Someone needs to get Biden a pair of sunglasses

[vercetti2021]

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To tell it how it is. He has nerves of steel. He has a lot more than the previous guy to tell the cold hard truth about Afghanistan. He is willing to get the ridiculous grilling from the Q-tips, the bullshit media and sadly some of our own.

I give Biden huge fucking props to being truthful and blunt about Afghanistan.

Edit. Fixed it since it was coming off as sexist. Don't wanna offend anyone and that wasn't the point of my post. So sorry if I offended anyone

[BannonsLiver]

1. He has a long record on this

He opposed the surge, and has been proven correct in that opposition. We spent $400 billion over 3 years. It was the primary policy disagreement I had with Obama in 8 years of an otherwise stellar administration.

[Bleacher Creature]

19. I'm reading "A Promised Land" right now and that's the most surprising thing I've read so far.

I didn't realize how much Biden felt like he got burned by his Iraq vote and how adamant he was against the 2009 surge.

I'm with him 100%.

[madaboutharry]

2. I support President Joe Biden.

I think this was the right thing to do. I also think there was an intelligence failure that missed the should have been obvious fact that the Afghans wouldn’t fight.

I believe that at the end of the day history will view Biden’s decision as the right one.

[Buckeyeblue]

4. I agree. It's almost like the fix was in the way the Afghan army folded

I agree with Biden. If the Afghan army won't fight for there freedom, why should US soldiers.

[NJCher]

25. I've read a few pieces tonight

That say the fix was in. If I wasn’t on this iPad I’d post them. Check out an opinion by Jill Laurence at USA Today.

[rockfordfile]

42. fix? It was always bs from the start 20 years ago

[Frasier Balzov]

3. He did an excellent job speaking today.

[viva la]

5. I thought his point about not passing this war on to a FIFTH president was a good one.

And you know, really, it's a year to the next Congress election. Americans have very short memories when it comes to foreign affairs. It makes political sense to get out of this debacle early.

[vercetti2021]

6. Most support ending this shit

Only people that are throwing a bitch fit are people that hate Biden anyway. It's all just red meat for stupid dogs. Even some repukes on my Facebook are supporting this because its overdue. So these idiot cons are barking up an issue that the very little minority is on their side for.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Amen

[Faux pas]

8. Kicketty Kickin'

[BigmanPigman]

9. He is acting the way a real POTUS is supposed to act.

The "buck stops with him" is the opposite approach that the fucking moron used for 4 years. Nothing was ever his fault unless it was something great and he could take credit for it.

[Martin68]

10. vercetti, I agree with your point about Biden's courage and honesty, but object to your metaphor.

Have you ever even heard of sexism? Isn't it possible a woman could have made the same decision as Biden without needing to cart testacles around in a wheelbarrow? Time to sweep out the old, tired memes of the 1950s and find some more appropriate ones for the 2020s. Just sayin.'

[vercetti2021]

12. I have

Kinda funny since I'm a woman with balls transgender and all I would say the same if a woman did the same.

[Martin68]

13. OK. Sorta sad that you are stuck with testacles as a metaphor for courage and determination.

[vercetti2021]

15. I just poke fun at myself sometimes

And I don't. Courage comes in many forms not just balls. I just thought it took a lot of them for him to finally say what needed to be said

[Martin68]

18. I totally agree.

[samnsara]

11. i respect him more every day

[George II]

14. As Nicole Wallace said this afternoon - 95% of the people (us) will like his speech, but 95%....

....of the media will criticize it. I call that a "win-win"!

PS - my wife and I several years ago were discussing getting old (she was a nurse for 40 years). She told me that someday I'd need a wheelbarrow for my scrotum! But that's a completely different story from Biden's speech this afternoon. That was GREAT!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. After telling the truth

If you look carefully at satallite images you can see his balls from space.

Go Biden keep telling the truth to the American people.

Tell the truth about republicans and thier PACs agendas and who donated shitloads of money to them and why.

And your balls would become the size of Jupiter.

[vercetti2021]

17. Haha

Okay that got a chuckle outta me. But I didn't know it was sexist to say balls of steel? I'm thinking of how to change my thread topic so it doesn't come off that way

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. I don't think it's sexist

Because you are referring to a man.

But ovaries the size of Saturn,belong to Kamala !

