Unpopular opinion: Kamala flubbed 2 out of 3 interviews she did in the last couple of days. Personally thought she was at her best on The View and the worst on 60 minutes. This is why doing these early and often would have sharpened her message & tone by now. Now gonna be a scramble. The amount of word salad answers oofff.
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There are very, very few Indian business leaders and ultra wealthy people that I truly respected a lot. [Ratan Tata](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ratan-tata-dies-at-86-tata-conglomerates-chairman-emeritus-dies-at-mumbai-hospital-6755024#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll_Imagetopscroll) was one of them. Truly one of India’s greats, and for folks like us living through the 90s he was (and remains) an icon. RIP!
Elon Musk buying a vote for 47$ is literally the way Indian election works for most part. You promise money or equivalent gifts to get the vote. I never, ever thought I’d see this happen in America also! That said, even while a lot of Indian electorate is uneducated and don’t really know who/why they are voting for, the Indian election commission still tries to ensure that voting is accessible to every citizen in India no matter how far, remote or completely out of the way they are. There is every effort made to ensure voting access, no matter whether people even care or understand what/they are voting for. I just feel like every election voting rights and access are going backwards in USA. Now combined with straight out bribes to get your votes, this country is heading in a dark direction.
For the role I have posted, an internal person wanted to apply. This person has been around for a few years and manages other managers. The only problem – this person decided to page me to express interest. If you have worked in this company, a page usually indicates a severe issue where your involvement is needed immediately. You are required to acknowledge the page and respond appropriately to it. So while I am driving home, I get this page! I drive to corner of road to stop to see what happened and what set off my phone, and what do I see – “I am interested in your role”. Like really? fucking really? paging me for that? Once I got home, I immediately pinged that person and let them know it was not cool what they did. Their response – “I apologize for inconvenience”. Of course this person would’ve never moved ahead in my queue purely because of this ridiculous incident, but the fact that even after pointing out why they should’ve not done it, their response was half hearted crap. Thankfully this person withdrew their application and saved themselves the joy of me rejecting them. Ugh.
[‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump) — This whole piece is such a read!
> Biden said he “should never have picked” Attorney General Merrick Garland during a conversation over his son’s legal troubles.
I feel so vindicated that Biden feels the same now. I called this out first day of his presidency that Garland was his absolute worst pick and stand by it!
> “You know the perception of Israel around the world increasingly is that you’re a rogue state, a rogue actor,” Biden said to Netanyahu.
Say is publicly and call this terrorist out, Biden! You got nothing to lose now. Drag his pathetic ass to the curb.
> “Mr. Minister,” Austin said, according to Woodward, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”
I guess Austin is a big fan of Michael Bay movies?!
And lastly, this alone should earn Harris the vote!
> The vice president laughed. “That might be the only reason that he still really is comfortable with me to a point,” Harris said, according to Woodward, “because he knows that I’m the only person around who knows how to properly pronounce the word motherfucker.”
I wanna read this book, absolutely!
I still find it hard to believe that in 2008 Obama won Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Florida, the 4 states that we give near zero chance of ever flipping blue again, especially Iowa and Indiana.
Politically these hurricanes couldn’t have come at a worse time for Harris/Biden and democrats could they? It’s almost like the entire universe is conspiring with Trump to bring him back to White House. You can do as much good as you want, but this is just a political goldmine for a douche like Trump to exploit.
Earth really needs to speed up its process to get rid of humans. Going too slow is my only complaint.
As a hiring manager with a req, my role has literally 100s of applicants in a week. You know the ones that actually moved ahead in the queue and I did NOT even read the resume? The ones I just asked the HR to advance them by giving them a name? **Referrals**.
One of Jeff Bezos’s famous words were on [data vs anecdotes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub585Pn4yro):
> when data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.
Probably one of my favorite Bezos sayings that I do apply to everything a lot.