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#308: The Afghanistan Sh**show

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News & Politics

4.4519 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Storm and Matt are back to discuss the latest news coming out of the administration following President Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody, and welcome back for another episode of Trigger. This is Trigger's number

0:05.1

308, and it has been a hell of a news week since we last talk to you last Tuesday. Oh, everything's

0:11.2

going great in Afghanistan. Those airplanes are taken off. Well, you know, dropping people.

0:18.0

Before we, before we get into all that, you jumped way ahead there.

0:22.3

Oh, sorry.

0:22.7

That's all right. I'm excited. It's an exciting day. It's not exciting. I mean, it's not exciting. I mean, it's exciting if you do like a couple lines of Coke and a few bottles of jack, but... Yeah, well, that's not what's being done here. Just to get it off the top of the bat here, you know, the problem is not the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.

0:41.5

No.

0:42.1

That was long overdue in the right decision in the long term.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:45.4

The problem is the way this was done.

0:47.6

It was completely flat-footed, no plan.

0:51.1

It was a dine dash.

0:52.9

Totally negligent, incompetent, discraceful, and national embarrassment. You could run down the list. It was a dine dash. Totally negligent, incompetent, disgraceful, and national embarrassment.

0:57.2

You could run down the list.

0:58.0

We have not seen anything like this since Vietnam.

1:00.5

Yeah, it was brain dead like our president.

1:03.1

Yeah, well.

1:04.3

A massive failure of not just the president, but also the people who are supposed to handle these things.

1:09.7

Intelligence, DOD, the rest of the administration. Everybody deserves to be fired for this. But they won't be. They won't be. But you all know that everybody deserves. Millie, Lloyd, they all need to go, but they won't. So a timeline of events here, Thursday night, and you remember me saying this on Thursday night. Yeah. that I tweeted, after the U.S. Department of Defense said,

1:30.6

oh, yeah, Cobble's going to, you know, last maybe 30 days after they previously 48 hours earlier said this, 90.

1:38.8

It went from 90 to 30.

1:40.8

In 36 hours.

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