He takes advantage by tapping in to the American love of their military. For most politicians this would be quite straight forward. Not for Trump.
The opening is there, i'm just not sure Trump will be able to take full advantage because he's an idiot. It's up to those around him more than him.
I don't see how it would be straightforward for any politician if they were committed to essentially the same policy as the man they are criticising and in fact set him out almost irreversibly on the broad course he ended up taking. Of course another politician might be able to say "With my renowned administrative skills and attention to detail, I would have managed the withdrawal process much more efficiently than Biden", but I not sure that line would have much credibility coming from Trump.
Perception is more important than reality.
All Trump has to say is we were humiliated and here is the proof and play the clips of chaos and soldiers criticising Biden over and over again.
Trump is not going to be explaining anything. He never has. All he has to do is stick to the script.
You have to understand how much Americans love and respect the US military to know how much of a disaster the last week has been for the Biden administration.
It defies belief they allowed themselves get in to this mess.
We spent the last 4 years slagging Trump and his incompetence but what has happened here is at the very top of anything Trump did in his term.
It's a public relations disaster.
Not so sure, in two years time when it’s time to start getting into election mode I think the big thing remembered will be we’re not in Afghanistan anymore and our soldiers aren’t dying there. I suspect people will remember the ends more than the means.
I'm not really seeing how Biden let the military down here? Okay if you're position is "We should have stayed the course in Afghanistan until a friendly government was ready to take over" you can argue he did but that's not Trump's line. I mean US soldiers are not being killed or taken hostage or humiliated in any blatant way at the moment. Stuff like helping babies over the airport fence, I'd imagine most Americans would see as a pretty honourable role for the Army in the circumstances.
Basically, if you're a patriotic American who strongly supports the military but believes they should have been brought home from Afghanistan long ago, I don't see what strong pitch Trump has to make to you on the back of this week's events.
Okay, so you think the audits are important because you have doubts about the validity of the election, but don't know or care about the quality of the audits? The mind boggles, quite frankly.
It's no more than a speed bump. In a month's time, nobody will be worrying about Biden's good or bad performance over the past 10 days. Maybe a few of Trump's useful idiots. But nobody else.
I'd say the average American will be more bothered that Trump spent $15 billion of taxpayer money on this.
It will. There are some serious global issues thundering down the track that will put Afghanistan in the halfpenny place.
Lost CNN? They are just doing their job, unlike the fake news media of Fox, OANN and the rest of the alt-right republican mouthpieces
Those latter companies aren't media, they're propaganda
There's no real "opening" here. Trump is the guy who called the US military "losers". People don't forget that kind of childish gibberish.
The fact of the matter is that any shade that Trump attempts to throw on this Afghanistan situation will only end up getting thrown back in his face and rightly so. So far all he's done was say "I would have done it better", which is absolute bollocks. He just would have done it in May and he said he was sticking to that idea in the second week of April.
There's nothing here that the Republicans or Trump can really take advantage of because the box Biden opened released all the shit that last administration put inside. That's why Trump and co. have been reluctant to go to town on it. They know they'll end up getting slapped in the face worse. I'm sure that there are people "around him" that are looking for an advantage here. But the truth is that there's little to play with because of their own very deep involvement.
Oh I seem to have forgotten the next presidential election was this week, my bad.
How would this do anything? Biden is bringing them home.
What could Trump say about the love of the military that would top that?
Trump Rally in 20 minutes
Should be good
https://twitter.com/Trump_Detester/status/1429135057508347908?s=19
Coronavirus will enjoy it anyway.
I'd say they will be bothered that Biden has lost the southern border, voters in the states along the border won't forget that!
