Talia Lavin: i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

I think the New York Times & CNN need to withdraw for the good of the nation.

That's not enough. NYT should debate who's best to replace him for 14 weeks, for the good of the nation.

At the very least. He can keep withdrawing from stuff beyond that, but the race is the bare minimum

I think he should withdraw from the human race, for the good of the species.

Go back in time and do the opposite of “Back to the Future” and convince his parents not to ever have intercourse.

It is wild that a guy who is siphoning funds from his party to pay his legal funds is still the presumptive nominee to a party that harbors "fiscal conservatives". They want a strong military led by the guy who gave Afghanistan to the Taliban. He's the Taliban's best friend.

ending the war in afghanistan was the one good thing trump ever did

Literally no, no it wasn’t The SOLE reason IQ45 abandoned Afghanistan was to fuck Biden over. He announced an impossible pull out schedule with no plan to put it in place or support our allies afterwards Yeah, he got our troops out of Astan, but he LOST the war and destroyed ANY goodwill we had

ok

I don't think a twenty year war that only created death and destruction helped

It certainly didn't, and the country is in worse shape after its government was destroyed and allowed to be consumed by a theocratic regime ensuring that women had their rights sent back decades. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

A Taliban delegation attends a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan; women excludedabcnews.go.com The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations

I'm 42 years old, and I still don't really know what the official reason we invaded Afghanistan. Something about terrorists and how evil the Taliban was. Which isn't a reason to invade a country. Fuck George Bush. He needs to be in prison and not doing art shows

It was, but the way he did it was, like everything else Trump did, ill-conceived, poorly planned, and horribly executed. There was never going to be a good way to leave, but there were better ways than how Trump did it.

This is the correct take. We were not going to leave it better, but we absolutely didn't have to leave it this bad.

The one thing you can say about Trump is he doesn't care about making messes, so he was never going to try to find a non-messy way to leave, which is what was tying everyone else's hands. Of course, this also meant Trump wasn't going to care about finding the least potentially messy way to leave.

Precisely. If you don't care about where you shit then you're never stuck trying to find a bathroom.

He didn’t end it, he followed the timeline.

He only gets partial credit. He set a withdrawal date but it was Biden who actually executed it at great political cost.

Not entirely correct. He didn't just "set a withdrawal date", he also released 5000 Taliban prisoners. He also did not include the Afghan government in these discussions, which signalled that the US was going to be leaving regardless of who wins the election. It was a catastrophic decision.

And if he had stayed in office he would have cancelled the withdrawal once the blowback started.

Absolutely no. That would mean that Donald Trump would have had to care that people were dying and that just doesn't meet with reality. He would've just said, "I did what none of the other presidents did and got us out of Afghanistan" and that would be the last word.

Except he didn't "end the war" more than he gave the country to the Taliban and left everyone running for the exits.

for which country? what if i am a Russian oligarch or in the Saudi royal family, hmmm?

Many people are saying this

Trump should be in prison.

...in 2016.

Musk should escort him to Mars.

Vote #JoeBiden to save OUR Democracy from Dictator #DonaldTrump

Honestly? If the Dems have a controlled (less fractious) but thorough discussion/debate and choose a candidate - they could suck all the wind out of lil’ Donny’s sails. He won’t be able to get any airtime because he’d become old news.

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