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@deon-botl.bsky.social

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David Petraeus used to contrast the "Baghdad clock," meaning the Iraq War as it existed on the ground, with the "Washington clock," meaning the diminishing congressional tolerance for the war. Trump's narrative efforts target what we might call the Wall Street clock, to forestall the market panic that would be a rational reaction to the extended closure of one of the world's most important energy and commercial waterways.
Cover of the book They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
Image in comic book style describing Philosopher Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance
James Bootlicker Comer