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Mike Coté

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Mike Coté

@ratlpolicy

History/geopolitics/war. Words @NRO @Commentary @TheSpectator @ProvMagazine. Winning the psychopath Olympics @realcandaceo. Disinformation Tsar @tuckercarlson.

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Joined September 2017

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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Jun 5
Episode 40 of the Rational Policy Podcast is here! In this extremely free-wheeling conversation, we touch on some of the questions that caught our eye recently: Is the DNI useless? Is UFC at the White House bad? What will the long-term political impact of Covid be? Listen in 👇
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Oct 15, 2025
Wait. You're telling me that 26,000 Gazan kids were able to take high school exams on functioning laptops in the midst of a genocide? And dress in clean, well-cared-for clothes for a celebration video with fresh flowers just days after that genocide stopped? Gaza is amazing 😍
Eye on Palestine
@EyeonPalestine
Oct 14, 2025
A student in Gaza celebrates her achievement in the high school exams, after two years of war, displacement, and the absence of basic living conditions. It is noted that more than 26,000 students from Gaza took the high school exams this year.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Mar 8, 2025
We get sucked back into a major European war within 30 years, at a strongly disadvantageous position.
TaraBull
@TaraBull
Mar 7, 2025
Realistically, what happens to the US if we withdraw from NATO?
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Oct 5, 2025
As a historian who has spent a lot of time thinking, reading, & writing about the French Revolution, I find it both endlessly frustrating & somewhat humorous that the left in America doesn't seem to realize that the dudes running the guillotine were, in fact, the baddies.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Oct 4, 2025
A sizable portion of the left thinks this way. Be aware of this.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Feb 13, 2025
We could destroy Russia at sea with the fucking Coast Guard. Ukraine has decimated their entire Black Sea fleet with a bunch of remote control torpedoes. The Russian navy has been shit since the advent of the Romanovs. What in the world is Hegseth talking about?
P a u l ◉
@SkylineReport
Feb 13, 2025
Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, just announced in Brussels at a press conference that the U.S. isn't prepared to face Russia, particularly at sea. He claims it would take over seven years to build the necessary ships. What the actual fuck is he doing, broadcasting our
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Sep 7, 2024
And for the same exact reason.
Uri Kurlianchik
@VerminusM
Sep 7, 2024
Traveling through Rafah in 2024. Looks like Berlin in 1945.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Jul 16, 2025
There is almost nowhere on Earth that is less discriminatory than the United States. That's a longstanding fact. When will people realize that? When will the media stop promoting this obvious lie that the US is uniquely racist?
New York Post
@nypost
Jul 15, 2025
Black woman who left US for Russia to escape ‘discrimination’ is beaten by racist neighbors trib.al/pGGgtZi
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Oct 9, 2025
I was a huge skeptic of Kushner in 2017. I didn't think he belonged anywhere near government, especially foreign affairs. I was very wrong. He's already the most accomplished & effective American diplomat of the 21st century by a long shot.
The Persian Jewess
@persianjewess
Oct 9, 2025
Jared Kushner brokered both the Abraham Accords and the Gaza Peace Deal. Absolute legend.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Sep 30, 2025
For people who are supposedly trying to end a genocide, you sure are picky about how the genocide ends.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
May 20, 2025
Israel would beat Britain in a war. It's not 1956 anymore, David. Eighteen British citizens were murdered by Hamas on October 7. And you're siding with their killers. Shameful.
Open Source Intel
@Osint613
May 20, 2025
BREAKING 🔴 UK Foreign Minister David Lammy: “Israel's behavior must be stopped, and we tell it that further measures will be taken if it does not stop the Gaza war.”
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Apr 5, 2025
This is perhaps the most economically illiterate thing I've ever heard in my life.
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Jul 21, 2025
Man, there must've been a TON of oligarchs in rural China, then. Who knew?
inhumans of capitalism (Ojibwa )
@Inhumansoflate1
Jul 21, 2025
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
May 10, 2025
I've got real big news for you about Jesus. You may want to sit down.
Jvnior
@Jvnior
May 8, 2025
The new Pope is a Jew. Even his father is a Jew. Christianity is done.
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The claim that the Leo XIV is of Jewish descent is extremely speculative. No evidence supports that either he directly or his father or his last name's origin has Jewish roots. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2… usatoday.com/story/news/nat… houseofnames.com/prevost-family…
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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
Jun 29, 2025
All this tells me is that Mamdani's high school classmates were smarter than the average NYC Democrat primary voter.
Daniel Di Martino
@DanielDiMartino
Jun 29, 2025
Of course he did
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