Washington Post: The Taliban Offered to Let the US Secure Kabul, But Biden Told the Taliban To Do It For Us

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A Daily Caller write-up of the story is here.

The head of the Taliban's political wing presented the U.S. with an option to secure Kabul in the aftermath of President Ashraf Ghani’s hasty departure, but President Joe Biden’s administration declined the offer, a Saturday report said.
As Ghani fled the capital city of Kabul Aug. 15, leaving Afghanistan in limbo, senior U.S. military officials met with the Taliban's Abdul Ghani Baradar in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the fate of the country, according to The Washington Post (WaPo).
"We have a problem," Baradar said, according to a U.S. official that spoke to the WaPo on the condition of anonymity. "We have two options to deal with it: You [the U.S. military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it."
It would have taken an additional surge of troops to secure the city. But so what? We wound up sending in an additional 5000 troops to secure the city after the situation started falling apart. Sending the additional troops earlier would have helped secure and calm the situation.
Commander of the U.S. Central Command (USCC) Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., however, reportedly communicated to Baradar that the U.S. military's only objective was to evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies out of Kabul, for which the airport was needed.

The "optics" wouldn't have been good, I imagine.

So instead, we got dead bodies.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

In addition, Biden and all of his handlers claim they always knew it would get "messy" (their preferred euphemism for "bloody") as evacuation day approached.

Well -- if you knew that, why did you have only a skeletal force to protect the planes as they attempted to leave?

Over the weekend, Biden launched "retaliatory strikes," supposedly at ISIS-K, but one gets the sense their primary purpose was PR for the American public.

One strike supposedly killed six children.

I don't know if this is true. These claims are made after every US strike.

Also, if you believe Biden's politically-compromised brass, the munition used should not have produced such a large explosion. The large explosion is claimed to have been a secondary explosion, caused by the ignition of explosives in a car that was being prepped for use as a vehicle-borne IED.

If that's the case, then it was a good strike. As for the civilian casualties: Well, it's the same dilemma we always face. Terrorists deliberately place their bomb labs in civilian areas to dissuade us from hitting them.

But we have to hit them.

So, if everyone's telling the truth, then this was a good striek.

If everyone's telling the truth.

How much confidence should we have in that?

And I do wonder what kind of "intelligence" the government can currently have about Afghanistan in its current chaotic state, as we're bugging out.

Deb Heine at American Greatness:

Nine members of a family of Afghan allies, including six children, were killed in a US drone strike targeting ISIS terrorists in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, Sunday, according to multiple reports.
The drone strike was reportedly targeting suicide bombers who were planning an attack on Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA).
A local journalist told CNN that the people killed were his brother Zamaray (40 years old), Naseer (30), Zameer (20), Faisal (10), Farzad (9), Armin (4), Benyamin (3), Ayat (2) and Sumaya (2).
Weeping, the brother told the journalist that they were "an ordinary family."
"We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home -- where my brothers lived with their families," he cried.
Afghan journalist Muslim Shirzad was the first to report the news about the U.S. drone attack on the innocent family on Twitter.

Pictures and video at the link.

“we by mistake killed 6 children” pic.twitter.com/D9xGDHvQxA
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 01:12 PM

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1 Of course

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 30, 2021 12:12 PM (kTF2Z)

2 I called em.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 30, 2021 12:13 PM (kTF2Z)

3 it just keeps getting worser and worser

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:13 PM (DJFLF)

4 Adults in charge, bitches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

5 Asshole.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (wAnMi)

6 They told me it was time to go.

*looks at watch*

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (guGkK)

7 "Elections" have consequences.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (H6twj)

8 The commenters at the WaPo will give you a rage stroke defending Joey.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (ptqGC)

9 I don't understand the glee and relish the press takes in reporting horror stories and claims of misery whenever the US hits a target. There's always some crisis actor that shows up to scream about how their babies were all playing with dolls at the exact spot the evil US missile hit and US press has a fight over who's going to report it first.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (KZzsI)

10 Joe Biden - The Wrong Way Feldman of foreign policy.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (BJKQV)

11 Like telling your 16 year old he can borrow your Ferrari and you trust him to drive carefully and obey all the speed limits.

Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (MzKgG)

12 Adults in charge, bitches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

Stole my comment!

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (AwYPR)

13 >>>7 "Elections" have consequences.

They used to.

Posted by: ace at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (0G13K)

14 how many sob stories must there have been in WW2 when we bombed the crap out of Germany? But the press understood: don't help the enemy, don't harm our morale.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (KZzsI)

15 The Conservative Case for Turning the Capitol of Afghanistan Over to the Tolly Bon

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (ptqGC)

16 Way to go joe.. Kill off a Family and young kids to look like you are getting terrorists...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (Zmnko)

17 Norms and decency restored.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 30, 2021 12:15 PM (ptqGC)

18 can't fucking say i'm surprised...

and would it be outside the realm of possibilities with this junta, that they targeted the american allied afganis and accidently killed the suicide bombers?

Posted by: StrumToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (8D42x)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (arJlL)

20 Hi ace!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (Vxu+H)

21 Like telling your 16 year old he can borrow your Ferrari and you trust him to drive carefully and obey all the speed limits.
Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2021 12:14 PM (MzKgG)

And please, don't touch that bottle of tequila or credit cards in the glovebox. And leave that gun in the gun case in the trunk, ok Sport?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (wAnMi)

22 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Joe Biden, being decisive.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (guGkK)

23 Hi madamemayhem!

Posted by: ace at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (0G13K)

24 And please, don't touch that bottle of tequila or credit cards in the glovebox. And leave that gun in the gun case in the trunk, ok Sport?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (wAnMi)

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But the crack cocaine is okay, right? -- Heart and Soul of the Biden family

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (ptqGC)

25 Thats not how this work.
Thats not how any of this works.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (yrol0)

26 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Joe Biden, being decisive.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 30, 2021 12:16 PM (guGkK)

At this rate he's gonna need a couple more wrist rosary's

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (Zmnko)

27 The Taliban version of Green Helmet guy is out there lying out bodies and the press cannot wait to run his reel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (KZzsI)

28 So kids had to die so Joe could look tough.

Such fu*king bullsh*t!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (axyOa)

29 What's the cost of a few lives of soldiers and civilians, when it insures that the world is free of mean tweets?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (wAnMi)

30 The Biden Administration is simply following orders.

Posted by: davidt at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (Owx4w)

31 Well then.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (F2yVM)

32 4 Adults in charge, bitches.

some Libtardian tw@tterer actually retracted their Jan 20, 2021 tweet where they celebrated the fact that the adults (depends) were in charge.

I wish I could remember who it was so I could post it.

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (DJFLF)

33 Earlier they had to give up Bagram to secure the embassy because not enough personnel to do both.

Posted by: steevy at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (uUDKV)

34 President Kameltoe has been selected, I see.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (XvPQV)

35 And seriously people, stop whining about Biden and Afghanistan and the border. TRUMP is not tweeting. That's what really matters here.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (Vxu+H)

36 Joe has Made Killing Brown People Great Again

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (hXwHX)

37 Maybe I'm missing something, but it sounds like the Taliban wanted the US to secure Kabul for them, meaning stand down any Afghan forces, neutralize ISIS boogeyman and calm the locals. Then we'd hand it to the Taliban when we left.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (uhPTO)

38 Ok boys, we fucked up and got our people killed. We need to lob a couple of tomahawks or hellfires at something. Find me an empty house somewhere.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (kTF2Z)

39 So, if everyone's telling the truth, then this was a good strike.

___

If this.
If that.

It's just the admin blowing smoke up our butts.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (osTz+)

40 I've been told that when we leave Afghanistan we should leave 8,000 trucks for the Tolly bohn.

I've also been told that I'm taking no questions.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Remaining Synapse at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (guGkK)

41 32 4 Adults in charge, bitches.

some Libtardian tw@tterer actually retracted their Jan 20, 2021 tweet where they celebrated the fact that the adults (depends) were in charge.

I wish I could remember who it was so I could post it.
Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (DJFLF)

I believe that was Sam Harris, the neuroscientist and philosopher.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (mdjgu)

42 This is going to sound stupid, especially since I am very stupid, but how do Biden's handlers agree with this without even challenging it? If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"

No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

43 Gah! I hate that last picture, but it's the perfect meme-generator for mocking the unseriousness of the Biden administration.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (bDqIh)

44
After turning down control of Kabul, the Biden administration also acquiesced to the Taliban's proposed administration of the city, a branch of Al Qaeda headed by a terrorist who had been released from Guantanamo Bay. Who then arranged for a suicide bombing at the airport.

The Taliban was watching each step of the way, testing for strength but finding weakness.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (5btKS)

45 Joe has Made Killing Brown People Great Again
Posted by: ...
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About that killing brown people part...

I no likey.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (osTz+)

46 For 50 years nothing that Biden ever did in politics had any repercussions to him personally. He was a non-entity protected by the press, never having any real authority and always just being one of the Dem Senate herd.

As long as the optics were right and the press covered for him, and he told the rights lies and made the right promises he'd be okay, no matter what stupid thing he said or did.

He's still in that mindset. Completely political. Entirely detached from any real-world consequences of his actions.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (BJKQV)

47 Quote: "Penny wise, pound foolish."

A bit underwhelming, IMO ... I like "hanging's too good for him" more.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (nLrWw)

48 >>>I wish I could remember who it was so I could post it.

I think it was sam harris. I posted that last week, probably in a quick hits later in the week.

Posted by: ace at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (0G13K)

49
I don't know how we could have bombed an innocent family in Afghanistan. We used the address that the Taliban gave us.

