The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 8/16/21

Good morning, kids. Monday and of course the top story is the absolute unmitigated disaster that is the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Fall is actually a woefully inadequate and really a highly misleading term. It presupposes that there was an actual battle going on between the medieval Islamic terrorists who once again control that pile of rubble and the US-backed Afghani military. By all accounts there was no defeat because there was no battle. The only shots that were fired were not in anger but evidently in celebration as our erstwhile "allies" literally handed over their weapons, bought and paid for by your tax dollars, to the jihadis.

Hollie McKay, a foreign policy expert and war crimes investigator who covered war, terrorism, and crimes against humanity for Fox News Digital for more than a decade, is reporting today from Afghanistan that the Taliban is paying off military commanders to abandon their posts and surrender their cities . . .
. . . "The level of corruption that has enabled the Taliban to come back to power is just mind-blowing," she explained. "To see that and to see all the weapons that have gone to the Taliban's hands when the Afghan army runs away -- that we paid for." "I always saw terrorism to be a secondary problem to the corruption," McKay continued. "Afghanistan is a classic example of that. You have many elements that are pro-Taliban within the government and military factions that will sell off information that hurts the cause."

I'm shocked - shocked! - to discover that a culture that hasn't even remotely resembled a modern western society for nearly 50 years (if at all, really) would so easily and gladly throw themselves over to stone-age tyranny and oppression despite it being in their DNA since time immemorial.

As the Taliban moves into Kabul and demands the unconditional surrender of the central government, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: "It's our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day." The CNN "journalist," demonstrating yet again its spectacular misunderstanding of the conflict (which, of course, is shared by the U.S. foreign policy establishment), followed that with "It's a chilling admission from a group that claims it wants peace." The Taliban does indeed want peace. It wants the peace that will follow the world's submission to the hegemony of Islamic law.
Muhammed Arif Mustafa was stating plainly what the U.S. State Department steadfastly ignored for twenty years: the fact that the Taliban views itself as the exponents in 21st-century Afghanistan of a fourteen-hundred-year-old conflict, one that is as old as Islam itself . . .
. . . This is not to say that jihadis have never been defeated, or can never be defeated . . . But it is highly questionable that Joe Biden's America, in which any discussion of Islam's jihad imperative earns one the sobriquet of "Islamophobe" and high-level vilification and deplatforming, has that kind of patience. It is good that we are getting out of Afghanistan, although Biden's handlers have disastrously bungled the withdrawal, with consequences we will no doubt be suffering in the coming months, but State and Defense Department wonks should have a steady and sober regard for the fact that the jihad has not ended, and that jihadis will continue to come after the United States and American citizens.

In noting the estimable Robert Spencer's thoughts on the kind of "peace" Islam seeks for the world, aside from the fancy calligraphy and intricate geometric decor, the G-dless heathen Socialists want the very same "peace" - the peace of the mass grave for apostates and heretics of its own pseudo-religion. But I digress. Yes, de-assing from Afghanistan was the right goal as we should never have been there in the first place. The question has always been how do we leave without putting America and its legitimate national security interests at even greater risk than if we maintain a military presence? I may not know the answer to that question but I do know, and the entire world knows exactly what not to do. Declare "Mission Accomplished" and just bug out.

Raging imbeciles like Tony Blinken and his attack chihuahua Chris Wallace tried blaming President-in-Exile Trump for this and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wasn't having any of it.

"Were I still the secretary of state with a commander in chief like President Trump, the Taliban would have understood that there were real costs to pay if there were plots against the United States of America from that place," Pompeo said. "Qassem Soleimani learned that lesson, and the Taliban would have learned it as well. . . "
". . . it's worth noting this did not happen on our watch. We reduced our forces significantly and the Taliban didn't advance on capitals all across Afghanistan. So it's just a plain old fact that this is happening under the Biden administration's leadership now almost a quarter of our way into his first term, this is not the way leaders lead, by pointing backwards."
"We had a bad deal we inherited -- the JCPOA [Iran nuclear deal]; we got out of it," Pompeo continued. "We secured America from the risk from Iran. We inherited a horrible deal in Syria where ISIS controlled real estate the size of Great Britain. We crushed them. Every president confronts challenges. This president confronted a challenge in Afghanistan. He has utterly failed to protect the American people from this challenge."

What's that old saying, "weakness is provocative." Along with the Islami-kazes of this world, the Russians, Iranians, Cubans, NorKs and most of all the Chi-Coms are laughing their asses off and champing at the bit. Aside from the fact that Joe Biden is a visibly demented near-octogenarian whose cognitive function is deteriorating now on a daily basis, he and his handlers are hell bent on doing anything and everything both domestically and internationally to weaken us, our citizenry and allies while emboldening, kowtowing and appeasing our enemies. He's taken a wrecking ball to our economy, our fossil fuel industry, our nuclear arsenal, our borders and national identity and the notion of comity, compromise and the rule of a just, stable law. And where is so-called quote-unquote "president" Joey Soft-Serve Custard? Why, he's on vacation at Camp David, totally incommunicado. Not to worry, though. We're told he plans on maybe addressing the nation in the "next few days" ("First, address the nation. 'Hello, nation!'").

Look, I'd be lying to you if I said that I believed we should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place. But like all but the wisest of you, I too was deceived by the intelligence community - the same intelligence community that worked overtime to sabotage Trump in 2016 and finally succeeded in 2020 - as well as those who want endless wars for the sole purpose of enriching themselves. But doing what Biden and his handlers did is just the height of irresponsibility and cluelessness. Yet that is the left; everything they believe in is 180 degrees out of phase with reality because they see the world as they want to see it, without any clue as to how it actually operates.

With Biden and that bloated disgrace to the uniform Vanilli Milli claiming the Afghan government can handily defeat the Taliban, and Malig-Nancy Pelosi saying Biden is "to be commended," somewhere Baghdad Bob is shaking his head and having a good chuckle. It's cold comfort knowing that anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together can see that they look like abject idiots. But lest we forget how we got here in the first place.

When Bush won, he brought with him a cabal of staffers broadly known as "neoconservatives" who distinguished themselves from traditional Republicans by ignoring deficit spending and strongly supporting interventionist foreign policy with a heavy emphasis on protecting and advancing America's petro-allies in the Middle East. Months after September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration diverted America's response to terrorism by seeking a revenge war in Iraq.
Oh, what a bitter harvest we have reaped.
History acquitted those chicken-little voices that warned of never-ending wars, ballooning deficits, and the dangers of bloated and politicized intelligence agencies. I admit it. I was wrong about Bush. He was a disaster.
We're reminded of this point as we watch the humiliating withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Bush's critics, who seemed so wrong at the time, have been proven right in the sweep of history. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars turned into the very quagmires that the liberals predicted. The Intelligence Agencies were allowed to pursue and harass Muslims in the United States -- even setting some up in "Truman Show"-style prosecutions in which the FBI planned and financed almost every detail of terrorism plots to ensnare lonely, mentally disabled Muslim men. The civil liberties of these "terrorists" didn't seem very important at the time. The liberals warned that these tactics set dangerous precedents that might later be applied to larger and larger swaths of the public.So would any of this have been different had Al Gore been elected president? . . .
. . . The awful legacy of George Bush split the Republican party during the 2016 presidential campaign. When Trump correctly criticized neocons for their fruitless wars, they became enraged. Until Trump, the pseudo-intellectual near-imperialists wrapped themselves in a protective costume of patriotic rhetoric. Then Trump said the obvious truth that nobody dared speak: these wars are bad for American interests abroad and at home. The Bush Republicans became Hillary Clinton supporters. . .
. . . What did nearly two decades in Afghanistan and Iraq buy us? Thousands of American dead and trillions more in debt, and Afghanistan is swiftly returning to its pre-invasion configuration. Lots of government contractors and retired generals grew very rich pouring American treasure into the land-locked and barren land. The Bushes themselves have become fabulously wealthy, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Meanwhile it will take many more years for America to recover from their endless wars and crippling debt.

We can debate the "what-ifs" from now until Armageddon, which by all appearances could be any day now. That said, after 20 years we are left with our blood and treasure wasted, America coming apart at the seams, an elitist oligarchy in concert with a growing surveillance state, feral intel and law enforcement and woke corporatists as its enforcers and global jihad and Marxist-Leninism on the march.

What are our prospects? Over dinner late last week, CBD reminded me that we are now a fundamentally unserious nation. Not looking good around here, my friends.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Amid an ongoing political crisis brought about by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last month, Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake -- one of the most powerful temblors in the western hemisphere this century. It follows a 7.0 earthquake that struck the country in 2010, resulting in more than a quarter-million deaths. At least 1800 were injured in the latest calamity." (just keep the damned Clintons the hell away so they can't loot the rubble and set up another multi-billion-dollar aid grift - jjs)
Massive Quake Strikes Haiti, Kills Hundreds as the Country Struggles With Multiple Woes

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"For all his faults, Al Gore couldn't have been worse."
How Bush Ruined Everything
"Irrespective of whether Kolfage is guilty of the charges against him, if these allegations are true, what's being done to him is cruel."
Is the Federal Government Torturing Brian Kolfage?
"Understanding the origins of the administrative state goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government."
The Tyranny of Experts

BIDEN AFGHANISTAN DISASTER

"Biden has not spoken publicly on Afghanistan since Tuesday after expressing optimism that the leaders of the Afghan government would rally to defend their country."
Joe Biden Remains Hiding at Camp David After Afghanistan Collapses; May Address Nation in the "Next Few Days"
"Playing with his grandkids, eating ice cream . . . "
Nobody Home: As Afghanistan Collapses, Joe Biden Goes on Vacation
"'Witnesses at the civilian domestic terminal said they had heard occasional gunshots and said thousands of people had crammed into the terminal and filled the parking lots, desperately seeking flights out,' The NY Times reported. Late Sunday, the State and Defense Departments issued a statement saying the U.S. was working to secure control of the airport and to speed up the evacuation using civilian and military flights."
Thousands Run At Kabul Airfield Amid Gunfire, Horrifying Scenes Unfolding on the Ground
"The level of corruption that has enabled the Taliban to come back to power is just mind-blowing. To see that and to see all the weapons that have gone to the Taliban's hands when the Afghan army runs away -- that we paid for."
SHOCK: Taliban Is Paying Military Commanders to Surrender Cities, Journalist Embedded in Afghanistan Says
"The bad news is that to this considerable tale of woe is likely to be added as much mischief as America's enemies can contrive. They will pile it on. For no less than the Taliban, America's near-peer adversaries, now have the estimate of the hapless man in the White House. This confirmation of incapacity is possibly a greater loss than the fall of Afghanistan itself."
Biden Never Saw What Hit Him
"China has previously reached an agreement with the Taliban, according to which the militant group will not harbor any terrorist forces capable of igniting Islamist insurrection in China, especially in Xinjiang -- the region inhabited by Uyghurs, according to France24."
Report: China Prepares To Recognize Taliban as the New Government in Afghanistan
Robert Spencer: "It's not a 'draw down,' it's a rout, and everyone knows it -- everyone, that is, with the possible exception of Old Joe, sitting alone at his huge conference table, pretending to be briefed about this disaster and simultaneously pretending that it isn't a disaster."
As Kabul Falls, Joe Biden Poses for a Photo-Op
"The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the additional 1,000 troops would come from the 82nd Airborne Division, which had already been on standby."
Pentagon Authorizes More Troops To Afghanistan; Total Number Now More Than Double Initia Force
"'Highly unlikely' Taliban will overrun Afghanistan, Biden said in July."
Biden's Afghanistan Predictions Were All Wrong
"The future of Afghanistan is squarely in the hands of the Afghan people, and there are a range of possible outcome in Afghanistan. And I want to emphasis repeatedly, and I've said this before, a negative outcome, a Taliban automatic military takeover, is not a forgone conclusion."
"Woke" Mark Vanilli Milley, in July: "Afghan Security Forces Have the Capacity to . . . Defend Their Country"

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"This is manifestly not Saigon." (FYI the only reason Saigon and South Vietnam fell was because House Democrats abrogated our defense commitment in the Paris Peace treaty and tied President Ford's hands - jjs)
Blinken Blames Trump Admin For Afghanistan Withdrawal, Claims Exit Is "Orderly"
". . . it's worth noting this did not happen on our watch. We reduced our forces significantly and the Taliban didn't advance on capitals all across Afghanistan. So it's just a plain old fact that this is happening under the Biden [junta's] leadership now almost a quarter of our way into his first term, this is not the way leaders lead, by pointing backwards."
WATCH: Pompeo Nukes Biden In Response To Biden Trying To Blame Trump For Afghanistan Debacle
"Jackson responded to Biden's absence from the public eye by tweeting: 'OUTRAGEOUS! Biden needs to address the nation TONIGHT.'" (are we on Kamala-watch now? - jjs)
Ex-Obama White House Doctor To Biden: "Do Your Damn Job," Address Nation Now Or "Resign Immediately"
"The worst possible message to our enemies across the world."
Fleeing Afghanistan
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action. The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions. We are concerned about reports regarding the Taliban's brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls." (how completely, shatteringly clueless is this old bat? - jjs)
"To Be Commended": Malig-Nancy Pelosi Praises Biden After Taliban Advances Into Kabul
"America's out. Is China now going in?"
Afghanistan: The "Graveyard of Empires" Claims Another?
"Expect the onslaught of radical Islam, in many different forms, to continue if not accelerate."
We're Fleeing Afghanistan. Now What?
Robert Spencer 2: "The CNN 'journalist,' demonstrating yet again its spectacular misunderstanding of the conflict (which, of course, is shared by the U.S. foreign policy establishment), followed that with 'It's a chilling admission from a group that claims it wants peace.' The Taliban does indeed want peace. It wants the peace that will follow the world's submission to the hegemony of Islamic law."
Taliban Commander Vows Jihad Against the Whole World
Robert Spencer 3: "The seeds of Kabul's fall were sown many years ago."
Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?
Terry Jeffrey: "President George W. Bush stood before the U.S. Capitol in 2005 and delivered an Inaugural Address in which he declared his utopian vision that the United States had a mission to change the world. He was wrong. History has now proved it."
FLASHBACK: America Did Not Transform Afghanistan

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"It shouldn't really come as a surprise that President Biden and the geniuses surrounding him have made such an almighty hash of the withdrawal from that godforsaken country. Look at everything else he has messed up."
Infuriating and Predictable: Joe Biden's Defeat Will Echo for Eternity
"Watching twenty years of American blood and treasure float away like dust in the wind hurts. Perhaps we will draw some lessons from this pain."
Lessons to Learn from the Loss of Afghanistan
"If this century has taught America anything, it's that Democracy cannot be imposed on others. But it is a tragedy that the glimmer of hope provided . . . is now gone. What was the point?"
Travesty in Afghanistan Leaves Us Where We Were 20 Wasted Years Ago
"The DC establishment is at fault for promoting an unattainable outcome in Afghanistan for almost two decades and being 'stunned' when faced with the reality."
U.S. Leaders Have Been Lying To Us About Afghanistan For Nearly 20 Years
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are in the midst of a revolutionary epoch and probably most don't even know it."
Are We in a Revolution and Don't Even Know It?
"The attacks on, and the maligning of, conservatives or those who advance narratives not favored by the Left has reached unimaginable proportions."
A Brief History of the Assault on Conservatives as "Violent Extremists"
$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION
"Progressive and moderate Democrats at odds on spending package." (meh, kabuki-bukkake theatrics - jjs)
Moderate House Dems Threaten To Derail Malig-Nancy Pelosi's $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
"If you've longed to live in the incipient communism of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal era, now's your chance, but on steroids."
American Jobs Bill: Fantasy, Fiasco
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"It appears to depend on how polls and the U.S. Constitution can be manipulated."
Is Biden Really Planning Vaccine Mandate for Air Travel?
"Defending the rights of the disfavored and demeaned is to defend the rights of all."
"Their Collective" Comes for Our Republic
As a tourniquet, maybe. As a way to stop viruses from spreading, not so much.
NIH Director Francis Collins Holds Up a Face Mask and Calls it "A Life-Saving Medical Device"
No doubt these tyrants will string you up if they could, but there is just no means of verifying - nor the will on the part of most establishments - the validity of the cards. I wouldn't go through TSA with one, but a restaurant or a gym? Pfft.
Cuck Schemer Calls for Crackdown on Fake Vaccination Cards
"Amid the latest edicts from the increasingly political CDC, parents know that school children should not be forced to wear masks in order to attend class. Despite the best efforts from so-called experts, new guidance lacks data proving that wearing masks reduces coronavirus transmission in children."
Is It Abusive to Mask School Children?
"Wall Street, the big corporations, and the likes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce all have too great an interest in not holding China to account."
You Will Never See China Held Accountable for Chinese COVID
"The 90-day review that Joe Biden has asked for is sadly because he hasn't looked at the information in a while. It says more about his lack of daily interaction with briefers than anything else."
Ric Grenell Says Biden's 90-Day Chinese COVID Origins Review is an Insult to the Intelligence Community
"China agrees to probe, less than 24 hours after rejecting it. Meanwhile, CCP officials continue to point fingers at U.S. Military."
China's Chaotic, Histrionic Response to WHO's Chinese Coronavirus Origins Probe
"Maybe that's because they didn't get the [Chinese] COVID death numbers they'd been hoping for."
The Elites Sniff Up Their Noses at England's Freedom Day
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill -- who spearheads House Democrat's election reform initiatives -- is invested in several companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its military."
Congresswoman Drafting Election Security Laws Is Invested In Chinese State-Owned Companies.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Garbage ideology."
Iranian Immigrant Trashes Woke Education, Says It's Making Kids Dumber
"CRT aims to annihilate the souls of white people, to morally paralyze them via a protracted process of induced guilt, shame, embarrassment, and extortion."
Crackpot Disg-Race Theory Aims to Murder the Souls of White Children
"The Biden [junta] is implementing backdoor loan forgiveness."
Student Loan Class Warfare
"Jeremy Adams' book, Hollowed Out, offers an alarming diagnosis, as well as a little hope, for a generation that has rejected family and tradition for a damaging digital existence."
A Teacher Explains the Massive Challenges Young Americans Don't Want to Face, But Must
"A proposed restriction on charter schools doesn't put students first."
The Corrupt Charter Myth
"Bureaucrats who dictate school standards are also paid to implement them."
The Lucrative Business of Woke Education
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The only way to address violent crime is to double or triple funding for the police and give them the authority to go after violent offenders."
America the Violent
"One of last weekend's fatalities was 29-year-old Chicago police officer Ella French. She was shot shortly after 9 p.m. on August 7, while working a traffic stop."
Report: At Least 45 Shot Friday into Sunday Morning in Chicago
"During New York's Democrat mayoral primary, Andrew Yang said something obvious and true . . . that he then had to recant. He said, 'Yes, mentally ill people have rights, but you know who else have rights? We do! The people and families of the city.'"
Ignoring Mentally Ill Homeless People is a Crime Against Society's Rights

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"Fane Lozman's feuds with Florida officials are a Supreme Court legend, but he's facing his toughest battle yet."
An Infamous Florida Man Is in Biden DOJ's Crosshairs
"In the lawsuit, the anonymous woman claims that she had a sexual relationship with Euringer from January of 1997 to June of 1999, at which time she was a minor."
Suicide Squad Director Named in Underage Sex Assault Lawsuit for Hosting Pedophile-Themed Party
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The problem for the Squad is that, once the IRS has something in its sights, what's sauce for the pro-Israel goose is sauce for the pro-BDS gander."
The Squad Asks Treasury Department to Go After Israel
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
Daniel Greenfield: "Corrupt politician hands anti-corruption award to the man who didn't investigate his corruption."
Biden Honored Ukrainian Prosecutor Who Gave Him a Pass
Margot Cleveland: "The issue here is not Hunter's addiction or illegal behavior. Rather, it's the intense corruption of the media and intelligence agencies, and how greatly our current president is compromised."
Hunter Biden's Russian Prostitute Videos Indict Both His Father and U.S. Intelligence Agencies
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The tech industry was opposed to antitrust legislation, which would, if passed into law, make it 'easier for regulators to break up tech giants.' Besides the huge donations, tech companies 'lobbied Senate leaders to prioritize a bill to provide $52 billion toward U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.'"
Top Democrats Took Massive Donations From Big Tech as They Considered Anti-Trust Legislation
"Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him." (of course they did; it's their job to persecute the innocent and protect the Leftist agenda - jjs)
FBI Dodged Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou "Bro" Wed Probe
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO RESIGNATION, NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"The elderly aren't loyal Democrats; but educated, career women are."
Why Angel of Death Cuomo Resigned
"Cruz and 10 other Republicans are urging Durbin 'to open an investigation and schedule hearings' on how Democrats sent [Chinese] COVID-positive seniors to nursing homes."
Senate Republicans Demand Hearing on Chinese COVID Nursing Home Deaths in Democrat-Run States
"Slimeballs like Cuomo are merely the backwash of a system that has given up on accountability."
Elites Think the Rules Don't Apply to Them, and Angel of Death Cuomo is Just the Result
"Kathy Hochul courageously takes her stand only days after Andrew Cuomo leaves office."
Few Heroes in the Angel of Death Cuomo Saga
POLITICS
"The [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"] of Joseph Robinette Biden has been an unmitigated disaster from the get go. There's no other way to say it, and the political left knows it as much as the right."
Unmitigated Disasters: Biden's First Months Have Been Some of America's Worst
"What we have in the Oval Office right now -- after the brief shining moment of Donald J. Trump -- is the closest thing possible to absolutely nothing."
Is This Anything?
"The pterodactyls are coming home to roost."
Reality Bites Biden's Policies
"Any one of these alone would be terrifying to contemplate. We're dealing with all four at once."
The Four Horsemen of the Biden Apocalypse
"CBS News reported that Newsom's fate may be determined by turnout, as Republicans are far more motivated to vote in the recall election than Democrats are." (if Elder or any GOP candidate loses, Dao-Min Yen did it - jjs)
CBS Poll: Gavin Newsom in Danger of Recall; Larry Elder Leads Contenders
". . . instead of attacking the recall, which would make the second question moot if he prevailed, Newsom is attacking someone he's not running against. . . But Newsom's strategy of trying to paint the mild-mannered, moderate conservative Larry Elder as a flaming right-wing attack dog is silly."
Newsom Tries to Tell Voters that Larry Elder is More "to the Right" Than Donald Trump
"The Los Angeles Times took a very different view, declaring in a recent editorial that recalling Newsom would be a 'disaster.'"
OC Register Endorses Larry Elder over Gavin Newsom in California Recall
"The 'workers walking through metal fabrication shop stock video' was shot in Florida in February 2019 and can be purchased for $170."
Virginia Candidate Terry McAuliffe Showcases Florida Workers in Campaign Ad
"What is the point of having political power if we don't use it to advance policies that are both right and popular? In the case of the states, red should mean 'Go!'" (this assumes red states are more DeSantis than DeWine - jjs)
Top Ten Ideas for Red States to Combat Blue Policies
"Republicans don't rally behind their own party or voters; it's time for that to change."
Why Vote Republican?
"Experts say the death of Richard Trumka will have little impact on the nation's largest federation of unions."
New Leader, Same Leadership For AFL-CIO
"In November 2020, Barack Obama released his newest memoir, A Promised Land. Hot on its heels comes a much needed corrective."
Obama Lies, Cashill Corrects
"Some lessons from history and philosophy can help us think about our present crisis."
We Must All Hang Together
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Now that illegal immigrants are being told by our government that crime victims will not be deported, human nature dictates that a spike in victimhood claims is imminent."
Biden to Unleash a Wave of Jussie Smolletts on America
"There are two ways to deal with global population trends; both have problems."
Birth Rates, Immigration, and National Identity
"Federal authorities made more than 212,000 arrests at the southwest border in July. By any measure, the border crisis is now an unmitigated humanitarian disaster."
The Biden Junta is Lying About the Border
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"He was elected because the adults are supposed to be in charge. Now the adults are in hiding. Where is the guy?" (he was not elected, praline-tits - jjs)
Dagen McDowell Mocks Biden's Vacation: "It Must Be Exhausting Setting America Back 45 Years In 7 Months"
"Why do they get an account?"
Dan Crenshaw Rips Jack Dorsey as Taliban Representatives Tweet Freely
"The Daily Caller confirmed Psaki's absence by e-mailing her and receiving an auto-reply that read, 'I will be out of the office from August 15th-August 22nd.'"
Piss-Hockey Psaki "Out of the Office" Amid Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
"These hit jobs on DeSantis are about his prominence in the Republican Party, about 2024 or 2028 . . . they have nothing to do with WuFlu, with masks, or with schools."
Panic Porn: Media Buried Key Detail About Florida Teachers Dying of Chinese COVID
"Hopefully, Florida's next move will be even bolder. With weekly reporting and using the date of death to report mortality, perhaps the state can distinguish between dying with [Chinese] COVID-19 and a death caused by [Chinese] COVID-19."
Florida's DeSantis Is Just Trolling the Media With Another Bold Move and It's Fantastic to Watch
"Let us be clear: Plagiarism undermines our mission and values, full stop."
Report: Snopes Co-Founder Published More Than 50 Plagiarized Articles Under 3 Different Bylines
"Greenwald believes that like Substack, Rumble is one of the few places independent thinkers can go to freely speak their minds in the digital realm."
Glenn Greenwald Moves to Rumble to Combat YouTube's "Increasing Repression"
"The logic of the East Lansing government is actually quite blatant: It believes it has the right to dictate what others can or cannot say in public, the first amendment be damned."
Today's Blacklisted Americans: Farm Banned From Farmers Market Because Owners Are Christian
SECOND AMENDMENT
"A grim incident -- the killing of several people by self-described '23-year old virgin autist' Jake Davison, who subsequently committed suicide -- has been seized on by the media and political class as a beneficial crisis. They will now exploit this as an opportunity to advance a long-running Establishment agenda: the war on private gun ownership, and the redefinition of anyone with vaguely right-wing ideas as a potential terrorist threat."
UK Police Want to Trawl Gun Owners' Social Media for Wrongthink After '"Incel" Shooting
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Angelo Codevilla: "America's foreign policy drowns at the water's edge."
The Death of the Global Cop
"Walks back official's claim that attack on British tanker came from Yemen."
Pentagon Contradicts Itself on Origins of Iranian Drone
"Pro-democracy Iranians seek Biden aid on [Chinese] coronavirus."
State Dept. Refuses To Meet With Iranian-American Regime Opponents
"Lebanon is currently a country in political, economic, social turmoil. Hezb'allah has a lot to do with that."
The Menace of Hezb'allah
"Neither Emmanuel Macron nor Boris Johnson seems particularly inclined to effect a happy cross-channel relationship."
Can France and Britain Kiss and Make Up?
"Instead of attacking Orban, European progressives should fix their own countries."
Christian Hungary Is Not the Problem
"Why Americans aren't getting the truth."
Humberto Fontova Video: What the Democrat-Media Complex Isn't Telling You About Cuba
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"When the Chief of Naval Personnel explained why the Navy is reinstating photographs for promotion packets, he gave the whole game away."
A DOD Official Exposes the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Diversity
"When we decide to send our young off to fight, we owe them more than a thank you and a free concert."
Our Ridiculous Way of Fighting Wars
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"All hell breaks loose . . ."
When US Customs Confiscates Qur'an-Quoting Tiles From Iran
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Now, people, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' "The answer is, 'Yes,' that's what I'm telling you."
V.P. Biden '09: "We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt"
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Says ban deprives landlords without due process. . . The practical effect of Thursday night's decision isn't clear because the federal moratorium remains in place. And the Court itself noted that New York state has a second law that directs judges to consider [Chinese] COVID-related hardships in eviction proceedings."
Supreme Court Blocks New York Eviction Moratorium
"The Biden [junta's] flippant attitude toward not just obeying the Constitution, but toward core founding principles that were key to creating our country, tells us whether the fruits of our labor are our own, and whether we enjoy them in peace and security. Unfortunately the answer is no."
Cato, the Supreme Court, and Biden's Sellout of Property Rights
"Legislation may eliminate sub-minimum wage that helps intellectually disabled find jobs."
Disabled Workers Concerned That Proposed Wage Hike May Leave Them Unemployed
"The case against Modern Monetary Theory."
Skyrocketing Federal Debt Is a Crisis, No Matter How Much Liberals Pretend It's Not
"There is no rational economic school, anywhere across the political spectrum, that believes higher government spending actually reduces inflation."
The Biden Inflation Tax, Made Clear in One Chart
"Ending crony capitalism requires understanding the difference between a pragmatic, pro-market dispensation and a dogmatically pro-business one."
Please Don't Feed the Businesses
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Poor state and federal policies, not global warming, are behind the recent rise in fires." Two Charts Destroy Big Lie About "Climate Change" and Wildfires
"The Greens are using fake science and false advertising to destroy our right to produce and consume real meat."
Real Meat Is Green -- It Eats Grass
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"[Branson] is getting out when the getting is good. That he is following the classic and very corrupt method of "pump and dump" only solidifies my belief that he is an outright con-man."
Branson Sells More Than 10 Million Shares of Virgin Galactic
"In several articles published today in the state-run Russian press, the Russians made the accusation that the hole and drilling damage that had been found on an in-orbit Soyuz capsule was put there by an American astronaut."
Russians Accuse American Astronaut of Drilling Hole in Soyuz
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"From campy fringe to corporate cringe."
Big Drag
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"MLB moved a single game away from politics and divisiveness, away from hype and taxpayer-funded palaces, and into a balmy summer night under simple lights in an Iowa cornfield. It could have been hokey and maybe it was, but it was also magical."
Why the "Field of Dreams" Game Propelled MLB to Its Best One-Game Ratings in Years
"The pandemic and a troubling politics addiction threaten the future of professional sports.
Major-League Sports Faces Major-League Problems
"Where those false flags fly, flap, and flutter, they tell you the policies that have undercut the value of middle-class labor and immiserated a nation are intentional."
Flags, False and True
Roger Kimball: "Art is not just something we "go along with.'"
Killing Art
Christian Toto: "The celebrated filmmaker's only crime? He's an icon with the wrong skin color."
Ken Burns on Woke Chopping Block
"The group wants to rename the road 'Wanishi Street.'"
Beware the Street Name Police
"From now on, refer to me as Stolichnaya/Bombay Sapphire."
2021: The Year of the Pronoun
"Ordinary people, in their folkways and their local rule, are competent to pursue ordinary features of the common good in a sane and fair manner."
Egalitarianism, the Elephant
"Something seems terribly wrong. It is as if nothing works anymore. There's fear in the air. Maybe it is time to head for a bunker."
Getting Ready for the End of the World

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

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1 I don't like Mondays.

Posted by: Hacki Psaki at August 16, 2021 06:40 AM (Tnijr)

2 Hi.

Posted by: Brenda Spenser at August 16, 2021 06:40 AM (xopIz)

3 Now to read the editorial!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 06:40 AM (qRYqx)

4 Or rather, me either.

Posted by: Brenda Spenser at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (xopIz)

5 Who gets the blame today?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (BFigT)

6 Happy Monday!

Effevtive meme: "Pride cometh before the fall"
https://tinyurl.com/5h5zkw5j

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (bDqIh)

7 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (u7pQw)

8 Bracing for impact...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (Dc2NZ)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:41 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Tired of losing yet?

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 16, 2021 06:42 AM (qRYqx)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2021 06:43 AM (T7iTv)

12 The only shots that were fired were not in anger but evidently in celebration as our erstwhile "allies" literally handed over their weapons, bought and paid for by your tax dollars, to the jihadis.

No one saw this coming..... I mean, the only casualties caused by the Afghani military was against the American military, but they were highly trained, patriotic Afghanis, proud of their country and willing to fight for it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:43 AM (Zz0t1)

13 morning Horde. top

and the coffee is ready

oh, and overheard on NBC this morning, today show bimbo interviewing someone from the biden admin about the fall of kabul. she asked about the images being similar to the last helicopter out of saigon, and he replied, and I shit you not...

"Let's be honest. the helicopter has been the standard mode of transportation in kabul for 20 years..."

he apparently said this with a straight face...

this fucking "administration...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 06:43 AM (8D42x)

14 I am left wondering: if they *wanted* to botch this so badly in order to rejuvenate Islamic terror power in the region (post ISIS defeat) and a refugee crisis, could they have done it better than this?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)

15 that pile of rubble and the US-backed Afghani military. By all accounts there was no defeat because there was no battle. The only shots that were fired were not in anger but evidently in celebration as our erstwhile "allies" literally handed over their weapons, bought and paid for by your tax dollars, to the jihadis.
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Right. The Taliban *is* the Afghan army for all intents and purposes. You can't move that fast if you're being opposed. Hell, you can't move that fast unless you're being *assisted.*

The Army didn't oppose (or joined up), and the citizenry was clearly helping. Therefore, by default and in reality (if not on paper), the Taliban is the state. And the people accept them. They can have them. China's up next in the graveyard of empires.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:44 AM (3p5uk)

16 Here

Posted by: CapeFear at August 16, 2021 06:44 AM (4PDMt)

17 Mission accomplished!

Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 16, 2021 06:45 AM (Tnijr)

18 >>"Let's be honest. the helicopter has been the standard mode of transportation in kabul for 20 years..."

Tommy Veitor 2.0 - "Dude, that was 2 years ago!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 06:45 AM (bDqIh)

19 That's a lotta links, boy......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (Zz0t1)

20 In noting the estimable Robert Spencer's thoughts on the kind of "peace" Islam seeks for the world, aside from the fancy calligraphy and intricate geometric decor, the G-dless heathen Socialists want the very same "peace" - the peace of the mass grave for apostates and heretics of its own pseudo-religion.
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Yup. The notion of "Peace would be easy to achieve if everyone agreed with me and we were all moving toward one goal: mine, and only mine, for all of time" has been filling mass graves for millennia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (3p5uk)

21 A house the size of Afghanistan just fell on Liz Cheney and all we can see are her shoes. Same with Bill Kristol and all the neocons. The witch is dead! Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (BC2YK)

22 We use "stone age" as a pejorative, but all it ultimately means is "do what you got to do to survive. No one cares if you die. Survival is barely possible, so forget about happiness and decency". Technology doesn't have to enter in to it.

Would you kick up a fuss about the Taliban right now? Or would you hand over your guns, swear allegiance, and hope to hell your family at least survives this mess?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (6FeV1)

23 Over dinner late last week, CBD reminded me that we are now a fundamentally unserious nation. Not looking good around here, my friends.

Wait.....COB's actually KNOW each other?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Hey, where's Susan Rice in all this -- did she do the 'full Gisberg' yesterday morning to explain how her National Security expertise is working so well?

Seems like she would be experienced with that after ger 'full Ginsberg' re: explaining away Benghazi attack.

And really, was Wendy Sherman involved in the exit negotiations - that would make this whole sh#tshow complete. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 06:47 AM (bDqIh)

25 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Slowly, slowly, then suddenly.

And those responsible shrug.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 06:48 AM (EZebt)

26 "Trump said he was going to end the war in Afghanistan. He didn't. He handed me the task when he lost the election in 2020. It's his fault I fucked it up with reckless abandon because it was his idea to end it. I just did what he wanted."

- Joey Wipedass

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:48 AM (Zz0t1)

27 From the previosu thread:

Who holds them accountable?

No one. That's he infuriating part. No one will be held accountable.

Accountability would require a complete replacement of the executive leadership in all three branches of government, and a complete restructuring of the DoJ.

And a few hangings of very high profile traitors and subversives.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 16, 2021 06:48 AM (DLOoE)

28 Don't forget Obama. He let these fuckers out of Gitmo.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 06:49 AM (xopIz)

29 What's that old saying, "weakness is provocative." Along with the Islami-kazes of this world, the Russians, Iranians, Cubans, NorKs and most of all the Chi-Coms are laughing their asses off and champing at the bit.
Aside from the fact that Joe Biden is a visibly demented near-octogenarian whose cognitive function is deteriorating now on a daily basis, he and his handlers are hell bent on doing anything and everything both domestically and internationally to weaken us, our citizenry and allies while emboldening, kowtowing and appeasing our enemies. He's taken a wrecking ball to our economy, our fossil fuel industry, our nuclear arsenal, our borders and national identity and the notion of comity, compromise and the rule of a just, stable law. ...
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Joe isn't in charge and everyone knows it. The politburo is running things and the frontman isn't too important. In this way, we are different from the USSR (where the premiere actually had significant power). But the weakness this politburo and the decrepit shade in front of it are displaying is an existential threat. Far worse - somehow - than Obama was. You only *thought* we were a weak-ass, disrespected laughing stock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:49 AM (3p5uk)

30 the killing of several people by self-described '23-year old virgin autist' Jake Davison, who subsequently committed suicide

Will his paintings be featured in The Morning Art Thread?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:49 AM (Zz0t1)

31 General Milley should be pleased: the Taliban trumphed over white (bureaucrat millitary) rage.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 06:50 AM (bDqIh)

32 Mr. Sefton-

Those who know our Central European history, know that there are only two (2) options.

Die

Or fight and die, maybe

Posted by: Miklos at August 16, 2021 06:50 AM (QzkSJ)

33 oh, and overheard on NBC this morning, today show bimbo interviewing someone from the biden admin about the fall of kabul. she asked about the images being similar to the last helicopter out of saigon, and he replied, and I shit you not...

"Let's be honest. the helicopter has been the standard mode of transportation in kabul for 20 years..." ...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 06:43 AM (8D42x)
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What an admission. "We've been here in the green zone for 20 years and it's *never* been safe enough for ground transportation of VIPs."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:50 AM (3p5uk)

34
"Let's be honest. the helicopter has been the standard mode of transportation in kabul for 20 years..." ...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 06:43 AM (8D42x)

"Let's be honest. You fucked up. You trusted us."

- Retarded Animal House

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:51 AM (Zz0t1)

35 Yes, I do indeed blame Biden for what is happening now. The Deep State gets its share of the blame as well. However, I reserve my most intense ire for the GOPe and the MSM. The press is truly the enemy of the people, and the GOPe is simply the Washington Generals to the DNC's Harlem Globetrotters.

Without the MSM, Biden wouldn't have been anywhere near the Oval Office. They dragged his carcass over the finish line, and to this day hide the cheating that took place to get him into the WH. The Democrats are always going to Democrat, but without the MSM they would be a rump party.

I blame the press more than anyone else for this fiasco. They averted their eyes to the obvious, and allowed this country to be stolen right before ours.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2021 06:52 AM (mdjgu)

36 yeah, there are some Americans who are basically unfair

but generally, Americans don't believe that you don't get to win the Presidency and then blame the other guy.

yeah, they can try and sometimes it holds but generally, it's a losing strategy

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 06:52 AM (uCLWI)

37 Not all bad. We got the 'Patriot' Act out of it.

Posted by: CapeFear at August 16, 2021 06:52 AM (4PDMt)

38 Hiding at Camp David is bad enough, but the almost insane hope the news will somehow turn positive is positively frightening. The Taliban now have potentially thousands of hostages and they are fully aware of how feckless and scared the Biden junta is. The only real question is how long does the cat want to toy with his food?

Leaders lead. Cowards hide. We are in very serious trouble as a nation, and it's all because of the stolen election and the deep state enablers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 06:52 AM (BC2YK)

39 Don't forget Obama. He let these fuckers out of Gitmo.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 06:49 AM (xopIz)

Well I would have let them out of Gitmo also, Argentina Style of course

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 06:52 AM (GPwVZ)

40 "This is manifestly not Saigon" > "I have been to the border!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 06:53 AM (EZebt)

41 The NFL, NBA, and MLB, already thoroughly corporate, have also become thoroughly political and thoroughly part of the current left-wing putsch. Sports used to be a unifying, politics-free zone. Now they're just another forum for politics, and politics of the woke variety. And those are terribly divisive. This has caused loss of ticket sales, TV viewership, and fan interest.
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True enough. This is a decent article, but there isn't much new there for most of the Horde - a lot of coverage of the collapse in pro sports performance that our local commentariat have been watching - often with a sense of glee.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:54 AM (3p5uk)

42 that video tweet of afghans climbing on the wings of planes then falling off mid air is brutal

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (oEn12)

43 From the Overnight thread, Nanci Pelosi had this to say:

"Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is critical to the future of Afghanistan. As we strive to assist women, we must recognize that their voices are important, and all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture. There is bipartisan support to assist the women and girls of Afghanistan,"

Yeah, you send you grll-power ambassador to the Taliban and tell them that.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (PiwSw)

44

Boy! Another Mai Tai, pronto!

Posted by: Hacki Psaki at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (Tnijr)

45 @31

>>General Milley should be pleased: the Taliban trumphed over white (bureaucrat millitary) rage.

His next book is going to be lit...

American Clusterfuck: The Mark Miley Story, Further American misadventures of eating soup with a knife in 7th century barbaric muslim shitholes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (jl3E5)

46 Meanwhile, Brian Kolfage, triple amputee veteran, is tortured by the United States government.

Thanks for the link, JJS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (BC2YK)

47 Yeah right, American embassy personnel have been safely evacuated to the airport as if the airport is safe...

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 06:57 AM (S1hrL)

48 "NEW: Pentagon confirms the Department of Defense is preparing to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, immediately including Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas."

McCoy isn't that far from me, maybe I can get a job teaching the refugees about CRT, white privilege or flag burning etiquette.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 16, 2021 06:57 AM (qH6FZ)

49 "Wait.....COB's actually KNOW each other?"

Well, not in the biblical sense, no.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 06:58 AM (3D/fK)

50 Hiding at Camp David is bad enough

**

Speaking of hiding and Camp David, did anyone ever explain the incorrect time on the video screen and Uncle Joe's quick-change wardrobe changes for no reason?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 16, 2021 06:59 AM (LfLgr)

51 I'm willing to put some money going long on Saudi nukes.

Need to talk to some people at the SRP, as I have no Paki connections.

Bangladeshi yes, but they hate those Paki fuckers.

Posted by: Miklos considers at August 16, 2021 06:59 AM (QzkSJ)

52 "Something seems terribly wrong. It is as if nothing works anymore. There's fear in the air. Maybe it is time to head for a bunker."
* Getting Ready for the End of the World
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This article was something of a letdown, perhaps because I have a very different vision of the end of the world. The article is about - sort of - Musk's vision for colonizing Mars, bunker construction and other evidence of TEOTWAKI. I doubt any of that is necessary. The world as we know it is ending before our eyes. It is happening, and happening right now. The Postwar order is cracking to pieces. I don't know what comes next, whether it will be good or bad (or bad or very bad), or anything else - but our world is ending before our eyes. This doesn't mean that cities are destroyed like in a Roland Emmerich movie and it doesn't mean a mass casualty event and it doesn't mean most people vanish - at least not necessarily.

But it does mean that all the rules change more or less constantly, there is no baseline and no stability, thriving is hard and so is survival. But a bunker - or Mars - won't address that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:59 AM (3p5uk)

53 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:00 AM (OCTRt)

54 Where do JJ and CBD have dinner?
1. Wo Hop
2. Angelo's
3. Peter Luger's?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 07:01 AM (EZebt)

55 Speaking of hiding and Camp David, did anyone ever explain the incorrect time on the video screen and Uncle Joe's quick-change wardrobe changes for no reason?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 16, 2021 06:59 AM (LfLgr)

Incontinence comes to mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 07:01 AM (GPwVZ)

56 @48

Yes, we are going to get tens of thousands of barely literate in their own language, muslim refugees to go along with the millions of barely literate hispanics from Mexico and SA.

It's good thing that The Junta that's in charge of the FEDGOV is increasing welfare benifits 25 pct so we they can pay for all of this.

Or alternatively...

It's over, it's all the way over, the body is dead, all we are seeing is the body shuddering and shaking as it goes through it death throes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:01 AM (jl3E5)

57 "First address the nation. Hello nation." Gilligan's Island reference? Sweet!

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/7HpQm) at August 16, 2021 07:02 AM (KAi1n)

58 57 "First address the nation. Hello nation." Gilligan's Island reference? Sweet!
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/7HpQm) at August 16, 2021 07:02 AM (KAi1n)

Honeymooners. Norton teaches Ralph how to golf.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:03 AM (s2VJv)

59 In such revolutionary times, no one knows any more what is and is not a crime. Illegally storming the border when positive for COVID-19? Destroying a public statue of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson? Looting a corporate chain store? Knocking out an Asian-American septuagenarian? Or turning over the tables of Jewish-Americans as they eat? Taking over municipal blocks and declaring the confiscation an autonomous zone? Not crimes. "Illegal parading" inside the U.S. Capitol building? Crime.

~VDH

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 07:03 AM (OQdlz)

60 The Deep State has arrived at Waterloo
And I say Good
Intel DOD State Let it Burn

Posted by: Fatass Barr, Deep State Stooge at August 16, 2021 07:04 AM (/52yu)

61
Where do JJ and CBD have dinner?
1. Wo Hop
2. Angelo's
3. Peter Luger's?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 07:01 AM

Ho Lee Fuk's...got a big plate of beef chow mein

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2021 07:04 AM (DUIap)

62 First address the nation. Hello nation." Gilligan's Island reference? Sweet!
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/7HpQm) at August 16, 2021 07:02 AM (KAi1n)
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Honeymooners. Norton teaches Ralph how to golf.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:03 AM (s2VJv)
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I didn't catch either. I thought it was a riff on the programming language concept of "Hello, World." (the first basic exercise when learning a programming language is getting the program to output "Hello, World" - it demonstrates how to get text on screen or paper, which is a vital first step)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:05 AM (3p5uk)

63 >> "NEW: Pentagon confirms the Department of Defense is preparing to house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, immediately including Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Bliss in Texas."

They really are this stupid, aren't they? It's not enough for them to abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban, they have to double-down by flying a bunch here, thus turning many of America's town's ito 3rd world sh#tholes, too.

"refugees" or AQ and Taliban terrorists?
Not like that wasn't an openly discussed ISIS op with the refugee crisis in Europe starting in 2015'ish and on.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:05 AM (bDqIh)

64 Mustafa told CNN: "It's our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world.

Screw your freedoms!

Posted by: Arnold S. at August 16, 2021 07:05 AM (DMQdU)

65 that video tweet of afghans climbing on the wings of planes then falling off mid air is brutal
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 06:56 AM (oEn12)

Seems like common sense would've stepped in somewhere in that situation and advised that was a bad idea.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:05 AM (Zz0t1)

66 "It's not the end of the world. It's the end of you." - David P. Goldman

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:05 AM (xopIz)

67 That image is sooooooo sad.

Nicely done, JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:06 AM (Zz0t1)

68 Instead of trying to read and comprehend all, I sent JJ a benjamin.

Does this make me a bad, lazy, too depressed person?

Posted by: Miklos, both Early and Late at August 16, 2021 07:06 AM (QzkSJ)

69 Dan Crenshaw on FOX News right now is delusional.

This guy is funny.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:06 AM (jl3E5)

70 Greetings fappers and fappees. What fresh hell awaits us this day?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 16, 2021 07:06 AM (HaL55)

71 wow, great, if infuriating write up JJ. so much work, so many great points.

and on your birfday no less.

it's enough to make your blood boil. or wish to make others blood boil, if you're in to that... and it's thoroughly frustrating that we ended up in this position.

i still think after 9/11 that going into afghanistan was the right thing, but, as we have often seen, we went about it totally wrong. but that's a different argument meant for history and military classes in the coming years.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:07 AM (8D42x)

72 When the choice is being beheaded or falling off an airplane, which would you chose?

Posted by: f'd at August 16, 2021 07:07 AM (Tnijr)

73 In 1975 there were "boat people" by the thousands escaping the Communists. The Afghans have no similar escape route from the Islamists.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 07:08 AM (EZebt)

74 No doubt about where those 5 tali generals that barky turned loose in Qatar are now.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 16, 2021 07:08 AM (Whc40)

75 Baigon.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:08 AM (NpAcC)

76 At one point will politicians realize that their ability to manage complex systems is 0? This delusion is responsible for more deaths over the last 200 years than any disease.

Posted by: iandeal at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (45oOK)

77 Where do JJ and CBD have dinner?
1. Wo Hop
2. Angelo's
3. Peter Luger's?

Posted by: San Franpsycho

When I was in Graduate Skool for International Relations, the standing joke was that such a degree would get a job at IHOP

Posted by: Over and Undereducated Miklos at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (QzkSJ)

78 Under CRT theory, are the Taliban wipeapo, or blapeapo?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (3D/fK)

79 Rino trash is all over Biden this morning at the WSJ. They spent a year going after Trump and convincing GOP voters to go with Biden in 2020.

All those Deep State scum and Military complex grifters loved their gravy in Afghanistan, now are pouting like babies today.

F OFF Pentagon

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (WY8d2)

80 This guy is funny.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:06 AM (jl3E5)

the new smartest guy in the room

keep an eye on him

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (uCLWI)

81 Biden's young National Security Advisor lauded by the MSM was born in 1976. One year after the fall of Saigon.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (bDqIh)

82 Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (WY8d2)

83 CBS head asking Biden's NSA twit
"It looks like you were not prepared for Kabul to fall so quickly. How did you get this so wrong?"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (oEn12)

84 82 Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?
Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (WY8d2)

Texas and Florida...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (s2VJv)

85 >> Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?

Right here. Against us domestic terrorists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (Mzdiz)

86 Again Dan, we got here because the IC/LE apparatus that you continually jock sniff wasn't at all curious about Muslims seeking out very peculiar flight lessons.

This fucking we gotta kill them there so we don't have to kill them here magical thinking has got to stop.

These fuckers make me sick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (jl3E5)

87 Yes, this is an unmitigated disaster. With open borders I am expecting another 9/11.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (NpAcC)

88
Texas and Florida...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (s2VJv)

It won't go as they expect.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:11 AM (Zz0t1)

89 83 CBS head asking Biden's NSA twit
"It looks like you were not prepared for Kabul to fall so quickly. How did you get this so wrong?"
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (oEn12)

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Wow...the optics. I can't imagine anything better primed to turn NeverTrump against Biden than optics this bad.

Probably won't work, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:11 AM (LvTSG)

90 We didn't have Waffle House we had IHOP

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2021 07:11 AM (EZebt)

91 >>>Along with the Islami-kazes of this world, the Russians, Iranians, Cubans, NorKs and most of all the Chi-Coms are laughing their asses off and champing at the bit.

And yet our own government remains the largest immediate threat to America and Americans.... well at least to Heritage Americans of Founding Stock.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:11 AM (j4AEt)

92 83 talking head, not anyone importsnt, sorry

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 07:12 AM (oEn12)

93 Can't remember where I read it this morning, but an article stated that there would NOT be preference given to Americans on flights out of Kabul, that flights would be a mixture of Americans and Afghan SIV's, but Americans would not be "given priority."

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:12 AM (S1hrL)

94 ========

Wow...the optics. I can't imagine anything better primed to turn NeverTrump against Biden than optics this bad.

Probably won't work, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:11 AM (LvTSG)

That's a cute take.

It. Won't. Happen.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:12 AM (Zz0t1)

95 "keep an eye on him"

One eye only, please.

Posted by: Captain Ramius (Ret) at August 16, 2021 07:12 AM (3D/fK)

96 Right here. Against us domestic terrorists.
Posted by: publius

Tobacco, coffee, and okra

Stock up on Trade Goods

Posted by: Shortage Economy Economist Miklos at August 16, 2021 07:12 AM (QzkSJ)

97 23 Over dinner late last week, CBD reminded me that we are now a fundamentally unserious nation. Not looking good around here, my friends.

Wait.....COB's actually KNOW each other?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 06:46 AM (Zz0t1)
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They're all hunkering down in the same bunker, watching it burn as they sip their hoarded brandy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 07:13 AM (Dc2NZ)

98 Baigon.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:08 AM (NpAcC)

Let Baigon be Siaigon.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:13 AM (Zz0t1)

99 *damn fingers

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:13 AM (Zz0t1)

100 Dan Crenshaw on FOX News right now is delusional.

This guy is funny.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I will never see eye to eye with Crenshaw.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:13 AM (OCTRt)

101 Looks like the Taliban missed the memo on "no evictions"

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 07:13 AM (uCLWI)

102 35. Well Said, but I blame all those moronic GOP voters who switched over to Biden, because they did not like Trump's persona.

Had many in my neighborhood. Putting up GOP for Biden signs with their Flags. Vomit. Trump voters on my block do not even say Hi to them anymore, even as we walk our dogs

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:14 AM (WY8d2)

103 The Taliban leader has as an account on Twitter and President Trump does not. This tells you all you need to know.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:14 AM (NpAcC)

104 I gotta hand it to Obama.

Back when he told us that Biden has an uncanny skill in fcuking things up.

He was right.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:14 AM (3D/fK)

105 Seems like common sense would've stepped in somewhere in that situation and advised that was a bad idea.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt

mob panic is avreal thung I guess

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (oEn12)

106 85. Oh man. Sad but True

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (WY8d2)

107 Why are they hiding biden?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (JUOKG)

108 You know what book the Taliban commanders in Afghanistan will never read...

Taliban Fragility.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (jl3E5)

109 Intelligence failure. I expect to hear/see this term frequently today. Some analysts are suggesting the military, looking for a scapegoat has zeroed in on rezident retard. Even they realize trying to pin this shit show on Trump won't fly except with the nutters. "The President did not listen..." will be the buzz.

Also, rumors persist that the Chinese Cabbage hasn't been able to grasp the enormity of the situation and is "agitated" about the negative portrayal he's getting. His handlers won't be putting him in front of a camera today either. Give them a few days to "calm sloe joe down."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (BFigT)

110 The puppet masters cannot allow Biden to resign or be removed now, not after this disaster. It would expose the whole fraudulent nature of this regime that even the lib lemmings could not ignore. They have to drag him around until this is over, MSM has memory holed it and we have moved on to the Zeta-Beta variant and 5th booster shot. End of the year at the earliest.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (MxEKc)

111 Texas and Florida...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

It won't go as they expect.....
Posted by: Sponge

Not even close. Hell, Florida man will f them up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (OCTRt)

112 Such a slow news weekend. I'm surprised JJ has any links at all.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (UHVv4)

113 At one point will politicians realize that their ability to manage complex systems is 0? This delusion is responsible for more deaths over the last 200 years than any disease.
Posted by: iandeal at August 16, 2021 07:09 AM (45oOK)
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They won't ever realize it. It's the fatal conceit. They don't understand (or refuse to understand, perhaps) that the systems they want to control are organic. They'd be horrified at any proposal that demanded that they centrally manage and control every element of the food chain globally, yet they are certain they can do it to the economy, for example.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (3p5uk)

114 >> Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?

Right here. Against us domestic terrorists.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)

Specifically White Christians.
People on the Right and even some democrats have been warning about this for many decades. Weird how they were shoved out of the mainstream, had their characters assassinated, livelihoods destroyed, and all done by the same people who call you a bigot for noticing and speaking out.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:16 AM (j4AEt)

115 NIH Director Francis Collins Holds Up a Face Mask and Calls it "A Life-Saving Medical Device"

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No word on why 95% of masks sold state on their packaging, "Not for Medical Use."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:16 AM (O+I8R)

116 Photo of the Taliban terrorists in the presidential palace...juxtapose that with their statement no one needs to be afraid of them.

But we must be afraid of the Jan. 6 "insurrectionists."

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:16 AM (S1hrL)

117 Excellent introduction, JJ, among your best ever.
I was one of those chicken-little voices albeit for another reason. I knew Iran would fill the post-Saddam void and that, too, happened. I knew my opposition had been vindicated in 2007 when Bush was exhorting us to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here" and he then threw the border wide open.

The Imperial Capitol has been just as much at war with me ever since. As horrific as the Taliban is, their crushing victory over the Banana Empire actually inspire hope that we also can prevail in the long run.

Finally, prayers for those whose loved ones were killed and maimed to enrich the evil and placate the psychopaths. Every family who lost love ones after the fenerals disobeyed Trump's withdrawal plans would be dully justified to feed those bastards lead sandwiches.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (LY6Ds)

118 104. Marxists will just blame Biden for everything, and take cover. They know he is a lame duck, who does not know the year or month. Their objective is to protect Kameltoe. They started that by taking down Sollozzo. I mean Cuomo

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (WY8d2)

119 "Sigh. Gone"....that's a good one.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (O+I8R)

120 Why are they hiding biden?
Posted by: Mister Scott

He's went around the bend for good?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (OCTRt)

121 so Zthe NSA twat Jake Sullivan is sayingnwe've secured the airport and "intend" to evacuate thousands over the next few days
who are right now sgeltering in place

translation: "it's gonna get uglier"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (oEn12)

122 We didn't have Waffle House we had IHOP
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well you lost out!

Posted by: darleen, Marleen, and Charleen at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (QzkSJ)

123 What a ginormous cluster fuck.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (K8LFj)

124
The people falling off the plane video is making the news all over the world.

Latest is there were three bodies so far that fell onto houses near the Kabul airport. Bodies crashing through roofs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (Mzdiz)

125 Since the Pandemic, Sweden has allowed Kids 16 or younger to go to scholl without mask. Nothing remote.

Fact. Not one of those kids died from Covid

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (WY8d2)

126 Anyone that y'all know that voted for Biden needs to be confronted. They are responsible for giving us this unmitigated disaster. We need to stop being silent.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (NpAcC)

127 News chyron here reports Russian ambassador is meeting with Taliban government on Tuesday. I hope it's to tell them, 'Biden, the Americans, and the regime were made to look like fools. Joe is in our pay and the Chinese; let them evacuate peacefully and we can get this over with ASAP and all get back to business.'

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (UHVv4)

128 Newly-minted Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill sold all of those stocks listed in the Daily Wire story, according to reporting in the Star-Ledger and sourced from her office. She and her husband paid their capital gains taxes, they said, and bought ETF's. If true, the linked story is incorrect and the link should probably be deleted.

Having said that, it's made really clear in that financial disclosure that her husband makes a ton of money trading for UBS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (hP73G)

129 Pentagon confirms the Department of Defense is preparing to house thousands of Afghan refugees

Never let a crisis go to waste. Why, it's almost as if crises *are* the plan...

Posted by: The Deep State at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (pbStR)

130 Bitching about Twitter at a time when there's no leadership by the country. Way to keep your eye on priorities, Crenshaw.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (y7DUB)

131 If history repeats itself, we have about 2-3 years before America falls and breaks apart into regions.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (j4AEt)

132 The Taliban can take DC next

Posted by: Brett at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (4dEe/)

133 It would seem the Taliban are more interested in relations with China and Pakistan and know that taking US hostages right now would impede that desire to have China, Pakistan, Turkey, etc recognize their nation. That I think is the only reason why they haven't grabbed hostages. It would be all too easy to do it right now.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (K8LFj)

134 124. Marxist media will not show it, just focus on Jan 6th

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (WY8d2)

135
Got the Honeymooners reference right out of the gate.
Remember it as Ralph teaching Norton, though.
And then as Norton takes awhile wagging the club behind the ball and shrugging his shoulders...
"Will you come on!!"

Posted by: TeeJ at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (I0I+D)

136 This fucking we gotta kill them there so we don't have to kill them here magical thinking has got to stop.

These fuckers make me sick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:10 AM (jl3E5)

idk, i like the idea of killing them there. it's the "rebuild" thing that needs to stop. we need to convince the world that if you fuck with us, you get dead, then have to pick up the pieces. a la Sulemani...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (8D42x)

137 I'd ask our military leaders if there was any truth to China's accusations about the origins of coronavirus. If there is anything but an unequivocal "no", then I'd be concerned.

Posted by: Unkaren at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (vGJY7)

138

I think we are now officially on 25th amendment and/or Biden resignation watch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM (s2VJv)

139 Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?

Right here. Against us domestic terrorists.
Posted by: publius

Bring it. Seriously.
Move your families out of the country first.
You come for mine, I go after yours.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (OCTRt)

140 Bad optics.

Biden alone sitting at an empty table with place settings for his cabinet and advisors. Little not pads and pens placed at each setting. Then see Taliban Joe staring at a zoom screen, with a far-off cationic-like gaze.

Very disturbing.

Posted by: redenzo at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (E7vND)

141

What the USA needs is less moslimbs, not more

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (bTQ72)

142 The Most Aristocraty headline i've seen so far:

FOX Headline:

Fears Afghanistan May Become a Terrorist Haven.

I, mean, that's just precious.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (jl3E5)

143 Only four under-20s in Ontario have died over the entire pandemic -- 17 million people total and, I think, 3 million under-20s.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (UHVv4)

144 "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter."
-Corinthians 7:10-11

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (sOXXq)

145 Morning, all,

I'm waiting to head over to the clinic to have my blood drawn, which means I have not been able to eat anything or drink anything but water since about 8 pm last night. Another 90 minutes to go, I guess.

Do you really think cities will have people checking the vax cards? I just have to fill mine out and slip it into the plastic sleeve I bought. As JJ suggested, I'd only use it for a restaurant or a store -- though right now only the city proper is requiring the foolish things. Eventually the suburbs will follow suit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (/XOcP)

146 Marxists will just blame Biden for everything, and take cover. They know he is a lame duck, who does not know the year or month. Their objective is to protect Kameltoe. They started that by taking down Sollozzo. I mean Cuomo
Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:17 AM (WY8d2)
++++
Write two letters.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (3p5uk)

147 "The pandemic and a troubling politics addiction threaten the future of professional sports.
Major-League Sports Faces Major-League Problems

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Die. DIE NOW. You brought it on yourselves. I'd love nothing more than for your enterprise to completely disintegrate. Take Hollywood with you.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (O+I8R)

148 China will be the first to Recognize the Taliban Gubmint. Then Putin and Teheran.

We are as weak as the Carter years at this point

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (WY8d2)

149 30,000 (what's the real number?) Afghan's relocating to our domestic bases...because that's who we are.

Ask any illegal or Food Stamp recipient.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (S1hrL)

150 CGI Biden is nowhere to be found. They had to recycle photos from Camp David from around Feb/March before the time change.
Not even kidding. They were caught red handed.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (j4AEt)

151 "Yes, this is an unmitigated disaster. With open borders I am expecting another 9/11. Posted by: redridinghood"

I'm expecting that being used an excuse for even more security theater in airport and elsewhere. Between that and covid regulations I may never fly again.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (MxEKc)

152
81 million votes, man. 81. Million. Votes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (/U27+)

153 At least the Taliban isn't pestering folk to take the jab.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (3D/fK)

154
The corrupt US leadership needs to look on the well. They will see some writing:

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (Mzdiz)

155 Not even close. Hell, Florida man will f them up.
Posted by: rickb223

Dude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eL_DB-xBo

Posted by: Miklos, on behalf of the Immortal Lane Pittman at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (QzkSJ)

156 They took away Baseball from me. Last refuge. Golf has no class anymore

Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:22 AM (WY8d2)

157 idk, i like the idea of killing them there. it's the "rebuild" thing that needs to stop. we need to convince the world that if you fuck with us, you get dead, then have to pick up the pieces. a la Sulemani...
Posted by: SturmToddler

THIS! One caveat.
You make us come back? We annex real estate.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:22 AM (OCTRt)

158

look at biden in that pic

old and frail

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 07:22 AM (bTQ72)

159 CNN: "It's a chilling admission from a group that claims it wants peace."

LOL. Reminds me of some comments on those cool Kiffness Cat Musical vids:

https://tinyurl.com/dxsh6ma4

It's all "Oh look how the world can come together in peace!" ...until someone takes the last Hotpocket with Stovetop Stuffing.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:22 AM (49Exr)

160 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:21 AM (3D/fK)

Heh. Quote of the day right there.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (K8LFj)

161 I think we are now officially on 25th amendment and/or Biden resignation watch.

JJS is absolutely correct with this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (hP73G)

162 The Daily Mail has a lot of articles on Afghanistan and Biden and his administration are being raked over the coals in the comment section. It's a beautiful sight to behold.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (NpAcC)

163 We're not even 1/4th through Biden's term. Things are only going to get worse.

Posted by: Revenant at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (cOGHc)

164 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.
Posted by: publius,

That's , like, 100 years old, dude

Posted by: Millenial Miklos in an Uber because AVOCADO TOAST at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (QzkSJ)

165 Now that it's been shown to be a hollow shell of deadbeats, can we abolish NATO to go along with the Afghanistan debacle?

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2021 07:23 AM (R/m4+)

166 Remember how we were supposed to be constantly embarrassed by the Trump administration?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (LvTSG)

167
Dagen McDowell with a pretty damn good rip on Joey Softserve's vacation:

"It Must Be Exhausting Setting America Back 45 Years In 7 Months"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (s2VJv)

168
I'm expecting that being used an excuse for even more security theater in airport and elsewhere.

_________

The Law is now used against the law abiding. It's just easier.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (/U27+)

169 Biden's "photo op" has been G*d's gift to meme creators. I've already seen versions where he's watching Matlock, the Teletubbies, the Hunter sex tapes, and more.

Also, there's some concern that the original White House photo outs the leader of Doha Station, but that's the sort of rake-stepping we expect from the junta.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (6XLoz)

170 Well all this negative news is sure to accelerate Biden's dementia. Only a matter of time before they'll have to have him step down.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (K8LFj)

171 168 The Law is now used against the law abiding. It's just easier.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (/U27+)

==========

"What are we going to do? Figure out Muslim rape gangs or go after people who saw impolite things on the Internet?"
-British police

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (LvTSG)

172 "Things are only going to get worse"

Red Lines Matter, Sarah

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (49Exr)

173 If history repeats itself, we have about 2-3 years before America falls and breaks apart into regions.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (j4AEt)

I've thought a lot about this and I really don't see how.

OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?

Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

174 I imagine Joe Biden in the Situation Room saying "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (mbFEM)

175 @73:

There wouldn't be that many boat people. Afghans are perfectly happy with the Taliban and as JJ wrote this isn't a loss as much as it is a welcomed event. All along it has been obvious the Talban was overwhelmingly the popular option.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (LY6Ds)

176 Here is the only item so far on Joe's public schedule for today. The parenthetical is from the calendar entry.

The President receives the President's Daily Brief (Note: Time not specified)

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (AMIL/)

177 Nancy is insisting that the Taliban include women in their government. Maybe she should insist that gays, trans, and all the others have a chair at the table. Good luck on that Nancy, maybe flying over there and talking to them might help. You might get to see Kabul from a roof top.

Posted by: Colin at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (CsjEt)

178 We are as weak as the Carter years at this point
Posted by: Jonah at August 16, 2021 07:20 AM (WY8d2)

In the Carter years, we were not saddled with 30 trillion in debt and our southern border was not a total mess

we are much weaker now

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (uCLWI)

179 173 OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

==========

With martial law.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (LvTSG)

180 30,000 (what's the real number?) Afghan's relocating to our domestic bases...because that's who we are.

Ask any illegal or Food Stamp recipient.
Posted by: Ziba

I have zero problem helping out my people from the South, rural areas, and Appalachia with assistance l, who not only disproportionately make up and who have made up who serves, but also who have been targeted for death and replacement through immigration, outsourcing jobs, and marketing opioids to since the mid 90's under the guise they were not addictive. I prefer my tax dollars go to them than any other group.

The NeoCons and Bolsheviks need to be run out of the country and have their assets seized.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (j4AEt)

181 I think we are now officially on 25th amendment and/or Biden resignation watch.

--

For the first time, I'm in agreement. This is too colossal of a total American humiliation and there's no way to get out from underneath what this is making Biden look like. Try and blame Trump, but it's not going to work except on the densest among us.

Jilly probably isn't even going to make it to decorating the WH for Christmas. What comes next makes me shudder.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (O+I8R)

182 I imagine Joe Biden in the Situation Room saying "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

He stopped? Facts not in evidence and all that.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (6XLoz)

183 I just watched a few of those falling off the plane videos. It's sad but probably for the best, those have got to be the dumbest people on earth. Did no one tell them how air travel works?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (qH6FZ)

184 " Defense Contractors and Deep Staters need a new War. Where will it be?"

Here in the U.S. of A.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (xopIz)

185 181 For the first time, I'm in agreement. This is too colossal of a total American humiliation and there's no way to get out from underneath what this is making Biden look like. Try and blame Trump, but it's not going to work except on the densest among us.

Jilly probably isn't even going to make it to decorating the WH for Christmas. What comes next makes me shudder.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:26 AM (O+I8R)

========

Even the generals, who refused Trump's orders all the time, are saying they were just following Biden's orders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (LvTSG)

186 "Remember how we were supposed to be constantly embarrassed by the Trump administration?"

And say what you will about the GOPe, at least they have mastered the art of losing gracefully

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (49Exr)

187
NBC Nooz: Republicans "seize" on Saigon comparison.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (Mzdiz)

188
This is too colossal of a total American humiliation and there's no way to get out from underneath what this is making Biden look like.

_________

This will be Old News in a week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (/U27+)

189 176 Here is the only item so far on Joe's public schedule for today. The parenthetical is from the calendar entry.

The President receives the President's Daily Brief (Note: Time not specified)
Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (AMIL/)

He puts on a fresh pair of Depends?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (s2VJv)

190 Dagen McDowell with a pretty damn good rip on Joey Softserve's vacation:

"It Must Be Exhausting Setting America Back 45 Years In 7 Months"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:24 AM (s2VJv)
*************
Dagen is always fantastic. She is on the Five, Outnumbered and the Gutfeld show a lot. She never minces words and tells it like it is.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (NpAcC)

191 The Taliban is actively trolling the globalists, by the way. They put out a statement that they're hoping to form "a diverse and inclusive Islamic government". So, both Shia and Wahhabi?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (6XLoz)

192 THIS! One caveat.
You make us come back? We annex real estate.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:22 AM (OCTRt)

for me, depending on the real estate, we might just turn it to glass.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (8D42x)

193
Biden alone sitting at an empty table with place settings for his cabinet and advisors. Little not pads and pens placed at each setting. Then see Taliban Joe staring at a zoom screen, with a far-off cationic-like gaze.

Very disturbing.
Posted by: redenzo

Where are the Roadrunner cartoons? I was promised Roadrunner cartoons! C'mon, man!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (+2sc/)

194 I've thought a lot about this and I really don't see how.

OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

I am struck by this also - was just up in PA near but not in Harrisburg - there were still a LOT of Trump signs up. It was farm country.

There is no geographic division that will make sense.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (mbFEM)

195 President Trump and Secretary Pompeo's policies and speeches on this matter are clearly preserved in the archives for all to see. There is plenty to sort through at DoS, DoD and the White House archive. The media knows exactly where to find them, they choose not to.

This was never going to be the outcome President Trump would get. It was made very clear in the intro-Afghan talks, it was also evident on the ground. This would be a conditional withdrawal and every time the Taliban broke those conditions they paid a price. I defy the media to go back and prove me wrong. Because yesterday I found no less then 8 articles discussing how we retaliated militarily against the Taliban for breaking agreements.

That Biden and his cast of clowns would even try to blame this on anyone else is pathetic.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (sOXXq)

196 174 I imagine Joe Biden in the Situation Room saying "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (mbFEM)

I imagine him saying "Can I ride in the new Jeep again?"

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (88xKn)

197 My son once said that his generation would repudiate the National debt.

He is in his 40s now.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (xopIz)

198 Just a little more Mario Kart, then we'll get to Afghanistan.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (e7S3a)

199 It Must Be Exhausting Setting America Back 45 Years In 7 Months"

*throws cocktail*

That was supposed to be me!

Posted by: Hillary! at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (l0Lgi)

200 Joe ain't saying nothing no more. He is catatonic now.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (xopIz)

201
Trump 2020 and Trump Won flags abound here in Brazoria County, TX.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (/U27+)

202 Some guy on the local online paper is trying to convince everybody else that the only people now dying from Covid and Delta variant are unvaxxed people. Where on earth did he get this info from-the CDC (Center for Disinformation and Confusion)?

The paper should find some way to monetize this -sort of like the WWF for the Vax wars. On this side "Battling Bill" and on this side we have "Raging Ronald". It gets very nasty. I try to state my view without the vitriol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (ai5jE)

203 I bopped over to CDR Salamander's site and got a laugh from his brag sheet:

PROACTIVELY “FROM THE SEA”; AN AGENT OF CHANGE LEVERAGING THE LITTORAL BEST PRACTICES FOR A PARADIGM BREAKING SIX-SIGMA BEST BUSINESS CASE TO SYNERGIZE A CONSISTENT DESIGN IN THE GLOBAL COMMONS, RIGHTSIZING THE CORE VALUES SUPPORTING OUR MISSION STATEMENT VIA THE 5-VECTOR MODEL THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

204 I love Dagen. She's from Texas.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (xopIz)

205 OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman

Tribe up. Be exclusionary. Only the strong survive. Seize the assets of those who destroyed our nation. Physical removal. Don't make the same mistake again.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (j4AEt)

206 If Heelzup Kamala is installed, she won't be an improvement over Puddinhead O'Biden. She wasn't elected either. Can't think of a better example of FUMU than her. Never thought that mindset would take hold at the national level. Silly me.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (HaL55)

207 The refugees we let flood into America after the fall of Saigon mostly loved America and turned out to be pretty damn good immigrants. Afghanistan? Anyone wanna bet?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (8tq3x)

208 "The Taliban is actively trolling the globalists, by the way. They put out a statement that they're hoping to form "a diverse and inclusive Islamic government". So, both Shia and Wahhabi?"

Their pronouns are Die Infidel.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (49Exr)

209 174 I imagine Joe Biden in the Situation Room saying "I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (mbFEM)

You mean "sniffing hair"

Posted by: That Guy Again at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (Izzlo)

210 CNN c#nt reports: "The US military has suspended air operations at the Kabul airport while troops try to clear the airfield of Afghans who flooded the tarmac, per
@barbarastarrcnn. Biden's national security advisers have made clear this a.m. they don't consider the airport secure right now.
7:51 AM; Aug 16, 2021

BTW, I just saw video of a transport plane taxiing on the tarmac with a huge crowd of Afghanis running along side it and one of the dicks waves with both arms at the camera as he runs alongside!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (UHVv4)

211 179 173 OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

Maybe we should hire the Taliban to straighten this shit out

seem to be mighty effective

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (uCLWI)

212 Nancy is insisting that the Taliban include women in their government. Maybe she should insist that gays, trans, and all the others have a chair at the table.

--

I said in the Pixy thread below that the smoldering cadaver known as Nancy Pelosi has no power to sway the Taliban on anything. Her power solely lies in destroying America. It's humorous that she tries to imply she can exert any say in what these terrorists do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (O+I8R)

213 Well then, Gilligan's Island ref's Honeymooners - howell teaches mrs. to play golf. Same dialogue.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n/7HpQm) at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (KAi1n)

214 No one watched Airplane! here?

It's like I don't even know you people.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (mbFEM)

215 What a world we live in, where the leader of a 7th century murderous barbaric cult is embraced and beloved by Twitter.

While the former American President--who received over 75 million legal votes-- is too offensive to allow in their platform.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (jIL4c)

216 OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)
++++
The boot. It will come down - as it always does in war - to the boot.

As the place fractures - and I think it will, whether officially and declared or not - the places where the urban or university doctrine is dominant (the Left, for lack of a better word) will enslave the countryside. The places where the non-urban and non-university doctrine is dominant (the Right, for lack of a better word) will crack down hard on the cities and force them into desocialization, complete with occupation.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (3p5uk)

217 197 My son once said that his generation would repudiate the National debt.

He is in his 40s now.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (xopIz)

He meant "refinance."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (s2VJv)

218 177 Nancy is insisting that the Taliban include women in their government. Maybe she should insist that gays, trans, and all the others have a chair at the table. Good luck on that Nancy, maybe flying over there and talking to them might help. You might get to see Kabul from a roof top.

Posted by: Colin at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (CsjEt)

Bro-Fo Omar and Rancida should explain Sharia Law to Nanzi.

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (AMIL/)

219 Speaking of hiding and Camp David, did anyone ever explain the incorrect time on the video screen and Uncle Joe's quick-change wardrobe changes for no reason?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 16, 2021 06:59 AM (LfLgr)

Incontinence comes to mind
Posted by: Nevergiveup

**

I'm willing to concede the point of Uncle Joe sh*tting himself and ruining his sport coat and dress shirt and needing to change into a golf shirt.

I'm still going to need someone to explain to me why the clocks in the photo are wrong for current times but correct for his March or so visit to Camp David.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (2CptV)

220 Ugh. Joke sock off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (3p5uk)

221 I imagine him saying "Can I ride in the new Jeep again?"
Posted by: dantesed

https://tinyurl.com/4v9v5ep7

Posted by: Miklos recalls that the guy has been a joke for long long years at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (QzkSJ)

222 I assume that Nancy Pelosi thing about women at the table is pure pandering. She can't be that stupid.

Posted by: Caliban at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (HgGBT)

223 If history repeats itself, we have about 2-3 years before America falls and breaks apart into regions.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:18 AM (j4AEt)

I've thought a lot about this and I really don't see how.

OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

i expect to see a balkanization happen. complete with roving bands to "encourage" the undesirables to move out. i expect it'll start in the cities with yutes thinking they can spread out, and when that doesn't go the way they think it will, then the country siders will push them out of the cities to states they'd rather be in.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (8D42x)

224 "I love Dagen. She's from Texas."

Another one of FOX News CATO libertarians. They have more libertarians working there then actual conservatives.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (qH6FZ)

225 This story isn't going away anytime soon. This is just the beginning. If you believe the Taliban are just going to peacefully coexist you're either extremely ignorant or part of the con. They are already coordinating with Iran and other state terrorist actors. This presages an entire new line of attack on the United States and our allies. It is supported by Russia and a China for that very reason. It will tie up resources and manpower that should really be devoted to defending against those hostile nations.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (sOXXq)

226 Even the generals, who refused Trump's orders all the time, are saying they were just following Biden's orders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:27 AM (LvTSG)

Those fucksticks need to be fired asap. Fat, drunk on fruit salad and disobeying lawful orders is no way to go thru life.

What a debacle. And all could have been avoided.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (R/m4+)

227 We are no longer a "serious nation" because we want to have the European capacity for trendy ideologies and irresponsibility. But, given our responsibility for the safety of frivolous people everywhere (the Brits admitted that with the Americans gone, the other western countries had no choice but to leave afganistan), this is the most dangerous possible choice. Now the "serious" countries are China, Russia, and Iran, while we become a European party nation, playing at tigers.

We can't afford the stupidity of irresponsibility but are insisting on it.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (ONvIw)

228 Tribe up. Be exclusionary. Only the strong survive. Seize the assets of those who destroyed our nation. Physical removal. Don't make the same mistake again.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (j4AEt)

True. It won't regional in the short term. It will be local.

Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (hOMhY)

229 China will be the first to Recognize the Taliban Gubmint. Then Putin and Teheran.

We are as weak as the Carter years at this point
Posted by: Jonah

I thought Chyna already had?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (OCTRt)

230 218 Bro-Fo Omar and Rancida should explain Sharia Law to Nanzi.
Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (AMIL/)

==========

"In Islamic country, women make are brutalized by their husbands and second class citizens."
-Omar, with a wistful look in her eye

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (LvTSG)

231 214 No one watched Airplane! here?

It's like I don't even know you people.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (mbFEM)

"Excuse me, I speak Jive."

"What did the pilot have for dinner?"
"Fish."

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (AMIL/)

232 "The pandemic and a troubling politics addiction threaten the future of professional sports.
Major-League Sports Faces Major-League Problems

The fact that there are those that haven't learned that politics ruins EVERYTHING shows they are mentally deficient in a lot of areas.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

233 He meant "refinance."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

The "Pixel tax"

Just wait

Posted by: Miklos Pangloss will cultivate his garden at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (QzkSJ)

234 226 Those fucksticks need to be fired asap. Fat, drunk on fruit salad and disobeying lawful orders is no way to go thru life.

What a debacle. And all could have been avoided.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2021 07:33 AM (R/m4+)

=========

Why would Biden fire them? They followed his orders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (LvTSG)

235 "Excuse me, I speak Jive."

"What did the pilot have for dinner?"
"Fish."
Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (AMIL/)

OH yes. I remember. I had the steak.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

236 This was never going to be the outcome President Trump would get

**

Yep. Blame him all you want, but the fact remains it DIDN'T happen under Trump. Heck, the Biden administration watched the cities falling one by one in real time after Trump was out and did nothing about it.

The terrifying part? It was on purpose.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (2CptV)

237 "Nancy is insisting that the Taliban include women in their government. "

Birthing people Nancy, get it right! And you forgot to demand the Taliban use preferred pronouns.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (MxEKc)

238 "one of the most powerful temblors in the western hemisphere this century" - Not even close. There are perhaps a dozen 7 mag quakes each year, if not more. MUCH worse quakes have been in AK & Chile. The media is idiotic. Haiti is poor & corrupt, shoddy construction kills there, not a 7.2 quake.

Posted by: Baldy at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (OLCH5)

239 Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (YiYTU)

240

the WH OODA loop is impressively fooked up

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (bTQ72)

241 232 "The pandemic and a troubling politics addiction threaten the future of professional sports.
Major-League Sports Faces Major-League Problems

The fact that there are those that haven't learned that politics ruins EVERYTHING shows they are mentally deficient in a lot of areas.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

==========

"How about just a little bit of politics? Just the tip?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

242 That optic of our senile "president" at that conference table is pathetic. So pathetic that I can't believe it was released to make him look in charge. It makes Barky look like Sun Tzu as he sat all shrunken in his seat, freshly pulled off the golf course.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (O+I8R)

243 Jen Psaki is also taking vacation this week. What, are they hoping this will all just go away and be replaced with Covid/mask stories?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (NpAcC)

244 RE: Nancy Pelosi's stupidity. Don't forget she was a big fan of Jim Jones and his People's Temple back in the day... never underestimate her ability to be ridiculous.

Posted by: AmericanHawkman at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (VfMhS)

245 idk, i like the idea of killing them there. it's the "rebuild" thing that needs to stop. we need to convince the world that if you fuck with us, you get dead, then have to pick up the pieces. a la Sulemani...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM

Yep go full Rome on them, fvck with us and we burn your city to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can ever grow there and then leave.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (JUOKG)

246 The hyper-inflation is so that the debt is cheaper to pay off in the future than current dollars.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (xopIz)

247 "My son once said that his generation would repudiate the National debt."

