David Frum

David Frum @davidfrum

RT @KannoYoungs: "Yes, they should not come," Biden when asked about Harris's "do not come" warning to migrants from Central America consid… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Reuters: China rejected @WHO plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypoth… — PolitiTweet.org

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I know that crossing into the US from Canada. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HillelNeuer: This 1999 Economist cover showed Ahmad at a rally holding up a shirt splattered with the blood of a fellow protester. The… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HillelNeuer: When Iran's President Ahmadinejad was denying the Holocaust at the UN's 2009 Durban II conference in Geneva, I had the pri… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jaynordlinger: Today is Bob Dole's 98th birthday. When he lost the GOP nomination to George Bush in 1988, someone said, "There's always… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChadBown: Unprecedented investment - increasingly government subsidized - fuels fears the semiconductor industry will overshoot capacit… — PolitiTweet.org

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Great line by @CaitlinPacific https://t.co/2GqVOHXKCn https://t.co/gX3YQfAGLm — PolitiTweet.org

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"People in power today would much rather do something that seems to promote 'equity" than make an evidence-based choice ...." — PolitiTweet.org

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Too heavy for cars, but if the technology works as advertised it could store solar energy to an electrical grid for nighttime use — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PeteDominick: Goooooood Morning! today's @StandUpWithPete welcomes @davidfrum back to the show. We had a very enlightening chat and I t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KevinCate: Florida just reported 8,988 new cases of COVID-19 to the @CDCgov, the most daily cases reported by the state since February… — PolitiTweet.org

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I imagine those numbers are higher in July than they were in April. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a few months out of date, but may explain the Republican pivot of the past 48 hours: 2/3 of American woman - and 70% of white women - want to be vaccinated as soon as possible. https://t.co/AxGU3GoAFP https://t.co/jvAuUV5Hsg — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans must be seeing gates-of-hell COVID polling numbers among suburban women. — PolitiTweet.org

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One in five new COVID cases in the US is occurring in Florida. DeSantis signed executive orders to protect vaccine refusers. His fundraising letters attack public health officials like Dr. Fauci. He appears on Fox regularly to deny and minimize COVID risks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Mojo93256582 1) Not exactly and 2) The agent plainly had no idea/no interest if I were. — PolitiTweet.org

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But I won't forget. I don't know quite what to *do* with this remembrance. But the universe has invoiced me a little Karmic IOU. And it's on me to find a way to pay it back. END — PolitiTweet.org

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I said thank you afterward, but it was not enough. It was more thanks than he wanted, though. He waved it away, and pointed me to the cashier to pay my penalty. "Another marriage saved," he probably thought, "all in a day's work." He's probably already forgotten all about it. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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And not only that ... he was cheerful about saving the day. The preliminary (deserved) scolding lasted less than half a minute. Then - let's fix this Rubik's cube together. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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*He* cleaned it up. He figured out what I'd done wrong, devised a solution, saved me from driving two hours back to the country to do the work properly, imposed only a very moderate penalty ... and generally saved the day. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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And somehow this agent intuited all that. Maybe it was not *that* hard, the wifely stare was becoming rapidly baleful. But intuit he did. And suddenly this agent - who owed me nothing, had zero reason to do anything but his job as written in The Book - became my champion. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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My screw up was being revealed at a wicket with my wife standing right beside me. The same wife who had repeatedly asked me whether I was sure I had done the paperwork properly. And the same wife who was going to bear the brunt of the clean up effort if things went wrong. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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I didn't have any good excuse for my screw up. I just had not paid enough attention to what I was supposed to do. And now the hammer blow was about to fall. The consequences were not exactly existential, but they were going to be fiendishly inconvenient. And worst of all ... 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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I won't use names or identifying details, because I intuited the official bent some rules to help me out. I'll just say: I was facing a Canadian government agency, I required a particular form to be stamped, and I had screwed up the preconditions for getting the stamp. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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People sometimes use this platform to complain about negative personal experiences with services and officials. I'd like today to share a positive one about that most reviled category of person: a government bureaucrat. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinbaragona: Liz Cheney defends Pelosi booting Banks & Jordan from the 1/6 committee: "She rejected 2. One who may be a material wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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a dog in goggles. you didn't know you needed this photo, but you did. https://t.co/z8d8mYOGoy https://t.co/kWYZyjIT5B — PolitiTweet.org

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Dog testimonial: "It's a fantastic job, and it comes with all the dead-bird full body-rubs a dog could possibly want!" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Reuters: Pfizer/BioNTech strike South Africa COVID-19 manufacturing deal with Biovac https://t.co/idFP2ySeFA https://t.co/BeA9CAomQc — PolitiTweet.org