Today is the day Trump became president
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Today is the day Trump became president
Hate that "Chicago or drug boat?" is where we are now.
...what is going on
Touchdoowwnn!
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New at Observing Japan: if Ishiba thought the LDP’s election post-mortem would save him, he was likely disappointed Tuesday by a report that, in the span of twelve pages, painted a picture of a party in crisis. (Free for all readers) open.substack.com/pub/observin...
(actually asking what the Caldwell lore is...)
Is he though? He just did like 2 months in the pentagon before getting fired
has colby given any statements to the press? seems like everything we know about what he's up to is a leak
excuse to taco
TL today is people saying "twitter breaks your brains get off of twitter why are you on twitter" while endlessly posting tweets
$17 trillion in investments because of tariffs. GRANDPA IS BACK
thanks!
TWO TAN SUITS?!?!?!?!
fwiw they're keeping their remarks as short as possible
boo
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
spacecomalabama thank you for your attenshun to this matter, probably
pasteurization is cancelling cultures
As president, I vow to relocate Space Command to the one location free from terrestrial politics
y'all have tables in your kitchens?
We need to discuss the possibility of limited nuclear war with China, but we need to start with the right questions. almauroni.substack.com/p/on-limited...
Did @deck.blue remove the option to use someone else's list as one of the columns? Is there an easy way to copy someone's list to make it my own?
we will do the being part of the shaping the strategic environment from Alabama
Department of D̶e̶f̶e̶n̶s̶e̶ WAR
Congrats on the new job title SoW Rock
About as real as renaming DoD
Trump signs an EO turning the Pentagon into a hexagon
so the thing is, there is an actual law, the 1949 amendment to the national security act of 1947, that says he can't do this congress can pass a law changing it, and the senate could ratify, and the president can sign. but this is not executive order stuff
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
High false positive = just do some additional tests High false negative = problem stays undiagnosed
Including the false negative rate in the article would be helpful.
On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col. Lawrence Cosgrave signed his name on the wrong line.
Pivot to Asia
rollcall.com/factbase/tru...
It's always like that
NPR in DC could play Swan Lake to really wind the conspiracists up if they wanted to.
[orders pizza and looks at the dominos pizza tracker] WHAT IS GOING ON IS IT HAPPENING
Those are just the locations of the security gates lol
*If
Of you look on google maps these are all places with security checkpoints so... 🤷♂️
okay but looking at his cap makes it clear that whatever "enhancing" you did adds things that aren't there to the image
mood
my cat likes to sit on the armrest of my desk chair and patiently waits for me to raise my arm off of it before jumping up on it but it also means she accidentally gets bonked on the head when I put my arm back on it.
Courts still matter.
I really didn't expect to be entering this period of declining autocrat a literal week later. But I think we're here now, a situation that may last for months
trump not writing his tweets isn't new but it's funny that now everyone's gonna think it happened
We gotta cook up a psyop about how the wicked vizier JD Vance poisoned the king to seize power and that's why it's vital all True Patriotic Americans stay home in protest on election day.
"British/American food isn't bland, we have food from immigrant cultures unlike you British/Americans who are all white" is basically this round of discourse?
Anyways can we go back to calling it the Asia Pacific? When we changed it to Indo-Pacific a bunch of think tankers insisted India was super important for the pivot strategery but their knowledge of India was just "India is a big country with lots of people"
RIP the Quad. It was over before it really became anything.
Today is August 32nd
Dispatch #3771 from NROL-129 (USAP) 1. Dense Energy 2. Plutonium Depository
For the n=1 case, there exists at least 1 "C" in C5ISRT. Assume that we have created an acronym with n "C"s: C(n)ISRT. This acronym describes a capability that either we or our adversaries must counter, requiring a C(n+1)ISRT to do so. Therefore, it's C∞ISRT. Turtles all the way down.
he knows the discourse about It
Incentive to pull out a flip phone to maybe kinda text and play snake vs today's smartphones
I've reviewed articles where I'm (somewhat) qualified to comment on its methodology and contribution to the lit, but it goes into technical stuff I am not qualified to comment on.
With the emphasis that this is a hot (and probably bad) take: how would you pick reviewers for something like this?
My hot take is that academic journals should not deal with tactics/doctrine/idk what this actually is.
[typhoon has entered the chat]
Right now it's just vibes but there has to be a way to systematically study it, right?
Would be very interested in a study that analyzes Trump's tweets to see if there are distinct patterns between stuff he writes and stuff he definitely did not write
Paul
Tawashi if you're in japan?
Umm...yeah need a stiffer brush
Fun fact: Waltz's definition of power includes domestic politics
Ken Waltz nailed this when he (basically) said "you know a great power when you see one"
Can't beat the kamikaze
Idk what's going on but it's very funny he's aware of the discourse
Dish brush
Fact check: One *does* simply guac in the mortar
Not the first time Rudy just shows up pagesix.com/2015/10/15/r...
this would be 100 times cooler if the rooms actually had furniture so you could spend time in them
wearing a jacket in august. very normal.
Tariff Otaku says fukoku kyōhei
made up %GDP numbers don't really matter if you can't recruit people
Peacekeeping Thermonuclear War —————————————————> ? <—- the human being —-> ?
induction ftw
Ed Snowden replied-all to a supervisor with an all-caps screed and was made to apologize to everyone on the email. His downloading of classified documents began the next day. The DNI comments that he cites as his reasons for action didn't happen until two weeks later.
huh
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
Skill issue
HE OPENED A CHICKEN AND FRIES PLACE IN A SHOPPING CENTER WITH A POPEYES, RAISING CANES, AND WINGSTOP
Not just A&I but SoC too
We should rename it the Department of Deterrence and then force everyone to read Schelling
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
#caturday
Grandpa put the phone down and go golf or something
ok subtweet but comparing Witkoff to Kissinger is insane
Because Witkoff has agency. He is responsible for his failures.
No you do not "gotta hand it to" this idiot or blame his staff
Why do we even pretend these people are serious about anything
That's a lot of words to say Witkoff is a clueless idiot whose only qualifications is being Trump's golf buddy
#caturday
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Was it Four Seasons Total Landscaping?
