Politics Thread

President Joe Biden is failing in every single category.
-Lost Afghanistan
-Has not “shut down” the virus
-Missed his vaccination target, and it’s not just southern white rubes. Blacks have the lowest rate of any ethnic group
-Huge Inflation
-Being disrespected by our Allies and called out by the British Parliament
-Lost the US energy independence and begging OPEC to pump more oil and giving Russia a pipeline while cancelling our own Keystone pipeline.
-The Texas Border has “Kids in Cages” and they have been in there for weeks. It’s a human tragedy and the Supreme Court has reinstated the “Stay in Mexico” Policy from Trump.
-Has lost his lousy attempt at keeping a rent payment delay in place. The Supreme Court rules.

This Administration has done zero “good things” despite what Paul would like to tell you. He sure has been awfully silent lately.
I guess he forgets that “Democracy Dies in Darkness”.

Sometimes I just don't know what you guys expect or read.
We poured billions and billions into training the Afghan army, creating and supporting their government...to fight the Taliban.
So the last president signs a deal with the Taliban, without the Afghan government in the negotiations, to turn over the country to their control this year.
Leaving 2,500 troops there.

So, you're the Afghan army, and government, and the US has just struck a deal with the people you have been fighting, to turn the country over to them, to essentially surrender your country to their control.

And now you're surprised that things are going south? You're surprised that the Afghan army laid down to the Taliban who we negotiated to take the country.
You're surprised that the Afghan president took a couple hundred million dollars and fled the country? Or that people there have been siphoning off our aid for years to private accounts?

Biden's trying to end a terrible 20 year involvement. Could he have done better? Maybe. I'll admit I'm not smart enough to know.
And for sure the blabbering heads on TV aren't either.

I’m still waiting for the blabbering heads on TV to bring out the “experts” to discuss how mentally unfit Biden is for being President. CNN and MSNBC paraded them out to talk about Trump’s mental state. Now? Crickets.


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Originally Posted by paulxu

Sometimes I just don't know what you guys expect or read.
We poured billions and billions into training the Afghan army, creating and supporting their government...to fight the Taliban.
So the last president signs a deal with the Taliban, without the Afghan government in the negotiations, to turn over the country to their control this year.
Leaving 2,500 troops there.

So, you're the Afghan army, and government, and the US has just struck a deal with the people you have been fighting, to turn the country over to them, to essentially surrender your country to their control.

And now you're surprised that things are going south? You're surprised that the Afghan army laid down to the Taliban who we negotiated to take the country.
You're surprised that the Afghan president took a couple hundred million dollars and fled the country? Or that people there have been siphoning off our aid for years to private accounts?

Biden's trying to end a terrible 20 year involvement. Could he have done better? Maybe. I'll admit I'm not smart enough to know.
And for sure the blabbering heads on TV aren't either.

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Biden closed the Bagram Air Force base prematurely that could have provided air cover for the ground troops and also a more secure location to ferry evacuees out. In addition the base was left behind with large amounts of armament and 7,000 scanners with a database of Afghani citizens who cooperated with the US. He was advised by his military advisors not to do that but he did it anyway.
Stop saying “I don’t know if he could have done better” Paul and just do simple research. Closing the base was on Biden alone, not part of Trump’s deal.
NO ONE disagrees with the US leaving Afghanistan, but the execution of this departure is miserable and 100% on Joe Biden. Even liberals like Bill Maher agree with that.
Biden should be impeached for malfeasance. If one guy is impeached over a stupid phone call that did nothing to imperil National Security but this Afghanistan mess does. Biden should be impeached and removed.
Biden apparently has been “Instructed” to do a lot of things, including who to call on in “press conferences”. It would be great if he took “Instruction” in military matters.

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Originally Posted by Masterofreality

Biden closed the Bagram Air Force base prematurely that could have provided air cover for the ground troops and also a more secure location to ferry evacuees out. In addition the base was left behind with large amounts of armament and 7,000 scanners with a database of Afghani citizens who cooperated with the US. He was advised by his military advisors not to do that but he did it anyway.
Stop saying “I don’t know if he could have done better” Paul and just do simple research. Closing the base was on Biden alone, not part of Trump’s deal.
NO ONE disagrees with the US leaving Afghanistan, but the execution of this departure is miserable and 100% on Joe Biden. Even liberals like Bill Maher agree with that.
Biden should be impeached for malfeasance. If one guy is impeached over a stupid phone call that did nothing to imperil National Security but this Afghanistan mess does. Biden should be impeached and removed.
Biden apparently has been “Instructed” to do a lot of things, including who to call on in “press conferences”. It would be great if he took “Instruction” in military matters.

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It’s easier for Paul to deflect than think.

You want to know why the Afghanistan pullout was/is such a total cluster - watch this absolutely pathetic video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWaeCBDohw

God save us from this idiot and the idiots who put him in the White House....

So the US Government knew so little about what was happening in Afghanistan that they had no idea the Afghan Security Forces would evaporate and the Taliban immediately take over, but they were able to find within 24 hours the precise ISIS-K "planner" to kill?
OK.

(Reality: Missiles launched into a desert where *maybe* some random Bedouin was located.)

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Originally Posted by Masterofreality

So the US Government knew so little about what was happening in Afghanistan that they had no idea the Afghan Security Forces would evaporate and the Taliban immediately take over, but they were able to find within 24 hours the precise ISIS-K "planner" to kill?
OK.

(Reality: Missiles launched into a desert where *maybe* some random Bedouin was located.)

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At least as far as we know they didn’t drone/kill a US citizen without trial like when Biden was VP.

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Could he have done better? Maybe. I'll admit I'm not smart enough to know.
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If you're not smart enough to know, then you are incredibly stupid. Now I don't think that's true, Paul. What I do think is that you would rather call yourself stupid than admit that Joe Biden is responsible for the massacre of US servicemen and women. It's sad that you're so ideologically slanted that you would rather insult yourself than see the situation for what it is. Sad

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Originally Posted by XU_Lou

You want to know why the Afghanistan pullout was/is such a total cluster - watch this absolutely pathetic video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWaeCBDohw

God save us from this idiot and the idiots who put him in the White House....

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In fairness, this video is altered and faked.