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Beware of stupid people and people pretending to be stupid for effect...
Right now, Biden is more concerned with salvaging his popularity than with the disaster his incompetence unleashed. And his narrative janitors are doing their best to mop up the blood he's spilled...
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If you think "But Trump invited the bad guys to negotiate at Camp David" or "Trump's deal freed a bunch of prisoners" are some sort of gotcha that put this on Trump, you're dumb or you think your followers are... 2/
There are three ways a war ends. Just three. No more, no less. Three.
1 - Win
2 - Negotiate a peace
3- Lose
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We've taken Win off the table. Neither Trump nor Biden nor anyone else is willing to take the time, spend money, and spill the blood to win this war. 4/
To win would require a combination of the Boer War tactic of emptying the country side with the Roman tactic of pretty much killing everyone else. We're just not going to do that, so we won't win against tribesmen who just will not give up. 5/
The next option was negotiate a deal. Trump did that. When you negotiate, you negotiate, so asking them to visit Camp David is hardly some shocking concession. And when wars end with a deal, prisoners go free. What, you think any deal would keep them locked up forever? 6/
Trump made a deal. It called for the Taliban to power share and had us withdraw most forces in May. The Taliban broke the deal. They attacked. But Biden did nothing, except lengthen the withdrawal time. He did not enforce the deal. 7/
Biden also took longer to leave than Trump would have, assuming the ridiculous scenario that Trump would continue with the treaty while the Taliban broke their part and not retaliate. So Biden had MORE time to plan and execute a smooth departure. Yet he didn't. 8/
The last alternative is to lose. Biden chose that option. And so did every jerk who complains that Trump negotiated. Win, negotiate or lose. Pick one. If you disqualify negotiating, and you won't win, that leaves losing. If you're willing to lose, own it, loser. 9/
So, their argument, to the extent that it is an argument and not a cheesy ploy to distract from Biden's disgraceful, disastrous failure, is that Trump tried to negotiate a peace, and the Taliban broke the deal, and so Biden had no choice but to lose. Huh? 10/
Baloney. When you hear dumb/dishonest people trying to confuse the strategy (leave Afghanistan) with the tactics (Trump via enforcing the deal, Biden via cutting and running), you know you're being played or in the presence of an idiot. Maybe both. 11/End
My new @townhallcom column isn’t gobbling the black pill…
“What goes for drug dealers also goes for political addicts and pundits — don’t get high on your own supply. We want to believe what we want to hear. Confirmation bias is a real thing. It’s out there, waiting to suck you in and turn you out. That’s why I try to be rigorously objective. I try to look at the facts. I’m by nature an optimist, or rather, I’m always looking for an edge, a way, a means to counterattack and seize the initiative, and I always assume it’s there. But of course, Patton's flipside is Pollyanna. Sometimes you’re trying to save the Kobayashi Maru whether you’ll like it or not, and you’re never going to be Captain Kirk. But let me tell you, here’s what my gut is telling me — the Democrats have peaked.”
Did the Democrats Peak Too Soon? https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/10/15/did-the-democrats-peak-too-soon-n2684625
My new @townhallcom VIP column demonstrates that everything from Hollywood doesn’t suck, just a lot of it…
“Is Hollywood suddenly getting based? Well, probably not, at least in the macro. Hollywood is still stuck in a morass of politically correct failure thanks to the cadre of unmarriageable females, militant minorities, and gender-weird diversity hires left over from Woke I who dominate the scene. That the industry is drowning is no surprise. At one time, Tinseltown was focused solely on making money, and the way you made money was to make things the audience enjoyed. Now, for the most part, we are condemned to endure the personal psychodramas and fetishes of a bunch of people trying to work out their daddy issues on our screens. No thanks. But there’s an exception to every rule, and he’s making hundreds of millions of dollars, proving that there is a market for entertainment that doesn’t hate its patriotic, normal audience.”
Hollywood Wins When It Is Based ...
My @townhallcom counterpoint to the people who think justice should be done behind closed doors…
“Murder is a crime, as much as many of the critics don’t care about it. They can summon up all sorts of outrage over criminals being executed, but they don’t know the names of any of the dead.
I do. One of them was a former fellow California Army Guardsman who was serving on active duty at Fort Hood. I didn’t know him well – he was down in San Diego while I was in Los Angeles – but I had met him and he was a good guy. That piece of crap who had wormed his way into the rank of major took a gun and shot Captain John Gaffaney to death because Captain Gaffaney was serving the United States of America in a conflict against the traitor’s seventh-century, goat-loving savage friends. So yeah, I say shoot the b*****d and let everybody see.”
Shoot Him Live https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/10/12/shoot-him-live-n2684469
