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27 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
"Je peux vous affirmer que je n'ai aucun mea culpa à faire, aucun remords, aucun constat d'échec," cette manière de se vanter, mon Dieu, ça le fait paraître aussi éhonté que Trump.

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C'est juste * bizarre * de dire ça. On est censé dire: "En tant que président de la République j'assume pleinement la responsabilité de cet échec," ou si on ne peut pas se résoudre à dire le mot "échec", au moins "j'assume pleinement la responsabilité."
Si même ces mots restent coincés dans la gorge, la toujours-serviable voix passive reste toujours à la disposition des politiciens. "Des erreurs ont été commises."
Mais "aucun mea culpa, aucun remords, aucun constat d'échec"--quand *de toute évidence* on a pris un pari et on a perdu le pari, et tout le monde le sait--pour être franc, ça transmet pas "confiance en soi" ; ça semble un peu psychopathe.
Monsieur le Président, si vous avez besoin de conseils pour rédiger des discours, je ne suis qu'à un coup de fil. A votre service!

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28 Mar
On the @cosmo_globalist Cosmopolicast we recorded yesterday, we did a go-round where everyone tried to figure out how to solve the #Suez problem. Hosted by @MoniqueCamarra, with @VivekYKelkar, @NighswanderJon, @akshaya_jose, @IlvesToomas, @RachelMotte, and @is_OwenLewis.
I, of course, said, "Why can't we just blow it up?"
But it turned out really interesting, when @IlvesToomas got us to look at a map and showed us that for pretty much every country but India--for which this is a disaster--it's a non-problem.
Yes, it's a traffic jam and a hassle for vessels that are stuck; but look at the map. Bienvenue, climate change! It's April. We don't really need the Suez Canal until next winter. So we can all stop worrying about it. Image
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27 Mar
This article is bad. cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…

It conflates "created in a lab" with "escaped from a lab." Those are very different things.

This comment is idiotic: Image
The problem is with Anderson's reading comprehension skills, not Redfield's grasp of evolutionary virology. Lipkin's defensiveness, and Anderson's, are dismaying. Image
The lab-leak hypothesis is supported by roughly the same evidence as the no-lab-leak hypothesis, which is to say, almost none, and certainly not enough to be this confident. And this quote? Just kill me now. Image
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24 Mar
If you're telling me you want to put me in a reeducation camp and you tell me you want me to disarm, I'm not apt to do so. To get rid of the weapons, we have to rebuild social trust. People are armed because they don't trust us not to put them in reeducation camps.
No, I don't know how to rebuild social trust, either. But fundamentally, the reason people have guns is because they don't trust the people around them. Rational or irrational, that's why.
I actually suspect even the most ardent 2A enthusiasts are sick to death of this and realize there's a connection between "number of guns" and "number of mass shootings." Deep down, they probably share the desire for "a lot fewer guns."
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24 Mar
I pray for them all to be cancelled. Only way anyone's going to read them these days.

True story: How to get your kids to read. Parents, are you anxious because your kids don't like reading? Follow these steps:
1. Do not view books are "very important to your child's development and college education." View them as "something that might shut them up for a while so you can be in peace." Buy every book marketed "for children" on the market.
2. Key: Provide *no* other sources of entertainment--certainly not you. They'll start reading. Worried this will screw them up, emotionally? Probably will, yes.

But they will read. (And they won't lose their minds in a pandemic lockdown, either.)
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23 Mar
This is super-interesting and very insightful, I think. "Performative miserabilism" is a great turn of phrase. I was *most* struck by this graph. I realize his point was, "Ignore this graph, they weren't telling the truth before," but I'm not sure that's the best explanation.
It might also suggest that @NighswanderJon was exactly correct on yesterday's @cosmo_globalist Cosmopolicast: claireberlinski.substack.com. People aren't furious at the government's response because they quite like the pandemic.
There could be an enormous number of reasons for this. Most people, after all, don't die. It may be on balance more pleasing to people to sit at home, pursue their hobbies, and stay well away from big family gatherings. Especially since no one is starving.
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22 Mar
I'm not sure I agree with this--there's not enough substance really to agree or disagree--but there are some phrasings in this op-ed that strike me.
"For the first time in a long time, the United States is not overwhelmingly predominant." This is true.

"If Beijing dominates Asia, the world’s largest market, China will be globally preeminent—and is likely to use its power to coerce and weaken the United States." Also true.
What does this entail? I don't think it entails what the author is hinting. I'm not quite sure what he's hinting, though. "We need to work with those countries willing to invest resources in confronting China, such as India and Vietnam," he says.
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