PrideofLincoln2:
You are absolutely right. Growing up in my little corner of Uptown Chicago, seen my fair share of US Presidents and i can tell you Trump is the worst President in America's history. A Master Grifter and a Con Man per excellence who happens to be a snake oil salesman who cares for no one not even his wife and children. He only cares for himself and you can see what he's doing to Rudy Giuliani now that Giuliani needs his Financial support. He's truly one of God's worst creatures on Earth.

shegzhkn:

He really his, but guliani deserves his present fate. dude ain't no patriot, his loyalty was to a con man instead of the nation he fought for after 9/11.

we gonna win big next year and I'm pretty sure he's gonna endorse candidate but they will all experience what happened to Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and by then he's toast, the GOP will find there spine and all this fawning will stop.

PrideofLincoln2:
You nailed it again. I have been saying here for months that i want Trump to be out there as the face of the RepubliKKKan Party and that will bode well for us not only in 2022 but 2024. The sad part is that i want a very strong two parties in America and Trump is destroying the Republican Party because majority of Republicans are still beholden to this Demagogue. The more he talks, the better for Democrats.

shegzhkn:


@ bolded - every patriotic citizens wants that too, in a healthy democracy there has to be some checks and balance which is the job of the opposition party but these people have proven time and again to be difficult partners.

Let face it, Trump embodies what the GOP stand for but they are just subtle about it and that is why folks with conscience are jump shipping.

PrideofLincoln2:
Exactly. Imagine so called Evilgelicals sucking up to him not because he's moral or a decent man, they suck up to him for his bigotry and misogyny. Obama is a very decent man who never cheated on his wive and never have any sleazy attributes but they loathe Obama more than lucifer because of his skin color. These guys are the worst in America and we are ready for them starting after Labor day when we will start our massive registration of newly converted 18 year old and naturalized citizens. I was part of a group last year that helped registered more than 120.000 newly minted 18 year olds and naturalized citizens and we are going to do it again after Labor day holiday. God bless America.

sanpipita:


And you don't even see the irony.

shegzhkn:


Obama is the only modern US president that enjoys international admiration after exiting office, he is decent, funny, compassionate. personally i liked him not only because of his eloquence but the way he relates with children and the fact is trump will never measure up, his racist fan can deal with that.

Just feeling anxious of the sweeping voters suppression laws by GOP legislature in different states and the possibility of the stupid idea he floated last year to override the will of the people - the idea is crazy.

PrideofLincoln2:
I love President Obama not because he's a homeboy from Chitown but his rags to rich story is something everyone should be proud of. Here's a man whose father came from Kenya to study in US and met his mother and his father died young and so was his mother. He was raised by his white grandparents who did their best and he became a Law Professor and State Senator in Illinois before graduating to US Senator and pronto to the highest post in the land. That brother still enjoys wild popularity not only in America but the world. Compare that to the vile racist Pig known as Trump who is the biggest scammer more so than Bernie Mardoff in America's history. A Billionaire that constantly begs for money from his brainless Appalachian and Redneck supporters who are living on public dough.

PrideofLincoln2:
I love President Obama not because he's a homeboy from Chitown but his rags to rich story is something everyone should be proud of. Here's a man whose father came from Kenya to study in US and met his mother and his father died young and so was his mother. He was raised by his white grandparents who did their best and he became a Law Professor and State Senator in Illinois before graduating to US Senator and pronto to the highest post in the land. That brother still enjoys wild popularity not only in America but the world. Compare that to the vile racist Pig known as Trump who is the biggest scammer more so than Bernie Mardoff in America's history. A Billionaire that constantly begs for money from his brainless Appalachian and Redneck supporters who are living on public dough.

basilico:


I do. One case in 6 months causes a shutdown. COVID-19 will never be eradicated.
Do people go on lockdown each time a case is detected?
And they Aucklanders are not also sure its the Indian variant because tests do not reveal the Delta one. They were waiting for genome sequencing to confirm if its the delta variant.

shegzhkn:


Obama is the only modern US president that enjoys international admiration after exiting office, he is decent, funny, compassionate. personally i liked him not only because of his eloquence but the way he relates with children and the fact is trump will never measure up, his racist fan can deal with that.

Just feeling anxious of the sweeping voters suppression laws by GOP legislature in different states and the possibility of the stupid idea he floated last year to override the will of the people - the idea is crazy.

