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3 years ago
No such thing as a 10, but I agree Kay Adams is very watchable.
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3 years ago
The real issue isn’t any one man or even any one party. It’s the permanent uniparty ruling class in Washington DC. We now realize they even occupy the military. These are sleazy, amoral, bureaucrats with no skills other knowing how to get promoted, take credit for work their subordinates do, and blame any failing on someone else.
That’s who runs our country and increasingly tells us how to live our lives. Thousands upon thousands of Faucis.
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3 years ago
Jake Sullivan is the consummate Washington insider. Impeccable, elite education credentials. Book smart. Fiercely loyal to the Democrat party. Knows all the right people. Not a lick of common sense.
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3 years ago
The information is from Reuters news service. It doesn’t get more mainstream media than that.
As background, it’s clear there is a battle going on behind the scenes between the State Department ( and their CIA buddies ) and the Department of Defense ( primarily aligned with Biden) to blame each other for the debacle in Afghanistan. Someone in the State Department was the likely leak of the transcript showing Biden and the military had been informed ( by the CIA and State Dept ) of the Taliban’s success but lied to the American people.
The rats are deserting the ship. They are trying to save themselves.
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3 years ago
Text message from US Colonel at Kabul airport as Americans were turned away during evacuation: “ We are fucking abandoning US citizens”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away
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3 years ago
Biden now claims that no one had any inkling the Taliban would succeed quickly. Reuters news service has obtained a transcript of a call between Biden and the President of Afghanistan proving Biden is lying. He knew this was happening but decided to hide it from the American people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-call-before-afghan-collapse-biden-pressed-ghani-change-perception-2021-08-31/
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3 years ago
“but Pakistan and India could take over from here.”
Thereby proving you know nothing about international affairs. In what fantasy world would either of these countries take on the burden of financially supporting Afghanistan ? In what fantasy world would the Afghan people allow them in ?
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3 years ago
I’m glad he talked about his son Beau for the hundredth time. That’s what what all Americans wanted to hear.
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3 years ago
Themes in Biden’s speech
1. I take full responsibility
2. I did the best job that anyone could have done
3. People who criticize me are criticizing our troops
4. Anything bad that happened is Trump’s fault.
5. Any Americans left in Afghanistan have only themselves to blame
6. We are relying on the Taliban to protect Americans still in Afghanistan
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3 years ago
I’m watching Joe Biden. He is yelling. He is angry. He’s had enough of criticism. Get off my lawn !!!
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3 years ago
Wisconsin has 1 bar for every 1,800 residents. There are likely more bars in smaller towns and villages.
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3 years ago
Jake Sullivan also said yesterday that we will likely provide foreign aid to Afghanistan going forward.
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3 years ago
The Afghanis who were just brought to Wisconsin are being allowed to leave the base on their own. Hundreds of undocumented Afghans roaming the streets of small town Wisconsin. What could go wrong ?
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3 years ago
The Biden administration reportedly told nonprofits to expect around 50,000 Afghans arriving in the U.S. without visas, according to the WSJ.
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3 years ago
The spin continues
Atlantic magazine, owned by billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, published an essay Monday congratulating President Joe Biden for the Afghan evacuation that has thus far left 13 U.S. service members dead and numerous amounts of military gear in the hands of the Taliban terrorists.
“If anything, Americans should feel proud of what the U.S. government and military have accomplished in these past two weeks,” Jobs’ publication claimed. “President Biden deserves credit, not blame.”
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3 years ago
The mother of one of the fallen marines has said that after she buries her son, in about a week, she is going to travel to the White House and stand outside its gates until Biden resigns. It’ll be interesting whether the media covers that and how.
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3 years ago
There is a reason Biden gives his important speeches in the middle of the afternoon rather than prime time, like every other President in the modern era. It’s the Dementia Sundowner effect.
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3 years ago
The spin has started
Brushing off concerns about the stranded Americans in Afghanistan, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told MSNBC: “We have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time.”
Kirby makes it seem like being stranded in a country that has recently been taken over by a terrorist group and that no longer has a United States military presence is as common as missing a connecting flight from Chicago to Dallas.
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3 years ago
Our new allies.
The Taliban executed an Afghan folk singer days after its spokesman warned inhabitants "music is forbidden in Islam."
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3 years ago
Joe Biden checked his watch every time a casket was taken off the plane. He talked more about his own son than the fallen marines.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9942119/He-talked-son-Fathers-troops-killed-Afghanistan-ISIS-K-blast-Biden.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
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3 years ago
From Hotair.com
Say, remember when Joe Biden assured us that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan? Ten days later, the security chief for Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora returned to his home province in Nangarhar, amid adulation — and Taliban protection. Amin ul-Haq even flashed a thumbs-up to his admirers out an open window as Taliban troops waved his car through a checkpoint.
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3 years ago
Headline from the Babylon Bee satire site.
In Response To Afghanistan Disaster, Pelosi Begins Impeachment Proceedings Against President Trump
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3 years ago
I watched an interview today of a former Special Ops officer who now runs a mental health service for veterans. He said he is hearing the same two messages from all the junior officers and enlisted men.
1. The generals need to be held accountable for 20 years of failed leadership
2. They will not re-up when the time comes. They are leaving the service.
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3 years ago
“Let the afghans choose their own future”
First, they have to hide from the Taliban death squads going door to door. In case you didn’t know it, the Taliban was largely founded by Pakistan intelligence services and many of the Taliban are actually Pakistani.
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3 years ago
Approximately 150 service dogs working with the US military were left behind. They were released on the tarmac shortly before the last planes left even though there was room on the planes.