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May 9, 2026
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Lady Liberty

Bryan Watson7 years ago5 years ago03 mins

A wall is a nightmare. A wall is the opposite of what America offers the world. A wall says:

America is Closed

America must never be closed.

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Yes, he’s guilty, but I don’t care!

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago03 mins

As we await the trial phase of the impeachment proceedings, it’s apparent that many members of the U.S. Senate are jumping past the first question – the question of fact – and starting on the question of punishment.

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“You Get What You Measure”

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

You get what you measure. That’s another well-known truth in business organizations. When you want a particular kind of outcome (say, increased customer base for a lagging product), you require your workers to measure that outcome and report the results. The effect is that workers focus on improving their measurements – sometimes to the detriment…

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Facts and Emotions: Battling A Culture of Lies

Bryan Watson2 years ago02 mins

We need to answer emotion with counter-emotion. If we don’t trigger an emotional response, our facts won’t matter because they won’t be heard.

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Does a Liar Tell the Truth?

Bryan Watson3 years ago02 mins

He’s a liar – a known liar, a fraud, a grifter, a thief. What is the point of asking him a question?

If he’s talking, he’s lying.

He’s a liar.

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Election Fraud is reason enough

Bryan Watson3 years ago02 mins

What gets me is that people say that he has to be expelled IF he is convicted of a crime.

Why is a criminal conviction required?

It is enough that he defrauded the voters. Actual election fraud is reason enough for expulsion.

Where is the caucus that railed about election fraud?

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When A Liar Admits He Lied…

Bryan Watson9 years ago01 mins

was Trump Jr. lying when he denied having a meeting or is he lying now when he claims he did have a meeting?

If you were Trump, Sr., how would you discredit all of your critics? How would you prove that the press is lying? Here’s what I would do…

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Mars Insight, Earth Insight

Bryan Watson7 years ago02 mins

Almost 50 years ago, I was transfixed as a NASA astronaut climbed down a ladder and pressed his boot into the grainy surface of the moon. A week ago, I sat transfixed as NASA guided a vehicle to a soft landing in Elysium Planitia, a “flat, boring equatorial plain” on a planet 300 million miles…

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Results AND Resistance

Bryan Watson8 years ago02 mins

What do we resist? We resist job losses. We resist wage stagnation. We resist corporate welfare. We resist corruption. We resist cruelty. We resist dictators.

We resist Republicans.

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Nobody Likes a Sore Loser

Bryan Watson3 years ago3 years ago06 mins

We all remember that kid — the one on the playground who threw a tantrum when he lost. You called him a “Sore Loser”. And even though you were just kids, you knew — everyone knew — that nobody likes a sore loser. The Republican Party is the party of sore losers.

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