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'Going to get worse': Ex-WH doctor warns pace of Biden's cognitive decline already putting US 'at great risk'
Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson said Biden 'can't do the job' anymore

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“President Biden's 81st birthday ushered in even more conversations surrounding his age and declining cognitive acuity, two things Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, believes are valid causes for concern.

"[The decline is] happening quickly," Jackson told "Sunday Morning Futures" guest anchor Sean Duffy.

"Like you said, I've taken care of three presidents… so I know firsthand what it takes to be the commander-in-chief and the head of state. It's a grueling job, both mentally and physically. This man can't do the job. He's proven to us every single day that he can't do the job, but this is going to get worse."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/worse-white-house-do...

Did anyone see the family Thanksgiving pictures where old man Biden is shuffling along with a drink in his hand and a weird grin on his face like he is out there in lala land?

Unless Biden expires before the election, it is going to be Trump v Biden. That one is an obvious choice. Really, there is no choice. Trump must not win or we're in for a LOT of pain.

Not my idea of an ideal election, but it's what we got...

LurkerMom: Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson said...

The guy who bragged about Trump passing the test designed to check for signs of cognitive decline, not intelligence -- the “Person, Woman, Camera, Man, TV” test -- and who claimed Trump could live to 200?

That guy?

The guy who got into a drunken, obscenity-laced argument with the police?

That guy?

The guy who said Trump being able to toss around nonsensical word salad about himself for a couple of hours proved his mental fitness for the presidency? Umm, I know plenty of seven-year-olds who can do that but I wouldn't want to see them in the White House.

That guy?

You know who puts the country at grave risk?

The guy who stole the nation's most highly classified intelligence documents and left them in an unlocked toilet and a ballroom down in his Roach Resort.

That same guy tried to steal an election and put an end to democracy and encouraged his followers to hang his vice president and kill the Speaker of the House (one of them did manage to take a hammer to her husband's head and he gets his rally crowds to laugh about).

Now that guy is dangerous.

BTW, did you ever see Trump try to drink from a glass of water? The guy needs two hands.

I didn't see Biden shuffling around but I did see he got Israel to accept a cease fire in Gaza, helped get hostages released, and helped get 200 aid trucks into Gaza each day -- loaded with food, water, and medicine.

Not my idea of an ideal election, but it's what we got...

I don’t care about Trump’s mean tweets, his brash manner, what went on in his private life before becoming our president, etc, etc.

I cared he was a street fighter giving us Peace and Prosperity during his four years as President.
America’s adversaries knew their place when Trump was our President.

It was not Trumps fault covid struck and things began to go south.
The Trump witch-hunt began the moment he announced he would run for president and there is no end in sight of the left’s witch hunt. Who else do you know that has such fortitude and the strength to keep on going no matter what?
It’s why America was safe and we prospered.

And Biden? Pfft! If Biden didn’t have that D following his name you all would have trashed him to the dung heap a long time ago.


https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-adminis...

That same guy tried to steal an election and put an end to democracy and encouraged his followers to hang his vice president and kill the Speaker of the House

The truth of the matter is now coming out with the release J6 tapes

(one of them did manage to take a hammer to her husband's head and he gets his rally crowds to laugh about).

Nothing to do with Trump.

BTW, did you ever see Trump try to drink from a glass of water? The guy needs two hands.

Nope, never had the pleasure. I do know alcohol never touches his lips nor any member of his family, including his sons and daughter. Biden can’t make that claim being his son is a drunk and coke head.

I didn't see Biden shuffling around but I did see he got Israel to accept a cease fire in Gaza, helped get hostages released, and helped get 200 aid trucks into Gaza each day -- loaded with food, water, and medicine.

LOL!! Biden may have gotten some water and aid to Gaza but he can’t claim anything else.
It’s still fresh in everyone’s memory though Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal caused the tragic Loss of 13 Service members and emboldened our adversaries—-and NO you can’t shift the blame on Trump. Biden was not beholden to the time frame.

LurkerMom: I cared he was a street fighter giving us Peace and Prosperity during his four years as President.

