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Darline Graham’s spectacular national-security flub drew boos and ridicule. But in fairness to Graham, she admitted what Donald Trump never will. She knows what she doesn’t know. But iPINIONS argues that her humiliation also exposes a larger Trump pathology. The dumber and more sycophantic the people around him, the smarter and stronger he feels. Read… Read more.
Trump no longer lies merely to escape embarrassment. He rejects intelligence, excuses foreign adversaries, scapegoats Americans, and places his ego above national security. iPINIONS argues that his pathological mendacity is now a clear and present danger to the republic. Read the full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trumps-pathological-lying-is-a-clear Read more.
Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-muslim-ban-to-third-world-ban Read more.
Because Trump’s debasement of America in service of enriching himself knows no bounds. Just imagine the outrage if Obama accepted a luxury jet (even from a trusted ally like Britain) to replace American-made Air Force One. Let alone from Qatar. But Trump has shown time and again he couldn’t care less about national security. Hell,… Read more.
TikTok, the digital fentanyl In this age of social media, digital warfare is becoming as consequential as land warfare. This reality is underscored by a bill now barreling through Congress. Should it pass, it would compel the Chinese owners of TikTok to sell it to a buyer with no links to China or face an outright ban. Members… Read more.
Musk is helping Russia Elon Musk has reportedly denied Ukraine’s use of his Starlink internet access on several occasions. Billionaire Elon Musk reportedly restricted his Starlink internet access multiple times in Ukraine, which has affected Kyiv’s battlefield strategy. … Ukrainian authorities worried about over-dependence on a single source technology held talks with other satellite internet… Read more.
Yes, TikTok harvests your data. But social media like Facebook and even retailers like Whole Foods and Amazon do too. Banning TikTok? The difference, of course, is that the latter are US companies harvesting data to sell you stuff. Whereas the former is a Chinese company doing so to turn you against your own country.… Read more.
In what has to be the most ironic, and potentially implosive, development of his nascent presidency, Barack Obama is being dogged more by criticisms from liberals than from conservatives. Specifically, liberals are simmering with disillusionment over the fact that he has been systematically adopting many of Bush’s war-on-terror tactics, which they, and he, routinely condemned… Read more.
