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https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1780386474774425716We are a far more affluent, leisure-oriented - and generally trashy - mass culture than we once were. (Note: *mass* culture.) "But gosh, edgy stuff happened back then!"
https://twitter.com/MecCoffee/status/1759604353659215924I didn't just come to this conclusion about Trump (or Carlson or anyone else) off the cuff; it's part of what I wrote about in my last book. So much of American politics among elites on the right is driven by a frustrated ambition, a sense of being denied respect. /2
https://twitter.com/jentaub/status/1722946093728575571I knew kids who protested, say, nuclear power 40+ years ago who now, in late middle age, probably agreed with leaders like Obama that maybe nuke plants are okay. So you can walk back your fun stories of getting maced at Seabrook and say, "yeah, maybe I was wrong."
https://twitter.com/esswoofie/status/1718028005476352316Of course the Soviets were pissed about NATO nukes around them, but that's not what Cuba was about. Cuba had more to do with internal Soviet politics. Khr was trying to reduce the size of the Soviet military; it was eating money K wanted to make good on other promises. /2
https://twitter.com/KoriSchake/status/1707854860312264760I've been pretty resolute about respecting the office, right down to referring to Trump properly as "the President" while he was in the Oval. But Milley is not required to pretend that nothing happened since 2018. I think he handled it right while in his last hours in uniform. /2
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1687269309934915584Some titles - governor, ambassador, certain military ranks, and yes, "professor" - are lifetime titles. "President" is not; a president is the "presiding officer" while he presides, which is why Senate Presidents are "mr/madam president" only while they hold the gavel. /2
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679258082302459904This leaves Russian forces not knowing what to do even if they *could* win on the ground in various areas (which they're not.) As we teach at US war colleges: operational victories do not automatically translate to strategic success, esp if you have no idea what your goals are./2
https://twitter.com/jhog667/status/1674589016354861056When I would travel in the old USSR, or even in the new Russia, if you ran into anyone from the United States, it was like family.
https://twitter.com/Dougtwit23/status/1667015956307267586Trump has been up to his eyeballs in crimey stuff since he was a young man. He's seen people do time. He's been around the mob. He is not deterrable; he is a sociopath and he doesn't see himself as subject to the rules by which others live. So, Nixon's pardon means nothing. /2
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1654864555078565888Not so long ago, America had one "president as a time" and only the holder of the title used it, as is proper for a "presiding" officer. It's why the Senate president is only president on the podium. Calling all former presidents "president" is a mistake. /2