IGotWorms

Trump initially did a fantastic job on the vaccine — really quite impressive. But for some reason, he then decided to sabotage his own success on the COVID response. I’ll never understand why. Anyway, I mostly agree with you though — Trump made the vaccine pretty widely available. Problem was he then went into conspiracy land on whether people should get it and was touting sh1t like ivermectin and bleach instead.

It’s never pretty when you have to tuck and run. Put another way, we lost 2,402 US lives in Afghanistan (many more grievously wounded, of course). Thirteen of those were under Biden’s watch. And so that none would ever die again. It’s terrible those thirteen lives were lost among with the 2,400 others, but this is a pretty dumb thing to hang on Biden.

I didn’t love the drone strikes either but it’s not even remotely the same thing

Hard to run when you’re down 30 points. But yeah, I think Bijan has a good setup. I’m high on him

I’m not too worried about Kosovo and such. It’s the Iraq and Afghanistan quagmires that we’ve got to avoid. I also don’t worry too much about paying for it. What the right used to understand is that it’s generally a good thing if most of the rest of the world is dependent on you. It helps us keep our spot on top and benefits us tremendously. Also it’s not like we’re going to slash the military budget, we do have to keep that strong in case Russia or China or whomever got ideas. Yes, there are burdens in leading NATO, but it has also made us the wealthiest country in the history of the world.

This is why I rarely go to Walmart

Blame America first. Time was, that was a liberal problem

lol, that was good

Good: - got us out of Afghanistan for good - avoided Great Depression with pandemic aid (Trump deserves credit too) - inflation reduction act is most important thing we’ve ever done on climate. Probably still too little, but it’s big - infrastructure investment was very badly needed - response to Russia invading Ukraine could not have been better - nailed that whole stupid fiscal cliff showdown Bad: - inflation but it’s a necessary evil as opposed to Great Depression from pandemic That’s about it on a macro level. I could quibble with many smaller issues like his initial response to Maui destruction. And the issues with his loser son continue to plague him. But overall I actually think he has been excellent and moderate

Because Haley supports nato and the Ukraine? Nah. You do realize NATO prevents conflict, right? Can’t attack a nato country because of the mutual defense pact. Now I suppose you’ll give me some Putin propaganda line

Glad those Iowans aren’t buying the Vivek act. Haley would be a good choice.

Not on here, and I don’t know those people IRL either. There are certainly crazies on the left too, but I’m not in their thrall. Can’t say the same for you guys, unfortunately

Obummer has a bad history on drone strikes and I’m not sure he did the best job inheriting W’s messes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he did not start any wars, at least not where US ground troops and so forth were concerned.

It’s weird how much of your identity is wrapped up in this. But that’s what happens with cult followers

These are the people you associate with And no, I don’t like war hawks. In fact one of the positive things I say about Trump is he didn’t start a war. Of course, neither has anyone else since W, who was awful for that very reason

Sure it takes a whole team to get there. But Jimmy is capable of it — not something we can say or Derek carr for sure

Touting genocide now. Nice

Pretty solid other than Addison. I’d settle for top 25

You guys act like Carr was great. He’s okay. That’s it. Jimmy GQ has taken teams to the conference finals and a Super Bowl. But he can’t stay healthy. So I’d say it’s much closer to a wash than some huge downgrade

Lol wut?

The safest assumption is that it’s mostly all propaganda. Which I recognize. Whereas you guys are too busy throating Putin’s cack to consider whether you’re being lied to.

I think it’s mostly because they don’t work for the kremlin. Unlike you, they’re not too interested in pushing Russian propaganda

Interesting. Makes some sense advancement would come easier. But on the other hand, you gotta watch your flank so you don’t become encircled.

I think your reading skills need work as it seems the consensus is that Christie, Pence and Hayley were decent. Probably Tim Scott too but his performance wasn’t great, and the two old dudes on the end have no shot but they seem alright too. HTH

Actually she said they were all deplorable human beings. Turns out Hillary was right about something