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Something I've noted several times is that, while most of us agree it's important to be informed about Canadian politics and to be an engaged citizen, the fact is that Canadian politics are generally pretty boring (this can be a good thing, IMO). The Americans, on the other hand, have turned the dysfunction of their political system into an entertainment industry (although it appears Harper, et al., are determined to reduce the Canadian system to the same level).

So I thought I'd start a thread for discussion of the Reality TV show they call American Politics.

I'll start with this posting I saw on another forum, with respect to the Republican's policies on women's health care, especially with regard to contraception and abortion:
After years and years and years of specifically targeting homophobes, racists, bigots, religious zealots, anti-intellectuals and sociopaths why should we be at all shocked that the GOP picked up a ****load of misogynists along the way?
 
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It's the method, not the specific timing. Evacuate non-military personnel first, destroy or remove weaponry as you go, dismantle and destroy military bases. Retaliate against attacks occurring while you withdraw. Leave in orderly fashion under military cover.

So if now is not a good time to get out of Afghanistan, when would have been better?
 
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So if now is not a good time to get out of Afghanistan, when would have been better?
I would say not negotiating with the terrorists inviting them to camp David and setting ridiculous timelines with no plan would have been a start. Do you remember a time when 'negotiating with terrorists' was a bad thing? ;)

Short answer is, there isn't a good time. Whatever president in power with this preset debacle was going to get hung with this. Just as Obama was in Iraq. But it's all politics. Now you have "armies" of pseudo military intelligence officers offering useless platitudes of what should have, or would have happened should their guy be in power. "Leave in orderly fashion under military cover."? LOL ok colonel macfury...

If you recall, Trump took credit for defeating ISIS when he had very little to do with that whatsoever beyond a bunch of fiery rhetoric that his supporters ate up. The truth was, there was a great deal of planning and it was the Iraqi army with the help of American logistics and air support that went in and faced the bullets of ISIS directly and was already pretty much there by the time Trump took power.

But people are idiots and just want empty political platitudes to make themselves feel better, it's best really to simply ignore the windups and nonsense and see this for what it really is. A total quagmire started by republican war hawks under Bush, and no president wanted to be the one to be in Biden's shoes right now. Trump would have had an army of republican drones everywhere praising Trump who 'got us out of an unwinable foreign war" (which the republicans got us into) and his supporters were primed to look past any debacle that would have occurred, and it would have make no mistake. And there would have been an endless humanitarian disaster played out on cable news for the rest of us, so anyone pretending that this would have been better under Trump is quite simply, lying, or, just really really gullible.
 
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Long overdue. Should have hanged years ago. And look! It's Jug Ears' fault again!

SHOCKER: 9/11 Masterminds Finally Go on Trial—20 Years After the Attack

Just days before the 20th anniversary of their murderous handiwork, a military tribunal in Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday resumed the much-interrupted and multiply postponed trial of five masterminds of the 9/11 jihad attacks: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi, and Mustafa al Hawsawi. It’s understandable if you thought these men had been tried, convicted, and sentenced long ago; after all, it has been two decades since their crime. What has taken so long?
 
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It's like.... Christmas!


The full findings are scheduled to be released Friday in the state Senate. NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix said that it obtained a copy of the report and that the review widens Biden's victory margin by 360 votes.
BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA!

But apparently we'll find out in 2 weeks. Stay tuned! Send money to "save America". :ROFLMAO::p
 
#21,691 ·
It's like.... Christmas!




BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA!

But apparently we'll find out in 2 weeks. Stay tuned! Send money to "save America". :ROFLMAO::p
You mean that the MyPillow guy is wrong??


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Not sure if anyone is following this, perhaps too busy trolling in the covid threads… but does anyone remember how the republicans would always lecture others in fiscal responsibility, balancing the budget? Do we recall the pearl clutching during the Obama years, how it was all the Democrats fault that there was the trillion dollar deficit, even though this was in inherited economic crash… only to elect Trump who would not only reverse the lowering of the deficit under Obama, but return to massive trillion dollar deficits with his historic massive tax cuts to the rich leading to an incredible orgy of massive profits for the top corporations? Well it seems only one party is on board to raise the debt ceiling in order to pay for all of that. Once again, the republicans need to falsely play like they are the better money managers, and incredibly, people will believe it. The republicans love to run massive deficits, but they don’t appear to enjoy having to pay for it!

It’s almost as easy as printin money in yer basement people are so gullible.
 
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