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Chris Jackson
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Lecturer of IR | Purveyor of all things mediocre | Card-carrying member of the Goalkeepers Union

https://cmjcksn.wordpress.com
If you ever feel useless just remember that a “visit Ohio!” Page exists on Instagram
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Big day for the Muslims for Trump crowd!
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ridiculous. Everyone knows Iraq wasn’t successful because it was too woke
Past failures should remind Americans of how catastrophic the consequences of hubris can be—both on an individual human scale and a national one, writes Ellen Knickmeyer.
American-Led Regime Change Is Usually Disastrous
The arrogance that led to Iraq now threatens catastrophe in Venezuela.
foreignpolicy.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
More proof that Kamala Harris’ remit as VP was to control the weather
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Larry Summers to join the Harvard Institute of Politics
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Inglorious Pasters
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When my wife says she wants to do a trip from Croatia through Slovenia through Austria to Switzerland this summer and now I get to finally start talking ad nauseam about the collapse of the Habsburg Empire at home
a man in a white shirt and tie with his mouth open
ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie with his mouth open
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh thank god, I thought the guy throwing up Sieg Heils in the Capitol whose ai bot denies the Holocaust would’ve unfairly made the list
Absolute insanity…dangerous too.
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I was assigned to write an essay on value chain integration in post communist states and instead just submitted the lyrics to Foxy Shazam’s Oh Lord and received a 0. This is clear religious discrimination
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reviewing teaching evaluations for a 3 year review and man, these things are absolute comedy…
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Finally I can reintroduce my civilizational fault lines map quiz back into my class!
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Finally I can reintroduce my civilizational fault lines map quiz back into my class!
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Bodega Bay could’ve had a nuclear power plant but the woke environmentalist alarmist mob took that away from you because they thought putting a nuclear reactor right on top of the San Andreas fault line could be dangerous
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This will be VERY different than regime change in Iraq because that was woke
Breaking news: Donald Trump has said that Venezuela’s airspace should be considered closed, after a military build-up by US forces in the region on.ft.com/489mnfV
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Out of office
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Finally an administration focused on kitchen table issues!
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Big day for the “I’m voting for Trump to end American imperialism!” crowd
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
And I shall be there!
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
El Gasico
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM