In the wake of the U.S. airstrikes on Iran, Democrats are pointing to Trump’s own promises that he wouldn’t ensnare the country in foreign conflicts.
Democrats are seizing on Donald Trump’s surprise attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities to make the case that the world is becoming more dangerous on his watch, not less, and that he is reneging on a promise to avoid foreign military interventions.
The argument strikes at Trump’s contention that his blend of negotiating skills and toughness is enough to keep the United States safe.
In the space of a few days, Trump has made the United States a combatant in another Middle East war that exposes soldiers to potential deadly reprisals, Democrats contend.
In a statement, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin pointed to Trump’s inaugural address, in which he said he would measure his success by “the wars we never get into.”
Honestly who cares. The Democratic party is dead and useless. Stern words and no follow-up. If the Democratic party slightly resembles the 2024 party they’re done.
UK is the same, except we don’t have anyone to rally behind.
I swear all these articles ever do is make conversation devolve into “MY OLD MAN IS BETTER THAN YOUR OLD MAN!”. I mean look at the comments. It’s distracting. At the end of the day, a loophole was found and Orange Chicken Little is going to use it just like the past three presidents did. The Democrats should be pointing the fingers at themselves for not amending the War Powers Act to return all combat engagement decisions back to Congress when they had several chances. The money is too good so they won’t do that. Instead they will feed the public this crap and “take the high road”.
I am not at all surprised that “Biden did not start wars” is their sharpest argument against the regime. Toothless cowards.
Until Democrats start demanding punishment, I don’t want to hear shit about their grandstanding! Fuck em, but fuck the other party way more!
I could see Chuck Schumer smugly saying this with his glasses sliding down his nose.
They aren’t seizing on shit. They are saying ‘nuh uh! Our old man was better because he fought people who couldn’t fight back.’
Democrats unable to come up with anything else than high school “politics” as usual
High school politics are still above republicans kindergarten level insults
Wow, what a sharp argument 🙄
Libs would rather lose than confront reality.
Literally the worst argument ever. Biden is a war criminal, he armed genocide. He is no better. Plus many others like Yemen.
While Biden 100% a supporter of genocide, Trump is all that AND more.
trump is so much worse though
The fuck he didn’t. Look up Biden back in 2001 and 2002 on the senate floor screaming about how Iraq had nukes totally frfr pinky sware on me mum. That fucking clown couldn’t gobble dick cheney’s balls fast enough.
Over 20 years ago, immediately following 9/11. It was a different world back then. How much have you changed in 20+ years?
Yeah 20 years ago he could remember his middle name
TBH I wasn’t a brainwashed idiot 20 years ago. Biden has always been zio fascist trash. We’ve been protesting this same garbage for my whole life.
20 years ago? These imperial attacks are at least as old as genociding native americans.
I really do not appreciate that mental image………
When it comes to foreign policy, remember, Trump is definitely in the Epstein files.
Wow, the fucking hypocrisy. Everyone is pointing out the genocide, which is fair enough, but more relevantly the Yemen bombing campaign is pretty much exactly what Trump is doing, only Biden had the sense not to call it a war.
You mean the genocide that Trump is also allowing… and encouraging… against the Muslims, just like how China is killing, reeducating, and forcing them to work?
Fuck Biden, but don’t go all clown-faced-ML on us.
What part of my comment do you take as defending Trump or China? I hate both of them, but I also hate Dem hypocrisy. Do I need to add a footnote saying fuck Trump and fuck Xi whenever I want to criticize Democrats?
It’s the internet, so yes.
When you let Trump off the hook for genocide, yes.
When you let Trump off the hook for genocide
So… Never?
For fucks sake leave Biden alone.
Bringing him up only hurts the Dem party.
It doesn’t matter if Biden is slightly better than trump. There’s no gentleman’s agreement that when Republicans run a shitty candidate the majority of Americans hate, that Dems need to do the same.
Progressive policy is overwhelming popular, and we got a good number of politicians who authentically support those popular positions.
That’s who we need to be talking about. Not running PR for a geriatric that fucked us over and probably bears more personal responsibility for trump being president than anyone else in the country
If Biden’s old ass would have let a fair primary happen, whoever won it would have easily beaten trump. But he put himself over the country, like countless neoliberals have before him.
Quick edit:
Thought this was the first time I’d disagree with the new chair, but bringing up Biden was all the author, Martin doesn’t mention him once:
“In January — speaking to the entire nation at his Inauguration – Donald Trump proclaimed ‘We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.’
Today, against his own words, the president sent bombers into Iran.
Americans overwhelmingly do not want to go to war.
Americans do not want to risk the safety of our troops abroad.
Americans do not want a president who bypasses our constitution and pulls us towards war without Congressional approval.
Donald Trump needs to bring his case to Congress immediately.”
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-chair-ken-martin-statement-on-trumps-unilateral-act-of-war-with-iran/
Eventually I’ll disagree with Martin on something, but he’s killing it so far. I’m even optimistic enough to see this part:
For fucks sake leave Biden alone.
My man had four years to put a very obvious, comically easy to convict, serial murderer behind bars. And he dragged his feet because he thought Trump 2 would be easier to win against than Trump 1.
That’s before you get into the genocides he backed or the pandemic responses he defunded or the insurance reforms he quashed or the fucking Clarence Thomas SCOTUS nomination. Dude should be crucified for that last one alone.
There are so many, many, many reasons to hate Joe Biden. We could be living in a golden new age of peace and prosperity in 2025 and we would still have ample reason to damn that piece of shit to hell for ten lifetimes.
Martin did phenomenal work in MN. I was genuinely surprised he got through the gauntlet.
We need seismic change within the Democratic party to show people they are worthy of their vote. You can’t lie to and disenfranchise voters for decades, then make the argument “but we’re not as bad as the other guy” and have it land.
Oh no, not a sharp argument
Sucks that they’re lying and whitewashing but hey, at least they’re pretending to be anti-war. If we’re really lucky, we might even get a candidate in 2028 who says war is bad, and then pivots immediately if elected.
There hasn’t been a legitimately anti-war presidential nominee from either party in my lifetime, and there never will be, unless something changes drastically.
Tbf Obama was pretty antiwar, until about 5 minutes after his inauguration.
Yep. And we’ve somehow gone backwards from there.
bluewashing
