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kleinbl00  ·  2851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fuck! I can't even go to The Japan Times to escape news about Trump.

Cold War felt nothing like this. It was a bunch of diplomats on both sides being deadly serious, with neither side having much of a clue what the other side was up to. By way of comparison, we've now got a pretty obvious idea what everybody is up to, but our president is choosing to slag on Arnold Schwartzenegger during the National Prayer Breakfast.

The Cold War was just that - cold. Skullduggery and silence. This is positively despotic.