Oct 5, 2026 · 8 min · 3 segments
***You may have noticed our current political landscape is a wee bit volatile. Again. I mean, you can barely mention the weather without someone blaming their least favorite politician in a detailed…
If you're in a group of your peers, the chance of someone bringing up current inflammatories in their feeds is 100%.
When this happens, you're suddenly in the worst spotlight imaginable.
Your first thought, of course, is, seriously, Steve, read the room.
But your second thought might be, finally, someone said it.
It can be hard to avoid political discussions in the workplace, not just because of personal political views, but because so many businesses are feeling some kind of fallout.
Business clients are getting hit by tariffs and the backlash against them, and every other kind of client is feeling economic fallout in their wallets.
Tariffs are not opinions.
They affect the bottom line.
Imagine you're in-house for a major corporation that imports 80% of the exponents they use to build their AI-driven gravy fountain.
These things sell like hotcakes.
Everybody wants an AI-driven gravy fountain.
They're great at weddings, bat mitzvahs, soccer games, rodeos, and it's so affordable.
Or at least they used to be.
Now, sales is crying because the tariffs on the gravy-stabilizing fins are driving costs into the stratosphere.
You know what's next.
Sales starts howling about how legal is quagmiring their funnel, and legal has to sit them down and patiently explain how tariffs work.
That's politics, and you have to talk about it or you can't get your work done.
Or let's say you work at a firm named in one of those Oval Office edicts against law firms.
I mean, everybody's talking about it.
Or worse, you yourself have been painted with a great big old bullseye, mentioned by name in an intimidation order issued by the U.S. president.
There is no way you can go through your day without mentioning it.
Like maybe to your new real estate agent in Lisbon, who's got a great line on a little two-bedroom place with a refurbished kitchen and steel-reinforced windows.
Your big law partners are telling you not to worry.
But also, could you not talk to anybody? And is your passport up to date? They have a boatload of naval contracts, but you don't work anywhere near them.
If you're in a group of your peers, the chance of someone bringing up current inflammatories in their feeds is 100%.
When this happens, you're suddenly in the worst spotlight imaginable.
Your first thought, of course, is, seriously, Steve, read the room.
But your second thought might be, finally, someone said it.
It can be hard to avoid political discussions in the workplace, not just because of personal political views, but because so many businesses are feeling some kind of fallout.
Business clients are getting hit by tariffs and the backlash against them, and every other kind of client is feeling economic fallout in their wallets.
Tariffs are not opinions.
They affect the bottom line.
Imagine you're in-house for a major corporation that imports 80% of the exponents they use to build their AI-driven gravy fountain.
These things sell like hotcakes.
Everybody wants an AI-driven gravy fountain.
They're great at weddings, bat mitzvahs, soccer games, rodeos, and it's so affordable.
Or at least they used to be.
Now, sales is crying because the tariffs on the gravy-stabilizing fins are driving costs into the stratosphere.
You know what's next.
Sales starts howling about how legal is quagmiring their funnel, and legal has to sit them down and patiently explain how tariffs work.
That's politics, and you have to talk about it or you can't get your work done.
Or let's say you work at a firm named in one of those Oval Office edicts against law firms.
I mean, everybody's talking about it.
Or worse, you yourself have been painted with a great big old bullseye, mentioned by name in an intimidation order issued by the U.S. president.
There is no way you can go through your day without mentioning it.
Like maybe to your new real estate agent in Lisbon, who's got a great line on a little two-bedroom place with a refurbished kitchen and steel-reinforced windows.
Your big law partners are telling you not to worry.
But also, could you not talk to anybody? And is your passport up to date? They have a boatload of naval contracts, but you don't work anywhere near them.
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