Trumpers are delusional.

Trump had the worst jobs performance of any president in the last 90 years. He lost almost three million more jobs than he created during his time in office.

Trump added nearly eight trillion dollars to the nation's debt, the highest accumulation of debt in any four-year presidency in history.

Trump never once achieved his promised 5-6% GDP growth rate.


LurkerMom: America’s adversaries knew their place when Trump was our President.

Delusional.

North Korea test launched an intermediate range ballistic missile and conducted its sixth nuclear test while Trump declared his love for Kim Jung Un, who called Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard". Kim Jong-un declared "victory" in developing nuclear weapons, ICBMs, and the ability to mount nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles.

The U.N. General Assembly literally laughed at Trump.

Iran launched ballistic missile attack on US forces in Iraq and resumed its production of nuclear material for a nuclear weapon.


LurkerMom: It was not Trumps fault covid struck and things began to go south.

Umm, what? So whose responsibility is a nationwide public health crisis?

His mismanagement of the pandemic led to the deaths of over one million Americans. Trump abandoned his responsibility to keep Americans safe and initially ignored the pandemic for two reasons: first, he thought it would spoil his reelection campaign; second, the first wave hit the blue states of New York, New Jersey, California, and Illinois hardest, and he was happy to watch them suffer. Then he refused to handle the distribution of testing kits, gloves, masks, respirators, and other necessary medical equipment at a federal level and pitted states against each other in a bidding war. Trump abandoned masking because his manly make-up wiped off onto his masks.

Your unwavering loyalty to a man the court has said is a rapist, whose business has been found guilty of fraud, whose charity misappropriated funds, is under 91 felony indictments, pled the 5th hundreds of times, called war dead losers and suckers, and left the White House with dozens of boxes literally filled with the nation's most sensitive classified intelligence documents is the very definition of delusional.

are delusional.

Trump had the worst jobs performance of any president in the last 90 years. He lost almost three million more jobs than he created during his time in office.

Trump added nearly eight trillion dollars to the nation's debt, the highest accumulation of debt in any four-year presidency in history.

Trump never once achieved his promised 5-6% GDP growth rate.

Yeah, yeah..keep spouting your nonsense. The whole world knows the truth because the covid messed
up their economy too.

How’s Biden doing with his in the toilet economy LOL..

LurkerMom: Yeah, yeah..keep spouting your nonsense. The whole world knows the truth because the covid messed
up their economy too.

How’s Biden doing with his in the toilet economy LOL..


Like I said, Trumpers are delusional.

Biden had to deal with the disruptions created by multiple waves of Covid-19, too. After Biden took office, on January 22, 2021 the United States was averaging 184,230 cases of Covid-19 per day. A month later, on February 21, cases were down to an average of 66,231 per day. By June 22 cases were down to an average of 11,378 per day.

Unlike Trump, who ignored Covid-19, Biden got it under control and moved it from pandemic to endemic.

Biden's American Rescue Plan guaranteed that we would have a quick recovery, in contrast to the slow painful road back to full employment following the Great Recession. As a result, the United States is the only major economy that is largely back to its pre-pandemic growth path. The US also now has the lowest inflation rate of any of the G-7 economies.

Real wages for the average worker are higher than they were before the pandemic.

The unemployment rate, which stood at 6.3 percent when Biden took office, has fallen under 4.0 percent and has been under 4.0% for the longest period in more than half a century.

The Conference Board reports that workplace satisfaction is at the highest level in the almost forty years they have conducted their survey.

Biden passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that Trump repeatedly promised was just "two weeks away".

And Biden gave us the CHIPS Act for research and support for manufacturing of advanced semiconductors in the United States, another plan Trump promised but never delivered.

Biden walked the picket line with auto workers who reached a new contract agreement with the major automakers.

A few days ago I paid $3.11/gallon for gas this past weekend in Naperville, IL and the national average is $3.25/gallon (and that's with oil companies posting the highest revenues in their histories).

Finally, inflation is down more than half from its year-ago pace, with both food and gasoline prices declining.

