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I want to clarify my repost - I don't think Trump thinks of it in these terms, but I think the substance of them doing what our enemies say, and their staff sharing those views, and actually betraying the country in practice, is correct.
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an organization the Truman administration strong-armed Europe into forming. But I suppose it's too much to ask that the President have the foggiest notion of history.
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Yesterday, Trump said that the EU was formed "in order to screw the United States, that's the purpose of it." But in point of fact, the EU is the successor organization to the European Coal & Steel Community,
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In this JD echoes the arguments of Charles Lindbergh, the craven isolationist who tried to keep us out of the Second World War, and one of the most shameful Americans.
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This is particularly vile - Vance is offended, offended, at the normal human affections he claims to so prize.
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At CPAC, Vance said that the US will now "only be friends with the nations that share the President's values." What values? All I see is a kind of malignant anti-virtue.
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Meanwhile, what is the Vice President up to? He's posting on Twitter claiming that the reason people don't like Trump's foreign policy...is because he "chooses his words carefully."
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The United States has now voted with Russia, Belarus, and North Korea against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.
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Dr. Fukuyama puts it very well.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...
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The swamp of shame in which Rubio is now sunk is so deep and putrid the stench will never come off.
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I have nothing against Russia or Russians; I love Russian culture; I want to be allies with Russia in the future - but not with this version of Russia, which attacks its neighbors to boost Putin's poll numbers and tosses opposition activists out of windows. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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One of the things the Trump administration has decided no longer fits their agenda is supporting democracy and human rights, including in strategic places where we are undermining enemy regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Mike Lee is another Senator who has fully abandoned his sense of prudential reason (which he did used to possess, or he at least seemed to). Utah is one of our most beautiful states; it's a shame they now have one of our worst Senators.
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Colombia has been an extremely close and cooperative American security partner for many years. Treating them in this way for a press stunt isn't merely undiplomatic, it's shortsighted and stupid.
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They even fired employees at Hanford. www.tricitiesbusinessnews.com/articles/rep...
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x.com/PattyMurray/...
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Friends from Washington who like to hike, this is how your government in DC regards you.
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No regard for the safety of Americans, no consideration of the public trust that is stewardship of our public lands. These people are without honor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/c...
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www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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I'm just going to quote this Twitter user who put it better than I could.
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Another friend of a friend: www.facebook.com/10740924/pos...
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Friend of a friend's experience: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Amazing that Ed Martin considers his staff's response "personally insulting and professionally unacceptable," that's exactly how I would describe he and his superiors' management.
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A complete subversion of Justice at its so-called Department, and absolutely craven posturing to try to justify the absurd and unprofessional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...
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For Rubio to have the utter gall to ask staff for "trust" and "patience" when he has abased himself to betray anything he ever stood for and is now stabbing them in the back, is absolutely vile. Marco Rubio is a disgrace to humanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
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From an affidavit detailing the chaos of USAID employees fleeing danger in Congo:
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Political retribution designed to punish anyone who resists authoritarianism:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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I think many would reasonably consider that bridge wholly burned; you'd never work for, respect, trust, or lift a finger to help that organization ever again. Only in this case, that organization burning its bridges is the United States government.
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If you had a long career with good performance, and then your employer one day simply turned on you and treated you like this - way beyond the normal sort of layoffs we all experience - how would you feel?
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They claim to be in favor of transparency, yet they've made in impossible for the government to even comply with FOIA requests. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...