Robert Goulet as Quentin Hapsburg in Naked Gun 2 and 1/2
Quentin Hapsburg would’ve been in the Epstein Files
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Robert Goulet as Quentin Hapsburg in Naked Gun 2 and 1/2
Quentin Hapsburg would’ve been in the Epstein Files
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Separate but related: I once stopped reading a Colin Thubron book because he used the phrase “Biblical nemesis” to describe the destruction of a medieval Islamic city on the Silk Road.
I just thought, you’ve mangled together concepts from totally different cultures and not thought about the words.
People expend so much energy arguing over “Maduro: Good / Bad?” “Khamenei: Good / Bad?” Trump is right for attacking Iran, wrong for doing it, etc.
Yet Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of this. Everything always comes down to: 1) Does it make him money? 2) Does it make him the star of the show?
Why does this picture of the Finnish defence minister look like Vera just interrupted a make-or-break business meeting to tell him his wife is dead (who he murdered)?
05.03.2026 22:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What makes it worse is, two days later, saying that he’s hoping to talk to someone in the regime to cut a deal.
05.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.
05.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 3543 🔁 444 💬 26 📌 31I love the idea that Noem shows up to Doral, Florida on Saturday - and no one is there
05.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘Good news! You’re going to be Special Envoy for the *spins dial* Trebuchet of *throws dart at map* the Great Lakes’
05.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 48 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
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"Are you Markwayne Mullin?"
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ICYMI: How - with very little experience - I had to somehow negotiate a solution to a weird political crisis…
open.substack.com/pub/threehos...
It's cool how when you don't have a strategy, anything you do is strategic!
Helping Israel destroy the military of a Chinese ally: Grand Strategy, Much Pivot, Very Clausewitz.
Helping Ukraine destroy the military of a Chinese ally: Big Distraction, Waste of Munitions, Elbridge Colby Sadness.
Amazed to discover the extent to which the Trumps’ family wealth was due to gaming the New Deal.
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
05.03.2026 07:15 — 👍 16451 🔁 5775 💬 499 📌 484I’m actually most surprised by how hard Jon Favreau et al seem to be riding for Platner
04.03.2026 23:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The most important British character trait is whimsy.
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Poster for Terminator 2
Watching for the first time since I was, like, 4 or 5…
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Poster for Blue Moon (2025)
I want to say this is a really lovely film, but I’d say it’s more of a play.
Gorgeous, heartbreaking performance from Ethan Hawke. Feel there should be way more Oscar chatter about him. DiCaprio wishes he had that meaty a role in OBAA.
Churchill and Roosevelt were famously dour and ascetic who didn’t kick back at all during world conflagration…
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I wrote something awhile ago about political rhetoric becoming *for show* and people being incredulous that you actually take their words seriously.
Arguably spreading beyond politicians
open.substack.com/pub/strategy...
They didn't care about the Americans killed in the Benghazi attack, they saw those murdered Americans as props, as tools to be used for political attacks against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
So they have trouble grasping that some Americans really do care about US personnel killed abroad.
Reporter: “President Trump, any words about the six Americans that have been killed?"
Trump:
Fred preferred to announce his projects once he had everything lined up— the land, the financing, the zoning approvals-and was ready to begin selling apartments or houses. Attention in pursuit of sales. Donald would announce dreams and fantasies as if they were a certainty before he had lined up any-thing. Attention in pursuit of attention. Most often, the initial announcements came to nothing, But Donald Trump would get his headline and the glow of free publicity while building the impression he was everywhere. A day of reckoning, when reporters and the public might recognize that his announcements merely reflected the way he wanted things to be, rarely ever came.
Instructive…
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Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Now reading…
04.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also one has nuclear weapons and the other doesn’t. For Europeans to take out Russian assets would take things to a whole new level.
04.03.2026 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Matt and Bowen should’ve stuck to their guns…
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ICYMI: How - with very little experience - I had to somehow negotiate a solution to a weird political crisis…
open.substack.com/pub/threehos...