Posted by: Commander Dumbass at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (+oR7L)

50 Good grief.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (v0R5T)

51 It's just the admin blowing smoke up our butts.
Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual

Ew

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (arJlL)

52 No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

One Marine called him out.. He's now fired and under potential mental observation

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (Zmnko)

53 " We have to blow somebody up to protect our phoney baloney jobs gentlemen harumph, harumph, harumph"
General Milley

Posted by: steevy at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (uUDKV)

54 This is closest I've seen to something I might call treason rather than incompetence. There is no explanation for this that I can think of.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (Jsjd7)

55 Also, you know how you know Joe is China's puppet?

The absolute, dead, fcuking silence from N. Korea.

Posted by: I mean besides the laptop at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (mwReG)

56 I believe that was Sam Harris, the neuroscientist and philosopher.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (mdjgu)

And militant Atheist, I believe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (AJzTi)

57 Hey, I didn't get a harrumph out of that guy!

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Remaining Synapse at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (guGkK)

58 Come on, man!

At least we didn't hit a baby milk factory.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (UVMn8)

59 No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?

They'd get an ice cream cone thrown at their face and lose their job.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (NodWM)

60 We used the address that the Taliban gave us.
Posted by: Commander Dumbass at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (+oR7L)

even money no one thought to check it against the list the biden admin GAVE them...

Posted by: StrumToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (8D42x)

61 >>The drone strike was reportedly targeting suicide bombers who were planning an attack on Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA).

And they knew this how. . . did their pals in the Taliban provide it to be "helpful"?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (bDqIh)

62 This is going to sound stupid, especially since I am very stupid, but how do Biden's handlers agree with this without even challenging it? If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM

That's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (MzKgG)

63 42 This is going to sound stupid, especially since I am very stupid, but how do Biden's handlers agree with this without even challenging it? If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"

No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

I think that Biden really had it in his head that getting out of Afghanistan by 11 Sep 21 would have earned him a place in the history books. He was able to do what four presidents couldn't. Any evidence that the results would be even worse than he imagined was simply ignored or suppressed, because nobody wanted to get Cranky Joe bothered by reality.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (mdjgu)

64 >>>One Marine called him out.. He's now fired and under potential mental observation
Posted by: It's me donna

Eventually someone in the WH needs to stand up and say something. (Yes, I know it will never happen.)

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (VWp7G)

65 If this administration was simply feckless and incompetent, they'd get something right every now and then.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (kTF2Z)

66 fter turning down control of Kabul, the Biden administration also acquiesced to the Taliban's proposed administration of the city, a branch of Al Qaeda headed by a terrorist who had been released from Guantanamo Bay.
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So, what they should have done, is said, we will provide security, but so will you. I want your families as hostages on my base, you can have them back ALIVE, when I'm gone, if you keep the base safe.

Posted by: I'm no genius, but I know how to make a deal at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (AyzV/)

67 After turning down control of Kabul, the Biden administration also acquiesced to the Taliban's proposed administration of the city, a branch of Al Qaeda headed by a terrorist who had been released from Guantanamo Bay. Who then arranged for a suicide bombing at the airport.

The Taliban was watching each step of the way, testing for strength but finding weakness.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 30, 2021 12:20 PM (5btKS)
***

And they had an eye on each other. This is becoming a civil war between rival Talie factions. Anyone killed in the process is just collateral damage.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (axyOa)

68 Yeah, I don't give a shit if they are running the Green Helmet Guy op. Pin this shit on Biden. The generals are happy to vaporize some rando (notice they won't name who they were targeting) and a bunch of kids as collateral damage in order to get heat off of them. Fuck 'em all and let them be known for executing brown people for political expediency.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (DXFDM)

69 I've also been told to run from the podium as soon as I read the last line of whatever I'm reading.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Remaining Synapse at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (guGkK)

70 60 StrumToddler 12:22 PM

Is that a typo or have I been misreading it Sturm all this time?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (nLrWw)

71 61 >>The drone strike was reportedly targeting suicide bombers who were planning an attack on Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA).

And they knew this how. . . did their pals in the Taliban provide it to be "helpful"?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 30, 2021 12:22 PM (bDqIh)

That's what I'd like to know.. How come now they can find suicide bombers... ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (Zmnko)

72 Maybe I'm missing something, but it sounds like the Taliban wanted the US to secure Kabul for them, meaning stand down any Afghan forces, neutralize ISIS boogeyman and calm the locals. Then we'd hand it to the Taliban when we left.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 12:18 PM (uhPTO)

By the time the deal was offered, it was obvious the Afghan government was lost. The vaunted ANA simply left all of their equipment, and fled or surrendered. Nothing would have been more calming than the US announcing they were taking control of the city and they would be getting everyone one out. The Taliban was going to have the city. It was just a matter of when.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (EpDzw)

73 30 The Biden Administration is simply following orders.
Posted by: davidt at August 30, 2021 12:17 PM (Owx4w)

Joe was instructed to do that.

Posted by: Roy at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (Pj9mr)

74 >>> Any evidence that the results would be even worse than he imagined was simply ignored or suppressed, because nobody wanted to get Cranky Joe bothered by reality.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

So America is truly dead. Destroyed in eight months by a dementia-addled fool and his traitorous administration.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (VWp7G)

75 Also, you know how you know Joe is China's puppet?

The absolute, dead, fcuking silence from N. Korea.
Posted by: I mean besides the laptop at August 30, 2021 12:21 PM (mwReG

A report I saw yesterday said Whoa Fat has restarted nuclear enrichment again that he stopped while Trump was courting him.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (UVMn8)

76 Sure seems like Obama and the CIA are using ISIS. Not sure what to make of the Taliban yet.

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2021 12:24 PM (1vynn)

77 If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"/i]

Military is too busy trying to destroy tradition, military culture, and patriotism to concern its self with this stuff. Besides, they probably didn't want to leave, so the worse this looks the happier it makes them.

The White House is made up of a batch of infighting cliques each with their own agenda and struggling for power. None of them have any shred of experience, understanding, or wisdom, so this probably seemed like an ideal situation: get the military out fast, rely on the press to smooth it over, and Biden gets ticker tape parades for ending the war!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

78 Eventually someone in the WH needs to stand up and say something. (Yes, I know it will never happen.)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (VWp7G)

They are saying something. We just don't like what they're saying. The message is loud and clear, however.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 30, 2021 12:25 PM (XvPQV)

79 I surmise that what is happening is EXACTLY what The Powers That Be want.

Sow all the chaos, confusion, death and despair possible and Slow Joe of the Bloody Hands gets all the credit.

Then, when all seems lost and everyone is at each other's throats and the country seems lost with people dying of disease and starving in the dark.

TADA! A leader arises from the shadows to nationalize absolutely everything thing at all because they are good and kind and want to help people.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 30, 2021 12:26 PM (RLLZj)

80
I was at a Car Show Cruise-in /Motorcycle Ride in show for Veterans this weekend. Afghanistan talk was abuzz as a big topic. Every one I heard talk about it was completely pissed at Biden & General Miley. They almost to a person are completely shocked at his incompetence. They expected some screw up, but nothing at this level. One of the veterans said "what comes after FUBAR?"

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2021 12:26 PM (+oR7L)

81 Give the General a harrumph

Posted by: Mr. Freeze at August 30, 2021 12:26 PM (RYQRl)

82 >>>They are saying something. We just don't like what they're saying. The message is loud and clear, however.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

American lives are expendable, and the United States is a failing country. Biden did what Obama could not; he destroyed America in his first year.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:26 PM (VWp7G)

83 how many sob stories must there have been in WW2 when we bombed the crap out of Germany? But the press understood: don't help the enemy, don't harm our morale.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

*We* were doing daylight strategic bombing (which no doubt hit civilians) but it was the Brits who were flattening German cities by night. Of course, it was one guy, in particular, who engendered that response. (I'm not referring to Bomber Harris, but that Austrian guy, the Big Corporal.) Given the situation at the time, not getting any sympathy from me, especially since while some members of my extended family survived the camps, others didn't.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (KAi1n)

84
Mixed feelings here. While I am saddened by the death of children, any children, I'm also at the point where I don't give a shit about dead Afghans. Dead Americans are worthy of my emotions.

I'm more concerned about the likelihood that Bai-Den's commie cocksucker military officers just picked out a random Land Rover and blasted it to scrap and hamburger, just to give Bai-Den a talking point for a single press conference.

Not to mention that I fully expect the drones to be deployed domestically against those terrorist unpeople from Jesusland before long.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (n+4am)

85 Corn Pop Quiz, Hot Pocket. What time is it when Mickey's big hand is picking his nose, and his little hand is grabbing his crotch?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (T+GT/)

86 During debate in Parliament and in unattributed briefings, British mps, ministers and officials have used language to describe Americas withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Americas leader, rarely heard from such mouths.

The withdrawal was shameful, dishonourable and catastrophic.

President Joe Biden was gaga and doolally (insane).

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (yrol0)

87 Dead bodies?
Ace had no problem with 20 years of dead bodies
Just the last month

Posted by: Kurt at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (D2+AQ)

88 TADA! A leader arises from the shadows to nationalize absolutely everything thing at all because they are good and kind and want to help people.
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And that leader has donkey teeth and big tits!!!

Posted by: That's right, its me baby AOC at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (YUmHY)

89 The drone strike was reportedly targeting suicide bombers who were planning an attack on Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA).

You could tell! They had that 'look', ya know?

