they did that anyway when we were reducing the troop levels in order to have a well-defined, planned exit to a disastrous war started by the swamp.

to counter this exit, the warmongering swamp now has a standing army in the capital larger than our troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined

This doesn't make any sense. You could make that argument about why he didn't build the wall, but it's entirely up to him whether we were in Afghanistan, and there's no reason to think it would've hurt him politically. All the prominent Trump cult propagandists wanted to leave Afghanistan.

Trump tried to steal an election, incited an insurrection, and he's still the leader of the Republican party. Every politician who was with him before those few months of hell is still with him today. The idea that he couldn't leave Afghanistan because of political forces is completely absurd.

I don't have strong feelings about what to do in Afghanistan. Being there is not costing us a bunch of lives and treasure, the Afghan government collapsing to the Taliban would be bad, at the same time I can understand that it's been 20 years and there's no sensible military solution. So if Trump decided to leave in a reasonable way, I wouldn't have criticized him for it. But he probably would've announced via Twitter that all troops would be home in a week or something. I mean the guy wanted to host the Taliban at Camp David on 9/11. Lol.

They rotate between "he's a fighter" and "Nancy Pelosi and Lindsey Graham would've disapproved, so he was outnumbered".

Can you agree that the last decades were shit for the American people if we're talking politic/presidency.

The pushback and resistance Trump received from the federal bureaucracy and the Fourth Estate was absolutely unprecedented. This is not about the Nancy Pelosis and Lindsey Grahams of the world, this is about all the little cogs in the machine which every president needs to do their job to get anything done, and the public opinion which no president can afford to be too overwhelmingly against him.

Imho, Trump should have pushed harder for a very timely withdrawal from Afghanistan, I'll grant you that. It is nonetheless a huge hypocrisy that he got flak for his plans from factions which are remaining suspiciously silent now that Biden is carrying out these exact same plans.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Apr 13 2021 05:27pm

Expecting them to be fair is stupid. Democrats need to be crushed or they will seep their poison into everywhere.

Trump was totally incapable of navigating his administration. By all accounts he couldn't even pay attention in meetings.

He didn't even have nominations submitted for major positions for months and when people quit he continued to not submit nominations.

So spare me. Trump was ineffective. Even if he had full support he wouldn't have been able to implement his agenda

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Apr 13 2021 05:36pm

So, you admit that #theresistance was an unnecessary waste of time and that all the talk about Trump transforming America into an authoritarian dictatorship was just politically motivated hysteria?

I think trump made up the resistance so he had an excuse.
Just for the record opposition is the opposing parties job, trump is supposed to find ways to overcome it and still get his agenda through.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Apr 13 2021 06:02pm

#exposed



You are describing a situation where Trump wound down a conflict, negotiated a resolution, and set a due date. And you are ascribing Biden the credit because Trump lost an election and left Biden to carry out the orders.

It's not a serious position. I might as well just read the Biden administration position and assume your response.