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Crazy stuff presidents say: 4/25/72 tape of Oval Office conversation between Nixon and Kissinger.
NIXON: I still think we ought to take the dikes out now, will that drown people?
HK: About 200K people.
NIXON: No, no, no...I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that Henry?
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HK: That, I think would just be too much.
NIXON: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you? I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.
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Even if this was written chiefly for the benefit of Fox viewers and fellow revelers at Mar-o-Lago, it would earn distinction as one of the most insane, criminal, and monstrous threats publicly made by a US president.
....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
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Evangelical ministers from yesterday’s rally in Florida. reuters.com/article/us-usa-t…
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Thinking of Albert Camus, who died Jan 4, an unbeliever who cast his life squarely on the side of those who resist lies, torture, and injustice, and who never despaired of finding Christian allies in the struggle.
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Thinking of Albert Camus, who died Jan 4, an unbeliever who cast his life squarely on the side of those who resist lies, torture, and injustice, and who never despaired of finding Christian allies in the struggle.
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Reading his Letters to a German Friend (1943)—he writes with compassion for those who bought into a conception of national “greatness” built on disdain for the weak, a conception of heroism divorced from justice, and power absent from truth.
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Pilgrims, drawn by reports that the master had raised cows from the dead, came to the estate to pay him homage. “That was just one cow, one time,” he humbly explained. Nevertheless, he permitted them to touch his garment. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“At his resort in Florida, the president was told that Soleimani was going to be coming to Baghdad; senior officials felt he was taunting the United States by showing up in the Iraqi capital, implying that he could move around with impunity.”
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“Officials reminded Trump that after the Iranians mined ships, downed the U.S. drone...he hadn’t responded. Acting now, they said, would send a message: “The argument is, if you don’t ever respond to them, they think they can get by with anything,” one White House official said.”
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“Trump was also motivated to act by what he felt was negative coverage after his decision to call off the airstrike after Iran downed the surveillance drone...Trump was also frustrated that the details of his internal deliberations had leaked out and felt he looked weak...”
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“Trump also had history on his mind. The president has long fixated on Benghazi and the Obama administration’s response...and felt the response to this week’s attack on the embassy and the killing of an American would make him look stronger compared with his predecessor.”
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“When I went to jail, I lost my fear of death. I lost my fear of fear... I have been fighting [for justice and equality] since I was a teenager. I have nothing better to do with my time.” #KeepingHopeAlive @OrbisBooks ebony.com/black-history/icon…
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Charged to proclaim which of them loved him most, the master’s 3 eldest children said they loved him above all else: homeland, honor, life itself. But when the youngest said she simply loved him as a daughter should, she was banished from the estate. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Saints matter.
Reading @RobertEllsberg account in @GiveUsThisDayLP of St Telemachus, I wonder: will the Church now be another Telemachus stepping forth into the arena of Washington-Teheran gladiatorial combat, or will it be too afraid of the hissing crowd?
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At a dinner party the master asked his guests in turn to suggest which character from the Bible he most resembled. Some said Queen Esther, others King Ahab, Goliath, or even Pharaoh. “And what about the peasants,” he asked. “Who do they say I am?” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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