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@dcpetterson
Jul 19 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I want to remind you of something Trump did in his first term.

When running for president in 2016, Trump declared he was smarter than all the Generals, and he had a secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan, much better than plan the Generals could come up with.

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After being elected, Trump revealed his secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan.

His plan was:

He ordered the Generals to come up with a plan to end the war in Afghanistan, and have it on his desk in ninety days.

I'm serious. That was his secret plan.

2/7
Of course, we heard nothing else about any plan to end the war in Afghanistan. But Trump invited the leaders of the Taliban to Camp David, and released 5000(!) Afghani terrorist prisoners, one of whom went on to become the leader of the Taliban.

3/7
Trump then committed America to withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by March of 2021, with no actual plan to do it.

Biden won the 2020 election, and America had already committed to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by March of 2021.

4/7
The withdrawal was a bit chaotic, but it turned out to be the most massive and successful air lift operation in world history (Thanks, Biden!)--but Trump and the right-wing media had a fit over every error made (because Trump had set no plans in place) and blamed Biden.

5/7
So it turns out, Trump's plan for ending the war in Afghanistan was to fuck everything up, surrender, put a terrorist who America had previously imprisoned in charge of the Taliban, release 5000 Taliban fighters, and blame Biden for Trump's incompetence.

6/7
I guess I mention all this because there were morons who really believed Trump could end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, even after the disaster of Afghanistan.

Are you not entertained?

7/7
PS. The Taliban quickly conquered Afghanistan after the American withdrawal that Trump had arranged.
The really, really pathetic MAGAt responses to this thread are to pretend, with zero links or evidence, that it's wrong.

Because, since it's true, their God King Cult Leader is a fucking moron. and so are all of them.

I must correct an error. The date Trump set for withdrawal from Afghanistan was May 2021, not March 2021, as I stated in the thread.

h/t jenfari 🌻 @goodcitizen2021

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Jul 19
I'm suspect Trump is creating the Epstein Files controversy on purpose. It's a distraction from his rapid mental decline, and the incompetence of entire administration, and the horrors of ICE, and the stupid tariffs, and the wars he hasn't ended, and his constant criming.

1/6
He pushed the Epstein thing for years as a campaign issue, as a club to beat up Democrats, and just as a conspiracy theory to rile his base.

Remember, Epstein died in 2019, while Trump was still president, and Bill Barr was Attorney General.

2/6
If there were things embarrassing to Democrats in Epstein's files or in anything held by the FBI, Trump could have released it then--and didn't.

Is there Bad Stuff about Trump in those files? Maybe. If so, Trump is really stoopid for having made a big deal out of it...

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Jul 16
Some trivia. Not sure what made me remember this.

Germans voted in 1933. Hitler was named Chancellor that January. He quickly consolidated power, and became a dictator. Germans did not have free elections until 1949, after Hitler and about 80 million other people had died.

1/4
Oh, there were parliamentary elections in Germany in the 1930s. They were shams, and there was no chance Hitler would be removed as Chancellor.

And remember, Hitler became Chancellor only after leading an insurrection and being convicted of felonies.

Sound familiar?

2/4
One more morsel. Everything Hitler did was legal. The repression, the concentration camps, shutting down the press, gas chambers, all of it. Because he had the laws changed to make it legal.

We have one advantage over 1930s Germany.

We have the example of 1930s Germany.

3/4
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Jul 7
The crisis of global climate change isn’t the first man-made climate disaster we’ve faced in recent history. In the twentieth century, America dealt with and solved a regional crisis of our own making. It almost happened again soon after.

1/12
We prevented a second disaster the same way we had resolved the first one. It was solved by federal intervention.

In the early 1930s, the American Southwest was engulfed by a serious drought, which was exacerbated by then-current farming and grazing techniques.

2/12
This area used to be the breadbasket of the nation. Taking advantage of the rise in grain prices from the First World War, farmers in the southwest overplanted, removing most of the indigenous grasses and other flora with long roots that used to hold the soil in place.

3/12
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Jul 6
Here's a parable. (I tell stories.)

Imagine a room. Maybe it's an attic. It holds everything you ever valued. Your money, yes. Also hundred-year old pictures of your great-grandmother. You dad's wedding ring. That novel you read. The proof your children are yours.

1/5
It's got your retirement investments. The medicines you need to survive. Your memories of that special teacher.

All of it is in that room in the attic.

Imagine one day a bunch of chimpanzees get in there. Some of them have Tiki torches.

2/5
You can hear them shouting at each other. Breaking the crystal ware. Setting fire to the file cabinets. Shredding the Batman sheets you slept in as a child.

They're throwing their crap at each other. They're eating your ancient vinyl records.

2/5
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Jun 20
Republicans really don't like to be told they're wrong.

I honestly think they don't understand the difference between "facts" and "opinions."

This means they say and believe a lot of bullshit that simply isn't true. And they can't be corrected on that.

1/9
Showing them "the facts" has no effect, because they insist you're only telling them your opinion. They cannot differentiate between facts and opinions.

This is true in any subject, from climate change to vaccines, taxation and economic policy to immigration, crime, guns,

2/9
human rights, foreign affairs--everything. There is no topic on which "facts" matter, because Republicans are convinced everything in the world is simply "opinion."

This is also why they don't care about the source of facts or opinions (some sources are better than others).

3/9
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Jun 13
I'm pretty old.

I'm not middle-aged. I'm past that.

I don't worry about cancer, or damage to my liver. I love good cigars and single-malt scotch, and I don't worry about what that might do to my health. There's not enough time left for me to care.

1/4
I do worry about what the world will be when I'm gone. I worry about my kids and grandkids, and their children yet unimagined, and the growing fascism they will face.

I also worry about saying everything I need to say in whatever time I have left.

2/4
I'm not sure younger people understand the depth and urgency of this worry.

I am dedicated to making a difference, making the world a better place before I die.

I feel my mortality, staring into my eyes.

I curse the Reaper. I will not go quietly. I rage against the night.

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