@JimJamitis@JonahDispatch "The things people say are not meant to be measured on the scale of truth. They are only the signs by which one indicates which team one belongs to, like the identification ‘friend-or-foe’ signals that warplanes emit" --Herbert Stein (on Sunday talk shows)
Trump is setting his tough guy image on fire and turning into some worse version of Obama on foreign policy, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why.
Just absolutely senseless.
It's bizarre and inappropriate the that president of the United States is taking calls from multiple journalists in the middle of ongoing strikes - thinking out loud about US/allied diplomatic and military responses, and telling reporters what he's going to tell allies before he tells those allies.
No criticism of the reporters -- they're doing their jobs. But insane that POTUS receives -- and often answers --a wave of calls from journalists as events unfold in the middle of his wartime decisionmaking (and, yes, it's a war).
And it's even more disturbing coming as it does from a leader featured in a morning broadcast interview that demonstrates in such striking fashion how detached he is from day-to-day reality.
Ok I hate the “stolen election” stuff from the president BUT why keep asking him? It’s not exactly news that he thinks it’s stolen. The question seems performative, merely to elicit the reaction he delivered
@hanszeiger@thedispatch Got a note from my dad on this last night. Apparently he visited Puyallup a few times when he was stationed at Ft. Lewis. Went to see the daffodils.
"He now has the playoff record for points scored for Las Vegas" strikes me as a funny thing to say. It may actually be a high number, but without more context it's rather funny.
We told Russia they couldn’t have Starbucks and they really said, “okay—now we own it, and we call it “Stars coffee”.
Same great taste, no American demands met. 😂
They did this for virtually every brand that got sanctioned btw. Just made it their own.
I was envious when I learned that Hiberno English has a habitual tense; "I do be going to the pub". And now I want a preposterous preposition in the worst way.