we'll find out more about biden's cabinet picks but just a reminder that trump's secretaries of state were the head of exxon and a conspiracy theory congressman.
as ive said previously, historically biden has been (somewhat) to my right on foreign policy and defense, though im probably closer in mindset to him than i am the liberal activist group, on those topics.
on the other hand we should get the hell out of afghanistan and its one of the few policies of trump's ill support.
one of the biggest problems on this is that whenever you ask the generals, theyll never ever ever say we should leave somewhere. i watch them in congressional testimony. they always say we're real close to the objective. theyll never say its fucked and we should leave.
i personally supported invading afghanistan - for the stated goal of stopping al qaeda - and was always 100% against invading iraq.
at this point there is no reason for us to be in afghanistan and it serves no point in fighting international terrorism (something i still 100% support fighting against)
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also for about 10 mill i could probably program the most amazing lib news network on youtube.
i need a billionaire liberal benefactor
you would be like "what... what is this? its making me want a social safety net and making me very angry at republicans... and im not bored and nobody said anything about reading whitepapers"
Liberals are gonna spend ten years and a day agonizing over social media content and coming up with unworkable solutions when the answer is simple: Blast people with info from the left as loud as they get info from the right. That’s it.
Lol people in my replies over-complicating this. I don’t know why this is difficult. See what Fox and the Ny Post do? Do that. But with liberal stuff.
Maybe I just see this different cause I spent so many years in right wing media world. Liberals spend so much time over thinking this and needlessly pleading with the party to do this. I’m not saying it’s a magic bullet but it needs to be done and it isn’t particularly hard.
biden gonna announce corn pop as secdef, consensus pick for party's center-left and progressive wings
"Corn Pop will shake up the foreign policy consensus, but will attack the key threats to America and our allies through strong, but forceful multilateral action. Its the choice that unites the party."
"Troops hail selection of Corn Pop as Secdef."
"Former Secretaries of Defense praise Corn Pop pick"
pretty soon their desire to take the contrary, unpopular position on every topic under the sun, absent all logic, is going to end up with them being nazis.
"many people are so insistent that its taboo to say some races are superior, but i am very edgy!"
theyre gonna launch phrenology substacks with bari weiss and andrew sullivan. "bumps on the head are real science, the woke journals dont want to publish the truth!"
i would advise going through at least one (or more) election cycles where you have no strong preference in a primary and you get to see just how much emotion gets wrapped up into things, for better or worse. (im not immune, i def got there in 2008)
me in the 2008 primaries vs me in the 2020 primaries
me in 2008 every time something negative went against obama