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Author Topic: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!  (Read 31210 times)

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2021, 03:17:47 PM »
Now, Trump rolls into office, upsetting rice bowls left and right. He looks at Afghanistan and says, 'OK, enough is enough. Time to bring our boys home.' He makes a diplomatic overture to the Taliban, secures an exit date of May 1st, 2021, and informs the Afghani government that it's time they put their big boy pants on and stop fucking around.

Unfortunately, the PTB don't LIKE that, and Trump 'loses' the election. Biden rolls in, and because the derp state/proggy narrative is to NEVER EVER let Trump have a point in the win column, Biden's handlers opt to alter the deal. Except they're not Darth fuckin' Vader.

So if Trump was in charge, he would have handed the keys over to the Taliban three months sooner and in a more orderly fashion. I get how that is better than a disorderly withdrawal later, but I don't think that huge a difference as implied by the original post. The Taliban would still be in charge and millions of Afghans terrified.
Again, refer to my above post. The Afghanis were going to be fucked regardless of what happened.

But we spent twenty fucking years there. If they can't figure out that dealing with the Taliban was a bad deal in 20 years, then we can do nothing for them. It's polishing the turd. It's trying to 'save' a drug addict who hasn't hit his rock bottom yet.

My educated guess is that Trump would've pulled us out and left the keys. Taking with us any 'undesirables' (read: Afghani allies, interpreters, or women who didn't feel like putting on the burka again), as well as our equipment.

But this is clearly what you wanted, right? A confused mad dash for the doors, because our airlift capacity is being used to ferry illegals across the U.S. instead of being used to move ACTUAL allies and equipment that MY GOD DAMN TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR.

So FUCK your snotty little 'oh so it would've been different'. There's thousands of actual AMERICANS marooned there now because of this incompetent pack of retards.  Thanks so much for your vote. I hope you're proud of it.
Just keep sharing your delusions by lashing out at everybody that has stated they don't like what's happening just because you want to believe differently to support your narrative.
Someone got a little tingle from watching Afghanis fall off the plane, I see.

Not really surprising though. You probably deluded yourself into believing Sleepy Joe's rambling incoherent speech (before he raced back off to hide) was 'stunning and brave'.
Look more of your nonsense where you erroneously suggest what others believe.  You really are a worthless piece of shit and bad at guessing too.
Yawn. It hasn't dawned on you yet, has it? I find it pleasing to gain the hatred of the contemptible, like you.

So were you Ridin' with Biden? Are you regretting it now?
At least you're asking questions now instead of just presuming. And no, I'm not pro-Joe.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #46 on: August 17, 2021, 03:23:19 PM »
But I seriously fuckin' doubt the departure would've been as shambolic under, well, anyone else. Hell, even Carter couldn't have fucked this one so badly.

I watched the "Tucker Carlson" and "Steve Hilton" videos. When their rant is basically indistinguishable from what the far-left (the honest ones) is saying, and, even more worryingly, they make sense, you just know that this fuck-up is for the ages.
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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #47 on: August 17, 2021, 03:24:15 PM »
Surely the US won't have to do much work; only 3% of the population is fully vaxxed in Afghanistan. Covid must be ravaging the whole country; especially with the new variant.


Jokes aside, what is the formal explanation as to why America is in Afghanistan in the first place? I'm a bit out of the loop
The joke is actually your second point--what is Amwrica doing in Afghanistan.

As to the serious part of your post, far more Afghanis support wearing facial covers.  Apparently it doesn't interfere with their ability to carry "assault" weapons.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #48 on: August 17, 2021, 03:27:54 PM »
Surely the US won't have to do much work; only 3% of the population is fully vaxxed in Afghanistan. Covid must be ravaging the whole country; especially with the new variant.


Jokes aside, what is the formal explanation as to why America is in Afghanistan in the first place? I'm a bit out of the loop
The joke is actually your second point--what is Amwrica doing in Afghanistan.

As to the serious part of your post, far more Afghanis support wearing facial covers.  Apparently it doesn't interfere with their ability to carry "assault" weapons.

  Well, its because the ones with face covers dont carry the guns.  But sure the ones who "support" wearing them, meaning making sure people wear them with the threat of violence if they do not, while of course they themselves do not have to wear them might be making a point you were not looking for.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #49 on: August 17, 2021, 03:31:36 PM »
But I seriously fuckin' doubt the departure would've been as shambolic under, well, anyone else. Hell, even Carter couldn't have fucked this one so badly.

I watched the "Tucker Carlson" and "Steve Hilton" videos. When their rant is basically indistinguishable from what the far-left (the honest ones) is saying, and, even more worryingly, they make sense, you just know that this fuck-up is for the ages.
The fun part has been watching people desperately try to spin this as anything other than a colossal clusterfuck. And they can't.

