Fake News Jake Blames the "Horrific" Fall of Kabul on Trump, Without Mentioning that It Was Joe Biden Who Actually Oversaw the Botched Bugout

I guess Fake Jake will write a book in ten years noting that Joe Biden was actually president during this bloody, squalid episode.

He's always the last to know.

Jake Tapper Notes the Anniversary of the 'Horrific' Fall of Kabul, With One Glaring Omission

Objectivity in the media stands as the elusive conceit for many. Journalists love to tout that as their standard, yet for so many, it stands as a supreme challenge. Look, we get it; the desire to slam President Trump and the administration is substantial, but when Jake Tapper cannot even deliver the barest amount of balance, well, that is a sign of a problem.
Maybe it is a pathology. The effects of TDS are substantial, sure, but can there not be some sign of an effort being applied? Tapper set the table to serve both sides, then removed the chairs to prevent participation in one half of the setting.
On State of the Union he closed out the episode wanting to recognize the fifth anniversary of the failed pullout of American troops from Kabul. All just fine, so far. He acknowledged the FUBAR nature of that mission, and used proper terms to describe the calamitous extraction efforts. "Disastrous", "horrific", and other negatives were employed, all accurately.
It was inevitable, sure, that the fall of Kabul, and Afghanistan (what could more accurately be described as a surrender) would fold into the current Iran conflict. Tapper brought up President Trump, and also Secretary Pete Hegseth in his segment. But what was remarkable was what he did not mention.
Throughout his soliloquy, the name "Joe Biden" was never uttered. The former president was never pictured in the graphics as the CNN anchor spoke, unlike the current officeholders. This is a remarkable effort to elide by the host, given the stern descriptions he gave of the extraction from Kabul. Something that stands as one of the biggest scars on the Biden term in the White House does not merit mention of the man?!
To see just how much Jake Tapper strained to avoid mention of Biden, look at the passage he used first to bring up Trump's name: "Many Afghans who fought with the U.S. -- risked their lives for the U.S. -- remain stranded abroad after the Trump administration halted the special immigrant Visa program."

Fake Jake is All About the Troops, including the Taliban troops.

This is Jake using willful obfuscation. It needs to be pointed out, apparently, on this, the 5-year anniversary, that bringing Afghan allies to the U.S. has been a problem for at least 4.6 of those years. The president at the time, whom Tapper does not want to invoke in his memoriam, was being scorched by his own party in the months following the Kabul fiasco.
We understand Tapper's desire to steer away from culpability with Biden. But bringing up what has to be considered his most glaring failure while straining to avoid tying him to that debacle is pure folly. It is also undiluted bias on display.

Speaking of scandal-plagued fake "journalists:" A leftwing "reporter" and major dicksuck for Zohran Mamdani has been found to have committed plagiarism 67 times and has been fired by New York Magazine. (Well, they will no longer publish his work.)

He shouldn't bother killing himself, though, because he's white so people are allowed to notice his fraud and plagiarism.

New York Magazine has ended its publishing of political writer Ross Barkan after an internal review found 67 pieces that contained improperly attributed language, information, and/or sourcing.
The magazine launched the review after a Washington Post reporter flagged similarities between the opening of one Barkan story and an earlier piece he had written on the same subject. NPR later reported additional plagiarism allegations.
New York Magazine said in a statement that the 67 columns "did not include proper attribution of language, information and/or sourcing." The publication said it is updating the affected articles with proper attribution and remains "committed to addressing any other instances that come to light."
"Upon conclusion of the review, we have determined that we will no longer publish his column," New York Magazine said. "We regret that his work did not live up to our editorial standards, and apologize to the writers whose work was not appropriately attributed."
...
"In the course of nearly 250 pieces, there were times I should have been more careful with my citation," he added. "I'm sorry about these errors and will work to do better, more careful work in the future."
Barkan has been a prominent supporter of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani served as campaign manager for Barkan's 2018 state Senate campaign, a connection Barkan has referenced in his Substack and elsewhere.

It defies common sense to see @JakeTapper invoking President Trump when discussing the anniversary of the debacle f the Afghanistan evacuation.
More than that, he never even mentions the man attached to the fiasco.https://t.co/M7VYsFWRQ3
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) August 18, 2026

Disgraced Mamdani-loving journo Ross Barkan apologizes - after being caught plagiarizing 67 times https://t.co/KLr6EMHZWQ pic.twitter.com/wxRcrGkiXb
— New York Post (@nypost) August 19, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:33 PM

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2026 03:33 PM (bFu5X)

2 Well of course it was Trump's fault, they claim he left joe biden with no choice but to fvck things up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2026 03:33 PM (cpFbA)

3 Shoot - barely in the top five...

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at August 19, 2026 03:34 PM (GMWTj)

4 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Ross Costanza Barkan at August 19, 2026 03:34 PM (PiwSw)

5 The Others have been summoned

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2026 03:34 PM (bFu5X)

6 Barkan up someone else's tree, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:35 PM (Ot/FD)

7 Jake has been slapped around a lot lately, it appears his running over to drape a flag over a vet isn't working any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 03:35 PM (K32Fz)

8 Beau Biden died in Kabul.

Posted by: Not a joke at August 19, 2026 03:36 PM (2Ez/1)

9 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 19, 2026 03:37 PM (qDa2L)

10 It's delightful that Tappy really is probably stupid and obtuse enough to think Trump was president for the Kabul pullout shitfest. This wasn't even malice, he's just that fucking dumb.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:37 PM (Ot/FD)

11 All right, RMBS with the first!

RMBS Firsts >> Elric Firsts

Sponge is First Emeritus, so he does not feature on the ">" scale. He is always First in a cosmic sense.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

12 The Others have been summoned

Uh… phrasing?

Do you want hauntings? Because this is how you get hauntings…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 19, 2026 03:38 PM (kYmoU)

13 What was the accurate dollar figure on the value of equipment abandoned in place over there in Afghani land? Trucks, Black Hawk helicopters, fully automatic machine guns, secure radios, night vision goggles, etc etc. I've heard anywhere from 7 Billions to 70 Billions of dollars.

Clown World

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2026 03:38 PM (Y8TXp)

14 Are we finally ready to admit that Brian Stelter > Jake Tapper?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

15 If you are going to re-write history, make sure the historical event isn't, also, a current event.

I've seen egregious media bias via omission. And, I've seen deceitful media bias via misrepresentation of facts and events. BUT, when you use both techniques at the same time, on an event that is still pretty fresh in the living population's mind, you take on the facade of a 3 year old lying about stealing a cookie of the counter while covered in cookie crumbs.

Posted by: Orson at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM (dIske)

16 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

You left out the Black Death.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

17 Do you want hauntings? Because this is how you get hauntings…
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 19, 2026 03:38 PM (kYmoU)

Feh.

I said "Bloody Mary" at a mirror three times once and all i got was a damn caesar.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM (Ot/FD)

18 Jake Tapper is about as useful as a snake in a boot.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

19 Tapper is a retard, and made of bitch. I bet he doesn't have a dick. He probably accidentally tore it off in a vacuum cleaner at age 13.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (BI5O2)

20 It is absolutely true that a political solution is the only way, again, to achieve that just and durable outcome that all parties want and all parties seem to understand is the only end to 40 years of conflict. It’s also true, again, that any government that comes to power at the barrel of a gun through force is not one that will have popular support, it is not one that will accrue assistance from the international community, it is not one that will have international legitimacy. And for all those reasons, it is almost certainly not one that will have durability.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (+xdCF)

21 Fake News Jake Blames the "Horrific" Fall of Kabul on Trump, Without Mentioning that It Was Joe Biden Who Actually Oversaw the Botched Bugout

Excuse me. I believe that it was the unelected Biden Politburo who oversaw the botched bugout as Tapper should be aware since he knew that Biden wasn't in charge at the time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (ExV1e)

22 Breaking News: After Lt. Col. Alex Vindman's stunning loss to Angie Nixon in the contested Florida U.S Senate Democratic primary, all area Bakeries, Pastry Shops, and Krispy Kreme outlets have been put on High Alert.

Posted by: Eyewitness News at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (PiwSw)

23 A reminder that the POTUS, Lesko Brandon, *INTENDED* to bug out of Afghanistan on September 11th.

That was actually going to be the departure date.

I don't know who in his cabinet, or whether Obama himself dialed in, to convince him that the optics of doing so on that specific anniversary was a less-than-stellar idea.

Unfortunately, they didn't convince him not to bug out on a hard deadline either, nor to plan it better.

But hey, at least the Feminazis finally got a real-life The Handmaiden's Tale to point to. Except it's in a Muslim country, so they can't exactly point to it.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 19, 2026 03:41 PM (4h45B)

24 They know that we will amplify and (somewhat correctly) blame Biden. But Biden's name is already poison and he represents the "past". So it has a double effect. In neither case does the new emerging Demorat Party take the brunt of this.

Reminds me of when they would say that Clarence Thomas was "against interracial marriage". Obvious bait. They wanted US to oblige by bringing up that Thomas is married to a white woman.

D's couldn't safely say that to their constituents without sounding racist, but they can have *us* say it and it will have a similar effect on said same. IOW they will hate Thomas even more.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2026 03:41 PM (Kr1pO)

25 Disgraced Mamdani-loving journo Ross Barkan apologizes - after being caught plagiarizing 67 times

He's trying to land a professorship at Cambridge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)

26 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

You left out the Black Death.
Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM

Let us not forget to add the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

27 It's like the Big Lie except it's the Big Dumb.

Be so monstrously out of step with reality and common damn sense that people assume you've got to be up to something else and feel scared to even discuss the subject with you...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (Ot/FD)

28 Tapper's still crying that journalists could've died if AF1 got blown up by Iran.

Regarding phonies who off themselves, this video explains so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jlFV-QUKM4

Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (2ocoG)

29 Tapper is a retard, and made of bitch. I bet he doesn't have a dick. He probably accidentally tore it off in a vacuum cleaner at age 13.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice.

It was a Eureka moment.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (L1CjM)

30 Tapper is a retard, and made of bitch. I bet he doesn't have a dick.

I'm sure he's had a lot of dick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:43 PM (ExV1e)

31 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 19, 2026 03:37 PM (qDa2L)

He is German.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:43 PM (Ot/FD)

32 It was a Eureka moment.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (L1CjM)

Check yourself before you Oreck yourself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:43 PM (Ot/FD)

33 It's delightful that Tappy really is probably stupid and obtuse enough to think Trump was president for the Kabul pullout shitfest. This wasn't even malice, he's just that fucking dumb.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:37 PM

To this day, the left maintains that because Trump originally planned on a withdrawal around that time, it's his withdrawal, as if Biden, the then-"president" and CinC, was utterly powerless to stop Trump's misguided withdrawal plan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2026 03:43 PM (bFu5X)

34 Last night's ONT featured a 2018 performance of a topical song:

Hollywood Vampires - Ace of Spades (At Montreux Jazz Festival)
https://youtu.be/YIJth479y4w

I was curious about the white Stratocaster with the reverse headstock. AI says the guitar is Jeff Beck's 2014 Fender Custom Shop own signature model, and the player is Johnny Depp, who had it on permanent loan. (It was given back on Jeff's death in January 2023, and his estate has loaned it out to other musicians since.)

Unfortunately, his $2500 signature production model has a regular headstock, and even his Custom Shop signature is shown likewise. (The reverse makes more mathematical sense to me, giving more tension to lower strings that need it, and less to higher ones that don't.)

To get it looking like the real thing, you would either have to order a bespoke model for who knows how much, buy the production model and replace the neck yourself -- Player II and Warmoth necks are available with reverse headstocks -- or maybe just buy the $1300 Jimi Hendrix signature Strat, and replace the nut and pickups. That last option would have a maple fingerboard instead of rosewood, but that's what it looks like in the video anyway.

Posted by: SciVo at August 19, 2026 03:44 PM (L3Npt)

35 Communists rewrite history.
At some point they'll acknowledge that Trump won the 2020 elections, in order to blame him for the Afghanistan withdrawal, Ukraine war, and illegally serving three terms in defiance of the 22nd Amendment.

Posted by: PG at August 19, 2026 03:44 PM (qln0f)

36 Drumpf engineered the fall of Atlantis. My remote viewer confirmed it. Jackie Tapper.

Posted by: ltille people at August 19, 2026 03:44 PM (ehY6c)

37 Tapper's still crying that journalists could've died if AF1 got blown up by Iran.

That freakout was one of the funniest tantrums I've ever seen from the press. The media all threw a fit, and everyone yawned and walked away. Nobody even cared, nobody, except reporters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 03:44 PM (K32Fz)

38 Isn't there some big bad gang of retards who are on the verge of toppling the Taliban recently?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (Ot/FD)

39 A safe, orderly drawdown enables us to maintain an ongoing diplomatic presence, support the Afghan people and the government, and prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists that threatens our homeland.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (+xdCF)

40 To this day, the left maintains that because Trump originally planned on a withdrawal around that time, it's his withdrawal, as if Biden, the then-"president" and CinC, was utterly powerless to stop Trump's misguided withdrawal plan.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2026 03:43 PM (bFu5X)

If they were to say that they tried to change the plan but a judge ruled that they couldn't alter plans put in place by a previous President, some folks might believe them, if only for a minute.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (ExV1e)

41 To Be Fair™, Biden was not president. His cabal literally called the 'Politburo' by Jake's friends was illegally running the administration.

™ All Rights Reserved. Copyright HotAir and Capt. Toot-Toot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (diia5)

42 Tapper is a retard, and made of bitch. I bet he doesn't have a dick. He probably accidentally tore it off in a vacuum cleaner at age 13.

I remember back in the 90s Dave Barry referenced a bunch of stories from England about men trying to use a vacuum cleaner as a Fleshlight.

In hindsight it really explains Kier Starmer.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

43 Uh… phrasing?

Do you want hauntings? Because this is how you get hauntings…
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 19, 2026 03:38 PM

How else will Piper know there's a nood to comment on?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2026 03:46 PM (bFu5X)

44 Ugh, the resting Jake face in that video!

Gawd, if ever there was a mug that needed to catch a bowling ball launched from a circus cannon - it's the resting Jake face.

Posted by: Boswell at August 19, 2026 03:46 PM (NTVPI)

45 Kier Starmer would've stuck the vac up his ass and accidentally sucked out his intestines

Posted by: nckate at August 19, 2026 03:47 PM (enNUy)

46 Excuse me. I believe that it was the unelected Biden Politburo who oversaw the botched bugout as Tapper should be aware since he knew that Biden wasn't in charge at the time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:40 PM (ExV1e)

I'll split hairs that Biden was 'in charge but not cognizant of events'. He delegated, just like Doctor Jill ordered him to do.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 19, 2026 03:47 PM (aJQbY)

47 They're not just biased.

They have zero regard for facts.

They just straight-up lie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:47 PM (RIvkX)

48 Let us not forget to add the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Nope. That was Taylor Lorenz. She was trying to parallel park.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

49 To be fair, saying the "White House Auto-Pen Team" would have sounded a little awkward.

Posted by: Ripley at August 19, 2026 03:48 PM (GUOwU)

50 Jake didn't mention Biden because he's not getting invited with his boat to any parties after his book about Biden.

In addition, if he does bring up Biden it's an own goal since he didn't see Biden's decline until June 2024.

Jake's gonna Jake's

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 19, 2026 03:48 PM (FxH7T)

51 Hey ACE, I'm not on "X". But, if I were, I'd post this to Tapper's feed. Maybe you could in my place:

Future Speculation: Industry reports note that deeper, more seismic reductions could loom downstream depending on how pending corporate acquisitions and parent-company changes (such as Warner Bros. Discovery's broader merger landscape) impact the organization.

Posted by: Orson at August 19, 2026 03:48 PM (dIske)

52 Jake Tapper, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens need to French kiss some camel spiders.

Has the cancer 'killing' Joey Bidet gained sentience yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:49 PM (2GVsD)

53 I said "Bloody Mary" at a mirror three times once and all i got was a damn caesar.

Et tu, Otoko?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 19, 2026 03:49 PM (kYmoU)

54 I'll add that Trump was, clearly responsible for the Stamp Act. "Best tax in history," he said. "No one's ever seen a tax like this, believe me."

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 19, 2026 03:49 PM (aJQbY)

55 has Tapper addressed the "dinner parties" (code for wife swapping) he hosted for Fauci and plus one?

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at August 19, 2026 03:49 PM (Iwv3U)

56 I believe that it was the unelected Biden Politburo who oversaw the botched bugout as Tapper should be aware since he knew that Biden wasn't in charge at the time.

That and there were multiple Politburos. There was the main one taking orders from Kalorama, there was Hunter and Jill, and there was at least one other one that isn't as clearly defined.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2026 03:50 PM (2ocoG)

57 re 16: any lefty can tell you that trump is responsible for many a black death, even ones that didn't happen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 19, 2026 03:50 PM (CWTWj)

58 Shakey Jake >>> Jake Tapper

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

59 Don't worry about fake Jake's lies. Every veteran and Patriot is painfully aware of the shameful bugout.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (bX16E)

60 If they were to say that they tried to change the plan but a judge ruled that they couldn't alter plans put in place by a previous President, some folks might believe them, if only for a minute.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (ExV1e)

Take your predecessor's plan. Fuck it so far up it needs to put its own mask on first before helping others. Watch it all devolve into a big pile of shit. Blame your predecessor for planning it while demanding credit for how great you did.

....

If they wanted to be The Bad Guys, what else would they be doing different?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (Ot/FD)

61 Ian S, probably some overlap - like a Venn Diagram - but not congruent.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (aJQbY)

62 Barkan has a newsletter called Political Currents. He describes being a cultural Jew and doesn't have many kind words about Israel. And, his writing is kind of over the top in a drama queen way:

https://tinyurl.com/3ctrwpsx

Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (kX27y)

63 14 Are we finally ready to admit that Brian Stelter > Jake Tapper?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Well, Jake Tapper is no sex machine.

youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (sAmhv)

64 Did he ask for a cite that Biden was president?

Posted by: Ryan Frank at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (fgmuN)

65 Ross Barkan is a nasty self-gassing Jew who is always screeching about Israel defending itself from Muslim savages. He's more anti-Israel than some Hamas terrorists.

Good riddance. Another nice head on the wall.

More, please.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

66 Let us not forget to add the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

And the Wrangellia event because Trump doesn't ascribe to the "climate change" nonsense.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 19, 2026 03:52 PM (lNxD2)

67 The Thirteen who were killed and their families remember the betrayal of Joey Bidet.

So do the real Afghans who placed their trust in America.

Joey Bidet and his handlers need to roast in Hell.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:52 PM (2GVsD)

68 in one of my favorite twitter exchanges since the chainsaw bayonet days (which will never be topped) was yesterday when a comical fellow posted a BREAKING (must be credited) post:

Mike Glenn
BREAKING [Must credit]: All US Army field artillery units have run out of lanyard grease, a critical component of indirect fire support for maneuver units. The Army's supply of grid squares is also believed to be running dangerously low.

And the expert Tom Nichols responded and um you gotta see it to believe it

https://tinyurl.com/mu2373ry

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (K32Fz)

69 65 Ross Barkan is a nasty self-gassing Jew who is always screeching about Israel defending itself from Muslim savages. He's more anti-Israel than some Hamas terrorists.

Good riddance. Another nice head on the wall.

More, please.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
-----------
See my post at 62 for many examples of his hatred for Israel and other Jews.

Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (kX27y)

70 55 has Tapper addressed the "dinner parties" (code for wife swapping) he hosted for Fauci and plus one?
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at August 19, 2026 03:49 PM (Iwv3U)
-----

Can I get a vomit warning next time?

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (oqH4h)

71 Did he ask for a cite that Biden was president?

Posted by: Ryan Frank at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (fgmuN)

Deep cut

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (Kr1pO)

72 Art Spiegelman is another self-gassing Jew which is incredible since he wrote Maus and Maus II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:54 PM (2GVsD)

73 A safe, orderly drawdown enables us to maintain an ongoing diplomatic presence, support the Afghan people and the government, and prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists that threatens our homeland.
Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 03:45 PM (+xdCF)
=====

That is top-grade G13 SES bureauslop, right there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:54 PM (RIvkX)

74 https://tinyurl.com/mu2373ry
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (K32Fz)

Top. Men.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

75 Disgraced Mamdani-loving journo Ross Barkan apologizes—after being caught plagiarizing…

“Never apologize. Never explain. And don’t get caught.”—Hagar the Horrible

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 19, 2026 03:55 PM (kYmoU)

76 Leftists just blame all theuir mistakes on opponents

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

77 re: Barkan

God I can't believe people can despise NPR so much when compared to the New York Post side by side. The whole news values of the Post spend so much time detailing how this guy's a lefty and the magazine he worked for published an anti-Israel story and that Mamdani was his campaign manager eight years ago when it's not even relevant to the actual story.

Lol at New York Post trying to make it about Mamdani. That basically every story they write currently.

every centrist democrat on twitter is making it about mamdani. why do we have so many neoliberals lurking this sub. Hillary should be in jail

looking through these specific examples, I found them underwhelming. It's a bunch of stuff like technical lists from a source that he used verbatim in an article about the same subject. This feels very overblown.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (bUztX)

78 Speaking of scandal-plagued fake "journalists:" A leftwing "reporter" and major dicksuck for Zohran Mamdani has been found to have committed plagiarism 67 times and has been fired by New York Magazine. (Well, they will no longer publish his work.)

He shouldn't bother killing himself, though, because he's white so people are allowed to notice his fraud and plagiarism.

He should do it anyways.

Seppuku.

That's what Jason did. A final noble act to ..........

Nah. Even I don't believe that shit.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (Sco7b)

79 When do we get to hang the propagandists? I've only got a few more years in me to care about this shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (2Cry5)

80 Christopher Taylor

Now someone needs to go on X and say that C-130 units are low on prop-wash.

Just to see what happens.

Meanwhile AF is low on water.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (2GVsD)

81 Are there any writers or "academics" out there who aren't plagiarizing?

Serious question.

I've long thought that outside of the "hard" sciences and academia, the rest of academia is a bukkake human centipede writhing in their own mucous.

Retarded buffoons like Jason Arday and Claudine Gay are just the tip of the iceberg. All of these clowns are sucking each other's dicks and ejaculating the same slime into their papers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

82 62 Barkan has a newsletter called Political Currents. He describes being a cultural Jew and doesn't have many kind words about Israel. And, his writing is kind of over the top in a drama queen way:

https://tinyurl.com/3ctrwpsx
Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2026 03:51 PM (kX27y)
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Dude has Gay Face like whoa. So the queen part tracks.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 03:56 PM (oqH4h)

83 Yeah, of course nobody shed a tear for the plight of the journalists.

And Trump wouldn't actually expose them to that danger... the Iran war is unpopular as it is, and if the IRGC sent the WH Press Corps hurtling into the Zagros Mountains in a shattered aircraft, any remaining support would collapse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (BI5O2)

84 "The future is known, comrades -- it's the past that keeps changing!"

-- Mission Statement of The MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Sycophantic Whore Treasonous Useful Idiots

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (T3zON)

85 I hate these mother fuckers so much. They are lucky I have morals and a higher power to answer to.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (KC5Lt)

86 Henry Miller’s words in Black Spring have trilled through me since I was nineteen. Best known for his surrealistic and sexualized romps through Paris, Miller wrote tenderly on his first years in Williamsburg, when he ran wild through its gloriously fetid streets, love and violence on the offering in equal measure. For Miller, Williamsburg was his homeland; he could write with venom about America but never his neighborhood. There was no contradiction here. His patriotism was reserved for Driggs Avenue. The rest of it was an abstraction, nothing that could touch the heart.
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Umm, that's a ghey dude.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (RIvkX)

87 Wow. There's actually people who read the NYPost.

Good for them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (Ot/FD)

88 Orderly drawdown?

The Afghans woke up one morning to find the Americans had fled.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:58 PM (2GVsD)

89 "Mike Glenn
BREAKING [Must credit]: All US Army field artillery units have run out of lanyard grease, a critical component of indirect fire support for maneuver units. The Army's supply of grid squares is also believed to be running dangerously low.

And the expert Tom Nichols responded and um you gotta see it to believe it

https://tinyurl.com/mu2373ry

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

Can't wait until Tom Nichols hears about the dangerously low supply of cannonball fuses.

Posted by: Ripley at August 19, 2026 03:58 PM (GUOwU)

90 Umm, that's a ghey dude.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (RIvkX)

There hasn't been a heterosexual sex act performed in Williamsburg since before the invention of baseball.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (Ot/FD)

91 88 Orderly drawdown?

The Afghans woke up one morning to find the Americans had fled.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:58 PM (2GVsD)

Leaving them billions of dollars of equipment as gifts.
It was like Christmas morning.
But more savage and murdery.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (Sco7b)

92 He shouldn't bother killing himself, though, because he's white so people are allowed to notice his fraud and plagiarism.

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White Privilege.

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (T3zON)

93 Warai-otoko

Have you caught the latest episodes of Clevatesss and Tanya?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (2GVsD)

94 You know what else trilled through him?

Cocks. Like a thousand of them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (BI5O2)

95 Biden shouldhave been impeached right there and then.

Its why the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened

Posted by: Leupold at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (eIzlH)

96 Barkan is a cultural Jew who doesn't like Israel. Memo to Ross: the muzzies don't care whether or not you like Israel, to them you're Jewish and must be extinct

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (rp63B)

97 There hasn't been a heterosexual sex act performed in Williamsburg since before the invention of baseball.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (Ot/FD)
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Ha!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (RIvkX)

98 The transfer of Bagram was fully coordinated with the government of Afghanistan to include the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces and the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority. Walk-throughs conducted mere days before our departure window identified infrastructure and associated responsibilities to be transferred to Afghan control. These included electricity and water services which, upon the final transfer of a base, become the responsibility of Afghan forces.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (+xdCF)

99 Elric, only if they're novel writers. Rarely maybe some non-fiction books...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (aJQbY)

100 Leaving them billions of dollars of equipment as gifts.

There were pallets of wrapped stacked of $100 bills.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 04:01 PM (ExV1e)

101 Dear Barkan

"And the ground screamed out, 'there is a Jew here!'" - some Sura in the Q'uran.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:01 PM (2GVsD)

102 Have you caught the latest episodes of Clevatesss and Tanya?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (2GVsD)

No, i haven't been keeping up with anything really. Last thing i watched was season 1 of black clover.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 04:02 PM (Ot/FD)

103 That is top-grade G13 SES bureauslop, right there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Uh....those are different. GS goes up to 15, then you become SES. They are all Feds though.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 19, 2026 04:02 PM (bUztX)

104 New York Magazine has ended its publishing of political writer Ross Barkan after an internal review found 67 pieces that contained improperly attributed language, information, and/or sourcing.

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I hear Harvard may be looking for a non-black, non-female, non-bald, non-lesbian Plagiarist President.

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 04:02 PM (T3zON)

105 The American journalist, author, and essayist Ross Barkan has frequently and explicitly identified as a New York Jew. He has written openly in personal essays, social media posts, and interviews about his experience growing up as a secular Jewish person in the diverse neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Posted by: G6 Loq at August 19, 2026 04:02 PM (+2eM9)

106 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (Ot/FD)

I'm one of them. I prefer reading a paper to looking at the articles on a screen and the Post columnists has some more conservative columnists like Miranda Devine & Michael Goodwin. But maybe you knew that .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2026 04:03 PM (wmzkx)

107 Really want the Paramount merger to go through so Jakey poo can be given his walking papers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2026 04:03 PM (rp63B)

108 This is not the wholesale withdrawal. What this is, is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint. This is a drawdown of civilian Americans who will, in many cases, be able to perform their important function elsewhere, whether that’s in the United States or elsewhere in the region.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:04 PM (+xdCF)

109 Really want the Paramount merger to go through so Jakey poo can be given his walking papers

My guess is that they are gonna sell off CNN before the entire thing is done. Netflix or someone will buy the failing property because Democrats desperately need their publicity machine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 04:04 PM (K32Fz)

110 "Cultural Jew" is a fucking laugh. So what you like latkes and bagels with schmear? Too bad Achmed doesn't give a rat's ass and will kill you graveyard dead all the same.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:04 PM (oqH4h)

111 Jake Tapper is Jewish. The CNN anchor grew up in a Jewish family and frequently speaks about his Jewish heritage and background.
He grew up attending a Jewish day school, graduating from the Akiba Hebrew Academy (now known as the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy) in Pennsylvania.He has noted that his foundational Jewish education helped shape his worldview and approach to questioning authority.
Tikkun Olam is a nasty mind virus.

Posted by: G6 Loq at August 19, 2026 04:05 PM (+2eM9)

112 Biden shouldhave been impeached right there and then.

Its why the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened

Posted by: Leupold at August 19, 2026 04:00 PM (eIzlH)

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AND 10/7 in Israel.

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 04:05 PM (T3zON)

113 Anyone ever calls me an "essayist" I'll kick 'em right in the damn undercarriage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 04:05 PM (Ot/FD)

114 100 Leaving them billions of dollars of equipment as gifts.

There were pallets of wrapped stacked of $100 bills.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 04:01 PM (ExV1e)

Wow.
And I was always very grateful for socks and underwear.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 19, 2026 04:05 PM (Sco7b)

115 Another reason to wish Star Trek dead and all the people involved unemployed.

New episode of Strange New Worlds has a transporter malfunction in which the away team is transformed into Muppets.

So far no sighting of Miss Piggy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (2GVsD)

116 Mike Glenn
BREAKING [Must credit]: All US Army field artillery units have run out of lanyard grease, a critical component of indirect fire support for maneuver units. The Army's supply of grid squares is also believed to be running dangerously low.

Have Army artillery units been part of the Iranian operation? I don't understand the five alarm fire.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (KC5Lt)

117 Why would anyone give a flying fuck about this mope's childhood? Personal essay. Feh. You're lame and gay and you always have been. That's not news.

Has anyone ever said "boy this reporter's article sure was retarded. I'd love to learn more about his teenaged sexual awakening in a New York bugger dungeon."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (BI5O2)

118 Cultural Jew? Is that anything like Cultural Marxist?

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2026 04:08 PM (Kr1pO)

119 Cultural Jew is another term for a JINO.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:08 PM (2GVsD)

120 The US Army needs to send Duck Dodgers out to find some lanyard grease.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:09 PM (2GVsD)

121 Have Army artillery units been part of the Iranian operation? I don't understand the five alarm fire.
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (KC5Lt)

The guy was riffing. On the order of "turn signal fluid".

Nichols jumped in and asked for deets like he was on some hot scoop from a dude's entirely public post.

The artillery is not the issue. Tom Nichols being a shitwit and a fool is always the issue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 04:09 PM (Ot/FD)

122 It is a simple fact that the Afghan Security Forces are numerically far superior to the Taliban. It’s a simple fact. They have over 300,000 troops. They have an air force. They have special forces. They have heavy equipment. The Taliban, in contrast, have less than 100,000 forces.

What’s also important is that the United States continues to support Afghan Security Forces, and we are committed to supporting them well into the future.

Even as we’re withdrawing forces from Afghanistan, we are not withdrawing from Afghanistan. We’re determined to maintain a strong embassy presence.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:09 PM (+xdCF)

123 116 Mike Glenn
BREAKING [Must credit]: All US Army field artillery units have run out of lanyard grease, a critical component of indirect fire support for maneuver units. The Army's supply of grid squares is also believed to be running dangerously low.

Have Army artillery units been part of the Iranian operation? I don't understand the five alarm fire.
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (KC5Lt)

Think Ukraine.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:10 PM (Gqar8)

124 Last I checked, the best resource for determining Jewish lineage of notable people, was Wikipedia. It's going to come in handy for someone someday.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2026 04:10 PM (Kr1pO)

125 Have Army artillery units been part of the Iranian operation? I don't understand the five alarm fire.
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (KC5Lt)
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You should file an ID-10T form to find out more.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:10 PM (oqH4h)

126 Umm, that's a ghey dude.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (RIvkX)
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Plus he's just an irritating drama queen writer:

I understand, intellectually, why it is I’m supposed to care for Israel—Zion was promised at the end of one World War and guaranteed after the Holocaust—and why it matters, now, Israel has been under attack. I grieve for the civilians Hamas slaughtered. But I grieve, too, for civilians slaughtered everywhere—in Sudan, Ethiopia, Armenia, and Maine—and I struggle to care more about one foreign country over another. Well, the Zionist has an easy retort: you are Jewish. But I, as an American Jew, never demanded an ethno-state. I have never been to Israel and I would not feel safer there than I would in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I have never been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack here. I do not wear a kippah, and never will. Perhaps the frum prefer Israel. But in their private moments, I doubt they’d say they’re better off in Israel than Borough Park or Midwood or Rockland County.

Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2026 04:11 PM (kX27y)

127 He [Fapper] has noted that his foundational Jewish education helped shape his worldview and approach to questioning ~~authority~~ Pro-American, Conservative and Republican Authority Only.

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Fixed For Accuracy.

/He's been bought off by The ChiComms for at least 35 years going back to his Monica Lewinsky and Bubba Dinner Party & Humidor Days ...

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 04:11 PM (T3zON)

128 Tom Nichols. The Expert.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 04:11 PM (BI5O2)

129 When I think of Israel 2026 I think of a very secular state. And no, that’s not a criticism.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:11 PM (Gqar8)

130 Umm, that's a ghey dude.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2026 03:57 PM (RIvkX)

There hasn't been a heterosexual sex act performed in Williamsburg since before the invention of baseball.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 03:59 PM (Ot/FD)
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Williamsburg is a weird place. In the southern part, it's an orthodox jewish and hassidic stronghold. Fully 35% of all residents of Williamsburg are very conservative Jews.

It was traditionally very very Jewish overall. Lotsa holocaust survivors ended up in Williamsburg.

Then Williamsburg got VERY trendy in the last 20 years or so. It saw a yuge influx of younger, affluent residents who liked the proximity to Manhattan at a cheaper price point.

These are mostly leftwing hipsters and a heavy percentage of gays.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

131 Guys, spoiler alert, there is no such thing as Lanyard Grease or "A box of grid squares." It's a made-up thing you use to prank noobs. Tom Nichols is a retard. Don't be Tom Nichols.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)

132 Tonto. Tonto Goldstein.

Posted by: Just The Punchline at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (wVcYX)

133 Ballistic

Look at my #80

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (2GVsD)

134 A reminder that the POTUS, Lesko Brandon, *INTENDED* to bug out of Afghanistan on September 11th.

That was actually going to be the departure date.

I don't know who in his cabinet, or whether Obama himself dialed in, to convince him that the optics of doing so on that specific anniversary was a less-than-stellar idea.

Unfortunately, they didn't convince him not to bug out on a hard deadline either, nor to plan it better.

But hey, at least the Feminazis finally got a real-life The Handmaiden's Tale to point to. Except it's in a Muslim country, so they can't exactly point to it.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 19, 2026 03:41 PM

His team picked that date because they could say that joe biden ended America's longest war (TM) when no other president could.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (cpFbA)

135 >> Many Afghans who fought with the U.S. -- risked their lives for the U.S. -- remain stranded abroad after the Trump administration halted the special immigrant Visa program."

They didn’t risk their lives for the US. They risked their lives to save their own country.

And a LOT of these people who claimed to help us didn’t. We have many examples of people who said they did, and used that as a ticket (or attempted ticket) to come to the US. Many of them could not be screened, and Biden let them in anyway. In the end, the number who were legit terps, or actually helped the mission, and then were actually screened fully, is tiny.

And btw, why is helping us clean up your country a ticket to US citizenship anyway?

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (A+X4b)

136 131 Guys, spoiler alert, there is no such thing as Lanyard Grease or "A box of grid squares." It's a made-up thing you use to prank noobs. Tom Nichols is a retard. Don't be Tom Nichols.
Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)

Yeah, but it’s fun to bag on Ukraine.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (Gqar8)

137 133 Ballistic

Look at my #80
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (2GVsD)

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I think they keep the prop-wash next to the extra flight line.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:14 PM (oqH4h)

138 Bag, Ukraine?

Bearclaw Vindaloomon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:14 PM (2GVsD)

139 We are certainly concerned by the speed by which the Taliban has been moving. It’s deeply concerning.

This is a specific, narrowly-focused and tailored mission to help with the safe, secure movement of the reduction of the civilian personnel in Kabul, as well as to help support the acceleration of the Special Immigrant Visa process by the State Department.

The deteriorating conditions are a big factor in why the president has approved this mission - to help support the reduction of personnel there in Kabul.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:15 PM (+xdCF)

140 138 Bag, Ukraine?

Bearclaw Vindaloomon?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:14 PM (2GVsD)

Day old donut holes.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:15 PM (Gqar8)

141 Guys, spoiler alert, there is no such thing as Lanyard Grease or "A box of grid squares." It's a made-up thing you use to prank noobs. Tom Nichols is a retard. Don't be Tom Nichols.
Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)

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So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them

Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

142 BTW I don’t remember seeing Jake at the DFAC or Burger King at Bagram. He was too busy dining Fauci I guess.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (A+X4b)

143 141 Guys, spoiler alert, there is no such thing as Lanyard Grease or "A box of grid squares." It's a made-up thing you use to prank noobs. Tom Nichols is a retard. Don't be Tom Nichols.
Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)

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So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them
Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

Aisle nine, down from the wood stretchers.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (Gqar8)

144
His team picked that date because they could say that joe biden ended America's longest war (TM) when no other president could.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2026 04:13 PM (cpFbA)
By surrendering.

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)

145 So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them
Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

Don't forgt the muffler bearings, they always run out of stock on those

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (S+j2h)

146 Tom Nichols. The Expert.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 04:11 PM

He was a self pretentious dick when I worked with him at the war college and he is still a dick. If you wanted to book the auditorium in the secure building you had to go through him and his department and yes he was a complete dick about it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (cpFbA)

147 115 Another reason to wish Star Trek dead and all the people involved unemployed.

New episode of Strange New Worlds has a transporter malfunction in which the away team is transformed into Muppets.

So far no sighting of Miss Piggy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2026 04:06 PM (2GVsD)

ST: Picard should have had him turned into a Muppet instead of an android.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (lNxD2)

148 I do think that guy wasted an opportunity.

He went public to shame the shitwit right out of the gate.

What he should have done was lead the cretin down a winding path of oddities and embarrassments as he crafts his Magnum Opus of self-petarding retardery, and then dumps that hilarious shit on his Substack like he's the second coming of Walter Krankheit's ballbag.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (Ot/FD)

149 This is manifestly not Saigon.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (+xdCF)

150 Aisle nine, down from the wood stretchers.
Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:18 PM (Gqar

And jello hooks.

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (LHPAg)

151 Tom Nichols is the David French of Bill Kristols.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (Gqar8)

152 It seems to me every time President DJT takes questions from the MSM, he singles out the CNN WH correspondent for representing "fake news".

He's not wrong, is he?

Posted by: mrp at August 19, 2026 04:20 PM (rj6Yv)

153 Mister Scott -

Oh, one of those. "I don't have a lot of power, so what power I do have, I'm going to use to make people think that I am The Paolo"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 19, 2026 04:20 PM (aJQbY)

154 He's not wrong, is he?
Posted by: mrp at August 19, 2026 04:20 PM (rj6Yv)

There is literally case-law to cite.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 19, 2026 04:21 PM (Ot/FD)

155 "Well, the Zionist has an easy retort: you are a dirty bitch. You, as an American Jew, are a disgrace to your people. Poncey little NYC nebbish perverts like you give us all a bad name. At least Woody Allen was smart and funny. You're just a dishwater dull mediocrity who's not even smart enough to write the truly stupid shit you publish under your phony byline. Go take a bath with your toaster."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 19, 2026 04:21 PM (BI5O2)

156 Tom Nichols , come with us on Saturday's snipe hunt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2026 04:21 PM (rp63B)

157 So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them
Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

Consider stocking up on Bulkhead Remover or Deck Softener.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

158 In WNBA news courtesy of the GatewayPundit, two guys in wigs yesterday showed up wanting to join next year's draft.

I've been enjoying Strange New Worlds. They did a crossover with the cartoon and a singing episode. Those were actually surprisingly good but considering they do 10 episodes a year....

I could see if they were doing 20+. Then sure.

Enterprise has been very good. I've had it in the background with the work I'm currently avoiding. They even pulled off 'funny' episodes well. And Jolene and Linda were smoking hot.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM (Sco7b)

159 I thought lanyard grease was the stuff Sha-na-na slicked on their hair. Was I misinformed?

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM (YSQQv)

160 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

You left out the Black Death.
Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM

Let us not forget to add the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

He could never have done that, it killed the Dinosaurs Israel invented.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

161 This is manifestly not Saigon.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (+xdCF)

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Only because you left all the helicopters on the ground for the enemy.

And None Dare Called It Treason ...

Posted by: ShainS at August 19, 2026 04:24 PM (T3zON)

162 Guys, spoiler alert, there is no such thing as Lanyard Grease or "A box of grid squares." It's a made-up thing you use to prank noobs. Tom Nichols is a retard. Don't be Tom Nichols.
Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (oqH4h)
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rofl, saw that last night.

Vets on X were (and still are) having a field day with that.

Nichols trying to play it off is even more hilarious.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 19, 2026 04:25 PM (44QZQ)

163 This is manifestly not Saigon.

Posted by: Biden-Harris Administration at August 19, 2026 04:19 PM (+xdCF)

It's true. When we abandoned South Vietnam we left the Vietnamese there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 04:25 PM (ExV1e)

164 Tapper is a mealy-mouth little shit who can kiss my a**. The fault lay directly on Biden and his national security team to include the senior leadership on the ground there.
Fu*king assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2026 04:25 PM (OTvjr)

165 "He could never have done that, it killed the Dinosaurs Israel invented."

Wait...Donald Trump killed Dinah Shore?

Posted by: Nostalgiaferatoo at August 19, 2026 04:26 PM (YSQQv)

166 Ross Barkan is a nasty self-gassing Jew who is always screeching about Israel defending itself from Muslim savages. He's more anti-Israel than some Hamas terrorists.

Good riddance. Another nice head on the wall.

More, please.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
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See my post at 62 for many examples of his hatred for Israel and other Jews.
Posted by: beckster at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (kX27y)
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That link was basically word diarrhea mixed in with Israel hate.

I'm hoping he pulls a Jason Arday and mercifully removes himself from this world.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

167 Then Williamsburg got VERY trendy in the last 20 years or so. It saw a yuge influx of younger, affluent residents who liked the proximity to Manhattan at a cheaper price point.

