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When insults backfire

When insults backfire

That awkward moment when you give your opponent the best nickname ever

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Damian Penny
Mar 26, 2025
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I have nothing to say about Signalgate because (a) Daniel Drezner already said it better than I ever could; (b) no one is getting fired nor suffering any personal nor professional consequences for this; and, (c) we’ll all have forgotten about it by the end of the week after six or seven more scandals and screw-ups which would have ended anyone else’s political careers.

1,395 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes to go as of this writing, and I’m frantically tapping the screen to see if I can make it go faster.

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