On the Fifth Anniversary of the Disasterous Biden Bug-Out of Kabul, Pete Hegseth Upgrades the Honors for Three Heroes of Abbey Gate

He didn't just give them new medals.

He also said that the Biden Administration downplayed their heroism, because Biden, and his corrupt media allies, didn't want the public to know how very bad the terrorist attack at Abbey Gate really was.

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5 YEARS LATER: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth upgrades valor awards for three Marines who risked their lives during the Abbey Gate bombing, saying Pentagon leadership "inappropriately" downgraded their original submissions for half a decade.
Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby took command after his platoon commander and half his platoon were killed or wounded. Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston was knocked unconscious 10 meters from the blast, woke up with shrapnel wounds, and stayed in the fight -- concealing his injuries so he wouldn't be pulled from the line. Cpl. Michael Gretzon applied his own tourniquet to a shrapnel wound, got bandaged, then immediately returned to his squad until his platoon sergeant physically ordered him to the casualty collection point.
Hegseth also revealed that a special review panel recently recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found." A full report is expected by year's end.

Marine Corps Times:

Five years after a suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and around 170 civilians at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines who survived the blast and then worked to save others in its immediate aftermath.
The service members, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, were at the then-Hamid Karzai International Airport as America's decades-long war in Afghanistan drew to a tumultuous close. Outside of the gate, where enormous crowds had frantically gathered in hopes of a safe evacuation from the country, an Islamic State bomber detonated the explosives on his body.
During a Wednesday ceremony at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented the Bronze Star Medal with Valor to retired Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan Eby and retired Lance Cpl. Jordan Houston, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor to retired Cpl. Michael Gretzon.
Eby secured the area before helping to evacuate wounded Marines, Houston -- who was injured himself -- assisted others to safety despite gunfire and tear gas and Gretzon helped control the crowd from a vulnerable position after the blast, according to the department.
Hegseth used biblical language when describing the service members' actions. "These three Marines embody a timeless truth written in the book of Proverbs: 'The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.' On that chaotic day, you men were as bold as lions," he said, adding, "When the wicked sought to sow terror, these men stood as lions at the gate -- bold in their purpose, fierce in their resolve and unbreakable in their courage."

Videos of Hegseth stating that these Marines' valor awards were downgraded to spare the Biden Administration the pain of admitting what a hellish nightmare they created, below the jump.

If you're pretending everything went swell, you can't decorate heroes who stood up when things didn't go swell at all.

Sean Parnell, charged with investigating the Abbey Gate bombing, says that -- sit down, you're not going to believe this -- Biden officials hid key documents in safes to keep anyone from discovering the truth.

A Pentagon official on Wednesday claimed to have discovered classified documents that concern the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan five years ago, but the official declined to offer further details.
Sean Parnell, who leads the Pentagon's special review panel examining the 2021 withdrawal, said in a video statement that his team recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found."

He has not said what the documents actually say, yet. But I assume that is coming:

"You deserve the truth of what happened about what happened in Afghanistan, told fully and told straight," Parnell said.

This might be some of what has been kept hidden: CIA-trained Afghan units executed civilians during Joe Biden's catastrophe.

This may not have been out of malice, but just due to the extreme chaos Biden created.

Afghan special forces units trained by the CIA mowed down civilians with their cars and shot innocent people to clear the Kabul airport during the Biden administration's chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to first-person accounts in a new documentary.
Eyewitnesses in the documentary for The Wall Street Journal, titled "The Path to Zero," say atrocities were also perpetrated against U.S. military members at Kabul International Airport -- in the closing hours of the administration's final withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Multiple people say in the documentary that they witnessed the Afghan special forces, known as Zero Units, murder members of the crowd in a CIA-directed mission to clear the airport. Those who committed the murders were then rewarded with evacuation, courtesy of the U.S.
"They straight up executed people, ran them over," retired U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Edward Gonzalez says in the film, telling the documentarians that he witnessed these atrocities firsthand. "I literally saw trucks running over people," he said when told that some people have denied that such events occurred.
Josephy Laude, a retired sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corp, also described what the Zero Units did to clear out the airport.
"They would use vehicles, they would run people over, they would execute people," Laude says in the film. "They'd shoot them, shoot into the crowds bearing witness to atrocities, to war crimes."

The US commander claims that he's heard no such reports:

Peter Vasely, a retired rear admiral with the U.S. Navy who served as the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan Forward at the time of the withdrawal, claimed in the documentary that "no reports" of the Zero Unit's actions ever made it to him. He said he did not doubt what the Marines on the ground said, just that he never received any official reports of the conduct.

But you know, documents you'd rather not acknowledge sometimes get "lost," like buried in unmarked safes for years and years, you know?

This is why I say the "executions" and "murders" might not have been perpetrated with malice: Suppose you're a Secret Service driver. The presidential limo comes under serious attack. There are crowds of people in your way.

What do you do? I don't know what the Secret Service is trained to do, but I imagine that if the president's life is in danger and there are civilians inadvertently blocking you from carrying him to safety, you hit the gas and hope they get out of the way in time.

I don't know that. I can imagine such a terrible choice, though.

That's what one witness says the choice during the chaotic bug-out was:

Gonzalez also said that had the Zero Units not taken the steps they took to clear the airport, he and his fellow Marines would not be alive today. Kenneth F. McKenzie, a retired Marine Corps general, also said that not only would the U.S. not have been able to clear the airport without the Zero Units, but they wouldn't have been able to hold it either.
"They were vital to the success of our mission," McKenzie said in the film.
The documentary alleges that to get the Zero Units to open fire on their own countrymen, the CIA had to promise that they and their entire families would be evacuated from Afghanistan.

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Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., best known for his congressional investigations into Obama-era scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations, said during an interview on "Just the News, No Noise," Wednesday night that the cover-up of the withdrawal will soon be revealed. U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Sean Parnell, who is chairing the Afghanistan Withdrawal Review Panel, is working to release that information.

Darrel Issa says that many "Afghan allies" were never vetted before being given free passes to the US, and that's all part of this "cover-up."

"I mean, the two great cover-ups in Abbey Gate obviously was the lead-up to that tragic loss of our military personnel and many other civilians around them, and then the incredibly inept withdrawal of bringing into our country people who shouldn't be, or leaving behind many who should be here, and the Trump administration is still cleaning up for that by finding people around the world who are entitled and who really have earned a right," Issa said.
...
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of War, Darin Selnick, said on the same program that criminal referrals could be coming for those responsible for the withdrawal.
"But I think we have to be patient because it's going to maybe take another year to really dig these things out, do the right interviews, find the right people, get collaborative statements, and really find out, you know, with the criminal referrals, what was done that was done illegally, what was done that was immoral, and what's criminally referable," Selnick said.

Update:

Remember the Afghani who shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC?
He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan.
Posted by: JackStraw

Cite?, Fake Tapper asks.

Jack Straw delivers:

WASHINGTON � The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.

🚨 JUST IN: In a truly incredible moment, SecWar Pete Hegseth just PERSONALLY gave upgraded valor awards to US Marines who were DOWNGRADED by the Biden admin after they ran into danger in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombings

Biden tried HIDING his failure by throwing THEM under the bus.� pic.twitter.com/rr36r3AEas
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 26, 2026

🚨 NOW: Sec. Hegseth is UPGRADING the valor awards for the Marines who REFUSED to run away from the bombings at Abbey Gate, 5 years ago today

Hegseth revealed today Biden DOWNGRADED their awards to cover up his Abbey Gate failure.

These guys ran BACK INTO DANGER to keep the� pic.twitter.com/vPfydDQWx7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 26, 2026

Today, we recognized three Marines for their heroism at Abbey Gate five years ago.

Gunnery Sergeant Jonathan Eby, Corporal Michael Gretzon, and Lance Corporal Jordan Houston went above and beyond for their fellow Marines.

Their records did not properly reflect their heroism.� pic.twitter.com/48k7VAlCVD
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) August 27, 2026

Tony Seruga
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The Abbey Gate attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26, 2021, killed 13 U.S. service members--11 Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one Army soldier--in the final days of a withdrawal that had already spiraled into chaos. You're right that the families have channeled unimaginable grief into action: the Gold Star mothers and fathers built foundations, named K9s after their sons, lobbied Congress, and sat through hearings that produced a lot of theater and very little accountability.
What they got instead of an accounting was a process--and a process is not the same thing as an answer.
The Shape of the "Accounting" So Far
- The After-Action Reviews produced classified and redacted reports that described the withdrawal as "flawed" and "poorly planned" but pointed fingers in a circular way: the military blamed State, State blamed the collapsed Afghan government, everyone blamed the Trump--Taliban Doha agreement, and the buck stopped nowhere.
- The Abbey Gate investigation concluded the bomber was a lone ISIS-K operative who slipped through screening--a finding that satisfied the chain of command but answered almost none of the families' questions about why evacuation was happening at all, why the gate was so exposed, or why intelligence warnings weren't acted on.
- No senior official has been fired, demoted, or held personally responsible. Not the generals, not the National Security Council staff, not the people who signed off on the drawdown timeline. In several cases, the people who made the decisions have been promoted or moved on to lucrative private-sector roles.
Why No One Has Been Held Accountable?
The uncomfortable reality is that accountability within the national security apparatus is largely self-policing, and the institution's incentive is to protect its own. When the Pentagon investigates itself, the goal is rarely to assign individual blame--it's to produce a document to point to as "we looked into it." Because most of the underlying material is classified, the public (and even Congress, in practical terms) can't verify what was actually known and when.
There's also the political dimension: the people who would have to be held accountable are the same people who staff the next administration's transition teams, sit on think-tank boards, and write the op-eds. Washington is a revolving door, and no one inside it has much interest in establishing a precedent where catastrophic strategic failure ends a career.
What the Families Actually Asked For
- The names of whoever made the final call on the withdrawal timeline.
- An unredacted accounting of the intelligence failures.
- Designation of responsibility, not "lessons learned."
- Some acknowledgment that the decision-making, not just the tactical execution at the gate, is what killed their children.
None of that has been delivered in any meaningful form. The hearings generated soundbites, the Gold Star families were used as props by both parties, and the actual answers remain buried in classification and institutional self-protection.
The service members themselves--the 13 at Abbey Gate and the roughly 170 Afghans killed alongside them--did their jobs. The failure was never theirs.
It belonged to the people who put them in that position and then quietly moved on. That's the accounting that's never come, and at this point, probably never will in any form that satisfies the people who lost children.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:42 PM

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Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (TbVRb)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:42 PM (ccf/V)

3 Ace, with the movie review length posts back to back.

It's tireless work.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)

4 Biden (and his team) ... what a piece of shit.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (vbXSk)

5 While many on the ground showed their true mettle, this was clearly not our country's finest hour.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:43 PM (N1DT3)

6 But what if some extremist Democrats try to run? What will we do without our safe moderate reasonable Democrat Party?

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:45 PM (+j84F)

7 F*ck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:46 PM (ccf/V)

8 Power Line has this documentary of the evacuation:
https://bit.ly/4d844JR

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 27, 2026 01:46 PM (CqZOC)

9 I want them to find the people who hid the evidence and stick them in the safes for 5 years.

Without SEVERE retribution, this will happen again.

Even with severe retribution, this will happen again, but if we make people really afraid of what happens when you cover up catastrophes, it will at least be some time before it happens again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (N1DT3)

10 Leaving Baghram was the beginning of the mess. Trying to evacuate from a city with an unknown number of terrorist groups in the area was as stupid an idea as could be thought up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (TbVRb)

11 Has there ever been an accurate accounting on the dollar figure amount on all the myriad military equipment abandoned by the Biden administration in Afghanistan? I’ve heard everything from seven to seventy billions.

It has to be one of the more egregious fuck ups in American history. Keep in mind, an ordinary enlisted soldier or officer who loses his rifle is in deep shit, and his career is effectively ended.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (aRf29)

12 *checks watch out of boredom*

Posted by: Biden at August 27, 2026 01:48 PM (wVcYX)

13
Joe Biden's senate career started with the bugout of Saigon he and his comrades forced on Ford and ended with this.

The Achilles of Afghanistan.

Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:49 PM (Y8DZL)

14 Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malevolence. It is plausible that leaving all that stuff behind was a feature, not a bug. Nothing surprises me any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (aRf29)

15 How many civilians died falling from the outside of the transport airships?

THAT should be the legacy of the Biden administration.

A total clusterf*ck of epic proportions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (ccf/V)

16 They were probably self-dealing crooks who unnecessarily killed a bunch of civilians. So what? Afghans. Do not care.

But I'm fine with using it as a pretext to get them out of our country. We definitely don't need these motherfuckers here so they can look at a Christmas parade and get the urge to lace up their old drivin' cleats.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (BI5O2)

17 We need to hang some generals. (For cause, yes, but it needs to be done.)

And I don't mean one or two. We need to draw down to WWII numbers of generals and hang the rest.

We'll have a LOT fewer incompetents wanting to become generals.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (N1DT3)

18 I love our military, yet despise our government.

Posted by: toddg at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (s+SI3)

19 You can understand … why we’re not going to get into specific details about the threat environment or what our intelligence has given us. What you’re seeing out of our State Department colleagues, I think, is prudent notification to make sure whatever movement there is to the gates outside the airport is done as safely as possible, and that people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves going forward.

The situation in Kabul, the whole city, is fluid and dynamic.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (2cROu)

20 Have we been deporting the afghanis who got shuttled here during the drawdown?

Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (enNUy)

21 What's up with Hegseth's hair? It's got streaks in it. Is it that way naturally, or does he highlight it?

If it's the latter, he gets a few points deducted from his otherwise very manly man-card.

Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)

22 I don’t hate democrats enough.

Posted by: Advo at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (jO4mz)

23 Every Democrat would look good in one of those sarcastic "I Support the Troops" t-shirts with the storm troopers on it.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (+j84F)

24 It has to be one of the more egregious fuck ups in American history. Keep in mind, an ordinary enlisted soldier or officer who loses his rifle is in deep shit, and his career is effectively ended.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:47 PM (aRf29)
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (Rln0i)

25 I don't think *biden's gonna' get his library, is he? Nothing but sad, hopeless accounts of failure and shitting himself.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (2Cry5)

26 What a dream it would be if the top brass who were responsible for the attack and the subsequent coverup would pulled in front of a court martial.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (BfYtr)

27 25 I don't think *biden's gonna' get his library, is he? Nothing but sad, hopeless accounts of failure and shitting himself.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (2Cry5)

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$3 from every Biden voter would cover a lot of the cost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (/PKja)

28 Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (aRf29)

100 million percent

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (+j84F)

29 I am really enjoying Hegseth as Sec of War.
What a pleasant surprise.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (4KUe5)

30 Remember the Afghani who shot two National Guard troops in Washington, DC?

He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (viF8m)

31 Joe Biden's senate career started with the bugout of Saigon he and his comrades forced on Ford and ended with this.

The Achilles of Afghanistan.
Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:49 PM (Y8DZL)

Yet another betrayal of our allies.

