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Can’t keep a secret?

The orange baby just blurted out the number of nuclear weapons possessed by North Korea. It’s fifty-seven, by the way. This seems more than a little off for several reasons:

• It seems like the number of weapons an extremely hostile nation has might be a secret worth keeping.
• How did we get this information? It’s not easy to get any information out of North Korea, the “Hermit Kingdom.” But the orange baby seems to be enamored of the murderous dictator of the place. Did he personally get this info in a phone call or something?
• In tossing off the number, the orange baby didn’t say a word about preventing or even slowing North Korea’s acquisition of more nukes. Meanwhile the baby started a whole disastrous war claiming the reason (among many reasons it tried on like sweaters) was preventing more nukes.

The Republican Party used to trumpet its dedication to fiscal conservatism and militaristic dominance. Maybe they once meant it, although I now doubt that. They’re now just a cult united by hypocrisy and lies. Maybe they always were.



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