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#2768324 29-Aug-2021 12:24

Rikkitic: It doesn't matter what Biden does. August is almost over so Donald Trump is certain to be reinstated any moment now!

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#2768433 29-Aug-2021 16:59

Another one of these not-quite-sure-where-to-put-it posts, was watching a video of the UK withdrawal from Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in 2014, or at least fast-forwarding to the more interesting portions, and the really fascinating bits were the handover to the Afghan forces covered in a few segments towards the end of the docco. The docco translates what the Afghan commanders are saying to the translator, as well as providing what the translator is saying to the UK commanders, which is very, very different to what the Afghan commanders just said to them. Essentially it's: Afghan commander: "We're being handed all this leftover junk that we can't do anything with", translator "You have a very nice base here, thankyou for all the work you've done" (I didn't mark all of the interesting bits where this comes across but one example starts at 25:20).

They're also less than impressed when they find, in one of the recently-vacated troop accommodation rooms, a prayer mat being used as a doormat to wipe boots on.

It really illustrates the complete disconnect between the US and UK troops and the local Afghan community, and presages the rapid collapse as soon as they pulled out.

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#2768768 30-Aug-2021 12:45

The Washington Post - Opinion: Biden tells some hard truths few want to hear

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President Biden on Thursday mournfully delivered information to the country that was disagreeable to many Americans: There is no way to withdraw from a futile war without messiness. ...

The insistence that there must have been a painless way to lose a 20-year war, rescue all imperiled Afghans and avoid any more casualties is a fable too many insist on cultivating.

We should have kept control of Bagram airfield! (Bagram is 30 miles or so from Kabul. The U.S. military would have had to protect any caravan of refugees transported there, while also defending a very large facility.)

We should have pulled out everyone in April! (Wouldn't the Afghan government have crumbled then?)

We should have known the army would collapse! (Apparently 20 years of training and effort to forge a national identity was a waste of time.)

Just leave a few thousand U.S. troops there! (And attacks akin to what happened on Thursday would magically cease?)

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#2773334 7-Sep-2021 06:46

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/03/middle-turns-biden/

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#2773341 7-Sep-2021 07:22

:( I wonder if that's due to the Afghanistan pullout? But I thought most Americans didn't want their troops to stay there anyway?

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#2773456 7-Sep-2021 11:23

quickymart:

:( I wonder if that's due to the Afghanistan pullout? But I thought most Americans didn't want their troops to stay there anyway?

it's totally due to the Afghanistan pull out.

While that may be true, they have lost 13 lives of young soldiers, and billions of dollars worth of infrastructure and equipment gifted to the Taliban, and apparently a large number of "Americans" trapped in Afghanistan.

They also did not consult nor gave warning to their allies, so their allies are also not happy!

I stand by my statement that I don't think he is electable, eg if Biden vs Trump 2024 I know who's going to win.

PS wait till Al-Qaeda and Isis establish themselves there.

these are not directly due to Biden! (in fact i'm pretty sure Trump started the whole thing) but the internet, media and everyone with a keyboard has hung them on him, hence we see what we see.

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#2773487 7-Sep-2021 11:54

I saw one pollster in an interview said the number one thing people were concerned about and was dropping Biden's approval was the resurgence of Covid in the US and the ongoing health crisis that has resulted. Afghanistan wasn't as important to most voters.

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#2773557 7-Sep-2021 13:32

If his predecessor had actually handled coronavirus properly rather than doing basically nothing, it wouldn't be such a problem in the US as it is now (IMO).

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#2773628 7-Sep-2021 13:58

quickymart: If his predecessor had actually handled coronavirus properly rather than doing basically nothing, it wouldn't be such a problem in the US as it is now (IMO).

Trump did worse than nothing - either by accident or by design, Trump did almost everything possible to make the pandemic situation worse.

Malice, or Narcissism, or stupidity, or incompetence, or all of the above?

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#2773717 7-Sep-2021 15:04

Problem is his followers listen to his bs and think he did "a fantastic job" of managing the pandemic, somehow ignoring all their friends, family and neighbours dropping dead all around them from it.

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#2773806 7-Sep-2021 17:39

quickymart:

Problem is his followers listen to his bs and think he did "a fantastic job" of managing the pandemic, somehow ignoring all their friends, family and neighbours dropping dead all around them from it.

... but they "owned the liberals" before they died, so that's OK. 😠

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#2773892 7-Sep-2021 20:06

Batman:

I stand by my statement that I don't think he is electable, eg if Biden vs Trump 2024 I know who's going to win.

You're living in a fantasy land. Biden's approval rating is likely the lowest it will go for his term at 46%, that's not half bad considering the size of the scandal lol. Trump's median rating in his first term was 44% and Obama's was only 48% but he slam dunked his second term. Trump's outgoing rating was the worst ever, a pathetic 34% after he tried to overthrow the government i.e. a third of Republicans saw Trump as a traitor. He's done.

He will definitely run though, its the only way he can grift money for his broke ass.

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#2774178 8-Sep-2021 08:07

The Dems could easily lose control of both Houses in the mid-terms and the country is then back to the same old lame duck President situation they have had before when nothing gets done.

It's a terrible system of government when a country is so divided.

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#2774203 8-Sep-2021 08:48

Something which I think Trump succeeded in only making worse.

A relative of mine in Chicago was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican for years and years. In 2004, he voted for John Kerry, and probably for Obama in 2008.

Christ alone knows what he would have thought of Trump in 2016, but I daresay he wouldn't have touched him with a bargepole.

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#2775634 9-Sep-2021 19:03

Biden administration Dept of Energy report lays the groundwork to supply 40% of USA energy needs from solar by 2035:

CNBC: The White House on Wednesday outlined a plan for solar energy to supply nearly half of the nation's electricity by 2050. The ambitious outline would see solar rising from 3% of generation in 2020 to 40% by 2035 before ultimately hitting 45% by 2050.

Heavy spending across industries will be required to meet that blueprint. U.S. solar installations hit a record high in 2020, but yearly solar capacity additions will need to double annually through 2025, before quadrupling from 2020's level each year between 2025 and 2030. Falling costs and supportive policies including tax incentives have boosted solar's robust growth over the last decade.

Can be done. Report also mentions adding 1.5 million jobs in the process.

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