2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[TitanWest]

Trump on the other hand has allowed him to live. As for Solemani, the Iranians got too smug as they are if you ever met them in person. They also want the USA out of Iraq very aggressively. I support the USA out of Iraq as well but they are in a big hurry so that Iraq becomes their protectorate. I will take Trump at his word that he wants out of Iraq and Afghanistan and has made a few steps in that direction.

Mike Pompeo implicitly admitted there was no evidence Iran was about to attack. Iran can do what it wants in Iraq. They'd run it better than the clowns in DC have.

As for the immigration, its still up in the air what will truly be done about it. Tucker is against it and Kushner along with a few GOP Rinos are for it.

Fuck, that doesn't sound good. Jared always wins out in the Trump Admin. He's the guy who brought bigtime donors like Paul Singer back to the GOP so he gets a lot of undeserved clout. Tucker 2024 btw. Hope he doesn't get cancelled and replaced by Shapiro or one of Shapiro's stooges like the rumor mill suggests Lachlan Murdoch is pushing for.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Trump's more non-interventionist than Hillary, but he killed Soleimani so he's as interventionist (If not more) as Obama. That killing setback anti-ISIS, anti-Neocon, and anti-Zionist efforts back bigtime.

And is YEET'ing the #3 top faggot in the Shitite caliphate going to diminish the support of Trump's base for him or turn off moderates?

The way I see it, Trump's advantage *would be* the average American being tired of being called a racist, sexist, xenophobic bigot just for wanting the basic level of rules expected in an independent state. They are pissed off about the Dem's doubling-down on the COVID lockdowns. Now they are watching buildings burn while being called racist for wanting police, all while Dem pander to the looters and (fake)anarchists.
Does anyone give a shit about "anti-Zionist efforts"?
Your average conservative is still pissed about Kavanaugh and the Covington schoolkids; while the hardcore leftist coalition is fragmented between the sour Bernie Bros, #MeToo holdouts and blackpilled-blacks realizing Biden be raycus too.

I'm far from saying Trump will win, but if you think the top Iranian Spook-General-Cop getting a Hellfire up his ass will somehow hurt or even negatively impact turnout for Trump then I have a bridge to sell you.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Does anyone give a shit about "anti-Zionist efforts"?

Only dumb faggots who think The JOOOZE somehow control the world.

 

[jje100010001]

So, Bolton + Trump's niece's exposes?

Most likely fiction, and probably ghost-written as well, but are they just dumpster fires, or will they do actual damage to Trump's numbers?

Trump's more non-interventionist than Hillary, but he killed Soleimani so he's as interventionist (If not more) as Obama. That killing setback anti-ISIS, anti-Neocon, and anti-Zionist efforts back bigtime.

IMO, Trump is about pinprick, behind-the-scenes maneuvering rather than the gun-dumping regime-change interventionalism of the past.

Soleimani was as equally responsible for sectarian instability across the Middle East as the Sunni radicalists, and many Iraqis and Syrians disliked his Popular Mobilization Forces militias (who were considered above the law). As the US now focuses on taking out strategic leaders (like Al Baghdadi or the Al Queda boss last week), leadership is progressively weakened and pushed back into the shadows. Soleimani's successors no longer can travel freely around the Iran-Iraq-Syria zones (since they know what the US can do), while sanctions and bank freezes (i.e. the Ceasar Act) act as garrottes, limiting Iran and Hezbollah's force projection.

US sanctions squeezing Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon

BEIRUT (AP) — The conflict between Iran and the U.S. that has created tensions throughout much of the Middle East is now also being felt in Lebanon, where Washington has slapped sanctions on the...

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Note how a relative calm has now returned to the Middle East (even in spaces like Idlib which should have been overrun by now).

 

[ditto]

Mike Pompeo implicitly admitted there was no evidence Iran was about to attack. Iran can do what it wants in Iraq. They'd run it better than the clowns in DC have.

They had already attacked. They tried to storm the US embassy.

 

[TitanWest]

They had already attacked. They tried to storm the US embassy.

That was an angry mob that ran away the second the embassy pulled out the tear gas. They weren't trained militants.

 

[MrJokerRager]

That was an angry mob that ran away the second the embassy pulled out the tear gas. They weren't trained militants.

Angry mob was dressed up in camouflage battle fatigues and holding flags belonging to the Iranian PMF backed militias. There weren't a bunch of poor goatfuckers dressed up in rags.

 

[TitanWest]

Angry mob was dressed up in camouflage battle fatigues and holding flags belonging to the Iranian PMF backed militias. There weren't a bunch of poor goatfuckers dressed up in rags.

They were poor goatfuckers who dressed up in cammies I could buy at the Military Surplus store down the road. They were pro-PMU rioters, but they weren't PMU themselves. If I fly a Confederate battle flag that doesn't mean I'm a Johnny Rebel trained to use a rifle.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

WTF does that sentence in bold even mean?