Posted by: Gen. Mark Milley at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (AytXr)

90 I am certain that the cabal running the White House all agreed on how this was a genius move, so anything bad that happens is the Taliban's fault and we get out of Afghanistan on a specific date, and Biden looks like the great peacemaker of our time! People will love him! We're brilliant!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

91 Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.™

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (xopIz)

92 Great thread on the accomplishments of Montana's Governor. Why is he not in any discussion?

https://mobile.twitter.com/DissidentSoaps/status/
1431739568173236231

@DissidentSoaps
People always talk about Governors Noem, Abbot and DeSantis. How about a short thread discussing the amazing 2021 accomplishments of Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, with a legislature that meets for 3 months every other year:
/1

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (YLN09)

93 30 The Biden Administration is simply following orders.
__________

They better. I've spent a shit-ton of money to ensure that they do!

Posted by: George Soros at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (k4dH2)

94 I'm more concerned about the likelihood that Bai-Den's commie cocksucker military officers just picked out a random Land Rover and blasted it to scrap and hamburger, just to give Bai-Den a talking point for a single press conference.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (n+4am)

I'm concerned that we've outsourced our Afghan intel to the Taliban.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (BJKQV)

95 If you can't trust the Taliban, who can you trust?

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (Y4a/4)

96 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

Makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (KqiMr)

97 Even a $10,000 watch can't protect you.

It only has one function....to attack you.

I've done my job the watch sez.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (nOOFl)

98 I thought this family was collateral damage from the killing of the suicide bomber? Is this something different?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (2NHgQ)

99 Kurt's back @87

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (nLrWw)

100 What you have to consider, you know, if we're being candid, is that Afghani kids are very unruly, poor at maths, and don't smell good. You get a snoot full of one of those rascals, and it's "Bomb Away." Trust me. You'd want to kill them too. Hand of truth. Word of God.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (QU5/8)

101 Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (YLN09)

Is that the guy who punched somebody out?

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

102 Stolen elections have consequences.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (xopIz)

103 Its kind of sad what trolls are reduced to now. They can't defend Biden. They can't argue the awful stuff away. They can't even attack Trump any more. So its just weak sauce crap that scans like someone really tired and depressed reading from a script.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:29 PM (KZzsI)

104 Far too few details to even speculate seriously, but the "offer" on Kabul seems like not the big story most think it is, partly for the reasons ace himself raised. "Controlling" Kabul - what does that mean? ISKP was present and able to mount attacks for a long time prior to this final chapter. Not only would taking the "offer" require a substantial deployment, but the odds of casualties exceeding what we have now would be very high.

Real story remains not keeping Bagram, and not having (apparently) a serious plan for a non-permissive evacuation - basically, securing (temporarily) the mission and a few other locations downtown, and possibly a corridor out to Bagram/airlift to Bagram. And having a larger active rescue capability (we have some, and have used it) to collect evacuees from secured concentrations.

When the troop #s issue ended up being no Bagram/or adjust drawdown schedule, uniforms should have taken a stand and made trouble. Based on what we know now. That was the key (late stage) failure.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:30 PM (OTzUX)

105 It is so terrible, but at the same time so wonderful, that this wretched group, Biden voters, are being humiliated on a daily basis.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 30, 2021 12:30 PM (vN+oL)

106 How much confidence should we have in that?

The utmost confidence, of course.

Our word as Top. Men.

Posted by: Top. Men. at August 30, 2021 12:30 PM (a3Q+t)

107

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (K2SnJ)

108 What is the justification being offered for not identifying the two "high profile ISIS targets" supposedly killed?

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (GIdMH)

109 Beijing Biden is a shoe-in for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (so9KH)

110 96 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

Makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes at August 30, 2021 12:28 PM (KqiMr)

Seconded.

Posted by: charlotte the sailor at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (jMEOg)

111 Bammy taught Joe how to target drone strikes.

Posted by: Archer at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (gmo/4)

112
(D2+AQ)

ace doesn't knock the dick out of your mouth when you're working, so don't bother him when he's working.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (n+4am)

113 President for Life Xi and his Chinese Communist Party are just waiting for the US to plunge intp civil war. Then he will make his move.

I used to think that a US civil War was impossible. Has Joe, his Mis-Administration, the Military, the Corporatists, the Democrat AND Republican Parties done to stop us from sliding into a civil war?

Anything? Bueller?

Posted by: rd at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (Z32m1)

114 Yeah if the talibutts are giving us the intelligence we probably did kill "Nine members of a family of Afghan allies".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (r+sAi)

115 >>>It is so terrible, but at the same time so wonderful, that this wretched group, Biden voters, are being humiliated on a daily basis.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

Are they, though? They don't care if people humiliate them, because they are incapable of being shamed. They will stick with Biden forever, because he's part of their team.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (VWp7G)

116 Yeah I mean even with the voter fraud a good 30 million or more actually voted for Biden. Its good to see their faces shoved in the crap that has resulted like a dog that poops on the carpet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (KZzsI)

117 105 It is so terrible, but at the same time so wonderful, that this wretched group, Biden voters, are being humiliated on a daily basis.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 30, 2021 12:30 PM (vN+oL)

I'm surprised that anyone still admits to voting for him. By 1979 most Carter voters had the self-respect to lie about their vote.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (BJKQV)

118 It is so terrible, but at the same time so wonderful, that this wretched group, Biden voters, are being humiliated on a daily basis.

Eh. They're like chicks in bukkake porn: not really capable of humiliation. It's their superpower.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (QU5/8)

119 More Libtardian regret:

https://tinyurl.com/5dryucyc

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (DJFLF)

120 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

Makes me want to puke.
Posted by: Dr Evil, formerly Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty with my F-15 and nukes

I don't think he owns a weedwhacker (if you catch my drift....)

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (arJlL)

121 I wanna a low rider technical vehicle.

Posted by: Archer at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (gmo/4)

122 What does Biden care? He wont have to live with a moment of fallout from any decision of his. He has already lived a long life on the taxpayer dime. Its a disgrace.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (yfYGT)

123 Rot in Hell you bastids...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (fJEY4)

124 42 This is going to sound stupid, especially since I am very stupid, but how do Biden's handlers agree with this without even challenging it? If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"

No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?
_____________

It has been reported that the aides were "afraid" to challenge Biden.

Biden has always been a very stupid and arrogant man. He is also known to have a temper. Like many arrogant and stupid people, he does not like to be challenged, because he believes he is always right. His senility has probably not improved this aspect of his character.

And apparently the weak-kneed quislings he hired in his administration are too timid to risk being yelled at by Grandpa Biden.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (k4dH2)

125 104 Real story remains not keeping Bagram

People have been making a big deal of how this degrades India's security. But that would entail retaining Bagram permanently. I have not heard anyone suggest the latter. Costs could be shared with India and terms could have been negotiated with the Afghans.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (nLrWw)

126 Overheard at store yesterday: Biden cognitively impaired is still better than Trump who was insane. I'm surrounded!!

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (vkS2Z)

127 please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

I think its useful to remind people every so often that this is what the Biden Administration thought would resonate with voters and convince them to submit to the government.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

128 Posobiec: "They are cutting out interpreters tongues"

Taliban is putting the list of allied Afghanis we gave them to use.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:33 PM (8+t6P)

129 If this administration was simply feckless and incompetent, they'd get something right every now and then.

What would the enemy do differently? What would an incompetent do differently? It's pretty easy.

Posted by: t-bird at August 30, 2021 12:33 PM (CTJwJ)

130 Everything humorous is critical. If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately, theyre not funny, the 81-year-old John Cleese, adding, The problem with political correctness [is that comedians] have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most touchy, most emotionally unstable and fragile and least stoic people in the country.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 30, 2021 12:33 PM (yrol0)

131 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

Yes; He's really creepy looking, isn't he? The long nails look hideous on women too, but worse on some guy who evidently isn't sure which gender he is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (AJzTi)

132 A legislature that meets for 3 months every other year? Yes please!

Posted by: SFGoth at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (KAi1n)

133 This is going to sound stupid, especially since I am very stupid, but how do Biden's handlers agree with this without even challenging it? If there no one in the WH or the military who has the balls to say, "My President, we cannot do this? Mr. President, this will cost American and Afghani lives?"

No one? No one had the courage to challenge this idiot?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:19 PM (VWp7G)

I wouldn't be surprised if they did tell him this, or at least his staff, and were told to shut up and follow orders.

The left has always hated the Afghanistan war, because the left has always believed that 9/11 was justified. Despite all his talk about Afghanistan being the "good war," Obama was eager to pull out troops as soon as possible. We've basically spent the past decade with one foot out the door, trying to get things stabilized just enough that we could justify leaving.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (jOcSX)

134 I think its useful to remind people every so often that this is what the Biden Administration thought would resonate with voters and convince them to submit to the government.

Biden Admin: We need someone like Pajama Boy, but less manly, less likeable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (QU5/8)

135 TADA! A leader arises from the shadows to nationalize absolutely everything thing at all because they are good and kind and want to help people.
___

"Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness
is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is
worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God" (2 Thes 2:3-4).

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (osTz+)

136 >>>And apparently the weak-kneed quislings he hired in his administration are too timid to risk being yelled at by Grandpa Biden.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

So that's it, then. Good to know. I'm honestly to the point of not caring anymore. If the US collapses, it wasn't because of conservatives.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (VWp7G)

137 Even though, technically, the Brit leadership disdain and outrage are well founded - I don't care, and I spit on it and them. Unless I missed all those parliamentary inquiries into the astonishing subject of British intelligence involvement in a de facto coup attempt in the US.

And the rest of the "allies" also have zero standing (despite their armed forces' outstanding contributions in A'stan), as their policies on much bigger issues (esp. Iran) are disastrously reckless and stupid, and of course as always will result in the US being the one forced to take real action (talking about the US before its collapse - now WE are part of the problem on Iran).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (OTzUX)

138 Overheard at store yesterday: Biden cognitively impaired is still better than Trump who was insane.

Baby steps. They're admitting that Biden's brain is swiss cheese, one step at a time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

139 I think we do need to show biden's long claw boyfriend as part of memes. Mocking them is one of our primary weapons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (r+sAi)

140 Karzai International Airport (KIA) -- an appropriate designation under this junta.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (so9KH)

141 As much as we loathe Biden and his ho(s) sidekick(s), bear in mind there's a lot of ass-covering being done by the IC, military and State. Assume they are all lying.

