Some people say it's foolish to worry about soulless creatures overtaking the earth and devouring our brains. I say they've already won.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
Monday, January 6, 2020
The Drunken Tough Guy At The End of the Bar
Jon Chait notes how Donald Trump's foreign policy can basically be reduced to whatever the drunken bully at the end of the bar might rant while watching Fox News. It's the erosion of American moral authority - to the degree that existed - and being replaced with whatever the muttering asshole who couldn't find Iran on a map thinks we should do to "prove we're tough."
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