Brendan James

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Brendan James

@deep_beige

Cohost & producer @blowbackpod SEASON 6 out now. Show contact: [email protected]

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Brendan James
Brendan James@deep_beige·
@soonrightaway This list is just naming which directors styles’ the developers were already aping
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Lindsay Ballant
Lindsay Ballant@lindsayballant·
@deep_beige We’ve been re-listening to season one, and particularly the part about how Rumsfeld charmed the press with his quibs and one-liners really stuck with me all week this week
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Brendan James@deep_beige·
Just purely on style, watching Hegseth at these is one more sign of decline. Compare his overcooked pap—"our warfighters will rain hellfire upon the enemy etc etc"—with Rumsfeld, off the cuff, evilly quipping "We're not running out of targets, Afghanistan is." You'll never be him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Hegseth: "Some in the press just can't stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions. People look at the TV and they see banners, headlines -- I used to be in that business, I know everything is written intentionally. For example, a banner -- 'Mideast War Intensifies.' What should the banner read instead? How about, 'Iran increasingly desperate,' because they are. Or more fake news from CNN. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."

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Mark Ames@MarkAmesExiled·
So Caine knew he'd be accessory to Trump leading America & the world into disaster, and decided, "Rather than resign and try to stop it, I'll leak to friendly media how I heroically warned the president not to have me do the very thing I wound up doing." x.com/laraseligman/s…
Lara Seligman@laraseligman

Before the U.S. went to war, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump that an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. Trump went forward with the operation anyway. wsj.com/politics/natio…

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Brendan James
Brendan James@deep_beige·
@mattsutaaki Whatever its purpose, I never thought that this line was some kind of ridiculous word salad. It’s a pretty pithy formulation
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Matt@mattsutaaki·
@deep_beige deeply evil man, but we just do not get this kind of stuff anymore
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Brendan James@deep_beige·
In 2003, next to footage of the US bombing Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on TV that the footage was a kind of postmodern, subjective non-truth that was "not taking place." I don't think the Trump people have someone who can operate on this level
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Just Ken@YoungerPope·
@deep_beige I wish Congress had made it a part of his confirmation to hold him to his “pledge” to not drink as Secretary. Imagine how long he could have lasted
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Brendan James@deep_beige·
@AflaqGroyper Trying to imagine/forecast what the next could be. "I can't believe we're actually getting an honest-to-God WILLARD (2003) reunion. Holding out hope this shit will actually be good..."
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