Cliff Kurtzman

Creator of The Domino Principles. PhD, rocket scientist, futurist, writer, CEO, dad. I treasure beauty & elegance & passion & curiosity & kindness.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

My latest... When Life Gives You A Rotten Orange: how to proactively take command of your life to produce desired future outcomes during times of seismic upheaval.

https://t.co/alh1ZFJhna

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

@RadioFreeTom Visited with him yesterday in Budapest. He would agree.

[Michael Medved @MedvedSHOW]

“This is exactly the thing Trump swore up and down that he was never going to do.”

@RadioFreeTom says the Iran conflict risks becoming the kind of “forever war” Trump promised to avoid.

Full conversation:
https://t.co/Ak2I9SbFS5

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

@davidfrum After Portuguese dictator Salazar emerged from a coma in 1968, his intimates never told him that he had been removed from power. He spent his last 23 months thinking he was still ruling Portugal.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

@davidfrum I'm so very sorry, David.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

But to be honest, it wasn't until election night, when I saw that Florida, which I expected to be very close, was being called for Trump very early in the evening, that I really started to realize just how much I had managed to fool myself.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

Try to find a few beacons of light that will help you navigate through the fog of what is to come. For me, right now, my beacons of light are @HC_Richardson , @davidfrum , @djrothkopf , @johnpavlovitz , and @RadioFreeTom . They help me find perspective every single day.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

I did invest some thought and effort into how I might change my life if that were to happen. And I put everything I had into making sure that outcome would not occur.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

As Galadriel said to Frodo: "May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

My latest... When Life Gives You A Rotten Orange: how to proactively take command of your life to produce desired future outcomes during times of seismic upheaval.

https://t.co/alh1ZFJhna

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

@david3hart3 Me too. This one didn’t age well. The first future history column did however.

[Cliff Kurtzman @DominoPrinciple]

My second "Future History" column: Remembering the Heroes of the 2024 US Election
"... we were at least able to take some joy and solace from the knowledge that were able to make one of the easiest electoral decisions in the history of American elections."
https://t.co/sqsLXFFIbe

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

They say we get the leaders we deserve.

Either that has just been disproven, or this is not the America we all thought we were living in.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.

That was a shock. This is just confirmation.

We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.

Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.

Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.

As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.

As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.

It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.

I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.

I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.

I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.

We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.

There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.

I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.

I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Rachel Maddow, imploring the agencies that protect the United States of America to wake the fuck up about the dangerous national security threat that is Elon Musk. 😳👇

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

OPINION | Team Trump aren't playing to win. They’re playing to steal the election, writes @djrothkopf.

https://t.co/Otw9lX2Rcb