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Ron’s Boulevard of Broken Streams
Pod Save America
The Price You Pay for Being a Responsible Leader
Biden doesn't want the hostage to get shot and he's worried that if he goes out there and says something that pisses off Republicans, they'll shoot the hostage. And it is not necessarily a fair fight when you're up against hostage takers who don't give a shit. There's an asymmetry here because Republicans aren't worried about poison negotiations because they do not care about the outcome on people and Biden does. He is responsible, so he has to take on political baggage to try to avoid an absolutely disastrous fate for the entire world.
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