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Why all the smears against Jeffrey Goldberg? In the opinion of the current Director of National Intelligence, the actions of the hackers Edward Snowden (now resident in Russia) and Julian Assange were just fine and dandy. (It appears that for the Musk/trump regime and Fox News, anti-Semitism is only bad on college campuses.)

Will Saletan's piece should be required reading for everyone at all concerned about trump's destruction of rules-based international order America fought for in WW II.

Nate Silver, if you're listening: Please post your thoughts about the "cards-based" foreign policy game trump is playing. How's he doing?

Jim Swift: How about getting Saletan and Silver together on a Bulwark pod? I mean, seriously. It would probably be a very interesting conversation.

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For all his talk about cards, Trump is a remarkably bad player. Not that he'd improve if anyone dared to try giving him tips.

Where I see him and his appointees is not at a poker table. Instead, they're incarnated as Harry Lime in the Ferris wheel sequence from _The Third Man_, looking down at the people below, calling them "dots," and wondering how much money there'll be for each dot that stops moving. No one in the administration has Orson Welles's flair, and that's a lonely stroke of luck.

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It's got nothing to do with Goldberg himself and everything to do with the fact he exposed their incompetence and criminality. The biggest enemy of an authoritarian regime is the truth.

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