Tinker Tailor Soldier Bitch 🇱🇧

China watching the US dealing with its first huge millenarian cult trying to destroy the country:

I really just can't get into the headspace of people who think:

1.) Jesus is coming back in the immediate future
2.) He's gonna give us a high five for making the bombs that blew up Bethlehem and give us a pony
3.) So better explode some more shit real good to expedite the process

Also harry is low key the most indefensible character

Pete is a skeeze but he has a stronger social conscience than most of the characters and he actually does his freakin job too

Pete Campbell’s best moment on the show is chewing out Harry Crane for thinking about money after the King assassination.

Woke Pete>>>

They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.

Israel wants to level Iran and Lebanon like it did Gaza.

I think we forget just how bad George W. Bush’s evangelicalism was and how evangelicals treated him as a deity (just like they do with Trump now)

I remember this. I am also picturing Chirac having to listen to some wacked out French Calvinists to explain this to him.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

It wasn’t a full turn but Election definitely hit harder after 2016. Matthew Broderick’s teacher is nursing a vendetta against a young woman for being a victim of sexual abuse by his friend and having ambitions!

I mostly venting at the Left here. I am just getting tired of the argument that the voters have no agency and you can’t blame them. We are very much in this mess because the voters knew what they were getting with Trump, liked it, and voted for him.

And if I have to hear, “Janet Mills is old.” Janet Mills doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo.

the problem is that the bluesky prog-leftist war nerd is in the position of the conservative intellectual, and the base are people whose knowledge of international affairs comes from the DSA international committee

with love to many of my mutuals, i don't really feel this "hip progressive national security revolution" thing is going to happen. because it has the same problem that conservative intellectuals have with their base -- who don't want to be all that intellectual

The average American voter is bad. I don’t know what else to tell you.

We are going to watch Maine primary voters most likely vote for a guy with a Nazi tattoo knowing full well what a Nazi tattoo means.

I think if you fell for Trump’s bullshit three times you deserve to get yelled at and ostracized. Sorry if this offends.

I think that particular discussion is missing there's at least 4 power centers in natsec lib land

- Bretts McGurk
- Right School People Who Know People On A Track
- marginally-right school people who are idiot briefcase carriers
- non-right school people who are competent and also have no power

a broader problem is this cuts both ways, Congress as an institution has gotten objectively stupider on natsec stuff on all sides the last 25 years

This argument really hits different when you live in the South. Sometimes the voters are wrong because the bad people in your state or congressional district outnumber the good people.

it's Kamala Harris' fault that me and my friends whine about how depressing it is to vote for a democrat

He did in April 2018

Real ones remember watching Doran and Smith categorically lose their minds when the Joint Plan of Action was signed in November 2013.

Mark Dubowitz and Cliff May are absolutely deranged and the FDD are a bunch of losers but if you want to see true derangement I would take a look at Mike Doran and Lee Smith. Is Doran still with the Hudson Institute?

*extremely @dicknixon.bsky.social voice* JESUS!

I honestly tonight Scooter Libby was dead

Jesus Mary and Joseph *takes a long drag on my cigarette* Scooter Libby…that is a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

Looks like Graham Platner’s stepbrother is an FDD Fellow.

Nope