American Politics

[QUOTE=Golfinho;2597983]These so-called Wars on Terror were begun with the near unanimous support of all political sides, in case you've forgotten or are oblivious. Credit to Biden for simply trying to follow through with Trump's determined initiative to end this forever war. Unfortunately, telling your enemy what date you're going to be gone is not exactly the best strategy. Especially when you neglect to tell your own people, leaving them stranded when you disappear in the middle of the night. Better to have the media say nothing, and just do a quiet prisoner exchange later on. And if any American brides choose to stay with their new Taliban husbands, well that's their decision, isn't it?[/QUOTE]Guess where the following comes from: "The United States, its allies, and the Coalition will execute the following:

1) The United States, its allies, and the Coalition will complete withdrawal of all remaining.

Forces from Afghanistan within the remaining nine and a half (9. 5) months.

2) The United States, its allies, and the Coalition will withdraw all their forces from.

Remaining bases."

In case you didn't know, this comes from the text of the "surrender document" signed by the dump administration in Doha. So much for you trying to rewrite history: "Unfortunately, telling your enemy what date you're going to be gone is not exactly the best strategy."

BTW, was there anything in the aforementioned agreement about the Taliban holding in place until we withdrew? No there wasn't. Even Neville Chamberlain did better. [URL]https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-For-Bringing-Peace-to-Afghanistan-02.29.20.pdf[/URL].

This is such a heart warming video of Joe and his son Hunter.

[URL]https://streamable.com/pyb5qh[/URL]

[QUOTE=ChrisP;2598155]In polls conducted by the same Washington swamp firms that told us Biden would win Florida by 12 points so hey Trump voters, no point wasting your time showing up to vote.

(None of the democrat "voters" showed up to vote of course; their "votes" were already "collected" via "mail-in voting", if you know what I mean.[/QUOTE]I don't know which individual poll you are citing that showed that advantage for Biden in Florida a few days before election day but the consensus of major polls, the right way to assess poll numbers, had the outcome for Biden vs Trump right well within the usual Margin of Error cited by them in the polls.

As usual, the consensus of major polls a few days before election day was remarkably accurate to within a normal +/-MoE from the final outcome.

Take a look at RealClearPolitics' final consensus of their polls before election day 2020 showing which candidate would probably win which state and they were practically dead on right across the board. Exchange their prediction for Florida and Georgia, both extremely close, and the consensus for that map would have been 100% accurate to the final outcome.

I am talking about the consensus of major polls now too.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2598169]There's a reason Biden usually has a driver.[/QUOTE]LOL. More cartoons?

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2598315]This is such a heart warming video of Joe and his son Hunter.

[URL]https://streamable.com/pyb5qh[/URL][/QUOTE]omg, cartoons AND weirdly and deceptively edited videos now? Lol.

Seriously, if Repub so-called potus' would only on occasion produce something better than sub par economic results at best with a high likelihood of another Great Repub Crash, Depression/Recession and Massive Job Destruction thrown in the mix along with the absolute worst foreign policy and national security results of all time, maybe they would outright win a few elections with most of the American electorate supporting them without relying only on where the system is already rigged in their favor, passing laws to rig it in their favor even more, pulling one "October Surprise" after another out of their ass, colluding with our foreign adversaries, ordering their loony base to "vote TWICE!", all the other proven significant election fraud maneuvers made only by them, the extreme gerrymandering, the cartoons, the faked videos and on and on and on.

They really ought to try winning elections that way for a change sometimes. Even ONE time to produce positive overall results merely equal to that of the Dem before or after them would be a huge improvement.

"As of mid-August: Texas, with 63.6 percent as many people as California, had 80% as many cases since the pandemic began. That's a 17% differential in California's favor. The contrast with Florida is as dramatic: The Sunshine state, with 53% as many people, had 70% as many cases, also a 17% differential.

Those numbers translate to human lives. California has had 1,637 Covid deaths for every 100,000 residents, Texas 1,881 and Florida 1,890.

Of the three, then, California has been by far the healthiest place to live over the last 18 months and Florida the least.

So why does Newsom face a recall while Abbott and DeSantis sit pretty despite their states' dismal numbers? Florida and Texas do not allow recalls of state officials. "

[URL]https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2021/08/23/new-covid-19-numbers-show-california-beats-florida-texas-lot/8242052002/[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2598105]Now, The Bush Doctrine was something else entirely. That was the way numbskull Bush decided to prosecute the war starting in 2002. It was the idea of him, his administration and generals that, as long as they had boots on the ground and classic Mission Creep was taking over, a major element of their new mission ought to be to turn places like Afghanistan into "free and open societies." In other words, Nation Building.[/QUOTE]Numbskulls don't come up with ideas -- much less doctrines -- all by themselves.