Ibime:


New Zealand is an island with few people. They can afford it. Most of their revenue is from agriculture. They can lock down and continue selling those products, meanwhile billionaires are buying their citizenship for this very reason - safety.

basilico:


NZ .It took one nutcase killing 49 for semiautomatic weapons ban and mandatory buy back.
I thought that was overreaching 99.9 % punished because of a 0.1% is way too much.

Compare COVID-19 .First case in 6 months snd all are locked down.

One day someone might decide Left Hand Drive vehicle are safer And order everyone to switch

basilico:

One day someone might decide Left Hand Drive vehicle are safer And order everyone to switch.

basilico:

I been scouring around on Taliban latest news.

Taliban has officially asked all American troops out by Sep 11.

Taliban confirms islamic law shall guide the rights of women. No school, no going out uncovered,who knows what else. (Effeminate men bound to be happy about this.)

Taliban spokesman when asked about freedom of speech retorted * Go ask Facebook".
The spokesman has an active verified twitter account.

basilico:

I been scouring around on Taliban latest news.

Taliban has officially asked all American troops out by Sep 11.

Taliban confirms islamic law shall guide the rights of women. No school, no going out uncovered,who knows what else. (Effeminate men bound to be happy about this.)

Taliban spokesman when asked about freedom of speech retorted * Go ask Facebook".
The spokesman has an active verified twitter account.

Tdotbluejays:

China is stepping up.

Ibime:


America did all the work, threw away $2trln, China inherited the trade

obixcel:
@bolded spot on. Biden made it look like most people didn't want him to pull the troops out of Afghanistan. The point is how it was done, the method, the stages, the process. The whole thing was so shabby and unplanned, hence the chaos the followed.

Ibime:
The truth is Biden was aiming for a political scoring point by claiming he took the troops out of Afghanistan and it blew up in his face. Pulling out is popular with the American public but not the right thing to do.

2,500 American soldiers have been keeping the Taliban abay by providing leadership to the Afghan Army with aerial support. That's not a lot of soldiers, they have more in Korea, Germany, Japan etc and none have died in the last two years.

All they needed to do was spread the work out among NATO if the burden was too much for America. Afghan military collapsed just on the withdrawal of those 2,500 soldiers.

Allied partners has warned that the September deadline was too early but political posturing took precedence.

And no Trumpanzee should come and claim Trump would have done any better because Trump deadline was in May. Biden was appealing to the same populist sentiment as Trump.

Ibime:
The truth is Biden was aiming for a political scoring point by claiming he took the troops out of Afghanistan and it blew up in his face. Pulling out is popular with the American public but not the right thing to do.

2,500 American soldiers have been keeping the Taliban abay by providing leadership to the Afghan Army with aerial support. That's not a lot of soldiers, they have more in Korea, Germany, Japan etc and none have died in the last two years.

All they needed to do was spread the work out among NATO if the burden was too much for America. Afghan military collapsed just on the withdrawal of those 2,500 soldiers.

Allied partners has warned that the September deadline was too early but political posturing took precedence.

And no Trumpanzee should come and claim Trump would have done any better because Trump deadline was in May. Biden was appealing to the same populist sentiment as Trump.

Tdotbluejays:

In my opinion,
I don't think there is anyway around it. The Taliban was in control all along and the Afghan government were just a "figure head" in power. The Taliban just had to wait it out, and that's what they did. If Biden slowly pulled out 100 troops, 200 troops, 2500 troops at any point in time, the move of the Taliban would still be swift the moment they release that they have the upper hand. From how swift they were able to reach and take over the capital? My guess is that the Taliban has been in Kabul all along and were mixed with the regular Afghans. The Afghan forces most likely had a large number of Taliban among them as well.

The Taliban did not drive Lamborghinis, ferraris or McLarens to reach Kabul from wherever they were hiding. They were right there among the regular Afghans.

Ibime:


Biden should have simply handed the matter over to NATO. Taliban is not that many nor strong an army to take a City in the presence of Western forces. Airpower is everything against an infantry army. They cannot move troops or equipment with air force patrolling the skies, they can only hide in the mountains and carry out skirmishes.

Look what happened to Syrian rebels when America vacated the skies for Putin.

Tdotbluejays:

If he hands power over to NATO, once NATO decides to leave as well, the Taliban would swiftly move in.

Like I mentioned in my edited post,

what could have been done differently was to pull out Americans and maybe foreign nationals that wanted to leave out first. But this is not to Biden alone, both Biden and the NATO allies placed too much trust on the Afghan forces.

NATO too also thought the Afghan Army were prepared.