So if this is a "toilet economy," may we be lucky enough to have another four years of full employment, new roads, bridges, and rail lines, declining food and gasoline prices, and record high workplace satisfaction while continuing to avoid recession.

Biden had to deal with the disruptions created by multiple waves of Covid-19, too

Sure he did.

Whatever polices Biden put in place is not enough. Americans are struggling from paycheck
to paycheck.
Biden’s horrific disastrous open border policies are bankrupting and destroying
many once great cities.

I cared he was a street fighter giving us Peace and Prosperity during his four years as President.

Hilariously ridiculous.

You give the term hyperpartisan new meaning. My God, your view of Trump is so far out of line with reality that it is just hard to believe. But clearly your delusions are shared by so many 'citizens' of this country. And that is frightening.

Presidential historians rank Trump very near LAST in rankings of POTUS's. You can easily check that. Do you know more than those experts? Of course you think you do...Dunning-Kruger is your middle name.

I won't reiterate the points of the other posters. I will just say that every substantive claim you made is counterfactual. Every one of them.

He is by far the worst POTUS in history, incompetent, and put the US (and world) in a more dangerous place.

These threads really show you the power of left wing bubbles and the inability of some to think their way out of them.

First, some Econ 101. Inflation is a direct result of 2 things:

1. Supply/demand of goods and services in the economy (transitory)
2. The money supply (long term)

Going into COVID, prices fell because demand fell off for some things. Gas, for one: no one driving meant prices for oil and downstream products like gasoline cratered. This was repeated throughout the economy. The government rightly increased spending to keep the economy from plunging into depression thanks to blue state-led lockdowns.

Coming out of COVID, all the demand that had been suppressed returned, driving up prices. The proper response from the government should have been to retract spending and encourage people to return to work; the pre-COVID balance would have been restored.

But that's not what the government did. Instead of backing off and naturally letting the economy recover Biden threw gasoline on the inflationary fire and kept spending. And spending. And spending.

So instead of prices rebounding to roughly their pre-COVID levels now we've diluted the value of the dollar such that high prices are baked into the cake.

Let's go, Brandon! Heckuva job.

Sorry, but the world wasn't on fire when Trump was President.

It is now.

You give the term hyperpartisan new meaning. My God, your view of Trump is so far out of line with reality that it is just hard to believe. But clearly your delusions are shared by so many 'citizens' of this country. And that is frightening.

ges, what is frightening is your unwavering support and ongoing excuses for Biden.
You know, I know and every one else knows Biden is the worst president in America’s history.
Continue to support Biden though and be a good democrat and do as you are told, no matter the consequences.
It’s what democrats do and the rest of America suffers as the result.

Open borders, Afghanistan, Americans living from paycheck to paycheck, rampant crime across
across America will all be remembered by Americans come next November.

Open borders, Afghanistan, Americans living from paycheck to paycheck, rampant crime across
across America will all be remembered by Americans come next November.

Wonder how many of the people who post here...actually live in hard core blue areas?

I'm guessing few of them do.

It is now because the match was struck during the Trump years. His fawning over dictators, threatening to leave NATO, alienating our allies, disbelieving our intelligence apparatus. The fire we see now was set from 2016-2020.

Except for Hamas...that probably would have happened regardless. That was more an Israeli intelligence failure.

No, it wasn't.
Nobody told Biden to bail on Afghanistan.

Under Trump we had the Abraham accords, under Biden we got 10/7.

Under Trump, the Chinese were complaining about the US finally getting serious about trade policy. Under Biden they're trailing their naval coats all over the Persian gulf, ramming Philippine shipping and threatening Taiwan left and right.

Under Trump - the RUSSIAN PUPPET - we didn't have a shooting war started by Putin in europe. Under Biden we do.

The world is on fire, and Biden's election was the match. It took everyone about 2 years to figure out that Barack Obama was a complete idiot, also.

I'll give you one failing of Trump that you guys can hang your hats on.

During all the left wing violence stemming from George Floyd, Trump should have ordered every single one of his US attorneys to seek jail time for mobs of Antifa who were rioting for days and weeks on end.

