If we buy Greenland, we can launch super-duper missiles from bases there to inject bleach into the demons, altering their alien DNA and ending Covid.
If only Hunter Biden and Antifa weren’t rigging Greenland’s election, we could re-open the schools to explain. Sad! Liberate Greenland!
Once we’ve locked up Joe Biden and the nasty woman who runs Denmark, we’ll deploy the Space Force to Greenland to nuke hurricanes and cancer-causing windmills with tremendous fire and fury. This strong - very, very strong - toughness will improve my ratings above Dr. Fauci.
BLEACH-INJECTING, ANTI-DEMON SUPER DUPER MISSILES!
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on-the-make schtick would bowl Kim over or wow him into concessions. Instead, Kim played T for credibility-enhancing photo-ops & to foment US-S Korean tensions over how to deal with/ NK.
3. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest T’s approach to NK would be different a second
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time around. There will be no policy development process to work-up alternative offers to NK, no deliberation of what US/SK concessions we might tolerate in exchange for some NK WMD limits, no effort to build consensus w/ Congress, the SKs, or Japanese. Any second T engagement
Good thread, nicely illustrating how de-linked the GOP evangelical base is from the rest of America.
They wanna go after abortion, IVF, birth control, gay marriage, and the rest. GOP leaders know this is electoral suicide, but they don’t know how to get around it. If Biden is
smart, he’ll make personal family & sexual freedom the center of his campaign.
Evangelicals may overwhelm the GOP internally, but the rest of the country thinks they’re weird & creepy
This is the result of social isolation: churches which provide a whole separated lifestyle,
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a TV ‘news’ network which only tells you what you want to hear, home-schooling, a sealed media ecosystem of faith-based movies and influencers telling you that social change is the apocalypse.
Catholics once had parallel institutions like this, especially the schools. But we
This thread makes a point political science emphasizes a lot - and which I tell my students constantly:
Competent democratic government is actually really boring. A lot of it is unappealing trade-offs, wonks diving deep into detail the public won’t track, maintenance instead
of flashy new initiatives politicians can put their name on, compromise between parties which leaves no one happy, incremental, unexciting improvements only visible over the medium-term, and so on.
This is not entertaining or engaging, & doesn’t make for exciting journalism.
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But it is how you mostly want democracies governed. This is why you don’t elect showboats like Trump or Jesse Ventura, and you do elect competent administrators like George W. Bush or Biden.
Sometimes I think Fukuyama is right: wealthy democracies get so bored that they
Yes, NK's rhetoric seems more belligerent lately. Yes, this Kim seems to enjoy making scary threats more than his father did. Yes, the US is distracted by Ukraine & Gaza. But
NK constantly talks like this. I made this point back in 2013👇when Kim told foreigners to leave SK bc war was imminent (jerk). Perhaps Kim means it this time. That is possible,of course. But it's impossible to reliably infer that f/ NK rhetoric anymore
National elites say outlandish stuff all the time. Look at Putin. Threats are a cheap signal. What matters instead are costly signals, which in the NK case would mean something like a seventh nuclear test, a missile test flight over SK, or border skirmishes.
Latent capacity is not capability. Khrushchev said we will bury you, and Mao thought he could fight a nuclear war bc of China’s huge population.This is not how conflict works
Sacks says stuff like this all the time. I’ve no idea why he’s taken seriously as a geopolitical thinker