Coordinated White House/Media Allies Line: Any Americans Left Behind Choose to Be Left Behind, And Whatever Happens To Them, It's Their Fault

"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fvck things up."

-- Barack Obama, who should know a thing or two about f***ing things up.

The White House's spokespig Jen Psaki has all but admitted that they're planning on leaving some Americans behind.

"Our commitment continues to be to U.S. citizens: If they want to leave, we will help get them out," Psaki responded.
When asked if that means the administration will act beyond the Aug. 31 deadline, Psaki admitted the White House believes some Americans will be stranded.
"Again, we expect there could be some, but I don't -- I'm not going to get into it further," she said.

Note how she puts that -- "if they want to leave."

The two Congressmen who traveled to Kabul -- one Democrat, one Republican -- are agreed that there is no way to get all Americans out of Afghanistan by August 31 -- or even by September 11.

"We came into this visit wanting, like most veterans, to push the president to extend the August 31st deadline. After talking with commanders on the ground and seeing the situation here, it is obvious that because we started the evacuation so late, that no matter what we do, we won't get everyone out on time, even by September 11," Moulton explained. "Sadly and frustratingly, getting our people out depends on maintaining the current, bizarre relationship with the Taliban."

And the odds of getting those Americans out fell even further when the State Department -- having realized that there was a "security threat" at the airport, which we indeed saw come to bloody fruition today -- told Americans to stay away from the airport.

How are they going to get airlifted out of the airport if they're not at the airport?

Several European nations announced on Thursday that they were halting their evacuations from the Kabul airport after reports a day earlier of a security threat at the airport, as the window for airlifts appeared to be closing, days before the deadline for the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark all said that they would no longer be able to facilitate airlifts from the Hamid Karzai International Airport, which has both civilian and military sections. The airport has been the site of chaotic scenes since the Taliban takeover of the capital earlier this month, as tens of thousands of Afghans and foreign citizens had desperately searched for a way out.
The U.S. Embassy had warned Americans on Wednesday to stay away from the airport and told anyone outside the perimeter to "leave immediately," citing unnamed security threats.

Kinda wish we had the fortified, far-from-population-centers Bagram air base still open, huh?

So the situation is this: Of the 1500 or more Americans in Afghanistan, we will certainly wind up leaving behind hostages and future beheading victims.

Many citizens of allied European nations will be left behind.

Possibly the six California high school students and their parents, who picked a bad time to trust the competency of Joe Biden and his Foreign Policy Dream Team, might not get out of Afghanistan.

And as for the 250,000 (or more) "Afghan allies" we keep hearing about...? Forget it, they'll almost all be left behind to be executed.

Which is why the Biden Administration and its media allies need to create a Narrative for the coming slaughter: any Americans who are left behind wanted to be left behind, so it's their own fault, not Biden's.

[T]he worst-case scenario is that we're seeing preemptive spin for when the Biden administration chooses to leave Americans in Afghanistan after August 31. Based on the administration’s gaslighting -- Politico's words, not just mine! -- it seems that the Biden team, having found themselves in a situation with no good options and terrified of a bigger fight with the Taliban, is prepared to claim, "we evacuated every American who wanted to get out, the ones who didn’t come to the airport by August 31 clearly wanted to stay."

Speaking of setting up a Narrative -- that's from National Review, which is apparently now shifting to pretend they didn't propagandize for Biden, and didn't vote for Biden themselves.

In a grim update, four US Marines are now reported dead from the bombing.

Jen Rubin gives no F's, though. She continues spinning for Biden, and also pushing the idea that maybe those left behind just plain wanted to be murdered horribly by terrorists:

@JRubinBlogger
After 19 message and outreach through media, there might conceivably be some Americans still wanting to evacuate who have missed all those messages, not heard any of the outreach efforts or pleas to leave from fellow Americans, and not contacted the State
but are there many? logically, not

Conservative, Inc. media, everyone. Make sure you donate to them.

And maybe give some thought to this: Despite "conservatives" frequently having control of all of Congress, despite occasionally having control of the presidency, and despite sometimes having control of the Congress and the Presidency -- the left has nevertheless scored victory after victory and "conservatives" have suffered defeat after defeat on policy, to the point where we are now hunted, abused internal exiles in what was formerly our own country.

Why is that?

Is it possible that perhaps our Conservative, Inc. leaders are actually far more aligned culturally and ideologically with the left than with their own voters/supporters/readers?

And is it possible they routinely conspire to vote strategically to make sure the left wins all consequential votes on policy? And occasionally tank presidential elections?

Exit Answer: It's more than possible. That is, unquestionably, the reality of the situation.

Posted by: Ace at 01:23 PM

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1 To the outer darkness with these assholes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:23 PM (csEWM)

2 1

Posted by: R governors of GA SC MD NE... at August 26, 2021 12:23 PM (qM+xO)

3
1) They were warned

2) They did not want out

3) Fucken they could be PDT voters

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 12:23 PM (yrol0)

4 These fuckers need to hang.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (CjHGv)

5 The hostage videos are going to be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

6 Does this include the high schoolers from California?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (m/Gc2)

7 Well, it's all academic, as no more Americans not inside the wire at HKIA are getting out now.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (DXFDM)

8 I despise that bitch Rubin

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (Zmnko)

9 The message that will be played 24/7 is that the American public is 110% behind PedoJoe.

Also... covid. Covid. COVID!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (OFJlJ)

10 Industrial Wood Chippers, Cadre of people, Business end in it, some assembly required.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (9h4bD)

11 And now we have 4 dead Marines and more wounded

Posted by: teh wind at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (fVZkX)

12 Apparently Jen Rubin has been huffing her pussy dander.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (dX8QE)

13 Any f*ckers dumb enough to believe we knew what we were doing, let alone that we are going to protect them, deserves what they get.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (DpkTQ)

14 JRubinBlogger and cocksucker

But mostly, cocksucker

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (yrol0)

15 US agrees to make concessions to Iran.

Posted by: Wow at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (qM+xO)

16 I'd hate fuck Jen Rubin.

Posted by: said no one ever at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (m/Gc2)

17 @JRubinBlogger

What a rotten filthy c-word she is

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (U41ue)

18 One would think these utterly stupid, stupid fucking cunts could shut their pieholes just once.

One would be wrong.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (9KR27)

19 Blaming the victim, a Democrat strategy as old as Chappaquiddick, as old as Jim Crow, maybe.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (W+kMI)

20 I'm so angry right now.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (xQZqb)

21 And as for the 250,000 (or more) "Afghan allies" we keep hearing about...? Forget it, they'll almost all be left behind to be executed.
---
There skulls and shoes will make great museum exhibits.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (ESLBo)

22 Stupid question:
Do they not care how this plays out optically?

Answer:
Not after they left a gay ambassador to die. No.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (Z+uwH)

23 Too bad there's not an organized opposition party to all this madness...

Posted by: Auspex at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (Xo3T0)

24 FFS, Rubin is a caricature of a parody at this point. The issue isn't if they heard, Next Tuesday, the issue is that they cannot get anywhere to be evacuated.

Let us say that under Trump things had gone this badly (just accept that premise for this second). If it had, the second those Marines were killed the MOABs would be ordered. I am certain of this.

Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)

25 12 Apparently Jen Rubin has been huffing her pussy dander.
Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (dX8QE)

I saw Pussy Dander open for Pussy Riot in Warsaw in 2009.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (yrol0)

26 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

27 >>And as for the 250,000 (or more) "Afghan allies" we keep hearing about...

I wouldn't trust any of them to watch my goats.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (dX8QE)

28 To whom it may concern:

The people who are paying you $40k/month to perform a make work job with no oversight or expectations would like for you to leave immediately, but you have until September.

Oh yeah, and we'll be here supporting you and our European allies until then. Pinky swear.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (/XjU0)

29 Anyone left on board because we didn't add enough lifeboats, it's your own fault for booking passage with us!

Posted by: HMS Titanic - White Star Line at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (gmo/4)

30 Does this include the high schoolers from California?

I was told Alex the Chick did some research on this yesterday, and I did some quick research as well. As far as I can tell-- and I may be wrong-- these "students and teachers" might all actually be Afghan nationals in America who had the trip arranged through the school because some of them worked there. They are there to see their relatives.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (OFJlJ)

31 If only there was an air base we could have used instead of Karzai International.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (kTF2Z)

32 So, it's their fault for not forseeing a massive failure of military and foreign policy that the Biden admin said could never happen?

Posted by: HILLARY! at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (LD35X)

33 9 The message that will be played 24/7 is that the American public is 110% behind PedoJoe.

Also... covid. Covid. COVID!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (OFJlJ)

As a corollary to this, I think they will start ratcheting down on ANY mention of Afghanistan. They cannot control the message and everything they do makes it worse, so they will simply make it a verboten subject.

Don't mention the war. Except this time enforced across all social media and platforms.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (csEWM)

34 Am I allowed to say that Jen Rubin is an odious cvnt?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (DXFDM)

35 As someone pointed out the other day, Rubin's tweets don't even line up with what friggin' WAPO is reporting. You know, where she works.

Posted by: Ktgreat at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (AD3JT)

36 These bitches are so predictable we knew they were going to do this as soon as they said those words "bring home every American who wants to come home."

Posted by: blaster at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (mbFEM)

37 Ace is right, the Uniparty at the Federal level hasn't been governing in our interests for a long time. So, what to do, what to do....

Posted by: exdem13 at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (W+kMI)

38 We saw this coming 10 miles away, didn't we? The memes have been out a week already.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (wAnMi)

39 John Roberts on FOX News looks like a demented, shaven Santa.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (VPbnN)

40 I'm so angry right now.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (xQZqb)

Stand by.

Posted by: Today is bad but tomorrow will be worse at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (qM+xO)

41 Coordinated White House/Media Allies Line: Any Americans Left Behind Choose to Be Left Behind, And Whatever Happens To Them, It's Their Fault

This keeps up, I might just go away for the rest of the day. I don't cry, but this bullshit might make it happen..

How pathetic. Those people trusted that they would be taken care of and protected by their country. Instead, they've just been fucked and likely murdered by it.

Please, Lord, have mercy on their souls.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

42 It's more than four Marines. I can feel it in my bones. This is the old drip drip of information.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (U41ue)

43 In other news, U.S. Military sources report that any soldiers remaining at the Little Big Horn wanted to stay there, and their deaths are their own fault.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (FCsYG)

44 I hope Psaki's pskin finally sloughs off.

Posted by: wth at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (v0R5T)

45 23 Too bad there's not an organized opposition party to all this madness...
Posted by: Auspex at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (Xo3T0)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (csEWM)

46 So now they are going with "We have been warning people since April to leave."? Seriously?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (Zmnko)

47 The protesters in Australia and UK chant "Nuremberg" when they're marching.
I think that's a good idea--make the evil bureaucrats think they're going to pay for their sins in spectacular fashion.

Posted by: artemis at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (AwPyG)

48 Joey Biden has a nice friendly bet with Andy Cuomo over who can murder the most Americans. I think Cuomo's record is safe, though. Joey may have to call in Corn Pop.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

49 Off wrinkley old sock.

Posted by: Flyguy at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (LD35X)

50 I'm torn between raw grief and rage-stroking.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (ptqGC)

51 Sweet Home, Psakistan.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (1vynn)

52 If these Americans can choose to remain behind, why can't some Americans not choose to vax?

Posted by: Commander Cobra at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (xzley)

53 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: HRC worthless bitch at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (yrol0)

54 Am I allowed to say that Jen Rubin is an odious cvnt?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (DXFDM)

Why all the hate on odious cvnts?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (wAnMi)

55 "We came into this visit wanting, like most veterans, to push the president to extend the August 31st deadline. After talking with commanders on the ground and seeing the situation here, it is obvious that because we started the evacuation so late, that no matter what we do, we won't get everyone out on time, even by September 11," Moulton explained. "Sadly and frustratingly, getting our people out depends on maintaining the current, bizarre relationship with the Taliban."

The fact that Americans in Afghanistan do NOT HAVE FIRST PRIORITY in the evacuation tells you ALL you need to know about the fucks running this shitshow.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

56 Very hateful and cold when it suits them. S and M politics?

just hours ago they were flashing their anuses instead of saving Americans.

Disgust pours out of me like shitting Taco Bell.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (Lln9q)

57 >Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)

If one were a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, one might posit that the decision was made in order to maximize chaos and death. But that would be crazy.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (DXFDM)

58 Fuck Seth Moulton. That nickelfucking, Biden-felching piece of shit ran for preezy on an "I hate Trump and you can't criticize me because I'm a veteran" platform and got his worthless ass booted back to Maskachusetts.

He's a fucking glory hog. If the Taliban shot down his returning flight, I wouldn't shed one damed tear.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (2JVJo)

59 40 I'm so angry right now. Posted by: CDR M (Retired)

Stand by. Posted by: Today
---
Old Hotness: suicide bombing
New Hotness: US missile taking out a US C-17.
Truly, stand by...

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (ESLBo)

60 @JRubinBlogger

After 19 message and outreach through media, there might conceivably be some Americans still wanting to evacuate who have missed all those messages, not heard any of the outreach efforts or pleas to leave from fellow Americans, and not contacted the State

Becasue of course, you stupid bitch, the internet is so good there.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (axyOa)

61 This keeps up, I might just go away for the rest of the day. I don't cry, but this bullshit might make it happen..

How pathetic. Those people trusted that they would be taken care of and protected by their country. Instead, they've just been fucked and likely murdered by it.

Please, Lord, have mercy on their souls.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

And all of this was intentional. A deaf dumb and blind kid could have seen this coming a mile away.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (csEWM)

62 And the odds of getting those Americans out fell even further when the State Department -- having realized that there was a "security threat" at the airport, which we indeed saw come to bloody fruition today -- told Americans to stay away from the airport.
++++
Yeah, that was insane, bizarre, indifferent and evil - and I am sure that most of the people on the ground there knew it. That was an order to be ignored and get your ass to the airport - or a border - by any means necessary. I hope most of the people who read that order spat on it and ran.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (Jsjd7)

63 Meanwhile, John McCain's hell spawn is still going on about her dead sperm donor.

Someone needs to tell her that four actual honorable, brave young men died today.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (ptqGC)

64 Gonna be a lot of "Of course, EVERYONE knew Biden was incompetent [or demented]. It was an open secret" from the smartset in the coming days.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (dYe5S)

65 Yep, they've been setting up this evil lie for some time, and they're beating the drums on the news.

Top U.S. diplomat says the State Department put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan telling them to leave since April: "People chose not to leave. That's their business," Ross Wilson said.

https://bit.ly/2UP1eVg

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (UW2ZS)

66 Four dead Marines and likely hundreds more deaths coming and all they care about is optics.

Types
Deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (kTF2Z)

67 It's utter bullshit. Nobody, not one person, would want to stay under Taliban rule. Including just about every female Afghan.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (r+sAi)

68 What a great evacuation plan! So smooth, so sexy!! USA! USA! USA!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (VPbnN)

69 Don't mention the war. Except this time enforced across all social media and platforms.

Yep. And they can do it. Easily.

However, there are outside websites that won't be censored, and then there are simply conversations between people; it's the same way people found out about Covid vaxx deaths, since those are being covered up as well.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (OFJlJ)

70 I think they have intelligence that sleepers, who have become US citizens, are now back in Afghanistan to help the Taliban.

Why, because of our own stupid immigration laws... dual citizenship should once more, be outlawed, as our Founders intended (it was brought on by the Supreme Court, not act of Law).

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (oHd/0)

71 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)
++++
Not that I have seen. That was the most insane thing in this entire drama of madness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (Jsjd7)

72 How are they going to get airlifted out of the airport if they're not at the airport?

Watch and learn, infidel.

Posted by: Achmed the Crazed Suicide Bomber at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (wAnMi)

73 The protesters in Australia and UK chant "Nuremberg" when they're marching.

That might be a reference to the governing elite's violation of the Nuremberg code.

Note: If you didn't know it already the elites are literally using the same methods as the NAZIs now.

Posted by: Obligatory at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (DpkTQ)

74 Look, if they're not willing to fight their way- unarmed- thru the Islamic State after we "forgot" all those laptops with their information o them, can you really call them 'stranded'? They chose. That's freedom.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (AytXr)

75 Why are there so many Western Europe allies there?
Becasue they trusted the US when they were told we'd provide cover for them n any eventual evacuation.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (axyOa)

76 We all saw the plane full of Afghan military-age men, heading for the US. They were smiling, happy...because of the death they will sow here, once they arrive.

Islam is pure evil, those who choose it should be left where they are.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (19g6/)

77 Coordinated White House/Media Allies Line: Any Americans Left Behind Choose to Be Left Behind, And Whatever Happens To Them, It's Their Fault

This keeps up, I might just go away for the rest of the day. I don't cry, but this bullshit might make it happen..

How pathetic. Those people trusted that they would be taken care of and protected by their country. Instead, they've just been fucked and likely murdered by it.

Please, Lord, have mercy on their souls.
Posted by: Sponge

We said the same thing as we watched Benghazi happen in real time.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Z+uwH)

78 Any word from the GOPe yet other than donate and vote harder? I know, I know they're part of the problem but even blinking cowards know that this is a mitigated disaster and they need to go through the motions of hurrumphing.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (UVMn8)

79 I wonder how many of the people who didn't leave since the word started going out in April are still there because they had to be because they were under contract to our government or one of its contractors. I suspect we will never get an answer to that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

80 Jen's not done hanging her ass out for all to see...

@JRubinBlogger 33m

The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don't take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)

81 Should Jennifer Rubin be beaten into the mire of her own blood? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (6kH/7)

82 The very definition of a clusterfuck...should be in Webster's.

Posted by: BignJames at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

83 The Americans now left in Shitcanistan are like the people on floors 92 and above on tower 1 on September 11th. Congratulations team biden... great work

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (flINI)

84 I loathe every single person who voted for Biden. That's my husband's entire family and my idiot sister.

I want no contact with any of them, but I'll have to be around the jackass in-laws for my lib MiL's memorial services.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

85 71 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?

Because it so much smarter to give it up a and operate out of a very difficult to secure airport silly...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Zmnko)

86 >So now they are going with "We have been warning people since April to leave."? Seriously?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:28 PM (Zmnko)

The same people poo-pooing the idea of a total capitulation of the ANA right up until it happened in about 72 hours. Mmm hmm.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (DXFDM)

87 "Abandoned" is such a harsh term. Let's say "permanently expatriated".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (d9FiS)

88 I'm so angry right now.
Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (xQZqb)

Feels like the Carter years all over again. Are we going to have another 444 day hostage situation? This country damn near came apart then. It's more divided now, so what are the chances things don't come undone?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (N3El/)

89 Biden's too brain-dead to make such a mess. This is the deep state.

Posted by: T at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (5brJo)

90 TBH I don't have any sympathy for these people. WTF did you think would happen when Biden announced a withdrawal? If you didn't leave on the first plane out of Kabul after the election, you're either a deep state stooge or really really stupid. In either case, LOLGF.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (GQ5VU)

91 >>> It's more than four Marines. I can feel it in my bones. This is the old drip drip of information.
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:27 PM (U41ue)

I believe there are additional injured from the reports. People seem to discount injured numbers of soldiers as if they are now walking around with a bandaid on their thumb instead of having their life taken and replaced with something harder and unforgettable.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (ZOfsH)

92 >>Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?

To cut down on Carbon Emissions.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (dX8QE)

93 Hey, it's a global community. What does being an "American" even mean anymore? Nothing special. Deal with it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (ucUhL)

94 80 Jen's not done hanging her ass out for all to see...

@JRubinBlogger 33m

The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don't take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)

==========

I believe Trump's message was, "leave in a way where the country doesn't descend into chaos immediately."

But that was evil, apparently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

95 They might push that line but no one with a fucking brain is going to buy it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (nxdel)

96 Greenland is looking better and better

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (cMUQt)

97 Becasue of course, you stupid bitch, the internet is so good there.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (axyOa)

You know, strangely enough I'm online all the time, and I never heard any of those warnings or messages.

How strange.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (oHd/0)

98 87 "Abandoned" is such a harsh term. Let's say "permanently expatriated".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (d9FiS)

=======

Exiled?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

99 I was told Alex the Chick did some research on this yesterday, and I did some quick research as well. As far as I can tell-- and I may be wrong-- these "students and teachers" might all actually be Afghan nationals in America who had the trip arranged through the school because some of them worked there. They are there to see their relatives.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (OFJlJ)

It's really hard to tell because the reporting is atrocious but the only involvement by the school seems to be that the school was contacted by a group working with refugees to help get info to the State Department about the families. They were traveling on special military visas so the strongest likelihood is that these are refuge family members of Afghani nationals who were working with the US and who were on a trip back to see family. And they stupidly relied on the US to keep its word about protection.

