We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.
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Non-US news feels no obligation to walk on eggshells, and is much more blunt about the backdrop for all the US coverage being “a military and economic superpower is being run by a deranged imbecile, and this is scary for the rest of the world.”Non-US news feels no obligation to walk on eggshells, and is much more blunt about the backdrop for all the US coverage being “a military and economic superpower is being run by a deranged imbecile, and this is scary for the rest of the world.”
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This is ludicrous.This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.
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They made a peaceful and sensible deal.They made a peaceful and sensible deal. Trump ripped it up because Barack Obama’s name was on it.
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There was a lot of talk among civil society folks between Trump terms about “tyrant-proofing” the presidency, and basically none of those reforms happened.There was a lot of talk among civil society folks between Trump terms about “tyrant-proofing” the presidency, and basically none of those reforms happened. But it looks like Trump is having much more success at doing the opposite—“freedom-proofing” the country in ways that will be very hard to undo…