It's not JUST the panicked rout, and the Afghanis clinging to planes and falling off. It's the fact that the entire goddamn Bidenharris administration seemed to go on vacation and only returned when their phones wouldn't stop ringing.

(Someone suggested that Jen Psaki's vacation was due to a nervous breakdown. If so, I can't blame her.)


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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #50 on: August 17, 2021, 03:36:24 PM »
Surely the US won't have to do much work; only 3% of the population is fully vaxxed in Afghanistan. Covid must be ravaging the whole country; especially with the new variant.


Jokes aside, what is the formal explanation as to why America is in Afghanistan in the first place? I'm a bit out of the loop
The joke is actually your second point--what is Amwrica doing in Afghanistan.

As to the serious part of your post, far more Afghanis support wearing facial covers.  Apparently it doesn't interfere with their ability to carry "assault" weapons.

  Well, its because the ones with face covers dont carry the guns.  But sure the ones who "support" wearing them, meaning making sure people wear them with the threat of violence if they do not, while of course they themselves do not have to wear them might be making a point you were not looking for.
It's like you've gone anti-conservative all of a sudden.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #51 on: August 17, 2021, 03:44:41 PM »


That's a sweet gaming table. Their group is a little large tho. And they look like they have the worst end of the gamer-hygiene spectrum.


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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #52 on: August 17, 2021, 03:50:10 PM »
Surely the US won't have to do much work; only 3% of the population is fully vaxxed in Afghanistan. Covid must be ravaging the whole country; especially with the new variant.


Jokes aside, what is the formal explanation as to why America is in Afghanistan in the first place? I'm a bit out of the loop
The joke is actually your second point--what is Amwrica doing in Afghanistan.

As to the serious part of your post, far more Afghanis support wearing facial covers.  Apparently it doesn't interfere with their ability to carry "assault" weapons.

  Well, its because the ones with face covers dont carry the guns.  But sure the ones who "support" wearing them, meaning making sure people wear them with the threat of violence if they do not, while of course they themselves do not have to wear them might be making a point you were not looking for.
It's like you've gone anti-conservative all of a sudden.

  I have never been conservative.  maybe take your own advice about knowing what people think?

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #53 on: August 17, 2021, 03:50:46 PM »


That's a sweet gaming table. Their group is a little large tho. And they look like they have the worst end of the gamer-hygiene spectrum.

  I think not, dice will bounce off that thing like a bb off a steel barrel.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #54 on: August 17, 2021, 03:51:23 PM »


That's a sweet gaming table. Their group is a little large tho. And they look like they have the worst end of the gamer-hygiene spectrum.

In their defense, they discovered that they had to rush there while they weren't still prepared for it.
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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #55 on: August 17, 2021, 03:53:21 PM »
I think not, dice will bounce off that thing like a bb off a steel barrel.

You're one of the dice-spikers? Savage.

I use a dice-roller-octagon thing. Or my deep-ass Savage Worlds box lid. Would work great on that table. The only problem would be the screams of the people they're burning in the cages outside. That would get annoying fast.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #56 on: August 17, 2021, 03:54:30 PM »
I think not, dice will bounce off that thing like a bb off a steel barrel.

You're one of the dice-spikers? Savage.

I use a dice-roller-octagon thing. Or my deep-ass Savage Worlds box lid. Would work great on that table. The only problem would be the screams of the people they're burning in the cages outside. That would get annoying fast.

   That and the overwhelming smell of the dudes who have not yet had their monthly bath after many nights of goat - love.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #57 on: August 17, 2021, 03:54:38 PM »
In their defense, they discovered that they had to rush there while they weren't still prepared for it.

That guy GMing looks like a weak-ass 5e Module GM. Just oozing lack of confidence.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #58 on: August 17, 2021, 03:55:00 PM »
I think not, dice will bounce off that thing like a bb off a steel barrel.

You're one of the dice-spikers? Savage.

I use a dice-roller-octagon thing. Or my deep-ass Savage Worlds box lid. Would work great on that table. The only problem would be the screams of the people they're burning in the cages outside. That would get annoying fast.

   That and the overwhelming smell of the dudes who have not yet had their monthly bath after many nights of goat - love.

It's like Gen Con.

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Re: Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!
« Reply #59 on: August 17, 2021, 03:55:52 PM »
In their defense, they discovered that they had to rush there while they weren't still prepared for it.

That guy GMing looks like a weak-ass 5e Module GM. Just oozing lack of confidence.

  He is just pissed he didnt get one of those sweet 'Murican rifles being handed over or dropped by the 'resistance' and is still stuck with that AK.