This smacks of something State would have advised to extend an olive branch to the Taliban, and the sterling recent record of the military and IC makes it very plausible they agreed with it. "Biden" is a vegetable who would sign off on anything placed in front of him.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (CtNpS)

142
Alternate post title:

I'm Starting To Believe biden Is Really Calling All The Shots

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (9zK/o)

143 128 Posobiec: "They are cutting out interpreters tongues"

Taliban is putting the list of allied Afghanis we gave them to use.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:33 PM (8+t6P)

"Good evening, and welcome to the six o'clock news. First, lets start off with an update on the Jan. 6 insurrection. Sam, what's the latest??"
--MSM

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (N39Ws)

144
Karzai International Airport (KIA) -- an appropriate designation under this junta.
Posted by: ShainS

Apt.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (9zK/o)

145 Poliical Dealership can't move the Marxists inventory.

Blames death murder kill.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (nOOFl)

146 what comes after FUBAR?"

Posted by: portlandon

BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM (T+GT/)

147 Biden has always been a very stupid and arrogant man. He is also known to have a temper.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (k4dH2)

He's been in a bubble for 50 years. In that bubble he's always been right and always been protected by the party and the press. Of course he's arrogant.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (BJKQV)

148 >>>It is so terrible, but at the same time so wonderful, that this wretched group, Biden voters, are being humiliated on a daily basis.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
--------------------

No, they aren't. I live in an area where I'm surrounded by Biden socialists and they are blissfully unaware of most of the news we see, and rationalize that little they learn.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (8+t6P)

149 Yes; He's really creepy looking, isn't he? The long nails look hideous on women too, but worse on some guy who evidently isn't sure which gender he is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (AJzTi)

The creature with the long claws is representative of the DNC platform, and Modern Milley's perfect recruit

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (ONvIw)

150 what is an isis-k and why should we use it

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (kDixJ)

151 Look Biden cannot both be a meek puppet being controlled by White House forces and a terrifying man in charge nobody wants to upset. He's either in charge or he's not and all signs point to "not". And by "all signs" I mean "every single piece of evidence clearly and overwhelmingly proves."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (KZzsI)

152 If that family has anyone left you can assume they are now Taliban / ISIS terrorists.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (2DOZq)

153 How many libs shrieked that Trump killing Solomani of Iran was a war crime?

Who is the war criminal now?

Posted by: Lrrr at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (mXij7)

154 Posted by: kathysaysso at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (vkS2Z)

And if you actually asked them in what specific ways Trump was insane, they'd splutter and harrumph but wouldn't b able to come up with anything aside from "mean tweets" and possibly the old, rotten chestnut, "He told people to drink bleach for Covid!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (AJzTi)

155 More Libtardian regret:
https://tinyurl.com/5dryucyc
Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:32 PM (DJFLF)
++++
I find it very difficult to accept or sympathize with this kind of thing. In prior eras, maybe. But Biden was obviously who he was. His team is obviously what it is. The Left is obviously what it is. It has been thus for a very long time indeed. The presto change-o deathbed confessions elicit only so much tolerance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (Jsjd7)

156 Biden has contempt for Americans. He thinks it is his right to turn his back on anyone questioning the Afghan debacle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (8+t6P)

157 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

158
Baby steps. They're admitting that Biden's brain is swiss cheese, one step at a time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

If you ask someone to explain why Trump is "insane" or "literally Hitler" they fall apart pretty quickly.

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (ONvIw)

159 how does the country make it through 3.5 more years of this
why won't red states form their own militaries

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (kDixJ)

160 So, I was playing golf last Thursday and I said "Stolen elections have consequences." My cartmate said "I don't think the election was stolen."

I should have shut up right then. Yikes. I used to have a high opinion of the gentleman. He's a really nice guy. Not at smart as I thought, however.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (xopIz)

161 "Don't underestimate Biden's ability to fuck things up...."

- Former Worst President Ever

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

162 "Obama was eager to pull out troops as soon as possible"

Yet somehow oversaw a massive increase in our footprint and expansion of our mission.

Not questioning the overall/underlying analysis there, CO Alex, it's correct. I interpreted Obama's bizarre expansion of the A'stan effort as the last echo of the long-standing Dem felt requirement to do things that belied their pathetic, clueless, weak foreign policy reputation (it used to manifest itself in things like appointing "GOP" SecDefs like Cohen or Hagel, things like that). Even Obama felt obliged to keep Gates at the beginning.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

163 Look Biden cannot both be a meek puppet being controlled by White House forces and a terrifying man in charge nobody wants to upset. He's either in charge or he's not and all signs point to "not". And by "all signs" I mean "every single piece of evidence clearly and overwhelmingly proves."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (KZzsI)

I am in the minority and believe he is the shot caller with manipulative assists.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (2DOZq)

164 StrumToddler 12:22 PM

Is that a typo or have I been misreading it Sturm all this time?
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:23 PM (nLrWw)
son of a &^I*%*&^$&^#%$$%&#$%*^

this is what happens when i leave my socks on too long...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (8D42x)

165 155 But Biden was obviously who he was.

I thought it was:
1. democrat
2. leftie
3. crook

But it's apparently always been.
1. crook
2. meh

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (nLrWw)

166 165th?

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (FWn1L)

167 The presto change-o deathbed confessions elicit only so much tolerance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (Jsjd7)

at least he's not the type that's all "Joe Biden - ride or die!!@!!??!!"

they're still out here, vocally and loudly

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (DJFLF)

168 We have no regrets, because we have no shame, combined with precious little common sense. Some of us even think men can get pregnant.
Additionally, we are never wrong.
Just ask us.

Posted by: Biden voters at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (aAP3z)

169 DissidentSoaps
People always talk about Governors Noem, Abbot and DeSantis. How about a short thread discussing the amazing 2021 accomplishments of Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, with a legislature that meets for 3 months every other year:
/1
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 30,

Wow! A got hard reading all the great legislation that got passed. The governor barely lost the senate race to human turd Tester due to the usual DNC trick of funding fake conservatives thus splitting the vote for the GOP candidate.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (UVMn8)

170 Top Men.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (/MaDp)

171 and is there not a single operator who is really pissed about Ashli Babbitt

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (kDixJ)

172 No, they aren't. I live in an area where I'm surrounded by Biden socialists and they are blissfully unaware of most of the news we see, and rationalize that little they learn.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (8+t6P)

Can confirm.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (uhPTO)

173 Obama admin painted Afghanistan as the real war on terror that Bush neglected for the Iraq nation building

Posted by: steevy at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (uUDKV)

174 164 this is what happens when i leave my socks on too long...

Ok, thanks. I thought perhaps you'd got your thumb stuck in the banjo.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (nLrWw)

175 Biden is Democrat aristocracy, so of course he's acting like an aristocrat. Reminds me of the Russian nobility during WWI, total incompetence + absolute confidence.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (BJKQV)

176 108 What is the justification being offered for not identifying the two "high profile ISIS targets" supposedly killed?
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 30, 2021 12:31 PM (GIdMH)

------

Well, know, funny thing that. How were we to know that Taliban masterminds had the same names as a toddler and a nine-year-old.

I mean, what are the odds?!?

Posted by: Just Lily at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (RLLZj)

177 Biden has contempt for Americans. He thinks it is his right to turn his back on anyone questioning the Afghan debacle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 12:37 PM

But his crackhead, whore-mongering, influence-peddling son is the smartest guy he knows.

Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (MzKgG)

178 at least he's not the type that's all "Joe Biden - ride or die!!@!!??!!"
they're still out here, vocally and loudly
Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (DJFLF)
++++
Oh, sure. And from a normal person, I am a lot more tolerant than I would be for a public figure, however minor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (Jsjd7)

179 171 and is there not a single operator who is really pissed about Ashli Babbitt
Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:39 PM (kDixJ)

I mean we should be protesting publicly, we can't let this fall off the new cycle.

public protests

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (kDixJ)

180 What will the Dem platform look like in 24?

Assuming the country holds.

Posted by: I mean at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (YJb5j)

181 Obama was eager to pull out troops as soon as possible"

Yet somehow oversaw a massive increase in our footprint and expansion of our mission.

Not questioning the overall/underlying analysis there, CO Alex, it's correct. I interpreted Obama's bizarre expansion of the A'stan effort as the last echo of the long-standing Dem felt requirement to do things that belied their pathetic, clueless, weak foreign policy reputation (it used to manifest itself in things like appointing "GOP" SecDefs like Cohen or Hagel, things like that). Even Obama felt obliged to keep Gates at the beginning.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

The Obama surge in troops is directly as a result of
Michele Flournoy.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (2DOZq)

182 TADA! A leader arises from the shadows to nationalize absolutely everything thing at all because they are good and kind and want to help people.
===
And that leader has donkey teeth and big tits!!!
Posted by: That's right, its me baby AOC at August 30, 2021 12:27 PM (YUmHY)

yeah, shut up you're only popular for your tits.

you're going to end up as a whore in congress, a la caligula...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (8D42x)

183 I saw Good Striek open for Bowling for Soup at Lava Cantina in 2020.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

184 This busty brunette is a cynic so she isn't too surprised to learn about this - though she remains angry and resentful about the constant humiliation and destruction:
https://is.gd/J3PBIe

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

185 What will the Dem platform look like in 24?
Assuming the country holds.
Posted by: I mean at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (YJb5j)
++++
A guess? Infrastructure, social programs and economic recovery.

