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The New York Times's David Sanger sanewashes Trump's impeachably insane Easter threat against Iran as "unusually vivid"

If you want to see some weapons grade (pun not intended but I will leave it) sane washing this interview on the "moderate" bulwark network had my jaw on the floor.

There is something creepy about the calm, smart and sane (sounding) people talking about US foreign policy as if it isn't outrageous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5gSYQv7jFg&

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Dan Piponi

@futurebird In science you know you have a problem when whatever state of affairs you see you can always come up with an explanation. The classic is the use of epicycles to keep patching a broken model of the solar system.

It's the same here. If a pundit or expert is able to keep giving a sane looking story no matter how bizarre the observations then you know their punditry or expertise is broken - and it probably was long before the bizarreness started.