SEOUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday he would move to lift a martial law declaration he had imposed just hours before, honoring a parliamentary vote against the measure. Yoon declared martial law on Tuesday to thwart “anti-state forces” among his opponents. But outraged lawmakers rejected the decree, as protesters gathered outside parliament in the country’s biggest political crisis in decades. Yoon’s surprise declaration, which he cast as aimed at his political foes, was unanimously voted down by 190 lawmakers in the parliament. Under South Korean law, the president must immediately lift martial law if parliament demands it by a majority vote. His own party urged him to lift the decree. The crisis in a country that has been a democracy since the 1980s, and is a U.S. ally and major Asian economy, caused international alarm.
Never really understood that. Like, yeah, I’d expect a politician to look tired, if they don’t are they even doing anything? Shit is a stressful job in a 21st century.
Politicians almost universally need to project a happy warrior demeanor.
Voters want candidates that at minimum pretend to be enthusiastic about their platform.
Biden was removed partly because, in addition to being confused, he looks like a very old and tired man.
Lack of energy is seen, often correctly, as weakness.
Winston Churchill isn’t lauded for saying “We’ll try to stop them at the beaches… sigh”