Trump won that district both times….
Belly up, fired, and retired
El Goodo a fine Welsh band call it a day
Chris Davis
shemptiness wrote:
Chris Davis
he will still receive the rest of his salary for this year, and $17M for next year. being paid after you leave… great gig if you can get it.
That may just be the worst signing ever (the big contract)
Something really fishy the way he fell of a cliff
Something really fishy the way he fell of a cliff
sweetcell wrote:
he will still receive the rest of his salary for this year, and $17M for next year. being paid after you leave… great gig if you can get it.
Sorry, I should have checked here first. It's way worse than that - see the O's thread.
Starsky wrote:
That may just be the worst signing ever (the big contract)
Something really fishy the way he fell of a cliff
The O's knew he was on Adderall and never anticipated he would lose the exemption with MLB. once that was gone, so were his contributions to the offense.
Jamie Spears
Tony Bennett
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tony-bennett-cancels-fall-tour-retires-from-performing-live
One of the greats
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tony-bennett-cancels-fall-tour-retires-from-performing-live
One of the greats
Gallup's contribution to the Cure's sound is immense, the bass lines carry most cure songs
Spoken like a true bassist
Afghanistan.
I know we had to just get out, but seems like we could have just negotiated a power transfer with the Taliban instead of this
Do we think it's going to be a blood bath for sympathizers
I know we had to just get out, but seems like we could have just negotiated a power transfer with the Taliban instead of this
Do we think it's going to be a blood bath for sympathizers
Trump did negotiate.
This is it.
I don’t think people quite understand that this is what it looks like when you say you are done somewhere particularly in Afghanistan with these savages when they had already taken over a lot of the country. Nobody in the ex Afghani government was going to stand up and fight the Taliban because they knew there was no way they could stand up to them without the assurance of American support.
This is the natural consequence of decades of failed policy. Unfortunately Biden is left holding the bag and the real responsible parties- the complicit US media, the former generals who insisted on staying, the neocons that came up with these wars, the Republican politicians etc just sit around pointing angrily at Biden and blaming him for turning out the light.
The naïveté and ignorance of the American people off the charts as usual: “Hey I was happy to ignore this “war” for ten years and now all of a sudden I am tuning in and WTF!!”
And all of a sudden Republicans care about our allies within Afghanistan? Where was this thinking when Trump gave carte Blanche to the Turks to do their worst with the Kurds?
It’s maddening
War is ugly… losing even if it was unwinnable and we weren’t even trying to win is uglier
Think of the money we spent there the past ten years just to prevent these images! Because we were accomplishing nothing! Someone had to man up. This President did
This is it.
I don’t think people quite understand that this is what it looks like when you say you are done somewhere particularly in Afghanistan with these savages when they had already taken over a lot of the country. Nobody in the ex Afghani government was going to stand up and fight the Taliban because they knew there was no way they could stand up to them without the assurance of American support.
This is the natural consequence of decades of failed policy. Unfortunately Biden is left holding the bag and the real responsible parties- the complicit US media, the former generals who insisted on staying, the neocons that came up with these wars, the Republican politicians etc just sit around pointing angrily at Biden and blaming him for turning out the light.
The naïveté and ignorance of the American people off the charts as usual: “Hey I was happy to ignore this “war” for ten years and now all of a sudden I am tuning in and WTF!!”
And all of a sudden Republicans care about our allies within Afghanistan? Where was this thinking when Trump gave carte Blanche to the Turks to do their worst with the Kurds?
It’s maddening
War is ugly… losing even if it was unwinnable and we weren’t even trying to win is uglier
Think of the money we spent there the past ten years just to prevent these images! Because we were accomplishing nothing! Someone had to man up. This President did
This kind of sums up my thinking
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/biden-afghanistan-taliban-reality/619776/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/biden-afghanistan-taliban-reality/619776/
Starsky wrote:can confirm
The naïveté and ignorance of the American people off the charts as usual: “Hey I was happy to ignore this “war” for ten years and now all of a sudden I am tuning in and WTF!!”
although I have been paying attention, just didn't have an inkling of a better way to do it
Kinda wish we could have made a collation of countries in the region interested in helping, but that wasn't going to happen
that was fucked up in Syria and I know Trump didn't give two shits
Where was this thinking when Trump gave carte Blanche to the Turks to do their worst with the Kurds?
didn't help him, so why should he care
Well, I didn’t really mean you….
Situation sucks for sure
But I don’t accept that we owe every Afghani a better life in perpetuity
We pumped in a hell of a lot of $, blood and capital…
It was a mistake but if it hadn’t been for us the taliban would have remained in power the past 20 years (not that the 2002-2021 government was great…)
Anytime any American tells you we owe Afghani translators or the Afghani people tell them to take a walk around West Baltimore… those are the people we owe
Situation sucks for sure
But I don’t accept that we owe every Afghani a better life in perpetuity
We pumped in a hell of a lot of $, blood and capital…
It was a mistake but if it hadn’t been for us the taliban would have remained in power the past 20 years (not that the 2002-2021 government was great…)
Anytime any American tells you we owe Afghani translators or the Afghani people tell them to take a walk around West Baltimore… those are the people we owe
Blame for Afghanistan:
GWBush: 80%
Obama: 17%
Trump: 2%
Biden: 1%
GWBush: 80%
Obama: 17%
Trump: 2%
Biden: 1%
Starsky wrote:
Anytime any American tells you we owe Afghani translators or the Afghani people tell them to take a walk around West Baltimore… those are the people we owe
imma fight you on that one. the afghani people in general - sure, we don't owe them much. but the translators who put their lives on the line to help the US? damn straight we owe them. they put their lives on the line, and their lives are currently on the line. just because the US didn't "win" (whatever the hell that would have looked like) doesn't mean we get to abandon our direct allies.
We owe Afghani translators more than Americans in Baltimore?
Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit and go walk around West Baltimore before talking any further
Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit and go walk around West Baltimore before talking any further
Starsky wrote:Perhaps we can owe more than one group of people something simultaneously. Sweets did not say “we owe afghani translators MORE than we owe our own citizens.” This is idea that there’s some highly finite amount of kindness we have to dole out and anything we give to group A is good off the table of group B is a fallacy.
We owe Afghani translators more than Americans in Baltimore?
Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit and go walk around West Baltimore before talking any further