As in, serious time for serious felonies. You people have ZERO idea what it was like to live with that.

ZERO. Imagine living in your city not knowing when the mob was going to come through your neighborhood and what it might do when it got there. Trump should have sent the FBI in to ruin these people...but he didn't. I will always hold that against him.

There's one "Granted" in the above: the feds can only prosecute when the lawbreaking happens on federal property so for us in Seattle that would have been restricted to all the interstate highway blocking. But in Portland and in Washington, D.C. they could have lowered the boom.

Wonder how many of the people who post here...actually live in hard core blue areas?

Not me. Very red here. My neighbors hated Obama, and they hate Biden. My representative is a complete moron named Andy Biggs (R).

The only reason we don't have a Rep governor is that Kari Lake is a fruitcake. And Martha McSally managed to lose BOTH senate seats to Dems because she also is a fruitcake. More sensible Rep candidates probably would have walked away with those elections.

Yes. It was.

Trump set the schedule, and started withdrawals from Afghanistan. That was actually something I agree with him about. We couldn't remain there forever. Whack-a-mole with the Taliban wasn't productive. There was no good time to leave. Biden just kept the schedule Trump set. The fact that the Afghan authorities folded so quickly just means they were never going to be ready.

Under Biden the Chinese are complaining about chip/technology restrictions, and are now begging (by Chinese standards) that we open up because their economy is faltering. Meanwhile, during Trump, the Chinese built several fortified artificial islands in the South China Sea, and Trump didn't say a word. They also seized some of the Spratleys.

Nor did he say a word when DPRK was firing rockets and testing nukes. And building a ballistic missile submarine.

If Trump had been tough with Putin, maybe he wouldn't have thought he could get away with an invasion. As it is, he rolled over for Putin for four years. Then created large amounts of turmoil (to this day). Of course Putin would think "hey, America is weak on NATO, they're fighting amongst themselves...I'm gonna pull another Crimea and take Ukraine". That's how despots think. And, as despotic thinking goes, it was a sound notion. Had he taken Kyiv, there would not now be a war. To everyone's surprise, he wasn't able to do it. (See Perun's analyses about why that happened.) Now he's in a trench war, and even Crimea is not secure for him. (But I digress.)

Trump very much enabled Putin. The Biden response (along with several NATO countries) was immediate, and Putin is now in a no-win situation. Without using nukes, he literally cannot win unless the west abandons Ukraine (some some Reps want to do). Many western nations will never do that, because then they might be next (e.g. Poland).

Biden just kept the schedule Trump set.
Biden bailed on Afghanistan in the most chaotic and stupid way he could have. That's all on him. Nobody told him to leave billions in equipment behind, or evac from the airport instead of Bagram. Madness.

If Trump had been tough with Putin, maybe he wouldn't have thought he could get away with an invasion.

Except there was no invasion, not until Biden took over. Again, all him and nothing to do with Trump.

LurkerMom: Open borders...

Well, lessee.

In the two years before Mr. Biden took office, the Trump administration released nearly 713,000 immigrants, or a little over 52 percent of the 1.4 million crossers. In other words, Mr. Trump’s policies resulted in far fewer removals in absolute terms and a slightly higher percentage of released border crossers than Mr. Biden’s.

I guess Trump had open borders, too.

Neither Trump nor Biden -- nor anyone else, for that matter -- will solve the immigration challenges without a willing, involved Congress.

LurkerMom: ...Afghanistan...

Trump inked the "Surrender Agreement" that released 5,000 Taliban fighters and tried to invite the Taliban to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11. Trump drastically drew down troops in the region and tried desperately to remove all the troops in January of 2021 but, lucky for him, his military commanders said "no," or you'd be blaming him for the tragic deaths that occurred during the withdrawal. [Kidding, of course... you have never ever blamed Trump for a single thing.] Trump bragged that he boxed in Biden, who would be unable to alter the course that Trump set in motion.

Biden okayed some tactical errors made during the withdrawal but that's what happens in fluid situations: sh!t happens.

LurkerMom: ...Americans living from paycheck to paycheck...

