So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
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You just joined the military that was a promise but now most of that is gone are diminished. So does trump disrespect the troops absolutely and do our Mainstream Media and politicians from both corporate parties also disrespect the troops our salute come to you from washington d. C. The belly the beast is redacted tonight. Welcome only can mehlis take the news from behind youll be happy to hear that americas most expensive military mistake the f. 35 fighter jet is still of too big to fail theyve been building it for decades at a cost of over a trillion 1. 00 and oh wait. Im sorry those those are my notes on joe bidens face but they have 35 is now much different as was written this week in the edgy communist zene Bloomberg News well the pentagons official line is that after years of difficulties the f. 35. 00 is meeting High Expectations skeptics both outside and within the military say its turning out to be a 2 decades in the making trillion dollar mistake oh its so only a trillion dol