What does seem clear is that this isn't a school trip in any way - it's people who live in the same school district.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (mf5HN)

100 Yeah, no, "We Told You So" isn't gonna fly, but I guess that's the best they can come up with.

It must be extraordinarily difficult for these people to feign concern in front of the cameras, as if they actually give a shit about any of this, while the concerny mcconcerned "press" tries to massage the situation while trying to deflect blame from where it belongs. Only insofar as the "optics", where it could conceivably affect voting patterns, in those limited locations where votes still (maybe) matter.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (9KR27)

101 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)
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Not that I have seen. That was the most insane thing in this entire drama of madness.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (Jsjd7)

This whole thing was planed for the optics of Biden being able to crow on 9/11 that he got all the troops out. The *only* focus was troops, not civilians, not equipment, just troops.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (AiZBA)

102 So, odds on which visual:

No coverage of the returned Marines, because the MFM desperately needs to change the subject,

OR

Constant coverage of the returned Marines, with Stinkfinger and his rottencrotch consort pretending to be in tears and mourning, with DOCTOR Jill carefully placing a single red rose over each coffin?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (2JVJo)

103 @JRubinBlogger

After 19 message and outreach
-----------

How much is Team Biden paying this odious anal wart to go all great googly Goebbels for them?

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (U41ue)

104 @JRubinBlogger
The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don't take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)
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Except that GOP president who ordered a withdrawal on a timeline, negotiated with warring factions to make it happen, set up a strict retaliatory doctrine to ensure we weren't caught in a lobster trap - and who's military ignored the orders.

What about him, Jen? Or did you forget that? Scrunt bitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (Jsjd7)

105 >>Jen Rubin gives no F's, though. She continues spinning for Biden, and also pushing the idea that maybe those left behind just plain wanted to be murdered horribly by terrorists

And maybe they were operating on Biden stating they had no worries for the next 90 days. They had 90 days before any taliban take over...

Posted by: Pony Tail at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (tzZq2)

106 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?

The FNM and the Biden junta blame the guy who just retired (no seriously that's their official explanation).

Reading about the decision they gave him they required him to choose to abandon Bagram or Kabul and then told him it couldn't be Kabul...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (DpkTQ)

107 To every American trapped in Afghanistan be sure to order your Christmas presents early. In case you missed this news item, VP ,La warned everyone that the world was facing supply chain problems. Again, so we are clear, your current situation is not an epic political disaster but a failure by Walmart and Amazon to plan ahead sufficiently. In the event you need further assistance please send a tweet to @US.gov. Due to the high volume of tweets we are receiving at this time please allow 72 hours for a response. And never forget, we care about you because we are from the government and we are here to help.

Thank you for your cooperation. Over and out.

Let the beheadings begin. Deck the halls with be-headings...

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (ESLBo)

108 84 I loathe every single person who voted for Biden. That's my husband's entire family and my idiot sister.

I've got a sister like that too.. Yesterday she was telling me how good the vaccine is while at the same time her 32 year old vaccinated Granddaughter got covid last week.. I give up

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (Zmnko)

109 Yep, they've been setting up this evil lie for some time, and they're beating the drums on the news.
Top U.S. diplomat says the State Department put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan telling them to leave since April: "People chose not to leave. That's their business," Ross Wilson said.
https://bit.ly/2UP1eVg
Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM (UW2ZS)

As somebody said in comments: "Receipts or it didn't happen."

But we know whatever spills out of those cum stained lips will be repeated by the media shills ad nauseum.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (wAnMi)

110 It's more divided now, so what are the chances things don't come undone?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armad

The glue isn't going to hold.

Posted by: Elmer at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (qM+xO)

111 79 I wonder how many of the people who didn't leave since the word started going out in April are still there because they had to be because they were under contract to our government or one of its contractors. I suspect we will never get an answer to that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

___

So you break the contract. Better to lose some money than be stuck in a Taliban run Afghanistan.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (GQ5VU)

112 another manufactured refugee crisis

Posted by: T at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (5brJo)

113 Greenland is looking better and better
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (cMUQt)

I hear that blubber is tasty.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (AiZBA)

114 In the coming months, we will again see the videos of people being beheaded, women being stoned, gays off the top of buildings. These are not hard predictions.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (r+sAi)

115 So, the reddit autists over on super stonk had got some guys who watch the private planes owned by the hedge funds (which is perfectly legal; a lot of times they can guess what coach is going to be hired by watching where the private planes go)

The hedge fund planes appear to be doing a lot of brief tarmac meetings (like Clinton and Lynch did, so that it's under the radar) with other shady financial people, and immediately after these meetings there are huge crytpo moves on the market.

It's an interesting pattern. Notice that it took the civilians on reddit to spot it.

Posted by: artemis at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (AwPyG)

116 This is the part of the game where your opponent has complete control of your pieces. He has had it for a while, perhaps, but was vulnerable to your taking control back so had to move slowly. Now he is so entrenched that there is nothing you can do to stop him short of breaking the entire game, so he does whatever he wants. It only makes sense if you view the people in control of America as actively trying to cause the country to fail.

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (Bg96i)

117 If You Don't Abandon Your Citizens, The Terrorists Have Won.

Posted by: Sun Tzu at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (CTJwJ)

118 104 What about him, Jen? Or did you forget that? Scrunt bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (Jsjd7)

========

I thought Trump was the reason she left the party to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

119 They're just being resettled in the east.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (d9FiS)

120 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (arJlL)

121 >>Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.

I told you.

Pussy Dander is a helluva Drug

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (dX8QE)

122 Whatever the hell was reported, it seems to be worse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (AVDhF)

123
We said the same thing as we watched Benghazi happen in real time.
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Z+uwH)

True......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

124 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (5kI0z)

125 huffing her pussy dander.
Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (dX8QE)

Almost rhymes with Propaganda

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (U41ue)

126 They chose not leave and that's their business but you have no right to choose not to be vaccinated...

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (uUDKV)

127 I'd have to think there are countless Americans who want to get out, but because of the extreme danger, they can't get to where they need to be. The effing govt messages mean diddley squat if you can't even get out the door. F*ck Biden, Raggedy Ann, and all "media" for this ridiculous, evil spin. Shameless demons. Jesus, I can't believe what's happening.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (O+I8R)

128 How are they going to get airlifted out of the airport if they're not at the airport?
==
Its an optics issue. They didn't want a crowd of people at the gates as the last plane left. They wanted them sitting at home, where the TV cameras couldn't record their anguish and beam it around the world.

Posted by: you aren't yet cynical enough to appreciate the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (1IIz7)

129 95 They might push that line but no one with a fucking brain is going to buy it.
Posted by: Jewells45

Which leaves out intellectuals and upper middle class twits obviously. They will gobble the DNC-MSM take right up.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (xunV5)

130 > Possibly the six California high school students and their parents, who picked a bad time to trust the competency of Joe Biden and his Foreign Policy Dream Team, might not get out of Afghanistan.

I don't know why the hell people go to places like this. I won't even go to Mexico. Poor Otto Warmbier comes to mind.

Note: I am NOT saying they deserve anything that happens to them, I just don't understand going to places like this at all.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (UW2ZS)

131 >>Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.

Pussy Dander is a helluva Drug

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (dX8QE)

132 To be fair, if I was in Afghanistan, I would have been looking for the door as soon as I saw the November 3 fucking travesty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (csEWM)

133 Notice the toned down promise , we will now HELP them get out. Before it was we will get them out.

I guess Biden posting train and bus could be considered help of some kind.

Posted by: LASue at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Ed8Zd)

134 @JRubinBlogger
The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don't take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)
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Also, Jen you wailing harpy, citation fucking needed. Who says most voters want this country flooded with Afghans? This voter certainly fucking doesn't, and neither does any other voter he's spoken to over the past couple of weeks. Most of them want the Afghans sent elsewhere - one of the Stans, left in Qatar, something - but not brought here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Jsjd7)

135 Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.

She got the first part right... But not like this

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Zmnko)

136 One month from now, any complaints about the Afghanistan pull-out will be automatically treated as if the complainer is upset that we left Afghanistan, and not about how the pull-out was performed. Attempts to make hay about the latter will get responses as if they were the former.

Posted by: junior at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (5dpI/)

137 I firmly refuse to believe that there are any Americans who WANT to stay in Afghanistan. I doubt there are very many Afghans who want to stay in Afghanistan.

This is a debacle in every way. My heart goes out to those left behind, to those who died or were wounded in the suicide bombings, and to all the families involved.

Posted by: bluebell at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (cf/lv)

138 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick

Not that I have seen. That was the most insane thing in this entire drama of madness.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

The explanation I've seen and believe is, "keeping Bagram was Trump's plan" and Spongebob Shitpants couldn't do OrangeManBad.

So they ran

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Z+uwH)

139 I loathe every single person who voted for Biden. That's my husband's entire family and my idiot sister.

I want no contact with any of them, but I'll have to be around the jackass in-laws for my lib MiL's memorial services.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

Jane, you are a good, sweet woman, but if any one of them dares to even look at you cross-eyed, you and your husband need to go full Hiroshima on their asses. Otherwise, they'll just keep on being smug assholes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (2JVJo)

140 Is Circle Back Jen back from vacay?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (GQ5VU)

141 Damn...browser reset and double posted.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (dX8QE)

142 Jen's not done hanging her ass out for all to see...

@JRubinBlogger 33m

The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don't take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)

And how exactly are we to know that all the people we are bringing over here are "allies?"

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (wrwK7)

143 Well, it's all academic, as no more Americans not inside the wire at HKIA are getting out now.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (DXFDM)

nah, in the coming days they'll just rescind their citizenship.

Voila, no more americans stranded...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (8D42x)

144 =======

Exiled?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

Excommunicated from this lifeform.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

145 AFAIK there were draw-down targets set (number of personnel in-country by certain dates), and given that schedule the military had to choose between keeping Bagram, and doing everything else they had planned to do (mostly involving security for the embassy and other locations).

So they chose to give up Bagram, to meet the timetable and hit the numerical target. This may not be correct, or the whole story - but it does fit the facts we do know.

Shorter: a ridiculous judgement error was made, and/or a character failure occurred in that the commander didn't flatly state the metrics and timetable had to be adjusted so that we left Bagram last.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (OTzUX)

146 I've got a sister like that too.. Yesterday she was telling me how good the vaccine is while at the same time her 32 year old vaccinated Granddaughter got covid last week.. I give up
Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (Zmnko)

I actually saw a tweet that went something like "I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

WTAF? Funny, the only people I know who've gotten it lately are fully vaxxed.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (wAnMi)

147 57 >Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)
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My money is on them negotiating it away with the Taliban- "OK, we will close it up, thanks for your help with the little airport!"

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (Phn3e)

148 Not only are they not going beyond the deadline set by the Taliban, Psaki said troops would pull out before then to make sure they are all out by the deadline.

Posted by: abbynormal at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (Xpj5t)

149 This is the most vile thing these spokesholes have said yet.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (II3Gr)

150 Supply Chain Problems Can Be Solved By Increasing Demand

Posted by: Sun Tzu is also an Economist at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (vOGqy)

151 The four years of Trump peace and prosperity was "unbearable" to my progressive brother. His exact word. I haven't asked him how he's taking the infinitely bearable Biden.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (ucUhL)

152 Biden was saying this wasn't going to be Saigon, we would have an embassy there, just 30 days ago.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (lkfcP)

153 Re Bagram: Gen Milley and Lloyd Austin were actually asked if it was wise to abandon Bagram first. It was during a Congressional hearing a few months ago -- they thought they didn't need Bagram and had no issues with leaving it.

I'll look for the video.

Posted by: Revenant at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (CtltA)

154 So they ran

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns:

Heh

Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (qM+xO)

155 Let's assume for argument's sake that there are a few Americans that wanted to stay.

Let's further assume they asked State/some flavor of DOD personnel/any US Fed arm for spare weapons.

Wanna bet what the answer would be?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (mD/uy)

156 151 The four years of Trump peace and prosperity was "unbearable" to my progressive brother. His exact word. I haven't asked him how he's taking the infinitely bearable Biden.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (ucUhL)

==========

"I'm on more anti-depressants than ever. I'm alone. I'm miserable. I hate everyone. But at least Trump isn't in office."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

157 We keep talking about this and how preezy pudding head fucked up and nothing will happen to him. He'll die in his own bed in Delaware dreaming of all of the hair he sniffed along the way wearing his preezy 46 pj's and a drooling cup. He may even get reelected.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (2NHgQ)

158 If your enemy does not possess American slaves or hostages, give them some.

Posted by: Sun Tzu at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (cMUQt)

159 > Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?

Gen Milley said it wasn't tactically necessary. I think that's the only "explanation" we've been given. There are also leaked reports that it was a contentious decision, but I don't think they explained the "thinking" behind the move.

I expect it was something like, "We're getting out, we should close that down." and no further thought went into it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (UW2ZS)

160 Sorry folks, this lying s/o/s administration can't be trusted. 4 KIA, 3 WIA? My guess is it's twice that at least, and I'll bet they walk on taking any responsibility for it.
Burn the MF'rs to the ground, left and right alike.

I'll go offline now, I'm just incensed by this shit.

Posted by: IP at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (pWrfh)

161 And is it possible they routinely conspire to vote strategically to make sure the left wins all consequential votes on policy? And occasionally tank presidential elections?

True.

But y'all need to vote harder and contribute more money to the GOP to "fight." (What exactly they're fighting is never really defined but apparently it's us.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (BFigT)

162 I actually saw a tweet that went something like "I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

WTAF? Funny, the only people I know who've gotten it lately are fully vaxxed.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (wAnMi)

Everything is a cult. If it does not protect you this time, you just have to believe in the vaccine HARDER.

Because we have taught that no self examination or self criticism can be allowed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (csEWM)

163 If your enemy does not possess American slaves or hostages, give them some.
Posted by: Sun Tzu at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (cMUQt)

For shame.

I LOL'd.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

164 87 "Abandoned" is such a harsh term. Let's say "permanently expatriated".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (d9FiS)

--------------
"Colonists" The Greeks/Macedons established the Greco-Bactria Empire in that area after Alexander the Great's conquest.

Perhaps something like that could happen again?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 26, 2021 12:38 PM (TNyrE)

165
So they want us to pretend 1) ISIS and the Taliban hate each other.

Because 2) they want to pretend that all the violence is ISIS, not Our New Pals, the Taliban.

And, 3) ISIS is still around because President Trump did Not eradicate ISIS like he claims.

Got it? Good.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 12:38 PM (8L9jd)

166 Re 153, above, here is the video:
https://tinyurl.com/3aah39kd

The questioning starts at 1:06:55

Posted by: Revenant at August 26, 2021 12:38 PM (CtltA)

167 >Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick -

*

It's just a continuation of Obama's Arab Spring. It was planned this way and 100% on purpose. I can prove it, too.

In June Biden gave a speech to the G7 members assuring them the US was "back at the table" and there for the long haul. It was on purpose. Because if the Biden administration told the Europeans what was happening, the Europeans could've planned and fortified the area.

Biden (Obama, Jarrett) WANTS the Taliban to have Afghanistan. That is the plan.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 26, 2021 12:38 PM (/XjU0)

168 Milley's too busy sucking woke dick to even try to do his job responsibly.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:38 PM (II3Gr)

169 71 Has there been any, I mean any at all, explanations as to why the hell we abandoned Bagram?
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mf5HN)
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Not that I have seen. That was the most insane thing in this entire drama of madness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:30 PM (Jsjd7)

I read that Joe told General Miller, Commander-Afghanistan, the US military in all of Afghanistan would be reduced to 700 by sometime in Mid-August, and down to zero NLT August 31. Miller decided he could not defend Bagram, the Embassy, and the Kabul airport with that number of troops (not all of the 700 were infantry). So he bugged-out of Bagram. Did Blinken force that decision? Maybe we will find out.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (AMIL/)

170 @Breaking911 2m

JUST IN: US State Dept. says there will be no news briefing today

Hide all you feckless wimps!

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (cF8AT)

171 Does this include the high schoolers from California?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2021 12:24 PM (m/Gc2)

I've read the students/parents were "previous Afghan refugees"....went back to visit?

Posted by: BignJames at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (AwYPR)

172 I checked with circulation and all of our subscribers are now out of Kabul.

Posted by: Jen Rubin at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (cMUQt)

173 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 26, 2021 12:37 PM (2NHgQ)

By the end of September I think he will have resigned. I don't think a senile man can survive this politically.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (lkfcP)

174 "Our administration will make certain that any American who wants to get blown up or beheaded will have that opportunity."

Posted by: 496 at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (VJsqe)

175 87 "Abandoned" is such a harsh term. Let's say "permanently expatriated".

undocumented emigrants.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (FFhtO)

176 170 @Breaking911 2m

JUST IN: US State Dept. says there will be no news briefing today

Hide all you feckless wimps!
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (cF8AT)

'Focus on Covid.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (csEWM)

177 I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

To the extent the jab helps it wears off in 6 months so...if you had you jab when they first came out it is doing NOTHING for you now.

Israel has basically their whole population jabbed, with a booster as well, and is having a major outbreak...might be worse then the one last year.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (DpkTQ)

178 actually saw a tweet that went something like "I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

*

Mankind has advanced to the point where people who aren't sick can give a virus they don't have to people who are vaccinated against the infection.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (/XjU0)

179 AG Brnovich: Maricopa County [AZ] Must Comply with Senate's Legislative Subpoena or Forfeit State Funds [Press Release]

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

180 Note: I am NOT saying they deserve anything that happens to them, I just don't understand going to places like this at all.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (UW2ZS)

Sadly, most are terribly liberal, and have been brainwashed into thinking that the whole world fell in love with us and mad respect when Joe, the king of foreign policy forced Emperor Cheeto out of office.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (wAnMi)

181 I wonder if Russia will capitalize. If I were Putin, I'd see a huge opportunity to look like a hero and utterly humiliate the US even more for the cost of very little. I'd order Tajikistan (who does answer to Russia on many things) to actively assist and expedite the transfer of Americans and other Westerners - and only them, no Afghans - to the Russian embassy in Dushanbe. I would then keep them fed and watered, provide stopgap medical care if needed, put them on planes to Moscow and then put them up in some hotels. As I got enough evacuees to fill a plane, I'd send repatriation flights to Kennedy airport.

I'd look great, it would cost little and I'd really humiliate the US even further in the process.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Jsjd7)

182 You know, strangely enough I'm online all the time, and I never heard any of those warnings or messages.

How strange.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (oHd/0)

Odd huh? Neither did any of the guys in my company working there.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (axyOa)

183 I want no contact with any of them, but I'll have to be around the jackass in-laws for my lib MiL's memorial services.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh

Walk into the room, look all of them in the eye, and tell them, " do not say one word to me. If you do, I will reach down your throat and pull your spleen out."

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Z+uwH)

184 >>> And how exactly are we to know that all the people we are bringing over here are "allies?"
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (wrwK7)

They are not our allies. If they were they would never be allowed anywhere near our shores. They are our master's assets.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (ZOfsH)

185 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Posted by: Doc at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Vgl4t)

186 I think the government needs to send Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris, on a fact finding tour among the Afgan refugees trying to get on US planes, to make sure that their feelings aren't being hurt by the white supremacist soldiers keeping them from flying.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (FCsYG)

187 It's actually amazing that our elites are this stupid.

It must take a lot of effort.

Posted by: MJ at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (zwDuR)

188
We are to believe that ISIS, out of nowhere, is doing something in Afghanistan that the US Military could not and can not do: Have their way with the place.

Do Not believe any of this ISIS bullshit. Whatever the Fake News and the fake biden admin says about ISIS in A-stan is a Big Lie.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (8L9jd)

189 Muh normz. Muh adultz.

@Breaking911 4m

JUST IN: US State Dept. says there will be no news briefing today

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (1t5dY)

190 "Our administration will make certain that any American who wants to get blown up or beheaded will have that opportunity."
Posted by: 496 at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (VJsqe)

"We've done everything we can to bring the experience of full blown terrorism to the United States, but have yet to succeed, so we needed to do what we could to bring that experience to the American people. We've done just that. Promise made. Promise kept!"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

191 To the extent the jab helps it wears off in 6 months so...if you had you jab when they first came out it is doing NOTHING for you now.

Israel has basically their whole population jabbed, with a booster as well, and is having a major outbreak...might be worse then the one last year.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (DpkTQ

I'm reaching the conclusion that the "vaccine" is fucking people's immune systems and accelerating adaptation of the virus. It's worse than worthless.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (II3Gr)

192 157 We keep talking about this and how preezy pudding head fucked up and nothing will happen to him. He'll die in his own bed in Delaware dreaming of all of the hair he sniffed along the way wearing his preezy 46 pj's and a drooling cup. He may even get reelected.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

One can never quite predict the future--some people that don't appear to deserve it are quite thoroughly punished by life while others that appear to deserve it are not. Widespread public disapproval and dementia are not a picnic and then what comes after might well be guessed about in Biden's case if you believe in an afterlife.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (xunV5)

193 And so I ran. And ran. And ran.

Posted by: Forrest Gump Biden at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (r+sAi)

194 Can't say that I really disagree.

With Biden in the WH, you'd have to be a bovine, clod-pated, city-fied moron not to realize your life would be in danger in August of 2021 if you were an American in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (0o2qn)

195 Blame it on somebody else biden.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (JUOKG)

196 185 Jill Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Posted by: Doc at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Vgl4t)

FIFY

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (cF8AT)

197 >>> 139 I loathe every single person who voted for Biden. That's my husband's entire family and my idiot sister.

