Bill Thompson
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Podcast Appearances
I don't want to have a conversation with that person.
I can't seek to learn from them because I could just pick up the Communist Manifesto or Mein Kampf and have a pretty good understanding of who I'm dealing with, and therefore a conversation is not...
I dealt with a lot of people first when I retired from the military and then more recently leading up to the last election where I was entertaining the deal of doing some work for government.
As we talk more, you'll figure out I'm pretty anti-institutions.
I'm really against those types of things.
But I really felt, if you would have asked me three years ago how I felt about the Trump election and all of that stuff, I was very excited because he was saying a lot of things that I wanted someone to say.
Trump fits a pattern and this is what people I think kind of lack when they, my whole life is built around pattern analysis.
I really enjoy patterns and exhuming and looking into patterns.
And there's a pattern of like a,
you'll laugh when I say this first part of the pattern, but then I'll, I'll, I'll make it make more sense later, but he fits the pattern.
Well, first he's a Jacksonian and, and, and, and that he's a pragmatic person, the way that he governs, which I liked, or at least I did.
And, you know, there's some things he's done recently that I don't enjoy.
And, um, but he's also a, an outsider or a, or a savior type, uh,
A la, you know, I don't remember the movie, but The Magnificent Seven back in the day.
I don't remember the actor's name.
There's this group of, you know, there's this Western town.
Everything's going to shit.