Politics Thread

**MADXSTER** · 08-18-2021, 04:17 PM

Seriously, Is common sense on the endangered species list? Because it should be.

**Strange Brew** · 08-19-2021, 10:53 AM

So the RNC has now come out and stated there was widespread Democrat cheating in the 2020 election. Hmmmm.

STL_XUfan · 08-19-2021, 12:16 PM

Scary scene unfolding in DC right now with a guy who is threatening to blow up a truck full of explosives

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/10292...ry-of-congress

apparently he may be live streaming it also (not confirmed by any trustworthy sources):

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/stat...377708549?s=20

**GoMuskies** · 08-19-2021, 12:27 PM

Is he a right wing or left wing nut? We need to know that to figure out the intensity of our feelings towards this incident.

**Strange Brew** · 08-19-2021, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Is he a right wing or left wing nut? We need to know that to figure out the intensity of our feelings towards this incident.

Haha, the cynic in me is all, How convenient. A right winger pops up right after the DHS warnings and Biden’s disasters….

**Masterofreality** · 08-20-2021, 03:55 PM

Biden lied all through his address today and called out for it by ABC news and CNN of all places.
Americans are not being left alone by the Taliban and there have not been thousands evacuated in the last 24 hours.
Just straight lies….errrr Paul??

**Strange Brew** · 08-20-2021, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Masterofreality

Biden lied all through his address today and called out for it by ABC news and CNN of all places.
Americans are not being left alone by the Taliban and there have not been thousands evacuated in the last 24 hours.
Just straight lies….errrr Paul??

Paul is busy Googling for headlines to show this is Trump’s fault.

**Masterofreality** · 08-20-2021, 04:24 PM

From Former Marine Jordan Blashek, who wrote this in the excellent sub stack publication of Bari Weiss, a truly principled, and liberal journalist who I immensely enjoy reading. I highly recommend that folks subscribe to Bari Weiss’ Common Sense.
Just sad and disgraceful.
“ President Biden failed, too. He blamed everyone but himself for the failed implementation of his withdrawal. He called the Afghan soldiers cowards — the same soldiers who bled on the battlefield with us. He set up a straw-man choice between pulling out everyone or scaling up combat operations for a country that would not fight for itself.

But that was never the choice we faced. By 2020, this had become a peacekeeping mission. Our small presence of a couple thousand troops was keeping the Taliban at bay. That was something all of us would have signed up for again and again.

The country needed President Biden to say that. We needed him to explain why the last decade of our service, why keeping the Taliban from taking Kabul, was worth the sacrifice. If he had done that, perhaps Mike’s mother, and others like her, would not be in so much pain.”

Add to this that Biden kneecapped the air forces that also would have kept the Taliban in check. They pulled all of the aircraft maintenance people out of Bagram Air Base in June and left equipment there rather than removing it to a “horizon” base, thereby giving drones & blackhawks to the Taliban. The Taliban had no Air Force, but they do now!
Incredibly ludicrous.