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Government coming into 2016. i had seen how facebook let its algorithms about hijacked by foreign nation states to influence the outcome of an election. people forget brad par skou who later became trump's campaign manager went out and gave a public hat tip to facebook. i think he said something like they are one of the key reasons we won this election. that's because they allowed the campaign to do questionable things to target voters. of course as we know they allowed foreign nation states to manipulate their platform, which affected our democracy. i think there is more going to come out abo...
Tip for political reasonreasons try to manage the election process. my hope is we don't even further politicize elections other than just the campaign parts of it. the realities here in georgia, we ran the most fair, legal election in our state's history and there were a few punitive swipes in the laws we passed here post election, but there were a number of things we did that were bipartisan, and we agreed upon. it is a balancing act. i hope we never see in america, i hope no state has to go through what georgia did in the ten weeks between the election and the runoffs here because it just do...
The bad news is that the democrats are showing this country that they are not together. the good news is, the country is with them. proof? both the senate-passed infrastructure plan and this larger $3.5 trillion package that progressives want to pass through reconciliation, they are in an existential place with both of them. but if biden gets his wish list, even a fraction of the plan could dramatically transform our lives and are wildly popular. i want to give a hat tip to axios, okay? they kind of framed what the reality will be, with more than $66 billion invested in amtrak and other rail p...
The good news is, the country is with them. proof? both the senate-passed infrastructure plan and this larger $3.5 trillion package that progressives want to pass through reconciliation, they are in an existential place with both of them. but if biden gets his wish list, even a fraction of the plan could dramatically transform our lives and are wildly popular. i want to give a hat tip to axios, okay? they kind of framed what the reality will be, with more than $66 billion invested in amtrak and other rail projects. high speed trains may become a preferred mode. maybe even over flying. we'll se...