“The World is a Very Dangerous Place!” Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Paul Manafort heads to sentencing amid revelations that he has lied to the special counsel, cooperated with Trump’s legal team, and may have met with Julian Assange. The president stands by Saudi Arabia and its crown prince whom the CIA says ordered the murder of a journalist. And President Trump heads off to meet with world leaders at the G20 Summit.
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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. |
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| 0:20.0 | Alright so quick poll. how many exclamation points is too many to use in a |
| 0:26.2 | presidential statement one is too many an exclamation mark has no business |
| 0:30.9 | being in a presidential statement go for America first has no I think maybe there's a role. Maybe. |
| 0:43.0 | But it's better than all caps. |
| 0:44.7 | I just spent for Susan in my book a long time researching the history of presidential |
| 0:50.7 | speech, which is a really interesting subject and I want to say |
| 0:54.5 | excessive punctuation in general has no place in presidential speech that's my |
| 1:00.5 | pronunciation like too many periods is a bad thing too? Like don't try to do |
| 1:05.5 | through punctuation what you can't do through quality argumentation and dignity and |
| 1:12.2 | when you are lacking in those things. |
| 1:15.0 | Go for the exclamation point. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, I mean, so maybe an exclamation point is sort of the poor man's speech writer, guess but if you think about other forms of |
| 1:26.1 | punctuation I mean Abraham Lincoln was big on the comma right lots and lots and |
| 1:29.9 | lots of common clauses is are we gonna get through this entire administration without the first |
| 1:34.9 | emoji in a presidential statement? |
| 1:37.0 | Oh. |
| 1:38.0 | Well, we've already had the first made up word, Kofefe. |
| 1:42.0 | That was a tweet. |
| 1:44.0 | But, okay, but has he ever used an emoji in a tweet? |
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