The "Special Relationship" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The British ambassador to the U.S. resigns after his candid opinions on President Trump are leaked. Federal prosecutors intensify their investigation of a top Trump fundraiser. And a malicious conspiracy theory about a murdered DNC staffer was planted by Russian intelligence agents.

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply.
0:20.0	Check the Uber app. So do you want to know what I was most disappointed by when I saw Kim Derek's
0:27.0	leaked that's Sir Kim Derek's former. Why did he use words like inept and clumsy to describe
0:35.9	the president of the administration when there are so many better words like
0:38.8	British slang? Oh but there's like it's, It's classic British understatement.
0:44.8	They're just clumsy, which is to say they fall flat on their faces all the time.
0:49.6	Well, but hang on, we gotta give Kim Derek credit because that terminator rising from the...
0:56.0	It was a freaking great metaphor.
1:00.0	It really is.
1:01.0	It really is.
1:02.0	And I'm in the way we've never thought of it.
1:04.0	This is part of the long-running US- UK competition over which foreign service writes better cables.
1:10.0	You didn't know about this?
1:11.0	Is that true?
1:12.0	Oh, it's a thing.
1:12.8	Well, he's definitely a head.
1:14.1	Even if he didn't use the word pillic or muppet.
1:17.0	You have to read them in a British accent
1:18.7	to get the full effect of them.
1:20.4	Exactly.
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