Sick and tired? Donald Trump had a deal which would have wrapped up Afghanistan by May this year. This was extended for no good reason for September 11th. No fresh deal was negotiated with the Taleban. His deal was more satisfactory to the 'sick and tired' constituency. If the ANA was to topple, it was far better it happened in the context after the planned evacuation of US troops and civilians, plus those of allies. Joe Biden was asserting that the ANA had 300,000 troop against a far smaller Taleban number, which even if true, which it wasn't, ignored how few of that 300,000 could be termed 'effectives.' US trainers embedded with Afghan troops found them risible. The contrast has to be drawn with how the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan lasted three years after Soviet withdrawal, and close to a year after Soviet aid ended, and its ideology was far more repugnant to Muslims than a state claiming to be an Islamic Republic. The failures aren't all Joe Biden's failing by any means, but the Trump deal suggests he was apprised of how useless their Afghan ally was. Yet this messy withdrawal, and the confused response, will put all the failing on to the Biden Presidency.
Returning directly to the topic, Donald Trump showed that there is no particular need for to court the legendary 'middle ground.' Donald Trump must have noted the US culture of celebrity, so instead of playing down his show man traits, he played them up. The answer to your question might be yes, for the Trump Presidency saw energy independence as the US was no longer a net importer, and a huge jobs bonanza. Instead frivolous and destructive measures like cancelling the Keystone XL pipelines sacrificing thousands of Union jobs for the construction, and later as oil exported from Alberta Canada in a far more efficient way stimulated economic growth on both sides of the borders. Job growth set records until COVID appeared. Electric cars cannot replace petrol and diesel unless the US energy infrastructure improves by some miracle and far more power is generated. Trump offers certainly and confidence over uncertainty and diffidence.
Joe Biden needs to sack his advisors and speechwriters, for his Presidency projects an image of confusion and arrogance. Kamala Harris is very unpopular and seems averse to icky things like the US border. A President has to be able to inspire hope and confidence, which so far Joe Biden has not shown any ability to inspire.
If he doesn't change how things are going, every thing that went wrong under Trump will be utterly forgotten, like how the Soviets, the Russians are remembered with a degree of nostalgia compared to the just withdrawn Coalition, who were perceived as both pious and brutal.
He actually managed to tell people to get the vaccine
About time. He's been trying to veer away from their wrath. The crowd reaction was mixed, the Trump caucus is split on the vaccine.
No surprise about the crowd: It's Alabama. He carried 62% of the vote in 2020 and the area he spoke too was deeply red, situated smack between 2 metro areas. And they're not exactly falling over themselves to distance or get vaccinated, the AL hospital system is inundated.
I strongly doubt that is true.
That design wall pre-dates Trump by quite a few years. It is the same design as failed during the Nogales flooding in 2014.
In the meantime, Greece has been working on its wall.
The man is an idiot. I honestly can’t believe the cheers and laughs for “everything woke turns to ****” line. It’s like something you’d hear at a primary school playground.
But you can see how lines like that work on idiots, they’ll latch on and applaud it like it makes any sense. They’ll cheer and repeat it because they are idiots.
The constant revisionism is funny to be fair. If Trump was there right now and I would imagine the Taliban would have done the same, remember it was Trump that legitimised them, and don't forget Trump reckons the army are losers particularly those that are caught, the whataboutery would have been incredible. It was always going to be a shitshow, Biden for his failings is somewhat owning the show though. Can't see Trump ever doing that.
The picture I posted is of Trump's wall. The area that photo was taken in did not have a wall pre-Trump.
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Here are some more photos.
What's definitely going to stop migrants after hundred of miles of walking through desert is a 15 foot fence that they were expecting would be there. Money well spent.
Also, Trump is getting booed by his own supporters now. His next presidential run will go swimmingly.
No, because they haven't. Try Googling better.
What humanitarian crisis?
You need to read up better on the political history between Greece and Turkey before making false equivalencies
Shocker. Trump says things to Trumpists who went to see Trump because they are Trumpists and would believe anything he says even though it may contradict their own beliefs or indeed contradict something Trump himself said. And even with that, how many Trumpists attending that propaganda show will no longer be around in a few months after they have battled with COVID.
Scanning posts for solid arguments and facts backed up by links.
Found none. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Why post when you're not going to make an actual argument? Are you just here for the pleasant conversation?
New account.
Trump lap dog.
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