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The Progressive Deep-State Apparatchik Career Path:
1- Get Rich
2- Enter Government
3- Stop Everyone Else From Getting Rich

Gensler is a nonentity, but his career is illustrative of the profound disconnect between government and those it purports to serve. He reaped the benefits of a typical immigrant success story, growing up in a working class family but going to an Ivy League school and then on to Wall Street, where he was a successful banker at Goldman Sachs.

But the lure of power was too much, and into government he went, no doubt eased by substantial contributions to the Democrat party. And like every budding fascist, he has latched onto the teats of power (sorry about that image) in the form of Elizabeth "Fauxahontas" Warren, who wields a terrifying amount of influence over the government's regulatory apparatus.

Ambitious SEC boss Gary Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Gensler just took the job as Securities and Exchange Commission chief. But people who have seen him in action for years as he served in various Treasury posts and as a commodities regulator in the Obama administration say his bureaucratic ambition knows no bounds. He's thinking bigger than being the guy who runs what is essentially an investor-protection agency.
Yes, he is thinking about enacting every progressive wet dream with respect to evil banks and the stock market and all sorts of icky market-driven money-making possibilities that he enjoyed but wants to deny to others...especially those who are not connected in some way to the Leviathan. And what better way to do that than being the Secretary of The Treasury? Of course we should ignore his support for complex derivatives before he was against them. You remember derivatives? Those arcane financial instruments that contributed to the financial implosion in 2008?

But that is par for the course in the Deep StateTM. The results are meaningless...it is the process that is important, and in this case he was following the political winds by supporting them in 2000, the leading the charge against them eight years later.

But all of this is secondary to his lust for power that he will satisfy in any way possible. If that means helping to destroy the financial system that allowed him to be successful? Sure...why not! As long as he gains it matters not that it is at the expense of others. Which is pretty much the perfect description of the progressive deep state that has subsumed the political process into its own needs.

So if all goes according to his plan, Gary Gensler, a pumped up clerk with delusions of grandeur and the poster child for the Peter Principle will be Warren's toady in exchange for support for his desire to be Secretary of The treasury. And that means doing what she bids, no matter its corrosive effects on the economy and the Constitution that both have sworn to protect.

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1 I'll get em

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:00 AM (znIQ9)

2 Roomy

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 15, 2021 11:02 AM (xopIz)

3 Whoa.

Posted by: Chip Diller in Kabul, CNN at August 15, 2021 11:02 AM (4I/2K)

4 That's my understanding how the Soviet Union worked for 90 years at least.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:03 AM (znIQ9)

5 Pieces of shit, all of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:05 AM (rrqyB)

6 Sometimes the result of reading CBD's posts is an overwhelming feeling of resignation. We're fooked, aren't we CBD? Going back outside to finish digging my ditch.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:06 AM (3C1R+)

7 Wondering how I can get at the IRA without confiscatory taxes.

Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:06 AM (VDqwV)

8 Stark reminder this weekend that the George W Bush presidency is the dogshit that will never come off our shoes.

Posted by: Stout at August 15, 2021 11:07 AM (EHSFD)

9 7 Wondering how I can get at the IRA without confiscatory taxes.
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:06 AM (VDqwV)

Roth account.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 15, 2021 11:07 AM (Fs5vw)

10 Don't care for a toady. Now a good toddy now and then is fine.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:07 AM (Q8Qc6)

11 CBD is where Monty went? Is that what you are saying?

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:08 AM (DcuIu)

12 The federal government is the root of all of the problems in our country.

Only one solution.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:08 AM (R/m4+)

13 So if all goes according to his plan, Gary Gensler, a pumped up clerk with delusions of grandeur and the poster child for the Peter Principle will be Warren's toady in exchange for support for his desire to be Secretary of The treasury. And that means doing what she bids, no matter its corrosive effects on the economy and the Constitution that both have sworn to protect.


In other words, a day ending with a "y".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2021 11:08 AM (OCTRt)

14 (grabs shovel)
(stops,)
I have no idea where Sock Monkey lives
(takes shovel back to out building)

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:08 AM (znIQ9)

15 Don't care for a toady. Now a good toddy now and then is fine.

SEND ME A TODDLER

Posted by: The Big Guy at August 15, 2021 11:09 AM (fPIEX)

16 Look at the bios of Franklin Raines and what's her name the queen of disaster

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:09 AM (DcuIu)

17 teats of power
------------------------------
I prefer "jugs of jurisdiction".

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:10 AM (UHVv4)

18 We need a Taliban in this country.

Posted by: No longer underground at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (SQyzz)

19 The federal government is the root of all of the problems in our country.

Only one solution.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:08 AM (R/m4+)


A cleansing fire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (rrqyB)

20 Jaimie Gorelick. That's her name.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (DcuIu)

21 "Of course we should ignore his support for complex derivatives before he was against them. You remember derivatives? Those arcane financial instruments that contributed to the financial implosion in 2008?"

*

It's worth remembering that the "financial implosion of 2008" wasn't a particularly big deal - and one that already had countless laws and regulations in place to sort itself out - until the Democrats realized it was an election year.

Poof. Financial crisis and the only solution was to get a democrat politician in office to spend $1T annually so we could tread water and accept the new normal.

Weird how COVID worked exactly the same way, wasn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (UK6no)

22 Look at the bios of Franklin Raines and what's her name the queen of disaster
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:09 AM (DcuIu)

Jaime Hoorlock?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:12 AM (4I/2K)

23 17 teats of power
------------------------------
I prefer "jugs of jurisdiction".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:10 AM (UHVv4)



Breasts of brokerage.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 15, 2021 11:12 AM (Fs5vw)

24 Once in, never out.

Posted by: your IRA at August 15, 2021 11:12 AM (UHVv4)

25 It aint what ya know
it aint who ya know
it's all who ya blow

Posted by: Kamalama the OG take-a-knee at August 15, 2021 11:12 AM (oEn12)

26 Sweater-puppies of puissance.

Posted by: your IRA at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (UHVv4)

27 Capital is the distribution of power. Of course, the power-hungry covet capital, until they can own the reins of raw power.

But they will use the leverage of private power to march through the institutions.

This is not about restoring the dignity to anybody, in as much feigned concern gives you power over people.

Marxists are little but wheedlers of power.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (XHhHI)

28 Off, Irish sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (UHVv4)

29 He sounds terrible, but I'm to the point where I no longer want to protect Wall Street, Big Business or ultra rich oligarchs anymore.

This is war and they have chosen their sides.

Posted by: Blago at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (PwNLq)

30 We need a Taliban in this country.

**

They'll be here soon enough, and Biden's administration will make sure they're given transportation to Texas, Florida, SC, etc.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (UK6no)

31 This guy Gensler looks like the salt sucking vampire from Star Trek's "The Man Trap."

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (JTpIQ)

32 teats of power
------------------------------
I prefer "jugs of jurisdiction".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:10 AM (UHVv4)

*kneels on one knee* What is thy bidding, my masters?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (4I/2K)

33 Jaimie Gorelick. That's her name.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (DcuIu)

Don't discount Victoria Nuland.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

34 This is beyond my wildest dreams...

Posted by: Zombie Karl Marx at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (Xrfse)

35 I have no idea where Sock Monkey lives

In the woods, on a hill, far from the maddening crowd. Where the libtards are scarce and good neighbors still exist. Appreciate the thought Skip. Need to finish my coffee before the boss realizes I'm missing.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:15 AM (3C1R+)

36 There are certain hardship exemptions that let you tap into it. They do take out the taxes but it's something you file on your regular tax return. You may get part of it back.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 15, 2021 11:15 AM (YynYJ)

37 Weird how COVID worked exactly the same way, wasn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:11 AM (UK6no)

The failure of Bear Stearns was a problem because of all of the structural stuff it did behind the scenes. But it could have been managed without the catastrophe that was caused by government interference...which caused the problems in the first place.

