The comedic value of Takaichi getting way far out on the plank because she believed Bridge Colby only to be kicked into the water by Trump is not being appreciated enough.

Dec 3 was one year anniversary of Yoon Suk-yeol's insurrection attempt. Among all the reaction pieces, I found this to be the best one - from Jan 10, 2025. "They Were Right, I Was Wrong." www.sisain.co.kr/news/article...

Serious question: If you agree that Takaichi and other Japanese politicians hold revisionist views of WWII, why is it false that they want to revive Imperial Japan's expansionism? Approving something means you want that something to happen.

www.economist.com/china/2025/1... Americans are fond of saying immigrants do the jobs that the native born does not want to do. But the real truth is: immigrants do the jobs that the native born are too stupid to do.

Who has made this 🤣

www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic... So the South Korean "civic group's" balloon launches were actually a covert mission by the South Korean military under Yoon Suk-yeol to instigate a North Korean attack. Because of course it was. Yoon was trying to manufacture a reason for martial law.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

80s: Japan is the future 90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture Now: oh, that WAS the future

Sometimes I genuinely cannot believe how its possible that I write better in my second language than supposedly professional writers write in their first, and I swear I do not mean this in a smug way.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Just saw "its giving wattpad" and that was perfect.

This whole day made a particular vulgar Korean phrase stuck in my head, so now you must know it too. 구멍 동서. No I'm not going to translate, that's what Google is for.

We should know less about each other.

Just gonna keep banging this drum until *someone* does *something*. South Korea and US just announced that Korea will be permitted to reprocess spent nuclear fuels. EXCUSE ME?? THIS ISNT NEWSWORTHY???? Are we just ok with nuclear proliferation now???????

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Actually, I don't think I stated this strongly enough. With the nuclear sub commitment, this is a big, big inflection moment for US-ROK alliance. The choices made at this moment will lead to dramatically divergent consequences in the next decade. And the Korea experts in DC have nothing to say.

I think this is good insight into cop brain bc no fucking way they knew what USIP was and had any opinions on it, they're just losers excited to "raid" something

Not too long ago, the DC blob was screaming bloody murder when the liberals in South Korea pushed for the wartime OPCON transfer. Now, with Trump admin fully backing it, the blob has nothing to say about it. Curious how that happens. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Jones winning in VA with a larger margin than Kamala Harris should be the biggest news here.

If you read TBR's newsletter this week, you would know what it means for South Korea to have nuclear submarines. It's not cooperation, it's alimony.

Jaydn Ott is our Boobie Miles isnt he. Terrible to see it.

Ok so, about that Harper's Gooner article. Overall a really great (and disturbing) read. But seems to me its conclusion is backwards. It says "Aren't we all a little bit like this on the internet?" And I just wanted to scream, NO WE'RE NOT

This is one of several books that live inside my head.

"Indigenous People's Day" is such a good example of how lefties fuck up. If they knew what they were doing, it would be called something like "Sequoia Day" or "Sitting Bull Day." Replace name with a name. Evoke an image. Instead we have this garbled mouthful.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-int... The New White Flight is white kids with mediocre grades attending state colleges in the South and the result is predictably hilarious and cringe.

Once again:

The reason this theory works is because most of our elites and leaders have no real views or opinions, but merely adopt those that they believe will earn them approval. And now they’re all seeking approval on the Internet, where everyone really is 12, or has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old

Lol my goodness. You can always assume the worst about Japan.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

bizarre framing for 'North Korea could have a future female leader' (it wouldn't even be the first autocracy to go from a male leader to a female leader - by a long shot). But in keeping from the general 'back away from the conversation with the lunatic in the pub' vibes of the Telegraph today

Seems like a good moment to re-up:

I usually lean toward Klein in a Klein v Coates debate but good lord Klein is not making it easy here.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Korea is a three year preview of the US because it teeters back and forth between advanced democracy and authoritarianism.

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

The advent of AI finally made people realize that rote memorization is foundational to critical thinking. It's the only way to learn *anything*.

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table" me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries chotiner: does your meal always come with fries me: ...yes chotiner: is there anyone else at the table me: chotiner: we can revisit this later

Lowkey hilarious that Korea hands in DC have nothing to say at this moment. Trump is obviously wrecking the alliance, but they are too chickenshit to come out and say it. They can't even go to their old standby of shitting on South Korean liberals because they don't want to be called coup mongers.

-Perkins Coie (+ other firm that didn't back down). -Harvard (after momentary false start) -"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.) -Local grand juries. -Govs like Pritzker and Newsom -WSJ and NYT, when sued. -Millions of protestors -Now Jimmy Kimmel. Our tapestry of resistance.

US is undergoing a bankruptcy of intelligence. It built a complex society that is beyond its members' capacity to understand, so they must break that society until it becomes simple enough for them to understand.

I swear I can't watch the news for more than five minutes at a time because I feel like I'm gonna go insane.

What a way to make the APEC summit in Korea next month awkward for the 🇺🇸 president.

South Korea denounces ‘shocking’ US treatment of detained workers www.ft.com/content/c71a...

Wonder how many people turned anti woke because of terribly made mandatory workplace conduct training video

Those Hyundai-LG Ensol workers who were caught in that big ICE raid are back in Korea, and really, it’s amazing to hear what they’re saying. “I’m back! Freedom!” Hard to express what a nightmare this has been for opinion of America. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

Political violence and must not be tolerated. We must be able to engage difference in opinion in a civil manner—as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame.

Hear me out though