Part of this is the problem of an imperial Presidency. There's no inherent reason that the President has to travel around in a 747 with motorcades and a military airlift of support personnel. The coequal branches get around just fine without this level of pomp and expense https://twitter.com/FrankenforIowa/status/1323031378183790593 …
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What if the Canadians mount a Kootenai invasion?
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They will be greeted as liberators
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It’s always amusing to me when some random European PM shows up to parliament by herself on a bike but the last time I saw Obama in SF he had 4 helicopters, 2 Osprey and a caravan of armored vehicles to whisk him from the Presidio to Pac Heights.
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There was a Colbert week last November where he went to New Zealand and the PM picked him up in her car at the airport and people wave hello to them at stop lights. That type of thing is probably at least as important as the islandness for why they were able to beat covid.
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“in case he decides to nuke someone that day”

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When Blair visited my university he nipped in through a back door (largely because there were students waiting to throw eggs at the front). When Clinton came there were actual snipers on the roof.
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And they all missed?
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Not sure I follow the logic. You're suggesting that the commander-in-chief not remain in contact with the military at all times? Was it a good thing that Dick Cheney hijacked the presidency on 9/11?
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He can carry a cell phone
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Can you see this for the MIC make-work boondoggle that it is?
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