Wait! Government interference in financial markets seems to be a bad thing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 15, 2021 11:15 AM (Q9lwr)

38 sitting on my kitchen deck, 1000 flowers

having roasted brussels sprouts and 1:1 GNTs for breakfast

73 degrees

life is so unfair

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:15 AM (uCLWI)

39 Wall St looooooooved Biden. So let them get fucked good and hard by Biden's SEC pick.

LOLGF bitches.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:16 AM (l5FxP)

40 Your capital implies power that you have not directed to their will. Which is why the dispersion of power and enterprise is abhorrent to those that seek all power.

There never has been a "socialist" regime that didn't absorb all power. And the more benign ones, mete it out to you to keep you singing off the same sheet.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2021 11:16 AM (XHhHI)

41 " Wondering how I can get at the IRA without confiscatory taxes."

Substantially Equal Period Payments (SEPP). No penalty for early withdrawal.

I did it.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 15, 2021 11:16 AM (xopIz)

42 We need a better elite.

I mean we brought John Kerry back. Susan Rice. So many mediocrities with no actual success to their name in positions of power. We are lucky that things are going so well.

Oh, wait....

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:17 AM (DcuIu)

43 They'll be here soon enough, and Biden's administration will make sure they're given transportation to Texas, Florida, SC, etc.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:13 AM (UK6no)


They're already here and waiting for that special day.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 15, 2021 11:17 AM (Fs5vw)

44 OT, but presidential palace in Kabul now taken by Taliban (was actually abandoned by government).

President Ghani reportedly has fled. There was some kind of transition process - though this seems odd and I'm not sure what the value of it would be - involving Ghani and former prez Karzai as well as a major regional/tribal leader (Hekmatyar) that has now been scotched by Ghani's disappearance.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:18 AM (OTzUX)

45 The ability of those with power to make arbitrary and dehumanizing demands on your life is within human society. It does not go away because an economy is centrally planned.

And it has never gone away with a full-blown Marxist revolution that simply imposes arbitrary demands "for the cause" which never ends.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2021 11:19 AM (XHhHI)

46 Hi...I'm your new neighbor. Can i borrow a cup of delusions of grandeur?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 15, 2021 11:19 AM (oy1++)

47 bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 15, 2021 11:19 AM (vuisn)

48 Oh, wait....

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:17 AM (DcuIu)

Samantha Power...always a fave.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

49 I just need Biden to say this:

Duke Lowell will never be a billionaire.

I'll be rich!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM (kTF2Z)

50 All this shit is going to work get ugly quick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM (rrqyB)

51 Kabul is kaput.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM (4I/2K)

52 I wayched this video interview of John McAfee the other day. Easy to see why he was Epsteined

https://youtu.be/Mtxefigaygk

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM (YynYJ)

53
Look at the bios of Franklin Raines and what's her name the queen of disaster

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:09 AM (DcuIu)

Jaime Hoorlock?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:12 AM


Jamie Gorelick

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM (DUIap)

54 Get ugly quick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:21 AM (rrqyB)

55 President Ghani reportedly has fled. There was some kind of transition process

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:18 AM (OTzUX)

They ran out the back door while the Talies came in the front?

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

56 54 Get ugly quick.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:21 AM (rrqyB)


and din wut ??

Posted by: Lena at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (uCLWI)

57 Kabul is essentially falling right now. Some senior (presumably temporary) officials being "appointed" by Taliban already, from among the former regime.

This is generally the pattern, and why things can change so fast. It's like most of human history, though not so much in the more advanced countries in the last 2 centuries.

Lots of side-switching.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (OTzUX)

58 No Grand Architect of the Economy backs Marx's final goal of dissolution of the government.

The role of central planner and God over the economy is just too enticing to allow you to think that anybody could do this without you.

These aren't Marxists, they are good ol' fashioned tyrants with a Marxist theme.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (XHhHI)

59 Flag taken down from U.S. Embassy; ambassador with it at the airport.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (UHVv4)

60 Listening to NPR moan about Afghanistan this morning and the loss of womens' rights, etc. and it occurs to me that for all their SJW virtue signaling, the thing the media really wants is for America to get a black eye, and has worked for that in Afghanistan for the last 20 years. If I in turn posted explicitly what I want for the media, the FBI would be at my door pretty quick, but let's just say the pay-per-view would make some serious cash.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 15, 2021 11:23 AM (1umw2)

61 Get ugly quick.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:21 AM (rrqyB)
---
Done.

Posted by: Lori Lightweight at August 15, 2021 11:23 AM (XHhHI)

62 The failure of Bear Stearns was a problem because of all of the structural stuff it did behind the scenes. But it could have been managed without the catastrophe that was caused by government interference...which caused the problems in the first place.

**

Yep. I've told the story before, but I knew a young couple who had lived frugally and saved for years in order to get a solid down payment ($15-$20K or so) in order to buy a first home. They were so excited that they would have an opportunity to buy a nicer starter home than they'd originally planned because people who had compromised themselves with ARMs and such would need to sell and rent for a while, and the banks wouldn't be picky because they just wanted their investments covered.

And then the feds made sure no one even at the homeowner level who had made very bad financial decisions would have to suffer any consequences from it, either, and that couple somehow struggled to find a decent home at a good price in a safe neighborhood even after the "collapse".

I always wondered what lesson they learned from that.

*spit*

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:23 AM (UK6no)

63 bonk bonk on the head

Pretty much sums things up.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2021 11:23 AM (Xrfse)

64 Flag taken down from U.S. Embassy; ambassador with it at the airport.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (UHVv4)
---
Where's Baghdad Bob when you need him?

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2021 11:24 AM (XHhHI)

65 Yep, Gensler made money screwing his partner, Lee out of the diamonds they both owned....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2021 11:24 AM (7bRMQ)

66 The current architecture of financial regulation was manufactured by holding bull sessions among lobbyists in Barney Frank's office.

It would be agreeable if the FIRE sector were separated by law from the rest of the economy.

It would be agreeable if our financial enterprises were debarred from having deposits or custodial accounts abroad, and permitted foreign subsidiaries only as service points.

It would be agreeable if the insurance business was separated by law from the rest of the financial system.

It would be agreeable if the capital markets and the firms trading on them were separated by law from deposits-and-loans banks, other institutions of credit, and miscellaneous fee-for-service activities in the financial sector.

Posted by: Art Deco at August 15, 2021 11:24 AM (1BrBu)

67 President Ghani reportedly has fled. There was some kind of transition process - though this seems odd and I'm not sure what the value of it would be - involving Ghani and former prez Karzai as well as a major regional/tribal leader (Hekmatyar) that has now been scotched by Ghani's disappearance.

Posted by: rhomboid


I just want to know if all our personnel are out of there.

Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (VDqwV)

68 Remember how I was asking whether it seemed like things were accelerating?

Now I want to know are they super accelerating.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (DcuIu)

69 onto the teats of power
---CBD

Cantaloupes of collaborators

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (i7yNY)

70 off sock

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (oEn12)

71 Staying out of the system is the best revenge

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (uCLWI)

72 Get ugly quick.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin

How do you get ugly? Most ugly people were never not ugly.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (3C1R+)

73 Heh. I remember seeing this guy, an obvious prick, still proudly tooling around town in a 6.5L AMG with a vanity plate that said "MBS-CDO" in 2010, well after his brand of crook had collapsed the American economy in an orgy of greed and deceit.

That may we'll have been Gensler. Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (GdOWZ)

74 It would be agreeable if banks were assigned a region and debarred from maintaining branches or originating real estate loans outside their region.

It would be agreeable if financial firms were debarred from conjoining lines of business which generate conflicts of interest, in lieu of contrivances like 'Chinese walls' which 'prevent' employees of the same firm from talking to each other.

No doubt Mr. Gensler will be working for the interests of casino bankers (a Democratic client) contra community bankers who serve local business (both Republican clients).

Posted by: Art Deco at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (1BrBu)

75 It's like they do this to make Iran happy.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (oy1++)

76 Bribes and other incentives reportedly being deployed, along with Marines and airborne units, to assure safe US/western evacuation from Kabul.

I still think Taliban will allow a fairly orderly evacuation.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (OTzUX)

77 In the woods, on a hill, far from the maddening crowd. Where the libtards are scarce and good neighbors still exist.

Posted by: Sock Monkey


It is so worth it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (OCTRt)

78 I just want to know if all our personnel are out of there.
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (VDqwV)

I expect hostages and cash transfers

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:26 AM (ONvIw)

79 Now I want to know are they super accelerating.
Posted by: blaster

Humongous has cranked up the nitris.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (3C1R+)

80 Most ugly people were never not ugly.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (3C1R+)

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I'm standing right here, you know.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (kTF2Z)

81
...get ugly quick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:20 AM


wait...I though it was "go ugly early"

have I been doing it wrong all along?

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (DUIap)

82 Lots of side-switching.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:22 AM (OTzUX)

Sim Carstairs: You bet. You know in my line of work, you gotta be able either to sing "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" or "Dixie" with equal enthusiasm... dependin' upon present company.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (4I/2K)

83 I just want to know if all our personnel are out of there.

**

It will be neat to watch all the GRRRL POWRRR people ignore what's about to happen to the girls in the area.

The Biden family will be very, very interested, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (UK6no)

84 In other political news: I want the names of the apparatchiks who wrote the new DH$ policy designating all dissenters to leftist policies as potential terrorists.

Posted by: Brett at August 15, 2021 11:28 AM (TzznH)

85 If a child puts a worm on a mirror at night and says "Gary Gensler, peek-a-boo" three times, within three days that child will be found, touched, and then eaten by Gary Gensler.

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:28 AM (xK9An)

86 This guy Gensler looks like the salt sucking vampire from Star Trek's "The Man Trap."
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (JTpIQ)

I liked that episode.

Poor Bones...he never gets laid.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:28 AM (R/m4+)

87 wait...I though it was "go ugly early"

have I been doing it wrong all along?
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2021 11:27 AM (DUIap)

You and me both.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (rrqyB)

88 So if all goes according to his plan, Gary Gensler, a pumped up clerk with delusions of grandeur and the poster child for the Peter Principle will be Warren's toady in exchange for support for his desire to be Secretary of The treasury. And that means doing what she bids, no matter its corrosive effects on the economy and the Constitution that both have sworn to protect.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

I would assume he agrees with Warren on most things, being a long term donk apparatchik.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (ONvIw)

89 In the woods, on a hill, far from the maddening crowd. Where the libtards are scarce and good neighbors still exist.
---
It is so worth it.

**

It is.

Until you realize you still can't buy a decent gas can because of a state-level law that only exists in California.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (UK6no)

90 >>78 I just want to know if all our personnel are out of there. Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (VDqwV)

There Will Be Goats.

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (xK9An)

91 "could have been managed without the catastrophe that was caused by government interference...which caused the problems in the first place. -- Wait! Government interference in financial markets seems to be a bad thing!" CBD

imo we need a lot of government in markets, but not in propping up failures. We need them to stop monopolies, stop BigCorp from buying influence, stop a lot of insider trading and multiple other forms of market manipulation, stop trade with countries using slaves, watching the safety of products, etc.

SEC knew how to stop a lot of problems, as The Big Short movie shows, the let certain connected players get away with "things". And afaik, the quadrillion dollar derivative market is unregulated, yet largely (after TARP?) underwritten by US government.

idk details on that, I mostly gave up trying to uncover the hundred layers of obfuscation, but is is worse than Bernie Madoff's leveraged scam. (and maybe "regulatory capture" means "the market" actually captured BigGov and Gov is just doing its bidding, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (Cus5s)

92 Count de Monet, I like that! Don't know the reference, but perfect.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (OTzUX)

93 I don't know if we want General Petraeus in Afghanistan as a military leader or as a CIA consultant, but if nothing else, maybe we can get one last run of opium before it all collapses.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (JTpIQ)

94 Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a President's son!

Posted by: Zombie Bones McCoy at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (Xrfse)

95 Put not your faith in princes.

May His favor be upon you
And a thousand generations
And your family and your children
And their children, and their children

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (DcuIu)

96 Tatas of treachery

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (rrqyB)

97 Poor Bones...he never gets laid.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy


Lotta nurses in the background we never heard a word from.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (1t5dY)

98 Most ugly people were never not ugly.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (3C1R+)

Andrew Cuomo...had to be governor to get laid.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (AwYPR)

99 Most ugly people were never not ugly.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (3C1R+)

I was a breathtaking visage as a baby.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (4I/2K)

100 Watching CNN for the first time in ages. Jake Tapper blasting Tony Blinkin. Now he's going to go after Trump.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (63Dwl)

101 Will Woksters stick around in weeks to come and watch the 8th Century come alive again?

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:31 AM (znIQ9)

102 Poor Bones...he never gets laid.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:28 AM (R/m4+)

Oh yeah, you forget about the Yonada chick?

Posted by: I'm a doctor, not a .... at August 15, 2021 11:31 AM (7bRMQ)

103 The Progressive Deep-State Apparatchik Career Path:
1- Get Rich 2- Enter Government 3- Stop Everyone Else From Getting Rich
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Here's another career path that is destroying this country:
The Guilty White Liberal Who Inherited Daddy's Money Career Path:

1 - Inherit mega-millions from your Boomer Daddy.
2 - Use some of the money to live like Louis XIV.
3 - Use the rest of the money to fund insane Progressive causes, trying to alleviate your guilt about being white, and about Step 1 above.

I read an article in The New Yorker or the NYT about five years ago that warned - yes, warned - that the number of fabulously rich whites, who believe they know-it-all and are guilt-ridden, is going to increase a lot in the coming years as ultra-rich Boomers die-off and leave immense inheritances to their children and grand-children. The article gave examples of suddenly-rich thirty-somethings in NYC that were organizing and funding Progressive groups - the "kids" wanted to "start and run something to make the world better."

That's all we need - lots more Ivy League liberal arts degree holders who want to make the world a multi-culti, peace, love, and understanding paradise.

Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2021 11:31 AM (AMIL/)

104 100 Watching CNN for the first time in ages. Jake Tapper blasting Tony Blinkin. Now he's going to go after Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2021 11:30 AM (63Dwl)

It's probably in Jake the Snake's contract to attack Trump.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:31 AM (ONvIw)

105 86 This guy Gensler looks like the salt sucking vampire from Star Trek's "The Man Trap."
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 11:14 AM (JTpIQ)

I liked that episode.

Poor Bones...he never gets laid.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:28 AM (R/m4+)


He shags (presumably) the high priestess in the episode with the long name : "The world is hollow and I have touched the sky"

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (7SwmH)

106 US Embassy, or what's left of it, in Kabull Shitcanistan has issued a "shelter in place" order for all Americans left there. This is double plus ungood. What a travesty

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (OAPtL)

107 "I still think Taliban will allow a fairly orderly evacuation"
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The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out. The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (Q8Qc6)

108 When Petraeus called that guy in Florida who was going to burn a Koran to warn him off I said we should have cased out colors abs come home.

CDR Centcom as the Talibans speech enforcer in this country. Strong horse, people.

Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (DcuIu)

109 99 Most ugly people were never not ugly.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (3C1R+)

fortunately, a problem I have never had to deal with

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (uCLWI)

110 That Chinese girl with freckles...what if i said her name 3 times whilst gazing into mirror?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (oy1++)

111 Dammit, Jim! I'm sick and tired of sloppy seconds!

Posted by: Zombie Bones McCoy at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (Xrfse)

112 >>Gary Gensler...Elizabeth Warren

A strange kind of ritual. Interesting to watch in a compelling, disgusting kind of way. Smelling of old parts, leering, investigatory licks, more smelling, gnarled hands, untrimmed toenails, playful nibbling.

Spawning. Mating.

Gary Gensler. Elizabeth Warren.

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (xK9An)

113 Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:29 AM (OTzUX)

Josey Wales. Sim was the ferryman.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (4I/2K)

114 47 bonk bonk on the head
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 15, 2021 11:19 AM (vuisn)

The Star Trek TOS is strong among the horde this morning.....

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (7SwmH)

115
Until you realize you still can't buy a decent gas can because of a state-level law that only exists in California.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks

Don't live in Kalaforlornia but I do live in the Socialist Republic of Washington. Gas can? Try the hillbilly approach, 55 gallon drum.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (3C1R+)

116 idk details on that, I mostly gave up trying to uncover the hundred layers of obfuscation, but is is worse than Bernie Madoff's leveraged scam. (and maybe "regulatory capture" means "the market" actually captured BigGov and Gov is just doing its bidding, idk.

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It's no different than election fraud, gun crimes, embezzlement, etc.

We don't need new laws. We have plenty, and all of them cover every imaginable scenario. Many (most?) don't, but can and will be bent to cover any scenario.

The problem is that the social contract is broken. We labor under the foolish, antiquated notion that the law means something, and it doesn't/can't so long as the left refuses to agree with the rule book. That's crucial. Sadly, in our nation as it exists today, the law a cudgel against people who believe in the law and the social contract. Nothing more.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (UK6no)

117 Until you realize you still can't buy a decent gas can because of a state-level law that only exists in California.
Posted by: Moron Robbie


You can. Northern Tools. Still have the old style cans.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (OCTRt)

118 78 I just want to know if all our personnel are out of there. Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (VDqwV)

I dont care if any state dept apparatchiks or cia spooks get left behind, honestly
I just hope the rest get out

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (oEn12)

119 Don't live in Kalaforlornia but I do live in the Socialist Republic of Washington. Gas can? Try the hillbilly approach, 55 gallon drum.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (3C1R+)

**

I'm getting too old to lift those to fill the mower.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:35 AM (UK6no)

120 That Chinese girl with freckles...what if i said her name 3 times whilst gazing into mirror?
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (oy1++)

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You get egg roll with that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2021 11:35 AM (kTF2Z)

121 The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out. The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (Q8Qc6)

right

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:35 AM (AwYPR)

122 Dammit, Jim! I'm sick and tired of sloppy seconds!
Posted by: Zombie Bones McCoy at August 15, 2021 11:33 AM (Xrfse)

How does my...dick...taste.....Bones?

Posted by: Capt Kirk at August 15, 2021 11:35 AM (rrqyB)

123 118 78 I just want to know if all our conservative personnel are out of there. Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:25 AM (VDqwV)

fify

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:36 AM (uCLWI)

124 Gensler's tenure with "consumer Protection commission" in Maryland should tell you he's on board with Warren and Socialism, as well as his work for Mikulski. He's a true believer, and more than a clerk.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:36 AM (ONvIw)

125 Cultivates, like with a hoe?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2021 11:36 AM (63Dwl)

126 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order

Might as well issue kiss your ass good bye Order

President Sundown Apple source head way to go you fuckin idiot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:36 AM (Irn0L)

127 Shaka, when the capital fell...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 15, 2021 11:37 AM (vuisn)

128 I dont care if any state dept apparatchiks or cia spooks get left behind, honestly
I just hope the rest get out
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 15, 2021 11:34 AM (oEn12)

Hostages create money laundering opportunities.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:37 AM (ONvIw)

129 >>The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again. Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (Q8Qc6)

If I'd had bunker-busters dropped on my head for the last two decades, gratuitous fucking-with of the retreating crusaders would be top of my list.

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:37 AM (xK9An)

130 The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out. The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:32 AM (Q8Qc6)

We are never going back and they can do anything they want. What are we going to do? Bomb them? They don't care, they have been bombed before and human life is cheap to them.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:37 AM (Irn0L)

131 You can. Northern Tools. Still have the old style cans.

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Some might look like the old style cans (and the big red metal ones with the pliable fill spout are fantastic and worth every penny of the $50 or whatever, btw), but there's going to be a "California Air Resource Board (CARB) compliant" sticker or stamp somewhere on it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (UK6no)

132 "would be agreeable if the capital markets and the firms trading on them were separated by law from deposits-and-loans banks, other institutions of credit, and miscellaneous fee-for-service activities in the financial sector."

yeah, it is murky to me, but when Goldman Sachs (and other leveragted derivative gamblers) got legal status as A Bank (iirc), that changed everything, and put the whole faith and credit of USA on the line as underwriters for the gamblers.

-- and the billionaires always get the bailouts, Savings and Loan crisis, but the big one was LTCM, all those rich people making huge profits had to be "made whole" when their magic money machine failed ... socialization of risk, privatization of profit.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (Cus5s)

133 I hope the NeverTrumpers are happy


@SaraCarterDC 54m

#AfghanistanBurning It's a disaster - Afghan allies that applied for visas are being told to refile information with the State Department as planes are airlifting U.S. people out of Kabul - no one knows if they will be evacuated or not...people are already being killed. DISASTER

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (1t5dY)

134 Buy a plastic gas can

drill hole in the top corner opposite the spout

put a golf tee in hole

poof, usable gas can

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (uCLWI)

135 I thought you needed F-15s and nookear weapons to take on the USGovernment. These guys drove em out without much more than knives and pitchforks.

Interesting how he essentially threatened to unleash the military on the US citizenry and nobody in the media/ academia blinked an eye or uttered a peep....

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (7SwmH)

136 The US Trained Afghani troops are OUTof Kabul? They're OUT?

Posted by: That CNN Guy Who Said that about Chicago and the Olympics at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (l5FxP)

137 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order

Not seeing this in any of my non-fake news sources. Some confirmation would be appreciated.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (Xrfse)

138 The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out. The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again.

Posted by: Cosda


You don't understand a single thing about them, do you?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (1t5dY)

139 "Anything that tries to leave the embassy as of exactly now will be shot down or blown up. All prisoners will be used for pleasure, insh'allah. How you are saying do not allow the door to hit you. Ulululululu!!!"

