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jeffkemp.bsky.social
Husband/Dad | Headhunter | CPA | Clemson Alum | Political Independent
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I wrote a book - or finished a book - I guess I should say. That’s where I’ve been. And to those that have asked about how I feel about things. I feel this way.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The real interesting part is coming—the moment when people who’ve been conditioned to believe one thing suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of it. When the very system they cheered for, the one they swore was right, finally takes hold—and they’re the ones getting hurt.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Trump operates on the belief that might makes right and that philosophy fuels his approach toward Colombia and Greenland and his indifference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For him, strength is justification, and with strength comes entitlement.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

1. If Trump, Musk, and Rufo are successful in eliminating “DEI hires” from the federal workforce, it would likely entail laying off thousands or tens of thousands of veterans, many with service-related injuries.

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Those who’ve long argued that billionaires have been deliberately fueling our culture wars—choosing divisive distractions over the threat of class solidarity to safeguard their wealth—have, in recent months, been really strutting their stuff.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I did learn something today that I did not know before. Some of the "Diversity hires" for the Federal Government are Vets who need minor accommodations. I guarantee you this will cause a stink when these cuts get publicized.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Let's see. 1) Chamath gets a big tax cut. 2) Tariffs go into place. 3) American companies purchasing foreign goods pay the tariffs. 4) The cost is passed along to the consumer. Which effectively is a tax on the low and middle class. 5) Chamath makes out like a bandit.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The 2020 Floyd riots—riots, not protests—were entirely condemnable. I don’t care what the underlying grievances were; the moment peaceful demonstrations turned into destruction, it went too far. But what’s been striking to me is how those riots seemed to push so many on the right over the edge.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

With Trump, there is no intrinsic sense of right or wrong. That’s simply not part of the equation. Right becomes right if someone pays to make it so; wrong is wrong if the price is right to enforce it. It’s a matter of pure transaction, devoid of principle.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

You hear this some and it’s absolutely true. You can’t understand the present without understanding the past. This tine - way more than last time - Trump is what you would get if you combined Huey Long with William Tweed.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

You’ve got to ban tiktok or you telegraph an x-ray of America’s jello spine to CCP HQ.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My feeling has always been - these social media companies should be treated like the private companies they are and the federal government should not use coercive language seeking to impact management decisions.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

I used to say “old Bill has the memory of an elephant”. I will now say “ol’ Bill has the memory of Karen Pence”.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

When I turn to the news in search of information about a disaster, I seek to understand the event itself, not to endure an instant barrage of political posturing and analysis. Yet not a single major American news network seems capable of providing what I’m after.

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

It doesn’t have to be a choice between human error and climate change. That’s a false dilemma. You can have both happen at once.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a well known and accomplished public figure lose their mind like this.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

Suboptimal

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This is true. It’s indentured servitude.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

You’ll hear Musk and other tech bro’s say something like “we like immigrants because they are willing to come in and work 80 hours a week”. When the truth is - they either buck up and work 80 hours a week or they lose their job and their visa and they have to leave the country.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment