Why are Biden’s Critics So Dumb?

 Lengthy article, worth reading here:

https://intpolicydigest.org/why-are-biden-s-critics-so-dumb/

Snippets:

This past week Americans let out a long exhale as our longest war came to an end. We are “officially” out of Afghanistan after twenty years. The decision to pull our troops out produced a lot of pieces about the merits of the enterprise itself; the bungled withdrawal plan of the Biden administration; and whether or not we should have even left at all.

In so-called “normal times,” these are the sort of discussions you’d expect to see, since it is what has happened after virtually every American foreign policy adventure in the past 150 years.

• Biden is responsible for the Taliban using a Black Hawk helicopter to hang someone.
• We left hundreds of fully operational helicopters, Humvees, and other military vehicles in Afghanistan.
• Biden checked his watch during the dignified transfer of the 13 fallen service members.
• We even left military dogs in Afghanistan!

None of these claims are true. In fact, almost all of them are easily debunked!

Throughout Obama’s presidency, conservatives seemed to live in an alternate universe that insulated them from the actual popularity that the president enjoyed. The problem grew somewhat larger as 2012 went on, best evidenced by the shock expressed by some conservatives that he had actually won reelection. Roughly eight years later, the problem has fully metastasized; Republicans have gone from writing fibs about Obamacare to believing that the Democrats engage in child sacrifice and drink their blood.

 In late August, while Afghanistan was eating up the news cycle, a Trump supporter drove to Washington, D.C., and issued a bomb threat, consuming the resources of the police department for hours before he voluntarily surrendered. Floyd Ray Roseberry was a rabid Trump supporter and threatened to detonate his (non-existent) bombs unless Biden and Kamala Harris stepped down. A few days ago, another Trump supporter said that unless the Los Angeles City Council rejected a mask-mandate, there would be a “Civil War.”

When Trump supporters try to use the “Mean Tweets” argument on anyone who opposed the twice-impeached former president, it’s important to remember that they don’t actually care about Trump’s policies, on Afghanistan or on anything else. All they really want is for liberals to get upset and to be outraged, so that they can get a taste of what conservatives are seemingly feeling all the time. That feeling is a result of a media ecosystem that foments outrage through disinformation, and it’s currently a problem that is too big to fail. One of the biggest stories following the election of 2020 was the steep decline in Fox’s viewership following their early Arizona call. Hoards of conservatives began tuning into places like Newsmax and OAN because those channels actively promoted “The Big Lie” that Trump actually won the election. What began as conservatives “humoring” Trump in November of 2020 is now a full-blown litmus test for being a member of the Republican Party.