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    No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

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    Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

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    Mar 25, 2026
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    I mean, you don't really need a translator

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    Apr 4, 2026
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    This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
    Or wasn't, until now.

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    Sep 15, 2025
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    Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

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    Jan 8, 2026
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    Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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    Jun 11, 2025
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    None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

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    The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections.

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    Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

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    Mar 1, 2026
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    The Trumper obsession with Harvard is a cringe-inducing drama around status envy.

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    May 22, 2025
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    You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

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    Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
    I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.

    (Gifted.)

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    Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest:

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    If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order.

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    The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?

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    In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas."
    Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.

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    The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

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    Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

    The queen of all vices: Pride.

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    We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down.

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    As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it.

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