In the year of your Lord and Savior, Trump, 2019 78% of U.S. workers were living paycheck to paycheck. Today, it's about 61%.

And I gave you other pertinent data earlier today but here it is again (maybe you'll grasp it this time):

The US has the lowest inflation rate of any of the G-7 economies.

Real wages for the average worker are higher than they were before the pandemic.

The unemployment rate, which stood at 6.3 percent when Biden took office, has fallen under 4.0 percent and has been under 4.0% for the longest period in more than half a century.

The Conference Board reports that workplace satisfaction is at the highest level in the almost forty years they have conducted their survey.

If you cannot find a job in America today, it's probably because you don't want one.

LurkerMom: ...rampant crime across America...

The number of murders in the first half of 2023 fell by 9.4% compared to the first half of 2022.

Gun assaults (-5.6%), robberies (-3.6%), nonresidential burglaries (-5%), larcenies (-4.1%), residential burglaries (-3.8%), and aggravated assaults (-2.5%) all fell in the first six months of this year compared to the same timeframe last year.

The outlier is motor vehicle theft, which rose by 33.5% in the first half of the year.

BTW, homicide rates were the lowest since WWII in 2014, when Obama was president and that Biden guy was vice president.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/opinion/immigra...

Wonder how many of the people who post here...actually live in hard core blue areas?

I live in deep red Utah. It didn't used to be dominated by one party, but in the 40 years I've lived here it has gone from about 50/50 GOP/DEM to solid GOP, with only a handful of Dems in the state legislature. And our Reps and Senators aren't just conservative, they are far right.

Partly due to the influence of the Mormon Church but also due to the Republican primary caucus system here which selects the most far right of the possible candidates.

Unlike Trump, who ignored Covid-19... - CO</I)

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Then who used the defense production act to resupply ventilators, a supply that was allowed to dwindle under Obama?

Then who sent the Mercy Ship to New York Harbor when Cuomo was panicking over hospital bed shortage?
You may not remember since Cuomo never used the Trump-tainted Mercy Ship.

Then who initiated Operation Warp Speed?

I know you hate Trump, I mean who doesn't, but your use of the word "ignore" in not justified in this case.

For reference of real neglect, see Biden's handling of the open southern border.

disbelieving our intelligence apparatus. - 1pg

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The same intelligence apparatus that assured the Russian Dossier was real, and Hunters laptop was fake. That one?

We are better off with a president who is NOT simply a yes man to his advisers. Besides, in any given one of these complex situations, the president is going to get advice on all sides of a pending decision or action so a President will always be faced with accepting some advice and rejecting some other.

I know you hate Trump, I mean who doesn't, but your use of the word "ignore" in not justified in this case.

Beside the above, the other silly criticism of Trump is the "authoritarian" part. If he were really as "authoritarian" as they say we would have had nationwide lockdowns and severe curtailment of all the left wing riots during COVID. But he deferred to the governors instead.

bighairymike: Then who used the defense production act to resupply ventilators, a supply that was allowed to dwindle under Obama?

Who waited until the first week of April to invoke the Defense Production Act for ventilators (after 57 democrats in Congress wrote him an official letter urging him to do so) and then said that its powers would only be used "in a worst case scenario." General Motors and Ford didn't start delivering them until early May. Trump diddled away valuable time.

bighairymike: Then who sent the Mercy Ship to New York Harbor when Cuomo was panicking over hospital bed shortage?
You may not remember since Cuomo never used the Trump-tainted Mercy Ship.

He couldn't use it: the Comfort refused to take Covid patients. (Well, it actually did end up taking a few dozen patients but I don't think any of them had Covid). When asked about it, Trump said only that the ship was not accepting patients with the coronavirus.

A tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles has prevented the Comfort from accepting many patients at all.

On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.

Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.

bighairymike: Then who initiated Operation Warp Speed?

Bravo. Seriously.

Well, except when people started screaming about freedom and tyranny and vaccine mandates and masks, Trump folded like a cheap suit and said never mind... don't take the vaccine if you don't wanna'.

