As per #DavidFrum

« #Musk thwarted what might have been a decisive #MilitaryOperation to shorten the #Russian #war against #Ukraine, save who knows how many lives, and put an end to the Russian food blockade of poor countries in #Africa and #Asia. All while a #US government contractor. »

#ElonMuskIsARussianAsset
#NationalizeStarlink #WarCrime

While the ex-Chief Moron gets all the attention with his outrage engine, carrot head and has-been fame, the guys with 400,000 deaths in Iraq (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et.al.) still enjoy their privileged status of “kind-of-mellow” hawks. I guess it pays for Bush Jr. to play dumb and stupid and conservative.

Of course, the right wing press keeps building the “dumb but nice-y” Bush Jr. Now they even get help from #theatlantic and #davidfrum Nauseating.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/29/iraq-war-atlantic-david-frum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

@DavidCorn David, please tell your chum #DavidFrum to join the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon !

The Architects of the #IraqWar: Where Are They Now? They’re all doing great, thanks for asking. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/15/iraq-war-where-are-they-now/

#GeorgeWBush
#DickCheney
#DonaldRumsfeld
#ColinPowell
#JohnBolton
#CondoleezzaRice
#DavidFrum
#DavidBrooks
#JeffreyGoldberg
#JudithMiller
#JoeBiden

“Party of Trolls.” REPUBLICANS NEED TO STOP BEING JERKS
Obnoxiousness isn’t a long-term political strategy. -By #DavidFrum #Republican #Republicans #GOP #Troll #Trolls https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/republican-midterm-election-performance-trump-dr-oz/672771/

#DavidFrum in the #Atlantic impressively analyses how #Zelensky urges the people in the #US to believe in themselves, because #Ukraine does. That same call goes out to #Germany as well. Do we hear it? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

Brilliant writing by #DavidFrum in #TheAtlantic. I am near tears

Zelensky Recalled Us to Ourselves - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

#Ukraine #Zelenski #USPolitics

Brilliant writing by #DavidFrum in #TheAtlantic. I am near tears

Zelensky Recalled Us to Ourselves - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

#Ukraine #Zelenski #USPolitics

TheAtlantic—#Zelensky Recalled Us to #Ourselves

He came to thank the U.S. for supporting #Ukraine. It is Americans who should thank him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ #DavidFrum

TheAtlantic—#Zelensky Recalled Us to Ourselves
He came to thank the U.S. for supporting Ukraine. It is Americans who should thank him. He came to thank the U.S. for supporting #Ukraine. It is #Americans who should thank him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/
#DavidFrum

//“So much in the world depends on you.”
Of all the many moving words in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, those eight may have been the most urgent and important.// [HT #DavidFrum] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

//“So much in the world depends on you.”
Of all the many moving words in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, those eight may have been the most urgent and important.// [HT #DavidFrum] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

//Zelensky came to Washington to speak for his nation. He came to Washington to ask for assistance. But above all, he came to Washington to recall Americans to themselves. He came to say, My embattled people believe in you. Embedded in his words of trust was a challenge: If we believe in you, perhaps you can again believe in yourselves?// - #DavidFrum https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

//Zelensky came to Washington to speak for his nation. He came to Washington to ask for assistance. But above all, he came to Washington to recall Americans to themselves. He came to say, My embattled people believe in you. Embedded in his words of trust was a challenge: If we believe in you, perhaps you can again believe in yourselves?// - #DavidFrum https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/volodymyr-zelensky-us-congress-address-ukraine/672546/

#DavidFrum was a speechwriter for George W Bush.
Now he's a respected journalist.

#MattTaibbi was a respected journalist.
Now he's a publicist for Elon Musk.

Curious symmetry there.

"Meanwhile, the person who gets the palaces, the bowing and scraping, the bands and the guards, gets nothing else. The British monarch is both the head of state and that state’s most closely watched prisoner, forbidden to say or do anything remotely human, let alone political."

#DavidFrum

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/queen-elizabeth-death-trump-british-monarchy/671386/

#WestminsterSystem
#ukpol #canpol
#constitutional #monarchy

"Before 1965, women tended to judge potential mates in much the same way that a steel company might assess a new blast furnace: Will it throw off sufficient income to justify the trouble of acquiring and maintaining it?"

#DavidFrum , in "How We Got Here: The 70's The Decade that Brought You Modern Life — For Better or For Worse"

#marriage #romance

FWIW, I read a claim today that attendance at #ResidentialSchools was voluntary until 1920.

I will have to look into this further for confirmation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/defense-canada-prime-minister-john-macdonald/619236/

#SirJohnAMacdonald
#canpol
#DavidFrum #TheAtlantic

"As America ceases to be majority non-Latino white, it is generating new kinds of cross-ethnic political coalitions and competition. The backward-looking Trump profited from that change, but never understood it and could never effectively use it. A new generation of conservative politicians can and will. DeSantis is already leading the way."

#DavidFrum

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/what-ron-desantis-knows/618673/

#uspol #flpol #RonDeSantis
#TheAtlantic

Not being an economist, my views on the merits of #FiscalStimulus generally or specifically should be treated sceptically. Even so...

I read an essay by #DavidFrum once in which he claimed that government spending could be fast, cost-effective or useful: pick two. That is, a government can build something useful at a good price, but not quickly; it can rapidly build something useful, but not at a good price; it can build something quickly and cheaply, but it won't be particularly useful.