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1 hour ago, subee said:

We have someone on this thread that complains about black nationalists who are ruining things for white guys.  I read the news relentlessly and don't feel any menace from black nationalists...whoever they are. ...

Yes, I've seen these posts and like you, am not sure what exactly he or she is trying to say.

1 hour ago, subee said:

... Char, I don't understand your post about the translators and shy you are talking about "brown people."  Who do you think should have even attempted to get these people out after the Taliban was alerted that we were pulling our troops out?  It is all one big sad mess but I haven't seen anyone offering a better idea.  Not giving the Taliban notice one have been my only idea.  The rest I don't feel competent to comment on.

Actually, it wasn't my comment.  Rather, I quoted , in response to her or his post here: 

2 hours ago, SummerGarden said:

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... Thus, a plane full of brown people coming to America (or returning in many cases) is something that terrifies them, especially since it can not be stopped.  

My intent was to ask her or him to clarify exactly what he or she was trying to say.  As he or she tends to include every one to her or his right, conservatives, Repubublicans, and "Trump supporters" all the same, it appeared that he or she was suggesting I was racist.  

1 hour ago, subee said:

... Char, I don't understand your post about the translators and shy you are talking about "brown people."  Who do you think should have even attempted to get these people out after the Taliban was alerted that we were pulling our troops out? ...

What don't you understand.  Again, @SummerGarden seemed to be under the impression that these interpreters were American [citizens] thatbwe took to Afghanistan with us, and are running off and leaving, with no intent to bring home because they are "brown people," again, her term, not mine.  Nor did he or she seem to have a clue as to exactly how many people he or she was talking about.  Thus, I provided her a few military/defensed theme sites that I thought might be helpful.

1 hour ago, subee said:

... Who do you think should have even attempted to get these people out after the Taliban was alerted that we were pulling our troops out? ...

We should have, of course.  Whether Mr. Trump's plan provided for the evacuation of the translaters and their families, I don't know.  However, it wasn't Mr. Trump that withdrew our troops from Afghanistan, it was Mr.  Biden; and he ultimately should have had a plan to do so 

1 hour ago, subee said:

... It is all one big sad mess but I haven't seen anyone offering a better idea.  Not giving the Taliban notice one have been my only idea.  The rest I don't feel competent to comment on.

Yes, it is.  Based on Mr. Biden's early assessment of his cabinet nominees, one would think that they could have developed a better plan.

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Collectively, this team has secured some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory — made possible through decades of experience working with our partners,” Biden said Tuesday as he unveiled his national security team.

Analysis: Biden prioritizes experience with Cabinet picks

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4 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

He made the deal to end the war without proper personnel negotiating the demographics of the possibilities, with severely limited people interlectually, who couldn't possibly understand the big picture view of the region and the consequences! 

Trump is a moron who logically hired only morons who logically only made moronic decisions with the resulting disastrous results. Biden was a fool to go through with anything trump had a hand in without extensive investigations and modifications. I definitely wanted the troops gone, but with contingencies in place and it's very likely that there's a bigger plan we don't know about? I can definitely see the potential for a trap here involving Russia and China to get them distracted and out of the way. 

They get involved in the vacuum to protect their interests and Pakistan gets involved and in the entire world, only three countries matter re enemies! Israel, Iran and Pakistan and both Iran and Pakistan are the absolute worst enemies to have with Pakistan being the worst because of mentality and striking power! 

Remember, Afghanistanis are Sunni Muslims! The enemy of my enemy is my best friend! 

So tell me I didn't predict this a couple of weeks ago I think? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/opinion/china-afghanistan-taliban.html

Just how many more times do we always have to beat the world news in predictions! We are right far more times and earlier than most networks and I think the people of AN needs to take a bow! 

And REALLY no one could correct me that it's Afghans and not Afghanistanis! These auto fill apps are useless! 

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On 8/19/2021 at 1:14 PM, GordonGekko said:

People bash Stephan Miller because he is Jewish and stands with Israel.  The amount of Anti-Semetism this man has had to face is disturbing.  To see nurses act in such a way makes me hope I never cross their path in the hospital setting.  If you actually take a second to read some thoughts from Miller you would understand that him along with Donald Trump have taken an Anti-Racist stance.  You can see that in their practice and who they choose to work with.  Do you even know who Dr. Benjamin Carson is?  I guess he is a white supremacist as well...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-says-donald-trump-is-the-anti-racist-president-930385/

"While defending himself and President Donald Trump against accusations that they are both white supremacists, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller said, “Donald Trump is the anti-racist president.”