I want no contact with any of them, but I'll have to be around the jackass in-laws for my lib MiL's memorial services.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

Jane, you are a good, sweet woman, but if any one of them dares to even look at you cross-eyed, you and your husband need to go full Hiroshima on their asses. Otherwise, they'll just keep on being smug assholes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2021 12:35 PM (2JVJo)

1) I second this

2) I am a terrible person and want to read your story when you finally get tired of the ignorant cockholsters and their BS

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (ACi07)

198 Biden's complete lack of decency, compassion and empathy almost seems demonic.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (cSyAR)

199 To the extent the jab helps it wears off in 6 months so...if you had you jab when they first came out it is doing NOTHING for you now.

Israel has basically their whole population jabbed, with a booster as well, and is having a major outbreak...might be worse then the one last year.
Posted by: 18-1

By design. Trust me on that.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (Z+uwH)

200 187 It's actually amazing that our elites are this stupid.

It must take a lot of effort.
Posted by: MJ at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (zwDuR)

It's not that they're stupid, it's that they're evil and treacherous. They aren't on our side.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (II3Gr)

201 My brother and his wife voted for Biden. I texted him and told him that the blood of the marines in Kabul are on their hands now too.

Posted by: Megthered at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (5UzQC)

202 ISIS surrounds Kabul airport.

Posted by: It's Happening at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (qojq3)

203 The end of the post describes NeverTrumper Dan Crenshaw perfectly

Posted by: Markytom at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (DJbKF)

204 Lots of comments on Bagram. My 2 cents is that I heard it was something the Taliban asked for and Zal Khalilzad, the Taliban negotiator, agreed to, over the objections of General Miller, the commander in Afghanistan. Khalilzad is a former ambassador who was appointed as Taliban negotiator by Trump and retained by Biden.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (BMmaB)

205 By 2022 midterms, the journos are going to be making fun of Republicans/Conservatives for still talking about Kabul in the same way Benghazi aged into joke for them.
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Posted by: Match Checksout at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (dYe5S)

206 And so I ran. And ran. And ran.
Posted by: Forrest Gump Biden at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (r+sAi)

You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

207 My guess (and I expect to have to guess on account of never getting the truth) is that Bagram was abandoned first out of sheer fucking idiocy. You really cannot underestimate the lack of potential of these smoothbrains. They were convinced this was all going to work out nicely because on account for The Taliban's concern about its standing in the international community. They said that. I don't that's spin. They're plenty dumb enough to believe that. Sounds like something John Kerry would say.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (QU5/8)

208 How are they going to get airlifted out of the airport if they're not at the airport?
.......

"Maybe they can steal some flying carpets." - Jen Psaki

Posted by: wth at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (v0R5T)

209 I have a 3 PM tee time at Andrews AFB-West and so I won't be available today for the news briefing.

Posted by: Gen. Modern Millie at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (cMUQt)

210 205 By 2022 midterms, the journos are going to be making fun of Republicans/Conservatives for still talking about Kabul in the same way Benghazi aged into joke for them.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (dYe5S)

========

Rated: True.

Doesn't change the fact that it's going to hurt the overall image of Biden and Democrats in general with the voting populace.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

211 Feels like the Carter years all over again. Are we going to have another 444 day hostage situation? This country damn near came apart then. It's more divided now, so what are the chances things don't come undone?
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You're not thinking gloomily enough. Go back to the middle ages. We're going to have hostages for decades. Its going to become an industry. Like when the Trinitarian and Mercidarian orders were running ops.

Posted by: you aren't yet cynical enough to appreciate the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (C6+Er)

212 Conservatives for still talking about Kabul in the same way Benghazi aged into joke for them.

At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Democrats killing Americans again at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (DpkTQ)

213 >The four years of Trump peace and prosperity was "unbearable" to my progressive brother. His exact word. I haven't asked him how he's taking the infinitely bearable Biden.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (ucUhL)

That's the worst part of this insanity to me. Objectively, things were peaceful and prosperous under Trump. Ask a rabid anti-Trumper what was so awful about living under a Trump presidency and they can't even make an argument beyond sputtering about mean tweets and muh norms.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (DXFDM)

214 It's not that they're stupid, it's that they're evil and treacherous. They aren't on our side.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (II3Gr)

And self-righteous. That's what blinds them to their follies.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (ucUhL)

215 201 My brother and his wife voted for Biden. I texted him and told him that the blood of the marines in Kabul are on their hands now too.

Posted by: Megthered at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (5UzQC)

He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

216 Yes, we're all angry. Spitin' mad. Rage stroked.

BUT, not enough to really do anything. And please don't make us sacrifice our comfort zones.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (Fs5vw)

217 Chuck Norris: The war is over. I've come to bring all of you home.

Vietnam POW: Oh, thanks, but we wanted to stay.

Chuck Norris: Oh...uh....never mind then.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (BJKQV)

218 Israel has basically their whole population jabbed, with a booster as well, and is having a major outbreak.

It's called a 'booster' for a reason, you know.

Posted by: Pfizer at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (ELgVT)

219 >>> 178 actually saw a tweet that went something like "I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

*

Mankind has advanced to the point where people who aren't sick can give a virus they don't have to people who are vaccinated against the infection.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (/XjU0)

There is no solution to this that does not begin with tire irons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (ACi07)

220 It's not that they're stupid, it's that they're evil and treacherous. They aren't on our side.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (II3Gr)

I think you can never discount the stupid aspect. Still evil and treacherous- just also stupid and incompetent.

And yet the GOPe has surrendered to them en masse. Cause they are MORE stupid and incompetent. And Evil and treacherous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (csEWM)

221 No more foreign military adventures after this war. Our goal was to capture or kill OBL, we did that ten years ago. If the people of Afghanistan want to be rid of the Taliban, that's their war, not ours.

Posted by: Mike at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (kxfaA)

222 So in addition to being tortured, enslaved and killed, the Americans stuck there get to be shamed by those in power and our idiot media (BIRM) as too stupid or ignorant to get out. Lovely people.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (U41ue)

223 BREAKING NEWS : The State Department will be spouting no lies today.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VPbnN)

224 215 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

==========

Biden's making COVID worse. Just look at the new need for lockdowns that didn't exist in November of 2020.

This is all Biden's fault.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

225
Believe me: the biden regime will never admit the Taliban is fucking them (Us, really) over.

All of the atrocities will be blamed on the non-existent, imaginary "isis," who are still around because Trump. But those Taliban are keeping their word to biden, by golly!

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (8L9jd)

226 JUST IN: US State Dept. says there will be no news briefing today
........

Kirby is getting a manicure.

Posted by: wth at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

227 185 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Posted by: Doc at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Vgl4t)

Yup. I won't even try to guess how things will play-out from here.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

228 "We've done everything we can to bring the experience of full blown terrorism to the United States, but have yet to succeed, so we needed to do what we could to bring that experience to the American people. We've done just that. Promise made. Promise kept!" Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

Interesting that just below it there's a post bashing Dan Crenshaw. He was on Fox this morning saying exactly this -- that some people think once we leave it will result in peace and we will be safe from the jihadis, but it's going to be exactly the opposite.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (BMmaB)

229 ated: True.

Doesn't change the fact that it's going to hurt the overall image of Biden and Democrats in general with the voting populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

As if that mattered.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (csEWM)

230 "We've been warning people" to abandon their posts and not do their jobs?!? The Psakis of the world can't suffer enough in my book.
I'm old enough to remember when decent people took low-paying government jobs as a public service.
Now incompetent (but well-connected!) people take high-paying government jobs so they'll never have to do anything the rest of their lives.

Posted by: Wally at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (FJYfm)

231 So, the reddit autists over on super stonk had got some guys who watch the private planes owned by the hedge funds (which is perfectly legal; a lot of times they can guess what coach is going to be hired by watching where the private planes go)
Posted by: artemis at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (AwPyG)

I mentioned briefly on the podcast last night (I'm not sure when BC will have a chance to get it up, he's having a bit of a day) about the plane watchers. That's a fascinating subculture because there is so munch information that can be gleaned from it and it's all perfectly legal.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (mf5HN)

232 Gen. Milley better be prepared to understand what Veteran Rage will be like because it is headed his way. What a fucking joke of a CJCS he is. If he was smart and had any dignity, he'd have already resigned.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (xQZqb)

233 To the extent the jab helps it wears off in 6 months so...if you had you jab when they first came out it is doing NOTHING for you now.

Israel has basically their whole population jabbed, with a booster as well, and is having a major outbreak...might be worse then the one last year.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (DpkTQ)

All of this was predicted by Dr. Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccine over a month ago. He did a video (banned on most sites) where he predicted a new outbreak, starting with those who got the Pfizer drug (the weakest of the lot). His theory is your immune system goes on vacation after being supercharged, and whoever got the drug is far more susceptible when it wanes, and you go into a plateau stage.

Of course, we can't believe the guy who invented the shit. That sort of trust goes to dancing teens singing about the vaccine and Dr Fauci.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (wAnMi)

234 113 Greenland is looking better and better
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2021 12:32 PM (cMUQt)

I hear that blubber is tasty.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 26, 2021 12:33 PM (AiZBA)

try the rotted pickled shark

Posted by: HRC worthless bitch at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (yrol0)

235 @meekwire 3m

*** URGENT *** -- New threat of VBIED at North Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, US official inside the airport complex tells @ABC following complex IED attack at Abbey gate earlier today.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (cF8AT)

236 227 185 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Besides there is no way Dr. Jill will be leaving the WH willingly

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (Zmnko)

237 Per General Milley's testimony (I provided video above, questioning on Bagram happens at 1:10:29 link: https://tinyurl.com/3aah39kd).

Milley stated that: "On Bagram, Bagram is not necessary tactically or operationally for what were going to try to do with Afghanistan. Consolidate on Kabul in support of their government "

Posted by: Revenant at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (CtltA)

238 >>> 220 It's not that they're stupid, it's that they're evil and treacherous. They aren't on our side.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (II3Gr)

I think you can never discount the stupid aspect. Still evil and treacherous- just also stupid and incompetent.

And yet the GOPe has surrendered to them en masse. Cause they are MORE stupid and incompetent. And Evil and treacherous.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (csEWM)

"Satan's Retards" from Backwards Boy iirc

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (ACi07)

239 Yup. I won't even try to guess how things will play-out from here.
Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

I think I can confidently say: things will get worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (csEWM)

240 I read that Joe told General Miller, Commander-Afghanistan, the US military in all of Afghanistan would be reduced to 700 by sometime in Mid-August, and down to zero NLT August 31. Miller decided he could not defend Bagram, the Embassy, and the Kabul airport with that number of troops (not all of the 700 were infantry). So he bugged-out of Bagram. Did Blinken force that decision? Maybe we will find out.
Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (AMIL/)

and if he had just been given a few thousand more troops, like Biden sent to HKIA this week anyway, he wouldn't have had to abandon Bagram. or lose Kabul. or the Marines.

Posted by: x at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (oA+QO)

241 >>So the situation is this: Of the 1500 or more Americans in Afghanistan, we will certainly wind up leaving behind hostages and future beheading victims.

**1500**

That's A LOT of people. Is that even a legeit number, or best gess based on what few details Psaki and crew have given over the past week?

How many of them will we see paraded before the cameras and then beheaded, set on fire, whatever?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (bDqIh)

242 JUST IN: US State Dept. says there will be no news briefing today

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:39 PM (cF8AT)
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Well, you know, not much going on in the world these days so they might as well take the rest of the day off.

Posted by: bluebell at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (cf/lv)

243 Yup. I won't even try to guess how things will play-out from here. Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

Truly we are in uncharted territory and the situation changes every day. 41 months to go (h/t, rhomboid).

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (BMmaB)

244 @185

Joe leaves when Dr. Jill decides he leaves...because First Lady!

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (S1hrL)

245 My guess (and I expect to have to guess on account of never getting the truth) is that Bagram was abandoned first out of sheer fucking idiocy. You really cannot underestimate the lack of potential of these smoothbrains.
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I would agree and amplify. They TRADED the base and all its equipment for NOTHING. I mean if you decided to leave the base, why the holy he!! would you leave all your stuff there? They thought they were going to buy a deal with these goat humpers, but the goat humpers can't or won't deliver.
The people that rule us are IMBECILES.

Posted by: you aren't yet cynical enough to appreciate the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (VDU72)

246 ATTENTION, ATTENTION: If you are at the gate leave the gate, leave the gate immediately,

Return to your residence and wait for the rescue that will not come.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (gpUSD)

247 Maybe the Americans stuck in Afghanistan can't hear the exit instructions over all the Love is Love messaging.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (U41ue)

248 "Satan's Retards" from Backwards Boy iirc
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (ACi07)

I like that one. Props to BB and you.

ace, take note.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (csEWM)

249 >>*** URGENT *** -- New threat of VBIED at North Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, US official inside the airport complex tells @ABC following complex IED attack at Abbey gate earlier today.

What flavor ice cream did you get, Mr President!?

Posted by: WH Press Corps at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (dX8QE)

250 I'm not sure when BC will have a chance to get it up,

....

Seriously?

Posted by: Phrasing? at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (qojq3)

251 Gref @169 with the detail of what I was talking about. Miller had a choice between Bagram and everything else - or DOD had to change the timetable or numbers. Nothing was changed, "everything else" was chosen, Bagram was abandoned. I expect we'll see this is what happened.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (OTzUX)

252 Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (cF8AT)

They need to either take off now or send in bombs to blow the shithole to hell.. Perhaps I should have said and

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Zmnko)

253 215 201 My brother and his wife voted for Biden. I texted him and told him that the blood of the marines in Kabul are on their hands now too.

Posted by: Megthered at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM (5UzQC)

He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

Yeah. My mom voted for Biden. The other day she complained about the economy, crime, etc "And they're gonna blame it all on Biden" she said.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (BJKQV)

254 I think a lot of this hype is the deep state and the swamp wanting to keep us in Afghanistan. They're trying everything they can to provoke the war fever in us. We need to keep going and get gone. The only thing we know for certain is all the wrong people want us to remain.

How many days since the head of the CIA showed up was this terrorist attack? Coincidence? Who knows? Not like you can trust anyone anywhere that matters to report this honestly.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (B0mGw)

255 @JRubinBlogger

What a rotten filthy c-word she is
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (U41ue)

Adjectives notwithstanding, I've never understood why a slang term for vagina came to be used in a derogatory fashion. I mean, I like vaginas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (T7iTv)

256 We really need to get out of this mindset that anything can cause "political damage" to the Dems.

That all went out the window when the Republic died on election night, 11/20.

Without free and fair elections, none of it matters anymore.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Bmy3R)

257 My word as a Biden.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (F0YaR)

258 Possibly the six California high school students and their parents, who picked a bad time to trust the competency of Joe Biden and his Foreign Policy Dream Team, might not get out of Afghanistan.

They're Afghan families. Paper Americans.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (EpDzw)

259 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Besides there is no way Dr. Jill will be leaving the WH willingly
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Totally agreed. He lied to Obama, made up stories about his dead son, and underwent a metric shit ton of plastic surgery to run in 2020.

But I'm sure he'll just walk off...

Posted by: MJ at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (zwDuR)

260 The White Zone is for Suicide Bombers ONLY

Posted by: Kabul Airport PA at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (dX8QE)

261 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami

Then every death within six months of getting the jab counts.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (Z+uwH)

262 Remain calm! All is well!

Posted by: Chip Diller, now with a dress and red hair at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)

263 >>> 236 227 185 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.

Besides there is no way Dr. Jill will be leaving the WH willingly
Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (Zmnko)

Speaking of uses for tire irons....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (ACi07)

264 In all of this, I call everyone's attention to this stunning news, which I half-predicted earlier: NO STATE BRIEFING TODAY.

Now - I expect there will be DOD and/or WH briefings.

If *those* don't happen ..... well. We're even further into collapse than even I thought.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (OTzUX)

265 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (yrol0)

266 >> I'm not sure when BC will have a chance to get it up,

I hear Carrots help with that.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (dX8QE)

267 To be fair, if I was in Afghanistan, I would have been looking for the door as soon as I saw the November 3 fucking travesty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:34 PM (csEWM)

Damn right.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2021 12:48 PM (VwHCD)

268 I think I can confidently say: things will get worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:46 PM (csEWM)

This guy gets it.

Posted by: Today is bad but tomorrow will be worse at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (qojq3)

269 >>Greenland is looking better and better

Nope - we're mining it soon for minerals for EV batteries.
You can't escape there now, serfs!

Posted by: Gates, Bezos & Bloomberg at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (bDqIh)

270 "I've never understood why a slang term for vagina came to be used in a derogatory fashion."

It's got a nice, forceful push to it and it was always derogatory in that dirty sexual way.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (B0mGw)

271 The first comment at a Treehouse thread last night asked a very good question. The government says theyve evacuated 4,500 Americans so far. Okay, so...

Where are they? Not one of them has been giving interviews to any news organizations, who would normally be jumping over each other to get these interviews. But there are none.

I'm starting to doubt that any Americans have been evacuated at all, other than reporters.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (OssQ4)

272 What's the the thing the Left wants to do to olde people who are infirm and a drag on society?

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (VPbnN)

273 Totally agreed. He lied to Obama, made up stories about his dead son, and underwent a metric shit ton of plastic surgery to run in 2020.

He did? He should get his money back.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (cSyAR)

274 That all went out the window when the Republic died on election night, 11/20.

Without free and fair elections, none of it matters anymore.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Bmy3R)

257 My word as a Biden.
Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (F0YaR)

Now THAT is a depressing bit of Horde serendipity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (csEWM)

275 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

Oh, that's it. I am out until a cheery thread comes along.

Someone says that to me, after this, and they eat food through a straw for the rest of their days.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (2JVJo)

276 "We're going to have hostages for decades."

More like the Vietnam POW-MIAs scandal, than like the Iran hostage crisis. In Iran, we knew exactly who was held. In this case, we'll never know 100% who was left behind. The scandal will endure for decades, yes.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (qpX6U)

277 I'm so angry. If we start seeing Americans being killed, I wonder if it will be an all out fucking war...again?

Where's that cock sucking pussy Afghan president? Need to drag his fucking ass right back to the Motherland sans $.

Posted by: sidney at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (+fjIe)

278 " I would have been looking for the door as soon as I saw the November 3 fucking travesty."

The U.S. has lived in a fairy land for too long. We all have grown to believe it can't happen to us.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (B0mGw)

279 According to Hannity, yesterday, Trump's plan did not call for evacuating Bagram but keeping it for an outpost.

Previously thought he was going to keep Bagram till all Americans etc were evacuated then leave that area as we found it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (gpUSD)

280 But we are winning the war on climate change and whiteness, so there's that.

Posted by: Auspex at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (Xo3T0)

281 What's the the thing the Left wants to do to olde people who are infirm and a drag on society?

Oh I know this one!

Posted by: Jenny Agutter in the green dress at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

282 "I wonder if it will be an all out fucking war...again?"

That's the goal.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (B0mGw)

283 >>>279 According to Hannity, yesterday, Trump's plan did not call for evacuating Bagram but keeping it for an outpost.

good to know.

Posted by: ace at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (0G13K)

284 Just think, Biden is still working on his Iran deal too. Judging by his handling of everything else, it is beyond time the 25th is invoked and send him to Delaware permanently. He's done enough damage.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (xQZqb)

285 There will be no accountability, just tens of thousands of people who like fucking goats going to turn Western countries into shitholes.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (vN+oL)

286 Posted by: Jenny Agutter in the green dress at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

Carousel

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (Zmnko)

287 Biden has wanted to be president since 1972. It doesn't matter how bad this or anything else gets - the only ways he will leave is losing an election or passing away.
Posted by: Doc at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (Vgl4t)
Yup. I won't even try to guess how things will play-out from here.
Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

I'd be willing to guess if they do decide he needs to go, he'll have to have an accident. One of the signs when people start slipping into dementia proper (and I'd bet Joe is there) is paranoia. People are plotting against you, listening to your calls, watching you, talking to you through the TV. One reason I think they sedate Joe constantly. He could easily start accusing people live, on camera, saying all kinds of shit they don't want heard. straight up Captain Queeg stuff.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (wAnMi)

288 >>They're Afghan families. Paper Americans.

Thanks - I was wondering about that.
Are they some of those "refugees" who still manage to go and visit family remaining in their country of origin? Such a scam.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (bDqIh)

289 >>> 284 Just think, Biden is still working on his Iran deal too. Judging by his handling of everything else, it is beyond time the 25th is invoked and send him to Delaware permanently. He's done enough damage.
Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (xQZqb)

*squeeee*

Posted by: K. Harris at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (ACi07)

290 "What's the the thing the Left wants to do to olde people who are infirm and a drag on society?"

Get them registered without their knowledge so they can steal their ballots and vote for them?

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (B0mGw)

291 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

Yet thee same assholes revere Fauci who didn't alert Trump to Covid. Remember a week before the lockdown he said "Masks didn't work."

No one can say HOW Trump is responsible for 600,000 deaths. What was he supposed to do?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (mR6Gs)

292
The McCain family just issued a statement saying John's last wish was to censure any Republican who criticizes biden's hard work getting Americans out of Afghanistan this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 12:52 PM (8L9jd)

293 And they're gonna blame it all on Biden" she said.
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You should have said it was 1/81 millionth her fault.

