Might just be me but feel like Nasser should’ve been here over Saddam

RDR2

My first time seeing this. Truman library dates it as 1951, during the Korean War. Dewey was still Governor of New York.

Harry you can’t be revealing state secrets like that

He didn’t, quite the opposite, in fact. Because this myth has only recently been punctured I think it’ll take some time before we get satisfying answers(with the caveat that, of course, this will all necessarily be speculative with no definitive answer).

This is definitely worth keeping in mind

Did not know ‘nukesky’ was a thing

“Fuck measles”

Yeah I have noticed increasingly that people will no longer talk about the possible upsides of tariffs but just that the downsides haven't been as catastrophic as people believed in April (because they've lowered the effective tariffs a ton since April)

They weren’t simpler times but they were less dumb

I like the tacit admission that even in this fake scenario he’s constructed the tariffs have failed to achieve their stated purpose. They’re not supposed to be ‘Unnoticeable’ they’re supposed to bolster domestic industries, with the promise of material benefits flowing from that

Man, I just knew something bad was brewing when anti vax shit started going mainstream during COVID

According to David Roll’s recent book FDR actually let Truman in on it, but as mentioned already, Truman was aware even before this because of his work on the Truman committee. He constructed a postwar myth of ignorance, perhaps to dramatize the tale further

I feel like if you’re a Republican not being able to make an anti union EO stick is the purest expression of a failed administration

Bro it’s so over

This is gonna be memed into oblivion

I feel like this has been one of the most constantly talked about things over the past several years

Need that mini FDR statue

This is pretty transparently a favor to the CA based companies.

Well if the track record on this is anything to go by, he’ll be divorced by 2030 or so, just in time for his own fox segment

The Paris Agreement is 10 years old today. Now, the documentary record of that groundbreaking accord is beginning to emerge, offering a window into how the U.S. agreed to such an “ambitious” climate deal. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

As soon as cameras started revealing people's casual cruelties in day-to-day interactions, the response was not 'we shouldn't do that in public' but rather 'you should have to accept that in public'. It failed in exactly the same way as 'an armed society is a polite society' failed.

So this format is just the future now I guess

This reminds me of the changes the Great Society made to medical services:

Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.

Lol

The bigger story is that they rebuffed him anyways

Enjoying it so far, will keep sharing excerpts

Harry obviously didn’t know the nuts and bolts of nuclear fission, but he absolutely knew shit was going down.

I believe this point has also been raised by D.M. Giangreco and am surprised more authors haven’t brought it up: Truman was chairman of the Senate committee tasked with scrutinizing defense appropriations. So the idea he was completely unaware of the manhattan project is, well, a bit absurd-

Ok since he’s going scorched earth on his own credibility, anybody remember this?

Party’s over

Another passage I like so far

Lmao dawg they’re cooked

Found this passage amusing

Bought this as soon as I could

The Cold War presented an opportunity for many weak and middling powers to have outsized importance, and this was absolutely capitalized on by savvy statesmen the world over. The most successful played both powers simultaneously.

Honestly had a lot more fun posting today than usual

This approach allows us to understand that the juntas and despots the world over were engaged in their own ideological struggles replete with their own cold warriors(many of whom viewed the us as too weak and liberal to carry the mantle of anticommunist leadership)

Sorry, best woke 2 can offer is a new sentence

There are people who sincerely believe the state is the greatest threat to individual liberty, and hey to their credit the state can encroach on the individual in a lot of ways! But so can the private sector, and one’s own community. In many cases, the state is the only thing standing between-

It absolutely does! Just about everything the ‘anti establishment’ people accused various institutions of doing Trump has done or attempted to do across both of his terms!

Sarcasmitron beat me to the punch here(Still my favorite video of his): “The result is a sort of reverse McCarthyism. If you dissent from their very narrow vision of how the world works, you’re accused of secretly being loyal to the United States”

Always fun when two worlds I’m enmeshed in(stand up comedy and geopolitics) collide like this

The Riyadh comedy festival discourse irritates me. None of the people talking about it seem to care that the US underwrites the Saudi state’s security, but will engage in moral outrage about Saudi Arabia in a way that doesn’t implicate the US.

Woke 2

These twenties are roaring, folks

This is the kind of stupid tweet that could’ve been posted ten years ago maybe the world is healing

Reaping and sowing but in a literal sense because they’re farmers