South Vietnam just needed financial support and they could have easily held off the North, who was getting serious support from Russia and China.

But the Democrats wanted the communists to win, so lots of allied Vietnamese needed to die.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (N1DT3)

32 Biden famously stated Vietnamese “Boat People” were Not Welcome in these United States.

They voted to cutoff funding to the South and they held on against the Communists till they ran out of ammunition. Then the real slaughter began.

Leftists studiously ignore mountains of skulls on their journey to Utopia. Let nothing contrary to The Narrative be acknowledged. Like it never happened.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:53 PM (aRf29)

33 This is manifestly not Saigon.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 01:53 PM (2cROu)

34 I am really enjoying Hegseth as Sec of War.
What a pleasant surprise.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 01:52 PM (4KUe5)

Not bad for a drunken rapist, eh?

- - -- - Reddit, Maybe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (ccf/V)

35
I'll bet all the alphabet news shows save FOX won't mention any of this tonight.

Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (Y8DZL)

36 During the Shrub years they had initially portrayed Pat Tilman's death as a heroic circumstance under enemy fire.

The FNM made this THE story for about a month.

Because the investigation found he'd actually been killed by friendly fire. Not intentional, but the all too common sort of thing that happens when you are in contested territory.

This was considered a coverup for some reason.

What Biden did in the 'Stan rout though? Yawn the FNM doesn't care

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

37 I am really enjoying Hegseth as Sec of War.
What a pleasant surprise.
Posted by: Lizzy

He always looks like he's pissed off about something, which I like in a military leader.

Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)

38 IIRC, the scumbag who shot the National Guard soldiers in DC was a Zero alumni. Now consider the number of such individuals roaming around our country, individuals who would do anything for a price, or reward.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (QaH55)

39 Only our stupid fucking country would send spooks into a warzone to train the sub-80 IQ local militia inbreeds to be kill-crazy button men, and then say "yeah, you look like American citizen material. Enjoy your passports, gentlemen."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (BI5O2)

40 39 Only our stupid fucking country would send spooks into a warzone to train the sub-80 IQ local militia inbreeds to be kill-crazy button men, and then say "yeah, you look like American citizen material. Enjoy your passports, gentlemen."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 01:55 PM (BI5O2)

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I'd be shocked if half of Western Europe hadn't done it too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (/PKja)

41 Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ

I think that's probably the way he naturally turns gray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (JrHfD)

42 >>>He was in a Zero Unit in Afghanistan before we idiotically brought him and others here. Ticking time bombs. They are trained assassins and from what I've read about them they love to kill. I doubt there was anything accidental about the killings they did in Afghanistan.

wow. I did not know that.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (1wjle)

43 Has there ever been an accurate accounting on the dollar figure amount on all the myriad military equipment abandoned by the Biden administration in Afghanistan? I’ve heard everything from seven to seventy billions.

It has to be one of the more egregious fuck ups in American history.

Here's the video of Trump telling the story of how Gen Milley intended to leave all of the military equipment in Afghanistan. It was his PLAN. Milley approached Trump and told him it was cheaper to leave the equipment there.

http://tiny.cc/aif9101

In my opinion, Milley wasn't stupid as Trump concluded. Milley was compromised by China and he wanted them to have it all to take apart and study and use.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (mkw2N)

44
He always looks like he's pissed off about something, which I like in a military leader.
Posted by: Bulg

Milley always looks pissed off.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (Cqx++)

45 Mention Hegseth on Facebook and watch the left look like someone hit them with a cattle prod. They go nuts "Fox news host", "no experience" , "drunken rapist"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (TbVRb)

46 45 Mention Hegseth on Facebook and watch the left look like someone hit them with a cattle prod. They go nuts "Fox news host", "no experience" , "drunken rapist"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (TbVRb)

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"A real Defense Secretary would have told Iran of the attack before it started for fairness sake."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM (/PKja)

47 “It’s cheaper!” should have got him court martialed and forfeited all pay and allowances.

That’s cheaper too, numbnuts

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (aRf29)

48 >wow. I did not know that.

Yet another in a seemingly endless list of Biden fuckups.

>>WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.

https://tinyurl.com/pyvve2us

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (viF8m)

49 Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM

This is one of the reasons I am glad that I do not have any social media accounts. I do not get to see this stuff firsthand.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2026 01:59 PM (JrHfD)

50 The people falling off the wings and landing gear of the plane leaving Kabul is the the Biden Administrations legacy.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:00 PM (OkYzo)

51 At least there is disclosure finally happening.
But I have yet to be summoned for firing squad duty.
Maybe they lost my application.

Posted by: RI Red - at August 27, 2026 02:00 PM (tez/p)

52 Trump just signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)

53 This is a president who has an extraordinary amount of courage. He is someone, who I have seen over and over again, make decisions based on what he truly believes ... is the right thing to do. He is acutely aware that it may not be politically popular, or advantageous for him personally; it’s really something to see. I have seen him over and over again make decisions based exactly on what he believes is right.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (2cROu)

54 52 Trump just signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)

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To Lake Whobegone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (/PKja)

55 HAMES >>>> HOMES

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (YZ0Fo)

56 During the Shrub years they had initially portrayed Pat Tilman's death as a heroic circumstance under enemy fire.

The FNM made this THE story for about a month.

Because the investigation found he'd actually been killed by friendly fire. Not intentional, but the all too common sort of thing that happens when you are in contested territory.

This was considered a coverup for some reason.

What Biden did in the 'Stan rout though? Yawn the FNM doesn't care

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

Now do Jessica Lynch.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (PGK1w)

57 Lake America Whitefish!

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (g47mK)

58 45 Mention Hegseth on Facebook and watch the left look like someone hit them with a cattle prod. They go nuts "Fox news host", "no experience" , "drunken rapist"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 01:57 PM

Yeah. Real defense secretaries disappear and don't let anyone know you're having surgery.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (OkYzo)

59 Trump just signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:01 PM (Cqx++)

To what, Lake FREEDOM?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (uhVAy)

60 Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., best known for his congressional investigations into Obama-era scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations
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That is his claim to fame??
*wet fart*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (RIvkX)

61 OT- What's the angle here?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoins DSA after membership lapse of seven years Then House candidate joined Democratic Socialists of America in 2018 but didn’t renew membership after a year

Interesting that the DSA announced this, not AOC. They have some crazy nonsense in their platform, like embracing communism (which is VERY different than socialism) and calling for eliminating cops and prisons. It is an unelectable platform, so I hope she stays at arms length from them.

She’s running for senate. No way this was done with any calculations towards running for president in ‘28. The obvious correct move btw. Schumer’s seat is all but hers.

I think you are correct. DSA candidates may be unelectable in national elections, but they cartainly can beat Democrats in safe blue areas.

the right is going to associate her with the DSA anyways so no reason to put off the actual DSA supporters that do support her. We will not win the country back by punching to the left

Centrist democrats will whine "condemn Hasan" or imply she's antisemetic, and Maga will scream she's a commie even more.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (otzbu)

62 To what, Lake FREEDOM?
Posted by: Oldcat at August

America. Then he said now we got a gulf and a lake. Now we just need an ocean.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (YZ0Fo)

63 @49 Fen, I keep it to keep up with friends and distant family. I only post things like memes. It is good to see how the crazies think however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (TbVRb)

64 What's up with Hegseth's hair? It's got streaks in it. Is it that way naturally, or does he highlight it?

If it's the latter, he gets a few points deducted from his otherwise very manly man-card.
Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
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Grecian Formula fail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (RIvkX)

65 Thanks JackStraw. I will send you a gift card for your local marijuana dispensary.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)

66 In my opinion, Milley wasn't stupid as Trump concluded. Milley was compromised by China and he wanted them to have it all to take apart and study and use.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 01:56 PM (mkw2N)

Russia ended up getting a lot of it. Might be a case of 'AND'. But there were reports of Russia getting that tech.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (uhVAy)

67 Thanks JackStraw. I will send you a gift card for your local marijuana dispensary.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)

The gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (ccf/V)

68 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, "

Same as Dad. Semper Fi.

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (j0Tky)

69

America, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++)

70 To be fair to Biden he had no idea any of this was going on, being a vegetable and all.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (Vvm2m)

71 60 Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., best known for his congressional investigations into Obama-era scandals such as Operation Fast and Furious and the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations
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That is his claim to fame??
*wet fart*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:02 PM (RIvkX)

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He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)

72 Where's Piper?!

PJMedia: "The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable"

I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."

"Before all that," Hoole continued, "the biggest kale buyer in America was Pizza Hut. Not for the menu. They bought it by the ton, fourteen thousand pounds of it in 2012, and laid it round the salad bar to hide the ice."

Kale, in short, was the stuff they put food on.

"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)

73 What's up with Hegseth's hair? It's got streaks in it. Is it that way naturally, or does he highlight it?

It works for Rogue...and Tulsi Gabbard.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (otzbu)

74 > Now do Jessica Lynch.
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From my wife's hometown; Palestine, WV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (2Cry5)

75 He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Jordan and his sleeve positions 1 and 2?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (YZ0Fo)

76 The Taliban have informed us that they are prepared to provide the safe passage of civilians to the airport, and we intend to hold them to that commitment.

We believe that this can go ‘til the 31st. We are talking to them about what the exact timetable is for how this will all play out, and I don’t want to negotiate in public on working out the best modality to get the most people out in the most efficient way possible.

I would just let the results speak for themselves so far and we’re not taking anything for granted.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (2cROu)

77 I will send you a gift card for your local marijuana dispensary.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2026 02:04 PM (1wjle)
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Did you bring enough to share equally with everyone?

Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (RIvkX)

78 61
the right is going to associate her with the DSA anyways so no reason to put off the actual DSA supporters that do support her. We will not win the country back by punching to the left

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (otzbu)

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It's amazing that the Democrats have an antisemetism problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (/PKja)

79 One more example of the evil of the democrat party.

Although I won't forget the fumbles and outright pussy attitudes of W and the GOPe. Acts of war like 9/11 are the reason we have nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (g8Ew8)

80 He always looks like he's pissed off about something, which I like in a military leader.
——-

Curtis LeMay kind of had a permanent scowl, augmented by a semi-permanent cigar. But I guess his demeanor was due to Bell’s Palsy.

He famously whipped the Air Force into shape. He made them perform. He once flew into a base, called an alert. The base commander shows up in a hawaiian shirt wondering what’s going on. He would relieve people on the spot. Also promotions on the spot, sometimes for a whole squad.

He had Dayton, Ohio designated as a target for Air Force practice training. Very few planes even found Dayton, they were all messed up. He fixed all of that.

You can tell a lot about a guy by his enemies, the left tries to portray him as crazy and a bad guy. He was a great guy. The US remained nuclearly unscathed from the 1950s thru the 1970s because of this man, there is almost no doubt. Many presidents were skeptical though never enough to fire him, regardless of party.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (aRf29)

81 To what, Lake FREEDOM?
Posted by: Oldcat at August

America. Then he said now we got a gulf and a lake. Now we just need an ocean.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:03 PM (YZ0Fo)

I really wish he'd have done "Lake OF America" as a counterpart to the Gulf of America, but I love the troll nonetheless.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:06 PM (N1DT3)

82 Lake America. It used to be known by another name. A sad name. The fish would surface and gaze upon fisherman dolefully. Catch of the day was preferable to being in that lake. Not anymore. The fishes have a renewed sense of self worth. Lake Americans. Swim free. Flap your gills with pride.

Posted by: Donald John Trump at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (huE5O)

83 Yet another in a seemingly endless list of Biden fuckups.

>>WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried out secret raids against suspected terrorists and U.S. enemies as part of the CIA's counterterrorism program.

https://tinyurl.com/pyvve2us

Posted by: JackStraw
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It seems as if the CIA has the capacity to not pick loyalists but unsavory people who will do its bidding for a price. Didn't we also have a problem with an interpreter doing something similar?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (+UcOf)

84 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, "

Same as Dad. Semper Fi.

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (j0Tky)

I got my FMF with them. LOVE seeing these Marines being properly recognized.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (PGK1w)

85 And I don't mean one or two. We need to draw down to WWII numbers of generals and hang the rest.

We'll have a LOT fewer incompetents wanting to become generals.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 01:50 PM (N1DT3)

WWII levels? Our armed forces are about 20 percent of the levels there were then.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)

86 He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
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He, Trey Gowdy, and Jim Jordan make me think #twoweeks.

Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (RIvkX)

87 Because the world NEEDS a KFC flavored Oreo cookie.

https://tinyurl.com/4d23wppn

Posted by: AoSHQ Snack Food and Confectionery Division at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Ez/1)

88 >>Thanks JackStraw. I will send you a gift card for your local marijuana dispensary.

lol

Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (Shi2G)

89 "Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)

So...Kale Fail?

Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (NTVPI)

90 From my wife's hometown; Palestine, WV."

Family once owned a hotel in Elizabeth...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (j0Tky)

91 > He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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Failure theater at that.

Fauci's wife still giving everyone the finger?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Cry5)

92 The reports are we brought over more than 10,000 (!) of these Zero Unit lunatics after we bugged out of Afghanistan.

Think about it: 10,000 barely-vetted vicious Muslim assassins and killers brought into the USA.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

93 The Biden Catastrophe retriggered my friend's Vietnam PTSD. No joke.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (bX16E)

94 86 He's like exhibit #3 in my trial against congressional hearings as being useful for anything other than theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (/PKja)
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He, Trey Gowdy, and Jim Jordan make me think #twoweeks.

Posted by: Ace's Dissappointed Kindergarten Teacher at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (RIvkX)

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Benghazi hearings are #1.

Gowdy generally is #2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (/PKja)

95 Of course I didn't have a list and also didn't follow all the retirements, transfers, dismissals closely, but would think that the significant personnel changes since Trump re-entered office would have included many involved in the Kabul debacle. But good to hear there is a focused investigation going.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (U/Byj)

96 /educator of chillen sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (RIvkX)

97 Acts of war like 9/11/2001 are the reason we have nuclear weapons.
——-

Somebody should have been a glass parking lot by 9/12; maybe more than one somebody.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (aRf29)

98 LOVE seeing these Marines being properly recognized."

Amen

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (j0Tky)

99 Where's Piper?!

PJMedia: "The Horrible Truth About the World's Worst Vegetable"

I just learned that kale only "became a superfood because a publicist in New York invented a trade association that did not exist."