Just like always.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:42 PM (Jsjd7)

186 Biden is so mean he once flung crap at a guy just for snorin'.

Posted by: klaftern at August 30, 2021 12:42 PM (r4sI4)

187 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

Yes; He's really creepy looking, isn't he? The long nails look hideous on women too, but worse on some guy who evidently isn't sure which gender he is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Psssst.....(I think he's sure )

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:42 PM (arJlL)

188 I think we do need to show biden's long claw boyfriend as part of memes. Mocking them is one of our primary weapons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (r+sAi)

------

Memes and mocking them appear to be our only weapons ... at least until things get sporky.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 30, 2021 12:43 PM (DWsEr)

189 Infrastructure, social programs and economic recovery.

Defeated Covid, global warming

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:43 PM (KZzsI)

190
This busty brunette is a cynic so she isn't too surprised to learn about this - though she remains angry and resentful about the constant humiliation and destruction:
https://is.gd/J3PBIe
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

I'm amazed that you can find so many whip-smart women out there...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 12:43 PM (n+4am)

191 ok coronate DJT as king of America who says no

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:43 PM (kDixJ)

192 185 What will the Dem platform look like in 24?
Posted by: I mean at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (YJb5j)

Racist Regressive Republicans!

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (ucUhL)

193 Biden sat and watched while Obama got away with Benghazi, Fast & Furious, the IRS Scandal, the VA Scandal, and on and on. No matter how many people died, the press covered for "No Drama Obama."

Biden thought it would work out the same for him in Afghanistan, so he never worried about the outcome.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (BJKQV)

194 Provides tons and tons of aid to the enemy.

These are not blunders.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (nOOFl)

195 it's "crown" as in "crown DJT ..."

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (nLrWw)

196 And the bit about relying on the Taliban for this or that, the snark, is about as flat and lame as it gets. Yes, when your adversary has essentially taken over, you have 2 choices. Rely on him for certain things, or do it all yourself.

The strike was probably a "good" one (= real target, taken out) - obviously with a horrendous result in terms of innocents killed. That is, a fairly typical outcome in this long struggle against animals who use innocent humans as shields as the absolute central tactic of their operations.

So as usual one can drop the high falutin' moral anguish and address the question: you want to take out this team with high risk of unintended victims, or take your chances stopping them before they get to our personnel at some perimeter? Not saying the answer is clear, but that's the question.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (OTzUX)

197
Yet somehow oversaw a massive increase in our footprint and expansion of our mission.

Not questioning the overall/underlying analysis there, CO Alex, it's correct. I interpreted Obama's bizarre expansion of the A'stan effort as the last echo of the long-standing Dem felt requirement to do things that belied their pathetic, clueless, weak foreign policy reputation (it used to manifest itself in things like appointing "GOP" SecDefs like Cohen or Hagel, things like that). Even Obama felt obliged to keep Gates at the beginning.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

The surge in Afghanistan was explicitly limited to one year, which was proof from the beginning that it wasn't serious. Obama had run on fixing Afghanistan and needed to balance between showing his "commitment" to that fight and the pressure from the left to leave. So he gave Gates et. al. what they wanted, but half-assed.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (jOcSX)

198 188 I think we do need to show biden's long claw boyfriend as part of memes. Mocking them is one of our primary weapons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (r+sAi)

Yep they own that degeneracy we must not let people forget

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (kDixJ)

199 Yes; He's really creepy looking, isn't he? The long nails look hideous on women too, but worse on some guy who evidently isn't sure which gender he is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:34 PM (AJzTi)
++++
It could be worse. They could be natural talons. Natural fingernails that long get thick and curved. I once had to give my an ID to a woman with fingernails several inches long like that and she had to Xerox it to release the appliance I was picking up.

Those thick, long, curving, silver-painted fingernails scraping and tapping against the copier glass as they tried to get my ID off the flat surface still periodically haunt my dreams.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (Jsjd7)

200 Slo Joe called up Clinton for advice and he told him to dump $20 million in missiles in some deserted area.

Posted by: dartist at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (+ya+t)

201 I think we do need to show biden's long claw boyfriend as part of memes. Mocking them is one of our primary weapons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Wellllllll Long Clawed Sally is built Wrong.......

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (arJlL)

202 I saw Good Striek open for Bowling for Soup at Lava Cantina in 2020.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

Good Striek > Good Charlotte

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

203 Psssst.....(I think he's sure )
Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:42 PM (arJlL)

I think there's a term for people who don't identify as either gender. I can't recall what it is-and no, I don't mean crazy.
If he thought he was really a woman, he'd be doing the while cross dressing things even bigger, aside from the fact that he's flamingly gay.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (AJzTi)

204 Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (OTzUX)

You're making a lot of assumptions.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (2DOZq)

205 If only James Taylor had been available none of this would have happened.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (GQ5VU)

206 much as we loathe Biden and his ho(s) sidekick(s), bear in mind there's a lot of ass-covering being done by the IC, military and State. Assume they are all lying.

This smacks of something State would have advised to extend an olive branch to the Taliban, and the sterling recent record of the military and IC makes it very plausible they agreed with it. "Biden" is a vegetable who would sign off on anything placed in front of him.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2021 12:35 PM

Remember, Lurch, who served in Vietnam, is on dementia Joe's foreign policy team. This whole shit sandwich has his finger prints on it.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (UVMn8)

207 ace doesn't knock the dick out of your mouth when you're working, so don't bother him when he's working.

Martin Lawrence references are allowed here?

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (FWn1L)

208 this is what happens when i leave my socks on too long...

Ok, thanks. I thought perhaps you'd got your thumb stuck in the banjo.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:40 PM (nLrWw)

i promise to NOT go rafting down the river...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (8D42x)

209 I think its useful to remind people every so often that this is what the Biden Administration thought would resonate with voters and convince them to submit to the government.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Or they know it doesn't and are now just rubbing it in our faces.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (1t5dY)

210 185 What will the Dem platform look like in 24?
Assuming the country holds.
Posted by: I mean at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (YJb5j)

Build back even better

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:47 PM (kDixJ)

211
Good Striek > Good Charlotte
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

Wow....never heard of them, but they actually might be worse than Bowling for Soup......

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

212 ace doesn't knock the dick out of your mouth when you're working, so don't bother him when he's working.

Martin Lawrence references are allowed here?
Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming

Okay; that was funny !

Posted by: JT at August 30, 2021 12:47 PM (arJlL)

213 The only thing that makes sense is that this entire catastrophe was intentional.

You cannot fuck up this spectacularly by accident and if it actually was as a result of hubris, petulance, miscalculation and cowardice then this would suggest that everything, EVERYTHING, is perched on a knife's edge.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (SrK3u)

214 So he gave Gates et. al. what they wanted, but half-assed.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (jOcSX)

I keep telling you. It wasn't Gates. It was Michele Flournoy that was advising Obama.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (2DOZq)

215 Nothing but a bunch of sweet little Talibon-bons.

Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

216 I'm reminded that some time during the Bush 43 years we bombed some target in 'Stan and the Taliban and FNM claimed we bombed a wedding.

True? Who knows.

But the left and the FNM covered it...forever.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (DpkTQ)

217 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:45 PM (Jsjd7)

Yes; I've always found them repellent. I guess they are not sure what species they are-Maybe they identify as birds or dinosaurs with long talons. Just kidding. The other ones I've seen them on always looked like women and for some reason thought this was attractive and sexy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (AJzTi)

218 "What will the Dem platform look like in 24?"

Same as Obama in 2012. They will lie about how amazing everything is, with the MSM nodding in agreement. And LIVs will sadly believe them.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (GQ5VU)

219 DissidentSoaps
People always talk about Governors Noem, Abbot and DeSantis. How about a short thread discussing the amazing 2021 accomplishments of Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, with a legislature that meets for 3 months every other year:
/1
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 30,

Wow! A got hard reading all the great legislation that got passed. The governor barely lost the senate race to human turd Tester due to the usual DNC trick of funding fake conservatives thus splitting the vote for the GOP candidate.
Posted by: Beartooth

Also the dude who body slammed a reporter/journalist just days before election.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (K3v88)

220 ISIS-K or ISKP = Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - Khorasan Province. Khorasan was a name for much of A'stan in ancient times, still used as a provincial name in Iran.

Why we should care about them? Not sure. But that applies to almost everything now.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (OTzUX)

221 203 I think there's a term for people who don't identify as either gender. [snip]
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (AJzTi)

Why give them the time-of-day. There are two sexes: male and female and three pronouns: he she, and it. You can use the third pronoun for anyone who declines to use one of the sexes.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (nLrWw)

222 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (SrK3u)

Lara Logan agrees that it was intentional. She's pretty knowledgeable about that region, she covered it for years.

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (DJFLF)

223 So as usual one can drop the high falutin' moral anguish and address the question: you want to take out this team with high risk of unintended victims, or take your chances stopping them before they get to our personnel at some perimeter? Not saying the answer is clear, but that's the question.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:44 PM (OTzUX)

if it's between them and our people, i'm in favor of carpet bombing...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (8D42x)

224 The other ones I've seen them on always looked like women and for some reason thought this was attractive and sexy.

What they say to me is that these are women who do no work, and show that by their huge talons.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (KZzsI)

225 China is scrambling to stay ahead of the US in the fascism department. Will only allow kids under 18 to play video games 3 specific hours per week. Must have a verified account with facial recognition.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (TayrX)

226 Nothing but a bunch of sweet little Talibon-bons.
Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/TRqP52c0OLU

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

227
Biden: Ice cream eating surrender monkey

Posted by: French Vanilla at August 30, 2021 12:50 PM (ua1hm)

228 Will only allow kids under 18 to play video games 3 specific hours per week.

Well, that's one way to get the Wokeistas against you if anyone tried it here.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

229 Good Times - Chic (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51r5f5OdIY0

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (osTz+)

230 I'm reminded that some time during the Bush 43 years we bombed some target in 'Stan and the Taliban and FNM claimed we bombed a wedding.

True? Who knows.

But the left and the FNM covered it...forever.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (DpkTQ)

I believe it was in Iraq. Possible they claimed more than once.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (2DOZq)

231 And LIVs will sadly believe them.

Again, Trump won by a huge margin in 2020. The LIVs didn't swallow what the DNC was trying to feed them. The media failed to convince people. The BLM riots did not intimidate people into voting for Biden. THEY FAILED and had to cheat in the end, blatantly and outrageously, to pull off a coup.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (KZzsI)

232 Are you actually complaining that the US turned down the opportunity to "secure" Kabul? Kabul is a city of over 4,000,000 people. How many troops do you think it would take to "secure" Kabul? We cannot even secure the airport with 6,000. Every soldier "securing" Kabul would be a target, providing Al Qaeda with a "target-rich environment". Our goal is to get OUT of A'stan.

Posted by: timactual at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (+oSfl)

233 Not assumptions, logic and real-world thinking. Unless we're talking about different things (comment sections are not great formats for real discussions).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (OTzUX)

234 Good Times - Chic (1979)

Its *clap* DY NO MITE!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (KZzsI)

235 Look Biden cannot both be a meek puppet being controlled by White House forces and a terrifying man in charge nobody wants to upset. He's either in charge or he's not and all signs point to "not".
______________

We can't really know what's going on behind the scenes, and the leakers all have their own agendas (most of them are trying to cover their own asses), but we do know Biden's personality type. No doubt there are aides telling Biden he needs to do X, Y, and Z. But Biden gets presented with a variety of options about how X can be accomplished, and he picks and chooses what he wants. It has been leaked that Biden was the one who insisted that all but 2,500 U.S. troops be withdrawn, which sounds like it was probably true, if only because it was so obviously stupid.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (k4dH2)

236
I think its useful to remind people every so often that this is what the Biden Administration thought would resonate with voters and convince them to submit to the government.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Or they know it doesn't and are now just rubbing it in our faces.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (1t5dY)

--------

Oh, I know exactly how it happened. You have dimwit millennials Psaki running that comms department. They're digital media kids are all "this Benny fruit is *SO* hot on TikTok right now!!! Wouldn't it be awesome if we could get him to do a viral collabo with Jen? We'll get killer engagement. #TwitterTweet!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (rZA2o)

237 Bad news: 13 dead American and 6 dead kids.

Good news: They had rocky road!

So this was a good day. A very good day!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (DpkTQ)

238 Katie Melua - Piece by Piece
https://youtu.be/S4BfyFCzWCs

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (Jsjd7)

239 oops, forgot the Biden sock

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (DpkTQ)

240 Biden thought it would work out the same for him in Afghanistan

Joe, you ain't black.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (r+sAi)

241 TEH NORMZZZ™ suck donkey balls.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (LBamn)

242 Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (osTz+)

This does remind me of good times...

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (DJFLF)

243 Khorasan was introduced by Bambi trying to show off his scolarship. Also ISIL. Anyone who follows his lead ...

Here's the low-down from wikipedia:

https://tinyurl.com/yk8fv64f

Bannon's crowd claims they are just errand boys for the Hiqqani Network who are esconsed in Kabul and who Biden would never dare to attempt to drone.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (nLrWw)

244 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2021 12:48 PM (SrK3u)

Lara Logan agrees that it was intentional. She's pretty knowledgeable about that region, she covered it for years.
Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (DJFLF

I don't necessarily disagree but no one has a viable theory why?

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (2DOZq)

245 I think there's a term for people who don't identify as either gender. [snip]
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (AJzTi)

Why give them the time-of-day. There are two sexes: male and female and three pronouns: he she, and it. You can use the third pronoun for anyone who declines to use one of the sexes.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (nLrWw)

so there's either:
binary = people who believe they are either man or woman;
and there's non-binary = people who don't believe they're either man or woman.

so, it's back to binary then...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (8D42x)

246 Its *clap* DY NO MITE!!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

LOL

I was ten at the time...though it was bad for my parents, I had fun.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (osTz+)

247 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (KZzsI)

Maybe, but the women I've seen them on had jobs-and no, not as prostitutes or in the ministry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (AJzTi)

248 Return from s 3 day river cruise to the 7 th century.

If they just keep going...maybe find an island in the 18th century.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2021 12:53 PM (nOOFl)

249
Or they know it doesn't and are now just rubbing it in our faces.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (1t5dY)

These cocksuckers are just doing donuts on our lawns in their fleet GMCs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2021 12:53 PM (LBamn)

250 So...

Step 1- make a hasty withdrawl without coming up with any convincing plan, almost guaranteeing chaos and the ability of assholes to take advantage of the chaos to launch terrorist attacks

Step 2- inevitable terrorist attacks

Step 3- drone strike random people

Step 4- demand credit for drone strikes

WTAF.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 12:53 PM (csEWM)

251 No one in the White House and Pentagon will comment on this today or tomorrow, because the mission is in-progress and they are laser-focused on it. Beginning Wednesday, they will not comment about it because the After Action Reviews will be in progress. Those Reviews will take until who the hell knows? We'll be told it is foolish to rush the Reviews. When the completion date finally comes, the Review Reports will be classified Top Secret/Need to Know.

Posted by: Gref at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (AMIL/)

252 so there's either:
binary = people who believe they are either man or woman;
and there's non-binary = people who don't believe they're either man or woman.

so, it's back to binary then...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (8D42x)
++++
Close, but no cigar.

How about back to "normal?" You're normal or you're not. You're normal or you're abnormal. Or a deviant. Or a freak. Or a degenerate. Just not normal.

"Normal" or "Other" is the only meaningful binary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Jsjd7)

253 Are you actually complaining that the US turned down the opportunity to "secure" Kabul?

Well that was admirable spin on the US Government agreeing to let brutal, sadistic, and hateful Muslim savages control the area we needed to get people to safety. Bonus points for trying to make it seem like we're actually trying to control the airport when it has been made totally clear that the soldiers are being ordered to stand down and not guard or control anything.

Its not often when you get the left to argue on the side of homosexual-murdering mass rapists and torturers, but I guess when it comes down to principle, logic, and sanity, whatever it takes to defend a Democrat puts all that out the window.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (KZzsI)

254 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

She looks hideous.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

255 Biden had to kill those children. They were Isis Pre-K.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Ndje9)

256 Well, that's one way to get the Wokeistas against you if anyone tried it here.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:50 PM (DpkTQ)

No, there are no way. We keep pointing to the bridge to far that isn't too far. It's a cult that only ends with the Jonestown koolaid

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (kDixJ)

257 She looks hideous.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (yQpMk)
+++
Well he's a dude, so ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Jsjd7)

258 Ace - please stop showing that creature with the long claws.

She looks hideous.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

Well, she's a guy, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

259 Military adventures in iraq and afg would have been obviated if we had had a functioning FBI in 2000/2001 and a bunch of dudes with friggin' box cutters not been allowed to commandeer 3 airplanes.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (KAi1n)

260 Biden had to kill those children. They were Isis Pre-K.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Ndje9)
++++
That's dark. I chuckled, but that's dark.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (Jsjd7)

261 Should we be learning Chinese?

Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (MVjcR)

262 257 She looks hideous.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (yQpMk)
+++
Well he's a dude, so ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Jsjd7)

Khaki capris

Posted by: Insomniac at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (LBamn)

263 Gref,

I don't pay any attention to the demonic entities currently populating the halls of power and influence.

Beyond what is tactically advantageous to me and mine, of course.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (osTz+)

264 That's a MAN, man!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (csEWM)

265 Posted by: timactual at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (+oSfl)

US troops targeted by who in Kabul? We've been there for 20 years now we would be targeted by someone other than the Taliban?

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (2DOZq)

266 Are you actually complaining that the US turned down the opportunity to "secure" Kabul? Kabul is a city of over 4,000,000 people. How many troops do you think it would take to "secure" Kabul? We cannot even secure the airport with 6,000. Every soldier "securing" Kabul would be a target, providing Al Qaeda with a "target-rich environment". Our goal is to get OUT of A'stan.
Posted by: timactual at August 30, 2021 12:51 PM (+oSfl)

well, they initially tried to secure HKIA with about 2500 or less troops. with would be 1/10th of what they used to secure the capitol buildings after the unarmed "insurrection" so...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (8D42x)

267 Military adventures in iraq and afg would have been obviated if we had had a functioning FBI in 2000/2001 and a bunch of dudes with friggin' box cutters not been allowed to commandeer 3 airplanes.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (KAi1n)
++++
Four. Just because one got turfed instead of reaching its target doesn't mean it wasn't hijacked.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (Jsjd7)

268 255 Biden had to kill those children. They were Isis Pre-K.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Ndje9)

-----
Damn! Good one.

Posted by: 496 at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (VJsqe)

269 Did he offer at least a plane full of cash for the job of airport security?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 30, 2021 12:55 PM (P8FxN)

270 The Wokeistas I know play video games, watch youtube/netflix and post on twitter.

Limit one of those and they would start having temper tantrums...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (DpkTQ)

271 The Associated Press
@AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a

Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

272 Stupid is as stupid does but this isn't a box chocolates. More a box of shit. We still don't know what we're going to get.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (d9FiS)

273 I picture the press waiting everyday for the opportunity to turn things around for the admin only to pick up the paper and shaker their head saying funking biden...

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (kDixJ)

274 My neighbors already know that if we bug out, it would be in their best interest to do the same.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (osTz+)

275 These are number crunchers and we are the numbers.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (nOOFl)

276 When I see that picture of that creature I think this is the image of Americans that the Taliban probably have in their heads.