Six months ago, one of the online gaming groups we fought against was full of punk kids. During a server reset they started discussing politics, bashing boomers and insisting they would do a better job once their time came.

Low-hanging fruit first, like solving world hunger.

LOL

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (49Exr)

248 "What did the pilot have for dinner?"
"Fish."
Posted by: Gref

Yu mispeled "Presidnent"

Posted by: White House Press Spokesbeing at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (QzkSJ)

249 235 "Excuse me, I speak Jive."

"What did the pilot have for dinner?"
"Fish."
Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (AMIL/)

OH yes. I remember. I had the steak.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

Lasagna. The joke was lasagna.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

250 While the former American President--who received over 75 million legal votes-- is too offensive to allow in their platform.
Posted by: Mrm88 at August 16, 2021 07:31 AM (jIL4c)

One threatens their revenue stream from Beijing, one does not.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (ONvIw)

251 BTW, I'm guessing that with one guy waving both arms that Kabul airport's official name isn't Michelle Fields.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (UHVv4)

252 "There is no geographic division that will make sense."

I'm fine with a 50/50 division.

Conservatives reside above the frost line.

Progressives reside below the frost line.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (3D/fK)

253 President Trump and Secretary Pompeo's policies and speeches on this matter are clearly preserved in the archives for all to see. There is plenty to sort through at DoS, DoD and the White House archive. The media knows exactly where to find them, they choose not to.
...
That Biden and his cast of clowns would even try to blame this on anyone else is pathetic.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:28 AM (sOXXq)
++++
This didn't end without defeat. We withdrew without victory. That said, we still are (or were) in a position to make terms and do things with a minimum of disaster. Trump was taking that path - minimize disaster, maximize leadership, and enforce the conditions of the deal until we're out of the theater. That approach would likely have bought us six or 12 months of relative stability post-withdrawal and an utter absence of visceral humiliation.

Biden's cabal, though, managed to fuck this up about as catastrophically as possible. They've minimized leadership while maximizing disaster and humiliation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (3p5uk)

254 I assume that Nancy Pelosi thing about women at the table is pure pandering. She can't be that stupid.

Oh yes she can be that stoopid.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (HaL55)

255 247 Low-hanging fruit first, like solving world hunger.

LOL
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (49Exr)

==========

Outlaw socialism and communism. That'll fix a lot of the world hunger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

256 I assume that Nancy Pelosi thing about women at the table is pure pandering. She can't be that stupid.
Posted by: Caliban at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (HgGBT)

I admire your optimism...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (8D42x)

257 i expect to see a balkanization happen. complete with roving bands to "encourage" the undesirables to move out. i expect it'll start in the cities with yutes thinking they can spread out, and when that doesn't go the way they think it will, then the country siders will push them out of the cities to states they'd rather be in.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Again, This! ^^^^^^^

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (OCTRt)

258 There are reports that the Taliban bought off their opposition with Chinese money

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 07:37 AM (mn0Jm)

259
Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (YiYTU)

_________

*chanting schoolkid voice*

Good morning, callsign!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:37 AM (/U27+)

260 =======

Lasagna. The joke was lasagna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

Shit......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)

261 That optic of our senile "president" at that conference table is pathetic. So pathetic that I can't believe it was released to make him look in charge. It makes Barky look like Sun Tzu as he sat all shrunken in his seat, freshly pulled off the golf course.

That and when you're in politics you should never release a photo that's that easy to Photoshop into absurdity. People are having a lot of fun with that picture.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:37 AM (6XLoz)

262 Chinese money is our money.

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (iS/NP)

263 Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi
The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action. The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions. We are concerned about reports regarding the Taliban's brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls.

And anybody who may be misgendered

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (mn0Jm)

264 260 Lasagna. The joke was lasagna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

Shit......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)

==========

It's like I don't even know you anymore. Will you inaccurately quote Monty Python next? I don't know what I'll do with myself if that happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

265 204 I love Dagen. She's from Texas.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 07:30 AM (xopIz)

not sure I agree with your police work there

however, Her hubby Max was born and raised in the little village I live in and they maintain a house here still

as does George Bush the fuckwad

Posted by: REDACTED at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (uCLWI)

266 I assume that Nancy Pelosi thing about women at the table is pure pandering. She can't be that stupid.
Posted by: Caliban at August 16, 2021 07:32 AM (HgGBT)
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She isn't - or wasn't. I suspect Nancy is the throes of cognitive decline and is either reflexively vomiting out left-wing talking points or they're being written for her by people who are indeed that clueless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (3p5uk)

267 I'm fine with a 50/50 division.

Conservatives reside above the frost line.

Progressives reside below the frost line.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice.

ISWYDT.
Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (OCTRt)

268 I bopped over to CDR Salamanders site and got a laugh from his brag sheet:

PROACTIVELY FROM THE SEA; AN AGENT OF CHANGE LEVERAGING THE LITTORAL BEST PRACTICES FOR A PARADIGM BREAKING SIX-SIGMA BEST BUSINESS CASE TO SYNERGIZE A CONSISTENT DESIGN IN THE GLOBAL COMMONS, RIGHTSIZING THE CORE VALUES SUPPORTING OUR MISSION STATEMENT VIA THE 5-VECTOR MODEL THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

Thanks, I will use some of that language on my next FITREP

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (GPwVZ)

269 ==========

Outlaw socialism and communism. That'll fix a lot of the world hunger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

There will always be world hunger because there will always be corruption. We've spent TRILLIONS in the 'solve world hunger' realm and there are still starving children everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

270
The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions.�

__________

We will launch a barrage of tweets at them!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (/U27+)

271 "Ken Burns on the Woke Chopping block"

And the guillotine comes for him. Oh well.

Posted by: Puddleglum, back in Babylon DC at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (QFVV9)

272 The fall of the Kabul shows not only how incompetent our government has become, but how petty as well. When Trump tried the to withdraw the military refused - but they are letting the country fall now anyway.

So anyone that died between then and now died solely to help Joe Biden win the election.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (DpkTQ)

273 Joe's been mumbling "Steiner will come" non-stop for 72 hours.

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (AMIL/)

274 "Maybe we should hire the Taliban to straighten this shit out"

They definitely have values they are willing to kill and die for. Unlike most Americans. What's their position on Marxists?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (49Exr)

275 I assume that Nancy Pelosi thing about women at the table is pure pandering. She can't be that stupid.

She knows that her grifter class's days are numbered because the people who actually believe the things she says for profit are gaining power.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (6XLoz)

276 OKC isn't that much different than a Chicago or a Detroit. Austin ain't Texas. How can the South go separate with shitholes like ATL and NO? Stick Upstate NY with NYC?
Posted by: golfman at August 16, 2021 07:25 AM (hOMhY)

Some mixture of city-states, small regional nations, and a whole lot of violence and resorting.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (jOcSX)

277 Jen Psaki is also taking vacation this week. What, are they hoping this will all just go away and be replaced with Covid/mask stories?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 07:35 AM (NpAcC)

As a matter of fact, yes. Expect to see more of Fauxchi spewing his stuff.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (S1hrL)

278 This is just the beginning. If you believe the Taliban are just going to peacefully coexist you're either extremely ignorant or part of the con. They are already coordinating with Iran and other state terrorist actors. This presages an entire new line of attack on the United States and our allies.

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Yes, and it's not like they aren't saying exactly that...because they are. Their very own words.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (O+I8R)

279 Lasagna. The joke was lasagna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

The film was financed by La Cosa Nostra

Posted by: Miklosito Financiere S.PA at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (QzkSJ)

280 ==========

It's like I don't even know you anymore. Will you inaccurately quote Monty Python next? I don't know what I'll do with myself if that happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

I puke in your general direction.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

281
We've spent TRILLIONS in the 'solve world hunger' realm and there are still starving children everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

_________

I was always starving as a teenager.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (/U27+)

282 PROACTIVELY FROM THE SEA; AN AGENT OF CHANGE LEVERAGING THE LITTORAL BEST PRACTICES FOR A PARADIGM BREAKING SIX-SIGMA BEST BUSINESS CASE TO SYNERGIZE A CONSISTENT DESIGN IN THE GLOBAL COMMONS, RIGHTSIZING THE CORE VALUES SUPPORTING OUR MISSION STATEMENT VIA THE 5-VECTOR MODEL THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
Someone wrote that and was being serious?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (3p5uk)

283 The "Pixel tax"

Just wait
Posted by: Miklos Pangloss will cultivate his garden at August 16, 2021 07:34 AM (QzkSJ)

wait, they're going to tax Pixy now? with that impact our ampersands?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (8D42x)

284
My @135 -
Okay, so it's not just my short term memory.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (I0I+D)

285 280 It's like I don't even know you anymore. Will you inaccurately quote Monty Python next? I don't know what I'll do with myself if that happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

I puke in your general direction.....
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

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I'm broken...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

286 "Biden's cabal, though, managed to fuck this up about as catastrophically as possible. They've minimized leadership while maximizing disaster and humiliation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:36 AM (3p5uk)"

And as much as I loath DoD for their obsequious liberal political nature which helped lead to this, there were people inside DoD who advised this was the wrong path to take and would lead to this disastrous outcome. Those people were promptly ignored by what passes for "leadership". In fact the people in charge actually went further and said this outcome was "impossible". I only know this because people inside DoD told me.I dare the media to actually dig down and do their fucking job.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (sOXXq)

287 It's like I don't even know you anymore. Will you inaccurately quote Monty Python next? I don't know what I'll do with myself if that happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Naughty, wicked Zoot! And then, the anal!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (OCTRt)

288 Taliban sources saying that an agreement has been reached between US and Taliban, after which US forces have taken control of the security of Kabul Airport and Taliban won't enter the airport until the decided deadline. #Afghanistan
7:35 AM; Aug 16, 2021

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/
1427232525294911489

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (UHVv4)

289 "She can't be that stupid. "

She grew up in the streets of Baltimore, at her father, the Mayor's knee.

Demonic, Dis-honest and demented she is.

The Trifecta, so to speak.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:42 AM (3D/fK)

290
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I'm broken...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/2-V8kYT1pvE

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

291 Just saw the video of all the people on the runway/taxiway in front of a C-17. Just insane.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:42 AM (K8LFj)

292 In the 90s the feminist left demanded we invade Afghanistan to stop the Taliban because of their misogyny.

By the mid-00s the left was demanding we leave Afghanistan because "war solves nothing".

Then when Trump actually tried to leave the left cheered on the military in disobeying him.

And now the left is letting the Taliban retake Afghanistan.

What a sad, sad joke.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (DpkTQ)

293 Last week I saw a 4 star Army General say "People First. Winning Matters. Army Strong."

It's a tagline I had not heard, and it gave me some heart. That at least they were paying lip service to the concept of winning. And yet today it just feels like it was eyewash.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (mbFEM)

294 Jen Psaki is also taking vacation this week. What, are they hoping this will all just go away and be replaced with Covid/mask stories?
----------------
I would wager that it will all go away and we'll be talking about masks, lockdowns, and schools closing.

Posted by: MJ at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (zwDuR)

295 China's up next in the graveyard of empires.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 06:44 AM (3p5uk)

But there'll be a difference with China. Russia may have been willing to be brutal but we aided the Afghans in fighting them. China will be brutal and no one will oppose that. Either dollars or compromising photos will ensure that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (T7iTv)

296 Dagen McDowell with a pretty damn good rip on Joey Softserve's vacation:

Any comments on how he was Rupert's choice over mean tweets?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (y7DUB)

297 A stunningly powerful photo, JJ.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (a3Q+t)

298 There will always be world hunger because there will always be corruption. We've spent TRILLIONS in the 'solve world hunger' realm and there are still starving children everywhere.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)
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When I was in a college, I had a classmate who came from a small family farm. He was also a hard core international socialist and his hobby horse and grand plan was to implement a system to achieve "the global redistribution of nutrition."

I pointed out once during a class when he started caterwauling about it that we *have* exactly that system now and the foreign aid complex - both cash and in-kind - only exacerbates the underlying problems by propping up the warlords and thieves who cause famines in the first place. The class derailed from that point forward and the prof asked me to stop needling him or we'd never get on track per the syllabus.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3p5uk)

299 I have a question:
The tv shows swarms of men trying to get on airplanes in Afghanistan. Are they planning to leave all the women and children behind and just rescue themselves?

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (lonOK)

300 Note, also, the studied silence of the Bushes and Cheneys, who have yet to open their whore mouths about this debacle.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (LY6Ds)

301 "Someone wrote that and was being serious?"

NO

That has been on Sal's masthead for years and years.

It is his tongue in cheek poke at buzzwords and tricky phrases used at the time in the military.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3D/fK)

302 299 I pointed out once during a class when he started caterwauling about it that we *have* exactly that system now and the foreign aid complex - both cash and in-kind - only exacerbates the underlying problems by propping up the warlords and thieves who cause famines in the first place. The class derailed from that point forward and the prof asked me to stop needling him or we'd never get on track per the syllabus.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3p5uk)

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"Please stop this hinderance to my indoctrination."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (LvTSG)

303 Strangely many in the Jewish community, the JTA in particular, and very favorably disposed to CRT and are stating that a ban on CRT will preclude teaching the Holocaust. The reading also refers to Americans as allergic to restrictions on free speech, and lauds Europe:
https://tinyurl.com/4amfkvad

The Union for Reform Judaism, out largest "branch", remain all in on Equity and just completed their offering of an equity and inclusion training session. They never stop to think about other groups (religious and ethnic minorities, like Muslims, Hindu and Chinese) that are far from inclusive.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (ONvIw)

304 >>Jake Sullivan is sayingnwe've secured the airport and "intend" to evacuate thousands over the next few days
who are right now sgeltering in place

Observation from Cerno re: video and photos from the Kabul airport: where are the women? This is going to be like the overcrowded boatloads of ME and Africa refugees hitting the shores of Europe - all men of fighting age.

https://tinyurl.com/zt4hn7vu

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (bDqIh)

305 publius noted this last night btw:

"Oh, fun fact: Taliban now controls more of Afghanistan than they did back in 2001 before we invaded"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (2CptV)

306 I hope if we've learned a single lesson from the conflict here it is that you do NOT win wars by bribing your enemy to like you.

Any future conflict, presuming we get rid of the cabal running our country, should be focused on destroying the infrastructure of our enemies and let them focus on rebuilding, later, instead of threatening us.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (DpkTQ)

307 So would any of this have been different had Al Gore been elected president?

That's the final shred of consolation, now being torn away. For years now, serious people on the right have said "Yes, Bush was terrible, I see that now. But what choice did I have? If we hadn't voted for Bush, we would have gotten Al Gore." Now not even the lesser of two evils excuse can stand between us and utter failure.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (DWDek)

308 And as much as I loath DoD for their obsequious liberal political nature which helped lead to this, there were people inside DoD who advised this was the wrong path to take and would lead to this disastrous outcome. Those people were promptly ignored by what passes for "leadership". In fact the people in charge actually went further and said this outcome was "impossible". I only know this because people inside DoD told me.I dare the media to actually dig down and do their fucking job.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:41 AM (sOXXq)
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The media *are* doing their job. Their job is to act as the propaganda organs of the State/Party Complex, and they do so with aplomb.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (3p5uk)

309 Note, also, the studied silence of the Bushes and Cheneys, who have yet to open their whore mouths about this debacle.

--

Especially Bush. But I thought Cheney opened her maw and belched out her blind hatred and derision for Trump as a response to this disaster.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (O+I8R)

310 Republicans when a judge rules against them: Awww, gee whiz, i guess we have to comply.

Texas Democrats when the supreme court rules against them: LOL! GFY!

Meanwhile, local officials from the Dallas Independent School District and City of San Antonio and Bexar County have said that they plan to continue with mask mandates, reported the Texas Tribune.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (w/oaB)

311 Someone wrote that and was being serious?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Probably me, about 14 years ago

Posted by: A Miklosian Change Agent Buck is a Financial Paradigm Shifter at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (QzkSJ)

312 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3D/fK)

Yup. I'm surprised he didn't throw in a little TQL too.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (K8LFj)

313 294 Hey Dummy JJ Sefton, the Afghan army had no air cover so obviously they gave up their towns. It was either that or be killed. Which would you choose, genius?
Posted by: Big Pete at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (acl3b)

Reread what you wrote. Is it really as much as slam as you think?

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (mbFEM)

314 Everybody's safe at the airport!...encircled by the Taliban.

If anyone believes that they should be put on a plane to Kabul.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (S1hrL)

315 It is his tongue in cheek poke at buzzwords and tricky phrases used at the time in the military.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3D/fK)
++++
PHEW

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (3p5uk)

316 We will launch a barrage of tweets at them!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 07:40 AM (/U27+)

Wait till the Taliban finds out Europe is laughing at them!

Rue. The. Day.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (49Exr)

317 I bopped over to CDR Salamanders site and got a laugh from his brag sheet:

PROACTIVELY FROM THE SEA; AN AGENT OF CHANGE LEVERAGING THE LITTORAL BEST PRACTICES FOR A PARADIGM BREAKING SIX-SIGMA BEST BUSINESS CASE TO SYNERGIZE A CONSISTENT DESIGN IN THE GLOBAL COMMONS, RIGHTSIZING THE CORE VALUES SUPPORTING OUR MISSION STATEMENT VIA THE 5-VECTOR MODEL THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at August 16, 2021 07:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

BINGO!!

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (8D42x)

318 >>The tv shows swarms of men trying to get on airplanes in Afghanistan. Are they planning to leave all the women and children behind and just rescue themselves?

Yes. Just like all the refugees landing in Europe in recent years - hardly any women and children.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (bDqIh)

319 The tv shows swarms of men trying to get on airplanes in Afghanistan. Are they planning to leave all the women and children behind and just rescue themselves?

Most "refugees" we get are fighting age men.

Odd that no?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (DpkTQ)

320 Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (bDqIh)

I suspect the Taliban are fine with the military age men leaving (they'd just execute them anyway). The only folks of value to them are women and children.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (K8LFj)

321 China's up next in the graveyard of empires.

**

China doesn't give a sh*t about ROE, atrocities, world opinion, or the environment.

They're going to strip mine that place and sell the electric cars to us, and we're going to pretend it's not happening that way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (2CptV)

322 It was either that or be killed. Which would you choose, genius?
Posted by: Big Pete at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (acl3b)

Wait....so ground warfare isn't a thing outside of the Taliban? I mean, they didn't have any training or weaponry available to put up a ground game?

You're an idiot.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (Zz0t1)

323 Yes. Just like all the refugees landing in Europe in recent years - hardly any women and children.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (bDqIh)
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Yeah. There's a word for that. That word is "invasion."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (3p5uk)

324 Since Islam is polygamous, the victors in the Taliban will likely just, uh, "marry" the women they are capturing now - just like ISIS did.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (DpkTQ)

325 It is good that we are getting out of Afghanistan, although Biden's handlers have disastrously bungled the withdrawal, with consequences we will no doubt be suffering in the coming months, but State and Defense Department wonks should have a steady and sober regard for the fact that the jihad has not ended, and that jihadis will continue to come after the United States and American citizens.

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Thank goodness that the borders of Biden's America aren't wide open then.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at August 16, 2021 07:48 AM (cUUIs)

326
I pointed out once during a class when he started caterwauling about it that we *have* exactly that system now and the foreign aid complex - both cash and in-kind - only exacerbates the underlying problems by propping up the warlords and thieves who cause famines in the first place. The class derailed from that point forward and the prof asked me to stop needling him or we'd never get on track per the syllabus.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (3p5uk)

LOL!

How DARE you put up a debate! We've got a SCHEDULE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (Zz0t1)

327 Got the Honeymooners reference right out of the gate.
Remember it as Ralph teaching Norton, though.
And then as Norton takes awhile wagging the club behind the ball and shrugging his shoulders...
"Will you come on!!"
Posted by: TeeJ at August 16, 2021 07:19 AM

It was Norton teaching Ralph, who had bragged to his boss that he was an expert golfer and got roped into a game with him.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (G/mW5)

328 "you do NOT win wars by bribing your enemy to like you."

If you'll sell those guys out for money, you'll sell me out too.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (49Exr)

329 The media *are* doing their job. Their job is to act as the propaganda organs of the State/Party Complex, and they do so with aplomb.