I guess I would call myself a college educated loner that has slowly started to support Trump over the democratic party post 2018 when they started impeachment. After 2016, I was still in the Democrat camp and was a Bernie Bro. I started having questions about Bernie Sanders after he was surrounding himself with more IDPOL type dipshits and abandoning his FDR style New Deal ideals. Also was mad at the Democrats at fucking over Bernie and was heavily disappointed in CNN and other liberal outlets just fucking putting the man's face on TV 24/7 and over hyping him so much. I believe reducing coverage of Trump would hurt him because he loves the free publicity and it hadn't stop him at all from his tweets and antics. Making Trump seem a normal man instead of Uber Hitler Terminator Nigger Killer KKK 9000 would defeat him as reduce his aura of telling his supporters that they are besieged from all sides. Everything the democrats did in the first two years backfired and they have suicidal doubled down since.

As for Trump, in the beginning I thought he was an neocon surrounded by the worst assholes from the Bush Administration. After 3 years though, my opinion of him has changed as now I see a president who has formed a non-interventionist ideology combined with tariffs and reducing immigration. Also another big threat is China, which needs to be dealt with as well. I never believed in the Russia collusion bullshit. His attempted actions are more left wing than the democrats such as reducing immigration for both legal and illegal as well as protectionism is something democrats used to do. Its a difficult road for him though to accomplish it and as more he moved closer to the type of policies the United States had during its heydeys, the corporate backlash and imperial warhawks have only increased further. Also like him for his honesty and willingless to bring stuff up that previous two administrations never talked about. I don't see anything wrong with his style and got tired of decorum while bombing mudpeople in 3rd world shitholes from the previous administrations.

In all seriousness, though, what was Bernie's entire appeal? To moderate Bernie voters, I can understand more worker's rights. In the other end of the spectrum where all the crazies were, it was like they were going for full on utopian.

 

[Honest Coyote]

They were poor goatfuckers who dressed up in cammies I could buy at the Military Surplus store down the road. They were pro-PMU rioters, but they weren't PMU themselves. If I fly a Confederate battle flag that doesn't mean I'm a Johnny Rebel trained to use a rifle.

Maybe. But if you wore a Confederate uniform and shot at the union, the union would still shoot at you. Partisans are still considered fighters.

 

[TitanWest]

Maybe. But if you wore a Confederate uniform and shot at the union, the union would still shoot at you. Partisans are still considered fighters.

The rioters tried to vandalize the embassy and the guards fired tear gas. That was fair. But killing one of the most effective anti-ISIS commanders based on pure speculation is how you start another war that kills thousands of our troops, costs hundreds of billions of dollars, and gets hundreds of thousands of rapefugees shipped to your door.

 

[MrJokerRager]

In all seriousness, though, what was Bernie's entire appeal? To moderate Bernie voters, I can understand more worker's rights. In the other end of the spectrum where all the crazies were, it was like they were going for full on utopian.

I was in university when he came to our campus surprisingly and I might have the footage somewhere with me of that night or I might have deleted it. He had Tulsi Gabbard with him and it was a open air night rally. It was so long ago in 2016. Lots of people on campus liked him back then for his anti-war stance, his outreach to students dealing with student loans and most progressive candidate back then. There wasn't much talk of the alphabet people now as it was back then. It felt like the late bush era days of when liberals opposed the war machine. Now its just a full degenerate mess.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

The rioters tried to vandalize the embassy and the guards fired tear gas. That was fair. But killing one of the most effective anti-ISIS commanders based on pure speculation is how you start another war that kills thousands of our troops, costs hundreds of billions of dollars, and gets hundreds of thousands of rapefugees shipped to your door.

Awww shit I missed the part where that happened.

 

[XYZpdq]

So, Bolton + Trump's niece's exposes?

Most likely fiction, and probably ghost-written as well, but are they just dumpster fires, or will they do actual damage to Trump's numbers?

I can't see anybody getting their opinions changed by it. If you're inclined to believe Bolton's claims you probably are already firmly anti-Trump.

 

[MrJokerRager]

I can't see anybody getting their opinions changed by it. If you're inclined to believe Bolton's claims you probably are already firmly anti-Trump.

Bolton is a neocon warhawk, nobody cares about him except the spooks and soulless fucks like Adam Schiff.

 

[King Ghidorah]

In another forum one of the favorite things the anti trump crowd liked to bitch about was that trump was apparently eroding the US's "soft power" what does that even actually mean?

 

[SuiSui1]

In another forum one of the favorite things the anti trump crowd liked to bitch about was that trump was apparently eroding the US's "soft power" what does that even actually mean?

If I remember correctly, that was a term from OBummer's presidency, basically it meant that the US would either send money to get countries to behave (I.E. the Iranian Deal) or would use proxies to destabilize the region (Arab Spring)

 

[ditto]

In another forum one of the favorite things the anti trump crowd liked to bitch about was that trump was apparently eroding the US's "soft power" what does that even actually mean?

"Soft power" is the money train of diplomats, attaches, informers and glowies of all stripes that (allegedly) act in the shadows when in reality they're all just at the defense budget trough.

When there is a president that actually does his fucking job there's no room for the Bismarck and James Bond LARPers.

 

[Benisinbagina]

US soft power is already a joke, the Chinese spend far less money on say, the WHO, and have far more control of it despite that. Your power doesn't mean shit when your main opposition grows stronger since you're spending a lot of your resources propping it up.

 

[Shield Breaker]

If the Democrats don't get their heads out of their asses, forget about the presidency, they are going to lose the house. I thought covid had given them a real opportunity, but their reaction to the rioting and turning to the BLM cult is insane.