"They have always been right, and I was completely wrong. The realization of Dec 3 hit me like a hammer on my head. The same old men were fighting back the soldiers in front of the Assembly Hall, with facial expressions that seemed to say, 'I knew this was going to happen someday.'"

"I would meet many men, somewhat older than me, who went to college in the 1970s and 80s. They always displayed a mixture of hostility and fear that said, 'They (conservatives) would do anything for power.' I always thought this was a kind of PTSD, understandable but not necessarily true."

If the retort is, "they didn't revoke Japan's past apologies," the easy answer is: Not yet they didn't. We all saw how the LDP behaved when Ishiba tried to be honest about WWII. How is this distinction not just mental gymnastics to pretend that Japanese leaders don't believe in horrible things?

I'm old enough to remember the DC blob bitching and crying about how prohibiting the balloon launches from South Korea was how South Korean liberals were ruining democracy. There was even a Congressional hearing about it! Everyone involved in that episode needs to shut the fuck up forever.

Its more like saying, I know im a mediocre runner because I run maybe a 12 minute but I see all these people running a 20 minute mile and calling themselves champion runners and being paid for it.

To explain, that's what RFK Jr., Mark Sanford and Ryan Lizza are to one another.

The game plan is nothing if not transparent!

Just total failure by the group of people whose job is supposed to be knowing things, recognizing important moments and recommending the course of action. I'm not complaining they're saying things I disagree with. They are just not doing *anything*.