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surfered

(13,063 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:17 AM 12 hrs ago

Someone should have explained to Trump it took us $2.5 trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

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Someone should have explained to Trump it took us $2.5 trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. (Original Post) surfered 12 hrs ago OP

Someone might have tried. Trump is 1000% certain that he knows better. tanyev 12 hrs ago #1

Until he suddenly isn't the "stable genius" who just knows everything underpants 12 hrs ago #5

Yep. Bad outcomes are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever his fault. tanyev 12 hrs ago #7

Dick Cheney didn't care and Trump doesn't care either. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #2

I doubt it would have mattered to him. City Lights 12 hrs ago #3

Talk about efficiency, he only took a week to replace an Ayatollah with an Ayatollah underpants 12 hrs ago #4

War profiteers don't care about the end result. It's the bombing and killing that makes them rich dalton99a 12 hrs ago #6

John Gorka song Easterncedar 11 hrs ago #8

trump is claiming that he is simply more efficient LetMyPeopleVote 6 hrs ago #9

tanyev

(49,133 posts)

1. Someone might have tried. Trump is 1000% certain that he knows better.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:21 AM

12 hrs ago

underpants

(196,128 posts)

5. Until he suddenly isn't the "stable genius" who just knows everything

Reply to tanyev (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:31 AM

12 hrs ago

Reporter: A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school in Iran. Do you take responsibility?

Trump: I don’t know about that.

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tanyev

(49,133 posts)

7. Yep. Bad outcomes are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever his fault.

Reply to underpants (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:38 AM

12 hrs ago

😒

Irish_Dem

(80,913 posts)

2. Dick Cheney didn't care and Trump doesn't care either.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:24 AM

12 hrs ago

It was about the US taxpayer and US military supporting their grand theft.

City Lights

(25,716 posts)

3. I doubt it would have mattered to him.

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:27 AM

12 hrs ago

He believes whatever he does will be done better than anyone who has done it before him. He probably even thinks the bombs he has ordered to be dropped are of higher quality because he is the one ordering them to be dropped.