"Before all that," Hoole continued, "the biggest kale buyer in America was Pizza Hut. Not for the menu. They bought it by the ton, fourteen thousand pounds of it in 2012, and laid it round the salad bar to hide the ice."

Kale, in short, was the stuff they put food on.

"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)

Why the hate on kale? It's just broccoli leaves.

It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.

And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)

100 Remember the generals were obstructing Biden's plan to withdraw just as they obstructed Trump. Biden realized what was happening and ordered an immediate withdrawal.

If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.

Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)

101 91 Failure theater at that.

Fauci's wife still giving everyone the finger?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (2Cry5)

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Theater has its uses, and Congress has no power to actually enforce laws, that's the responsibility of the executive.

But, ultimately, Congress' power is legislating and overseeing the executive. It barely does the first and the second is mostly a joke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (/PKja)

102 Gowdy generally is #2."

Snort

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (j0Tky)

103 I recall Milley testifying before congress. What surprised me is that he didn't try and pass blame for the Afghan withdraw off on Trump. Instead, he blamed the State Department for stalling and delaying. That would have been Andrew Blinken at the time.

Blinken, as I recall, had his security clearances pulled by Trump when he returned in 2025. Blinken, also, got a large retainer on a book deal upon Trump's win, which really says a lot because I think if you asked 1,000 random Americans, maybe 10 would know who he was.

Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (dIske)

104 And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)

Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

105 >>Why the hate on kale? It's just broccoli leaves.

>It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.

>And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.

Big Chard is behind all of this Kale Hate.

Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (Shi2G)

106 Family once owned a hotel in Elizabeth...
Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:08 PM (j0Tky)

An odd start to a limerick.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)

107 The Cheers episode where Woody got his break doing a commercial endorsing a Kale drink was a hoot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (TbVRb)

108 >> Remember the generals were obstructing Biden's plan to withdraw just as they obstructed Trump. Biden realized what was happening and ordered an immediate withdrawal.

Sure he did, Sport.

Sure. He. Did.

Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (Shi2G)

109 WWII levels? Our armed forces are about 20 percent of the levels there were then.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:07 PM (uhVAy)

But we have a larger number of generals today than we did in WWII.

This is me being merciful.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (N1DT3)

110 Kale, in short, was the stuff they put food on.

"Nobody was meant to eat it. It was the doily."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 27, 2026 02:05 PM (PGK1w)

Why the hate on kale? It's just broccoli leaves.

It's not some amazing food nor is it the devil incarnate. It's just greens.

And, unlike iceberg, it even has a few vitamins in it. Eat your greens.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:09 PM (N1DT3)

Eating kale regularly voids the warranty on your asshole and reduces its operational lifespan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)

111 Gowdy generally is a #2."

corrected for accuracy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (ccf/V)

112 The sleazebag low IQ politicians in Canada should never been allowed to call the Great BEAUTIFUL Lake by a name of some DEAD city. I COULD NOT LET IT HAPPEN ANYMORE. Now it will be called LAKE AMERICA. I have GREAT relationship with fish of Lake America, they are very highly respected fish. Very high energy !

Posted by: DJT at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (g47mK)

113 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

114 Peter Cullen voice of Optimus Prime has passed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (YZ0Fo)

115 When it comes to U.S.-provided equipment that is still in Afghanistan and may not be in the hands of ANSF [Afghan National Security Force], there are several options that we have at our disposal to try to deal with that problem set. We don’t, obviously, want to see our equipment in the hands of those who would act against our interest or the interest of the Afghan people, and increase violence and insecurity inside Afghanistan.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (2cROu)

116 Remember the generals were obstructing Biden's plan to withdraw just as they obstructed Trump. Biden realized what was happening and ordered an immediate withdrawal.

If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)

He did nothing of the sort. He was too busy shitting his pants.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (ccf/V)

117 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

I don't.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

118 @103 Orson, I thought Milley was a piece of crap but he wanted to keep Baghram. It was Blinken and Sullivan who were the architects if the Afghan clusterf**k. To overeducated little snots

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (TbVRb)

119 No, Biden announced early in his presidency that he was withdrawing on ****September 11th***

This was planned in advance and shared with the enemy. As if choosing that date wasn’t bad enough, he gave them time to plan the attack.

It was a sh$tshow from top to bottom.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (4KUe5)

120 > Because the world NEEDS a KFC flavored Oreo cookie.

It's an Oreo chicken sandwich. People have gone nuts for chicken and waffles for ages. It's a similar idea. Sweet and savory combined, like doughnuts with bacon bits.

Life's full of things we don't really need, but create some joy.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (mkw2N)

121 Deport the Afghan "refugees".

Posted by: night lifted at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (kJmLc)

122 Remember the generals were obstructing Biden's plan to withdraw just as they obstructed Trump. Biden realized what was happening and ordered an immediate withdrawal.

If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN at August 27, 2026 02:10 PM (dLz3U)

He did nothing of the sort. He was too busy shitting his pants.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (ccf/V)

If such a thing happened the response is to fire the generals, not screw up your pullout and lose men and material.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (uhVAy)

123 >>It seems as if the CIA has the capacity to not pick loyalists but unsavory people who will do its bidding for a price. Didn't we also have a problem with an interpreter doing something similar?

Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.

How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

124 82 Lake America. It used to be known by another name. A sad name. The fish would surface and gaze upon fisherman dolefully. Catch of the day was preferable to being in that lake. Not anymore. The fishes have a renewed sense of self worth. Lake Americans. Swim free. Flap your gills with pride.

Posted by: Donald John Trump
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Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior

AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)

125
Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.

How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

See: The Las Vegas Shooter

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (ccf/V)

126 There was documentation that a lot of the abandoned US equipment was transported through Pakistan and onto Iran within a couple weeks.

Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)

127 126 There was documentation that a lot of the abandoned US equipment was transported through Pakistan and onto Iran within a couple weeks.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)

Per Obama 3.0 plans

Posted by: night lifted at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (kJmLc)

128 There was documentation that a lot of the abandoned US equipment was transported through Pakistan and onto Iran within a couple weeks.
Posted by: Orson at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (dIske)

It just wouldn't be Democratic if weapons and ammo weren't given to terrorists to kill Americans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:18 PM (ccf/V)

129 Smell the Glove, I think this will be the most interesting result of the investigation. At the time there were (as always, unverifiable) claims by different parties as to who was pushing/opposing what on an evacuation plan. One camp definitely (obviously, logically) favored keeping Baghram til the very end. Thinking we'll see what actually happened when Parnell's outfit is done looking into it. Hidden documents is a good, unsurprising sign that someone's going to look very bad (and not just in the vapid, lazy, tendentious sense that is now SOP with perfect hindsight standards).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (U/Byj)

130 Instead of HOMES it's SHAME since they are up near Canada

Posted by: nckate at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (enNUy)

131 Then Biden blamed Trump, because he “used Trump’s withdrawal plan.”

Except he didn’t: he removed all established prerequisites that were built into each step.

Just picked a date, regardless of the local government meeting stated requirements, and announced it (so no flexibility should events on the ground jeopardize a safe exit with stable government in place).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (4KUe5)

132 Latest documentary soon:

"Kale: The Silent Killer"

Posted by: Boswell at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (NTVPI)

133 Eating kale regularly voids the warranty on your asshole and reduces its operational lifespan.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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I know something about this!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (oqH4h)

134 An odd start to a limerick......."

It's beautiful Wirt county, WV...

Posted by: man at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM (j0Tky)

135
If I remember correctly they left the service dogs behind, damn them all to hell !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

136
Might just be me but I find it odd that Ryan Routh, the guy who tried to shoot Trump at his golf course, has completely disappeared from the media. His entire life story is very suspicious to me.

How did a broke roofer from Hawaii managed to travel around the world including to Ukraine?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:16 PM (viF8m)

There was a lot of crazy stuff going on in the heady days of 2022 when there was a crusade to fight for Ukraine in person. He might have just got caught up in a lot of that action, and being American might have had uses other flakes could not match.

The ardor died down when Russia put a missile into one of their barracks. After a little fighting the remnants of the foreign volunteers were stashed in the Kharkov area where action was low.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (uhVAy)

137 Darrell Issa's hearings were one of the final straws for me. It demonstrated 2 things that in the ensuing couple of years I came to accept:

1.) The GOP is metaphysically useless.

2.) The DoJ is a completely uncontrollable rogue agency.

The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing his subpoena. Not only Holder and Obama but the entire DoJ simply said "fuck you. We won't comply. We all hold YOU in contempt!"

And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (BI5O2)

138 We are currently prioritizing American citizens and legal permanent residents for entry. Due to a deteriorating security environment we are asking all others not to come to the airport at this time – the gates remain closed.

Our locally engaged staff, they are absolutely a priority. They are absolutely part of our plans. And that commitment to them, to their safety and security, is something that is in no way diminished.

There’s been no change to the timeline of the mission, which is to have this completed by the end of the month. We remain committed to getting any and all Americans that want to leave, to get them out. We believe that we have the capability, the ability, to get that done by the end of the month.

The Taliban have been very clear about what their expectations are as well.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (2cROu)

139 OK, so who bought PJM's Kevin Downey Jr. an archaic dictionary?

Today he used this word i had to look up.

cicisbeo
/chē″chēz-bā′ō″/ noun
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (X6P5n)

140 At this point, I'm sure it was on purpose

@nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)

141
If he hadn't done it, we would still be there now.
Posted by: MikeN

So perspicacious ... and entirely evidence free! A marvel, you are!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (trSL4)

142 Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior

AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)

Erie
Superior
America (even more Superior)

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (uhVAy)

143 Many of the Israeli shenanigans in Iran in the early days of the war were facilitated by Afghan refugees who "escaped" to Iran.

Now, that might seem like a good thing, until you wonder why they would help the Israelis, you know, the hated Jews? Maybe because they were getting paid. What else might they do if someone was willing to pay them?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (QaH55)

144 Eating kale regularly voids the warranty on your asshole and reduces its operational lifespan.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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I know something about this!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:19 PM

Dude, you voided the warranty years ago by using it in a manner not intended, and discouraged, by the manufacturer.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (9Q+nP)

145 The CIA is probably the most well financed organization in the world. Not the brightest, obviously but with all that money and a seemingly endless wealth of ideas on how to spend it, they've got the crown jewel of fuckups locked for the next dozen decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (2Cry5)

146 cicisbeo
/chē″chēz-bā′ō″/ noun
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (X6P5n)

haha, he said dangler

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (NtVYv)

147 137 Darrell Issa's hearings were one of the final straws for me. It demonstrated 2 things that in the ensuing couple of years I came to accept:

1.) The GOP is metaphysically useless.

2.) The DoJ is a completely uncontrollable rogue agency.

The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing his subpoena. Not only Holder and Obama but the entire DoJ simply said "fuck you. We won't comply. We all hold YOU in contempt!"

And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:20 PM (BI5O2)

========

That sounds like the DOJ was partisan and aligned with the president instead of independent.

Honestly, that's how it should be.

The problem was that Republicans didn't get to have partisan DOJs. Only Democrats did. I do believe Trump 2.0 changed that calculus.

Remember, it was fine for Clinton to ask for the resignations of every USA, but it was a crime against the constitution for W to do it because the "DOJ is independent" or whatever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (/PKja)

148 114 Peter Cullen voice of Optimus Prime has passed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM

A voice from my childhood that is permanently etched into my psyche. Great voice.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (OkYzo)

149 Eating kale regularly voids the warranty on your asshole and reduces its operational lifespan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 27, 2026 02:12 PM (huE5O)
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THAT'S why Buttigieg wears that "I Void Warranties" shirt.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:23 PM (ccf/V)

150 At this point, I'm sure it was on purpose

@nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)

Fucking lazy idiots

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 27, 2026 02:24 PM (NtVYv)

151 To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. We can and we must complete this mission. And we will. We will not be deterred by terrorists.

We will respond with force and precision at our time, at the place we choose, and the moment of our choosing.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:24 PM (2cROu)

152 C'mon, Mr. O'Spades. Mr. Tapper asking for a citation is the epitome of modern journalism. Pulitzer-worthy, even!

Posted by: Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (0sNs1)

153 @nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)

CNN is the port-a-potty of waste water treatment centers

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)

154 Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior

AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)
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I remember that great old American folk song - The Eric Canal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (amcLV)

155 That sounds like the DOJ was partisan and aligned with the president instead of independent.

Honestly, that's how it should be.

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And Congress should have impeached Eric Holder. Successful or not, it would have forced an ugly, devastating public accounting of F&F.

But nope.

The metaphysically useless GOP were ordered to their cuck chairs, and off they saddled.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

156
And the GOP replied "right, then. We'll just go sit in our cuck chairs. As you were."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

=================

What can the opposition do in a situation like that? What recourse did they have? Could they get the Capitol Police to pick Holder up?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)

157 Waddled not saddled

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

158 The CIA is probably the most well financed organization in the world. Not the brightest, obviously but with all that money and a seemingly endless wealth of ideas on how to spend it, they've got the crown jewel of fuckups locked for the next dozen decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

New book by a retired spook, The Pickle Factory, describes a madhouse organization barely hanging together.
Federalist
https://tinyurl.com/muptrv77

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM (diia5)

159 @nypost 1h
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 27, 2026 02:22 PM (diia5)

CNN is the port-a-potty of waste water treatment centers
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (ccf/V)

CNN covering something in the middle two thirds of the US? Not possible, I shan't believe it. Its AI.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)

160 >>The CIA is probably the most well financed organization in the world. Not the brightest, obviously but with all that money and a seemingly endless wealth of ideas on how to spend it, they've got the crown jewel of fuckups locked for the next dozen decades.

The CIA has been embedded in Ukraine since they ran the coup in 2014. During Biden, the US sent close to $200 billion to Ukraine with zero oversight.

The CIA basically was it's own government for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (viF8m)

161 I remember that great old American folk song - The Eric Canal.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 27, 2026 02:25 PM (amcLV)

He would have a very very low bridge.

In about that era there was a canal in Ohio from Cincinnati to the Great Lakes. Just a few miles north of where I grew up there was a bend-in-the road town called Port Union. Its in the center of farms and fields not even a creek. It used to be a port on that canal.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (uhVAy)

162 CNN covering something in the middle two thirds of the US? Not possible, I shan't believe it. Its AI.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:27 PM

Of course not. Nothing of importance happens out there. Plus, it's filled with icky people, for the most part.