But sure, rewrite history for us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-cor...

(See Perun's analyses about why that happened.)

Perun? Google tells me he's the Slavic god of the sky, thunder, lightning, etc., which was news to me, but it looks like he's also a popular Australian Youtuber which was also news to me.😊

Yes, Perun is the Australian YouTuber. Apparently his forte is economics with a subcategory of defense economics. I was recommended to him from a military buff I know, and after listening to several of his programs...he knows his stuff. He apparently has contacts in various places, including Ukraine, and gives very good analysis. With some humor (e.g. "Pvt Conscriptovich" and "Col Kleptovsky"). It would take you a while, but if you have interest in the topic, it would be worth going back and starting from his first Ukraine invasion stories. He covers how the Russian army procurement is messed up, how their reporting is messed up, how graft is messing up both, etc. He doesn't cover the day-to-day stuff, but more how drones are changing everything, how the Black Sea Fleet is effectively neutralized, how Crimea is no longer "safe", how Poland and other nearby nations are helping Ukraine, etc. He even did a piece recently on how aircraft carriers are NOT obsoleted by either drones or the Chinese anti-aircraft-carrier ballistic missile. Though drones are changing a lot of thinking in terms of combat tactics and strategy.

Good stuff.

LurkerMom: I cared he was a street fighter giving us Peace and Prosperity during his four years as President.
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Trumpers are delusional....

[Followed by the facts....and facts....and more facts.]


LM made this identical claim some time ago. And it was countered with the same extensive listing of the facts.

And here she is again repeating the same insane assertion. The truth makes absolutely no difference to the Trumpers......other than to make them even more angry and smug and drenched in hollow self-righteousness.

And unfortunately, she is not alone, not even here. It is terrifying, given the current state of affairs.

bighairymike: The same intelligence apparatus that assured the Russian Dossier was real...

I hate to break it to you but some of the allegations were proven true.

Many of the claims by Steele, a former British spy, have held up over time, or have proven to be at least partially true, including the fact that there was a concerted Russian operation to attacking the 2016 US election. The Justice Department has brought criminal charges against dozens of Russian hackers and online trolls for allegedly interfering with the election.

Steele’s dossier had also asserted that Trump could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, among other things.

Now it was never proven that Trump likes Golden Showers but he seems to be obsessed with them. Just a few days ago: Every time the pee-tape story is about to slip out of my mind, Trump brings it up in a public forum. In 2021, he announced, "I’m not into golden showers," while addressing the National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, though no one had asked. He brought it up during at least two separate speeches he delivered in Ohio last fall. And he mentioned it again on Saturday during a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Me thinks he doth protest too much.


bighairymike: ...and Hunters laptop was fake.

Actually, 51 former top intelligence officials signed a letter saying that the alleged contents of Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." They never said it was fake. What experts did say is that people had kept adding content to the portable drive, making it impossible to say what was on it when it was provided to the blind computer repairman.

Experts who accessed the data to examine its contents and make copies of files discovered no clean chain of custody which undermined their ability to determine the authenticity of most of the drive’s contents.

"The drive is a mess," one computer forensics expert told the Washington Post, and compared the portable drive he received from The Post to a crime scene in which detectives arrive to find Big Mac wrappers carelessly left behind by police officers who were there before them, contaminating the evidence.

"From a forensics standpoint, it’s a disaster," another computer forensics expert said.

So, no chain of custody. So, others wrote files to the drive.

Good luck with that in court.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/trump-mela...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/fbi-steele...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-hunter-bi...

No, it wasn't.
Nobody told Biden to bail on Afghanistan.

May I respectfully recommend you get tested for alzheimers before you fall farther into the abyss?

Wayback Wednesday: Trump's US–Taliban deal called for an initial reduction of US forces from 13,000 to 8,600 troops by July 2020, followed by a complete withdrawal by 1 May 2021.

If you cannot find a job in America today, it's probably because you don't want one.

Ain't that the truth!

I tweaked my shoulder surfing the day before thanksgiving. He won't give me a steroid injection into the joint because he doesn't want to mask the pain that prevents me from paddling hard. He insists on seeing an MRI to rule out a rotator cuff damage first.