Miller, a guest on Fox Business on Friday night, blamed the Democratic party for his tarnished reputation, saying they “traffic in lies, hatred, and yes, racism.” He went on to claim that Democrats are projecting their own racism when attacking him.

Miller, the administration’s top immigration adviser, responsible for separating from their parents children who cross America’s border with Mexico, continued, saying without an ounce of irony that it is the Democrats who “divide people by race. They divide people by color. They try to separate. They try to pull people away from one another.”

According to multiple members of the Trump administration, it was Steven era idea to find a way to separate children from their parents, which ended up meaning processing deportations under a criminal rather than civil court process which drastically impeded our ability to deport those illegally.  And along with decreasing border patrol staff on the Southern border somehow constituted increased border security to Trump supporters, which is a bit absurd 

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you should evacuate everyone who needs to get out BEFORE our troops leave.  

That's all on the Biden administration.   And the world knows that. 

Really, I say evolution! 

How long did those idiots knew that the plan was to pull out? They're fools in my book! 

My parents came here from England because first Chernobyl happened and still they were talking about perostroika and the Berlin wall. My parents calculated that eastern Europeans like Bulgarians and Hungarians plus East Berliners and Russians would inevitably make their way to England with their criminal ways and obliviousness to the law, because of having lived under communism, so they got the hell out of Dodge before the proverbial *** hit the fan! 

That's what keeping your eyes on the ball means! These plonkers in Afghanistan should have done the same! No sympathy whatsoever! You see a hurricane heading towards you so your plans are to ride it out in a straw hut? 

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On 8/16/2021 at 5:44 PM, GordonGekko said:

Trump encouraged a peaceful protest.  I don't condone the people who went into the capital and started taking selfies.  There were also Antifa agitators there trying to stir up stuff.

They stormed their way into the Oklahoma capital armed with assault rifles.  That is a little different than taking selfies in the capital.  We deserve to know if 2020 was a free and fair election.  They are going out of their way to shut down any audits and push policies such as open borders while fighting common sense voter ID laws.

Honest Americans had to listen to the left ramble on about nonsensical Russian collusion conspiracy theories for 4 years and leftists claiming the 2016 election was stolen.  There is a hell of a lot more evidence for rampant voter fraud in 2020  We deserve to know the truth.

Trump and his allies made various inflammatory claims regarding the election over the course of many weeks leading up to this, and we could potentially debate whether he expected this to be the result or not, except he announced on the evening of January 6th that what occurred was indeed what he expected to happen.

All of the audits proscribed by law have occurred, and even some audits that aren't legally defined.  Trumps own lawyers have repeatedly testified in court that no evidence exists to suggest the election was fraudulent.

Regarding the "nonsensical Russian collusion conspiracy theories" the Republican Senate Intelligence Committee investigation concluded that the Trump campaign's Russia contacts posed a "great threat" to the security of the United States and multiple people associated with Trump were convicted related to coordination with Russia and Russian allied interests 

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4 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Yep. 

Weird how our really really expensive military got all of that wrong, eh?

Because they are useless and incompetent and the generals should be jailed! Any organization that is paying how much for toilet seats and producing billion dollar planes that doesn't fly, needs to be disbanded and the parties making the decisions flogged in public! And the public should be forced to watch for being such total idiots all of their lives for being fooled over and over what a wonderful military we have and how extraordinary! 

They are pretentious, self preening peacocks and we the public has to stop being such primitive savages and easily distracted by shiny trinkets! It has saddled us with only one somewhat competent republican politician in George Bush senior! Always being fooled by these morons and no one has any shame whatsoever! 

I would love to see how people would react if the surgeon operating got the job because he was tall or pretty, instead of a board certified competent professional! But we are fooled by these moronic blowhards who you wouldn't trust to clean your toilets because they are such obvious idiots! 

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3 hours ago, chare said:

Yes, I've seen these posts and like you, am not sure what exactly he or she is trying to say.

Actually, it wasn't my comment.  Rather, I quoted , in response to her or his post here: 

My intent was to ask her or him to clarify exactly what he or she was trying to say.  As he or she tends to include every one to her or his right, conservatives, Repubublicans, and "Trump supporters" all the same, it appeared that he or she was suggesting I was racist.  

What don't you understand.  Again, @SummerGarden seemed to be under the impression that these interpreters were American [citizens] thatbwe took to Afghanistan with us, and are running off and leaving, with no intent to bring home because they are "brown people," again, her term, not mine.  Nor did he or she seem to have a clue as to exactly how many people he or she was talking about.  Thus, I provided her a few military/defensed theme sites that I thought might be helpful.