These are mostly leftwing hipsters and a heavy percentage of gays.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 19, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

Those crafty fellows are making a new New York City down there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)

168 Don't forget squelch spray.

We're in very short supply for that.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 19, 2026 04:26 PM (44QZQ)

169 160 Trump was also responsible for 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

You left out the Black Death.
Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2026 03:39 PM

Let us not forget to add the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 03:42 PM (0sNs1)

He could never have done that, it killed the Dinosaurs Israel invented.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM (uhVAy)

Unpossible. I have had it on good authority here that the world is only 6,000 years old. Or maybe 10,000 years, depending on what Ken Ham and his creation institute, science, research - whatever has said lately. Dinosaurs had to have been around at least 11,000 years ago and so not real. The science is settled!!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:27 PM (Gqar8)

170 So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them
Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

Consider stocking up on Bulkhead Remover or Deck Softener.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2026 04:23 PM

Don't forget to stock up on relative bearing grease as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2026 04:29 PM (cpFbA)

171 You can try to defend President Trump all you want, but coming on the heels of his failure to prevent the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and Vandals and the fall of Saigon, it's hard to give him a pass on Kabul, "Asufutimaehaehfutbw."

Posted by: DougT at August 19, 2026 04:29 PM (FGQ01)

172 I believe that it was the unelected Biden Politburo who oversaw the botched bugout as Tapper should be aware since he knew that Biden wasn't in charge at the time.

That and there were multiple Politburos. There was the main one taking orders from Kalorama, there was Hunter and Jill, and there was at least one other one that isn't as clearly defined.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 19, 2026 03:50 PM (2ocoG)

Yes that was obvious that the tacking and veering of 'policy' were one of the factions capturing the AutoPen for a few days at a time.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2026 04:29 PM (uhVAy)

173
in one of my favorite twitter exchanges since the chainsaw bayonet days (which will never be topped) was yesterday when a comical fellow posted a BREAKING (must be credited) post:

Mike Glenn
BREAKING [Must credit]: All US Army field artillery units have run out of lanyard grease, a critical component of indirect fire support for maneuver units. The Army's supply of grid squares is also believed to be running dangerously low.

And the expert Tom Nichols responded and um you gotta see it to believe it

https://tinyurl.com/mu2373ry
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 19, 2026 03:53 PM (K32Fz)

Ha!

I had my first squad leader try that with me. Got me on checking the suspension on the platoon SUSV (Swedish-built Bv206 over-snow tracked vehicle issued as M/TOE equipment for Arctic warfare units). Method was to go to the motor pool, climb onto the vehicle roof and jump up and down while a co-conspirator E4 "measured" the track deflection with a ruler.

I learned my lesson though. He also sent me out looking for a box of grid squares. I got an extra map of the training areas and a pair of scissors. Had me doing pushups for a LONG time, but he never tried another snipe hunt.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 19, 2026 04:30 PM (y9nCu)

174 So you're telling me I need to stop trying to find Blinker fluid and Windshield Grease?... Because I've had a helluva time finding either of them
Posted by: Tom Nichols at August 19, 2026 04:16 PM (affD0)

While you're at the store, get some exhaust bearings.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 19, 2026 04:30 PM (mkw2N)

175
171 You can try to defend President Trump all you want, but coming on the heels of his failure to prevent the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and Vandals and the fall of Saigon, it's hard to give him a pass on Kabul, "Asufutimaehaehfutbw."
Posted by: DougT at August 19, 2026 04:29 PM (FGQ01)

And there’s the issue of his just allowing the Muslims to sack Constantinople without a fight. Total incompetent.

Posted by: tubal at August 19, 2026 04:32 PM (Gqar8)

176 Nood

Former CNN Hypartisan News Prude Brooke Baldwin: I'm a Strong Professional Woman and So I Want You to Know I'm Really Good at Dick-in-Vag Sex

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 19, 2026 04:32 PM (Sco7b)

177 I saw Walter Krankheit's Ballbag open for Cannibal Corpse at Antone's in '92.

Posted by: ballistic at August 19, 2026 04:32 PM (oqH4h)

178 All the hipsters in Williamsburg voted for Mamdani. I'm sure they're Orthodox and ultra Orthodox neighbors are very happy with them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2026 04:33 PM (rp63B)

179 > Tom Nichols being had is just another day for Tom Nichols.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2026 04:34 PM (2Cry5)

180 Laying a store of sound-powered telephone batteries displays admirable foresight.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2026 04:34 PM (0sNs1)

181 I was once asked to get a BA 110 on a ST ring from supply. Also a critical shortage of them.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 19, 2026 04:35 PM (lesDH)

182 Dems are so desperate for a narrative going into the final stretch to election day that they're rolling out blatantly false BS that's easily disproved.

The Republicans have plenty of lanyard grease on hand and the warehouses have grid markers stocked to the rafters. The post-Labor Day ad barrages have been registered. I almost pity the Commie bastids.

Posted by: mrp at August 19, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

183 ***“In the course of many columns a week, I did not use citations aggressively as I should have and did not paraphrase well enough,...
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English Lit 101, FAIL.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2026 04:36 PM (BzKNL)

184 >>Excuse me. I believe that it was the unelected Biden Politburo who oversaw the botched bugout ...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Otherwise referred to as Deep State or Administrative State
or The Acronyms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 19, 2026 04:40 PM (BzKNL)

185 I should really DM Ace with my complaints of how I am treated here, except he ignores me. It's like I plagiarized him or something, and he won't forgive me!

Of course I knew Biden was in office, but as is now well know, he was not President! I didn't blame anyone specifically because I don't know who in the Politburo to blame!

As far as Trump goes, when he was in his first term he could have just as abjectly and cowardly ordered the abandonment of Kabul, so on that basis I feel it is fair to blame him.

Besides, you should be nicer, because Bari Weiss says soon you won't have Fake Jake Blabber to kick around any more! You'll have to go back to Jonah!

Posted by: Fake Jake Blabber at August 19, 2026 04:41 PM (WYfFt)

186
Among the items abandoned to the Taliban was an intact, functioning biometric database in the US embassy, that contained data for every Afghan who had been hired in-country to assist the US.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 19, 2026 04:52 PM (mS8PE)

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