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#531 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 272 weeks ago
On the one point you sort of made, Trump is being heavily criticised for the deal he made, now that folk understand the implications of it. He is being held accountable. Biden is being held more accountable because the admin he is in charge of executed this plan.
Yeah, I don't think Trump (or any other past president really) should escape critcism for this disaster but Biden is the one in charge and implementing the policies (or not). I mean the US just seems less organized and more chaotic than other countries, just on a visceral level. And that is not even considering all the other aspects of it.
#532 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 272 weeks ago
This is awful. At some point, there needs to be a bipartisan Congressional Investigation into how the fuck this spiraled into Hell on Earth.
#533 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 273 weeks ago
He's incompetent.
I wish we had a VP with actual experience and who had some respect.
I'd say let Biden sit at home in his rocking chair and the VP could run things like Cheney.
Yeah, you're right. Biden who voted for the Iraq war and served on the various committees like Foreign Affairs and Armed Services, so he should have a clue about this stuff. He's no neophyte. He's a hawk. Disappointing really.
Instead, this shit is coming off like amateur hour.
#534 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 273 weeks ago
The chefs kiss of humiliation will be when we need Russia to get our people out. We have Americans sending videos begging to get out.
He's probably laughing his ass off right now.
#535 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl doesnt consider CD a guns n roses album anymore » 273 weeks ago
It isn't that he doesn't consider CD or those lineups GNR.
It's like I've said before... even before the shindig got underway....
They are in the process of retconning the Chinese Democracy years.
We see it with the Absurd songwriting credits with GNR as a catch-all for everything...new song titles for old songs which will continue...no mention of CD members, such as "Here's a new one written by Mother Goose and Mr. Dizzy Reed" a la Silkworms at Rio....
They'll take it another step when the album comes out.
It's like they picked up where they left off in 1993....a massive touring machine consisting of the Big 3 and an assorted cast of characters that eventually needs a product in stores to grease the wheels.
I don't really see a problem with it.
The ship sailed and sunk looooong ago on CD and any followups being anything like they should've been 2000-04.
That chapter is permanently closed...and this is the only way this upcoming material was ever going to be released.
I really find his comments back in 2001 regarding Slash apologizing publicly and he can contribute to a few CD tracks funny in hindsight.
The idea of the old guard coming back in was already in his head in the early phase of the project.
We're damn lucky that we're going to get it. This stuff was going to rot without Slash and Duff coming back.
Weird aint it? That at some point he always wanted Slash to return and work on the CD tracks. Anyway, they should retcon those CD years. It became a punchline and an embarrassement, just the entire project and the name of it.
I have no problem with this either. Other bands have glossed over stuff like this. Van Halen almost never mentions the album with Gary Cherone. Pretty sure Motley Crue barely mentions the album they did without Vince Neil.
#536 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 273 weeks ago
I actually don't blame Trump too much on this one. From what I remember, he wanted to pull out troops too. It's just FUBAR'ed and we just need to get the fuck out of there with minimal loss of life at this point. And Biden is the guy in charge right now and it falls on him, rightly on wrongly.
#537 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 273 weeks ago
I just don't know how Biden can be this fucking tone deaf. I'm going to assume that the military guys/generals/advisors whatever know what they are talking about and looking at and probably advised him about the situation and all that entails pulling out like he did.
No, he isn't going to re-sign over this. Americans (the general population) don't really care as much about this as you think.
That being said, the entire invasion of Afghanistan was about killing Bin Laden. Once they accomplished that, they should have had an exit strategy.
#538 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 273 weeks ago
Well and also Izzy isn't there as well. In retrospect that 89 interview foreshadowed the breakup/problems recording Illusions.
You're right. They're not friends. I don't think it is as bad as VH where Eddie still couldn't stand DLR. But these guys are business partners for the touring and the revenue that comes with it.
#539 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 273 weeks ago
I lean left and even I can't defend this shit. This is stupid on multiple levels. It's not that he just withdrew troops. It's the way he's doing it now and the corrosponding total chaos that is now happening.
Oh and we should not get into the habit of trying to spread "democracy" to one of these Middle East nations for a long time if ever again.
#540 Re: Guns N' Roses » When do we hear Hardskool? » 274 weeks ago
Well this is where having actual management during that time period would have helped. Either go full blast with your solo project or go for the reunion with Slash and Duff. Pick one and not both.
I never thought that announcing that the 99 lineup had re-recorded AFD was wise. It just brought Slash/Duff back to the forefront even though they had left the band.
Oh well, that's what GNR post 95-2015 became anyway, just a cover band playing AFD/Lies and Illusion anyway.
