster bomb we’ve seen since election night. This one has everything.
0 CommentsPosted May 4th, 2017 @ 12:39pm in #Trump #Obamacare #healthcare
Years ago I coined the term Confusopoly to describe any industry that benefits by keeping consumers confused. For example, mobile phone carriers know their offerings are too confusing for consumers to compare one company to another on cost. That is clearly intentional. If consumers could compare offerings it would drive profit margins to zero fairly quickly. By keeping their service and pricing confusing, they keep margins high.
Insurance companies are also confusopolies. So are law firms. And the entire financial services industry is little more than a confusopoly. All of those services can be simpler, but to simplify would invite real competition. No seller wants that.
Now look at the healthcare bill in the news today. Do citizens understand all the implications? No, clearly.
Do members of Congress understand all of the implications of the new bill? Not a chance in hell.
Who is behind this confusion?
0 CommentsPosted May 4th, 2017 @ 12:17pm in #Trump
I’m watching this week as the so-called “Resistance” movement changes their attack on Trump from “Russian Puppet” to “Trump is crazy.” This has the look of a coordinated change. Watch how often you will see “Trump is crazy” articles and commentary in the coming weeks as the Opposition Media tests this new line of attack.
Trump eviscerated the “Russian Puppet” line of attack by lobbing 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base under the nose of Vladimir Putin. That made Trump look very un-puppetish. And it dismantled the Resistance’s primary line of attack. They needed a new approach.
0 CommentsPosted May 3rd, 2017 @ 10:20am in #Trump
It is illegal to bribe a president. But it is totally legal to pre-bribe one.
Here’s how a pre-bribe works.
0 CommentsPosted May 2nd, 2017 @ 9:18am in #Trump #negotiating
Yesterday President Trump unexpectedly said he would be “honored” to meet North Korea’s Kim Jung-un.
And that’s how a Master Persuader creates an asset out of nothing.
I’ll explain.
0 CommentsPosted May 1st, 2017 @ 12:26pm in #North Korea #Missiles #Trump
We’re seeing speculation in the press that the United States might be behind North Korea’s recent failed missile tests. By way of context, North Korea has had some bad patches before, but they experienced a new streak of “bad luck” at about the same time President Trump got into office.
Probably a coincidence.
Find the pattern on this Whencast from WhenHub (my startup). You can share this on social media.
0 CommentsPosted April 18th, 2017 @ 11:32am in #Trump #taxes
In January of this year, President Trump’s critics were marching in the streets because they believed he was about to go full-Hitler. Or maybe he was just crazy, and about to do something dangerously stupid.
Today their biggest complaint is that President Trump hasn’t shared his tax returns with the public.
How’s everything else looking?
0 CommentsPosted April 17th, 2017 @ 6:06am in #Trump #North Korea
One of the most useful things I learned in business school was that you can usually make a deal whenever the parties involved don’t want full control of the same limited resources. That’s why a peace deal in Israel is impossible – because both sides want the same land. But that’s a rare situation (fortunately).
The more normal situation is the one we see with North Korea and the United States. The United States doesn’t want the same limited resource that North Korea wants. And China has their own interests. That kind of situation almost always means you can reach a deal if you look hard enough.
0 CommentsPosted April 14th, 2017 @ 9:37am in #Trump #Twitter #shadowban
Earlier this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey contacted me to discuss my ongoing public observations that Twitter appears to be “shadowbanning” me because of my writings about Trump. Jack introduced me via Direct Message to Del Harvey, Twitter’s Head of Trust & Safety, for the official answer.
The official answer is that no one, including me, is shadowbanned on Twitter. It has never happened.
0 CommentsPosted April 13th, 2017 @ 8:15am in #Trump #Putin
Everyone is saying the relationship between the United States and Russia is really, really bad right now. President Trump says it is bad. Russia agrees. All the pundits agree too.
So it must be true, right?
In the 2nd dimension – where things are just the way they look – it does seem that the U.S. and Russia are in a bad place with each other. The United States attacked Russia’s little buddy, Assad, for allegedly using chemical weapons. But Russia says Assad didn’t use chemical weapons. Now Russia is mad at the United States.
Maybe the situation is exactly what I just described.
But just for fun, let’s hop up to the 3rd dimension (of persuasion) and see what the view looks like.
Hopping up now. Looking around…
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