Posted by: you aren't yet cynical enough to appreciate the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:52 PM (XjGk5)

294 >I mentioned briefly on the podcast last night (I'm not sure when BC will have a chance to get it up, he's having a bit of a day) about the plane watchers. That's a fascinating subculture because there is so munch information that can be gleaned from it and it's all perfectly legal.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM (mf5HN)

ADS-B has been a pretty neat technology.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (DXFDM)

295 Chuck Norris: The war is over. I've come to bring all of you home. Vietnam POW: Oh, thanks, but we wanted to stay. Chuck Norris: Oh...uh....never mind then. Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (BJKQV)

The best estimate I've ever seen is that 42 Americans deserted over the years and stayed in Vietnam. 1 or 2 of them came back years later and were quietly court-martialed. Unlike in Vietnam, in this case there are a number of people who have blue passports who aren't of American origin, and I don't doubt that some of them will stay in Afghanistan. But nowhere near 1,500 -- more like single digits.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (BMmaB)

296 292
The McCain family just issued a statement saying John's last wish was to censure any Republican who criticizes biden's hard work getting Americans out of Afghanistan this week.
Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow

believable as I'm sure the funeral is still on the go

Posted by: Rick in SK at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (FZYNt)

297 '"I wonder if it will be an all out fucking war...again?"

That's the goal.'

A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. Hate to speculate about it, but prolly true.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (qpX6U)

298 "No one can say HOW Trump is responsible for 600,000 deaths."

No one can say how Trump is a racist or a Russian plant either, but that doesn't seem to matter to the sort of people who get their news from the main stream media.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (B0mGw)

299 >>"We're going to have hostages for decades."

American women and girls will be married off or sold into slavery. That's the ISIS and Boko Haram way. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (bDqIh)

300 A Democrat House member from California is telling F. Chuck Todd that Joe did the best with the hand he was dealt by Trump and the cowardly Afghan Army. Asked what we should focus on in the inevitable Congressional blame game hearings, he said we should focus on the future. In other words, Biden's Bug-Out is ancient history, we need to Move On.

He's floating the first-try at Democrat damage control and set-the-narrative talking points. Scumbag.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (AMIL/)

301 279 According to Hannity, yesterday, Trump's plan did not call for evacuating Bagram but keeping it for an outpost.

good to know.
Posted by: ace at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (0G13K)

I heard that too. It makes sense.
Trump was a hands on guy.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (mR6Gs)

302 "Is it possible that perhaps our Conservative, Inc. leaders are actually far more aligned culturally and ideologically with the left than with their own voters/supporters/readers?"

It's irrelevant what any of them think or feel. We'll never know. People do what they're paid to do.

Posted by: Drerbrerard at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (f9ze2)

303 Curse you Joe Biden for giving us so much work! Do you think executing hundreds of thousands of people is easy, Joe? We can't just kill all the people you left behind over night, we have to set up a way to properly dispose of the bodies and clean up after the executions, those things take time and lots of hard work. Why do you have to leave so many people behind, are you trying to work us to death with an unending string of executions?

Posted by: The Taliban at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (/4vtq)

304 One thing for shit sure, Pax Americana is deader than Dillinger.

Especially when 10's of thousands of US Military tell the Junta to go pound sand over the vaccine mandate.

What an abomination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (9h4bD)

305 Which vial is this, again? I keep losing track...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (MkuC5)

306 Since I am personally involved in some of the private efforts to help US Citizens, I can tell you they are not all out. There are a variety of reasons people stayed this long, not the least of which is the current administration was very misleading on dates. Ostensibly, many of these people worked for contractors and were needed on the ground. Others had family members there whom they were trying to get out. Irrespective, they are US Citizens and these evacuation plans always account for ALL contingencies. We NEVER have left anyone behind and I can tell you the current plans to do that are seriously impacting people who live by that creed.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (Rz7nO)

307 My guess (and I expect to have to guess on account of never getting the truth) is that Bagram was abandoned first out of sheer fucking idiocy. You really cannot underestimate the lack of potential of these smoothbrains. They were convinced this was all going to work out nicely because on account for The Taliban's concern about its standing in the international community. They said that. I don't that's spin. They're plenty dumb enough to believe that. Sounds like something John Kerry would say.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 26, 2021 12:42 PM

Closing bagram air base was to have been the last thing done under Trump's plan. It was going to be the Alamo after everyone else was evacuated. biden changed the plan because orangeman bad.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (JUOKG)

308 "A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. "

I think they are setting up this scenario, but it won't work without dropping the COVID insanity.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (B0mGw)

309 Feels like the Carter years all over again.

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Jimmy Cracker said something like he'd learned more about the USSR in the 24 hours since the Russkis invaded Afghanistan than he had ever known about them.

(I tried to look up the exact quote but couldn't find it.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (d9FiS)

310 He did? He should get his money back.
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You can see the places on his temples where skin was pulled tight and the muscles were lifted.

And his smile is now so stretched it looks maniacal.

And the scars tissue around his eyes have basically closed them up.

Posted by: MJ at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (zwDuR)

311 Totally agreed. He lied to Obama, made up stories about his dead son, and underwent a metric shit ton of plastic surgery to run in 2020.

He did? He should get his money back.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 12:49 PM (cSyAR)

His dead son should be glad he's dead and didn't live to see his demented ball bag of a father destroy the world.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (VwHCD)

312
Of fuckin course!

Who gives up a US airbase in a strategic location that can be maintained, In Perpetuity, with minimum personnel?!?

Only a stupid asshole (the Pentagon Shits and biden's handlers) would walk away from Bagram.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (8L9jd)

313 The U.S. has lived in a fairy land for too long. We all have grown to believe it can't happen to us.
Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:50 PM (B0mGw)

I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of those who remained totally bought into the deep state lies. Even if they liked Trump, they believed what they were told. Who knows how many were really even aware of what was going down here? I'd think whatever "news" they get is filtered beyond recognition.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (wAnMi)

314 No one can say HOW Trump is responsible for 600,000 deaths. What was he supposed to do?
==
Immediately closed down the borders when we were all calling him an ignorant racist. Obviously.

Posted by: the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (XjGk5)

315 From the Daily Mail online, about the students -

Several of our families over summer break independently decided to go home to Afghanistan and see their extended family. A lot of the families, their nuclear families are here but all their grandparents and everybody are still in Afghanistan, said Mike Serban, director of the school board's Family and Children Engagement program, which assists the district's many refugee families, according to CBS8.

They're still in Afghanistan trying to find their way to the airport or on an airplane, he said.

Fairdoon Hashemi and Mohammad Sarfarez, bilingual community liaisons for the FACE program, first became aware of the problem when reached August 16 by families stuck there.

They contacted the liaisons to tell them they would not be back in time for the first day of school but to hold spots for their students, Howard Shen, the school district's media contact.

Posted by: old chick at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (sOete)

316 @meekwire 3m

*** URGENT *** -- New threat of VBIED at North Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, US official inside the airport complex tells @ABC

Really? In Afghanistan? Well, that is surprising news.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (l0Lgi)

317 Meanwhile, everybody get jabbed! Wear a mask!

Do the right thing!

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (S1hrL)

318 The McCain family just issued a statement

Fuck the McCain family.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (Z+uwH)

319 A Democrat House member from California is telling F. Chuck Todd that Joe did the best with the hand he was dealt by Trump and the cowardly Afghan Army. Asked what we should focus on in the inevitable Congressional blame game hearings, he said we should focus on the future. In other words, Biden's Bug-Out is ancient history, we need to Move On.

He's floating the first-try at Democrat damage control and set-the-narrative talking points. Scumbag.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (AMIL/)

In the meantime, Trump is not allowed on social media --or most other media--to defend his administration.

Still, most people won't buy it.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (mR6Gs)

320 According to Hannity,
.......

the next item up for auction is a Picasso print.

Posted by: wth at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

321 Fucking enraging for those Marines wounded/killed.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (oWBc3)

322 Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

It appears the Taliban tried something different this time around. Open source reporting shows that rather than rocking up and going toe to toe with the Afghan national army, they appear to have simply called everyone in the entire country, instead, told them they were in control, and began assuming the functions of government as they went.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (RHGPo)

323 If you're waiting for the 25th Amendment to save us, this will throw a bit of cold water on that:

https://tinyurl.com/3n5d2kzk

(It's National Review, in case you don't want to give them a click, but the article is good, IMO.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (a3Q+t)

324
And his smile is now so stretched it looks maniacal

It wouldn't take much to turn Senile Joe into the Joker.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 12:55 PM (cSyAR)

325
WRT to The Smiths, here's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkfZHfDRk3w

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (rZA2o)

326 meekwire 3m

*** URGENT *** -- New threat of VBIED at North Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, US official inside the airport complex tells @ABC

Really? In Afghanistan? Well, that is surprising news.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (l0Lgi)

Well if they are putting this out there like that, it WILL happen.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (mR6Gs)

327 306 Since I am personally involved in some of the private efforts to help US Citizens, I can tell you they are not all out. There are a variety of reasons people stayed this long, not the least of which is the current administration was very misleading on dates. Ostensibly, many of these people worked for contractors and were needed on the ground. Others had family members there whom they were trying to get out. Irrespective, they are US Citizens and these evacuation plans always account for ALL contingencies. We NEVER have left anyone behind and I can tell you the current plans to do that are seriously impacting people who live by that creed.
Posted by: Marcus T

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Thank you for this. I am beyond outraged.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (ESLBo)

328 >>>Adjectives notwithstanding, I've never understood why a slang term for vagina came to be used in a derogatory fashion. I mean, I like vaginas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (T7iTv)
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Calling a man a "dick"

Posted by: Braenyard at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (gpUSD)

329 I've never understood why a slang term for vagina came to be used in a derogatory fashion."
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You mean "Jonah"?

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (U41ue)

330 No Americans killed in 18 months and Biden chalks up 4, how many more before the last plane leaves?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (oWBc3)

331
==========

Biden's making COVID worse. Just look at the new need for lockdowns that didn't exist in November of 2020.

This is all Biden's fault.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

There's no using logic with that side. They're ignorant. They're closed minded. They're brain damaged.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

332 AZ continues to obfuscate re: audit

Heard something yesterday, I think from Bannon's show that once Maricopa is in then the next thing is to do all other AZ counties...

No, once you have proof move to decertify on what you have currently doing the rest of it later.

Losing the plot, purposefully. #twoweeks

Posted by: micky at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (3byMq)

333
Who gives up a US airbase in a strategic location that can be maintained, In Perpetuity, with minimum personnel?!?

Only a stupid asshole (the Pentagon Shits and biden's handlers) would walk away from Bagram.
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Leaving it full of equipment.

It was the deal the offered the Taliban for safe passage. Why else would you leave pallets of million in cash in the airbase? And a couple of C130's, which could have been loaded up and flown out with that shit otherwise.

HELL OOOO . . . .

Posted by: the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (3SpE8)

334 317 Meanwhile, everybody get jabbed! Wear a mask!

Do the right thing!

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 12:54 PM (S1hrL)

"We're all in this together!"

Posted by: Thrawn at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (wQb4c)

335 Nothing is going to save us, the 25th, 2022, 2024, impeachment, octogenarians dying, etc.

Self-reliance and courage...maybe.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (S1hrL)

336 No one can say HOW Trump is responsible for 600,000 deaths. What was he supposed to do?
Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (mR6Gs)

1. He personally developed covid.
2. He forbade anyone from taking common sense precautions against the deadliest disease ever.
3. He literally jailed Democrat governors to force them to send covid infected people to nursing homes.
4. He said pussy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (T7iTv)

337 And they're gonna blame it all on Biden" she said.

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Blame it on Biden?!!! He was on vacation at the time!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (d9FiS)

338 Biden was saying this wasn't going to be Saigon, we would have an embassy there, just 30 days ago.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 26, 2021 12:36 PM (lkfcP)

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This is worse than Saigon. This is Dien Bien Phu.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (ptqGC)

339
322 Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

It appears the Taliban tried something different this time around. Open source reporting shows that rather than rocking up and going toe to toe with the Afghan national army, they appear to have simply called everyone in the entire country, instead, told them they were in control, and began assuming the functions of government as they went.
Posted by: SMOD

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The Taliban copied Twitter.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (ESLBo)

340 If it's true that ISIS has surrounded the airport then there will be no more flights. The Marines and Soldiers can't get out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (kTF2Z)

341 "It was the deal the offered the Taliban for safe passage. Why else would you leave pallets of million in cash in the airbase?"

Yeah, this was all part of the plan. They let themselves be willingly lead to slaughter like the stupid sheep they are.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM (B0mGw)

342 This is a live India broadcast...it's great.

https://tinyurl.com/ydldvp6l

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:58 PM (cF8AT)

343 [1]Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

https://tinyurl.com/5xpady2f

They have no basis for this suit but remember they work and report to PeeLousy.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 12:58 PM (mpXpK)

344 "Blame it on Biden?!!! He was on vacation at the time!!!"

I personally think he's hiding from the intelligence agencies.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:58 PM (B0mGw)

345 Taq, everyone that got out of Benghazi had to sign an NDA. I would imagine exit is predicated on that signature.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 26, 2021 12:58 PM (IJl1E)

346 Top U.S. diplomat says the State Department put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan telling them to leave since April: "People chose not to leave. That's their business," Ross Wilson said.
https://bit.ly/2UP1eVg
Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 12:29 PM

1) Did they actually receive these warnings?
2) Every three weeks? Why not every day?
3) Did these warnings say "After (some date), the US disclaims all responsibility for your safety"
4) They use punitive taxes for everything else. If they wanted people out by July 1, how about a warning with "Any income received after July 1 while in AFG will have an excise tax of 150%"

Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (EughT)

347 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

Seeing it all over twitter.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (cF8AT)

Yet thee same assholes revere Fauci who didn't alert Trump to Covid. Remember a week before the lockdown he said "Masks didn't work."

No one can say HOW Trump is responsible for 600,000 deaths. What was he supposed to do?
Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (mR6Gs)

The same Trump who was the first to respond and was called out for it by the Dems. Fuck the Dems.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (axyOa)

348 Has anyone asked General Milley for his thoughts on these events yet?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (snOKo)

349 Market on the descent.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (S1hrL)

350 [1]Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

They should be suing the FBI

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (Zmnko)

351 A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. Hate to speculate about it, but prolly true.
Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (qpX6U)

LOL no chance. The media will report it as a Trump attack for the first six months before they admit on Page 34 of the Living Section that it may have actually been slimes.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (U41ue)

352 1. He personally developed covid.
2. He forbade anyone from taking common sense precautions against the deadliest disease ever.
3. He literally jailed Democrat governors to force them to send covid infected people to nursing homes.
4. He said pussy.

Don't forget the bleach.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (Bmy3R)

353 "they appear to have simply called everyone in the entire country, instead, told them they were in control, and began assuming the functions of government as they went."

This was Putin's tactic in Crimea.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (B0mGw)

354 Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (Rz7nO)

If we lied to our allies over there and they believe it, I can't blame those who were working in good faith. I mean hell, steal away in the dead of night without telling anybody? And no doubt, the military guys who packed up and left were assured everybody had been notified. Somebody needs to be dancing at the end of a rope. With a whole lotta friends.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (wAnMi)

355
No Americans killed in 18 months and Biden chalks up 4, how many more before the last plane leaves?
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (oWBc3)

Well, these statements from the Administration imply that the number of dead Americans will be equal to the number of Americans remaining in Trashcanistan after midnight on 8.31.21. Which we can't know, because they are closely holding that information. I suspect "several thousand" is the answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (rZA2o)

356 Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

Does that mean we'd finally get to see the hours of video they refuse to release? If so, bring on the suits.

Posted by: abbynormal at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (Xpj5t)

357 >>> irrespective, they are US Citizens and these evacuation plans always account for ALL contingencies. We NEVER have left anyone behind and I can tell you the current plans to do that are seriously impacting people who live by that creed.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Good luck with your/their efforts.

Could this be the straw?

Posted by: Braenyard at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (gpUSD)

358 MarcusT,
Thanxs for the input. I'm hearing pretty much the same thing from my traplines.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (axyOa)

359 Taq, everyone that got out of Benghazi had to sign an NDA. I would imagine exit is predicated on that signature.

Also, if you have a cute daughter I get to smell her hair and tune in tokyo.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (DpkTQ)

360 How to Pray Against Evil in Government - Dr. John MacArthur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaI3ixsKPQ0

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (wparq)

361 A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. "

I'm going to disagree with this.

We are more cynical country than we were back in 2001.
I don't think Biden will get the country united behind him--unless it's for him to resign.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 12:59 PM (mR6Gs)

362 There is no solution to this that does not begin with tire irons.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Is Insomniac offering franchises?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (mD/uy)

363 Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

https://tinyurl.com/5xpady2f

PLENTY of standing!

- John Roberts - Constitutional Shredder

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

364 You could also glean pretty decent performance information about competitor's experimental ticket aircraft in flight test programs from non-paying flightaware data. I've always wondered if corporate spies do this.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (ZOfsH)

365 When the hostages start showing up on tv and the ISIS torture starts, will DoS still say it's their fault?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Rz7nO)

366 If we start seeing Americans being killed, I wonder if it will be an all out fucking war...again?
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There will be every brutality you can imagine, and it will go on for a very long time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (cMUQt)

367 312 This is a massive deep state/pentagon mess, and they refuse to fix it

Posted by: T at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (5brJo)

368 'Focus on Covid.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 26, 2021 12:40 PM (csEWM)

Covid is the Death Star exhaust port, Shitwalker just lost his wingmen, and he's fallen asleep at the stick.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (uhPTO)

369 And they're gonna blame it all on Biden" she said.

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Blame it on Biden?!!! He was on vacation at the time!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 26, 2021 12:57 PM

Use the Chernobyl defense: "How can I be responsible? I was asleep!"

Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (EughT)

370 255 @JRubinBlogger
What a rotten filthy c-word she is
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:25 PM (U41ue)

Adjectives notwithstanding, I've never understood why a slang term for vagina came to be used in a derogatory fashion. I mean, I like vaginas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2021 12:47 PM (T7iTv)

Old English term was "sceap", meaning "scabbard". Just wanted to know.

Posted by: Javems at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (8SSHh)

371 "Leaving it full of equipment."

Really puzzled about that. I figured every mil officer is trained on the need to destroy abandoned equipment in this bug-out contingency. If he doesn't receive the order, he would be expected to ask higher command for the destruct order. So were they ordered not to destroy it? So weird. There should be an ample paper trail, I'd think.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (qpX6U)

372 The Capitol Police officers are the biggest bunch of pussies to ever don badges and guns. Jesus, what weak, useless, pathetic nancy-boys.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (Bmy3R)

373 A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. "
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No, it will not.

Too many of us see what's happening, and the evil is more manifest.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (wparq)

374 John Roberts. Chromehead.

Posted by: Redenzo at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (E7vND)

375 Calling a man a "dick"
Posted by: Braenyard at August 26, 2021 12:56 PM (gpUSD)

Ah, but other than mine, I don't care about them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (T7iTv)

376 "Satan's Retards" from Backwards Boy iirc

Greeting fappers and fappees. Haven't been around much because I caught the ChinaCom Bioweapon Delta Coof and have been sicker than a dog for nearly two week. But I did want to say that the opening bullshit to this post from Puddinhead O'Biden's PROGDA has to be the most imbeliclic gaggle of wurdz I've hear lately. It would appear that now the rest of the world has also lost its mind. I'm pretty sure that's every one on Earth by now, but I seem to have also lost my ability to count too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (HaL55)

377 283 >>>279 According to Hannity, yesterday, Trump's plan did not call for evacuating Bagram but keeping it for an outpost.
good to know.
Posted by: ace at August 26, 2021 12:51 PM (0G13K)

Everyone on team Trump, who has been interviewed this week says the same- Pompeo, Kash Patel, etc. Would be great to FOIA that stuff

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (Phn3e)

378 Yeah, the progs on Twitter are all "Trump killed 600,000 Americans with Covid!!!!!"

And if you point out that Covid came from a Chinese lab, you're racist. Not kidding.

Liberals = mentally ill

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (ptqGC)

379 A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. Hate to speculate about it, but prolly true.
Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 12:53 PM (qpX6U)

Unlikely. At this point, no one believes anything the gov't says. Read the Codevilla article from a couple of days ago. Ye gads, we know far less about 9/11 than one would think.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (EpDzw)

380 372 The Capitol Police officers are the biggest bunch of pussies to ever don badges and guns. Jesus, what weak, useless, pathetic nancy-boys.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (Bmy3R)

Or as my Mom used to say pantywaists

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (Zmnko)

381 Any American who voted for Biden is responsible for this fiasco. Don't let them blame Trump. He would have done this correctly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (kPy0C)

382 When the hostages start showing up on tv and the ISIS torture starts, will DoS still say it's their fault?
Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Rz7nO)

It will be blamed on Christianity and their desire to change the believes of those that worship other gods.

"They brought this on themselves......"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

383 Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

https://tinyurl.com/5xpady2f

They have no basis for this suit but remember they work and report to PeeLousy.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 12:58 PM

They might want to rethink that because discovery would be a stone cold biotch. They can get away with everything now because they are not subject to FOIA, but that don't apply in a criminal court. Be a shame for the Trump guys to show the jury videos of said capitol police officers opening doors and posing for selfies with the kkk.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (JUOKG)

384 *beliefs......

Damn fingers.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

385 "It was the deal the offered the Taliban for safe passage. Why else would you leave pallets of million in cash in the airbase?"

Yeah, this was all part of the plan. They let themselves be willingly lead to slaughter like the stupid sheep they are.
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Move number one in the liberal playbook is: Always throw taxpayer money at the problem.

Posted by: the people running this particular shit show at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (VDU72)

386 Especially when 10's of thousands of US Military tell the Junta to go pound sand over the vaccine mandate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

but if you don't get the vax, Joe can't leave you behind to die

Posted by: x at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (oA+QO)

387 10 marines being reported killed.

Holy shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (9h4bD)

388 >>Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot

Cool -- that means they can subpoena records from Pelosi, FBI head and others who were asked by Trump to increase security prior to the event and refused, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (bDqIh)

389 379 At this point, no one believes anything the gov't says.

Been asleep the past 19 months?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (Bmy3R)

390 10 US military dead.

Fox news

Posted by: Redenzo at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (E7vND)

391 We are much more tribal than the Taliban at this point, and like others my family is dissolving over the "your reality" loyalty to socialism.

Posted by: Auspex at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (Xo3T0)

392 Leaving Americans behind is the "new normal."
Woke is forever.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (S1hrL)

393 I want to see a trial lawyer go after the crying cops.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (oWBc3)

394 FNC Reporting at least 10 servicemembers have been killed

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

395 Gen. Milley better be prepared to understand what Veteran Rage will be like because it is headed his way. What a fucking joke of a CJCS he is. If he was smart and had any dignity, he'd have already ~~resigned~~ suck started his M9.
Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 12:45 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (m+jkK)

396 If that airport is surrounded I hope they have a way to get our military out.

Posted by: dartist at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (+ya+t)

397 10 US military dead.

Time to bomb the hell out of the place

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (Zmnko)

398 NBC's Richard Engel rode a bicycle across Bagram the other day. His team videoed it. Place was completely empty, except for $$$$$$$ of our equipment.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (ptqGC)

399
Use the Chernobyl defense: "How can I be responsible? I was asleep!"
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2021 01:01 PM (EughT)

In Russia, the responsible sleeps YOU!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

400 And if you point out that Covid came from a Chinese lab, you're racist. Not kidding.

COVID is a big enough deal to sentence the entire population to permanent house arrest, mask babies, and force everyone to take experimental gene therapies.

It is however, not important enough to close the border with China, look into its origin, or punish anyone responsible for creating/releasing it.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (DpkTQ)

401 The Grand Ol' Party exists solely to provide the illusion that there is a "choice" between the "two" Big Government Parties. That is all.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (BvNzB)

402 Biden's making COVID worse. Just look at the new need for lockdowns that didn't exist in November of 2020.

This is all Biden's fault.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 12:44 PM (LvTSG)
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No - this is the deep state - the beaurocracy

Posted by: T at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (5brJo)

403 He'll respond: "Trump has the deaths of 600,000 Americans on his hands..."

--

Only an idiot would think this, although that encompasses nearly the entirety on twatter. Say, how is he responsible and not, oh, I dunno...China? He didn't create it. He didn't lock down the country because that was on the governors. He wanted to stop those incoming from China and the left sh*t its pants.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (O+I8R)

404 I want Miley's scalp by the end of the day.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (kTF2Z)

405 Capitol Police officers sue Trump, allies over Jan. 6 riot
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I question the timing

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (U41ue)

406
Unlikely. At this point, no one believes anything the gov't says. Read the Codevilla article from a couple of days ago. Ye gads, we know far less about 9/11 than one would think.
Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (EpDzw)
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Anyone who still believes anything the American government says about anything is a total fool.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (rZA2o)

407 I can't imagine what peeps like Jocko Willink are going to say about this cluster fuck.

Holy shit, this Junta has got to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (9h4bD)

408 It will be blamed on Christianity and their desire to change the believes of those that worship other gods.

"They brought this on themselves......"
===
It was Colonialism don't you know. Centuries of racisticy colonialism.

Hey Chubby white gurl, can i get your digits?

Posted by: Marc lamont Hill at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (VDU72)

409 Taliban Poetry

Americans you dieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Die Die Die America

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (GQ5VU)

410
The next muslim terror attack in the US will be blamed on...

that's right, ISIS.

and Trump for lying about getting rid of ISIS.

ISIS is now the new Hoax.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (8L9jd)

411 I agree that Americans are getting very cynical.

There was a post retweeted by all the major Gab players the other day where you got to pick your favorite "false flag" event, with photos of each one.

The parody trump account (which is rumored to be trump) retweeted it.

Posted by: artemis at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (AwPyG)

412 Look around you right now.

This is what Joe Biden can do in a mere 7 months.

Imagine what he can do in three more years, America!

Posted by: Pussy Galore at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (kyKhl)

413 FNC Reporting at least 10 servicemembers have been killed

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

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Dear God. They're either more Marines or members of the 82nd Airborne. Prayers for the dead and their poor families.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

414 207 My guess (and I expect to have to guess on account of never getting the truth) is that Bagram was abandoned first out of sheer fucking idiocy.
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Folly over malice, eh? Well, I won't say no. But in fairness I say it was the Mandarins of Beijing. They cashed in some favors and persuaded/cajoled/threatened their bought and paid for POTUS to throw the game. Hiden flat out refused all advice from those who wanted to do right and give him honest counsel, or at least just follow their plan. He arbitrarily refused, which to me means someone who wasn't in the regime told him what had to happen.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (W+kMI)

415 It was the deal the offered the Taliban for safe passage. Why else would you leave pallets of million in cash in the airbase?"
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They took that cash and laughed at us.

Posted by: dartist at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (+ya+t)

416 FNC Reporting at least 10 servicemembers have been killed
Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

As predictable as the sunrise...

So it looks like they initially separated out "Marines" to soften the blow but I'll still guess it's more than four Marines.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (U41ue)

417 "Hey Chubby white gurl, can i get your digits?"

We still talking about that McCain slut?

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (B0mGw)

418 Newsmax: Pentagon says evacuations continue after attacks.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (S1hrL)

419 This clusterfuck gets worse and worse. And also will.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (r+sAi)

420 The democrats simply look at the Americans who are sure to be killed as votes for them.

Posted by: Unclefacts at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (ihUzW)

421 They might want to rethink that because discovery would be a stone cold biotch. They can get away with everything now because they are not subject to FOIA, but that don't apply in a criminal court. Be a shame for the Trump guys to show the jury videos of said capitol police officers opening doors and posing for selfies with the kkk.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM (JUOKG)

I'm sure they will find a suitable Democrat judge.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (mpXpK)

422 Trump is responsible for everything. Biden is responsible for nothing. Had someone say yesterday that the President isn't responsible for higher gas prices. I told her that is true but if he cancels fracking and makes you transport oil by truck rather than pipeline, he is responsible for the increased costs. I think I was blocked.

Do not think for an instant that the other side is going to turn on Joe.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (5HBd1)

423 Mourn for the soldiers killed, rage at the incompetents who created this and remind any people serving you know to remember who fed them to the meat grinder.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (oWBc3)

424 10 US military dead.

==

WOW...just wow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (O+I8R)

425 A 9/11-scale Muslim attack in the USA right now would unite the nation briefly behind Biden, just as the nation united briefly behind Bush. "

Not happening and one reason is this: Imagine if Bush had presided over military disasters and terrorism and seemed lost and incompetent--and even cancelled briefings--was AWOL most of the time IN the months leading up to 9/11?
Would anyone have rallied behind him?

He would have been forced to resign , and he would have.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (mR6Gs)

426 >10 US military dead.

Fox news
Posted by: Redenzo at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (E7vND)

Yep, knew they were slow walking the numbers.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (DXFDM)

427 It will be blamed on Christianity and their desire to change the beliefs of those that worship other gods.

"They brought this on themselves......"
___

Yeah, yeah, heard that before.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (wparq)

428 he Grand Ol' Party exists solely to provide the illusion that there is a "choice" between the "two" Big Government Parties. That is all.
==
Its a puppet show. On puppet hits the other puppet with a plastic bat. The audience takes sides. There is only one puppeteer. Everybody paid their nickel to see the show, which goes to him.

Posted by: broken record at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (VDU72)

429
Resident Joseph R. Jessup: "You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want to remain in Afghanistan -- you need to remain in Afghanistan."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (pNxlR)

430 Because who doesn't like Comment Reruns:

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I would bet even money it's 6 or more but maybe even double digits.

They reported 3 at first to soften the political blow.
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 12:05 PM (U41ue)
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Evil to the core.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (U41ue)

431 "Do not think for an instant that the other side is going to turn on Joe."

They will in the end if they're not provoked too hard. Quietly, shamefully, in ones and twos until the dam breaks.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (B0mGw)

432 10 US military dead.

At this point what difference does it make?

Posted by: The Democrats at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (DpkTQ)

433 "Blame the Victim" writ large.

And I just threw up a bit, writing that.

I never thought I'd be this disgusted with our government.

It's no longer a few bad apples in government, rather, it's more like rummaging through a few semi's of rotted apples, hoping to find one decent apple.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (2SdPm)

434 This seems slightly fitting, maybe.....

https://youtu.be/akuNAFpZvxs

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

435 I'm sure they will find a suitable Democrat judge.
Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (mpXpK)

Any "trial in DC will go against Trump.. Count on it

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (Zmnko)

436 Look around you right now.

This is what Joe Biden can do in a mere 7 months.

Imagine what he can do in three more years, America!
Posted by: Pussy Galore at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (kyKhl)

Gas at $6.00 a gal by the middle of next month?
Bread doubles in price.
Shortages becoming a daily thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (axyOa)

437 >NBC's Richard Engel rode a bicycle across Bagram the other day. His team videoed it. Place was completely empty, except for $$$$$$$ of our equipment.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (ptqGC)

So we could have re-taken it with minimal trouble, it sounds like? I guess better dead than do anything that Trump planned for.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (DXFDM)

438 Fox reporting at least 10 US military KIA so far

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (AMIL/)

439 For months Pelosi et al had a strangle hold on Jan. 6th information. Suddenly, as Afghanistan goes into meltdown we get a national interview with Ashli Babbitt's executioner and a lawsuit from the Capitol Police on the grounds Trump violented some arcane KKK law.

The chaff is in the air. In a week or so the Afghanistan disaster will be a white supremist domestic terror plot and they will be rounding the "perps" to face "justice." For the children. For the democracy. For the enduring freedom of the Uniparty to take yours.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (ESLBo)

440 I am just broken hearted and sick.

Jen NeverTrump Griffin just said the death toll of our troops is "likely to rise."

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (ptqGC)

441 @kylenabecker 2m

Breaking: Pentagon-connected source tells me as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

442 ******Ten US military dead.
Fox news
Posted by: Redenzo at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (E7vND)******

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (Zsfob)

443 There will be Republicans who try to use this death of Marines to suck us back into Afghanistan. I'm looking at you Lindsey Graham, Dan Crenshaw. We can't let them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (xPl2J)

444 Do not think for an instant that the other side is going to turn on Joe.
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Because they would have to turn on their own EGO.

It is psychologically impossible for these people to self correct.

Posted by: broken record at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (VDU72)

445 I guess the bottom line of all this is that you shouldn't trust the US government anymore. For anything.

Posted by: NC Ref at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (we2l3)

446 Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles.

Beirut anyone?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (9h4bD)

447 Breaking: Pentagon-connected source tells me as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

I'm sick to my stomach..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (Zmnko)

448 FNC Reporting at least 10 servicemembers have been killed
Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

As predictable as the sunrise...

So it looks like they initially separated out "Marines" to soften the blow but I'll still guess it's more than four Marines.
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (U41ue)
***

At the end of all this, there had better be a shitload of resignations.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (axyOa)

449 10 US military dead.

At this point what difference does it make?
Posted by: The Democrats at August 26, 2021 01:07 PM (DpkTQ)

They were just speed bumps on the road to victory.

Posted by: Preznit Pantload at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (AiZBA)

450 You know that kind of low, guttural sound that a wounded animal makes? I sort of made that when I read TEN US MILITARY DEAD.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (Zsfob)

451 @BNONews 1m

BREAKING: Third explosion reported near Kabul Airport

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

452

This is all immaterial to Joe Biden, and his obscene greed.

I am pretty well convinced there has been something for the Big Guy here, it's the only fucking explanation.

Big tough guy. Shit, Hunter's probably setting it all up. Why not.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (4WPW/)

453
But the Taliban hasn't broken their agreement with biden!

It's all "Isis's" doing!

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (8L9jd)

454 just as the nation united briefly behind Bush

I clearly recall, about a month after 9/11 and a day before the operation in Afghanistan started, Senator Biden taking to the floor of the Senate to criticize George Bush for his inaction against the terrorists. Hre's the thing: As Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committeee, he knew that the Rangers were already enroute to jump into Afghanistan, so he made that speech purely because his window of opportunity to criticize Bush was closing and he wanted to get it in. The briefness of the nation uniting behind Bush was less than a month, then the Democrats were back to business as ususal.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (BMmaB)

455 "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."

Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, J.D. at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (i6shs)

456 Sounds like Jen Griffin has inside info that our troop deaths are going to rise.

Bloody Biden.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (ptqGC)

457 Getting very angry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (AVDhF)

458 Reporting that 10 marines are dead. I can't speak.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cRbt7)

459 At the end of all this, there had better be a shitload of resignations.

Don't worry, I've got a bunch of anti-vaxxers to kick out of the military and maybe some white supremacists too if I am lucky!

Posted by: Gen Milley at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (DpkTQ)

460
BREAKING: Third explosion reported near Kabul Airport
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

Get all the military out and blow the shithole up

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (Zmnko)

461 Biden will thank the ten dead for their service. End of narrative.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (S1hrL)

462 It has begun

Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain't new. It's why we are leaving. #DealWithIt

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (BJKQV)

463 447 Breaking: Pentagon-connected source tells me as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

I'm sick to my stomach..Posted by: It's me donna

My stomach is rotted out.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (ESLBo)

464 ***

At the end of all this, there had better be a shitload of resignations.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (axyOa)

You misspelled 'firing squad executions.'

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

465 It is psychologically impossible for these people to self correct.
Posted by: broken record at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (VDU72)

Nothing could convince the neverTrumpers to back off from their endorsed of Biden.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (cSyAR)

466 Sounds like Jen Griffin has inside info that our troop deaths are going to rise.

But she told us not to point fingers or get political

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (Zmnko)

467 Yeah, I can believe that there's plenty of Americans and their children who want to remain behind in that Islamic paradise on earth called Afghanistan. Totes.

Posted by: I got ya vaccine right here. at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (wFQsY)

468 Biden will thank the ten dead for their service. End of narrative.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (S1hrL)

-------------

And the bastard will bring up his son Beau, the JAG officer.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (ptqGC)

469 On 22 Sept, 2020, Cindy McCain tweeted:

He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight.

https://bit.ly/3jgaJX0

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (UW2ZS)

470 "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."
Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, J.D. at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM (i6shs)

"American Trapped in Kabul. Eats Own Foot."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

471 >At the end of all this, there had better be a shitload of resignations.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (axyOa)

If there were any real justice, there would be gallows involved. What's likely to happen is nothing but a cush retirement followed by a defense contractor or think tank job.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (DXFDM)

472 462 It has begun

Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain't new. It's why we are leaving. #DealWithIt
Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (BJKQV)

Seriously? This person said #DealWithIt?

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (Zsfob)

473
"I want to get out!"

"Where are you right now?"

"Kandahar. Help! They're breaking down the door!"

"Sorry, your citizenship is hereby revoked."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (/U27+)

474 At the end of all this, there had better be a shitload of resignations.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (axyOa)
++++
Last week is when, in a normal world, we'd see humiliating resignations. I doubt we're going to get many from this point forward.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (Jsjd7)

475 Get all the military out and blow the shithole up
Posted by: It's me donna

Conversely, give the military free reign for a month.
(Sorry, I was thinking the WWII version of the military)

Posted by: The CDC at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (r1z5A)

476 And we imported over 20 thousand "refugees" from Afghanistan.. ? Smart move

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (Zmnko)

477 Just heard allies Germany and Israel are withholding intelligence form the US because the Biden regime cannot be trusted. Incredible if true. Has this ever happened? So much competence.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (MxEKc)

478 >@MalcolmNance
20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain't new. It's why we are leaving. #DealWithIt
Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (BJKQV)

I'd like to see him say that shit to the face of a father of one of the US servicemembers just killed in action.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (DXFDM)

479 Typical PBIED bombing that we faced in the early years. They walked a device right up to the manned checkpoint. If Biden had not pulled out of Bagram, this never would have happened. We fortified all of our entry points against this type of attack. That was impossible to do at HKIA. He owns this, every last dead American. It was all avoidable.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2021 01:13 PM (Rz7nO)

480 You know traditionally when a leader f*cked up this badly they literally crucified him.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (DpkTQ)

481 @MalcolmNance
20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain't new. It's why we are leaving. #DealWithIt
Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (BJKQV)
++++
@MalcolmNance
US Intelligence +36 yrs. Expert Terrorist Strategy,Tactics,Ideology. Torture, Russian Cyber! | x4 NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief/Jedi Master, MSNBC

He's Ruling Class.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Jsjd7)

482 Everyone who endorsed Biden knew he was a corrupt, perverted fool.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (cSyAR)

483 So it looks like they initially separated out "Marines" to soften the blow but I'll still guess it's more than four Marines.
Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:05 PM (U41ue)

Which says all I need to know about our modern Military.

Why are the US Marines, in a LANDLOCKED COUNTRY?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (oHd/0)

484 Cindy McCain tweeted:

He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight.
===
Marc Lamont Hill responded:

Hey Chubby White Gurl, Can I get yo' digits?

Posted by: apropos of nuttin' at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (VDU72)

485
Seriously? This person said #DealWithIt?
Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (Zsfob)

They are evil. They are emboldened. They are winning. It's all they care about. They view the military as mostly 'conservative' so they're willing to sacrifice as many as possible.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

486 Re: Biden's team saying people are choosing to stay

Let me get this straight: Americans can NOT choose to opt out of the vaxx because it allgedly puts others health/safety in danger, but thousands of Americans can opt out of leaving a war zone despite this putting American military lives in danger when they will eventually have to rescue them from ISIS?!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (bDqIh)

487 So, we go a year and a half with no troop casualties, and now, our military start getting killed because Biden can't handle a withdrawal?

Heck of a job, Joe!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (2SdPm)

488 dammit! Off CDC sock!

Posted by: Some Rat at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (r1z5A)

489 Do not think for an instant that the other side is going to turn on Joe.

Why not? They're holding Joe out there as a red cape. They have more red capes.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (1vynn)

490 >>> Breaking: Pentagon-connected source tells me as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

Only going on what I'm seeing here it seems the injuries were critical enough that numbers of those who succumb to their injuries are increasing. Thus the changing numbers. This was obviously a terribly violent powerful attack and the sort that our service members, as their honor and duty would compel them, step towards instead of away.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (ZOfsH)

491 And we imported over 20 thousand "refugees" from Afghanistan.. ? Smart move

Planning the terror attacks Americans just won't plan!

Posted by: Bush 43 at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (DpkTQ)

492 The media has to ask Joe Biden something John Kerry asked about Vietnam:

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Afghanistan? How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?"

They should also ask John Kerry the same questions.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (IWNp9)

493 441 @kylenabecker 2m

Breaking: Pentagon-connected source tells me as many as 13 U.S. service members are now believed killed, 20 troops wounded, 10 in critical condition.
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)
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I running scenarios through my head that would allow a suicide bomber to get so close to that many Marines. None of them good.

Posted by: WisRich at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (G0vdT)

494 Let me guess: time to "partner with the Taliban to take on ISIS K"?

Posted by: Zek at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (dEaub)

495 "The briefness of the nation uniting behind Bush was less than a month, then the Democrats were back to business as usual."

My recollection is that the 9/11-induced national unity lasted about six months. I was 47 years old at the time. The national reaction to the attack was unprecedented in my experience.

Anyway, I won't push the point, because it makes me sick to my stomach to game out the political consequences of a huge atrocity like 9/11. It was just something on my mind.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (qpX6U)

496 Seriously? This person said #DealWithIt?
___

Evil on blatant display.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (wparq)

497 Its to the point where I think retired Special Op patriots are the only thing that will save us. When they step up, others will follow.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (VwHCD)

498 Gas at $6.00 a gal by the middle of next month?
Bread doubles in price.
Shortages becoming a daily thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:08 PM (axyOa)

Can't help but think it is all according to plan, Green New Deal.

Posted by: Javems at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (8SSHh)

499 Beirut anyone?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:09 PM (9h4bD)

Beruit meets Mogadishu meets Gandamak

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (XvPQV)

500 Why aren't we fighting to get them out anyway? Screw the deadline, just get them out. Do they have nukes pointed at us or Israel that's preventing us from just getting them out? I'm sorry I'm dense I just don't understand why it has to be this way.

Posted by: Adrienne at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (gegMK)

501 480 You know traditionally when a leader f*cked up this badly they literally crucified him.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (DpkTQ)

Celts would sacrifice their King, if they had a bad enough year...

/starts to sing

Give me that ole time religion
Give me that ole time religion...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (oHd/0)

502 ++++
@MalcolmNance
US Intelligence +36 yrs. Expert Terrorist Strategy,Tactics,Ideology. Torture, Russian Cyber! | x4 NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief/Jedi Master, MSNBC

He's Ruling Class.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Jsjd7)

Thank you for your service. I'm really sorry that you turned into a raging piece of shit afterwards.

FOAD, asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

503 Cindy McCain tweeted:

He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight.
===
Marc Lamont Hill responded:

Hey Chubby White Gurl, Can I get yo' digits?
==
OMG, you the skinny ol one. Nope. I want the fat one.

Posted by: apropos of nuttin' at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (VDU72)

504 >Typical PBIED bombing

PB == "pedestrian borne"?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (DXFDM)

505 Fox News is reporting at least 10 US Marines have been killed.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (F0YaR)

506 Marc Lamont Hill responded:

Hey Chubby White Gurl, Can I get yo' digits?

NOOOOOO

Posted by: The Bag of Flour at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (DpkTQ)

507 The fu*king Dems had better remember Yamamoto's famous line: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

I think that will describe every MAGA conservative lin America by sunset today.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (axyOa)

508 20,000 refugees? Multiply that by 3 at minimum.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (S1hrL)

509
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain't new. It's why we are leaving. #DealWithIt
Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:11 PM (BJKQV)

Seriously? This person said #DealWithIt?

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (Zsfob)

He snarked it into cyberspace. He didn't say it to anyone who might throw him down a flight of stairs.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (uhPTO)

510 Everyone on team Trump, who has been interviewed this week says the same- Pompeo, Kash Patel, etc.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM I don't remember who it was , but one of Trump's staff recited the exact wording that Trump used when he personally talked to the head of the Taliban regarding troop withdrawals. This was 18 months ago, and the deal was that as soon as anyone associated with the Taliban did anything to destabilize the Afghan government, harm civilians or US/Allied forces, immediate retribution would happen and the deal was off. And for 18 months. we had no service casualties. Crenshaw at noon today said we allowed Al Qaeda and ISIS-K to kill each other as they are enemies ideologically as it was to our benefit. But we had experienced little problems with the Taliban because they knew what was coming with the Trump adminstration. Trump also had suggested the adminstration would assist in getting a place at the table for the Taliban with the Afghan goverment so that they could survive each other. Then Biden came in and blew up the entire agreement with his bragadocious BS and changed the timeline to 9/11 .

Posted by: Jen the original at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (OecXr)

511 But she told us not to point fingers or get political

--

I do not give Jen Griffin any invitation to act in place of my mother, scolding me and telling me what I'm allowed to do or not do. Your job is to report stuff. Not police our reactions. F*ck you.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (O+I8R)

512 446 Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles.

Beirut anyone?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Well, Rourke's Drift might be another example.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (xunV5)

513 475 Get all the military out and blow the shithole up
Posted by: It's me donna

Conversely, give the military free reign for a month.
(Sorry, I was thinking the WWII version of the military)
Posted by: The CDC

Give Milley and Austin a free hand in Afghanistan and the Taliban will all be wearing Silver Stars by January, 2022.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (ESLBo)

514 >>He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight.

Remind me again -- which Biden son saw combat?
Sainted Beau was a JAG and Hunter got kicked out almost immediate for failing his first drug test.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (bDqIh)

515 Afghan refugees going back to visit their grandparents. There might be a word for that, but it isn't "refugee".

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (VbI7r)

516 404 I want Miley's scalp by the end of the day.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2021 01:04 PM (kTF2Z)

and LLoyd

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (yrol0)

517 I guess today was making an omelette day. Pieces of shit, all of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (AVDhF)

518 I actually saw a tweet that went something like "I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

WTAF? Funny, the only people I know who've gotten it lately are fully vaxxed.
___________

In that recent Israeli study, over 60% of the hospitalized covid patients had been fully vaccinated, before they got re-infected and sick again.

The vaccines only provide some protection against the virus, and the protection does not last very long (which is why the FDA is now saying people will need booster shots every 6 months).

Natural immunity, which many people get from having had the virus and recovered (meaning their own immune systems have produced natural antibodies and T cells, etc., to fight off the virus) is better (and lasts much longer) than the limited immunity the vaccines provide.

Posted by: Cloward and Piven at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (k4dH2)

519 >>Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles.

Whom their Commander in Chief just armed to the teeth.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (dX8QE)

520 Fucking Bret Baier just trotted out the "no time to point political fingers" line. Asshoe.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (r+sAi)

521 La2laKid would have been there had he taken the other PCS job offered in May. He knows people on the ground in Kabul. My DIL is an Astan vet, current reservist. They are stressed, pissed off, keeping it under control because that's what service members do. I can't even express how angry I am. How much pain and heartache this f*kng administration is causing. St. Michael, preserve us!

Posted by: la2la at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (wfrSv)

522 I guess the bottom line of all this is that you shouldn't trust the US government anymore. For anything.
Posted by: NC Ref

Possibly the biggest 'benefit' of having the election stolen. This opened the eyes of many of our slow learner brethren. Whether or not there is any pushback ever though remains to be seen.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (mD/uy)

523 I running scenarios through my head that would allow a suicide bomber to get so close to that many Marines. None of them good.
Posted by: WisRich at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (G0vdT)

Big bomb on a guy in a crowd trying to get into the airport, as the Marines try to keep everyone orderly.

But I'm sure the ROE of the Marines is, don't shoot anyone no matter what.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (oHd/0)

524 So now zero security around the airport, is the 82nd going to have to fight its way out? Any Dem that defends this and all Biden voters, types, deletes. If you were trying to fuck this up you couldn't be more perfect Joe.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (oWBc3)

525 Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (ZOfsH)

First numbers reported was 3 dead and 4 injured. I know I'm not good at Common Core Math but I can't get to 13 with those numbers.

They are LIARS.

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (U41ue)

526
Give Milley and Austin a free hand in Afghanistan

Boys. Dancing boys. I would take everyone of them back to the US for a little R&R if you know what I mean

Posted by: Gen Milley at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (DpkTQ)

527 Oh jeez, listening to statements from pols, looks like we are going to get the GWOT band back together.

Motherfuckers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (9h4bD)

528 Like I've said, after 100 years of failure, it's more likely that they're accomplices than half-wit dupes.

Posted by: JB at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (TO8Xm)

529 Its to the point where I think retired Special Op patriots are the only thing that will save us. When they step up, others will follow.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
___

You mean like Dan Crenshaw?

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (wparq)

530 Seriously? This person said #DealWithIt?
Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:12 PM (Zsfob)

It was at 8:15 this morning, not sure if it was known yet that Marines were killed.

MalcolmNance
US Intelligence +36 yrs. Expert Terrorist Strategy,Tactics,Ideology. Torture, Russian Cyber! | x4 NYT Bestselling Author, Navy Senior Chief/Jedi Master, MSNBC

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (BJKQV)

531 507 The fu*king Dems had better remember Yamamoto's famous line: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

I think that will describe every MAGA conservative lin America by sunset today.
Posted by: Diogenes

And the unstated question is Who is Going to Bell the Cat?

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (xunV5)

532 508 20,000 refugees? Multiply that by 3 at minimum.
Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:15 PM (S1hrL)

AOC wants 200k at min

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (yrol0)

533 520 Fucking Bret Baier just trotted out the "no time to point political fingers" line. Asshoe

Right.. Just like the treatment Trump would get if he were in this situation right Bret?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (Zmnko)

534
I want Miley's scalp by the end of the day.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

________

Our Miley? Noooooo!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (/U27+)

535 519 >>Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles.

Whom their Commander in Chief just armed to the teeth.
Posted by: garrett

Medals and martinis for everyone.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (ESLBo)

536 Fuck you, Bret!!

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (mR6Gs)

537 They are LIARS.
Posted by: ...
___

Just like their daddy, the father of lies.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (wparq)

538 342 This is a live India broadcast...it's great.

https://tinyurl.com/ydldvp6l
Posted by: Tami

He keeps asking why would we give the towliebans all that equipment unless we were allied with them.

I think the answer is obvious - biden, the administration, and the dems are all f-cking idiots. And biden was going to be ***politically*** brave in demanding the end. No one thought it would come to that but he is CIC and they had slow walked him thinking he would realize how impossible it is and they underestimated his ignorance. He has never been in charge of or responsible for anything till now.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (fYOdT)

539 Well. you know, someday we may want to leave the United States, too, but because we obviously want to stay here, we may NOT be able to.

SAD, isn't it?

Posted by: Kurtz at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (Sd2Sn)

540 "Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."
Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, J.D. at August 26, 2021 01:10 PM

Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (m+jkK)

541 @474

Arrogant people don't resign nor do evil people. They continue to carry on. And we will see it right under our noses.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (S1hrL)

542 Jobs jobs jobs !

Internment Specialists with Uncle Sam

https://tinyurl.com/6mxnmw2d

Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (Y00QT)

543 Why are the US Marines, in a LANDLOCKED COUNTRY? Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:14 PM (oHd/0)

2 reasons:

1. They were already in the region (Persian Gulf), so quickest to get to the scene, and

2. Marines are the best-trained force for Noncombatant Evacuation Operations. Normally, most places you would evacuate from are within helicopter range of a Marine carrier, and it is one of the missions they train on. 82d Airborne is a backup force to the Marines in most contingencies.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (BMmaB)

544 Can't help but think it is all according to plan, Green New Deal.
Posted by: Javems

Give em a leader so incompetent when they put the wolf they really want in power, the sheep will cheer.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (r1z5A)

545 10 service members killed in Kabul.?

Posted by: Olddog in mo at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (9BikW)

546 Jedi Master?
Really?

These people are evil children.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (wparq)

547 @523

>>Big bomb on a guy in a crowd trying to get into the airport, as the Marines try to keep everyone orderly.

Uhh, they have access to US military equipment and arms now.

Things may get a whole lot worse before the 31st.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (9h4bD)

548
I have a "feeling" "Isis" is going to show up in Syria, too. And Yemen. And Libya.

Time to fuck up the Middle East and Africa again and go fight "Isis."

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (8L9jd)

549 10 US military dead.

Time to bomb the hell out of the place

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:03 PM

That's exactly what the taliban want so they can parade dead Americans that biden killed in front of the tv cameras.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (JUOKG)

550 536 Fuck you, Bret!!
Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (mR6Gs)
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Hey Bret, even Biden said the buck stops with him. Deal with it.

Posted by: WisRich at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (G0vdT)

551 >Sainted Beau was a JAG and Hunter got kicked out almost immediate for failing his first drug test.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (bDqIh)

I was never in the military, but all of the JAGs you see who try to claim martial valor in this country is just sickening to me *cough*DavidFrench*cough*.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (DXFDM)

552
If Crenshaw is ever the GOP's fake figurehead candidate, he'll have one less voter. I told a Crenshaw-supporting Uber driver about his red-flag bullshit and he nearly drove off the road. Dude was *unhappy.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (rZA2o)

553 Its like the Carter years met the Obama years. Never cross the beams.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (/MaDp)

554
The strategic failures of the Coolidge administration are coming home to roost.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (/U27+)

555 513 Threadwinner

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (oWBc3)

556 223 BREAKING NEWS : The State Department will be spouting no lies today.
Posted by: Dr Spank

Tomorrow Biden will be asked about the 4 dead marines and he'll say, "That was four, five days ago!"

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1977 at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (kfcYC)

557 Time to bomb the hell out of the place

Uncle Joe is asking China what they would like us to do. Please stand by.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (XHrkn)

558 Is the Kabul hospital fully functioning? I would guess not. Another sad story.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (S1hrL)

559 >>but one of Trump's staff recited the exact wording that Trump used when he personally talked to the head of the Taliban regarding troop withdrawals. This was 18 months ago, and the deal was that as soon as anyone associated with the Taliban did anything to destabilize the Afghan government, harm civilians or US/Allied forces, immediate retribution would happen and the deal was off. And for 18 months. we had no service casualties.

Don't forget that the Taliban tested Trump during negotiations - took out a checckpoint - and Trump immediately bombed them.

https://tinyurl.com/42ck2tjx

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (bDqIh)

560 Evidently the DOW and S&P don't like this news.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (/MaDp)

561 11 confirmed dead.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (VPbnN)

562 543
Yup, that's why the Marines are there.

Posted by: la2la at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (wfrSv)

563 Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

It appears the Taliban tried something different this time around. Open source reporting shows that rather than rocking up and going toe to toe with the Afghan national army, they appear to have simply called everyone in the entire country, instead, told them they were in control, and began assuming the functions of government as they went.

Have the Taliban executed a great military victory using some of the most modern means ? WhatsApp and one huge bluff.
It's perfect in it's simplicity.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

564 Cindy McCain can drown in a vat of Budweiser, along with her idiot daughter.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (ptqGC)

565 BTW... death count of US servicemen is now 10. Not sure if anyone else has posted that.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (XHrkn)

566 Everyone on team Trump, who has been interviewed this week says the same- Pompeo, Kash Patel, etc.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:02 PM I don't remember who it was , but one of Trump's staff recited the exact wording that Trump used when he personally talked to the head of the Taliban regarding troop withdrawals. This was 18 months ago, and the deal was that as soon as anyone associated with the Taliban did anything to destabilize the Afghan government, harm civilians or US/Allied forces, immediate retribution would happen and the deal was off. And for 18 months.
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In Trump's interview on Hannity (last week?) he said he told the Taliban commander we knew where he and his family lived and the retribution would be biblical. That's how you deal with these goat fuckers.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (Phn3e)

567 Posted by: Cloward and Piven at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (k4dH2)

What I am hearing now, is that the Vaccine does NOT stop you from getting infected at all. It fights the infection from seriously invading your lungs, but the nasal passages stay infected (as the antibodies are all blood stream related). Thus, you can have the Vids, with no fever, where it acts like the Common Cold (which is a Corona Virus by the way)... and you end up SPREADING IT because you are not sick enough to stay the F home.

This apparently was KNOWN when they tested the 'vaccine', and there were some announcements sort of implying this... but they let the 'Vaccine will make it so you don't get it' story run, because that lie was easier to sell to the population.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (oHd/0)

568 This country, Biden's country, does not deserve it's soldiers, certainly not their lives. Their families, communities need them. To hell with these fucking ghoulish masters of ours.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (ZOfsH)

569 542 Jobs jobs jobs ! Internment Specialists with Uncle Sam https://tinyurl.com/6mxnmw2d
Posted by: torabora
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Surreal does not cover this: reality has become satire.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (ESLBo)

570 564 Cindy McCain can drown in a vat of Budweiser, along with her idiot daughter.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (ptqGC)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (Zmnko)

571 2. Marines are the best-trained force for Noncombatant Evacuation Operations. Normally, most places you would evacuate from are within helicopter range of a Marine carrier, and it is one of the missions they train on. 82d Airborne is a backup force to the Marines in most contingencies.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM

Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (JUOKG)

572 ISIS will be operating closer to home I'm afraid with the border fuck up. Dark times coming.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (oWBc3)

573 Afghan refugees going back to visit their grandparents. There might be a word for that, but it isn't "refugee".
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM

Is "Tsarnaev", comrade.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (m+jkK)

574 I keep picturing the pictures of smiling young Marines giving water to little children and holding babies just a couple of days ago.

I'm beyond rage and heartache.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (ptqGC)

575 Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles. Whom their Commander in Chief just armed to the teeth. Posted by: garrett Medals and martinis for everyone. Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:17 PM (ESLBo)

The Corregidor analogy is grim and hopefully inapplicable, but possible.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (BMmaB)

576 "We're going to come back and hit you harder than any country has ever been hit," Trump said he told Akhundzada, recounting the threatened consequences if the Taliban failed to make peace. "And your village, where I know you are and where you have everybody, that's going to be the point at which the first bomb is dropped."

A few hours after that March 2020 call, Trump put an insurance payment down on the threat. When the Taliban attacked an Afghan checkpoint shortly after Trump hung up, U.S. fighter jets rained down fury on the attackers. A stung Taliban immediately called for de-escalation, saying it was committed to the "plans to implement all parts of the agreement one after another to prevent conflict escalation."

Trump made it clear that if they messed with him the response would be swift.

https://tinyurl.com/42ck2tjx

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (bDqIh)

577 571 2. Marines are the best-trained force for Noncombatant Evacuation Operations. Normally, most places you would evacuate from are within helicopter range of a Marine carrier, and it is one of the missions they train on. 82d Airborne is a backup force to the Marines in most contingencies.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM

Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (JUOKG)

This is a smart military blog!

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (Zsfob)

578
"So who's left? A bunch of dirty wogs who deserve what they're going to get." - T. Nichols, M. Boot et al.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (/U27+)

579 I'm fully vaxxed, and I just got the delta variant from a coworker who's also fully vaxxed. Fuck these anti-vaxxers"

WTAF? Funny, the only people I know who've gotten it lately are fully vaxxed.
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That's because the average or maybe below average person hears vaccine and thinks its like small pox or polio. If EVERYONE gets vaccinated it will eliminate the virus. Except not all vaccines are 100%. The don't have a vax for the common cold do they . . .

If they had called it a gene therapy instead of a vaccine, people would have understood it as a possible prophylactic treatment that might work or not, rather than a vaccine. But they wouldn't have gotten many people to sign up for experimental gene therapy.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (PSPIW)

580 Bret Baier. Another reason why I still do not watch FNC.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (S1hrL)

581 533 520 Fucking Bret Baier just trotted out the "no time to point political fingers" line. Asshoe

Right.. Just like the treatment Trump would get if he were in this situation right Bret?
Posted by: It's me donna

Apparently the Murdochs have spoken that Joey Pasteater is not to be challenged.

Hope Faux News fails soon resulting in the unemployment of GOPe shills. The Murdochs will probably sell it to Devil Mouse Corp (Dizney) which will promptly hire people like Donna Brazile to run the place.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (xunV5)

582 Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood. Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (JUOKG)

LOL

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (BMmaB)

583 How soon before we find out they used our own abandoned ordnance against us. Say a MRAP loaded to the gills with c4 or whatever er they use these days.

What a sh1t show.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (Pta4Q)

584 Guess we're about to find out how many lives "No More Mean Tweets" was worth.

Posted by: Allie at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (PC3pt)

585 Whenever Joe reads to us from a teleprompter today, he'll get choked-up and shed a tear, then tell us he made all the correct calls and dammit, it's time to pull together behind him to carry the fight to the Islamic terrorists. He will take responsibility, again, then blame others for not telling him of all the possible risks to our bravetroops at the airport. He will work Beau into his BS, somehow, and I will vomit when he does.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (AMIL/)

586 BTW... death count of US servicemen is now 10. Not sure if anyone else has posted that.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (XHrkn)

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I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

587 Bret Baier. Another reason why I still do not watch FNC.
Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (S1hrL)

"Maybe Biden says we'll bomb Bagram"

what a douche

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)

588
I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

I pray it isn't more.. I'm heartsick

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:24 PM (Zmnko)

589 Cindy McCain tweeted:

He will be a commander in chief that the finest fighting force in the history of the world can depend on, because he knows what it is like to send a child off to fight.
===

Beau Biden was a JAG. IOW, he was a military lawyer. They don't "fight" anything scarier than a military judge or another military lawyer. The only injuries they risk are paper cuts. The only thing Beau Biden was "fighting" in Afghanistan was the clock, trying to make sure he got off work by the cocktail hour.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 26, 2021 01:24 PM (k4dH2)

590 >Bret Baier. Another reason why I still do not watch FNC.
Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (S1hrL)

bUt FoX nEwS iS bEtTeR nOw!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:24 PM (DXFDM)

591 Joey Jones, former Marine on Fox right now. He just spoke to a good friend and his brother who are at the airport, and doesn't know if they were killed or injured.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:24 PM (ptqGC)

592 Ok. Just got my nasal swab Covid test kit. Abbott Diagnostics Binax Now Covid-19 Antigen Self Test.

Results in 15 minutes. We shall see next Monday.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:24 PM (Z+uwH)

593
bUt FoX nEwS iS bEtTeR nOw!

In fairness Tucker is worth watching and Gutfeld

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (Zmnko)

594 What I am hearing now, is that the Vaccine does NOT stop you from getting infected at all. It fights the infection from seriously invading your lungs, but the nasal passages stay infected (as the antibodies are all blood stream related). Thus, you can have the Vids, with no fever, where it acts like the Common Cold (which is a Corona Virus by the way)... and you end up SPREADING IT because you are not sick enough to stay the F home.

This is correct. Also, the vaxxed have a much, much higher viral load that those that are non-vaxxed, FWIW.

