>>9251899Well, to start, it takes guts to stand up to the military industrial complex and pull out of an occupation. It doesn’t make Biden a cuck. Trump had Taliban visit Camp David and he didn’t even talk to them about how they were hired by Russia to take out American soldiers. That’s cuck behavior.
And the lockdown isn’t bullshit. It might’ve saved lives if Republicans hadn’t started their bullshit rhetoric about “muh freedoms” to not wear masks or take vaccines. We’re one of the only countries where this is a problem, and it’s specific to political parties. When polled, 4% of democrats said they wouldn’t get the vaccine, but for republicans it’s 41%.
On TOP of that, Trump had a slam dunk for re-election. If he had bothered to try, or even just let the experts run things, COVID could’ve been squashed and he would’ve won re-election by a landslide. But he couldn’t do that, he had to actively obstruct efforts to save lives, minus pushing for a vaccine, which was never going to happen on a timeline that would help his re-election.
My own personal opinions aside, Trump goofed, whether it’s the Taliban, COVID, China, etc. It’s possible to think Biden is making a mistake by leaving Afghanistan: we were there for 20 years and $2 trillion later, we pull out and nothings changed. But Afghanistan is practically a feudal state: it’s next to impossible to get the various warlord leaders to work together. Without the US to back them up, they fled too. The US can’t prop up a nation that won’t fight for itself. Way I see it, Biden is correcting a huge Bush-era mistake, which was motivated by war profiteering in the first place.
Biden isn’t great, in my eyes. Far from it. He still props up a lot of Bush- and Obama-era bullshit I’d like to see gone. But pulling out of Afghanistan and promoting getting vaccinated are both good in my book.
I’m down to talk about PR instead. This isn’t the place for politics.
