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.
I have posted it a few times already over the past days: but we need to remember this:
This is the Democratiic parties election platform 2024 (see P82/P83):
Through aggressive diplomacy backed by U.S. military power, the Administration has worked alongside our allies and partners to deter and defend against Iran and its terrorist surrogates. President Biden has postured U.S. military forces in the region and authorized precision airstrikes on key Iranian-linked targets tied to attacks against U.S. troops to deter further aggression by Iran. President Biden has also continued to protect the American people from terrorism, authorizing military strikes that took out ISIS emirs and the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In response to brazen attacks by Iranian-linked Houthi forces against international commercial shipping, U.S. naval vessels in the Red Sea, and Israel, President Biden ordered military strikes, alongside key allies, against Houthi targets and organized Operation Prosperity Guardian, a coalition of more than 20 nations committed to defending international shipping and deterring Houthi attacks.
When Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones against Israel in April 2024, President Biden led an unprecedented defensive coalition – together with partners from Europe and across the Middle East – to defeat the attack, protect Israel, and stop the spread of a wider war. Through direct defensive action by the U.S. military and its partners, Iranian munitions did not cause significant damage, demonstrating both America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel and our unrivaled ability to leverage growing regional integration among U.S. partners to counter Iranian aggression.
All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility.
They are literally calling Trump “weak” for not engaging militarily enough. This is the same language of Trump of “Peace through strength” and ultimately there is no indication, the Democrats would not have jumped at Netanyahus order to get into the war.
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?
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There are two kind of Muslims. We are only killing the bad ones. /s
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genocide … just like how China is killing, reeducating, and forcing them to work?
Do you have numbers for the killings? Otherwise it almost becomes a pro China argument
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
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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
