#310: The Afghanistan Travesty Continues
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Storm and Matt are back to detail the latest updates coming out of Afghanistan as the Biden administration continues to make a disastrous withdrawal worse.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everybody and welcome back for another episode of Trigger. This is Trigger episode number 310. We're here on Tuesday, August 24th, and the nation is collapsing around us to take a line from you. Everybody, you just said it, so I had to steal it. Yeah. Yeah. Just like that headline I wrote. Oh, yeah. My headline? All right. So let's talk about the latest that's going on here today because it's been a busy news day. and it's all bad news. |
| 0:23.8 | That's an understatement. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, it is all bad news. Just starting off the top. For the next three years, as long as this dementia-ridden president is here, it's all going to be dead. Three years. He's not making it three years. He can't even make it one day today that's true uh so let's start |
| 0:38.3 | off first with the big story of the afternoon Biden was supposed to speak at 12 p.m yeah eastern okay |
| 0:43.7 | it got delayed it got delayed it got delayed we get around to 2 30 he's two and a half hours late |
| 0:49.6 | and then the white house says we're going to do it at 4.30. At 4.5 hours later than originally scheduled. |
| 0:56.7 | So there's two things here. |
| 0:57.9 | One, we were trying to hold the episode to get whatever he was going to say, but we couldn't. |
| 1:01.7 | We couldn't. |
| 1:02.5 | And two, if you're trying to restore confidence. |
| 1:06.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:08.5 | Missing your scheduled mark this many times? |
| 1:10.8 | Not good. Not good. Not good. And mark this many times? Not good. |
| 1:11.4 | Not good. |
| 1:12.0 | Not good. |
| 1:12.6 | And now we find out the reason why he apparently is delaying. |
| 1:17.8 | That's a nervous laugh. |
| 1:18.9 | And you wrote about this. |
| 1:20.1 | We're leaving, folks. |
| 1:21.2 | That's why. |
| 1:22.4 | We're leaving. |
| 1:22.9 | In 72 hours, our troop presence is going to be gone, apparently. |
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