politics – aksel

Seeking Truth

James Altucher’s recent podcast episode with Norm Dworman hits on a variety of topics but the essence of the episode is really in the last fifteen minutes where they discuss the tone of the world, censorship and what the next steps are. Just the other day, I was asked about choosing sides and it was a very difficult decision. Not because it’s a right/left scenario but rather that there are no true right vs left sides anymore. It’s all personal attacks and very little ideas. Politics is no longer a debate or discussion on ideas but more personal conflicts. Social …

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Not the way to improve Journalism (political)

Maybe CNN should stop allowing their news reporters from starting their broadcast with an indictment of Trump BEFORE reporting the news. Watching Anderson Cooper start his Thursday night broadcast with five minutes of why Trump is un-presidential before reporting any news is simply instigating Trump’s ire and strengthens his case about fake media. If someone’s attention span is 5 minutes long (15 minutes in Britain?), then he just lost his audience and has right-leaning supporters switching the channel. Maybe there is validation to the reports that CNN just wants to be a left-leaning network, rather than fair and impartial. At …

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Ten ways to prevent/end the US government shutdown

I’m sure some of these have been spoken (or maybe just thought of) but as an outside observer, it seems fantastical that a country like the United States hasn’t figured out how to deal with useless politicians (not that Canada is any better). So here goes — a few fun ways (and a few slightly disturbing possibilities) to get congress to end the shutdown. Don’t pay them. Forget about stopping actual government services. Stop paying congress, the senate AND the white house until they can actually deliver a bill that they can all agree on. Until they can actually prove …

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Developers and Politics: A good idea?

I just learned that Kevin Ragsdale is running for Congress he’s running as an independent and as he notes on his campaign website, he’s running for change in politics (a common theme in this US election) but more importantly as he notes, he has 9 trillion reasons to run (the National Debt). So good luck Kevin! As he notes:“When I’m approached to create a solution, I simply study the problem and apply logic and common sense…Maybe we could use a few more programmers in Washington, and a few less lawyers.” So that got me thinking. Are there generic pros and …

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