Okay, I can't resist -- the whole oped is TOO GOOD.
Weird that Friedman is on such a streak lately...🤔 😎
Free, so read it.
@InUnfunky tell them the shoes come pre-licked
Friedman has nailed it again. His clarity, depth of knowledge & sardonic humor are what journalism used to be.
It’s like a breath of air in a room filled with tear gas.
Great quote from TL
I’ve never seen so many people in one party behave with so little respect for themselves or the nation’s interests at one time.
I am afraid of what this future holds, my fellow Americans, because Trump is a fake, Lindsey Graham is a fake and the G.O.P. has become a cult with no coherent platform other than what side of the bed Trump woke up on, meaning it’s a fake. None of them will fight for anything any longer — other than staying in Trump’s good graces by saying whatever he tells them to say.
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They are all trapped in a performative doom loop that has nothing to do with acting on our real interests. It’s only about performing for Trump and for his base to get more clicks, to get more donations, to get more votes, to get elected and then perform again for more clicks. Rinse and repeat — the actual world be damned.
It is all fake. Only our enemies are not fake.
TL is the BOSS
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The thing I find amazing is that, like everything with AssNEck, it's the illusion of power, wealth and influence that he wields rather than the reality.
Reality is not his friend: A liar who's not a billionaire, a 91 x indicted felon, owes a half a billion dollars due to fraud and rape and slander, been charged with insurrection and treason, he supports a mass murderer (Putin) over allies who've contributed billiions over decades to NATO for security.
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But the fear him, because the fear his equally, if not more so blinkered cult who he dog-whistles to be aggressive, threaten violence in the name of "patriotism".
So the think is: Is he stopped in the election in November or does the United States cease to exist in its present form.
It's that simple:
It's either Trump or this country and all that make it what it is, including its history and traditions.
IS he stopped, before he begins to open camps for non-MAGA?
Yikes, I should proof or get new glasses.
Remind me again…which candidate with 91 felony counts was shit-talking NATO, flirting with leaving said alliance? Weird!