Remember: according to the CDC, if you die 14 days within being vaxxed, you do not count as vaxxed. If you die 30 days after being vaxxed, that is not due to the vaxx. If you have one of two vaxxes, you are not counted as vaxxed. So really, the ONLY way to get counted as a vaxx death is if you have had TWO vaxxes and die between day 15 and day 29. Also... Israeli hospitals are full of the vaxxed right now.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (OFJlJ)

595 This is a live India broadcast...it's great.

https://tinyurl.com/ydldvp6l
Posted by: Tami

He keeps asking why would we give the towliebans all that equipment unless we were allied with them.

I think the answer is obvious - biden, the administration, and the dems are all f-cking idiots. And biden was going to be ***politically*** brave in demanding the end. No one thought it would come to that but he is CIC and they had slow walked him thinking he would realize how impossible it is and they underestimated his ignorance. He has never been in charge of or responsible for anything till now.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 26, 2021 01:18 PM (fYOdT)

This guy really, really doesn't like us.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (Ez6QX)

596 Uhh, they have access to US military equipment and arms now.

Things may get a whole lot worse before the 31st.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:19 PM (9h4bD)

My fear is hand held surface to air missiles.

Posted by: Javems at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (8SSHh)

597 580 Bret Baier. Another reason why I still do not watch FNC. Posted by: Ziba
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He is the spawn of Chris Wallace and Donna Brazile.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (ESLBo)

598 > Trump made it clear that if they messed with him the response would be swift.

You mean Biden's voiced threat that we'd offer a "swift and forceful response" wasn't effective?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (UW2ZS)

599 Build back better!

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (O+I8R)

600 What's funny is after Brett and Jennifer Griffin said that about pointing fingers they went after Biden.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (NpAcC)

601 BIGGEST Threat to Totalitarianism is Christianity - Dr. John MacArthur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C794XUP6-9g

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (wparq)

602
Results in 15 minutes. We shall see next Monday.
Posted by: rickb223

Which is it?

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (G/QLV)

603 That's because the average or maybe below average person hears vaccine and thinks its like small pox or polio. If EVERYONE gets vaccinated it will eliminate the virus. Except not all vaccines are 100%. The don't have a vax for the common cold do they . . .

If they had called it a gene therapy instead of a vaccine, people would have understood it as a possible prophylactic treatment that might work or not, rather than a vaccine. But they wouldn't have gotten many people to sign up for experimental gene therapy.
Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (PSPIW)

The don't have a vax for the common cold do they

They do test for it. It is how they created the current test with no actual virus. They used cold and flu genes to created a marker that resembled the markers the Chinese told the WHO are in the COVID.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (yrol0)

604 Pentagon to Americans Fauxchi maneuver #5 in Kabul:

Run to the border, not the airport.

reported on Newsmax.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (S1hrL)

605 Is the Kabul hospital fully functioning? I would guess not. Another sad story.
Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:20 PM (S1hrL)

It's functioning, and there has been video from inside, but as Kash Patel said at noon, emergency services and hospital care in Kabul is NOT what we have been used to here in the states. He left it at that.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (OecXr)

606 Taliban et al, need to thank allah Nurse ain't in charge.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (r1z5A)

607 BTW... death count of US servicemen is now 10. Not sure if anyone else has posted that.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (XHrkn)

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I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.

No words.

Posted by: la2la at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (wfrSv)

608 Hairplugs Biden has been a f*cking joke for 40 years. Remember the flagrant plagiarism stuff when he first ran? Remember his weirdly glib but doltish performance during the Thomas hearings? And now he's President? My word, the consequences for this calamity are going to be massive.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (ucUhL)

609 My fear is hand held surface to air missiles.
Posted by: Javems
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Pretty sure they have SAMs.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (wparq)

610 @charliespiering 5m

Pentagon briefing at 3:00 p.m. CNN reports. No word on Biden's plans

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

611 "I was never in the military, but all of the JAGs you see who try to claim martial valor in this country is just sickening to me"

JAGs are generally more useless than the average lawyer.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (B0mGw)

612 Seems to be some deception going on. Would at least 33 Marines gather around a suspected bomber?

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (1vynn)

613 Time for Homeland Security to release proof-of-alien life videos? Announce a foiled white supremacist terror plot? Emergence of the new Omega Variant?

I'm sure something incredibly newsworthy will surface in the next 6 hours.

Posted by: Zek at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (dEaub)

614 Hairplugs Biden has been a f*cking joke for 40 years. Remember the flagrant plagiarism stuff when he first ran? Remember his weirdly glib but doltish performance during the Thomas hearings? And now he's President? My word, the consequences for this calamity are going to be massive.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (ucUhL)

It was his turn. Duh.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

615 I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.

No words.

Yep. I'm late to the game. F*ck.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (OFJlJ)

616 I don't want to see Joe's face or hear his slurring voice. My BP won't take it.

I'll read about any presser he has here. Hopefully, he strokes out.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (ptqGC)

617 This line was obviously coming from the first time Psaki (or was it Biden himself?) referred to "those who wanted to leave." Inept as they are, they have some skills at CYA.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (7X3UV)

618 Third explosion? Shit, it just keeps getting worse.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (MxEKc)

619 On the report of the ten US casualties:

Abe Greenwald
@AbeGreenwald
16m
More than all US casualties in Afghanistan for the year 2020.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (Zsfob)

620 BBC : At least 60 killed, 140 injured at the Kabul Airport.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (VPbnN)

621 @charliespiering 5m

Pentagon briefing at 3:00 p.m. CNN reports. No word on Biden's plans
Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

His plans are to call a lid for the day. They just don't have the balls to say that publicly.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

622 My fear is hand held surface to air missiles. Posted by: Javems at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (8SSHh)

Yes, but they won't be ours. You need a code to activate ours. Otherwise they're just clubs to beat an airplane with. Same with the aircraft we left behind, by the way, although there probably is some way to hotwire them with Chinese help.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (BMmaB)

623 Run to the border, not the airport.
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This is going to be a blood bath.

God help them...and us.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (wparq)

624 DOCTOR Jill will probably send cookies to Kabul. The MSM will cover it giddily.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (ptqGC)

625
Reminder: less than 24 hours ago biden-the-invalid smirked at a fake reporter who asked him what he'll do if people are stranded in A-stan.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (G/QLV)

626 Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (bDqIh)

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Yeah. Uniparty politicians are a lot different than Trump, and any other normal person. The normal person says "you will do A, and if it turns out to be B, then C."

A Uniparty politician says "perception is reality. B happened. Adjust the messaging to make a new reality where A happened instead."

That works on the softheaded idiots in this country, but not in Afghanistan, where people aren't such a bunch of dumbshits. And these crooks are learning that in real time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (rZA2o)

627 When the Democrats are in power they get almost everything they want. When the GOP is in power the Democrats get .....almost everything they want. Wait,what?

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (uUDKV)

628 The don't have a vax for the common cold do they

Both the rhinovirus and coronaviruses that cause the common cold mutate too often to develop an effective vaccine.

Flu is similiar which is why they have new yearly variants of the vaccine...but the flu vaccine technology is 100 years old and people don't die from it (unless you have an egg allergy) - unlike the COVID jabs.

Posted by: Gen Milley at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (DpkTQ)

629 Emergence of the new Omega Variant?

Lambda/Delta variant. Someone from Pfizer I know told me they are terrified of it.

Best case? Lockdowns.

Worst case? Cyber polygon, unplug the internet

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (OFJlJ)

630 608 Hairplugs Biden has been a f*cking joke for 40 years. Remember the flagrant plagiarism stuff when he first ran? Remember his weirdly glib but doltish performance during the Thomas hearings? And now he's President? My word, the consequences for this calamity are going to be massive.
Posted by: Ordinary American

I do know that he was despised by his colleagues, both Dem and Rep and the floor staff on the Senate floor when I was working on the Hill decades ago during the era of Reagan.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (xunV5)

631
I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.

No words.
Posted by: la2la

Joe will watch the jetwith the coffins fly over his house in Delaware, eating ice cream and crapping himself.

BlargalBlargl.

Posted by: Bruce at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (vd8XM)

632 620 BBC : At least 60 killed, 140 injured at the Kabul Airport.
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (VPbnN)

Jesus.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (Zsfob)

633 Question: How do you spell "Khe Sanh" ?

Answer: "Kabul Airport"

The balls on the Taliban and gang have just grown to 10 lbs and Biden's are the size of a Amoeba. We are trapped there and Blo Jiden tells people not to go to the airport. How in the hell are the A/C supposed to fly people out if you can't get there.

We cannot do airstrikes now and what happens when a C-130 or C-17 goes down ??

Biden and Harris need to be removed now !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (24+Vp)

634 and LLoyd
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2021 01:16 PM (yrol0)

Resignations aren't good enough for those 2 fucking idiots.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (xQZqb)

635 @charliespiering 5m

Pentagon briefing at 3:00 p.m. CNN reports. No word on Biden's plans

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

Cherry Garcia!

Posted by: Potatus I at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (uhPTO)

636 My fear is hand held surface to air missiles.

Posted by: Javems at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM

I doubt there are any in inventory there as they were not needed against the taliban or isis as they didn't have aircraft and we had 100% air superiority. Not saying they aren't any there but they had no need for them so they probably are not there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (JUOKG)

637 Somebody invoke the 25th Amendment.......Please !!!!

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (24+Vp)

638 Jesus.
Posted by: m
___

He has nothing to do with this.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (wparq)

639 Hairplugs Biden has been a f*cking joke for 40 years. Remember the flagrant plagiarism stuff when he first ran? Remember his weirdly glib but doltish performance during the Thomas hearings? And now he's President? My word, the consequences for this calamity are going to be massive.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (ucUhL)

Yup. None of this is because of Biden's senility. He's always been and incompetent, cynical political hack. And the DNC knew it when the make him president.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (BJKQV)

640 Former Marine Joey Jones is angry and sad. He said there are Marines who want to fight over there. "Stack the bodies up."

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (ptqGC)

641 How many lefties are honest enough to acknowledge Biden is utterly incompetent?

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (cSyAR)

642 PJMedia is saying 10 dead Marines now

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (uUDKV)

643 Biden and Harris need to be removed now !!!!!!!!!

And we're left with Pelosi. Yay us.

Also... what works best for China? I think they like Pedo Joe, so I'm not betting on removal/impeachment/court martial.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (OFJlJ)

644 Remember: according to the CDC, if you die 14 days within being vaxxed, you do not count as vaxxed. If you die 30 days after being vaxxed, that is not due to the vaxx. If you have one of two vaxxes, you are not counted as vaxxed. So really, the ONLY way to get counted as a vaxx death is if you have had TWO vaxxes and die between day 15 and day 29. Also... Israeli hospitals are full of the vaxxed right now.
Posted by: shibumi

Yeah. Fuck them. If they are counting 600,000 dead from Covid, I'm counting everyone who dies who got the jab.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (Z+uwH)

645 But please, do go on taking His name in vain.

It's not like we need His help or anything.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (wparq)

646 Pentagon will trot out the same BS, even worse, today. I cannot stomach anymore of those assholes.

ESAD.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (S1hrL)

647 Everything the govt touches turns to shit.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (/hXfz)

648 It was his turn. Duh.....
Posted by: Sponge

He was installed as a puppet as the public face for the junta due to his mental infirmities by a shadowy oligarchy both in and out of govt. Ron Klain his COS is the one running the place day to day.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (xunV5)

649 FFS, the WH needs to call Winston "The Wolf" Wolf. It is their best and only hope.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (ESLBo)

650 Run to the border, not the airport. reported on Newsmax. Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:25 PM (S1hrL)

I advised somebody yesterday to make for the border crossing at Hairatan (Uzbekistan), rather than trying to get to Kabul.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (BMmaB)

651 I expect the WH to announce Joe's resignation and that Kamala and Nanzi are assuming co-presidency by the end of the week.

Posted by: Zek at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (dEaub)

652 Jesus.
Posted by: m
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He has nothing to do with this.
Posted by: SMH
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I actually disagree with that. I think we give God way too little credit when he's meting out punishment for ungodliness. A weak, confused, incompetent government is a documented form of punishment from God.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (B0mGw)

653 620 BBC : At least 60 killed, 140 injured at the Kabul Airport.
Posted by: Dr Spank at August 26, 2021 01:27 PM (VPbnN)

Knock wood.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (BJKQV)

654 "Somebody invoke the 25th Amendment.......Please !!!! Posted by: janes"

No but Dems will be starting another impeachment against Trump for negotiating the withdrawal.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (MxEKc)

655 Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (JUOKG)

This is a smart military blog!

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:22 PM (Zsfob)

Smart Military Blog Note: There are no Navy "carriers" with Marine air-assault air units on-board.

All such ships, such as the Tarawa and Wasp classes, are officially Amphibious Assault Ships.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (AMIL/)

656 Kabul Airport Update: "At Least 10 US Dead"

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (RHGPo)

657 I wouldn't mind living under a Christian totalitarian: Do unto others, caring for people, free green veggie jello, etc.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (r+sAi)

658 The C-17s will be full to capacity now thanx to Blo Jiden

Free ice cream to those whom survive..............

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (24+Vp)

659 Results in 15 minutes. We shall see next Monday.
Posted by: rickb223

Which is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer

15 minutes after I do it on Monday. We have to do it once a week and then we are good for the week. I am not coming into the office until Wednesday after a dental appointment, so I don't need to test until Monday or Tuesday.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (Z+uwH)

660 Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

I hope Biden chokes on his next dementia drug cocktail. I fucking hate everyone associated with his Presidency. I will never forget this BS.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (xQZqb)

661 "Somebody invoke the 25th Amendment.......Please !!!!"

I want Biden to remain in office, given the alternatives.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (B0mGw)

662 Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood. Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:21 PM (JUOKG)
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...they leave crayon wrappers all over the damn place.

Posted by: reason at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (ePZfA)

663 Emergence of the new Omega Variant?

Lambda/Delta variant. Someone from Pfizer I know told me they are terrified of it.

Best case? Lockdowns.

Worst case? Cyber polygon, unplug the internet
Posted by: shibumi

Shibumi, the people that have already had Covid will probably be fine. Studies indicate that people that had the original SARS and even MERS infections had immunity to Covid decades later.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (xunV5)

664
Wait for it, everyone. It's coming.

We are going to be told by the fake "intelligence community" that Isis has "taken responsibility" in a "video."

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (G/QLV)

665 >Reminder: less than 24 hours ago biden-the-invalid smirked at a fake reporter who asked him what he'll do if people are stranded in A-stan.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:28 PM (G/QLV)

If the Republicans were not actually the Washington Generals, a commercial of that clip followed by a clip of today's CF would be playing on a loop all over TV.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (DXFDM)

666 Man, I thought *our* TV news had absurd graphics and overlays but this Indian feed really goes for the gusto in that regard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (Jsjd7)

667 As Joey Jones just said...

The War Dogs are Hungry, Let Them Eat.

And then get the fuck out of that shit hole and bomb it from space.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (9h4bD)

668 I actually disagree with that. I think we give God way too little credit when he's meting out punishment for ungodliness. A weak, confused, incompetent government is a documented form of punishment from God.

___

Oh, I firmly believe that the Lord is pouring out his judgment on a very twisted, crooked, and perverse nation.

Sin is ultimately to blame, not the Lord.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (wparq)

669 Just blow up a few cattle and party like it's 2001, baby! Woohoo!

Posted by: NeoCons and ConInc at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (hz9aO)

670 what happens when a C-130 or C-17 goes down ??

Bulldoze it out of the way and continue the mission. Seriously.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (BMmaB)

671 Third explosion? Shit, it just keeps getting worse.
==
Its like that movie about the Zombie apocalypse. They are the group stranded in the sky scrapper with a horde of zombie surrounding them down below. Only they are on the ground floor, and the zombies are armed. Its going to get worse.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (X+oq4)

672 I can't imagine how awful it must be for all the military families worrying if it was their loved one that was killed.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (NpAcC)

673 I cannot imagine what Biden would say to remember September 11th in just 16 days.

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (JXXJD)

674 Does anyone else think the blood will REALLY flow in Afghanistan on 9/11? I fear any hostages could become casualties on that symbolic day that Preznit Dipshit was so afraid of.

Posted by: 496 at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (VJsqe)

675 Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (JUOKG)

both Pakistan and Iran have hand held SAMs... and as they support the Talliban?

Who knows.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (oHd/0)

676 For whoever sheds blood with me today will forever be my brother.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (mU3VZ)

677 656 Kabul Airport Update: "At Least 10 US Dead"
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2021 01:31 PM (RHGPo)

Well, they DID want to die there....

Posted by: 29Victor at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (BJKQV)

678 The refreshing bit about the Indian channel Tami linked is that they hate the pakistanis.

We are way too close to the pakistanis. We should have thrown them under the bus when we understood they had obl. They are an enemy.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (fYOdT)

679 Evil, weak, leaders for a Godless nation.

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (wparq)

680 "Sin is ultimately to blame, not the Lord."

Fair enough.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (B0mGw)

681 "I cannot imagine what Biden would say to remember September 11th in just 16 days."

He'll mention Beau fer sure.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2021 01:33 PM (qpX6U)

682 Joe will watch the jetwith the coffins fly over his house in Delaware, eating ice cream and crapping himself.

And not once will that brain-dead dementia patient every thing "That body could've been a family member who trusted me to keep him or her safe because that's what I promised them I'd do."

WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (HaL55)

683 Trump would already have been on TV, probably multiple times, answering endless questions trying to get him to admit he fucked up, and also action would have been taken

You stupid fucks who voted for Biden?
You happy NOW?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (mR6Gs)

684 Well the US Military has a bigger problem now, they still have 4200 personnel in an undefended/indefensible airport, surrounded by hills, in the center of a city with a few million hostiles.

Whom their Commander in Chief just armed to the teeth.
Posted by: garrett
***

It can be done, but it will be huge Air Force intensive operation. Lots and lots of air support for the last planes out. Keeping the throng off the runway for those final flights will not be pretty. Expect that to be done at night and lights out.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (axyOa)

685 I wouldn't mind living under a Christian totalitarian: Do unto others, caring for people, free green veggie jello, etc.

Christian theocracies have been rather rare and usually odd special cases like the Vatican or the Teutonic Knights.

Of course by the standards of the current left, the US of the 1950s was a Christian theocracy...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (DpkTQ)

686 @670

I'm afraid that's the other shoe that will drop soon.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (S1hrL)

687 >Man, I thought *our* TV news had absurd graphics and overlays but this Indian feed really goes for the gusto in that regard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (Jsjd7)

It reminds me of the TV programming from Idiocracy :-/

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (DXFDM)

688 Note how she puts that -- "if they want to leave."
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If you want to keep your doctor, you can.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (umPIN)

689 It can be done, but it will be huge Air Force intensive operation. Lots and lots of air support for the last planes out. Keeping the throng off the runway for those final flights will not be pretty. Expect that to be done at night and lights out.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (axyOa)
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And a lot of strafing and corpses, if I had to bet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (Jsjd7)

690 I want Biden to remain in office, given the alternatives.
Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (B0mGw)

Nah, let the shitshow continue as it will highlight just how bad the democrats are at ALL levels of government. Yup, put Harris in, Senate stuck at tie and no VP. Fuck it. They voted for this, they can take it good and hard. Next time be serious with who you pick as Pres & VP.

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (xQZqb)

691 Meanwhile the VP Hooker is touring Vietnam. Hey VP Ho, why don't you visit Khe Sanh to at least know what is going to happen in the next week to the US Marines in Kabul !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (24+Vp)

692 I think the concern would be more AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) than MANPADs (hand-held SAMs). As Marcus T. pointed out here last week, Taliban has plenty of basic AAA, which can easily make HKIA inoperable (a few batteries on approach and take-off flight paths, done). But as I've said since the start, very unlikely Taliban would do this, or allow it, since it's basically just prolonging and complicating the war they've mostly won (politically) - their prime interest is in seeing most western foreigners OUT. Sooner the better.

Surprised the Talib couldn't cordon off the airport effectively. It's in their interest to do so, and ISIS-K is an enemy (for the moment - in A'stan, you never step into the same river twice, everything is moving or moveable).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (OTzUX)

693
I cannot imagine what Biden would say to remember September 11th in just 16 days.

Posted by: JM in Florida

I was wondering the same. But these people have Huge Balls and No Shame.

biden will stand there and take credit for something -- I don't know for what, but he'll take credit for something.

Posted by: Soothsayer with hair colored yellow at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (G/QLV)

694 For all those worried about what will happen in Afghanistan, let me be the first to predict it: NOTHING.

There will be NO US response. None. If the Lying Redhead is asked about it, she will say ISIS is not the Taliban, and they took credit for this. Evacuations continue on schedule.

Mark. My. Words.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (OFJlJ)

695 642 PJMedia is saying 10 dead Marines now

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2021 01:29 PM (uUDKV)

Someone commented above that there are 10 or so Marines in Critical Condition. Pray that the Docs can save them. Unfortunately, I expect some or all are missing hands, feet, or limbs. Hopefully no disfiguring burns.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (AMIL/)

696 I knew a guy who was a Marine Sniper in Beirut. Snipers were not bunked in with the main body, they were sleeping in their trucks outside. When the bomb went off, it woke him up!

Afterward, the chain of command essentially said get some payback. For the next 3 days, they did. When he finally got back and into sick bay he found out he had a broken back.

