Just move on from ongoing historical grievances, no biggie.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    His Twitter account has a lot of recent tweets about his interview (interviews?) with natsec guy and ex-general David Petraeus. When Petraeus was head of the CIA under Obama - Petraeus basically committed espionage. He was married but he gave his sidepiece super top secret stuff. It was no accident or oversight. He intentionally gave her lots of documents to have a look at. Why? I guess to show off and be a total alpha idiot. She was writing a biography about him called All In. The case went to trial but it went away after he paid a fine. You can't make this stuff up.

    Since Trump's 2016 win - I get constant reminders of how incurious most people are. The talking heads discussing the Gaza war on MSNBC and CNN are perfect examples. I started googling them and I quickly learned it's easiest to first check their Twitter account. On tv they might make all the right noises "After the war there needs to be a negotiated truce." But sometimes by just the third most recent tweet I can plainly see they are full of shit. They are acting not just like a pro-Israel account but a pro-IDF one.

    And it doesn't matter at all. It was a reminder to me that the average American (and people in many other countries too - Hello, Argentina) - look at politics like sports. The minor players on the field don't matter. Who cares what their names are? Who cares what the details are? All that matters is the score and that that their team is winning.