WSJ: Some Trump Voters Already Have Regret

The WSJ is out with an article on Feb 17, 2025, that a focus group they are tracking already has some Trump voters showing regret. One voter: “Now I’m like: ‘Dang, why didn’t I just pick Kamala?’” And another: Anderson, who works with disabled adults, said Kennedy’s...

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There was never any validity to the claim that Trump “knew nothing,” about it. What and how much, I don’t know. But the authors were intentionally picked from his orbit and previous administration. This was no secret at the time that Trump was denying it. I’m...
Cutting USAID & Science Won’t Balance the Budget

Cutting USAID & Science Won’t Balance the Budget

Reading the news you might think shuttering USAID and science funding will do something useful towards balancing the budget. It won’t. COMBINED these two represent about 1.5% of the US budget, about $140bn dollars. They are the yellow boxes in the first graph...
Fred Voccola Interview

Fred Voccola Interview

Robin Robins interviewed Fred Voccola onstage at the Q1 Producers Club meeting in Orlanda, FL on Feb 6, 2025. Here are some notes on that because I think it is interesting to hear what Fred has to say. But, he didn’t say much. The top takeaways: Voccola is the...
More AI Spend Than Oil

More AI Spend Than Oil

This is amazing: big tech is spending more on AI than big oil spent on their own infrastructure during the last boom. Surely there is a warning somewhere in this, although I’m a huge AI proponent and think that most of the spend will be justified.