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (xK9An)

140 Until you realize you still can't buy a decent gas can because of a state-level law that only exists in California.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks

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That's the fucked up part of it. CA is big enough so that when they create some bullshit law, everyone essentially is subjected to it. Manufacturers don't want to have two separate lines, one for CA and one for everyone else. So they just comply with CA rules for everyone.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (l5FxP)

141 >>>kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order


"Shelter in place" does not work if you're in a burning building.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (HmZuC)

142 Since the left will not allow us to use gitmo anymore, they left the scum of the earth in "jails" in afghanistan and now the taliban are freeing them.....Way to go sundown apple sauce head

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:41 AM (Irn0L)

143 Afghan president flees as country prepares for Taliban to take power

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:41 AM (Irn0L)

144 Gosh, I sure hope nobody in the international community is looking down on the Taliban. That would really upset them.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:41 AM (l5FxP)

145 did Biden engineer this Kabul decacle to cover for Cuomo ?

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (uCLWI)

146 Taliban Hummers patrolling the streets of Kabul NOW plus alot of other footage from scrolling up...

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/
1426945987193577476

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (UHVv4)

147 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order

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It's amazing to consider what the left has accomplished in just 7 months.

- Middle East war cranking back up, and big time Muslim actual 100% undeniable terrorist attacks against Britain and the US coming shortly
- Effective $15 minimum wage (saw a sign up at a podunk Taco Bell in the middle of Nowhere, NC advertising that rate)
- Political prisoners held indefinitely by the federal government for local misdemeanors
- Internal combustion engines in cars banned, replacements will travel 100-150 miles per trip on their best days
- Massive inflation clawing back financial gains made by middle class

I'm sure there are many more, but that's a start.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (UK6no)

148 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order


"Shelter in place" does not work if you're in a burning building.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (HmZuC)

Works for your enemy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (Irn0L)

149 I'm getting too old to lift those to fill the mower.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks

Rubber hose and a dumb neighbor's kid to get it flowing.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (3C1R+)

150 136 The US Trained Afghani troops are OUTof Kabul? They're OUT?

Posted by: That CNN Guy Who Said that about Chicago and the Olympics at August 15, 2021 11:38 AM (l5FxP)


Any Afghan Government soldier has more common sense and a higher IQ than every person in the White House, Pentagon, and State Department.

Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (AMIL/)

151 143 Afghan president flees as country prepares for Taliban to take power
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:41 AM (Irn0L)

we should be so lucky

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (uCLWI)

152 Got a gut feeling "we may never know" what happened in A-Stan after this is all over.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (Xrfse)

153 I just wonder sometimes if we had just gone in and claimed to be Alexander, and crushed the mosques and let in missionaries and let them help and evangelize, if things would have turned out differently?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (7bRMQ)

154 The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said on Sunday that the security situation at the airport in the Afghan capital was changing quickly, and that there were reports of gunfire as U.S. troops aided the evacuation of U.S. personnel.
"There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore we are instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place," the embassy said in a security alert.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (Irn0L)

155 Wife wanted some drinking straws, no idea why but at store found 1 kind so got them. Get home and see that are plant based not plastic.
Thanks California

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (znIQ9)

156 - Effective $15 minimum wage (saw a sign up at a podunk Taco Bell in the middle of Nowhere, NC advertising that rate)

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$17/hr offered here at a Pizza Hut. This is more than starting pay for teachers. Not that I'm one of those "why do teachers make less than baseball players" imbeciles. But still, you'd think a teacher would make more than a pizza maker.

The whole world is so fucked up right now. But no mean tweets so I suppose it's OK.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:44 AM (l5FxP)

157 Since the left will not allow us to use gitmo anymore...

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Oh, I think the left will be using Gitmo soon enough.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:44 AM (UK6no)

158 "The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out."

BBC had some guy on saying Bonn was a mistake because (in negotiations over how to set up the Afghan gov) they did not include the Taliban. So now Psaki was talking of how they are trying to be rational with the Taliban, as far as what kind of relationship they want to have in the global community.

yeah, maybe too late for that, since Biden's crack CIA/Pentagon team promised they would not take Kabul. idk if Trump really had a plan, but his joint chiefs were lying to him as well. So the new government will be "inclusive"? it looks like Taliban is just taking everything without a fight ... and the citizenry was not expecting that.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2021 11:44 AM (Cus5s)

159 That's the night the lights went out in Afghanny

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:44 AM (4I/2K)

160 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order


"Shelter in place" does not work if you're in a burning building.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (HmZuC)

Works for your enemy
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Siagon V 2.0? All we need now is Zombie Walter Cronkite. What flavor of ice cream did Shufflin Joe get today?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (3C1R+)

161 Rubber hose and a dumb neighbor's kid to get it flowing.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Fortis et liber at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (3C1R+)

I usually just give them a sawbuck but if torture is your game, so be it

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (uCLWI)

162 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order

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Can the partygoers just act sophisticated?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (UK6no)

163 Oh it's not that the Talib won't be taking their revenge or settling accounts in the days ahead. But so far looks like they are implementing pretty well done plans for transition - sort of the insurgent version of "civil affairs".

When possible, you bribe or absorb local authorities. Much easier than fighting them.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (OTzUX)

164 >>>I just wonder sometimes if we had just gone in and claimed to be Alexander, and crushed the mosques and let in missionaries and let them help and evangelize, if things would have turned out differently?


The problem with Afghanistan is that it's full of Afghans.

Posted by: Richard I at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (HmZuC)

165 I don't watch CNN or MSNBC, are they even covering Afghanistan? Or are they still all in on domestic terrorism 24/7?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (l5FxP)

166 Usually, IIANM, a lot of locals are hired to do menial or low-level clerk things at an embassy. The actual State Department and CIA station staff isn't all that big.

I, for one, am happy to pray for the repose of their souls.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (xopIz)

167 Wonder what sundown apple sauce head is doing at Camp David

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (Irn0L)

168 If the durkas get close enough to crater the airstrip bigly with mortars, cancel Christmas for egress. Ululululululu.

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (xK9An)

169 I don't think the Taliban are going to interfere with the withdrawal from the airport -- why bother when Joe and Co. are completely humiliated? -- that looks like it's being defended by Allied Special Forces' types and, I assume, your Marines.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (UHVv4)

170 155 Wife wanted some drinking straws, no idea why but at store found 1 kind so got them. Get home and see that are plant based not plastic.
Thanks California
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (znIQ9)

I have a huge box of them I found at the dump

you can have for free

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (uCLWI)

171 Got a gut feeling "we may never know" what happened in A-Stan after this is all over.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

I had that thought late last night.

Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (VDqwV)

172 "You don't understand a single thing about them, do you?"
******
Been over there a few times going back to the 70s.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (Q8Qc6)

173 The traditional route for Goldman partners is to move to Morris County and become governor of New Jersey, so Gensler is evidently an outside the box thinker.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2021 11:47 AM (Yj7lm)

174 I don't watch CNN or MSNBC, are they even covering Afghanistan? Or are they still all in on domestic terrorism 24/7?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (l5FxP)

They were, well at least cnn, were covering it early this AM and sometimes not being to nice to sundown

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:47 AM (Irn0L)

175 First Taliban big into Kabul a graduate of Gitmo. So we got that going for us (and his medical condition is probably better than his troops).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:47 AM (OTzUX)

176 kabul airport under fire, so called embassy issues shelter in place order


"Shelter in place" does not work if you're in a burning building.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (HmZuC)

Works for your enemy
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:42 AM (Irn0L)

Next up, Kamala the whore and Evil Dr. Jill holding up hand written placards urging the Taliban to "Spare Our Embassy Workers"

Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2021 11:47 AM (Ed8Zd)

177 When possible, you bribe or absorb local authorities. Much easier than fighting them.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (OTzUX)

Yes, later you can replace, then execute them, quietly.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (4I/2K)

178 Been over there a few times going back to the 70s.
Posted by: Cosda


Amazing that you missed the fanaticism and all-consuming hatred.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (1t5dY)

179 "The US Trained Afghani troops are OUTof Kabul? They're OUT?"


they are all interpreters ... ship them all to Minneapolis and give them full benefits and citizenship. /s

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (Cus5s)

180 The problem with Afghanistan is that it's full of Afghans.

Posted by: Richard I at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (HmZuC)

Right, but they were pretty awed by Alexander, so maybe it woulda worked? Aren't there places still named for him there?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (7bRMQ)

181 First Taliban big into Kabul a graduate of Gitmo.

He was turning his life around.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (Xrfse)

182 Wife wanted some drinking straws, no idea why but at store found 1 kind so got them. Get home and see that are plant based not plastic.
Thanks California
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:43 AM (znIQ9)

***

You might be able to find them in the coke (soft drink) aisle hanging from hooks waiting on two year olds to snatch them down and make a mess of the entire hanging display. Dollar Tree is another good option.

The best ones are the solid reusable ones you can buy for something like 100 for $5 from places like ebay and amazon, though. They're strong as heck and you can put them in the dishwasher.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (UK6no)

183 "Yes, he is thinking about enacting every progressive wet dream with respect to evil banks and the stock market "


Good. My big bank inundate me with woke advertisements and messaging and the rest are the same. Wall street generally supports the Dems and stock prices have to have no rational pricing anymore. Let the progs have their way with them.

Posted by: Ripley at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (PTDkx)

184
That's the fucked up part of it. CA is big enough so that when they create some bullshit law, everyone essentially is subjected to it. Manufacturers don't want to have two separate lines, one for CA and one for everyone else. So they just comply with CA rules for everyone.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:40 AM (l5FxP)


Yeah - Good Hair Newsom certainly received a big payoff to sign the executive order mandating all new cars sold in Cali starting in 2030 or so must be EV's. The EV maniacs know that it will be a powerful prod to all major auto manufacturers to make lots of EV's - and correspondingly reduce manufacture of gasoline vehicles.

Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (AMIL/)

185 38 The Taliban is extatic about how things are turning out. The last thing they want is to do something stupid that might piss us off enough to start fighting them again.

Posted by: Cosda


You haven't learned a thing, have you? This is why we keep losing wars.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (Fs5vw)

186 Been over there a few times going back to the 70s.
Posted by: Cosda

Amazing that you missed the fanaticism and all-consuming hatred.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (1t5dY)

Must be a Roosian.

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (AwYPR)

187 There's a bakery in my 'hood where I have been buying cookies for years. They used to be $1 each. Then last year the price went to $1.20 each. OK no big deal, there hadn't been a price increase for as long as I can remember at least 3 years. This week, price is up to $1.50 each.

So prices increased 20% over 3 years under Trump's mean tweets. Now that the mean tweets have stopped prices are increasing at 25% PER YEAR.

Thanks NeverTrump.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (l5FxP)

188 "Shelter in place" is the Democrat campaign motto for the next elections. Covers lots of issues.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (Yj7lm)

189 >>169 when Joe and Co. are completely humiliated?
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:46 AM (UHVv4)

Not completely. Hostages on Al-Jazeera, number-one penalty play. "And we mean to keep on...hurting you."

Khaaaaannnn!!!

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (xK9An)

190 You know, it's neat to consider that we are 100% "going back to the 70s" at the moment.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (UK6no)

191 Afghan was successfully subdued by muslim invaders, right? So we know one group was successful, and the worst possible group.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (ONvIw)

192 Easy question: If the Talibs and assorted jihadis could nuke a US city, do you think they would be reticent or shy or mincing little State fucks?

Do you?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (1t5dY)

193 I saw Progressive Deep-State Apparatchik Career Path open for Deep Purple at The Colosseum back in 2006.

Posted by: runner at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (V13WU)

194 Any tv news showing Kabul live?

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (znIQ9)

195 $17/hr offered here at a Pizza Hut. This is more than starting pay for teachers. Not that I'm one of those "why do teachers make less than baseball players" imbeciles. But still, you'd think a teacher would make more than a pizza maker.

The whole world is so fucked up right now. But no mean tweets so I suppose it's OK.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:44 AM (l5FxP)


There was an article in our local paper the other day that said DISHWASHERS are making $32 an hour, including tips.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (K0bra)

196 So prices increased 20% over 3 years under Trump's mean tweets. Now that the mean tweets have stopped prices are increasing at 25% PER YEAR.

**

We saw a sign at a mom and pop that said portions were being reduced so that prices could remain the same. I asked and the waitress said they used to give three pieces of fish and five shrimp on the plate I ordered, and now it's two and three.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:51 AM (UK6no)

197 Yeah - Good Hair Newsom certainly received a big payoff to sign the executive order mandating all new cars sold in Cali starting in 2030 or so must be EV's. The EV maniacs know that it will be a powerful prod to all major auto manufacturers to make lots of EV's - and correspondingly reduce manufacture of gasoline vehicles.
Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2021 11:49 AM (AMIL/)

___

Gov. Elder should rescind that EO as the first order of business.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:51 AM (l5FxP)

198 >>urging the Taliban to "Spare Our Embassy Workers" Posted by: LASue at August 15, 2021 11:47 AM (Ed8Zd)

We will, how you say, be in our bunk.

Posted by: Ramzi al-Kaboom and his buddies at August 15, 2021 11:51 AM (xK9An)

199 Yes, the single most defining thing about Islamists is their reticence to attack the US ... said no one one guy apparently.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:51 AM (1t5dY)

200 The problem with Afghanistan is that it's full of Afghans.

Posted by: Richard I at August 15, 2021 11:45 AM (HmZuC)

Right, but they were pretty awed by Alexander, so maybe it woulda worked? Aren't there places still named for him there?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 15, 2021 11:48 AM (7bRMQ)

"Skander" Remember Danny Dravot.

Posted by: Peachy Carnahan at August 15, 2021 11:51 AM (4I/2K)

201 Today we have lost all influence in the Middle East and most of our allies.

for those of you that know:

AMFYOYO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (Irn0L)

202 Say what you want about Mo. Attah, but at least he didn't want to piss off the US.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (1t5dY)

203 @themarketswork

Chinese State Media openly mocking Biden Admin.

What say you @SecBlinken

https://tinyurl.com/yfphfngj

Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (cF8AT)

204 Weakness is power!

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (Xrfse)

205 The conservative case for wasting 20 years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:53 AM (l5FxP)

206 Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (cF8AT)

Blinken is probably one of those who think of "the Golden Age of Islam" as a time of blessed tolerance and diversity.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 11:54 AM (ONvIw)

207 By the way forgot who it was this AM that said when I predicted Taliban control of Kabul today, no a few more days...Nope I win

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (Irn0L)

208 Sit down for this.

Former national security advisor to Afghan prez reportedly fled (either Uzbekistan or Tajikistan), by helicopter, with bags o' $$$$. Much left behind at residence, leading to chaos and looting/fighting over the money by those left behind.

