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August 26, 2021

What's really sad

Is that Republicans and the MSM are hoping for an American death in Afghanistan so that they can attack Biden even more.

August 25, 2021

Biden was damned either way

Option 1 - Withdrawal and have the Republicans, MSM, and others complain about letting the taliban win, creating a place for terrorists, leaving allies behind, etc…and see his poll numbers go down

Option 2 - Stay which would have led to the taliban attacking troops and us having to send more troops in and surge and still getting complaints from the same people, but this time saying that we can’t be the world’s police, why is Biden starting another war, this will breed more terrorists, our allies need to fight on their own, etc….and his poll numbers going down

August 25, 2021

Once this California recall is over

California Democrats have to change it. And they should have changed it once Jerry Brown became Governor in 2011.

#1 the petition should require more than just 12% of signatures of voters who voted in the last election (it needs to be around 25%), #2 if the recall is successful the Lt Gov should become Governor and finish the term or until special election is done to vote in another Governor……

the way it is done now a partisan minority can constantly try to recall a governor and be successful in getting a fringe candidate who becomes governor with less than 25% of the vote

August 23, 2021

Arizona's sham election 'audit' report delayed after Cyber Ninjas CEO and others test positive

For Covid… https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/politics/arizona-election-audit-report-delayed-cyber-ninjas-covid/index.html

Cyber Ninjas Chief Executive Officer Doug Logan, whose firm was hired by the Republican-led Arizona Senate to audit the 2.1 million votes cast in Maricopa County in 2020's presidential race, and two other members of the five-person audit team tested positive "and are quite sick," Senate President Karen Fann said in a statement.
August 23, 2021

California gained 2.3 million people this decade

Which put it at third place behind only Texas and Florida for highest population growth. But because it was already so big it lost a Congressional district…the rules to our Democracy are idiotic sometimes and seem to always favor small states and the minority….

But also, all this talk about California losing population is also false.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/17/2046167/-We-ve-got-census-growth-data-for-every-city-county-and-district-and-there-are-lots-of-surprises

August 23, 2021

Why is the Covid surge Biden's fault

I have read several articles in the past couple days and they all mention reasons for Biden’s decrease in approval. One reason other than Afghanistan is the Covid surge. How in the hell is this his problem, he has encouraged vaccines, masks, and social distancing….if idiots and Republican Governors ignore that advice and Covid surges because of them then it’s not Biden’s fault….it’s like the arsonists blaming the firefighter for not putting out the fire that they caused while also blocking the hydrant.

August 17, 2021

Guess what's not trending on twitter anymore

Afghanistan

August 17, 2021

media coverage and hysteria over Biden vs Trump

This is Biden’s first real terrible event/bad situation/crisis/scandal/or whatever ever you want to call it and has dominated the news for a week…with Trump there would have been another disaster to cover in 12 hrs….that was the thing with Trump, so much bad shit happened that the MSM and people just moved on quickly from it because of bad attention spans…I remember with Trump, it would be Friday and everyone would be talking about Z, and I would say “dang Y happened yesterday, X and W happened Wednesday, V happened Tuesday, U was Monday, and RST was Sunday!”

August 17, 2021

So if Biden did the alternative

Which was to bring in more troops and fight the taliban. The same critics (MSM, Trump, Republicans and even a few democrats) would be saying:

1. Biden is a war monger
2. With Biden it’s the same old same old politician, always getting us into wars
3. Trump is the only President not to start a conflict
4. The Afghans need to fight for themselves
5. We can’t nation build
6. Bring the troops home
7. This is costing us too much money
8. This will breed more terrorists
9. Biden should have brought the remaining troops home
10. What is the exit strategy
11. We can’t be there forever
12. Afghanistan is getting more dangerous
13. Richard Engel would have still been there showing how rough it is for the citizens
14. Etc, etc, etc

August 17, 2021

Why wasn't the release of 5000 taliban prisoners last year a big story

I don’t remember hearing it or the media covering it. That’s why I can’t stand the media. This story should have been a big deal. The media is so up in arms on what happened this week, where were they last year when this happened?

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