David Frum is a former speechwriter for George Bush and coined the term ‘Axis of Evil’ during the Iraq War, which he was a staunch advocate of. Nowadays he is a weird ideologue and troll on Twitter
Below: What David Frum loves about modern life
David Frum not being ‘thin-skinned’
David Frum has been eating insects for decades
David Frum loves the smell of his own swamp. I assume he is peaking metaphorically
David Frum being a creep to Megyn Kelly
David Frum ‘growls and snarls’ thinking about threats to democracy
“Waabababaa”
Frum tweeting like a literal troll
David Frum runs his nose up and down people to sniff for fascism. I assume he is speaking figuratively
Probably he thought this was quite clever, but it just makes him seem really weird and goblin-like
Here is David Frum ‘gnashing his teeth at the nerve’. They are talking about the Hunter Biden tapes which later, of course, turned out to be real
David Frum has trouble with his skin regularly shedding and seeks advice
David Frum denies blinking sideways
Weird flex
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‘THE ART OF THE DEAL’ has a major flaw in that it doesn’t include a chapter on securing deals by threatening to drop missiles on people if they don’t accept your deals. Hopefully new editions of the book will fix this - it’s a very powerful and underused negotiating technique
Sense of it being done out of ‘completionism’ rather than any particular ideological commitment. You know like when you want to 100% a video game, collect all the collectibles and unlock all the achievements... In many ways a more noble sentiment than ‘ideology’ in-and-of-itself
Cuba in a very very enshittified state and ripe for upheaval as below but I don’t think ‘regime change’ will come internally, whole place is too lethargic - needs a big push from outside in order to topple. Cometh the hour cometh the man…
Lights are from the infamous ‘Rocinha’ favela. You might think they spoil the view of Ipanema beach but actually in a way they contribute to it; you look out and you really get full-on Brazil, full-on Lusotropicalism all included in just the one vista
Islam in the 21st Century has seen the emergence of two new major aesthetic and ideological forms of the religion - ‘Mr. Beast Islam’ and ‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam’. Both exist along the same spectrum but represent two very different evolutions for Islam under hypermodernity
‘Mr. Beast Islam’ is the aesthetic and ideological evolution of Islam especially in the Gulf - in wealthy, increasingly liberal, demographically secure and competently governed ‘Basically Fine’ often previously quite hardline Islamist states
‘Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam’ is the aesthetic and ideological evolution of Islam especially in Islamic diaspora populations in the liberal west - often from poorer migrant backgrounds with less sophisticated versions of Islam in societies where as deracinated minority populations they cling to increasingly hardline interpretations of that Islam as an in-group identifier
‘Mr. Beast Islam’ is one of the main aesthetic and ideological variants of Islam today. It represents the development Islamic forms have undertaken in the wealthy Arab Gulf and so, downstream of that, will be the form that Islam takes in many places in hypermodernity
Islam under hypermodernity will see two new major aesthetic and ideological evolutions of historic Islamic forms competing for aesthetic and ideological supremacy across the Ummah - Mr. Beast Islam and Rubber Dinghy Rapids Islam