This is the way of the world, in most of the world, and we and others have worked around/with it to achieve our objectives before. But it's also a reason structures with so much outward physical strength and power often turn out to be delicate little stick houses with tissue-thin sinews holding them together.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (OTzUX)

209 What a shitshow.

Make Mean Tweets Great Again

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated American at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (4I/2K)

210 Weakness is power!

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (Xrfse)

Wokeness too!

Posted by: BignJames at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (AwYPR)

211 Always fear the bureaucrat who knows an obscure office and aspires to run it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (gpKIi)

212 #169 From report here about Allied NATO troops at airport.

https://twitter.com/janaan99/status/
1426947395443699724

US Embassy in #Kabul is sending security alerts that Kabul Airport is under fire and American citizens should stay away. [There's a screencap of the printed order,]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (UHVv4)

213 Wondering how many Muslims are in the Sundowner administration.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (znIQ9)

214 If nothing else, the meltdown has been spectacular.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (Xrfse)

215 Saw a documentary about the old Khmer Rouge gangsters they put on trial over in Cambodia a few years ago.

One of the leaders, Brother Number 2?, explained that once they took over the country they did not realize how hard it was to run it as time went by...and things got out of hand.

He blamed the CIA and the Vietnamese.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (R/m4+)

216 As I've mentioned before that controlling the airport means controlling the city and that is worth millions. The tallies will fight over it. It will be difficult to tell if they are shooting at each or at Americans.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (axyOa)

217 Near Future NY Times headlines....

How Covid-19 and Republican Vax Hesitancy Caused The Taliban To Take Over Afghanistan

How Climate Change Devastated a Stable Afghanistan

American Racism and Rise of the The Taliban

Did Trump's Tax Cuts give new hope to the Taliban?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (l5FxP)

218 The POS Liz Cheney is blaming Trump.. and Biden....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (Zmnko)

219 >>211 Always fear the bureaucrat who knows an obscure office and aspires to run it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (gpKIi)

What he said.

Posted by: Josef Stalin at August 15, 2021 11:57 AM (xK9An)

220 Weakness is power!

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at August 15, 2021 11:52 AM (Xrfse)

Yeah, but limp ain't as fun....

Posted by: Reggie at August 15, 2021 11:57 AM (7bRMQ)

221 The POS Liz Cheney is blaming Trump.. and Biden....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (Zmnko)

She blaming her father?

We should have blown up all the mosques on our way in 20 years ago

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:57 AM (Irn0L)

222 He blamed the CIA and the Vietnamese.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (R/m4+)

___

Not Climate Change or Racism? What a weirdo!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 15, 2021 11:57 AM (l5FxP)

223 No NGU, our influence and importance remain immense in the region. For now. Inertia, greatest force in nature.

But our eyes/ears, and levers to influence, are substantially reduced.

And the idiot children in power (I don't use the term lightly, and it's not based on news reports or distant observation) are busy squandering a lot of the rest of our power in the region (see Iran policy).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 11:58 AM (OTzUX)

224 "The POS Liz Cheney is blaming Trump.. and Biden...."

I blame Dick.

Posted by: A Wild and Crazy Guy at August 15, 2021 11:58 AM (Tnijr)

225 US Embassy in #Kabul is sending security alerts that Kabul Airport is under fire and American citizens should stay away. [There's a screencap of the printed order,]
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (UHVv4)


The fucking airport is getting shelled and they are asking personnel to go online and fill out a form of evacuation.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:58 AM (rrqyB)

226 "The mission hasn't failed...yet"

Preznit Bidum, about one month ago

https://youtu.be/TB0ssbCoEVg

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (DXFDM)

227 I blame trump, too. He should have pulled the troops by Jan 31, 2017.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (gpKIi)

228 At Monster Jam live at The Rock.

The national anthem was awesome.

Posted by: Thomas Bender, 25 years until the next Tool album. at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (g04fu)

229 224 "The POS Liz Cheney is blaming Trump.. and Biden...."

I blame Dick.
Posted by: A Wild and Crazy Guy at August 15, 2021 11:58 AM (Tnijr)

She said it was Trump's fault for trying to deal with the Taliban.. Not Bidens of course for pulling all out with no plan

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (Zmnko)

230 No NGU, our influence and importance remain immense in the region.

Sorry have to disagree with that. It is waning. Even the Gulf States, Post President Trump, are talking much nicer with Iran. Our flag is lower all over the Middle East and will be that way for a while. And this is a message to Israel, watch your back

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (Irn0L)

231 When Spock was playing with his ultimate computer, Bones was banging nurse Chapel in sick bay like a space gong.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (JTpIQ)

232 They never run out of throne sniffers.

Posted by: torabora at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (xySQ6)

233 Liawatha is pure fucking evil

Posted by: Rhennigantx at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (b4ES0)

234 @AuroraIntel

Scenes from #Kabul Airport, #Afghanistan showing people boarding what appears to a C17 (please correct me if wrong) and what appears to be gunfire in the air in the distance.

https://tinyurl.com/yhmx28tk

Posted by: Tami at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (cF8AT)

235 American Flag Lowered at what was the American Embassy in kabul

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (Irn0L)

236 Our Peresident Biden should send some Ubers over to pick those people up and take them home.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien of Brattleboro Vermouth at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (Tnijr)

237
One of the leaders, Brother Number 2?, explained that once they took over the country they did not realize how hard it was to run it as time went by...and things got out of hand.

He blamed the CIA and the Vietnamese.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 11:56 AM (R/m4+)


Che had much the same complaint about "running" Cuba

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2021 12:01 PM (BbDPD)

238 Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:55 AM (UHVv4)

So there will be hostages.

Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 12:01 PM (VDqwV)

239 I'm gonna take the Taliban behind the barn and suck their cocks

Posted by: Joe at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (uCLWI)

240 The fucking airport is getting shelled and they are asking personnel to go online and fill out a form of evacuation.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 11:58 AM (rrqyB)

"I'm sorry, sir, it's not my rule. Yes, I know, we would all like to get out of here. Cursing at me won't help, sir. Perhaps you should have thought of that before. No, the Taliban are not gonna 'come in here and rape us like pigs,' sir, I think you're being a bit dramatic. Now if you'll please just fill out the form, return it to me and wait until you're called..."

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (xK9An)

241 No NGU you don't disagree, I said they're working on it, and Iran policy is the big disaster (being entirely elective, unlike A'stan, where to some degree events will have their way).

In fact Iran policy, because of how important it was, is in the top few instant calamities I ID'd as the greatest damage from Trump leaving the WH.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (OTzUX)

242 Yes, they are using C-17 Globemasters I all likelihood.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (rrqyB)

243 Bush and Cheney had years to defeat the Taliban and refused to do so. Fuck these men.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (ONvIw)

244 In

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (rrqyB)

245 Our Peresident Biden should send some Ubers over to pick those people up and take them home.

Two masks are required, for both drivers and passengers. Stay safe and goodnight Saigon.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (Xrfse)

246 So there will be hostages.
Posted by: Infidel at August 15, 2021 12:01 PM (VDqwV)

A good way to extract pallets of cash, I'm told.