And it were actually represenative, I think they'd be on the right side.

Posted by: Zek at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (dEaub)

277 In case anyone thought I was arguing for the US securing Kabul, I was not. I was trying to point out the ridiculousness of your enemy requesting you secure a city for them and then hand over all its screaming citizens as you retreat. Should've been more clear.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (uhPTO)

278 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (nLrWw)

I can't refer to people as an "it". I've never had long, meaningful conversations with people who don't identify as either gender, but if I had to instead of getting into the whole pronoun thing I think I'd just scrupulously use their name instead of he or she.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (AJzTi)

279 Close, but no cigar.

How about back to "normal?" You're normal or you're not. You're normal or you're abnormal. Or a deviant. Or a freak. Or a degenerate. Just not normal.

"Normal" or "Other" is the only meaningful binary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:54 PM (Jsjd7)

agree Joe, just trying to confuzzle the woke tards with their own bullshit.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (8D42x)

280 What does ISIS-K mean? ISIS in Kabul?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (csEWM)

281 @AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

The Gaslight Administration will not be taking questions on Afghanistan today

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (kDixJ)

282 And if you actually asked them in what specific ways Trump was insane, they'd splutter and harrumph but wouldn't b able to come up with anything aside from "mean tweets" and possibly the old, rotten chestnut, "He told people to drink bleach for Covid!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:36 PM (AJzTi)

Yes. And "He tried to stop a hurricane with a Sharpie." I heard that one this weekend, too.

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (vkS2Z)

283 AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
____

Who didn't see this coming?

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (osTz+)

284 The Associated Press
@AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

Forcing kids to wear masks that may be harmful to their health = RIGHTS??!?

In what fucking world......

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

285 They're digital media kids are all "this Benny fruit is *SO* hot on TikTok right now!!! Wouldn't it be awesome if we could get him to do a viral collabo with Jen? We'll get killer engagement. #TwitterTweet!"

Yes, exactly. This wasn't some cynical attempt to humiliate, they live in another world, another universe, another dimension from sane people. A world so totally bubbled that they think anyone who disagrees is like that crazy bum stumbling down the street having a conversation with himself about the flying dogs that came out of an alien space craft.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (KZzsI)

286 What does ISIS-K mean? ISIS in Kabul?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (csEWM)

They're the K in 'LGBTQK2S'

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

287 280 What does ISIS-K mean? ISIS in Kabul?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (csEWM)

Rhomboid answered up thread is some regional subset of this fuckers that only came back to life with the zombie 'president'

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (kDixJ)

288 The Associated Press
@AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

they really are throwing shit against the wall hoping something sticks.

i pray one of these governors tells them to fuck ALL the way off and get out of his state.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (8D42x)

289 Kirk Franklin - September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQZ6j6UGrM

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (osTz+)

290 Posted by: kathysaysso at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (vkS2Z)

I don't even understand what that means as to what they'd be referring to.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (AJzTi)

291 I can't refer to people as an "it".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 12:57 PM (AJzTi)

I sympathize with your view but yesterday I refered to my 10 day-old grand-daughter as "it" ... because it's my default for babies. My daughter objected mildly, of course.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (nLrWw)

292 Forcing kids to wear masks that may be harmful to their health = RIGHTS??!?

In what fucking world......
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

Slavery=Freedom.

Plus it lets them equate stopping mandates with not allowing people to wear masks if they choose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (csEWM)

293
Yes. And "He tried to stop a hurricane with a Sharpie." I heard that one this weekend, too.
Posted by: kathysaysso at August 30, 2021 12:58 PM (vkS2Z)

And he told americans to heal covid with a cleaning agent adjusts hat of tinfoil

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (kDixJ)

294 The Associated Press
@AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a

Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

You can still send your kid to school in a mask without the government mandating it. How are their rights infringed?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (uhPTO)

295 ISIS-Ketamine?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (csEWM)

296 Listen here, Jack, the K in ISIS K stands for kids, that's why we have to bomb children.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (/4vtq)

297 280 What does ISIS-K mean? ISIS in Kabul?
---
ISIS Khorasan, for the Khorasan province in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 30, 2021 01:01 PM (sWM8x)

298 The Bill Cosby ISIS?

Or would that be ISIS-P?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:01 PM (csEWM)

299 ISKP - and AQ - fairly thick in Kabul, and able to increase their presence easily. And while AQ mainly lined up with the Taliban, not always. It's A'stan, we're talking Taliban, AQ, Haqqanis, ISKP - lines are often not darkly drawn and stable, things are fluid.

"Securing" Kabul would have been an enormous task, with a casualty count probably much larger than the final one here.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 30, 2021 01:01 PM (OTzUX)

300 Listen here, Jack, the K in ISIS K stands for kids, that's why we have to bomb children.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (/4vtq)

When did Joey Shitpants become Uncle Sy from that Duck Commander show?

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDRED Ashli Babbitt at August 30, 2021 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

301 Remind me never to defend NYC.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 30, 2021 01:01 PM (/MaDp)

302 i pray one of these governors tells them to fuck ALL the way off and get out of his state.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 30, 2021 12:59 PM (8D42x)

Eventually states that care will have to recruit their own militaries.

We are close to soft civil war 2.0

if that voter shit actually makes it out of the senate that's Lexington and Concord.

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (kDixJ)

303 Blackwater screwed up. Big time.

Erik Prince tells the NY Post that Blackwater rescued Biden and Secretariat from a site behind Taliban lines when their helicopter malfunctioned. This happened, he says, was during a 2008 visit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (8+t6P)

304 You can still send your kid to school in a mask without the government mandating it. How are their rights infringed?
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (uhPTO)

It doesn't- but they need to argue that it does. So, allowing people to do what they choose is actually taking away their freedom. Somehow. Because they say so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (csEWM)

305 As a reminder:

Kids are not at risk from COVID.

Masks don't do anything.

The government has *no* authority at any level to make someone wear a mask.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (DpkTQ)

306 Eventually states that care will have to recruit their own militaries.

"As we always intended it to be, from the start"
--The Founding Fathers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

307 296 Listen here, Jack, the K in ISIS K stands for kids, that's why we have to bomb children.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (/4vtq)

C'mon man

Posted by: havelhavolim at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (kDixJ)

308 Fenelon. My stepdaughter tried that with her former boss. It was impossible to keep calling him/her by it's first name. She would slip and use a pronoun. Of course always the incorrect one since it's pronouns may have been rather fluid.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (2NHgQ)

309 This does not compute. Biden evidently has a handler who tells him when he can answer questions and what to say, but we're supposed to believe he called all the shots on Kabul?

Posted by: abbynormal at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (Xpj5t)

310 The government has *no* authority at any level to make someone wear a mask.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (DpkTQ)

You've clearly forgotten the power of Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (nLrWw)

311
ace doesn't knock the dick out of your mouth when you're working, so don't bother him when he's working.

Martin Lawrence references are allowed here?
Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at August 30, 2021 12:46 PM (FWn1L)

I heard it from a musician who used it against hecklers. Funny as hell, of course that was 30+ years ago.

And now you're telling me it's a Martin Lawrence joke? Ugh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (n+4am)

312 306 Eventually states that care will have to recruit their own militaries.

"As we always intended it to be, from the start"
--The Founding Fathers
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 30, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

==========

"Yes...take down your standing army, colonies. Do it..."
-Queen Elizabeth, with that look in her eye

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

313 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (nLrWw)

Why is a baby an "it?" Is your daughter not not raising the baby in any gender or is it just that babies can be be unique creatures?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (AJzTi)

314 Any updates on the great HotDog, is it a sandwich or not Twitter Con, Inc. debate?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (GQ5VU)

315 Coming to a Hospital near you the Health and Human Services are telling Hospitals and Nursing Homes that they must reduce energy consumption.

Hey you on Life Support you used your allotment of energy so we are pulling the plug

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (dKiJG)

316 Lara Logan agrees that it was intentional. She's pretty knowledgeable about that region, she covered it for years.
Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2021 12:49 PM (DJFLF

I don't necessarily disagree but no one has a viable theory why?
Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 12:52 PM (2DOZq)

I'm with you, but I don't see who benefits either. The folks who were getting paid off by China can't be getting paid now, because it's a lot cheaper to blackmail them than to pay them. I don't believe defense contractors would be getting more money to replace the equipment that we left behind. With America in decline after this incident, I'm not sure who would get paid going forward anyway. At least many of the people who sold out to the Soviets were true believers of some sort. What do these people believe in that would make them happily sell America down the river?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (mdjgu)

317 https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

Wait...didn't the MFM just crow last Friday that some Leon County Civil Bench Judge in Fla already ruled that masks had to be mandated for all schools? I mean, if Judge Boss Hogg in Leon County Florida has made his ruling, that's it for everyone then...isn't it?

Posted by: Boswell at August 30, 2021 01:05 PM (5iUNf)

318 Coming to a Hospital near you the Health and Human Services are telling Hospitals and Nursing Homes that they must reduce energy consumption.

President 18-1 would have a plan to build hundreds of new coal plants.

And I'd tax the big tech companies to pay for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 01:05 PM (DpkTQ)

319 311 And now you're telling me it's a Martin Lawrence joke? Ugh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (n+4am)

It's a Jimmy Carr standard as well.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (nLrWw)

320 Popcorn time.....

A state employee union is suing Inslee for the vax mandate. Blue on blue porn is the best!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (GQ5VU)

321 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (2NHgQ)

And were there work repercussions , or they just thought your daughter was a neanderthal?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (AJzTi)

322 Plus it lets them equate stopping mandates with not allowing people to wear masks if they choose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (csEWM)
-------------
Everything must be either mandated or banned.