[vercetti2021]

22. My mom always said

Vagina of vibranium. The strongest metal known in the marvel universe. My mom is funny lol

[Treefrog]

40. Being a woman really has very little to do with the genitals.

Hopefully, you’ll understand this as you transition.

Both men and women can be strong, and neither has genitals made out of any sort of metal.

[vercetti2021]

41. I know this

Just what my mom has said many times and idk I always found it funny

[NJCher]

26. Say nerves of steel

Eom

[vercetti2021]

31. I did

Thanks

[Stuart G]

24. ...Telling the Truth?...He knows how to do that? Yes, he does. Most of us do...

But the last guy didn't know that word...truth...

The last guy only knew one word.....lie...

[AlexSFCA]

21. IMO, one of best foreign policy decisions in a generation - to pull out of the foreign war

Biden will always be remembered for it, prioritizing lives of US troops and taxpayers money. For the first time since trump, MSM found a bone to chew on and they hammer it with this topic 24/7 instead of focusing on far more important domestic issues.

[Schmice3]

23. OUCH!!!!

Giant scrotal lymphoedema. Not good.

[albacore]

27. I have a bad feeling that this could really get bad...

... and I feel bad that Biden will reap a shitstorm when the evacuation really turns to shit. Nightmare shit.... Taliban using captured heavy weapons to fire at planes on the runway. Street executions. Women stoned. Our rear guard fighting for their lives, with Biden helpless to use air support because the civilians - even our allies - mixed in the fighting.
As I say.. nightmare.

Biden is in charge of a hopeless situation. I love the guy, but he's not a miracle worker.

The NVA tacitly gave us time to get Americans out of Saigon. I don't believe the Taliban are that civilized.

[Jon King]

29. Yeah, we ought to chill on our Biden predictions.

It remains to be seen if this ends in just the current mess that is forgotten in a month, or a worst case nightmare that destroys the Presidency.

Remember this is not a one off issue for Repugs to harvest for their campaigns.....they are tying it to 'high crime', defund the police, and their constant harping that our borders are a disaster.

Drip, drip, drip Repug ads as how Biden can not make us safer....might just take away suburban women voters.

[Slammer]

38. memories

The public has a very short memory for most things. If it didn't happen in the last three months, it might as well not have happened at all.

I don't think TV stations would allow campaign commercials to show Afghans falling in mid-air from the evacuation airplanes. The other images we've seen are disturbing on some level but not compelling.

Now if the Taliban is stupid enough to schedule daily public execution of collaborators right before the mid-term elections, that could have a lot of impact.

[Gaugamela]

28. Why is valor masculine? It seems to me that Biden's strength here is that he let go of obvious

cliches about patriarchal dominance, and used his whole sense of self to see what was staring him in the face. What he did was heroic, but he doesn’t need a wheelbarrow to carry his “balls of steel”. Many women have played a part in this. Tammy Duckworth, Medea Benjamin, Ilhan Omar, Gabby Giffords, Amy Goodman. This fetishization of male genitalia is what drives the right and the Capitol insurrectionists and the QANON crowd. And frankly it’s offensive. Let it go, please.

[vercetti2021]

30. Again I'm sorry

I'll change the description.

[Gaugamela]

32. Here's to you!

[vercetti2021]

33. Please understand this

I'm transitioning to female and I'm trying to rid my vocabulary of alot of toxic sayings still like this.

[Gaugamela]

34. My respects. Please don't take it personally. I felt that I needed to say something.

[vercetti2021]

35. You weren't the only one

I didn't want this thread to get derailed over it

[Gaugamela]

36. Your point was well taken, and I appreciate the sentiment. We're on the same side.

I wish nothing but good thoughts. May the peace be with you.

[Slammer]

37. sunglasses

I'm disappointed that we're not talking about sunglasses.

Biden has a severe sensitivity to light, probably from untreated cataracts (I have the same issue).

Every time he gets into intense light, he squints so much that it's distracting from whatever he's trying to say.

His staff needs to do a better job of setting up speaking outside speaking venues so that the light isn't in his face. And measure how much light he can tolerate without needing to squint so they can adjust the indoor lighting appropriately.

He gives much better speeches when he's not fighting his light sensitivity.

[oasis]

39. Joe was on point. There was no easy solution to the pull out. nt