- Poor Caitlin. There must be a name for the malady which often manifests as the "Three four five or six dimensional chess plea":

When the morons tell you that it will all be understandable in the long term and the problem is actually your perception. That their hero or heroine might appear to be doing exactly the same shit as their opponent did...but there is doubtless behind it a cunning masterplan that lowly earthlings just aren't privy to:

Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
3h
Already getting Trumpers all over my replies telling me hawkish inclinations I'm seeing from the incoming administration aren't what they look like. They did this throughout his entire first term. Four fucking years of morons telling me the insane acts of warmongering I was witnessing were actually fine and good, or even brilliant strategic maneuvers against the deep state warmongers. Really not looking forward to another four years of this shit.