The best and the brightest

April 09, 2026 - 02:53 UTC

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He can just say he was talking about Trump.
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here is that case
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I just fuckin' noticed—if you drop the "pi" from "opinion" it spells Onion
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Wow, just like MAGA cultists: opinions don’t have to be connected to facts/reality!
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WSJEB is 🤡 show
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Is he high?
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I’m guessing the drugs are strong? Or Gerald hates the Pope…
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I don't know, the bulb's looking pretty dim.
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🤦🏽
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I went to pull the Richard Hanhania "blowback disproven" tweet 24 hours after the initial attacks only to find that he actually doubled down in the last week or so: all signs point to America never facing any reprocussions for misbehavior and benefitting from more bad people being dead.
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Like, absent the "and what about the dead innocent people, does that have any moral implications" the idea that the clear end result of this is no significant reprocussions for America doing this.
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Great thread. I'd never heard of this idiot before.
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Your best handle ever!
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Maybe he means us?
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🥴
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These idiots think there will be no consequences? The war is just beginning.
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Nice bit of propaganda bootlicking right there
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Uh
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Which step is delusion?

I don’t think he’s agreed to the plan he thinks he agreed to
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The two headlines above the NYT website fold yesterday were "is he going to commit genocide" and "What did Melania mean by wearing Ralph Lauren to the egg roll?"
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I love my children with all my heart and nothing could ever change that, but if they grow up to be the kinds of people who make a living writing fashion analysis of the first lady that would really, really put that to the test. And make me question every single one of my parenting decisions.
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The @nytimes.com failed themselves.
sad
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Maybe she lost her “I really don’t care, do you?” jacket.
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Ouch. I still subscribe, but...Jesus!
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Wow. Really capturing the evolving zeitgeist …
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Since then?
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Fcking assholes.
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o.0...

I'll take "people with no fucking understanding of how Iran functions for $500 thanks Alex"
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Chateauneuf du Popehat was right there!
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Ah, Gerard Baker. His opinions only get Worse
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Based on the reports of the US depletion of arms, our deficit, loss if allies and GOP Congress rolling over, he is describing the US
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/2 That was Gerard Baker stage one: denial.

This is stage two, anger
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/3 Gerard Baker stage three: bargaining
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He’s getting there.
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He's like if a stubbed toe could barely write
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I mean yeah, I wanted the US to fail
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How about we drop him on Iran if he’s so supportive?
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I love his optimism for a “mostly disarmed” Iran. Heck, we all know something wounded is perfectly harmless
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He’s not wrong. Nobody wants to cheer for an alleged violent child rapist
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Stage 3 bargaining will be: OK, we will agree to pay 200 million space bucks for every tanker that passes through the strait of Hormuz, but you have to agree to call it the strait of nohomo
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youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris
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Please define failure, Mr Baker
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Strangely, it's as if people recognize that "we can kill whoever we want, whenever we want without consequences and you can't stop us" is not a theory of geopolitics that is likely to lead to good places.
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Halberstam, too soon.
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At first I thought you were going after Maggie Haberman
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The rest of the blighted
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Oh, at first I thought that was by David Brooks
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to be fair the headline doesn't specify which regime
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I wish ours was mostly disarmed.
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Sometimes I’m delighted that I have no idea who these people are - means I need not concern myself with what they are saying.
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There is not a big enough font on mobile to express my LOL
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You, a fool, believe in future consequences to current actions.
Me, a genius, knows better.
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Someone check on Bret Stephens. Sadly, I’m sure he’s still huffing pure copium.
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How do these people get paid to do this
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Seems like the title is referring to the US under Trump.
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Cage match: Him and Bret Stephens.
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Gerard Baker v. TCW
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I’ll see your Bret Stephens and raise you one Marc Thiessen.
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It took Baker a few weeks to see the light, but eventually he got there.
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As long as no one lets them out of the cage at the end
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To be fair to Baker he at least has had the stages of grief as Mr. White has eloquently stated. Stephens doubled down today.
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and some bedbugs
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Only if we set the cage on fire
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I can't wait to find out how this strategic boondoggle I was really Obama's fault if you REALLY think about it
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Dumb and Dumber
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Gerard Baker: "I'm Fairly Optimistic About My Next Paycheck."
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Is he the WSJ equivalent of Bret Stephens?
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The Entire WSJ op-ed page is Bret Stephens.
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Which regime is he talking about?
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Gerry never fails
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NYT sucks part infinity
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Whoops WSJ not NYT my bad, but sure reads like the worst NYT punditry
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