**

(photo of Michael Obama holding up piece of cardboard that says BRING BACK OUR SQUIRRELS)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Afghanistan's the same as Biden increasing insulin costs because Trump did it at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (2CptV)

330 What is taking NPR so long?

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

331 303 Strangely many in the Jewish community, the JTA in particular, and very favorably disposed to CRT and are stating that a ban on CRT will preclude teaching the Holocaust. The reading also refers to Americans as allergic to restrictions on free speech, and lauds Europe:
https://tinyurl.com/4amfkvad

The Union for Reform Judaism, out largest "branch", remain all in on Equity and just completed their offering of an equity and inclusion training session. They never stop to think about other groups (religious and ethnic minorities, like Muslims, Hindu and Chinese) that are far from inclusive.
Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (ONvIw)

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They are either afraid that the black dominated inner city schools, that already barely teach anything, will start actively teaching that the Holocaust was fake, or that Fundamentalist Christians whom dangerously take the side of Israel on every issue including its value as a Jewish state in the aftermath of the Holocaust are going to suddenly start teaching that it was fake.

I'm not sure which fantasy is more deranged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

332 "Oh, fun fact: Taliban now controls more of Afghanistan than they did back in 2001 before we invaded"

They have a shitload more of our weapons now. A pleasure doing business with them!

Posted by: The CIA at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (l0Lgi)

333 " Hello...ball!"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (3D/fK)

334 We have the perfect military for Preezy Booger-Eater...

Enjoy the Silly Generals!
The Silly Generals - an elite squad of master brownnosers incompetent in the Art of War, but -
experts in The Great Twitter War 0f 2021 Against Meanie Tucker Carlson Who Said Some Really Rude Things About the Silly Generals, and Pastmasters in Attacking Their Own Troops and Most of the American Citizenry Under The Racist Principles of Critical Race Theory.

The Silly Generals are now embarking on perhaps the most important mission of their Careers - Loading up the Us Military with mentally unstable and medically fragile trannies.

The Silly Generals are aided by their great allies the Silly Admirals!
Together they will conquer the Greatest Enemy of the American People and that is...The American People and Their American Traditions.

THE SILLY GENERALS -
Political Whore Losing Wars!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (5NkmN)

335 Yeah. There's a word for that. That word is "invasion."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:47 AM (3p5uk)

As the tallies stated, there will be enough fighter that they won't need tanks to conquer.

Obama will be very approving. The migration was hardly spontaneous, nor was the hatred of those Easter Europeans who would not allow migration.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (ONvIw)

336 308 The media *are* doing their job. Their job is to act as the propaganda organs of the State/Party Complex, and they do so with aplomb.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:45 AM (3p5uk)

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Objection:

I think the media is really bad at this. They're just the loudest voice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)

337 China has no concern for winning hearts and minds, manipulating the heroin trade (except to facilitate its export to the US), or lifting up women. They will get along just fine with Afghanistan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (w/oaB)

338 Ahem.

The Silly Generals-
Political Whores Losin' Wars!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (5NkmN)

339 They have a shitload more of our weapons now. A pleasure doing business with them!

Including F-16 flight simulators, Sidewinder missiles, drones, and dozens of Blackhawk helicopters, among other things.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (6XLoz)

340 "you do NOT win wars by bribing your enemy to like you."

You bribe your enemies' leaders. And they love us.

Posted by: China at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (l0Lgi)

341 @203

>> PARADIGM BREAKING SIX-SIGMA BEST BUSINESS CASE...

I stopped reading there, everyone knows that if you're not using Lean Six-Sigma practices, you're not really serious about synergizing.

Six-Sigma?

Pffftt!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (jl3E5)

342 We have 100 million+ more boy than girl.

Kindly request war now please

(engrish is good, rearned in Carifonia University)

Posted by: The Art of War, as interpreted by Son Miklos-Tzu at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (QzkSJ)

343 Russian embassy in Kabul says that Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and some money had to left behind because it wouldn't fit in.

Earlier former Afghan FM said that Moheb (former NSA) fled with SUVs full of dollars.

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/
1427249585890729988
[Andy: FM = Foreign Minister i.e. sec. of state; Oman denies Ghani is there; yesterday the tweet source said he'd fled to the UAE]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (UHVv4)

344 339 They have a shitload more of our weapons now. A pleasure doing business with them!

Including F-16 flight simulators, Sidewinder missiles, drones, and dozens of Blackhawk helicopters, among other things.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (6XLoz)

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Sounds like the ending to Battlefield Earth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

345 Just saw the video of all the people on the runway/taxiway in front of a C-17. Just insane.
Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:42 AM (K8LFj)

Sigh. Saigon all over again.
But I bet they used the right pronouns in their transmissions

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (GPwVZ)

346 Posted by: Big Pete at August 16, 2021 07:43 AM (acl3b)

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And Douchebag is out of the blocks strongly, aiming for the first turn! Douchebag takes the lead, and heads into the far stretch....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (ZzmRV)

347 Haiti and Afghanistan tied for first place in the saddest places on earth to live.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (S1hrL)

348 Does anybody from the Left actually believe that the Taliban wants a seat at the table?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (3D/fK)

349 259 Hadrian the Seventh, when I saw your name, my first thought was about Neo in the Matrix. You know, he's the sixth or such Neo.

*note to self: more history, less TV*

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (YiYTU)

350 126 Anyone that y'all know that voted for Biden needs to be confronted. They are responsible for giving us this unmitigated disaster. We need to stop being silent.

This. Today. Do it now before the commie media creates a distraction for the easily distracted

Posted by: Fatass Barr, Deep State Stooge at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (YTBIQ)

351 348 Does anybody from the Left actually believe that the Taliban wants a seat at the table?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (3D/fK)

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"We'll take the seat as long as you let us rape little boys and throw acid in the faces of little girls who learn to read."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

352 Weird, ain't it?
How many more wolves out there in sheep's clothing?

https://gab.com/MarkCollett/posts/106764929353726799

The very same people who wanted minorities to rule Western countries when whites were the majority have suddenly changed their mind on minority rule now whites have finally reached minority status!

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (j4AEt)

353 I have a question:
The tv shows swarms of men trying to get on airplanes in Afghanistan. Are they planning to leave all the women and children behind and just rescue themselves?
Posted by: Chillin the most at August 16, 2021 07:44 AM (lonOK)

Yes. Then once here bring over every member of their family, extended family and twice removed family, even if they are not related. Or just marry their sisters and run for Congress as a democrat.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (R/m4+)

354 Saint of the Day: (1)

St. Roch, (aka Rocco) was born in Montpellier, France, the son of the city's governor. He was born with a red cross on his chest, a sign that the Virgin Mary answered his mother's prayer to heal her barrenness. His parents died when he was twenty, after which he gave his wealth to the poor and handed the government of the city over to his uncle. Free from earthly cares, he set off as a pilgrim for Italy. When he came upon a town badly struck by the plague, he sojourned there to help the sick. He cured many people by making the Sign of the Cross over them. When he reached Piacenza he himself contracted the disease in his leg, and awaited death in a remote forest. A count's hunting dog found and befriended him, brought him food, and licked his wounds. The count, who followed his dog one day, discovered the saint and aided him in his recovery. St. Roch's health was restored, after which he returned to his native Montpellier. He refused to disclose his identity to the townspeople so that he could remain poor and unknown.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (mD/uy)

355 Woukd not be surprised if Jill Biden has some type of ' issue' that damages her ability to handle her beloved vegetable of a man. Soon.
Biden had a life cycle. He was/ is the face of the successful election steal. And the flooding of the USA a million+ ignorant, dependent DemCommunist voters -- not to mention the logarithmic voting effect of their future progeny. The Afghanistan disaster is a designed, convenient way of stoking and emboldening America 's terrorist enemies. Biden stoked Pandemic porn. Bigly. And so on.
Obama's ego , incompetence, and visceral hate for America will sooner than later see the need for a new, improved Politburo front person.
IOW The worst is yet to come.
Barry and his backers/ Handlers are The American Taliban.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (sSxsQ)

356 Sounds like the ending to Battlefield Earth.

It actually does, except without the green tint and 45 degree camera angles.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (6XLoz)

357 Objection:

I think the media is really bad at this. They're just the loudest voice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)
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Fair objection. We've always sucked at propaganda. It's a cultural weakness. But they are doing the job nonetheless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (3p5uk)

358 Saint of the Day (2)

This secrecy aroused suspicion that he might be a spy, and he was cast into prison by his own uncle, who did not recognize him. St. Roch died in prison five years later. His identity was then discovered by the red cross birthmark on his chest. At his funeral, many miracles attested to his sanctity, and a church was erected for his veneration. St. Roch is the patron saint of dogs, surgeons, invalids, bachelors, and against plague and pestilence. His feast day is August 16th.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2021 07:54 AM (mD/uy)

359 "the Afghan army had no air cover so obviously they gave up their towns."

Air cover against what? Talban MIGs?

The Afghans gave up because they saw the Americans give up. I don't blame them for that.

In fact, there is reasonable speculation that America took a dive. That for whatever reason, the Establishment wants the Taliban back in power.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:54 AM (49Exr)

360 They have a shitload more of our weapons now. A pleasure doing business with them!

Including F-16 flight simulators, Sidewinder missiles, drones, and dozens of Blackhawk helicopters, among other things.
Posted by: Ian S.

Goat fuckers never concern themselves with learning to land.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 07:54 AM (OCTRt)

361 I think God is offended that he created such a thing as the human brain that's capable of amazing things and knows Jen Rubin has one.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:54 AM (Zz0t1)

362 Everything the Left touches turns to shite. And so the beat -- or beat-down -- goes on and will go on until we call out, confront and rout the Left from every corner of our culture.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (H8QX8)

363 Donald Trump has tweeted that Joe Biden was not trusted by Barack Obama, claiming that Obama used to say: 'if you wanted to see something really screwed up, give it to Joe Biden to do.' Oct 2020

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (RHGPo)

364 357 Fair objection. We've always sucked at propaganda. It's a cultural weakness. But they are doing the job nonetheless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:53 AM (3p5uk)

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If they were good at propaganda, they wouldn't have needed to cheat so much in 2020. I do wonder if the media has sold itself on the idea that the 2020 election was the cleanest ever, and they're just doubling down because they think their Trump-era tactics actually worked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (LvTSG)

365
in islam, it is women and children last

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (bTQ72)

366 And where is so-called quote-unquote "president" Joey Soft-Serve Custard? Why, he's on vacation at Camp David, totally incommunicado. Not to worry, though. We're told he plans on maybe addressing the nation in the "next few days" ("First, address the nation. 'Hello, nation!'").

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"My fellow Communists, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Florida, Texas, and Arizona forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Posted by: ShainS at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (cUUIs)

367 THE SILLY GENERALS -

But my pants were perfectly creased

Posted by: Gen. "Miklos " McLellan, the Napoleon in Blue at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (QzkSJ)

368 or that Fundamentalist Christians whom dangerously take the side of Israel on every issue

There is a segment of Judaism that views Fundamentalist Christians that merely want to peacefully evangelize to Jews as far more dangerous then Islamists. Which is beyond weird.

I remember this came out in the 2016 election - Trump got endorsed by a preacher that tried to evangelize to Jews and the FNM treated it like a crime against humanity.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (DpkTQ)

369 I do hope we're able to rescue those tens of thousands of refugees the Taliban have curiously allowed to make their way out to the airport. It's nice of them to wait until we're finished, too!

Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (9Fwwf)

370 Note, also, the studied silence of the Bushes and Cheneys, who have yet to open their whore mouths about this debacle.

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Especially Bush. But I thought Cheney opened her maw and belched out her blind hatred and derision for Trump as a response to this disaster.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (O+I8R)

Any words of wisdom from Colon Bowel?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (y7DUB)

371 The Scottish lost the Battle of Falkirk because they didn't have air cover.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

372 Think about. 20 years and all those good men. All those lives ruined. We now have the Taliban, AQ and Iranian terrorists forming up in a single country and coordinating their attacks on the West. There are a lot of people at State, CIA and DOD, who if they had an ounce of integrity should be committing sepeku.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (sOXXq)

373 those little Afghani girls and boys can take comfort in their rape:
It will serve as a reminder to the American left to donate to the Democrats and prevent theocracy from taking over here.

And at the end of the day, isn't that what's important?
That wine moms shouldn't have to worry about their daughters suffering a "burden" in their lives with a baby due to their promiscuous youth?

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (jIL4c)

374 Taliban sources saying that an agreement has been reached between US and Taliban, after which US forces have taken control of the security of Kabul Airport and Taliban won't enter the airport until the decided deadline.

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Victory for the Biden "administration!" - CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS

Either that, or the Taliban is currently weighing if it's more important to humiliate America and continue taking over the airport.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (O+I8R)

375 New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres beg the Taliban to protect women's human rights as China and Russia prepare to formally accept militants' rule of Afghanistan

see other countries have lefty idiots who aparently know nothing of koran

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (bTQ72)

376 Joe's Adderall must be warming up in the bullpen

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (RHGPo)

377 The afghan government gave up because the Taliban is the strong horse again and the US the weak horse.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (DpkTQ)

378 Think your foodstuffs are expensive now? "EBT" payments for the last several decades have caused grocery prices to skyrocket. Biden-Harris junta just goosed them by 25% starting this fall.

You get one guess who they will cut off last, and cut off first when it comes to foreign bondholder interest payments, "social security", and millions of unemployed rioters.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (zNjsG)

379
RE: Nancy Pelosi's stupidity. Don't forget she was a big fan of Jim Jones and his People's Temple back in the day... never underestimate her ability to be ridiculous.
Posted by: AmericanHawkman

The murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk just nine days later boosted Diane Feinstein into public prominence as she became acting mayor of San Francisco.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (+2sc/)

380 But you go get those white terrorists, Milley. The Taliban and AQ, not so much. Amirite?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (sOXXq)

381 Russian embassy in Kabul says that Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and some money had to left behind because it wouldn't fit in. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 07:51 AM (UHVv4)
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When we invaded North Africa during WWII, no one was sure as to whether or not we would make progress (let alone win). We did something interesting with regard to war money. Money in-theater was different and distinct from money at home and in banks around the world. The normal money had a green seal printed on it, and the theater money had a yellow seal. If we lost and had to withdraw from the theater (or were massacred), the government back home could repudiate the theater money and print new money based on the reserves that the repudiation freed up.

That was a very good idea, and one we've never used since. This kind of shit would be a lot harder if "red seal" money was suddenly repudiated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (3p5uk)

382 The only partial mitigation of all this - the Taliban is actually less of a threat now to America then the American government is.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (DpkTQ)

383 314 Everybody's safe at the airport!...encircled by the Taliban.

If anyone believes that they should be put on a plane to Kabul.
Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (S1hrL)

Overheard at Kabul Airport:

"Oh shit, CNN on every TV screen. I'd rather be with the Taliban."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

384 " It's nice of them to wait until we're finished, too!"

I'm guessing this gets wrapped up right around September 11th.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (3D/fK)

385 I'm not sure which fantasy is more deranged.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

Both are ill conceived. Even in my school district, the Holocaust is barely discussed at all, it was missing from my kids' HS History books from 1996-2002, and this was while the district was about 30% Jewish. I'm not sure where all this banning is taking place as there is no point in banning something you have already stopped teaching.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (ONvIw)

386 Amahd Shah Masoud, alas murdered by bin Ladin The Day Before.

Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (0OP+5)

387 CNN female US reporter live from Kabul is wearing a head-covering. That's gotta hurt.

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (AMIL/)

388 There are a lot of people at State, CIA and DOD, who if they had an ounce of integrity should be committing sepeku.

And yet we haven't lost a single one!

Posted by: State, CIA, and DOD at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (9Fwwf)

389 "those little Afghani girls and boys can take comfort in their rape: It will serve as a reminder to the American left to donate to the Democrats and prevent theocracy from taking over here."

Moloch demanded a mass sacrifice.

To make up Epstein's shortfall.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:58 AM (49Exr)

390 The Taliban are being told what to do by China. China has no problems removing people that they don't like and the Taliban know that. They'd rather get rich and have a country and sex slaves rather than piss off the Chinese and be made to disappear. The Chinese won't be hemmed in by ROE and they want Afghan rare earth minerals.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (K8LFj)

391 379 The murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk just nine days later boosted Diane Feinstein into public prominence as she became acting mayor of San Francisco.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (+2sc/)

Jackie Speier was there and got shot. Now she's forever a leftist congress bint.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (s2VJv)

392 The people of Afghanistan are Afghans. The currency of Afghanistan is the Afghani.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (3p5uk)

393 That was a very good idea, and one we've never used since. This kind of shit would be a lot harder if "red seal" money was suddenly repudiated.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (3p5uk)

Graft (both internal and external) is the reason we no longer do this!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (hOUT3)

394 They'd be horrified at any proposal that demanded that they centrally manage and control every element of the food chain globally, yet they are certain they can do it to the economy, for example.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 07:15 AM (3p5uk)

You misspelled orgasmic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (T7iTv)

395 Wanna know how you can tell 9/11 was a Deep State op? In 2001, we had to go to Afghanistan because the Taliban did 9/11. Now we have to stay in Afghanistan because Women's Rights and LGBTQP Rights.
9/11 was a controlled demolition for a police state at home, a NeoCon agenda abroad, and to deconstruct and transform the population of America.
2020 elections were rigged
Our government and Intel agencies run terror operations against America and Americans.
It's ok to admit these truths and admit you made a mistake in the past.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (j4AEt)

396 "CNN female US reporter live from Kabul is wearing a head-covering. That's gotta hurt."

She's CIA, she'll be fine. Probably gave the Talis satellite imagery of Afgan Patrols.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (49Exr)

397 "That's gotta hurt."

I think they are adjustable.

For comfort.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (3D/fK)

398 CNN has a woman reporter embedded with the Taliban as it runs roughshod over each city. She's worried about how they'll be in the #MeToo world.

I'm going to admit, I'm absolutely shocked she hasn't been raped, impregnated and married off to the scum yet.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)

399 I blame George Washington. He should have set up stricter limitations on federal power. And banned critical race theory.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (w/oaB)

400 Ha, ha. Here's the video of the dick waving to the camera I referenced earlier!
https://twitter.com/MalikAliiRaza/status/
1427201642185871362

Turn your sound down or mute -- it's pretty loud (on my laptop at least).

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (UHVv4)

401 Graft (both internal and external) is the reason we no longer do this!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (hOUT3)
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Yup. Well, sort of yup. There's a lot of this that isn't even graft, it's just the deliberate financing of our enemies by our government because our government hates us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (3p5uk)

402
The quote about Uncle Joe goes like this, IIRC:

"Never underestimate the ability of Joe to fuck things up." -- Barky Obama.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (Mzdiz)

403 'beg the Taliban'.

Think on that for a moment. We have imbeciles in leadership positions all over. We are no better than in the ancient times where dull, syphilitic kings and queens, protected by the King's Guard, run roughshod over their subjects without a thought or care.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (mD/uy)

404 Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2021 07:54 AM (mD/uy)

Thanks; That's very interesting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (ai5jE)

405 Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be ascribed to incompetence AND malice.

Posted by: Emmie at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (a20qm)

406 CNN female US reporter live from Kabul is wearing a head-covering. That's gotta hurt.

She should be required to wear a full bag with the eye-slit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (HaL55)

407 It's spelled "seppuku"

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 08:01 AM (RHGPo)

408 Biden has been in govt so long that he shares some of the blame for Saigon too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (UuD2k)

409 I'm going to admit, I'm absolutely shocked she hasn't been raped, impregnated and married off to the scum yet.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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She'll be a candidate for a Darwin Award soon enough.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (ZIoLS)

410 345 Just saw the video of all the people on the runway/taxiway in front of a C-17. Just insane.
Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 07:42 AM (K8LFj)

Sigh. Saigon all over again.
But I bet they used the right pronouns in their transmissions

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 07:52 AM (GPwVZ)
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Out: "Women and children first!"
In: "Transwomen and pedophiles first!"

Posted by: ShainS at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (cUUIs)

411 358 Thank you for that, Tonypete.

Today is also St. Joachim's feast day on the old calendar. Father of the new Eve, the second Eve, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Three cheers for solid, sane people in Heaven who care about us...and the mess we're in.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (YiYTU)

412 The murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk just nine days later boosted Diane Feinstein into public prominence as she became acting mayor of San Francisco.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 07:57 AM (+2sc/)

Jackie Speier was there and got shot. Now she's forever a leftist congress bint.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (s2VJv)
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You're conflating Moscone/Milk with Leo Ryan, murdered by the People's Temple.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (LBiAf)

413 Think about. 20 years and all those good men. All those lives ruined. We now have the Taliban, AQ and Iranian terrorists forming up in a single country and coordinating their attacks on the West. There are a lot of people at State, CIA and DOD, who if they had an ounce of integrity should be committing sepeku.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (sOXXq)

Exactly. Integrity is a foreign country these days and all's well in America.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (S1hrL)

414 Jen Rubin is an embarrassment. An embarrassment to her country, her culture, her sex and her species.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (3p5uk)

415 Lol. Protect women's rights? This shows you just how exceedingly ignorant these so-called leaders are to begin with. Where the fuck have these people been for the last 20 years? Do they really believe this is a negotiation? I'm laughing my ass off at their ignorance. These people aren't leaders. They are a fucking clown car of buffoons poking each other in the eyes and lighting themselves on fire. They just took 12 year olds at war brides, that is for all you asshole "leaders", sex slaves. Got it? But yeah, they are going to respect women's rights, you fucking twits.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (sOXXq)

416 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 07:55 AM (LvTSG)

They are good enough at propaganda that people like Crenshaw, says the election was not stolen. Unless he's merely a propagandist (and I suspect he is).

