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@BasedMikeLee@TaraRoss Shut up. Your too scared to even say Thune's name much less demand he pass the act or resign. Grow a pair and stand up to Thune or just shut up. Tired of your Save act platitudes.
@laralogan None of these reps or senators will ever mention Thune by name, blame him, or demand he resign. None. Ever. They are so scared of Thune that they just post these stupid platitudes like "we must pass the save America act" without actually calling out Thune or forcing his hand.
@SenEricSchmitt Why don't you demand Thune resign? Your just as full of shit as the rest of them. Call on Thune to step down or stop posting this clickbait. You won't, because you're all talk, no spine.
@EdWhelanEPPC@thatsKAIZEN The entire argument is complete bullshit and you know it. It's not that Raman, a democrat, gained in post election mail in shenanigans over Pratt, it's that she blew away the democrat leader Bass to get there, after a complete failure in early voting and same day voting.
I worked for the Perot campaign. At an event I was standing on a staircase overlooking the main floor. A guy comes up the stairs and stops next to me. It was Stockdale. We chatted for 5 minutes while watching Perot speak below. What stands out the most is how truly interested he was in me at that moment. Asking me question after question about my life, what do I do for work, for fun, where was I from, why did I join the campaign. Then they moved him along. We shook hands and that was it. He was genuinely a great man.
In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist.
21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million.
And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV.
Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham.
Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options.
She married young during WWII.
By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs.
She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust.
There was just one problem:
She was a terrible typist.
The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible.
One typo could mean retyping an entire page.
Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job.
But Bette had another skill.
She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money.
One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization:
“An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.”
That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint.
She poured it into a nail polish bottle.
The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors.
It worked.
For five years, her boss never noticed.
Other secretaries did.
Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles.
Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends.
She called the product “Mistake Out.”
Then came the twist.
In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter.
Her boss fired her immediately.
It became the best thing that ever happened to her.
She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time.
Orders exploded.
By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year.
By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually.
Then she did something even more unusual:
She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America.
Her company offered:
• child care
• continuing education
• leadership roles for women
• jobs for disabled workers
• integrated staffing
This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas.
In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million.
Six months later, she died at age 56.
Half her fortune went to women-focused charities.
The other half went to her son.
That son was Michael Nesmith.
Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees.
And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips.
It featured short films set to music.
PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV.
So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create:
• a multimillion-dollar company
• one of America’s most progressive workplaces
• and the blueprint for the modern music video era
Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood:
The mistake wasn’t the failure.
It was the opportunity.
@FBI_Response@BreannaMorello Don't play cute. It is under seal because Biden FBI asked that it be placed under seal. DOJ could walk into court and ask the seal be lifted.
@MattBraynard@LeeKuanYimby 🤣🤣🤣 Suggesting that Raman's death defying, statistically impossible post election day blowout of both Bass and Pratt could have been caused by Pratt running videos that lasted longer than 30 seconds may be the dumbest and most ridiculous post ever made on X.
@nettermike@susancrabtree California could prove to the world their elections are clean! Why not take this opportunity to embarrass Trump! Let in the feds! 🤣🤣🤣
@RealSKeshel@CGasparino Gasparino is one of those phonies who's too scared to say Trump might be right, for fear of what his friends and associates might think of him. Or worse, he knows Trump is right but is virtue signaling to those same people. Either way he's pathetic.
@ianmiles Have you seen the video taken by Hunter of him sticking his dick in his dead brother's wife's mouth? Watch that, then tell us how 'human and likable' he is.