So, yeah, I expect the troops on the ground at HKIA are pretty motivated right now. I also expect they will not be let loose to get some payback.

Posted by: blaster at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (mbFEM)

697 424 10 US military dead.

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WOW...just wow.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2021 01:06 PM (O+I8R)

The Fox website says 4.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (mpXpK)

698 I guess Fauci could argue that everybody who died with COVID, chose to die with COVID.

Posted by: Roy at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (Ti+Tv)

699 And can we stop TAKING Afghans? How do we know who we can trust?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (mR6Gs)

700 Did Psaki call ISIS ISIL?

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (cSyAR)

701 Shibumi, the people that have already had Covid will probably be fine. Studies indicate that people that had the original SARS and even MERS infections had immunity to Covid decades later.
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Well, that's where the leaky vaccines and 6 mo boosters come in to play. We will increase the rate of mutation exponentially with a preference towards more robust surviving virii forms. Eventually, due to the pressure of the vaccines shaping the mutative process, we will get a super bug. Pretty elegant we thought. We got the idea from Resident Evil.

Posted by: Sorrows and Gates of Hell at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (VDU72)

702 For all our rage, we are still just rats in a cage.

Timely.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (mU3VZ)

703 I expect the WH to announce Joe's resignation and that Kamala and Nanzi are assuming co-presidency by the end of the week.
Posted by: Zek at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (dEaub)

It'll come from the IRS.

I mean, if the CDC can issue a mortgage moratorium, why not? Clown-world.

Posted by: reason at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (ePZfA)

704 12 dead, 11 Marines and 1 Navy medic.

Per Jennifer Griffin just now.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (ptqGC)

705 Expect that to be done at night and lights out. Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2021 01:34 PM (axyOa)

Yup. MH-47s and MH-60's to nearby neighboring country. Air refuel.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (BMmaB)

706 Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood. Posted by: Mister Scott

So you're just the Marine Corps uber drivers?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (Z+uwH)

707 I cannot imagine what Biden would say to remember September 11th in just 16 days.

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 26, 2021 01:32 PM (JXXJD)

Anything short of a ritual disembowelment would be insufficient.

Posted by: rd at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (Z32m1)

708
Yup. None of this is because of Biden's senility. He's always been and incompetent, cynical political hack. And the DNC knew it when the make him president.
Posted by: 29Victor

But now it is on top of that. And losing your capacity makes some people argumentative and impossible to reason with because they think you are calling out their senility.

Also you all are leaving out that he is a sociopath. Always has been.

I am convinced his first wife realized this and that is why she tried to off herself and all the kids.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (fYOdT)

709 So someone, I think Jill is her name, just told me that there was some boom-booms that went off in Afghanisshtan.

But I thought that my butt's been wiped?

Posted by: President NPC at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (FPuSC)

710 FNC -11 marines killed and 1 navy medic killed

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (NpAcC)

711 "They voted for this, they can take it good and hard. Next time be serious with who you pick as Pres & VP."

If Biden isn't enough of a lesson, nothing will be. This is bad. I don't know how we make it to campaign season next year.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (B0mGw)

712 And can we stop TAKING Afghans? How do we know who we can trust?
Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (mR6Gs)

That's all according to the plan.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

713 At least we made Khalid Sheik Mohammed for his role in planning 9/11. Wait? No, he hasn't gone to trial yet?

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (JXXJD)

714 649 FFS, the WH needs to call Winston "The Wolf" Wolf. It is their best and only hope.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (ESLBo)

It normally takes 14h to get there.
Mr. Wolf will get there in 42 minutes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (ufFY8)

715 I bet a lot of people feel like THX1138 at the very ending in the movie.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Lln9q)

716 If Biden isn't enough of a lesson, nothing will be. This is bad. I don't know how we make it to campaign season next year.
Posted by: squid_hunt

I want the national divorce now.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Z+uwH)

717 Did Psaki call ISIS ISIL?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (cSyAR)
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Bad habit from her days in the Obama Badministration.

Posted by: reason at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (ePZfA)

718 These Taliban bastards can over run the airport anytime thanx to Blo Jiden...... I agree that we will see a 911 celebration in Obamastan and think we will not be out of there by 911....

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (24+Vp)

719 -11 marines killed and 1 navy medic killed

Presumably the medic was killed rushing to help those injured when the first explosion went off.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (DpkTQ)

720 OK Fox has updated their post to 10 now.

Posted by: Vic at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (mpXpK)

721 I don't know, just feeling very WH Auden - Stop All The Clocks, right about now.

This is truly, truly horrific.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (9h4bD)

722 I bet a lot of people feel like THX1138 at the very ending in the movie.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Lln9q)
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I haven't seen it. It's been on my list for a long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Jsjd7)

723 Doug Sovern
@SovernNation
47m
New details: @KamalaHarris will campaign with @GavinNewsom at a "car rally" in the Cow Palace parking lot in SF at 1pm tomorrow afternoon, per the evite circulating to supporters. Attendees must stay in their vehicles, and must be vaccinated or show negative test results.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Zsfob)

724 Well, that's where the leaky vaccines and 6 mo boosters come in to play. We will increase the rate of mutation exponentially with a preference towards more robust surviving virii forms. Eventually, due to the pressure of the vaccines shaping the mutative process, we will get a super bug. Pretty elegant we thought. We got the idea from Resident Evil.

There are things that can be done to help those that have been vaxxed stay healthy. It just takes some research, and many will reject it, since they are classified as "alternative medicine."

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (OFJlJ)

725 I just saw reported 11 Marines and a Corpsman.

Lord take them in.

Posted by: blaster at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (mbFEM)

726 715 I bet a lot of people feel like THX1138 at the very ending in the movie.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Lln9q)

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Being cooked by the sun?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

727 Canada has ended all evacuations. Newsmax via AP.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (S1hrL)

728 Did Psaki call ISIS ISIL?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (cSyAR)

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?!

Posted by: Kyle Reese at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (AiZBA)

729 So you're just the Marine Corps uber drivers?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM (Z+uwH)

First 4 years of sea duty was on an LPH.

We called it a Cattle Barge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (oHd/0)

730 These monsters are acting like they don't have to worry about elections again.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (tEsMf)

731 722 I bet a lot of people feel like THX1138 at the very ending in the movie.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Lln9q)
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I haven't seen it. It's been on my list for a long time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Jsjd7)

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*insert Just Do It Shia La Boef gif here*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 26, 2021 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

732 >>> FFS, the WH needs to call Winston "The Wolf" Wolf. It is their best and only hope.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (ESLBo)

Sorry, the whitehouse skipped that and went directly to the "sucking each other's dick" part. Kamala being away and all ...

Posted by: banana Dream at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (ZOfsH)

733 "Coordinated White House/Media Allies Line: Any Americans Left Behind Choose to Be Left Behind, And Whatever Happens To Them, It's Their Fault"

I guess Blame Trump wasn't working?

Posted by: Rick Happ at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (I6a+4)

734 I just got home and saw this. I am so upset. No one died recently until this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (Y+l9t)

735
Biden is Jimmy Carter,Neville Chamberlain, & post stroke Woodrow Wilson nightmare.

Posted by: portlandon at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (+oR7L)

736 I said we needed to harden our hearts last week.

The worst is yet to come.

Pray for the innocent.

Posted by: rd at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (Z32m1)

737 I want the national divorce now.

Far too good for them.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (1vynn)

738 And can we stop TAKING Afghans? How do we know who we can trust?
Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:36 PM (mR6Gs)

See me @142, I said the same thing. Do we really think the Taliban is letting our "allies" through their checkpoints?

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (Ez6QX)

739 Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Zsfob)

Because clearly Newsome getting recalled, is more important that what is going on in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (oHd/0)

740 These monsters are acting like they don't have to worry about elections again.

Someone in the press asked Biden about his falling poll numbers. He laughed and walked away.

Compare that to how Bill Clinton or Barack Obama handled that sort of question.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (DpkTQ)

741 723 LOL

Posted by: steevy at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (uUDKV)

742 "So you're just the Marine Corps uber drivers?"

It is a traditional practice in war to send your best and brightest directly into the brunt of it. - Marine Combat Readiness Manual

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (B0mGw)

743 Surprised the Talib couldn't cordon off the airport effectively. It's in their interest to do so, and ISIS-K is an enemy (for the moment - in A'stan, you never step into the same river twice, everything is moving or moveable). Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 26, 2021 01:35 PM (OTzUX)

Big airport in an urban area with both civilian and military sides. There aren't enough Taliban to do it effectively, and it's not really their priority versus trying to take control of government. They've set up checkpoints on the major roads, but the rest of Kabul is basically ungoverned territory.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (BMmaB)

744 "I want the national divorce now."

That makes two of us, at least.

Posted by: Citizen Freeman at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (FPuSC)

745 Point of order, they are not "Marine" carriers, those ships belong to the Navy. We just let Marines fly from them if we are in a good mood. Posted by: Mister Scott

So you're just the Marine Corps uber drivers?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2021 01:37 PM

Marine means, My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (JUOKG)

746 The White House's spokespig Jen Psaki
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Pretty sure that should be be 'pspokespig'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (uzXYw)

747 Joe Biden: a True American Nero

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (WmGrA)

748 Yes, but they won't be ours. You need a code to activate ours. Otherwise they're just clubs to beat an airplane with.
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But wouldn't the former afghani military soldiers have the codes?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (Phn3e)

749 AP/Newsmax: Eleven Marines & One Navy Corpsman killed.

Posted by: Baldy at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (OLCH5)

750 Hello, Mr Beam, I'm early today. Fuck Me Hard

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (oWBc3)

751 Whatever Happens To Them, It's Their Fault

Do you see what happens when you don't follow orders?

Posted by: CDC at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (OMKK+)

752 ian bremmer
@ianbremmer
1h
Until today, the last US soldiers to die in combat in Afghanistan were on February 8, 2020.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (Zsfob)

753 I said we needed to harden our hearts last week.

The worst is yet to come.

Pray for the innocent.
Posted by: rd
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This^

Posted by: SMH - The war has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (wparq)

754 It is a traditional practice in war to send your best and brightest directly into the brunt of it. - Marine Combat Readiness Manual Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (B0mGw)

I had a Marine major once tell me the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (BMmaB)

755 I'm listening to Bongino just wishing he would address--How are we getting our 6000 military out? An airport with one runway surrounded by well armed enemies? Susan Rice and company may be planning a repeat of the 1842 British withdrawal. I put nothing past them.

Posted by: Emily at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (2DqMj)

756 Nood.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (Phn3e)

757 @edokeefe 9m

JUST IN: @POTUS Biden's meeting with @IsraeliPM that was scheduled for today is rescheduled to Friday, the White House says.

And tomorrow they'll cancel with no new date...

Posted by: Tami at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (cF8AT)

758 For the love of Gawd, won't someone please get James Taylor on the first flight to Kabul!?

Posted by: Dr. Titanium Whitey, J.D. at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (i6shs)

759 Funny and stomach churning at the same time:

https://tinyurl.com/3chues7j

Posted by: blaster at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (mbFEM)

760 It is a traditional practice in war to send your best and brightest directly into the brunt of it. - Marine Combat Readiness Manual
Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:40 PM (B0mGw)

Which is why, when the Marines go ashore to invade a beach, the first thing they see?

US Navy Beach Masters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (oHd/0)

761 There's no "you fucked up, you trusted us" yet?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Chernyenko My Coat At The Cleaners at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (ZZqSG)

762
May God bless and take those US servicemen/women to their eternal reward.

May God Damn Joe Biden and his vile junta, ISIS, and Taliban to the pits of hell.

Posted by: portlandon at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (+oR7L)

763 Tucker is going to be LITAF tonight.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (9h4bD)

764 Biden can't even manage a phony Bill Clinton "I feel your pain."

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (cSyAR)

765 "I had a Marine major once tell me the shortest distance between two points is a straight line."

Don't call 'em jarheads for nothing.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (B0mGw)

766 Yes, but they won't be ours. You need a code to activate ours. Otherwise they're just clubs to beat an airplane with.
--
But wouldn't the former afghani military soldiers have the codes?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM

Yes they do. They pretty much handed every single code, password and operators manual over to the taliban when they surrendered.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (JUOKG)

767 These monsters are acting like they don't have to worry about elections again.

Guess what? They don't.

Posted by: shibumi at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (4EIFd)

768 Radio (Rush's show) talks of Biden resigning.

Fools. Only people of honor do that.

Posted by: JM in Florida at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (JXXJD)

769 Tucker is going to be LITAF tonight.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2021 01:42 PM (9h4bD)

Pre-empted by ongoing Crisis in Afghanistan

Posted by: JoeF. at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (mR6Gs)

770 FFS, the WH needs to call Winston "The Wolf" Wolf. It is their best and only hope.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:30 PM (ESLBo)

It normally takes 14h to get there.
Mr. Wolf will get there in 42 minutes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM

WLNSSEODQY.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (a3Q+t)

771 off sock

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (AiZBA)

772 And in other news: https://tinyurl.com/2aneh8jy

At Least 100 Afghan Refugees Flagged on Terror Watch List, One With ISIS Ties

Defense One reported on Tuesday that 100 of the evacuees were flagged through the use of biometric identification systems. It's possible that the terror persons of interest were previously detained in Afghan government or American jails, where their information would've been collected by authorities. . .

[This] was published when a mere 7,000 persons were evacuated from Kabul. Since then, President Biden has bragged about moving more than 70,000 people from Afghanistan to various third countries such as Qatar. It's almost certain that many more potential terrorists have eeked through the system, many of whom haven't been logged into biometric ID systems by the United States government.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (bDqIh)

773 "Which is why, when the Marines go ashore to invade a beach, the first thing they see? US Navy Beach Masters."

Don't want you boys to get lost on the way. Like a bunch of baby turtles running the wrong direction after something shiny.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:43 PM (B0mGw)

774 How many people are now thinking it is too bad 1/6 wasn't an insurrection.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (Y+l9t)

775 But wouldn't the former afghani military soldiers have the codes? Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (Phn3e)

No, the codes are unique to each round. And as Mister Scott pointed out, there was no air threat, so we may not have had MANPADs in country anyway.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (BMmaB)

776 723 Doug Sovern
@SovernNation
47m
New details: @KamalaHarris will campaign with @GavinNewsom at a "car rally" in the Cow Palace parking lot in SF at 1pm tomorrow afternoon, per the evite circulating to supporters. Attendees must stay in their vehicles, and must be vaccinated or show negative test results.
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Reality has become satire. Surreal does not begin to describe this.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (ESLBo)

777 I believe it's up to 13 dead, 20 injured, 10 critical.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 26, 2021 01:23 PM (ptqGC)

That lines up with what I've seen. Twelve Marines KIA; one Navy Corpsman KIA.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (N3El/)

778 When Biden goes blue screen he's going to hear "well done, my good and faithful servant." The speaker, however, will be Satan.

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (cSyAR)

779 These Taliban bastards can do suicide attacks and much more for the next 100 years because it is in the name of Allah and we are the great Satan. Most people do not understand the fanaticism of these bastards unless you lived it or seen it with eyes on.

Cun Stain Biden thinks you can talk to these animals.... What a F**kin Idiot !!!!

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (24+Vp)

780 The commies are trying to purge the military anyway. Suicide bombers are a feature, not a bug. Yep, I'm that cynical.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at August 26, 2021 01:45 PM (tEsMf)

781 How many people are now thinking it is too bad 1/6 wasn't an insurrection. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 26, 2021 01:44 PM (Y+l9t)

As I've pointed out before, a dude with horns on his hat and a dude with zip ties is not an insurrection.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 26, 2021 01:45 PM (BMmaB)

782 >.For the love of Gawd, won't someone please get James Taylor on the first flight to Kabul!?

I dunno, I'm kinda feeling like now is the time to be lectured on how islamaphobic Americans are and warning of the impending "backlash". . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:45 PM (bDqIh)

783 726 715 I bet a lot of people feel like THX1138 at the very ending in the movie.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 26, 2021 01:38 PM (Lln9q)

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Being cooked by the sun?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Alone?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 26, 2021 01:45 PM (yRved)

784 "Cun Stain Biden thinks you can talk to these animals.... What a F**kin Idiot !!!!"

I don't understand the persistent progressive attitude about talking to fix everything in the face of very obvious failure.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 26, 2021 01:45 PM (B0mGw)

785
Ooooh! Nikki Haley just e-mailed me!

Fellow American,
The Biden administration completely surrendered to the Taliban - the same Taliban that gave safe harbor to the terrorists who murdered thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001.

Now, the Taliban is essentially holding our Americans hostage in Afghanistan.

To make matters worse, Biden hasn't ruled out recognizing the Taliban as a legitimate government.

That's why Stand For America just launched a petition calling on President Biden to refuse to recognize the Taliban.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:46 PM (/U27+)

786 The dude with horns on his hat could have handled this better then Blo Jiden....

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:46 PM (24+Vp)

787 @740

Realistically, they don't have to worry about elections again... that is the country we live in now. Comatose.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:47 PM (S1hrL)

788
Stop the pouncing and seizing! Joe's doing the best he can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2021 01:47 PM (/U27+)

789 Sam Faddis on with Bannon ... says no way an ISIS cell is running around Kabul without the OK from Taliban (who have checkpoints everywhere) ... so he thinks the car bombs are with Taliban complicity, at least.

(maybe Taliban would claim innocence so blame ISIS? idk ... or at least Team Biden might spin it as "just a couple rogue ISIS guys from Cincinnati ... not their horrible "planning")

Posted by: illiniwek at August 26, 2021 01:47 PM (Cus5s)

790 747 Joe Biden: a True American Nero

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 26, 2021 01:41 PM (WmGrA)

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A: Obama, Trump and Biden.
Q: What is a Zero, a Hero, and a Nero, Alex?

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 26, 2021 01:48 PM (lwpML)

791 >>That's why Stand For America just launched a petition calling on President Biden to refuse to recognize the Taliban.

AYFKM?!

This is the equivalent of threatening to mean-girl the Talis.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:48 PM (bDqIh)

792
That's why Stand For America just launched a petition calling on President Biden to refuse to recognize the Taliban.
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Look! The right hand puppet just hit the left hand puppet over the head with a BAT!!! HoooRAY lets all sign up so that they can solicit donations from us....

Posted by: how fcuking stupid would you have to be at this point . . . at August 26, 2021 01:48 PM (3SpE8)

793 But........... But........... But............. Trump lied about Chocolate Jesus !!!!!!!

Posted by: janes at August 26, 2021 01:48 PM (24+Vp)

794 Miss me yet?

Posted by: President Donald Trump at August 26, 2021 01:50 PM (+oR7L)

795 >>That's why Stand For America just launched a petition calling on President Biden to refuse to recognize the Taliban.

AYFKM?!

This is the equivalent of threatening to mean-girl the Talis.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2021 01:48 PM (bDqIh)

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#BringBackOurGirls'SeveredHeads

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 26, 2021 01:50 PM (lwpML)

796 Khe Sanh.

I had a friend who was there for part of his tour in Viet Nam (a Marine). It was a forward observation post, where the Marines could "look" into the DMZ and into the Ho Chi Minh trail over the border in Laos/Cambodia.

At times, it was besieged by up to 5 regular NVA divisions.
It was there for a purpose, even though it was really dangerous to be stationed there.
Eventually, it became untenable, and MAC V found a reason to pull out.
It was dangerous as f*ck for the Marines there, but was there for a purpose.
This crapfest in Kabul is the result of multiple bad decisions by Top Men in our government. Army Chief of Staff, Joint Chiefs, Sec Def, Sec State, President, Nat Security advisor and on, and on.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at August 26, 2021 01:51 PM (vcOmj)

797 Will Joe be there to meet the flag draped coffins of these US service members?

Will he send Kahmala?

Or not send anyone and ignore it?

Posted by: portlandon at August 26, 2021 01:51 PM (+oR7L)

798 Trump has to be ballistic right now.He loved and admired the military and to see them put in this position because of an idiot who stole an election...

Posted by: Jen the original at August 26, 2021 01:53 PM (Y92Zv)

799 "officials" confirm US "casualties."

Deliberately vague is their preferred strategy because... we're stupid.

Posted by: Ziba at August 26, 2021 01:53 PM (S1hrL)

800 Now, the Taliban is essentially holding our Americans hostage in Afghanistan.

To make matters worse, Biden hasn't ruled out recognizing the Taliban as a legitimate government.

That's why Stand For America just launched a petition calling on President Biden to refuse to recognize the Taliban.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Lemme guess. Nikki wants money to Fight the Left and the Biden Junta.....Right? Right?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at August 26, 2021 01:53 PM (vcOmj)

801 Emergence of the new Omega Variant?
Lambda/Delta variant. Someone from Pfizer I know told me they are terrified of it.

*

I'm going to assume it's because it's such a variation of the original that people not only won't know they have it, but it won't ping a positive test.

That has to be terrifying for the folks selling the booster.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at August 26, 2021 03:58 PM (/XjU0)

802 Americans running away from a war?
Shirley not!

Posted by: Anthony Blinken is extremely masculine at August 26, 2021 04:10 PM (pGJWE)

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