We should have, of course.  Whether Mr. Trump's plan provided for the evacuation of the translaters and their families, I don't know.  However, it wasn't Mr. Trump that withdrew our troops from Afghanistan, it was Mr.  Biden; and he ultimately should have had a plan to do so 

Yes, it is.  Based on Mr. Biden's early assessment of his cabinet nominees, one would think that they could have developed a better plan.

Analysis: Biden prioritizes experience with Cabinet picks

I would agree that it was idiotic for Biden to go along with pretty much any already established plan he inherited from the Trump administration (and that just in general he's an idiot), but the plan to withdraw from Afghanistan was made by the Trump administration after meeting with the Taliban (and without the Afghan government).  The Biden administration still royally f'd it up, but by no means completely on their own.

 

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24 minutes ago, MunoRN said:

According to multiple members of the Trump administration, it was Steven era idea to find a way to separate children from their parents, which ended up meaning processing deportations under a criminal rather than civil court process which drastically impeded our ability to deport those illegally.  And along with decreasing border patrol staff on the Southern border somehow constituted increased border security to Trump supporters, which is a bit absurd 

I hate to say about judging a book by the cover, but Stephen Miller is a stone cold psychopath! If he came onto a unit I worked on, I would peg him from the off for being a sociopathic devil! 

And, then you hear what he has to say and it's gratifying to know that you are right! In high school I would have had him pissing himself if I walked by, because you know that he was the type to pick on the weak, instead of protecting them and always taking advantage of others if he could! I simply cannot stand bullies and I love taking them down! 

I think current day republicans deserve everything they are getting and it's only going to get worse! I categorize them as evil! They don't want their rights to be trodden on, but to hell with everyone else's! 

And forget about accepting they might be wrong, oh no, they double down, as if this is some children's game of no consequences whatsoever! I don't understand why they can't accept being wrong? Why do they feel like they appear weak by saying that they don't know something or may have made mistakes? How much more worse are the consequences later on when you inevitably do make a mistake? To err is human! I mean what kind of animals are you hanging with, that are unable to accept that you made a mistake, but you are going to do better in the future? Just today I screwed up a kitchen countertop installation and forgot to shim and the draws wouldn't fit. I ate my crow, took my ribbing and had to refit the counter top. Big deal. We all make mistakes! And believe me black and Hispanic guys don't pull punches when they are talking *** about you. 

You reap what you sow! 

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"If everyone does their part..."

What a cute notion for the unvaccinated to consider.  

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So apparently Ivermectin a donkey ?? worming drug is a better choice than the vaccine for republicans? 

Talk about making an *** of yourself because I hear the next drug of choice that Tucker Carlson has invested in, is a Camel ??? humping erector because camels apparently do not get Covid and has no need of MASKS in sandstorms ??????

 

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I am really hoping that Biden gets his *** handed to him re this Afghanistan mess and regains some humility and becomes focused! 

I actually don't blame him directly for the mess, because I think that's intelligence agencies purview and because trump likely decimated the agencies as well as destroying their morale, especially with probably the biggest most useless morons in Mike Pompeo around, their capabilities were compromised! 

Nonetheless, if at that level you haven't got people who can stand up, they literally should be flogged! Weakness, OMG, I can't stand it! 

It was Biden's responsibility to put in a good head for the dept and that person should have immediately taken stock and fired every single trump's appointees. He should have removed from position every craven employee. His head should be served up on a platter! 

Hopefully Biden can now climb down of his high horse and deal with Manchin and Sinema, get the filibuster out of the way and stack the Supreme Court. Then begin investigations into every trump judicial appointments and go after the corrupt politicians incl the Dems. Any conflict of interest or illegal contributions or kick backs, SMOKE THEM OUT and let the justice dept deal with it.

Yeah, he's got his own skeletons but he's the president now and if he sorts the filibuster out, he'll remain president! 

He's made exactly the same mistake Obama did! Instead of dealing with Citizens United instead of Obamacare, Biden has Afghanistan to now distract and occupy his time! 

Old white men and egos! Men should be banned from govt PERIOD!! 

Give the girls a chance because women just haven't got the imagination to be distracted generally! Just by the way they generally control their home environment with their focus, tells me that they are designed to manage things. My business partner is a woman and she controls everything in the office. I make the big decisions and she dissects it and we compromise. It works like a charm so far.

Women are just more detail oriented which is paramount to success! 

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Trump booed at rally!

Can I say republicans never fail to astound me of their level of foolishness! 

I actually think that they are allergic to logic, common sense and knowledge! 

If this doesn't scare republican politicians about exactly how insane their base is, they need to be psychologically examined! 

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