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Weather you like it or not published March 11, 2018 explains the #Resistance movement one brick at a time and why it will be destroyed.

The Graduate (was your college professor) published April 23, 2017 in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the films release this is just a copy of a June 2016 KOTCB blog post with a snazzy new image.

The Glass Floor published April 21, 2017 illuminates the reason for HRC's failed presidential campaign and why it wasn't (entirely) the fault of her staff and their strategy.

Sea Change published April 9, 2017 gives an overview of the dire situation the Democrat party finds itself in as a result of the Trump earthquake and how they got there.

The 730 Project is a series of articles originally published in Creative Destruction Media in the spring of 2020 which I have republished in 2 years later (730 days) with some thoughts on the prescience or shortsightedness of my observations at the time of original publication.
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