Posted by: zmdavid at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (xqRaG)

323 @rhomboid, no doubt securing Kabul would have been beyond our capabilities. Kabul is basically Albuquerque -- city of 4 million in a mile-high valley surrounded by mountains. As anyone who watches Breaking Bad knows, the State of New Mexico, the DEA, the Bernalillo County sheriffs, and the ABQ PD can't secure Albuquerque. And that's not halfway around the world.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (JO36I)

324 Biden is Democrat aristocracy, so of course he's acting like an aristocrat. Reminds me of the Russian nobility during WWI, total incompetence + absolute confidence.
Posted by: 29Victor

More like 1905.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (KAi1n)

325 322 Plus it lets them equate stopping mandates with not allowing people to wear masks if they choose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:00 PM (csEWM)
-------------
Everything must be either mandated or banned.
Posted by: zmdavid at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (xqRaG)

========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part in keeping thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

326 They really are throwing shit against the wall hoping something sticks.

This is why our side looses. We don't even try to fight - they do. It doesn't matter to them if they loose they just try to fight on some other front.

Posted by: Archer at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (gmo/4)

327 I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a drone burger today.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (EcQad)

328
1. F up withdrawal from Afghanistan
2. Blame it on Trump
3. ??
4. Profit!

Posted by: Weasel at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (MVjcR)

329 Why is a baby an "it?" Is your daughter not not raising the baby in any gender or is it just that babies can be be unique creatures? .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (AJzTi)

Because people get offended if you get it wrong? I don't really know. It's just a personal habit, I guess. But I did get reprimanded.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (nLrWw)

330 What do these people believe in that would make them happily sell America down the river? Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (mdjgu)

Half of our country believes we are evil.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (JO36I)

331 296 Listen here, Jack, the K in ISIS K stands for kids, that's why we have to bomb children.
Posted by: Joe Biden at Aug

Thread winner?

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (IJ9BR)

332 She spilled her pronouns?

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (Dryq8)

333 I'm with you, but I don't see who benefits either.
===============

Iran benefits. They're going to split the more sophisticated weapons with Pakistan. It was an intentional gift from the Sullivan faction to Iran.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (8+t6P)

334
What do these people believe in that would make them happily sell America down the river?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (mdjgu)

The destruction of Western Civilization is the point. They don't care about the end result, just the death and destruction. Some of them might be able to suck up some power and money, but that's just side benefits.

Ultimately it comes down to the pleasure of shooting kneeling Kulaks in the back of the neck.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (n+4am)

335 If only James Taylor had been available none of this would have happened.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant

We've seen fire and we've seen rain
We've seen dead bodies and experienced pain

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (d9FiS)

336 This is why our side looses. We don't even try to fight - they do. It doesn't matter to them if they loose they just try to fight on some other front.
Posted by: Archer at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (gmo/4)

___

Sir,

Fighting is cooth and for the hoi polloi. We as your betters, only agree to disagree and then surrender.

PS: Send $100 ASAP so we can fight the radical Biden agenda.

Posted by: GOP at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (GQ5VU)

337 What do these people believe in that would make them happily sell America down the river?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2021 01:04 PM (mdjgu)`

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a man of wealth and means.

Posted by: Lucifer at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (weGKL)

338 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

Your fetishistic belief in Prometheus is not unlike mask mandates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (csEWM)

339 Pronouns all over the floor
it was a mess

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (Dryq8)

340 Gender refers to words.

People have a sex. And outside of a small number of people with a birth defect that sex is either male or female.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (DpkTQ)

341 Half of our country believes we are evil.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (JO36I)
----------
Not half, just the ones in charge.

Posted by: zmdavid at August 30, 2021 01:09 PM (xqRaG)

342 A little known fact: The K in ISIS-K stands for Kaboom cereal. They eat so much of it that they're sick of it, and want to blow things up, like that bad dude, Corn Pop.

Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 30, 2021 01:09 PM (a3Q+t)

343 MANDATE PROMETHEUS!!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 30, 2021 01:09 PM (OCTRt)

344 Half of our country believes we are evil.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (JO36I)

Everyone believes that half of the country is evil.

Half of the country is right.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 30, 2021 01:09 PM (6FeV1)

345 China and Iran are going to squabble over the jets.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2021 01:09 PM (Dryq8)

346 @AP BREAKING: The Education Department has opened civil rights investigations against five Republican-led states that bar mask mandates for schools.

https://tinyurl.com/58kkfs6a
Posted by: redridinghood at August 30, 2021 12:56 PM (NpAcC)
++++
Ah. So voluntarism is oppressive and coercion is liberating.

Well done, Department of Education. You've gone Full Orwell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (Jsjd7)

347 Old and busted: Biden, greatest strategist of all time

New and shiny: war ciminal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (d9FiS)

348 This does not compute. Biden evidently has a handler who tells him when he can answer questions and what to say, but we're supposed to believe he called all the shots on Kabul?Posted by: abbynormal at August 30, 2021 01:03 PM (Xpj5t)

He called the important ones.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (JO36I)

349 Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a man of wealth and means.
Posted by: Lucifer at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (weGKL)

Taste?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (csEWM)

350 Nood woke female soldier .... DUCK!!

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (nLrWw)

351 Weather porn reporter looks stupid!

https://tinyurl.com/kbyx43ub

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (yrol0)

352 Consequences are for the little people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 30, 2021 01:11 PM (d9FiS)

353 Molon Labia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 30, 2021 01:12 PM (yQpMk)

354 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (JO36I)

Again who would we be securing Kabul from?

Posted by: Just a side note at August 30, 2021 01:12 PM (qcrxS)

355 Popcorn time.....

A state employee union is suing Inslee for the vax mandate. Blue on blue porn is the best!!
Posted by: Joe XiDen -

Nah. Go read the bios of Washington State Supreme Court Justices. Squashed like an apple maggot. What you should expect from our socialist party tribunal is a ruling eliminating medical and religious exemptions.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 30, 2021 01:12 PM (+WLy7)

356 Mixed feelings here. While I am saddened by the death of children, any children, I'm also at the point where I don't give a shit about dead Afghans.

I agree; unlike Leftists, I'm against killing children. But I can't *care* about the deaths of people I don't know, and who wouldn't care about the deaths of my children. What I DO care about is what this says about US. Namely, that waging war and killing enemies used to be a thing we were good at, and we can't manage to do it anymore.

It's the same way I *care* about the disintegration of Detroit every time I see pictures of those magnificent buildings returning to nature. I'm not thinking, 'Oh, those poor Detroiters, living in such awful conditions!' I'm thinking, 'Damn, those buildings were once testimonials of our advanced civilization, and now we're losing ground on that front every day.'

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at August 30, 2021 01:12 PM (KF5Wg)

357 *considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part in keeping thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 30, 2021 01:07 PM

It's ok. It was mentioned in a earlier Thread, so achieving the blog's MDR of Prometheus is on track.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 30, 2021 01:12 PM (a3Q+t)

358 So yeah, remember why the media was forced to start covering the JV team?

You know, because they were killing people in ever more horrific ways?

ISIS in Kabul have been handed:
1) names, faces and families of collaborators
2) all types of US military equipment

GP reports they executed a man by hanging him from our helicopter.

Posted by: Lrrr at August 30, 2021 01:13 PM (6siEC)

359 More like 1905.
Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 30, 2021 01:06 PM (KAi1n)

It turned out that Russian peasants were all to glad to be ruled by someone, they had hardly known freedom before the Bolsheviks ran amok anyway, and so gladly accepted whatever ruling cabal came to power...and they got ruled good and hard.

Posted by: Boswell at August 30, 2021 01:13 PM (5iUNf)

360 > Why is a baby an "it?" Is your daughter not not raising the baby in any gender or is it just that babies can be be unique creatures?

My wife does this too. She's not a woketard, it's just something she does. I don't think it's even a conscious decision.

Some time after the baby becomes mobile, my wife starts calling babies she or he. I think it's when they have more obvious personalities, but I haven't paid attention enough to notice exactly what cues my wife takes that causes the switch to flip from calling a baby it to calling it he or she.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 30, 2021 01:14 PM (UW2ZS)

361 I like the long-clawed weirdo.

Poster boi for the Biden Administration.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 30, 2021 01:16 PM (xopIz)

362 What did the TB mean by "we have a problem"?

Posted by: pj at August 30, 2021 01:17 PM (G1dq6)

363 I pray for the souls of the dead. All the dead.

But these are not my clowns. Not my circus.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 30, 2021 01:18 PM (xopIz)

364 Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a man of wealth and means. Posted by: Lucifer at August 30, 2021 01:08 PM (weGKL) Taste? Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 30, 2021 01:10 PM (csEWM)

Working on my politesse.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 30, 2021 01:31 PM (JO36I)

365 Bush Senior destroyed the real military and decided to get rid of its traditions (hazing)...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 30, 2021 01:53

++++++++++++++++

Hazing gone: True. Read the 1979 non-PC piece ("Women Can't Fight") by Annapolis grad and former Navy Secretary James Webb. He explains in detail why the hazing is necessary and how it already had eased up. It's way worse now

https://tinyurl.com/5an7r963

Posted by: JM in Florida - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 30, 2021 02:37 PM (HCeRP)

366
So if you hold a fake presidential election, do you get a fake president?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 30, 2021 02:55 PM (Yedxz)

367 190
This busty brunette is a cynic so she isn't too surprised to learn about this - though she remains angry and resentful about the constant humiliation and destruction:
https://is.gd/J3PBIe
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

Looks like I need to plan for "A weekend in Canada", eh?

Posted by: Fox2! at August 30, 2021 10:35 PM (qyH+l)

368 Thanks very interesting blog!

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