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (ONvIw)

417 I knew my opposition had been vindicated in 2007 when Bush was exhorting us to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here" and he then threw the border wide open.
_____________

And legally imported millions more muslims here, and repeatedly insisted -- against all the evidence right in front of his own eyes -- that "islam is a religion of peace."

So much of what is happening now is a result of too many Americans' refusal to admit the truth that islam is a dangerous and destructive ideology that is simply incompatible with western civilization.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 16, 2021 08:04 AM (k4dH2)

418 NN female US reporter live from Kabul is wearing a head-covering. That's gotta hurt.

she still have her clitorus? islam do not like womens to keep theirs

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 16, 2021 08:04 AM (bTQ72)

419
THE SILLY GENERALS -

We Like Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Too!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 08:04 AM (5NkmN)

420 I nominate Nancy Pelosi to enter into face-to-face discussions with the Taliban concerning women's rights in Afghanistan.

All meetings to take place in Kabul.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (3D/fK)

421 408 Biden has been in govt so long that he shares some of the blame for Saigon too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 16, 2021 08:02 AM (UuD2k)

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My first Econ 101 paper in 1979 was about the long-term perils of the THEN national debt and deficits -- which now would be a rounding error.

And I got a C-minus ... so Taliban Joe gets some of the blame for that as well.

Posted by: ShainS at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (cUUIs)

422 It wasn't just Afghanistan. We had troops in 160 countries trying to win hearts and minds and train their military to hold back Islam. It has been an unmitigated failure all of the way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (w/oaB)

423
They are good enough at propaganda that people like Crenshaw, says the election was not stolen. Unless he's merely a propagandist (and I suspect he is).
Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (ONvIw)

I'm debating sending him an email with the simple body of:

Dear Mr. Crenshaw,

What happened to you, man? I mean, seriously?

Signed,

Disappointed

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

424 414 Jen Rubin is an embarrassment. An embarrassment to her country, her culture, her sex and her species.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (3p5uk

I'm sure she is a source pride to her fellow libs who worship globalism and Obama.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (ONvIw)

425 >>New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres beg the Taliban to protect women's human rights

I can't even. And I saw that Jacinda Arden is another World Economic Fund Fellow, just like Dan Crenshaw and Buttiegeig.

DAve Reboi makes a good point re: worrying about Afghans safety now:

I'm finding it really hard to stomach the great concern for Afghan refugees today from people who couldn't be bothered to care about suicidal ROE and Green-on-Blue attacks for almost two decades.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (bDqIh)

426 423 Dear Mr. Crenshaw,

What happened to you, man? I mean, seriously?

Signed,

Disappointed
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

==========

"I got rich, bitch!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

427 I'm sure she is a source pride to her fellow libs who worship globalism and Obama.
Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (ONvIw)
++++
Sure. They're all embarrassments to their species, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 08:06 AM (3p5uk)

428 Dear Mr. Crenshaw,

What happened to you, man? I mean, seriously?

Signed,

Disappointed
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Probably got his ass on the payroll. Where did the Taliban get the money to pay off warlords to surrender? Same place that's money laundering to politicians here who have surrendered their constituents, too.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:06 AM (ONvIw)

429 "she still have her clitorus? islam do not like womens to keep theirs"

Of course you can keep it.

*Hands her a baggie*

Posted by: The Taliban at August 16, 2021 08:06 AM (3D/fK)

430 Does the media have staff meetings discussing how to pin the blame on Trump while praising Dying Brain for his brilliance.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:07 AM (cSyAR)

431 Even my 3 year old understands that you can't negotiate with islamists. You can't separate the people from the religion. They are not people just like us with the same dreams and desires. They want us conquered and subjugated. Full stop. It is baked into the fabric of Islam, and Islam is their life.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:07 AM (w/oaB)

432
She's CIA, she'll be fine. Probably gave the Talis satellite imagery of Afgan Patrols.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 07:59 AM (49Exr)

I agree with this.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:07 AM (ONvIw)

433 Good to know: We have 85 days left in the period where we could possibly lose Kabul.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (XHhHI)

434 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2021 08:03 AM (3p5uk)

True, but the big point is that Jen Rubin doesn't GAF about any of that. They never do.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (S1hrL)

435 Oh, it's not so bad. We deserve it anyway. Besides, the last four years of Trump were psychologically "unbearable."

Channeling my progressive brother.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (H8QX8)

436 BTW, Justin POS has abandoned in Kabul 100 Nepalese i.e. Gurkhas that were hired to protect the Canadian embassy.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (UHVv4)

437 >> Jacinda Arden

She's hung like a horse. That's a man, baby.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=b7YiFQFk6fc

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (Mzdiz)

438 Does the media have staff meetings discussing how to pin the blame on Trump while praising Dying Brain for his brilliance.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:07 AM (cSyAR)

I'm ON VACATION!!!!

- PsJen PsAki

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

439 NYTimes:
In late March, [Lloyd] Austin and [Mark] Milley made a last-ditch effort with the president by forecasting dire outcomes in which the Afghan military folded in an aggressive advance by the Taliban. They drew comparisons to how the Iraqi military was overrun by the Islamic State in 2014 after U.S. combat troops left Iraq, prompting Obama to send U.S. forces back.

"We've seen this movie before," Austin told Biden, according to officials with knowledge of the meetings.

But the president was unmoved. If the Afghan government could not hold off the Taliban now, aides said he asked, when would they be able to? None of the Pentagon officials could answer the question.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (RHGPo)

440 Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (bDqIh)

He's a smart guy.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (ONvIw)

441 "Remember, nobody knew where the hell Obama was on the night of Benghazi either."

Posted by: As Seen On The Internet at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (pbStR)

442 "Even my 3 year old understands that you can't negotiate with islamists. You can't separate the people from the religion. They are not people just like us with the same dreams and desires. They want us conquered and subjugated. Full stop. It is baked into the fabric of Islam, and Islam is their life."

We talking about the Taliban...

Or Palestinians?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (3D/fK)

443 She's hung like a horse. That's a man, baby.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=b7YiFQFk6fc
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (Mzdiz)

When you're not even trying to hide it........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

444 431 Even my 3 year old understands that you can't negotiate with islamists. You can't separate the people from the religion. They are not people just like us with the same dreams and desires. They want us conquered and subjugated. Full stop. It is baked into the fabric of Islam, and Islam is their life.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:07 AM (w/oaB)

Isn't this really the story of Leftists?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (s2VJv)

445 I can't even. And I saw that Jacinda Arden is another World Economic Fund Fellow, just like Dan Crenshaw and Buttiegeig.

I have never gotten any Big Money money.

Not sure if that is a success or failure.

Posted by: Miklos, and xxThe World Wondersxx at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (QzkSJ)

446 I'm guessing Biden spent more time on the phone bribing counties in Florida to defy DeSantis than he did dealing with the Afghanistan problem.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (H8QX8)

447
We talking about the Taliban...

Or Palestinians?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (3D/fK)

Or the adherents at the mosque near you?

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:09 AM (ONvIw)

448 "Refugees", certainly there are some legitimate applicants. Do I care anymore?

What you will be made to care about: How many will be unlawful enemy combatants?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (zNjsG)

449 How to fire a Hellfire from a simulator 101.

Posted by: klaftern at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (r4sI4)

450
Romans trounced at Canae?

No air cover!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (+2sc/)

451 I was thinking last night. Based on the idea that Obama tried to force America to deal with the rest of the world more as equals.

We are assuming that the child regime didn't want to leave the rest of the world our military technology.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (XHhHI)

452 Be grateful your family is struggling under a man you are told is good instead of your family thriving under a man you are told is bad.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (N39Ws)

453 Someone's plan is all coming together.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (qH4Vk)

454 But the president was unmoved.

"Sir, blink if you can hear us!"

Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (SwCv8)

455 Romans trounced at Canae?

No air cover!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (+2sc/)

Los Angeles Lakers suffer humiliating first round defeat.

No Air Cover!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

456 436 BTW, Justin POS has abandoned in Kabul 100 Nepalese i.e. Gurkhas that were hired to protect the Canadian embassy.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (UHVv4)

Doing the jobs that the Canadian military won't do?

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (ONvIw)

457 Someone's plan is all coming together.
Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (qH4Vk)

Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

458 What happened to you, man? I mean, seriously?

Be can't get re-elected to "Fight for You" (tm) without that corporate graft. And the corporations don't want what you want.

Re elect me to fight for you, but I can't fight for you now because my corporate donors will dry up, but I promise, once re elected I will fight for you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (w/oaB)

459 I'm shocked - shocked! - to discover that a culture that hasn't even remotely resembled a modern western society for nearly 50 years (if at all, really) would so easily and gladly throw themselves over to stone-age tyranny and oppression despite it being in their DNA since time immemorial
---------

After the last 18 months I'm pretty sure Afghanistan isn't the only place that will gladly throw themselves over to stone age tyranny.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (nkobF)

460 Prez Capt. Pike.

Posted by: klaftern at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (r4sI4)

461 Huh? You cannot fight a war without air cover?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (xopIz)

462 We've been patiently waiting.

Posted by: Gog and Magog at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (3C1R+)

463 Lol. DoD trying to cover their asses by leaking its Puddin Heads fault. This is hilarious.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (sOXXq)

464
BTW, Justin POS has abandoned in Kabul 100 Nepalese i.e. Gurkhas that were hired to protect the Canadian embassy.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 08:08 AM (UHVv4)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

465 454 But the president was unmoved.

"Sir, blink if you can hear us!"
Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (SwCv

"Pfft."

- - Christopher Pike

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (s2VJv)

466 We are assuming that the child regime didn't want to leave the rest of the world our military technology.
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (XHhHI)

I don't assume that at all. I assume leaving them weaponry was always part of the plan. Trust the plan...to get us killed, but diversity and inclusion, yo.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:12 AM (ONvIw)

467 >> Jen Rubin is an embarrassment. An embarrassment to her country, her culture, her sex and her species.

Decades ago, after watching the lone "conservative" on tv news shows always be repellent, figured out that this was intention. Make the "conservative" so weak and unlikeable that it makes viewers disregard that side.

Jen Rubin is a placeholder and a FU to any WashPost conservative who would want a valid conservative providing analysis and opinions on the latest topics in the WashPost. She's not just an awful, cartoonish not conservative aleged "conservative" voice at the paper there to turn off anyone who might be open to hearing a non-progressive voice, but she's taking the place of someone who could be more effective.

Pretty sure she's meant to annoy and baffle people daily.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:13 AM (bDqIh)

468 The Gurkhas will fight to the death.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 16, 2021 08:13 AM (xopIz)

469 idk, i like the idea of killing them there. it's the "rebuild" thing that needs to stop. we need to convince the world that if you fuck with us, you get dead, then have to pick up the pieces. a la Sulemani...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x)
___________

Yeah, I always thought Colon Powell's "you break it, you bought it" nonsense was idiotic. It should be "you attack us, we annihilate you, and whatever happens in your shithole after that is your problem."

Instead we make weasel-y, "limited strikes" on the enemies who attacked us, then pour trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives into trying to rebuild their backwards countries into something better for them -- only to watch shit like what's happening now, decades and trillions of dollars later. F*ck that.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 16, 2021 08:13 AM (k4dH2)

470 Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Soros has wings?

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:13 AM (ONvIw)

471 374 Taliban sources saying that an agreement has been reached between US and Taliban, after which US forces have taken control of the security of Kabul Airport and Taliban won't enter the airport until the decided deadline.

Victory for the Biden "administration!" - CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS

Either that, or the Taliban is currently weighing if it's more important to humiliate America and continue taking over the airport.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:56 AM (O+I8R)

Joey has probably told the Taliban that if they kill Americans at the airport, intentionally or accidentally, bombers will hit Taliban camps hard. At this point, the Taliban has won - why take casualties by pissing-off Biden? They know he's unstable.

Also, military theory says it is good to leave your enemy an avenue of retreat. This often makes the enemy grunts less willing to fight when they are cornered.

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (AMIL/)

472 We are assuming that the child regime didn't want to leave the rest of the world our military technology.
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (XHhHI)

He landed one of our stealth drones in the iranian desert. He allowed one of our spy aircraft to be "forced down" by China.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (w/oaB)

473 OT but the smoke from forest fires is getting really bad here. I never get headaches but I have one today.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (cSyAR)

474 Someone's plan is all coming together.
Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2021 08:10 AM (qH4Vk)
---
I love it.

Posted by: Hannibal Smith at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (XHhHI)

475 Isn't this really the story of Leftists?

I have resolved to call all of these people who want to watch the world burn as"Sons of Cain". The parallels between the Cain and Abel, the conditions prior to The Great Deluge; the contests between the children of Seth and the children of Cain are just to well aligned to ignore.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (+LCoQ)

476 https://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (qH4Vk)

477 Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Satan can sit back on his recliner and watch and enjoy all this. He needn't lift a finger. Evil is rampant with near-total social approbation and (supposedly) good men are doing nothing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (H8QX8)

478 I'd like to know where all of these half-assed mountain-boy Taliban are getting all of this money to pay off military commanders to surrender their cities. What do they pay them with, goats?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (JTpIQ)

479 We have sold missile guidance systems to china and allowed PLA officers to hold research positions in our universities for decades.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (w/oaB)

480 THE SILLY GENERALS -

If You Don't Believe That A Man Can Be A Woman and A Woman Can Be a Man, Then You Haven't Seen My Wife!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (5NkmN)

481 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done

This is Biden's legacy forever

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

482 Just did a mini research of Jacina Adern... a Marxist, Mother, and Mormon, of all things.... this woman was a Marxist since the age of 17....

Posted by: kraken at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (6Je/Q)

483 It appears the White House is falling apart, with VP Harris refusing to do anything apart from Haiti, Jen Psaki taking a one-week "vacation," and Jill Biden refusing to allow Joe to return to the White House because he can project power from anywhere.

May God protect the United States. If China doesn't invade Taiwan in the coming weeks, which Xi has said he wants to do in the next 10 years, it would be close to a miracle.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

484 It's spelled "seppuku"
----------------------------------
I can never get those fucking numbers to add the fuck up right!!!

Posted by: joey biden at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (UHVv4)

485 What do they pay them with, goats?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 16, 2021 08:14 AM (JTpIQ)

Where do you think the pallets of cash went?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (w/oaB)

486 @benyt "Journalists are being left behind," @RatebNoori, who heads the US government station Radio Azadi in Kabul, told me

I'm sorry, it was wrong of me to laugh.

Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (l0Lgi)

487 One of my better friends is from Iraq.

He moved to Hungary because the Saddam dictatorship was unpleasant. Also, he married a Hungarian girl, who went on to win the Biggest State Prize as a painter.

At the pub, we have asked him some questions about Islam and the Koran.

"Stupid question! Only the Saudi Wahabis and the idiots in Iran say it!"

The World needs more beer (or wine) drinking Shia Baptists.

Posted by: Miklos, and so it is at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (QzkSJ)

488 Moloch demanded a mass sacrifice.

To make up Epstein's shortfall.

So, "The Cabin In The Woods" was a documentary?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (6XLoz)

489 Finally, we have a safe haven now

Posted by: Terrorists at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (uCLWI)

490 481 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done

This is Biden's legacy forever
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

==========

81 million votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:16 AM (LvTSG)

491 Disappointed
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)
--------

Dear Mr. Sponge...

I don't give a fuck about you and never did. Your letter has gone in the shredder without me reading it. If I need to piss later I might just do it on that.

PS Fuck you. PPS I'm gonna sleep like a baby tonight and ever night knowing how disappointed you are in me. PPPS Fuck you again

-Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R- Fuck You)

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2021 08:16 AM (nkobF)

492 THE SILLY GENERALS -

But, I Have More Medals Than You!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 08:16 AM (5NkmN)

493 I think it's way out there to think that Jacinta Arden is a man. I don't think she faked her pregnancy either. She's just another example of someone who left her religious roots (She was Mormon apparently) and went full blown leftist with leftism as their god.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (ai5jE)

494
Especially Bush. But I thought Cheney opened her maw and belched out her blind hatred and derision for Trump as a response to this disaster.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 16, 2021 07:46 AM (O+I8R)

It's blind hatred of Trump, and all that trumphitler bullshit, that has driven this country straight to hell. It's absolutely astonishing in its stupidity.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (ONvIw)

495 81 million votes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:16 AM (LvTSG)

. . . From just one xerox machine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (s2VJv)

496 483 It appears the White House is falling apart,

**
Can you imagine if they didn't have their Praetorian guard media working overtime on protection and propaganda?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (H8QX8)

497 The Afghan War had to end. Sure, the evacuation is an embarrassing clown show, but since we're led by a clownish ruling class, we're basically going to get nothing but clown shows from here on out. Might as well get used to it. Repeat after me: Diversity is Our Strength ... or at least it better be since it's pretty clear strategic foresight is not.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (dYe5S)

498 This wasn't the White Rage I was expecting.

Posted by: Gen. Mark Milley at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (XHhHI)

499 It's spelled "seppuku"
----------------------------------
I can never get those fucking numbers to add the fuck up right!!!
Posted by: joey biden

*considers*

Posted by: Dr. DOCTOR Acting President Jill Biden, but that Jarrett bitch would cut me at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (QzkSJ)

500 475 So McCain? ________ McCain.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (YiYTU)

501 Let Sigh-gones be Sigh-gones.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (XHhHI)

502 I'm going to admit, I'm absolutely shocked she hasn't been raped, impregnated and married off to the scum yet.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM

The guy manning the desk in the hotel lobby just mentioned this as I was getting coffee. He made a good point: "CNN worked with Saddam Hussein to get and keep access. I figure they're paying the Taliban big bucks to not mess with her."

Posted by: Bert G, On the Road at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (R/Z7w)

503 493 I think it's way out there to think that Jacinta Arden is a man. I don't think she faked her pregnancy either. She's just another example of someone who left her religious roots (She was Mormon apparently) and went full blown leftist with leftism as their god.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (ai5jE)

She's 41, mother of 2, has a guy " partne", and in a card carrying Marxist sine her teenage years....

Posted by: kraken at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (6Je/Q)

504 THE SILLY GENERALS -

We Won't Rest Until We Have Defeated America!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (5NkmN)

505 Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Satan can sit back on his recliner and watch and enjoy all this. He needn't lift a finger. Evil is rampant with near-total social approbation and (supposedly) good men are doing nothing.
Posted by: Ordinary American

The Evil one needs his rest too! Deceit and chaos are hard work.

Posted by: Gog and Magog at August 16, 2021 08:19 AM (3C1R+)

506 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (ai5jE)

She's ben an avowed socialist for a long time. And Mormon or not, her auntie is a big Labor party socialist who helped her in her early campaigns.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (ONvIw)

507 Can you imagine how the FNM would handle Trump being on vacation as the US military took a humiliating defeat?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (DpkTQ)

508 471, 374

Victory! for Biden Administration says MFM.

We should sit down harder, then.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (S1hrL)

509 507 Can you imagine how the FNM would handle Trump being on vacation as the US military took a humiliating defeat?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (DpkTQ)

=========

With cautious restraint?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

510 I recall a good line from an earlier essay on the debauched Ruling Class. This may be the first time in history a Ruling Class has despised its own country. The Bourbons didn't hate France, the Soviets didn't hate mother Russia, the Nazis didn't hate Germany, the Chinese chairmen didn't hate China. It's a phenomenon.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (H8QX8)

511 506 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:17 AM (ai5jE)

She's ben an avowed socialist for a long time. And Mormon or not, her auntie is a big Labor party socialist who helped her in her early campaigns.
Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (ONvIw)

The President of an International Socialist Youth group in her teenage years...

Posted by: kraken at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (6Je/Q)

512 The Post-Millenial is reporting that the White House "Joe drools in front of a Zoom call" picture does indeed out a CIA station chief. Even the junta's ass-covering attempts are making things worse for them.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (6XLoz)

513 @benyt "Journalists are being left behind," @RatebNoori, who heads the US government station Radio Azadi in Kabul, told me

I'm sorry, it was wrong of me to laugh.
Posted by: t-bird

Were we not supposed to laugh? Why didn't anyone tell me we weren't supposed to lagh?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (OCTRt)

514 Posted by: kraken at August 16, 2021 08:18 AM (6Je/Q)

O.k. but none of that negates my point.