Posted by: This. Is. CNN. at August 27, 2026 02:30 PM (0sNs1)

163
Peter Cullen voice of Optimus Prime has passed.
Posted by: BruceWayne

I am reminded of the Robot Chicken episode in which Optimus Prime, a robot, is diagnosed with prostate cancer, from which he dies. It was pretty funny and ended with him urging folks to get an annual prostate exam.

Didja get yours checked, Congresscritter McBride? Of are you too busy trying to scare up accomplishments, or anything, that will cover up your singular lack of meaningful work for the past two years?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:30 PM (trSL4)

164 The CIA basically was it's own government for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:

Was, and will be.

All of these agencies are just waiting out Trump, and then it's back to business as usual. The palettes of currency will all be back in play, and they'll be calling their own shots again.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (BI5O2)

165 The CIA has been embedded in Ukraine since they ran the coup in 2014. During Biden, the US sent close to $200 billion to Ukraine with zero oversight.

The CIA basically was it's own government for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:29 PM (viF8m)

Yes, all the talk about the costs of Ukraine during the war doesn't mention the secret money spent there to build up its forces heading to 2014, and when they lost that war building the army up a second time for the 2022 war.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (uhVAy)

166 Dolly secretly entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. She came in last, which she thought was hilarious

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2026 02:31 PM (aRf29)

167 "What's up with Hegseth's hair? It's got streaks in it. Is it that way naturally, or does he highlight it?"

My somewhat dark brown hair has a gorgeous, silver patch across the front and a long silver streak down the left side when I grow it out. It's natural and as a guy approaching 59, I'm glad to have it.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 27, 2026 02:32 PM (Fv808)

168 Then Biden blamed Trump, because he “used Trump’s withdrawal plan.”
--
That was the most disgusting part.
And that the media just repeated that as fact.

Not, as you note, how it was just a random date picked by Biden without regard to any of the mandatory prerequisites under Trump's plan.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2026 02:32 PM (3cUTc)

169 I really wish he'd have done "Lake OF America" as a counterpart to the Gulf of America, but I love the troll nonetheless.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Then it wouldn't match the other 4 Great Lakes. They're not "Lake of Michigan, Lake of Erie....."

Posted by: mikeski at August 27, 2026 02:33 PM (VHUov)

170 It’s not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. We have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time.

There hasn’t been a single operation that I’ve ever been involved in where we didn’t discover something we could have done better or more efficiently or more effectively. No operation is ever perfect.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Regime at August 27, 2026 02:33 PM (2cROu)

171 Another lynching.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Leftist Ms. Rachel: "Black people don't hang themselves from trees"
Raleigh Police Chief: There's a video showing him hanging himself.
Another race hoax
Every. Single. Time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:34 PM (ndZc7)

172
CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death
Posted by: weft cut-loop

The Washington Post piously proclaimed that she and her husband were childless by choice despite them having tried to conceive for years, only to have her lose that capacity through endometriosis and a subsequent hysterectory.

Ghouls. They are lying ghouls.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:34 PM (trSL4)

173 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

That's what I get for playing percentages.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)

174 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)

#Losing

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (ccf/V)

175 What can the opposition do in a situation like that? What recourse did they have? Could they get the Capitol Police to pick Holder up?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (mmrXZ)
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They can vote to have the Sergeant at Arms arrest him.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)

176 >>Not, as you note, how it was just a random date picked by Biden without regard to any of the mandatory prerequisites under Trump's plan.

We had a huge, well protected and very strategic military base but rather than using it as the platform for a safe withdrawal Biden abandoned it and forced people to fight their way through known terrorists in Kabul. It's like he wanted people to get killed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (viF8m)

177 Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior

AHMES? C'mon bro... LOL
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at August 27, 2026 02:17 PM (VkY89)

SHAME

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (N1DT3)

178
Karens are plants, for they, too, are bitter and nasty.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (trSL4)

179 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:35 PM (N1DT3)

I do drink tea without adding anything to it if that helps any...pretty rarely though.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:37 PM (uhVAy)

180 What a twat that Ms Rachael is.

Colors and counting. Worry about that shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:38 PM (kmiHN)

181 What a twat that Ms Rachael is.

Colors and counting. Worry about that shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Surprised she took a second away from her Jew hate.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2026 02:39 PM (YZ0Fo)

182 It's one thing to become bitter. But don't let that develop into cynicism when you are young.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

183 Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
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S
H
A
M
E

Duh!!🙄

Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (VCgbV)

184 >>>The uncomfortable reality is that accountability within the national security apparatus is largely self-policing, and the institution's incentive is to protect its own.

Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)

185 155
And Congress should have impeached Eric Holder. Successful or not, it would have forced an ugly, devastating public accounting of F&F.

But nope.

The metaphysically useless GOP were ordered to their cuck chairs, and off they saddled.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 27, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

======

Oh, agreed.

Holder, at least, should have been tried and executed for treason. The reasoning for F&F was an insurrection against the United States.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)

186 SHAME
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:36 PM (N1DT3)

S
H
A
M
E

Duh!!🙄
Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (VCgbV)

You're slow!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

187 180 What a twat that Ms Rachael is.

Colors and counting. Worry about that shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:38 PM (kmiHN)

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I watched her stuff very briefly in the early days of covid when I was balancing doing the job and taking care of a small toddler. Couldn't stand it. Found other stuff to melt Second Junior's brain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:42 PM (/PKja)

188 Look, we can name them Lake Benjamin Franklin, Lake George Washington, etc. Even Lake Donald, Lake John, and Lake Trump (that'd be Lake Superior, of course.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (ndZc7)

189 This is exactly the kind of thing that Hollywood would be salivating to make a movie about under Reagan and Bush.

And they would win tons of awards even though no one would go to see it.

I wonder when the movie about this Zero Units will come out.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (0MjtC)

190 You're slow!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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Hey, it's hard on a phone...📱

Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (VCgbV)

191 Plants are bitter as a warning. I don't ignore warnings.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:11 PM (uhVAy)

Then why do your drink coffee?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:13 PM (N1DT3)

I don't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 27, 2026 02:14 PM (uhVAy)

That's what I get for playing percentages.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I'm calling it now - you'll see this again Saturday night.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 27, 2026 02:43 PM (Fv808)

192 It always pissed me off that the Afghanistan affair was quickly forgotten despite it probably being the worst foreign policy debacle in US history.

Way worse than something like Bay of Pigs.

Biden should have been immediately impeached.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 02:44 PM (YF0aI)

193
Biden should have been immediately impeached.
Posted by: Sharpie at August 27, 2026 02:44 PM (YF0aI)

That's not who we are.

Posted by: GOPe at August 27, 2026 02:45 PM (ccf/V)

194 The only thing Biden was successful at was making Owebama look better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

195 194 The only thing Biden was successful at was making Owebama look better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (ccf/V)

======

He signed the IRA which led to generational wealth accumulation for man leftist apparatchiks.

You call that nothing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:46 PM (/PKja)

196 If that's Nepall place has been using are FART Tubes that's they be nots a big globell warming flood.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 27, 2026 02:47 PM (M1WvK)

197 Dolly secretly entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. She came in last, which she thought was hilarious

TBF, She entered a Halloween drag contest in West Hollywood, she exaggerate her hair, make-up and birth mark. The judges thought it was some little boy coming across the stage looking like Dolly—and the make-up was "over the top".

