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Wow. Sen. Lindsey Graham on @foxandfriends discussing the Saudi crown prince

"I'm not going to back to Saudi Arabia as long as this guy's in charge... This guy is a wrecking ball"

Sen. Lindsey Graham on @foxandfriends: "He had this guy murdered... and to expect me to ignore it, I feel used and abused... There's a difference between a country and an individual. The MBS figure is toxic. He can never be a world leader on the world stage"
The Lindsey Graham clip is quite something. He feels "used and abused," and I think that gets at something important, as I argued in my Atlantic piece. For an ally that depends on us for their security to treat us with such disrespect, it's rather brazen: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Sen. Lindsey Graham on @foxandfriends:

"I'm gonna sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia. We deal with bad people all the time but this is in our face... They have nothing but contempt for us... This guy's gotta go"
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It's remarkable to me that people can actually say this—that regardless of a candidate's actual proposals and ideas, they'd simply be out of the running because they're white. Honestly, it's also offensive to a growing number of PoCs to be instrumentalized like this 👇🏽
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If the Saudis admit to a "rogue" killing or a failed abduction, it still means 1) they tried to kidnap a journalist on foreign soil for long-term imprisonment; 2) every single denial and claim that Khashoggi left through the back entrance was, to put it nicely, a lie
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One hopes Trump doesn't fold in a negotiation like he tends to do under duress, but if he does, it means only that the Saudis have gotten a pass from this administration. It will be up to Dems to make Saudi Arabia a key campaign issue (Bernie has admirably led the way on this)
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This from @conor64 is one of the best pieces—in the sense of being important for real life—I've read on rethinking leftist politics

For those thinking specifically about what a "left populism" might look like, the lessons here are just as useful: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"For people are never less likely to change, to convert to new ways of thinking or acting, than when it means joining the ranks of their denouncers," writes @conor64. And here's Abraham Lincoln for good measure
Here's Noah Millman in an excellent @amconmag piece on why "don't normalize Trump" arguments are fundamentally anti-political and, in some senses, contrary to very spirit of democratic competition: theamericanconservative.com/millman/who-no…
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Lindsey Graham: MBS is a "wrecking ball" who had #JamalKhashoggi murdered, he's "toxic" and he's "gotta go."

"This guy is a wrecking ball, he had this guy murdered in a consulate in Turkey, and to expect me to ignore it, I feel used and abused."
A "wrecking ball" aimed by US intelligence given to Prince Mohammad Bin Salman by Jared Kushner to get back at Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for claiming he bailed Trump out of bankruptcy multiple times. Trump is only too happy to indulge his authoritarian beliefs when convenient.
Sen Rubio on the Saudi arms sales in wake of the murder of #JamalKhashoggi: "I don't care how much money it is. There isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves"
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
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