David Frum

David Frum @davidfrum

RT @politico: The U.S. will ship an initial 60 million vaccine doses overseas within the next two months, its most specific commitment yet… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TarasKuzio: In tribute to the (few) brave Western journalists who ignored the potential threats from the Stalinist regime and photograp… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ilangoldenberg: This is an excellent explainer on the recent spate of diplomatic activity on the Middle East. https://t.co/uG0jylTzto — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WSJ: Breaking: Facebook was justified in banning Donald Trump, its oversight board ruled, but must now decide whether he is permanently… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StevenTDennis: "Real leadership is about telling the truth." https://t.co/gzb8UTwcph — PolitiTweet.org

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Where Mothers Day flowers come from, an inspiring story of globalization and open trade https://t.co/bMKs3DJBfF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexmassie: As you'd expect - because it's written by Helen - there is a lot of good stuff in this. https://t.co/3fls6Hw9st — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McCormackJohn: On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said Trump "bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters." https… — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, while we're on the topic of "endless wars," here's my case for avoiding one with China. https://t.co/zVWnVRHV32 — PolitiTweet.org

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You may notice two gaps: climate change and guns. That's because on those two issues I did not change my mind. Beginning about 2004 w climate and after 2013 w guns, I just spoke more publicly about views I'd previously advocated more privately within the conservative church. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also for those interested, I have a tab on my website called "Second Thoughts" where I post articles I have written over the years explaining how and why I changed my mind on some issues. https://t.co/3PaE0GmAfd 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yahoo News reports on my Twitter thread last night https://t.co/TrKRjfufrj https://t.co/fViqG0VHKW — PolitiTweet.org

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I posted this yesterday about China's impending demographic decline https://t.co/zVWnVRHV32 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bopinion: China's long-awaited demographic decline is finally here. Its population should peak within the next few years https://t.co/c… — PolitiTweet.org

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I've written much about the Bush years and will write more. I'm undertaking now a book about the whole period 1989-2021. I've felt I owed that. It's not a show or an act. Maybe that's why I so get on Carlson's nerves. END. — PolitiTweet.org

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Carlson's like a one-man TV special effect, a creation of market analysis of race-baiting as a segment within an ever more fragmented infotainment industry. He would just as happily host Jeopardy or do a cooking show with a Kardashian. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe that's the fascination of the Carlson TV persona. We all sense that if a Murdoch ordered him, he would say the opposite of everything he says now. Last year, he flipped from "COVID is real" to "COVID is fake." He could flip from anti-vax to pro-vax literally tomorrow. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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To Carlson, it's all just sounds and images on a box, to be spoken, then forgotten. Say one thing today, the opposite tomorrow. Urge a war on national television, then disavow it afterward as if it had nothing to do with you. It's cynical, but above all it's cowardly. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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What matters is *what you said at the time that your words could influence public action.* We all rethink, we all evolve. But even as we change, we carry our responsibility for our personal histories along with us. At least, I believe that. Not Carlson. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe Carlson authentically changed his mind about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Or maybe he was performing in 2009 and is performing again today. It doesn't matter. What does matter is this ... 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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I supported the wars too of course. But Carlson's support was way more outspoken, radical, disdainful, and - frankly - bloodthirsty. His radio broadcast description of Iraqis as "semiliterate primitive monkeys" resurfaced in 2018. https://t.co/ukmnIk7iRS There's a lot more. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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All this was during the period of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Carlson now proclaims his fierce opposition to both. But *when it mattered* - when his already influential voice could have made a difference to the national decision - he was a FEROCIOUS advocate of both wars. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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I've known Carlson for more than 20 years. We were colleagues at the Weekly Standard in the 1990s, I appeared fairly often on his MSNBC show in the 2000s. We were "Washington friends" - we had lunch, he came to parties at my house, etc. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Carlson has some abusive personal comments about me 2/3 of the way through this complicated excuse and justification for the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Anti-vax; pro-insurrection - quite a combo. As to the abuse, I'll say just this ... 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread, ICYMI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lrozen: “U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued that ruling in a withering opinion that accused Barr of being ‘disingenuou… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Reuters There must be plenty of inconspicuous ways to carry out an assassination of a diplomat in Tehran. So if persons unknown are throwing diplomats off buildings ... those persons unknown are making a statement they want the world to notice. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @allahpundit: make ‘em vote, liz. don’t quit. https://t.co/GyawNpbAGi — PolitiTweet.org

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@Reuters Another view of the building. Looks sturdy. https://t.co/bnL3VVjTty https://t.co/C5cKjyk2GY — PolitiTweet.org

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@Reuters Photo of the building in Tehran from which the first secretary of the Swiss embassy "fell" to her death. NB Switzerland is the protecting power that represents US interest in Iran. https://t.co/bnL3VVjTty https://t.co/PhCzjYHdpe — PolitiTweet.org