Richard
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Discussing Politics, Economics, Satire, US-Europe relations, Ireland, History. Chair Clinton Inst American Studies advisory board, President Glucksman Ireland House NYU advisory Board, former Irish diplomat and Heinz and S&P Global
Richard
My email is tedsmyth2@gmail.com
Thanks
Thank you New Yorker. Hopefully Hearst family donβt sell to Ellison for $10 billion or whatever UAE bosses will pay to curry favor with Trump
Hmmm. Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war
Trump is better at breaking the peace than peacemaking as he sets the Emirates off, encourages Putin to keep invading Ukraine and gets ready to start a war in Iran. I guess thats what happens when you rename D/Defense the D/War. FIFA shd give Trump the FIFA War Prize?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...
Hereβs a thought for James Comer.
There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And itβs not Hillary Clinton.
It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.
You know, just to see what she knows.
The great Ian McKellan on fire!
substack.com/@rawstory/no...
Frederick Douglas in black and white
Jack Hughes scores golden goal with shattered smile: βI looked on the ice and saw my teethβ www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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Essential viewing @nytimes.com Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Nicolaus Millsβ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience βa heightened sense of the govtβs capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he calledβvaluable and self supporting citizens
Many thanks for the great exchange!
Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trumpβs second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
And, in conclusionβ¦
#USDemocracy
βThey pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history.
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trumpβs Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only βgiving away a very small percentage of their revenue.β www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Low dose Bayer aspirin! Theyβre not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.
Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our countryβs security and future greatness βThey are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,β he said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Exactly right βThe only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones.
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People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.
Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.
The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship