It’s hilarious that the entire point was to draw focus on how Biden fucked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan (while following Trump & literal Taliban combined plan), but all anybody is talking about now is how disrespectful Trump & company is. His purpose for doing this is entirely lost now.
Edit: taliban not isis
Donald Trump is not a smart man. He didn’t become the threat that he is due to his own skilful manoeuvring. He became a threat because the institutions that are supposed to oppose people like him have failed.
Now that, for the first time in his political career, he’s up against an opponent with basic competence he can’t do anything other than flail impotently.
I didn’t care for her, but Clinton I would say had more than basic competence, though she didn’t really have much charisma, is pretty unlikable, forced out Bernie Sanders, chose a completely forgettable running mate, was running as an establishment candidate in a “change” election, and has a blatant desire for power. It all worked against her, though she did still win the popular vote. Still fairly competent though.
I would argue Harris is in a similar situation as Clinton, though she apparently had the sense to at least pick someone more likable than herself and her almost invisible tenure as VP actually may work to her advantage. Otherwise, she’s not incredibly charismatic on her own and could be in trouble at the debate with Trump, though his elderly, stroke-addled brain may help her out.
But if it gets into the same sort of thing like in his debate with Biden, where Trump is just throwing out BS bombs left and right, and all Kamala does is just uselessly flail around trying to address his BS points one by one, I think she’ll be in trouble. She needs to cut through the BS and present herself as the adult in the room, and make Trump seem infantile and ridiculous.
All agreed. The Clinton’s are political animals, best of the best at the game, but Hilary doesn’t share her husband’s over-the-top charisma. She works best behind the scenes, not on camera kissing babies.
And this hilarious meme hit far too close to home.
Literally been screaming this since her time as SoS… Hill-Dawg should have run in NY’s bluest blueberry of a US House district and then taken the reigns from Pelosi in 2022. She’s masterful at running the inner party show… she got that “do it or I’ll burn your house down” energy so few people have (liken to LBJ, Pelosi, Cave Johnson, etc).
Reminds me of this Simpsons bit. But yeah, a lot of well off people (even those that are well meaning) are just completely out of touch on how many people actually live.
Clinton’s fatal flaw was picking about the worst campaign manager of all time, who did things like relying almost exclusively on software based calculations and stopped polling voters in early September.
Wait. Who was her running mate in 2016? I legitimately don’t remember. Wow.
Tim Kane. I watched his debate with pence and was impressed.
He was ok, seems like a nice guy, but just not much of a presence, it seemed obvious that Clinton didn’t want anybody that was going to overshadow her, just kind of lukewarm, which seems completely opposite to what Harris did bringing Walz on board. I think alot of people are wishing Walz was the presidential candidate instead, but it is what it is and he seems like a decent enough guy that it’ll good just to have him in the Oval Office in any capacity.
I had the exact same reaction and had to look it up. Hard to argue with the completely forgettable tag.
Kane?
Edit:Kaine
I was expecting a major crisis when Harris took over since she did abysmally in the 2020 primary. She was one of the first “serious” candidate to drop out, not even making it to 2020. Shes essentially just cruising on “not an old white guy”
I actually remember her being a standout at the debates until Tulsi Gabbard managed to latch onto a line of attack that hurt her credibility as the progressive candidate that she was presenting herself as. Shortly after that traction was lost I think she saw the writing on the wall and exited gracefully, which obviously worked in her favor because it made it easy for Biden to tap her for VP.
That’s what I had always remembered. She was one of the top candidates in 2020 up until that debate, then that one little exchange seemed to kill any traction she had. And it’s weird, because I just watched that clip from that debate again the other day, and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered it. For some reason I remember her being deer in the headlights in her response, but it was more just not answering the charges, which is just what politicians do alot anyways.
Part of me is glad that she’s gotten as much traction as she has after Biden dropped out, I would’ve never guessed she’d do as good as she’s been doing, though another part of me is annoyed at the all the people who were perfectly willing to let the fascists take over just because they weren’t excited enough to vote for an old white guy. There’s not going to be any serious change in policy with Harris becoming the candidate, it’s not like the Democratic party has changed overnight, it’s still the same policies, just a new face. I guess it’s cool if she wins, regardless of why people vote for her, but if the only reason Democrats win is just because they changed their mascot out, people are stupid.
if the only reason Democrats win is just because they changed their mascot out, people are stupid.
Yup. I recall a lot of anti Kamala propaganda around marijuana and some law she passed where parents get fined money if their kids don’t go to school. And then she poofed.
She largely bowed out because she ran out of money, and unlike others in the campaign she didn’t have pocket cash to fund her campaign herself nor rich backers clamoring for her to get in there.
No, the parents were arrested for children being truant. One had too many unexcused absences because the child had sickle-cell anemia and the single mom had to spend a lot of time dealing with the court process.
It wasn’t fines it was threatening jail and arrest. She kept people in overcrowded jails against the orders of the Supreme Court, because the county needed slaves for fire-fighting because prison firefighters cannot become wildfire firefighters when they are out of prison. She also has never pushed back against abusive police.
Her past as a tough on crime Attorney General has been recently glossed over and she won’t speak on it or admit she made mistakes.
Not much of a platform for sure but she’s absolutely humiliating Trump which seems to be working to put down the facists, so hey I’ll take it.
A candidate would be unwise to talk too much policy this late in the game. You gotta get in end zone before you can go home and fuck the prom queen.
This has Lewandowksi’s fingerprints all over it.
It’s late, and I misread this as:
This has Lebowski’s fingerprints all over it.
Needless to say I was a bit confused.
The Orange man is not the issue, MSM, also, dude, please, Orange-American.
I abide.
Fucking thank you. I’m tired of people saying he’s not stupid… This man is a fucking moron. Low cunning is not the same thing as intelligence.
literal Isis
You mean the Taliban’s plan, the US negotiated the withdrawal with the Taliban.
Yes, that’s what I meant… I’ll edit…
It is crazy to expect the Afghanistan military to fight when the US president negotiated handover of Afghanistan with the Taliban
I mean the afghan military was only marginally less awful than the Taliban, sometimes significantly worse, and they weren’t exclusive evils to the afghan people. Turns out giving money and arms to the worst psychopaths you can find to fight the other group of psychopaths you gave money and arms to doesn’t have a good outcome.
To quote an afghan before the withdrawal: We have three problems, Kabul, the Taliban, and the Americans. When the Americans leave, we will have two problems.
The us involvement in Afghanistan was truly one of the biggest blunders in a century and it didn’t have to be. It wasn’t just one president but a 20 year failure in state building, that had been run with profit in mind. The us used to be able to do this in Japan and Korea(only the South though). I believe it was the corruption and the contractors that set up such a terrible state.
Given the massacres and decades of terror under the dictatorship that were required to create modern South Korea, I wouldn’t hold it up as a success.
Even if it worked, that’s just more hypocritical nonsense.
“Biden messed up, these 13 Americans are dead. Not quite as many people as I killed by messing up a pandemic response, or by blowing the cover of American spies, but if I get in office again I’m sure my decisions will kill a lot more people. What were we talking about again?”
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Taliban_deal which was entirely negotiated and ratified by the Trump administration 🙄
If I recall Trump said “they couldn’t stop even if they tried”
Crowing about it because he will use it as an attack later. Just like the tax bomb set to raise income tax for regular Americans after Donald’s term.
Man, ever since Biden dropped out, the fascists have been even more incompetent than usual. I’m gonna assume it’s from them panicking.
Here’s the thing, a weak Democrat candidate meant the GOP could ride the curtail of a natural red wave born from voter dissatisfaction into another Trump presidency. They didn’t have to try faced with Biden so they didn’t have as many opportunities to show their incompetence.
Now democrats have rallied and the writing is on the wall that Trump isn’t good enough just by the virtue of being the republican choice. He actually has to try, which he hasn’t done since 2016, and he’s pretty bad at trying.
But they loooooove the troops, right? Right?
They love the troops like they love women: things to be talked about, controlled and used as you see fit, then thrown away and never thought of again (until there’s a scandal anyway).
Then his smarmy ass is just as guilty
Mike Johnson with actual power would be a living hell. Turkmenistan levels of living hell. If he had as much power as Trump he’d be at the very least equally as dangerous. If he actually gets his career ruined over this (doubt it) and fucks off forever i’ll sleep better at night.
Nice thought
That is just Trump showing his usual respect for the military and especially the “losers” (according to him) - those who paid the ultimate price to protect the country.
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ahahahahahahahahahahaha
Everybody has that one acquaintance that will turn the simplest favor into a glut of trouble. tRump is that acquaintance.
I hope this thing has legs and plagues them endlessly.
If only avoiding Trump was as easy as avoiding porn!
Please please please start another speakership crisis 🙏
What’s with the devil horn finger gesture two women are making in the picture?
Not seeing that. Share.
Far left woman.
She’s just pointing. The “pinky finger” of the horns is actually from the last in blue past her. If you zoom in all the way you can see the skin tone matches.
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NO
How about this one?
Wouldn’t the thumb be out for that?
https://www.lingvano.com/asl/blog/i-love-you-in-sign-language/
Yes. And also the palm would be turned out, not pointed to the signer.
That’s most definitely an asshole doing a “rock on” gesture with Trump in a cemetery.
The widow of one of the soldiers was doing it as well in another photo.
Yeah, it’s an “old” hand gesture, I’m 36 and it was out of fashion for my generation but it was still out there. Don’t think it is divisive other than doing it at a veterans cemetery.
Nah, you just didn’t hang in the proper circles. The ‘rock on’ symbol may be out of fashion, but ‘devil horns’ (same gesture) have always been cool.
I’m the same age as you, and I’ve been to so many shows over the last 2 decades where people were throwing horns and acts were calling on the crowd to throw them too.
Still super inapropes for a cemetery tho.
Yes, and palm facing the person. It’s a combination of the signed letters I, L, Y.
Oh, the explanation in literally in the link. -.-
Pretty sure it’s the University of Texas’
A&M university’s“hook 'em” sign.Is Trump actually giving a thumbs up then, or is he doing A&M’s “Gig 'em”?
Bunch of fucking narcissistics, disgracing the memory of the one member of their family who was actually worth a shit, just to get attention for their worthless asses.
ut = hook 'em, a&m = gig 'em
You’re right, my bad. I corrected my comment.
You suck at this.
You don’t think those two look the same? Geez everyone’s a critic
No
This is another guy I feel is untrustworthy just based on his face alone.
It has a sort of “I raped your cat but you can’t prove it” energy.
He does have the face of someone who’s shat themselves and can’t figure out how to get up and leave the room without everyone knowing.
It was the whole. Family porn tracking app thing that skeeved me the fuck out.
Imagine being the secret service IT guy who has to build a firewall around that creepy fuck’s wank bank for National Security interests.
I very much so need some kind of source to read. Not because I don’t believe you, I am very interested in what you’re talking About. Lol
I hit a paywall. Here is a link to the archived page which will bypass the paywall.
Yeah I’ll leave that link blue. I think the headline is enough for me.
He reminds me a lot of Michael Gove
Obligatory Gove clapping gif
do all these guys have baby hands
Would explain why they’re all obviously compensating for some inadequacy.
Using dead soldiers as a political prop. Keep it classy, Republicans.
Support the Troops was only a catchy political slogan.
