The Trump administration has said details of a strike in Yemen shared with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg were sensitive but that nothing was classified.
These are absolutely adults. We need to get past the idea that “adults in the room” is a thing. Quite a few of our biggest businesses and public agencies are run by people exactly like this.
Then maybe we can stop with the Great Man Theory bullshit and start talking about re-democraticization to get the “adult toys” (high powered long range killing machines) out of the hands of fully matured drunks, ghouls, and sadist bigots.
Quite a few of our biggest businesses and public agencies are run by people exactly like this.
Exactly, there is always a throughline of “I make the rules here, why should I have to follow rules” because they erroneously think “being in charge” means no rules should apply to them. They literally don’t understand things like security or why it matters and literally think it doesn’t and shouldn’t apply to them.
These are absolutely adults. We need to get past the idea that “adults in the room” is a thing. Quite a few of our biggest businesses and public agencies are run by people exactly like this.
Then maybe we can stop with the Great Man Theory bullshit and start talking about re-democraticization to get the “adult toys” (high powered long range killing machines) out of the hands of fully matured drunks, ghouls, and sadist bigots.
Exactly, there is always a throughline of “I make the rules here, why should I have to follow rules” because they erroneously think “being in charge” means no rules should apply to them. They literally don’t understand things like security or why it matters and literally think it doesn’t and shouldn’t apply to them.
These are not clever people.