So DP lost a look-alike contest to a bunch of perverts.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:47 PM (nCgQz)

198 Why the Jews were wrong.

Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)

199 Repeat after me .....

Must do everything to make Obama look good....

Must do everything to make Obama look good....

Must do everything to make Obama look good....

Trump is a Racist..........

Trump is a Racist..........

Trump is a Racist..........

Posted by: Mike Hunt at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (WoQyw)

200 Those awards may seem a bit low, even now when they've been upgraded, but the "V" for Valor means *everything.* It functionally puts them 3 or 4 nominal ribbons above their place. It's a big fucking deal.

Many may not remember, but the 90s CNO, Jeremy "Mike" Boorda (beloved by enlisted Sailors because he came up from the ranks) committed suicide after it was revealed his Navy Commendation Medal didn't rate the "V" device.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (gUs21)

201 I wonder when the movie about this Zero Units will come out.

Sounds like the name of a movie about trannies with "gender confirming healthcare".

Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (9s47C)

202 Looks like they raided Omar's son's place. Weapons, cash found.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)

203 Looks like they raided Omar's son's place. Weapons, cash found.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)

But they seem to have only arrested his roommate or something.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (ccf/V)

204 203 Looks like they raided Omar's son's place. Weapons, cash found.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)

But they seem to have only arrested his roommate or something.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (ccf/V)

=====

Omar Junior knew nothing!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (/PKja)

205 Why do the Jews of NYC keep voting for these idiots and then complain nothing gets any better ????

Why are they stupid ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:52 PM (j93VM)

206 If you don't want documents to surface, why keep them in the first place?

I'll never understand bureaucrats.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (yRCXf)

207 TBH... who here really thinks *biden had any clue what was going down during the bug out? Yeah, he's nominally "in charge" but in reality, wasn't.

Have those clowns from the White House "Politburo" take the heat... they probably are behind it anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (2Cry5)

208 198 Why the Jews were wrong.

Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)

The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost beg to differ.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (wtvvX)

209 Why the Jews were wrong.

Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 27, 2026 02:49 PM (ndZc7)

There are a lot of vipers pretending to be shepherds, leading people to hell.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (N1DT3)

210 Many may not remember, but the 90s CNO, Jeremy "Mike" Boorda (beloved by enlisted Sailors because he came up from the ranks) committed suicide after it was revealed his Navy Commendation Medal didn't rate the "V" device.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

Yeah that was a sad affair.

But did he really kill himself, or did he have information tha could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

211 Hegseth also revealed that a special review panel recently recovered "highly relevant classified documents" that were "stashed and hidden away in safes where they would not be found." A full report is expected by year's end.

Why? I mean this is about the 10th time someone in the Trump administration has found "hidden" files that someone from the biden administration left behind instead of destroying.

I know they weren't that sloppy so why did they keep all of this incriminating $hit?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (cpFbA)

212 Oy -

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
·
51m
Oh come on you actually think a busy man like him has time to visit every room in his villa

New York Post
@nypost
·
18h
Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://trib.al/DVpsVXM

Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (kX27y)

213 204 203 Looks like they raided Omar's son's place. Weapons, cash found.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:51 PM (kmiHN)

Please disregard the posters of OBL, Chi Guevera, Castro and the Death to America T-Shirt found in the apartment.

Mostly peaceful items found, so no story here. Now back to Trump being Hitler and Stalin stories....

Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:56 PM (j93VM)

214 If you don't want documents to surface, why keep them in the first place?

I'll never understand bureaucrats.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 27, 2026 02:53 PM (yRCXf)

Because destroying them is a crime and hiding them is not.

(That's my guess for the answer.)

Destroying them directly makes them culpable. Hiding them gives them deniability.

Remember, these people think like lawyers and think they are smarter than everyone else.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (N1DT3)

215 @nypost
·
18h
Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://trib.al/DVpsVXM
Posted by: beckster at August 27, 2026 02:55 PM (kX27y)

While I believe this is utter and complete bullshit, I lived in my current house for over a month before I noticed the wet bar in the living room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (ccf/V)

216 Yeah that was a sad affair.

But did he really kill himself, or did he have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Bulg at August 27, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

LOL

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (gUs21)

217
Oh, agreed.

Holder, at least, should have been tried and executed for treason. The reasoning for F&F was an insurrection against the United States.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 27, 2026 02:41 PM (/PKja)

Incidentally, that treason was committed by Holder literally engaging in an ACT OF WAR against Mexico, by supplying the cartels with arms that would be used to murder Mexican citizens in their own country. Remember, the whole point was to get a bunch of Mexicans killed so that the Policia could get the serial numbers off of the guns they found at the scene so that they could be traced.

It's like an ouroboros of criminal cocksuckery.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 27, 2026 02:57 PM (y9nCu)

218 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (kmiHN)

219
Woke Pastor Says King Josiah Was Wrong To Smash Idols Because Israel Needed A Female God Like Asherah To Look Up To

Josiah's priests must have missed the fine print exculpatory language in the Decalogue that addresses graven images.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (9s47C)

220 Treason isn't against the law anymore.

It's been painfully obvious since at least the Owebama administration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 27, 2026 02:58 PM (ccf/V)

221 210 Many may not remember, but the 90s CNO, Jeremy "Mike" Boorda (beloved by enlisted Sailors because he came up from the ranks) committed suicide after it was revealed his Navy Commendation Medal didn't rate the "V" device.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

But did he really kill himself, or did he have information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

It is safer to try to kiss a Great White Shark then be a friend or aquantance of the Clintons....

Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (j93VM)

222 Gavin Newsom claims he 'didn't even know' about 5,000-bottle wine cellar at his $7.5M home https://trib.al/DVpsVXM
Posted by: beckster

I didn't know about the girl chained to the wall in my basement.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Putting the Genie Back In the Bible at August 27, 2026 03:02 PM (ndZc7)

223 183 Ok Mr. Two Scoops - so how am I going to remember the Great Lakes now

Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Eric
Superior
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Duh!!🙄
Posted by: lin-duh at August 27, 2026 02:40 PM (VCgbV)

A
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More on point...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2026 03:21 PM (tOcjL)

224 Looks like Trump officially renamed Lake Ontario today.. LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2026 03:48 PM (+gK6I)

225 Posted by: Jackson K. at August 27, 2026 02:59 PM (j93VM)

TBH it was one of the better appointments they made - it muted a lot of the rancor over Tailhook and the "Peace Dividend" that defenestrated the Navy and military at large.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 27, 2026 03:52 PM (gUs21)

226 Incredibly proud of these Marines. May God bless them always.

I honestly cannot imagine what they did and the courage and tenacity it took to go beyond what they needed to. Saved lives. Valor defined and while injured they did not give up.

Horrified about what the Biden administration did that day to Afghanistan and our troops.

Sadly, after seeing photos of Afghani people clinging to cargo planes, I just don't know. Thankful I did not have to make that choice to take off. I remember people clinging to the wings.

I once felt bad about Afghan translators, who served with our men, whom Biden abandoned. However, based on the few terrorist attacks by a few here, I did wonder about vetting.

What a sad day for our country that was.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 27, 2026 04:10 PM (hzuYO)

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