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (ONvIw)

247 10pm in Kabul

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (znIQ9)

248 My new prediction: 25th amendment removal of President Pelosi within 2 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (BbDPD)

249 When Spock was playing with his ultimate computer, Bones was banging nurse Chapel in sick bay like a space gong.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 15, 2021 12:00 PM (JTpIQ)

What about Sulu? He couldn't have been the only fag on the Enterprise.

Things that make you go mmmmm...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (R/m4+)

250 She said it was Trump's fault for trying to deal with the Taliban.. Not Bidens of course for pulling all out with no plan
Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2021 11:59 AM (Zmnko)


Pulling out doesn't sound manly to me Bill. I say leave it in there and get the job done.

Posted by: Zombie George Carlin at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (4I/2K)

251 "Amazing that you missed the fanaticism and all-consuming hatred."
******
That was the first thing I noticed back in 1977. Carter should have bombed Iran back in 1979 but he didn't do squat. Right now its going the Taliban's way. They also know that we can chase them back to the caves if enough of us get our shit together. They are evil but not dumb. Once the get set up in A-stan they will be coming for us. Just not this week. They need us out.









Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (Q8Qc6)

252 get me a ticket on a areoplane

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (uCLWI)

253
Next up, Kamala the whore and Evil Dr. Jill holding up hand written placards urging the Taliban to "Spare Our Embassy Workers"
Posted by: LASue


Mooch Obama can hold up a cardboard sign saying #Bring back our girls.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (63Dwl)

254 Sorry, I need to see proof of vaccination before you board the evacuation aircraft.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (gpKIi)

255 No NGU you don't disagree, I said they're working on it, and Iran policy is the big disaster (being entirely elective, unlike A'stan, where to some degree events will have their way).

In fact Iran policy, because of how important it was, is in the top few instant calamities I ID'd as the greatest damage from Trump leaving the WH.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 15, 2021 12:02 PM (OTzUX)

Sigh it's gonna be a long few months. Gonna be hard for me to go back to my swamp desk ( but I will go ) and show enthusiasm for "The Mission". But I will be forced to use the right pronoun. By the way people in the Military are now adding their preferred pronouns to their signitures. Can you fuckin believe that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (Irn0L)

256 President Trump tried to put an end to California mandating emission controls on the rest of the country.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 15, 2021 12:05 PM (YynYJ)

257 >>A good way to extract pallets of cash, I'm told.
Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (ONvIw)

"We'll take cash for this one. This one we just want to see bleed on camera."

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 12:05 PM (xK9An)

258 There will be hostages. And they'll be ransomed for trillions of dollars.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 15, 2021 12:05 PM (Fs5vw)

259 Can you fuckin believe that
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 15, 2021 12:04 PM (Irn0L)

Milley and the rest of the bronies made it a priority!

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 12:05 PM (ONvIw)

260 10pm in Kabul
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (znIQ9)


Thank you, Skip, I was just about to ask that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 15, 2021 12:05 PM (K0bra)

261 248 My new prediction: 25th amendment removal of President Pelosi within 2 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (BbDPD)

nope

would lead to too many awkward questions

CIA/FBI currently working on a plan in which Biden is removed and GOP is blamed

Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2021 12:07 PM (uCLWI)

262 I hope the evacuees are wearing their masks on the flight out.

We are all in this together and stay safe!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Redskins Fan at August 15, 2021 12:07 PM (R/m4+)

263 Prolly should have filled up the Explorer the other day. Bet gas will spike bigly in the next couple days.

But no mean tweets. This was so worth it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 15, 2021 12:07 PM (BFigT)

264 New post on Afghanistan.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 15, 2021 12:07 PM (Q9lwr)

265 NOOD with flaming skull

Posted by: It's me donna at August 15, 2021 12:07 PM (Zmnko)

266 Pres. Biden, Sec. Lloyd Austin, Deputy Sec. Kathline Hicks, Gen. Mark Milley, Gen. John Hyten and every officer that works in the Pentagon is responsible for todays clusterfuck. But just like Gary Gensler in CBD piece, 90% of these assholes will fail upwards.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 15, 2021 12:08 PM (qH6FZ)

267 nood

Posted by: CN at August 15, 2021 12:08 PM (ONvIw)

268 I blame trump, too. He should have pulled the troops by Jan 31, 2017.

**

I suspect he tried. I remember discussions by military brass laughing at how they'd refused that idiots orders because he was an idiot telling them to do idiot things.

I have no doubt he told his generals what he wanted, and they said "nah, bruh, we good."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 12:08 PM (UK6no)

269 "258 There will be hostages. And they'll be ransomed for trillions of dollars."
*******
Didn't go that way in Benghazi.

Posted by: Cosda at August 15, 2021 12:08 PM (Q8Qc6)

270 The Thirty Years War? Hold my Zima Light.

Posted by: US State Dept at August 15, 2021 12:09 PM (4I/2K)

271 "The conservative case for wasting 20 years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars in Afghanistan."

The oligarch families don't even thank us for the billions we delivered to them. (most of those trillions didn't go into Afghanistan, they went to various contractors and ??)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 15, 2021 12:09 PM (Cus5s)

272 To be fair, #1 and #2 are often swapped for the left.

Also, I've been saying for years that the stock market is a con game, rigged to extract billions from the middle class. That they give you a small taste, doesn't justify the immense wealth and power you give them.

The same people who would never invest a few thousand in nearby land or a local business think nothing of putting their whole life savings in the stock market.

Because the people whose wealth and power come from the stock market tell them it's "safe."

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 15, 2021 12:09 PM (jIL4c)

273 190 You know, it's neat to consider that we are 100% "going back to the 70s" at the moment.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) vaccine truth monitors hold $2B in vaccine stocks at August 15, 2021 11:50 AM (UK6no)

Gas was 50 c a gallon......

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at August 15, 2021 12:09 PM (7SwmH)

274 "They say they'll give us the deputy assistant manager of the embassy supply desk if we give them 'the half-black who laughs a lot and makes love with the mouth.'"
"The Who?"
"The Vice President, sir."
"Has the embassy kid's dad donated?"
"Substantially, sir, and often."
"Do it. But don't tell her until she's on the plane. She's dense; it'll be easy."

Posted by: ZOD at August 15, 2021 12:10 PM (xK9An)

275 248 My new prediction: 25th amendment removal of President Pelosi within 2 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2021 12:03 PM (BbDPD)

I agree

Posted by: clutch at August 15, 2021 12:15 PM (9UmRs)

276 https://www.abc.net.au/us military leave bagram air base afghanistan equipment handover
https://tinyurl.com/ef3j2n25

It was done so fast, faster than the original planned 9/11 this had to be done with malicious intent.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 12:17 PM (znIQ9)

277 Embassies have panic rooms with another panic rm 2. Rm 2 has a tunnel. If you just code...you don't get the code.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 15, 2021 12:22 PM (oy1++)

278 "Thirty minutes ago, the President sent a message to Taliban commanders, through Swiss diplomats, reminding the Taliban that the full weight of the International Community's diplomatic displeasure will fall upon them if they do not immediately cease all military operations."

Posted by: Jen "Baghdad Bob With Freckles" Psaki at August 15, 2021 12:31 PM (AMIL/)

279 We're willowed aren't we?

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2021 12:34 PM (znIQ9)

280 teats of power
------------------------------
I prefer "jugs of jurisdiction".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 15, 2021 11:10 AM (UHVv4)
*kneels on one knee* What is thy bidding, my masters?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Just motorboatin' the Cans of Compliance here, boss!

Posted by: Dudley Dawson at August 15, 2021 01:06 PM (cCaW5)

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