Current Events > This chart of Biden's approval rating is grim

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Democrats start to fix the economy, but not fast enough. They get booted for Republicans who take all the credit before the crash they cause starts...

He did better than most presidents.
I take this chart as a Speedrun towards Idiocracy more than anything

Biden didnt pull out of Afghanistan trump did and Biden had to execute the treaty

Biden didnt pull out of Afghanistan trump did and Biden had to execute the treaty

Please do not give Trump credit for a withdrawal he did not have the courage to go through with.

Trump was never going to pull out, he was just reducing the number of troops there.

And again, actually pulling out was the right move, the military couldn't stay there forever and the fact that the government that was installed collapsed instantly pretty much confirms that even if we had stayed there for 20 more years it still wouldn't have been stable.

??? Trump should be held accountable for handing a fledgling democracy over to religious extremists.

At least 452 civilians were killed in 107 raids. This number is almost certainly an undercount. While some raids did result in the capture or death of known militants, others killed bystanders or appeared to target people for no clear reason.
A troubling number of raids appear to have relied on faulty intelligence by the CIA and other U.S. intelligence-gathering services. Two Afghan Zero Unit soldiers described raids they were sent on in which they said their targets were chosen by the United States.
The former head of Afghanistans intelligence agency acknowledged that the units were getting it wrong at times and killing civilians. He oversaw the Zero Units during a crucial period and agreed that no one paid a consequence for those botched raids. He went on to describe an operation that went wrong: I went to the family myself and said: We are sorry. ... We want to be different from the Taliban. And I mean we did, we wanted to be different from the Taliban.
The Afghan soldiers werent alone on the raids; U.S. special operations forces soldiers working with the CIA often joined them. The Afghan soldiers Billing spoke to said they were typically accompanied on raids by at least 10 U.S. special operations forces soldiers. These deaths happened at our hands. I have participated in many raids, one of the Afghans said, and there have been hundreds of raids where someone is killed and they are not Taliban or ISIS, and where no militants are present at all.
Military planners baked potential collateral damage into the pre-raid calculus how many women/children/noncombatants were at risk if the raid went awry, according to one U.S. Army Ranger Billing spoke to. Those forecasts were often wildly off, he said, yet no one seemed to really care. He told Billing that night raids were a better option than airstrikes but acknowledged that the raids risked creating new insurgent recruits. You go on night raids, make more enemies, then you gotta go on more night raids for the more enemies you now have to kill.
Because the Zero Units operated under a CIA program, their actions were part of a classified war, with the lines of accountability so obscured that no one had to answer for operations that went wrong. And U.S. responsibility for the raids was quietly muddied by a legal loophole that allows the CIA and any U.S. soldiers lent to the agency for their operations to act without the same level of oversight as the American military.
Congressional aides and former intelligence committee staffers said they dont believe Congress was getting a complete picture of the CIAs overseas operations. Lawyers representing whistleblowers said there is ample motivation to downplay to Congress the number of civilians killed or injured in such operations. By the time reports get to congressional oversight committees, one lawyer said, theyre undercounting deaths and overstating accuracy.
U.S. military and intelligence agencies have long relied on night raids by forces like the 02 unit to fight insurgencies around the globe. The strategy has, again and again, drawn outrage for its reliance on sometimes flawed intelligence and civilian death count. In 1967, the CIAs Phoenix Program famously used kill-capture raids against the Viet Cong insurgency in south Vietnam, creating an intense public blowback. Despite the programs ignominious reputation a 1971 Pentagon study found only 3% of those killed or captured were full or probationary Viet Cong members above the district level it appears to have served as a blueprint for future night raid operations.
Eyewitnesses, survivors and family members described how Zero Unit soldiers had stormed into their homes at night, killing loved ones** at more than 30 raid sites Billing visited. No Afghan or U.S officials returned to investigate. In one instance, a 22-year-old named Batour witnessed a raid that killed his two brothers. One was a teacher and the other a university student. He told Billing the Zero Unit strategy had actually made enemies of families like his. He and his brothers, he said, had supported the government and vowed never to join the Taliban. Now, he said, hes not so sure.
Little in the way of explanation was ever provided to the relatives of the dead or to their neighbors and friends as to why these particular individuals were targeted and what crimes they were accused of. Families who sought answers from provincial officials about the raids were told nothing could be done because they were Zero Unit operations. They have their own intelligence and they do their own operation, one grieving family member remembered being told after his three grandchildren were killed in an airstrike and night raid. The provincial governor gave us a parcel of rice, a can of oil and some sugar as compensation for the killings. At medical facilities, doctors told Billing theyd never been contacted by Afghan or U.S. investigators or human rights groups about the fate of those injured in the raids. Some of the injured later died, quietly boosting the casualty count.

The propaganda against this man worked wonders.

This chart lines up nicely with Musk buying Twitter

The US presence in Afghanistan consisted largely of shit like this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-investigation-takeaways

It was fine to have ended that.

so then whats the problem? Why did bIDeN get destroyed if it was good that it ended

so then whats the problem? Why did bIDeN get destroyed if it was good that it ended

The way it happened was embarrassing. The Taliban shouldn't have taken over before we could complete the U.S. withdrawal.

When you see this and see Trump hovering at 40 percent roughly it really makes you accept that we are a nation in decline and have no hope left. I don't see a realistic way Democrats recover from this let alone recover in a way that isn't immediately smothered by the unchecked corruption of Trump's administration

Media coverage of the withdrawal was ghastly.
https://theweek.com/politics/1003969/american-media-cant-quit-the-forever-war
https://www.columnblog.com/p/pundits-whose-hearts-bled-for-the

And the administration's response to negative coverage was to shut itself up rather than voice a counter-narrative.

Such a small percentage of people consume the mainstream media. You can add them all up and their tv ratings and its 20% tops.

We can ONLY recover if (when) the republican destroys the economy.

That's the fault of the Afghan military, frankly