I mean she could have a guy as a partner and- amazingly enough- be an actual woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (ai5jE)

515 Los Angeles Lakers suffer humiliating first round defeat.

No Air Cover!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

that damn Kobe...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (8D42x)

516 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done

There's no way in hell this is the case. They've opened the US border and are actively sending disease to every city they can.

They don't give a FUCK about the people of ANY nation. They will KILL you to keep power. PERIOD.

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

517 Damn sock......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

518 I think it's way out there to think that Jacinta Arden is a man. I

One of the odder impacts of trannyism is that you can never be 100% sure when you see a masculine woman if it is a DIAD or just an unfortunate woman.

Good luck to anyone dating in modern America - and remember to lift "her" up to check before that first kiss...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (DpkTQ)

519 Fox News is playing a clip of Tony Blinken saying on June 7th, "I don't think it (fall of Kabul) can happen from a Friday to a Monday."

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (AMIL/)

520 I just hope Milley gave those Afghan "soldiers some Woke training, so they can convince their Taliban friends to be nice to women and gays. THAT is priority #1. /s (or is that just for America's military, to intentionally weaken US?)

I keep hearing people say this (including other actions, including economic) looks like a deliberate surrender to China, helping them become the global power. My guess -- "They" just want to crush American Spirit, preparing the way for their NWO. But "build back better" may not leave the Davos Crowd comfortably in control of the global masses, as they seem to dream. (even if their next contagion kills off a few billion)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (Cus5s)

521 BTW, Justin POS has abandoned in Kabul 100 Nepalese i.e. Gurkhas that were hired to protect the Canadian embassy.

Honestly, my money's on the Gurkhas. They were a meme on the HQ for a long time for a reason.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (6XLoz)

522 496 483 It appears the White House is falling apart,

Not the first time

https://tinyurl.com/udks5m8c

Posted by: Miklos wasted a mere four (4) years to get thi historian' Official Credential at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (QzkSJ)

523 512 The Post-Millenial is reporting that the White House "Joe drools in front of a Zoom call" picture does indeed out a CIA station chief. Even the junta's ass-covering attempts are making things worse for them.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:21 AM (6XLoz

The media will run cover and the military will double down on its hatred of conservatives, so all will be well.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (ONvIw)

524 Can you imagine how the FNM would handle Trump being on vacation as the US military took a humiliating defeat?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (DpkTQ)
---
And if it was Mar a Lago apoplexy would never stop.

I'm waiting for "it's no big deal that the President has the worst debacle of his term (so far), but it's totally ok to stay out of sight at Camp David--we want that!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (816mu)

525 I don't assume that at all. I assume leaving them weaponry was always part of the plan. Trust the plan...to get us killed, but diversity and inclusion, yo.

Freshly abandoned MANPADS coming to a civilian airport near you via the southern "border".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (+LCoQ)

526 That video of Jacina... take a walk on the wild side, and the colored girls go do doda do do

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (/6GbT)

527 I think it's kind of interesting that RLM took several direct jabs at Justin Trudeau, including by Colin the Canadian, and his blackface on their latest Best of the Worst.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

528 What the fuck do they do at the Pentagon? Smoke, drink and shoot dice against the concrete walls?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (JTpIQ)

529 >.We are assuming that the child regime didn't want to leave the rest of the world our military technology.

Not assuming that at all.

Not sure they could have f'd this up more, except maybe by letting the Taliban take our embassy hostage. Then again, they may be scooping up Westerners now with the Kabul airport a mess. We do not yet know who/how many Americans have been abandoned (such as US contractors).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (bDqIh)

530 It's Tik Tok dance challenge day here at Camp David! Join me and support LBGTQ POC's!

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (4nH0q)

531 The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done.

Next spin: this was all set up by Trump to make Biden look bad and Trump-supporting wreckers in the military carried out the plan.

Posted by: Bert G, On the Road at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (R/Z7w)

532 Doing the jobs that the Canadian military won't do?
---------------------------------
Our Special Ops force was going, like the USMC, until Joe let the Taliban walk-in in a week.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (UHVv4)

533 528 What the fuck do they do at the Pentagon? Smoke, drink and shoot dice against the concrete walls?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (JTpIQ)

===========

I have heard that no matter the rank, if you get a bunch of officers in one room of the same rank that they all act like privates.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

534 None of this changes anything here, y'all. So get a grip!

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (S1hrL)

535 Honestly, my money's on the Gurkhas. They were a meme on the HQ for a long time for a reason.
Posted by: Ian

Not a meme

Because I asked

Posted by: Miklos sharpens kris at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (QzkSJ)

536 What the fuck do they do at the Pentagon? Smoke, drink and shoot dice against the concrete walls?

The governing class has decided that the tactics that actually win wars are too "icky". So the military isn't concerned about military defeats of foreign adversaries any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (DpkTQ)

537 519 Fox News is playing a clip of Tony Blinken saying on June 7th, "I don't think it (fall of Kabul) can happen from a Friday to a Monday."

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (AMIL/)

From a Sunday to a Monday, on the other hand . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

538 Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (Cus5s)

Yep, the uniparty's aim is to crush the USA, but if they think China will just step aside and throw in with global governance they are as stupid AF.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (ONvIw)

539 Can you imagine how the FNM would handle Trump being on vacation as the US military took a humiliating defeat?

The Tampa Bay paper broke a major story today: Fox News and DeSantis are in a CONSPIRACY to make DeSantis look good. I am not making this up, it's the talk of the blue checks.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (6XLoz)

540 this is what would have happened on 1/6 if the Police had not stepped in

even worse maybe

Posted by: CNN at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (uCLWI)

541 You know what is really fucking GAY about this; is all you neocon faggots thinking you could bring democracy to third world savages because you believe in equality more than your enemies.

Posted by: RandbotFan at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (C0ibW)

542 It's really strange that the designated president of the United States is hiding right now. He must be a mess, or breathing his last.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (cSyAR)

543 531 The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done.

Next spin: this was all set up by Trump to make Biden look bad and Trump-supporting wreckers in the military carried out the plan.
Posted by: Bert G, On the Road at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (R/Z7w)

===========

Well, except the generals have already said this was all Biden's idea. But, yeah, that could be memory-holed pretty quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

544 It appears the White House is falling apart,
---
The Ladies' Towns Guild Carter Administration Reenactment Squad.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (816mu)

545 525 Lots of high schools are putting MANPADS in the boy's bathrooms now.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (YiYTU)

546 Next spin: this was all set up by Trump to make Biden look bad and Trump-supporting wreckers in the military carried out the plan.
Posted by: Bert G, On the Road at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (R/Z7w)

A third of the country will readily believe it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (H8QX8)

547 None of this changes anything here, y'all. So get a grip!
Posted by: Ziba

BOOBS!!!!

Posted by: Miklosworthy at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (QzkSJ)

548 this is what would have happened on 1/6 if the Police had not stepped in

Sting wanted to step in, but Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers overruled him.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (6XLoz)

549 So who is actually managing the rout?

I guess Milley since Biden is Hidin' and Kamal Toe needs her me time.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (DpkTQ)

550 That video of Jacina... take a walk on the wild side, and the colored girls go do doda do do
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (/6GbT)

Only seen in the wild, the elusive Herm makes a rare appearance in the Australian Government.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

551 this is what would have happened on 1/6 if the Police had not stepped in

Sting wanted to step in, but Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers overruled him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (6XLoz)
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He was driven to tears.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (816mu)

552 >> @benyt "Journalists are being left behind," @RatebNoori, who heads the US government station Radio Azadi in Kabul, told me

Perfect. Will the MSM learn how little Biden and the rest of the Democrats/progressive Left value them now?

Probably not. They barely expressed any anger at Obama despite the way his admin treated them.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (bDqIh)

553 THE SILLY GENERALS -

Hold My Beer, Custer!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (5NkmN)

554 They're gonna have to leave those Apache's behind that they are using at the Kabul airport.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (K8LFj)

555 549 So who is actually managing the rout?

I guess Milley since Biden is Hidin' and Kamal Toe needs her me time.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (DpkTQ)

It's not a rout. It's a bug-out.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:27 AM (s2VJv)

556
The painting of Dr. Brydon, sole survivor of the British retreat from Kabul in 1842, would be an apt picture for today's art thread.

https://blogs.brown.edu/askb/2013/08/07/
dr-william-brydon-and-the-massacre-of-the-
british-force-in-afghanistan-in-1842/

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (+2sc/)

557 While focusing like a laser beam on Jan 6, the Democrats create their own insurrection.

Posted by: Caliban at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (HgGBT)

558 OT but the smoke from forest fires is getting really bad here. I never get headaches but I have one today.
Posted by: N.L. Urker,

Same here. Have a new fire down the road. We're not at risk but I have 2 friends inside the fire boundaries. Haven't heard from them since early last night. SIL and her husband are on the other side of the ridge. They're on a level 2 evacuation order. Fire started at 4pm yesterday. It's at 6k acres this morning.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * dismantling reality one nightmare at a time at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (3C1R+)

559 Sting wanted to step in, but Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers overruled him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (6XLoz)

that's Stang, fucker, Stang

Posted by: redneck at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (uCLWI)

560 To defend "it was all Biden's idea," they will blame it on the Aricept and whatever bug juice he's on.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (S1hrL)

561 I'm going to admit, I'm absolutely shocked she hasn't been raped, impregnated and married off to the scum yet.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:00 AM

well, she's still useful as an outlet for propaganda. i figure 10 minutes after she is no longer useful is when the "fun" begins. and poor girl isn't going to enjoy it. unless they just ransom her back.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (8D42x)

562 @benyt "Journalists are being left behind," @RatebNoori, who heads the US government station Radio Azadi in Kabul, told me

I'm sorry, it was wrong of me to laugh.
Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2021 08:15 AM (l0Lgi)

Funnier than anything on SNL.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (y7DUB)

563 What I don't understand is how after 20 years and trillions of $, there is even any Taliban left. It's not like there were any Nazis left after WWII. At least not enough seize control of a lemonade stand.

If all these Generals don't know that total destruction of your enemy is how you win wars, then they should all be fired.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (Y5qcH)

564
We'll, you know, fight on the thing.

Posted by: Joe Robinette Churchill at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (zwDuR)

565 Well, everything everywhere prettydestabilized... time for the Communist Chinese to enter stage Left, to pick up the spoils....

Posted by: kraken at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (6Je/Q)

566 It's not a rout. It's a bug-out.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

BUG-OUT!!!!!

Posted by: Col. Sherman T. Potter at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (FZYNt)

567 That damned Fox News wants a "Proof Of Life" photo of me holding up today's newspaper.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (4nH0q)

568 559 Sting wanted to step in, but Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers overruled him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (6XLoz)

that's Stang, fucker, Stang
Posted by: redneck at August 16, 2021 08:28 AM (uCLWI)

"Hey, fuck you!"

- - Arnold Stang

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

569 Jen Rubin hates the fact that she's ugly.

Posted by: Caliban at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (HgGBT)

570 Well, except the generals have already said this was all Biden's idea. But, yeah, that could be memory-holed pretty quickly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Whatever he said, or not, or may have not said in context and with nuance.

Or not, depending on context and some buttery-soft nuance.

Posted by: Miklos, accepted at the Citadel at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (QzkSJ)

571 Does the media have staff meetings discussing how to pin the blame on Trump while praising Dying Brain for his brilliance.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods

I'm to the point where it would not surprise me in the least to find out Biden administrative people zoom into many of those meetings as propaganda agenda representatives.

Posted by: Biergood at August 16, 2021 08:29 AM (FQWHA)

572
I guess no more Italian or French war hero jokes...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

573 I didn't get to read all of the Morning Report. Did we cover Schumer's comment that downloading fake vaccine certificates was about the worst thing ever and people should go to jail? I must say, though, I laughed darkly at the fact that we recently had some bust on thousands of fake vaccine certificates and they were from (you guessing it) China. So not only does China send us bat flu but they make mucho bucks with fake vaccine certificates.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (ai5jE)

574 What the fuck do they do at the Pentagon? Smoke, drink and shoot dice against the concrete walls?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 16, 2021 08:23 AM (JTpIQ)

Ummmmm....Yes.

And bang the help.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (R/m4+)

575 JV Team II: Frenetic Bugoutaloo

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (816mu)

576 Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (cSyAR)

577 BTW, Justin POS has abandoned in Kabul 100 Nepalese i.e. Gurkhas that were hired to protect the Canadian embassy.

Honestly, my money's on the Gurkhas. They were a meme on the HQ for a long time for a reason.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:22 AM (6XLoz)

one can hope that after they make it out they pay a visit to Ottawa...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (8D42x)

578 Nood boat.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (LBiAf)

579 Not sure they could have f'd this up more, except maybe by letting the Taliban take our embassy hostage. Then again, they may be scooping up Westerners now with the Kabul airport a mess. We do not yet know who/how many Americans have been abandoned (such as US contractors).
Posted by: Lizzy

ANY HAM RADIO OPERATORS?
Any word on the 'waves?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (OCTRt)

580 The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done.

Correct order of operations:
Shred documents
Pull out civilians
Pull out military and equipment
Announce end of operations

Not the other way around!

Posted by: As Seen On The Internet at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (CTJwJ)

581 507 Can you imagine how the FNM would handle Trump being on vacation as the US military took a humiliating defeat?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:20 AM (DpkTQ)

Yep, we surrendered.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (ONvIw)

582 Sting wanted to step in, but Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers overruled him.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 16, 2021 08:26 AM (6XLoz)

Stuart Copeland's dad was a Big Time CIA guy. Srsly

Posted by: Miklos, dots connected at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (QzkSJ)

583 576 Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods

Piker

Posted by: Zombie RBG at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (FZYNt)

584 542 It's really strange that the designated president of the United States is hiding right now. He must be a mess, or breathing his last.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:25 AM (cSyAR)

The Media has turned on the Biden Junta. (For now.)

The Globalists and all of Our Betters are looking ahead and know even the French will be laughing at them. "Most powerful country in the world, huh?" "Did you vote for that idiot?"

Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (AMIL/)

585
Over dinner late last week, CBD reminded me that we are now a fundamentally unserious nation.�

__________

Cob summit?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (/U27+)

586 It's not like there were any Nazis left after WWII. At least not enough seize control of a lemonade stand.

The allies/Soviets killed something like a third of fighting age German men.

While we certainly killed some Taliban fighters I'm guessing we got nowhere near that number.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2021 08:32 AM (DpkTQ)

587 576 Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 16, 2021 08:30 AM (cSyAR)

Yes. Here is a picture of him holding todays newspaper!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy is a great start, but there is so much more to be done! at August 16, 2021 08:32 AM (w/oaB)

588
We were Stangs!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2021 08:33 AM (+2sc/)

589 >>CNN has a woman reporter embedded with the Taliban as it runs roughshod over each city. She's worried about how they'll be in the #MeToo world.
I'm going to admit, I'm absolutely shocked she hasn't been raped, impregnated and married off to the scum yet.

"She's a journalist first."
-- Mike Wallace, PBS Ethics in America

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:33 AM (bDqIh)

590 Yikes. They've suspended evacuation flights from Kabul.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at August 16, 2021 08:35 AM (K8LFj)

591 Manpads and chest feeding, does it get any more repulsive?

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:35 AM (S1hrL)

592 "She's a journalist first."
-- Mike Wallace, PBS Ethics in America
Posted by: Lizzy

Been there, been done that"

Posted by: Lara Logan at August 16, 2021 08:35 AM (QzkSJ)

593 >>Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?

Apparently Jen Psaki's email is givng an auto-reply that she is out of the office from 8/15 through next week. Wonder if anyone in the WH Press office is responding to media inquiries?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:35 AM (bDqIh)

594 The Biden Administration is paralyzed in fear at what they have done.

Next spin: this was all set up by Trump to make Biden look bad and Trump-supporting wreckers in the military carried out the plan.
Posted by: Bert G, On the Road at August 16, 2021 08:24 AM (R/Z7w)

wouldn't shock me. htye'll memory hole any mention of the generals refusing to do as PDJT ordered and say we've always been at war with eastasia...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 16, 2021 08:36 AM (8D42x)

595 Manpads and chest feeding, does it get any more repulsive?
Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:35 AM (S1hrL)
---
Chill on the White Supremacy, pal.

The sad thing is that my spell check is already suggesting "chestfeeding" as the "proper" way to correct what you wrote.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2021 08:37 AM (816mu)

596 >>Been there, been done that"
Posted by: Lara Logan

Lara was not embedded with enemy troops.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2021 08:37 AM (bDqIh)

597 What the fuck do they do at the Pentagon? Smoke, drink and shoot dice against the concrete walls?
___________

Of course not! We hold diversity seminars, white privilege confession/apology sessions, and we sometimes explore our inner sexism and misogny by putting on nylons and high heels and racing each other!

Posted by: U.S. military joint chiefs at August 16, 2021 08:38 AM (k4dH2)

598
The Media has turned on the Biden Junta. (For now.)

The Globalists and all of Our Betters are looking ahead and know even the French will be laughing at them. "Most powerful country in the world, huh?" "Did you vote for that idiot?"
Posted by: Gref at August 16, 2021 08:31 AM (AMIL/)

They're just regrouping.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:38 AM (ONvIw)

599 >>Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?

This is actually a serious question.

https://tinyurl.com/ykmupy4h

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2021 08:40 AM (BC2YK)

600 "this is what would have happened on 1/6 if the Police had not stepped in

even worse maybe

Posted by: CNN"

Women and girls were just barely saved from horrible future enslaved by Trump supporters.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 08:41 AM (MxEKc)

601 598 CN, reading "Windswept House" makes watching the news more...interesting, huh?

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 08:42 AM (YiYTU)

602 The Media has turned on the Biden Junta. (For now.)"

They were just caught by surprise and disoriented. We have seen this on occasion over the years. They will get hold of themselves and return to the narrative by mid-week.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 08:44 AM (MxEKc)

603 601 598 CN, reading "Windswept House" makes watching the news more...interesting, huh?
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 16, 2021 08:42 AM (YiYTU)

Yes it does. The book focused heavily on the Vatican, but you can't help but see the wider participation in this disaster.

Posted by: CN at August 16, 2021 08:44 AM (ONvIw)

604 Media regrouping in the Oval Office, what.

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:46 AM (S1hrL)

605 They will get hold of themselves and return to the narrative by mid-week.
Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2021 08:44 AM (MxEKc)

Where else can they go? As predictable as a cul de sac.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 08:46 AM (H8QX8)

606 MFM regrouping: Let's focus on the women and the children...

Posted by: Ziba at August 16, 2021 08:48 AM (S1hrL)

607 Just like Nero and Rome, Biden is busy (kiddie-) fiddling while Afghanistan burns.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 16, 2021 08:48 AM (bW28E)

608 That picture of Joe Biden, in what must be the Situation Room at Camp David, shows him all alone.

"There's and old saying that victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan." -- JFK, April 21, 1961

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

609 596 >>Been there, been done that"
Posted by: Lara Logan

Embedded, no. They did it right in the town square.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 16, 2021 08:54 AM (vN+oL)

610 "Is there evidence that Biden is still alive?"

"This is actually a serious question."

Heh. Just like the old days: Soviet Leader Misses Military Parade, Analysts Perplexed

Days of Future Past...

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 16, 2021 08:54 AM (49Exr)

611 Seems like a perfect time for ...

MORE ELECTION AUDITS

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2021 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

612 Embedded, no. They did it right in the town square.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 16, 2021 08:54 AM (vN+oL)

Yup. From both sides, multiple times.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2021 09:02 AM (H8QX8)

613 As much as I winced at it, I have to remind myself that it was always most likely to end this way, i.e. total humiliation. Some like the late Tony Blankley were writing to warn against this futile project 15+ years ago. This was not dorm-room Marxist rabble-rousing, this was a sincere plea to abandon the "dream" trillions of $ ago. This zombie GWOT was revived specifically at that point as a political flank for Martha's Vineyard Party Boy.

Nobody believed, with the retard in chief and vice retard/comfort woman, we'd really make it to the 2nd week of Sept. C'MON MAN

Posted by: Le Swampon at August 16, 2021 09:19 AM (1Txkd)

614 Crenshaw is a traitor. Enough crap about him

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 16, 2021 09:37 AM (gLB4+)

615 Saw a headline on Bad Blue -- Everyone from Apple to Cuomo is thinking: "If Only I had Waited One Week."

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 16, 2021 09:44 AM (OssQ4)

616 Crenshaw is a rino who needs to be primaried!

Posted by: AnnaS at August 16, 2021 10:00 AM (l4l/z)

617 Are we surrendering Gitmo this week?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 16, 2021 10:42 AM (GPwVZ)

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