There are 4 MRI facilities within an hour of my home. Phoning them is frustrating because they don't have enough people to answer phones. Their recordings say, in effect, we have extended wait times because all our operators are busy; please hold.

When I finally got a live person on the phone after letting it ring for a half hour at 2 of the 4 locations, they apologetically explained that they simply haven't been able to hire enough people since the pandemic.

The earliest appointment I could get is January, not because there's no availability, but because they lack staff!

The other 2 clinics, I can't even get a live person on the phone. Crazy!




Those are well paying jobs!

So, not enough radiology techs and not enough admin people = long waits for imaging =

Wayback Wednesday: Trump's US–Taliban deal called for an initial reduction of US forces from 13,000 to 8,600 troops by July 2020, followed by a complete withdrawal by 1 May 2021. - sano

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And Biden, despite knowing better from his decades of foreign policy experience, was powerless to alter that time line. And AFAIK, Trumps plan did not call for abandoning weapons worth billions of dollars for capture by our adversaries.

And Biden, despite knowing better from his decades of foreign policy experience, was powerless to alter that time line. And AFAIK, Trumps plan did not call for abandoning weapons worth billions of dollars for capture by our adversaries.

You have to admire the chutzpah of the "logic" they employ.
Trump Orange Man. Trump Orange Man BAD!

But Biden was powerless to stop Trump's withdrawal timetable, yessir. Never mind the fact that Trump's timeline was based on conditions being met on the ground...that weren't being met.

Biden threw away the conditions and went ahead with his deadline. He really thought is was a GOOD THING to say, "Look, I bailed on the place where 9/11 came from on 9/11! Me smart!"

And as you pointed out, nobody told Biden to hand over billions of dollars in weaponry to a bunch of terrorists.

bighairymike: And Biden, despite knowing better from his decades of foreign policy experience, was powerless to alter that time line.

Read the Doha Agreement. When Trump left office he had drawn down U.S. troop levels to 2,500 troops -- the lowest number of troops in Afghanistan since 2001 and had turned over half of Afghanistan to the Taliban, arranging for the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters from prisons there. Trump bragged about boxing Biden in with the drawdowns and the "Surrender Agreement."

Biden, who was not given any of the Trump withdrawal plans during the presidential transition -- remember, Trump originally wanted all U.S. troops out by Jan. 22 -- Biden asked his intelligence professionals if it was feasible to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan and both defend them against a renewed Taliban onslaught and maintain a degree of stability in the country. The assessment from those intelligence professionals was that the United States would need to send more American troops into harm’s way to ensure our troops could defend themselves and to stop the stalemate from getting worse.

In short, like most of what Trump did as president, it was a clusterfcuk. Biden got a few more months for the withdrawal but his hands were pretty much tied by what Trump had put in place with the Surrender Agreement and his troop drawdowns.


bighairymike: And AFAIK, Trumps plan did not call for abandoning weapons worth billions of dollars for capture by our adversaries.

Yeah, it did. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley told Trump the U.S. would be leaving equipment behind for two reasons: one, it was less expensive than shipping it home; and two, much of the equipment was obsolete, some of it dating back to 2005. Trump talked about it at his rallies.

American troops scrapped unwanted gear and disabled Humvees and aircraft so they couldn’t be used again before leaving. SOP.

You are a good little cultist, though.

I was with you right up till the last line. All that you said is basically correct. But BHM isn't a "cultist". There are a few on this board, but he actually responds to facts and data. I think he is trapped in the right-wing mediasphere, but he is able to receive information from outside that.

He was repeating what (likely) Faux Noise has been broadcasting. So not even half the picture.

onepoorguy: But BHM isn't a "cultist".

My comment that the 'cultists are big stupid' was a general reference to the fact that Trump claims his Mar-a-Lago property is worth $1.8 billion but files an appeal claiming it is overvalued at $33 million and the cultists don't have a problem with that discrepancy, not a specific reference to bighairymike. I guess I could have worded it better.

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