David Frum

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It all seems like a fantasy drafted on paper by generals who don't want to get thrown out of windows ... repeated on TV by a leader isolated from reality by the lies he demands to be told. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The Ukrainian battlefields get muddy soon. Then it gets cold. Do the 300,000 reservists have mobility? Do they even have proper winter gear? 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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So now he's calling up a reserve army of 300,000: worse-trained, worse-equipped. How much can they accomplish against a Ukrainian force that is progressively better armed every passing month? 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The Putin mobilization speech seems pretty much vaporware. Eight months ago, Putin invaded Ukraine with his best-trained, best-equipped 175,000 troops. That army is now wrecked, its equipment depleted, maybe 50,000 killed, who knows how many maimed/wounded. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KyivIndependent: Pseudo-referendums announced by Russia's proxies in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts can "neither b… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jtbrowndallas Thank you, this is very kind — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @phoenix_agenda: Special second episode this week featured @davidfrum and @ikhide join us to discuss the Benin bronzes in the light of D… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Reuters: A U.S. Navy warship and a Canadian frigate made a routine transit through the Taiwan Strait, the militaries of both nations sa… — PolitiTweet.org

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They were pleased and proud that Eric almost correctly read his boarding pass, 10A.” “That’s an E, Eric. But so close. Good JOB!!” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: “A great country cannot be governed by juvenile memes from hate-filled message boards,” writes @davidfrum: https://t.co/0… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KhosroKalbasi: “Don’t let fear in, we are all together,” a young girl in wheelchair leads the chants at tonight’s protest in Iran. #Mah… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @postpolitics: McConnell-linked super PAC pulls out of Arizona Senate race https://t.co/qItlkSJzsN — PolitiTweet.org

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If only the nose had been vegan — PolitiTweet.org

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2022-2026 MATH!! — PolitiTweet.org

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1957-61 were peak years of baby boom in absolute numbers born. Those are the people who'll be turning 65 over the half-decade 2022-2027: 10,000 a day and rising. This is the great shaping fact of US labor market https://t.co/MO3xNazVaD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoshKraushaar: "The Martha’s Vineyard operation was especially nasty, because it was designed to make it difficult, if not impossible,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoshKraushaar: "Immigration statistics are quirky and confusing, but the bottom line is that the post-COVID United States is receiving… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: 4/ Benin City is the capital of its state. Its governor hopes a new museum, filled with its returned treasures, will eleva… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: 1/ In 1897, British soldiers looted what is now some of the most famous African art in the world. Many people argue that i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: Today in The Atlantic: Ron DeSantis is testing whether he can troll his way to the White House, @davidfrum writes. Plus, t… — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, for something completely different, I joined a podcast on Nigerian politics to discuss my article on the Benin bronzes. A dynamic exchange with three Nigerian-born political observers of diverging views — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, here's the long form, I hope you'll read https://t.co/MO3xNaznl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Where is the DeSantis speech urging business owners to look again at 65-plus Americans as a great resource? Or rolling out creative childcare ideas? Or joining drug rehab to workforce re-entry? Or endorsing freedom forces in Venezuela? Nope. Angry memes all the way down. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, every night, the Fox News prime time lineup tells Republican voters that the border-crossing is the product of an intentional plot by shadowy global masterminds. — PolitiTweet.org

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... not least that Remain in Mexico depended on cooperation with the Mexican government at the same time as Trump administration was worsening relations with Mexico. Trump did not address the underlying rules that induced would-be immigrants to try their luck as asylum seekers — PolitiTweet.org

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Would-be immigrants have been using the asylum system as a preferred point of entry for a decade. In December 2018, Trump applied a poultice to the problem with his "remain in Mexico" policy. But that was not an enduring solution for many reasons ... — PolitiTweet.org

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@tylercowen Join all that to multiple rounds of massive economic stimulus under Trump and Biden - and, poof, labor shortages especially in lower-wage job categories. — PolitiTweet.org

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Other drivers are the ravages of drugs and addiction on native-born workers, the inadequacy of childcare, and more mysterious factors that have reduced the work commitment of post-boomer cohorts. (See this interesting post by @tylercowen https://t.co/MJjGk6jvDl ) — PolitiTweet.org

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The peak years of the baby boom in the US were 1957-61, when as many as 4.3 million were born each year. That massive cohort is beginning to turn 65 this year. That's driver 1 of the US labor shortage of the 2020s ... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @conor64: .@davidfrum on Ron DeSantis (and Tucker Carlson): "Nobody who thinks this way about immigration is going to be able to do anyt… — PolitiTweet.org