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[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@jaxoncoder Your friend is clearly not management material. If he was, he would have had a plan and pushed to fix the broken processes that required his extra effort. Working hard is not a problem. Working stupid is.

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@kate_p45 They had due process and were deported. There are rules they should be followed in all directions. Trump and wanna be republicans need drop the hypocrisy. You either believe we are a land of laws or you don’t.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

The first ever Biden vs. Trump PRICE CHECK! President Donald J. Trump promised he would start to get prices down on day one of his presidency. This is a quick list of some common grocery items.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Marc Elias’ take on Donald Trump:

“Donald Trump is not Hitler. He is not Stalin. His vision of America is neither pre-war Germany nor the post-war Soviet Union. The United States is not at risk of falling into totalitarianism.

The United States has its own history and culture. It has a unique way of manifesting its politics. That does not mean, however, that we cannot learn from other places and other times. As Mark Twain, the most American of American writers, wrote: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

So, let’s start with what we know. Trump is a deeply unserious man. In a different era, he would have been a carnival barker. If not born to privilege and wealth he would be running a low level scheme or selling supplements on a sketchy website. Instead, he is the president-elect who, in addition to hawking schlocky items on the internet, will soon command the highest, most powerful office on earth.

We know that he admires modern day dictators and strongmen. He seeks their favor and rejoices in their flattery.

He rejects liberalism — things like the rule of law, impartial government and fundamental rights. He has contempt for democratic norms and institutions. Elections are only fair when he wins and rigged when he loses.

For Trump, the presidency exists to exact the spoils of electoral victory rather than a public trust.

Like many of you, I have spent the last few days trying to make sense of things — asking how this happened and what comes next. As for the second question, I have been doing a lot of reading.
It is something that preoccupied the Founders, who were afraid of the reemergence of a king. Decades after the founding, John Adams was still concerned. In 1814 he wrote to a colleague that “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

As part of my processing, I went back and reread several of Hannah Arendt’s works. She is best known for her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in which she coined the phrase “banality of evil.” In her telling, the Nazi SS leader was a mediocre joiner. In her words a “clown.”

But, in my opinion, her most important book was The Origins of Totalitarianism, in which she attempts to explain the mechanics of how totalitarian movements come to power. One observation of hers strikes me as most relevant today.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” 

It is hard to make sense of Trump’s recent cabinet nominations without coming back to this central truth: He is nominating “crackpots and fools” because that is what Trumpism requires. It is required both by Trump himself but also by his followers.

As a narcissist, Trump surrounds himself with people who, like him, reject science, expertise and the idea of objective facts. As a leader, he must continue to promote ever more extremist conspiracy theories to explain why his last conspiracy theory failed to come true.”

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[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@BobbyJindal @KamalaHarris @A1Policy We are already paying for them at the emergency room. No matter what, we pay for it. unless perhaps you want to have doctors abandon the hypocratic oath

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@mitchellvii He consistently lies, he raped a woman, he is a convicted felon. Ultimately he would sell out their interests for his own.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

.@TheRickWilson responds to the cease & desist letter The Lincoln Project received from Donald Trump today, and about the potential consequences Trump would face if he ever did sue us, which of course he never will. Tune in now:

🎙️: https://t.co/2yFGTEuDuh

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@POTUS Why do you keep sending my money to people who want to dismantle the federal government. These guys are hypocrites. They tout no income tax and small government except when they need a bailout. #texassoft

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@NelsonCoverCFP @elerianm Except net revisions were up, so….. but who cares about facts anyway

[Greenwich PD PIO @GreenwichCTPD]

GPD urgently needs your attention! Multiple vehicles were stolen in Greenwich over the weekend. What's more alarming is that all had their keys left inside.

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@spotgamma @zerohedge Hard to believe this with all the real money out there but interesting nonetheless

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@BillSimmons Better and more effective than Nelson agelor at 13 mil a year

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@MalfoyEv @zerohedge How is this a svb bank bail out? Equity holders get zero and bond holders get zero, depositors who were paid zero to put money in the bank are getting their money back. This is a Main Street bailout

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@Thomas_Carrieri Nomar. not close

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@Quicktake Maybe they should have done their homework before endorsing him

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@HardyRadio Clearly pomegranates

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@rinsana But they do reduce demand which reduces prices.

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@lynnelewis20031 If so, I am happy you had such a great career at bates. You were one of my favorites. Still using that econometrics from my thesis today

[jeff bolduc @BatesBobcat55]

@lynnelewis20031 Wait are you retiring?