Let’s get this out of the way first: President Donald Trump didn’t actually say the words “red line.” In fact, he, his National Security Advisor, and his Secretary of State say so many different things that it can be hard to tell whether there are red lines, let alone where they are. In August 2012, …
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Friday Morning Open Thread: Well, *That* Was Timely…
Wednesday: Three presidents have used the 9/11 war authorization for 18 years, in 14 different countries, for more than three dozen different military actions. Trump is thinking about using it for war with Iran. Today, for the first time ever, the House repealed it. https://t.co/vr9V7HSMXD — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 19, 2019 Thursday night: …
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Excellent (Orlando-Alternative) Read: “The Man Who Was Upset”
Anyway it's both unhelpful and almost cruel to put Trump on TV at all like CBS is doing. His mind is thick chowder and he can't/won't tell the truth. We should all already know what he is by now, which is exactly what he appears to be. — David Roth (@david_j_roth) June 17, 2019 In …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Don’t You Think He Looks… Tired?
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) . New 2020 head-to-heads in national Quinnipiac poll just out: Biden 53%, Trump 40%Sanders 51%, Trump 42%Harris 49%, Trump 41%Warren 49%, Trump 42%Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42%Booker 47%, Trump 42% — Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 11, 2019 Ham sandwich 45%, Trump 43% — digidad – well that didn't work as planned (@jcl68nyr) …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: “Electability”
“Men selected as major-party nominees for president have failed to win the popular vote 50 percent of the time. Contrast that to the 100 percent of the time that a female nominee for president has won the popular vote.“ https://t.co/OahnJdf5kN — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 7, 2019 The Washington Post‘s Alexandra Petri is a …
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Late Night Clown Shoes Open Thread: To the… MARS, Alice!
We should tariff Mars until they give the moon back. https://t.co/ft5AoWYmIm — Benn Steil (@BennSteil) June 7, 2019 1) Windmills2) Self-driving cars3) Rule of law https://t.co/IFtf0CTGPP — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 7, 2019 They could have blamed it on jet lag (or TBH on having to behave like some approximation of a grown-up for …
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This Kind of Freaks Me Out
More info here: With May in the books, another third of the 2019 U.S. corn crop has yet to be planted, according to the latest USDA crop progress report, out Monday afternoon. “Today’s update from USDA came in on the lower side of estimates for corn and soybean planting, keeping both crops under the gun,” …