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#312: America's Longest War Ends in Disaster

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4.4519 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Storm and Matt are back to discuss the disastrous end to America's longest war, President Biden's bizarre speech and desire to take all the credit but none of the blame, along with the other big news stories of the day.

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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 312. We're here on Tuesday, August 31st. It is almost September, and America's longest war is now over.

0:12.1

It was the most, it was an awesome exit. I'm going to tell you. It was, it's beginning rave reviews in the media. Just absolutely great.

0:21.1

It was so great that we left over 100 Americans behind.

0:26.0

Well, that's what they say.

0:27.3

That's what they say.

0:28.0

Listen, the 90% is the new 100% in Biden land.

0:34.2

Apparently.

0:35.6

And then there's also all those SIVs and key Afghan allies, which still remains in the thousands. I'm more upset about the dogs. Yeah. We left service dogs in the kennels on the tarmac. I would have taken those dogs over a bunch of potential terrorists. The point is, we're not going to get these people out. Well, we'll see. We'll see. We're going to talk about that in a second. Richard Engel kind of

0:56.1

threw cold water on that. He's not necessarily a Mr. Conservative type. You know what I'm trying to say? That's true. I do see that. But there's also... We are going to have Civil War Part 2 because the Taliban is going to be fighting the Northern Alliance, which is back, ISIS K

1:09.1

There's also

1:09.9

There's also

1:09.9

There's tons of chaos now

1:11.2

We're not going to be

1:11.7

Look at these people out

1:12.3

That the Taliban

1:13.3

actually took a group of Americans and got them to the Americans to get out. That's a report. So who knows, right? You know, I don't know who to believe at this point. I don't believe the U.S. government. I don't believe the Taliban, so I don't believe either. What, if that's the case, how big of a pallet of cash do we can?

1:32.3

Oh, for sure. They're definitely handing out of cash.

1:35.3

But so let's start with yesterday. That was when the last plane left, right?

1:39.3

Yeah. Which was expected. Then, uh, CENTCOM commander General McKenzie, who I really don't like, by the way, announced the end of the war last evening. Okay, listen to this clip.

1:52.9

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens,

2:02.0

third country nationals, and vulnerable Afghans.

2:05.0

The last C-17 lifted off from Hamad Karzai International Airport on August 30th this afternoon

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