Elim Garak

A plain and simple tailor telling stories. Which one are true?
All of them. Even the lies?
ESPECIALLY the lies.

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@3YearLetterman @coachbrucepearl @PearlJam

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Al Jazeera is now running the headline "The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working."

Prof. @MuhanadSeloom argues that despite what the skeptics are understandably worried about, "When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades."

He adds, perhaps to head off the naysayers who'll write him off as a "Zionist," "I have worked for the US Department of State and advised defence and intelligence agencies in multiple countries. I have no interest in cheerleading for war.

"But I have spent my academic career studying how states authorise the use of force through intelligence institutions, and what I see in the current campaign is a recognisable military operation proceeding through identifiable phases against an adversary whose capacity to project power is collapsing in real time."

Prof. Seloom is right. This is a well-planned war with clear objectives. And most of the people saying otherwise are confusing what's happening in 2026 with their desire to relitigate Iraq in 2003.

But more interesting than the professor's arguments is the simple fact that Al Jazeera now feels free to publish this sort of thing, that Qatar is tentatively dipping a toe into this new narrative.

In other words, that Qatar now calculates that the war might just succeed.

https://t.co/9e1sO7zrSy

[MEMRI @MEMRIReports]

Jordanian MP Hussein Al‑Omoush: There Are Hundreds of Millions of Arabs, We Can Afford to Lose Five or Ten Million to Gain What Is “Rightfully” Ours; Kuwaiti Journalist Muhammad Al‑Mulla: Arab Blood Is Cheap to You; You Can’t Liberate Palestine with Slogans, If You Want War, Go and Wage One Yourself

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@KonstantinKisin It certainly feels that way.
But those distusting people cheering now. What are the medias they were consuming to legitimately feel the world has been relieved of a great evil?

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Hitler, Musk, and the Art of the Smear
"As nonfiction authors of books about the Third Reich, and as cofounders of @AntisemitismOrg, a nonprofit that monitors anti-Jewish hate worldwide, we know real Nazi and fascist rhetoric and actions. There are plenty of fanatics who are nostalgic about Hitler. But in the far left arsenal of tools to resist Trump, claims about some Nazi-association are a preferred way of going on the offensive . . . . Those who disagree with Trump’s policies have every right to take him and his administration to task. However, the Nazi analogies feed a dangerous and false narrative. Moreover, their cavalier and inauthentic use denigrates the memory of those who died in the Holocaust from history’s real Nazis.
Stop it already. If not, the Democratic party might find itself alienating more voters who are looking for substantive policy differences and not the basest types of ad hominem attacks.”

The latest, a joint byline from @trishaposner and me
https://t.co/THZX60PQvu

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Labour's Grooming Gang U-Turn and What It Means

https://t.co/z9wyB940qX

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@AhmadMansour__ Ein gewisser Pyrrhus hat es schön formuliert: „Noch so ein Sieg, und wir sind verloren!

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@ericweinstein Would some great minds of the past pass the "peer-review" of their time?

I think your evalution of the Dems feels slightly incomplete. There is a cult-like component with profiteers, but also a lot involuntary members trapped in the local consensus (Hollywood bubble as ex.)

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@coldxman -attention seeking
-some boys pretending (to get laid later)
-ritualistic ingroup behaviour required by your political ideology
-mental illness
-parody

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@thevivafrei Viva, why not wait a few days until all votes are count? The consequences of what you are implying are severe, so would't it be best to have all facts?
It would be such a simple fix: ID

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@joeroganhq @realDonaldTrump Usually you let a new government work for at least 100 days

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@Doomer_Armus A plain and simple conversation.

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@curiosityonx Plan B

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@Sarah4Trump_ Is the new movie about her worth a watch?

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@BrotherRasheed @canarymission Who will tell this guy that the countless adaptions of this scene were not "false translations" of what happened in the German HQ that night ...

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@MOSSADil Operation "balls deep" succesfully penetrated hard and in a surprising move the Hezbollah security apparatus.
Operation "deepthroat" adresses the remaining high-pitched voices of concern.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

In case you missed it. Closing in on 30 million views!

[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@TheCriticalDri2

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

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[Elim Garak @ElimGarak18]

@lexfridman @realDonaldTrump POTUS is the head of state of all citizens. How will he genuinely reach out the to voters of the other party, if in office?