I have no particular water to carry for the Biden admin’s Middle East policy which was pretty bad, but for the record running hypothetical war games =/= a definite or even probable likelihood of actually doing something. Running war games is what the DoD is partly there for.
Ironically TFG is for once taking the global view
Melania: yes Donald, I know how long zee fuerking Vietnam War lasted, you keep telling me
I wonder if he has memorized those war durations and as his cognitive abilities collapse around them he will continue reciting them to anyone who happens to be passing
In general, the more obscure the question, the better.
“Why did the First World War break out” - 💤 go read a book
“What was happening in Mongolia on the day the FWW broke out” - huh 🤔
Imagine having to grade this as a piece of student work
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I’m not even clear what the angle is - presumably at some point if you appear to be biting the bait they’ll hit you up tor money or something.
Depressing though, as now I’m both more suspicious of out of the blue inquiries and less likely to respond to them.
I get the occasional email from an amateur historian reader asking some history question or other. Sometimes I can help them, sometimes not, but I’m usually happy to respond.
Recently however I’ve started to get some what appear to be AI-generated emails (this is on top of the ‘book club’ invites.)
Happy birthday Robert Smith. Wouldn’t call myself a huge The Cure fan but he enters my personal hall of fame for this response. youtu.be/S9LXN_ufL8M
Ah, the children of the night
Soon lol
Looking at my watch at 7:30pm and thinking sweet, in an hour and a half I can go to bed #middleagelife
Vanquishing your enemies, chasing them before you, robbing them of their wealth, seeing those dear to them bathed in tears?
SAVE time when crossing a river with a fox, a chicken and a bag of corn by taking the chicken and corn across first then not going back for the fox ,which will have run off by then anyway. T O'Neill, Glasgow
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The Minions were convicted at Nuremberg but escaped hanging because how do you make a noose work on that.
Wait till you think about the last time you held/will hold their hand to cross the street 😭
Is this winning?
This is plausible and there’s no direct evidence one way or the other.
MacArthur did a secret deal with FDR at their meeting in Honolulu in July 1944 that he would stay out of the presidential election campaign that year in return for being allowed the forces to invade the Philippines.
Sometimes I reflect that there was a final evening when I read to each of my children. I can even remember exactly which book it was in each case. It makes me very sad.
Even when a lawsuit is complete bullshit, it's still a tremendous amount of stress and expense. The process is the punishment. Kash will get his headlines. He'll force The Atlantic and its reporters to spend a horrendous amount of money. And then it'll get dismissed or dropped. That's the point.
For everyone laughing about how discovery will be "fun" should understand: 1) this suit will likely never make it that far; 2) when it's dismissed, The Atlantic will still be out hundreds of thousands of dollars; 3) like being charged by the FBI, you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Vaguely recall some story about a massacre which was later fact checked and found wanting?
The author appears to be earnest and well-meaning, but this article (which is really just one long anecdote) mainly shows that even with an enormous investment of time and patience it is still virtually impossible to get MAGA rural people to see what is staring them in the face.
Even then you have the gaping Dixiecrat problem. But the point is that I don’t ask politicians to explain the past to me, I ask them to inspire me about the future.
This is not true (the 1926 Democratic Party was even more of an ideological mess than it is today) but I get it, it’s a rhetorical move, not a history lesson.