Nation Building? In other words, Project For a New American Century, thank you very much zionist neocons. Many fortunes were made off this war as taxpayer monies were channeled to defense contractors and the military industrial complex.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2598401]"As of mid-August: Texas, with 63.6 percent as many people as California, had 80% as many cases since the pandemic began. That's a 17% differential in California's favor. The contrast with Florida is as dramatic: The Sunshine state, with 53% as many people, had 70% as many cases, also a 17% differential.

Those numbers translate to human lives. California has had 1,637 Covid deaths for every 100,000 residents, Texas 1,881 and Florida 1,890.

Of the three, then, California has been by far the healthiest place to live over the last 18 months and Florida the least.

So why does Newsom face a recall while Abbott and DeSantis sit pretty despite their states' dismal numbers? Florida and Texas do not allow recalls of state officials. "

[URL]https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2021/08/23/new-covid-19-numbers-show-california-beats-florida-texas-lot/8242052002/[/URL][/QUOTE]Newsom is in trouble because over the decades cry-baby sore loser Repubs have developed an effective Recall Machine in California to find those few thousand signatures required to exploit the already extremely easy method of thwarting the democratic will of the people in that state where a candidate could have won the real election handily, then gotten another 49.99% plurality of the vote in a weird, off election schedule period Recall "election"...then can be replaced by some American democracy-hating winger loon who might only have gotten, say, 15% of the vote in that Recall "election" depending on how many dozens of other loons are on that ballot at the time.

Some of these built-in rigged loopholes were originally set up on a kind of All American "honor system" back when it was considered outlandish, "derangement" kind of thinking to suggest there would ever be a time when an Anti American democracy political party would emerge to act out their every America-hating wish by exploiting these systems to the fullest and beyond only to produce one colossal fuck up result after another for the state and country.

Enter the Republican Party, particularly sInce about 1968.

Biden has a plan.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2598365]LOL. More cartoons?[/QUOTE]I do agree it's a sad joke. When you have a puppet President, cartoons are appropriate.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2599030]I do agree it's a sad joke. When you have a puppet President, cartoons are appropriate.[/QUOTE]Biden is a puppet and the former guy wasn't? Where were you from 2016 to 2020?

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2599030]I do agree it's a sad joke. When you have a puppet President, cartoons are appropriate.[/QUOTE]Um...for the past 33 years, the final 1/3 of the previous 100 years/century, through EIGHT presidential elections, only one Republican Party candidate in only one of those eight presidential elections managed to bamboozle enough Americans into giving him more votes than the Democratic Party candidate got. Not many more. And that one was only because his astonishing incompetence and stupidity in not bothering to even pretend to respond to a clear and present danger of "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US" in a PDB spelled out for him verbally and in text provided him the opporunity to proudly announce he was a "Wartime President!" ahead of his re-election run.

You know, a "Wartime President!" is hard to beat in his 2nd term run. So W did indeed squeeze out a small number more votes more than his Dem challenger that time. That was the 1 out of 8.

BTW, one of that Repub lamebrain's poorly managed wars was the one another Republican so-called potus officially lost and surrendered America to just last year. Turns out that more recent Repub was so much more spectacularly incompetent and stupid than the previous one he could not "negotiate" a 2nd term win no matter how much election fraud, foreign adversary collusion and bribery with tax-payer money he threw at it.

But, hey, the previous Repub did get his 2nd term win. Lucky us. Because, man, as bad as that first Republican so-called potus' term was, his 2nd term actually TOPPED it for colossal fuck ups seriously damaging the country and the world! Lol.

However, he did not inflict as much damage to America and the world as the recent one accomplished in just ONE term. Got to give him that.

So good luck trying to characterize Biden or any other Dem as a "failure" at ANYTHING relative to any Repub only armed with cartoons, deceptively-edited videos and all that junk rather than based on actual results.

Clearly, the American people and electorate are on to the Repub con and scam, have been for for decades. If they could abolish the rigged Electoral College system to even more effectively prevent another Repub from coming within an Insurrection Mob police line of the White House they would.

The QOP knows all about this very, very well. That is why their only apparent mission to accomplish is passing laws to make it more difficult for predominantly Dem areas to have their ballots received and their votes counted and to Do Nothing else.

Just as Trump would want them to. LOL. Imagine being THAT sad excuse for a human being's Puppets. Yet that is the QOP's chosen order to obey. Almost every one of them.

Here's a vaccination meme that makes sense.

[QUOTE=PVMonger;2599435]Here's a vaccination meme that makes sense.[/QUOTE]We are sheep because we follow science, and they are free spirits because they follow the cult.

[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/poll-politico-us/2021/09/01/id/1034698/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/us/rasmussen-taliban-resignation-american-voters/2021/09/01/id/1034627/[/URL]