President Biden To Hold To Aug. 31 Deadline In Afghanistan
[guest post by Dana]
CNN is reporting that, despite pressure from our European allies and even from Congressmembers from his side of the aisle, President Biden has agreed to the Pentagon’s recommendation saying that the US will hold to the August 31 deadline:
President Joe Biden has decided, in consultation with his national security team, to stick with the August 31 deadline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, according to a senior administration official.
Biden made the decision mindful of the security risks in remaining the country longer, the official said, and he has asked for contingency plans in case he determines at a later date the US needs to remain in the country for longer.
On Monday, Democratic Representative Adam Schiff expressed doubts about being able to successfully evacuate all Americans remaining in Afghanistan by the Aug. 31 deadline:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff [D-CA] said it was “very unlikely” that the U.S. completes its evacuation of Afghanistan by the Aug. 31 deadline.
“I think it’s possible but I think it’s very unlikely given the number of Americans who still need to be evacuated. It’s hard for me to imagine that all of that can be accomplished between now and the end of the month.
I am encouraged to see the numbers of people evacuated increasing readily to the point where we evacuated 11,000 people in a single day. Nonetheless given the logistical difficulties of moving people to the airport and the limited number of workarounds it’s hard for me to see that could be fully complete by the end of the month. I’m certainly of the view that we maintain a military presence for as long as is necessary to get all U.S. persons out and to meet our moral and ethical obligations to our Afghan partners.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and who have previously served in the military reacted with skepticism to the hard deadline decision:
Rep. Jason Crow, coming out of the briefing, says he holds firm in his belief that “it is not possible for us to evacuate all American citizens and our Afghan partners and their families by the end of the month.”
“The deadline must be extended,” he says. https://t.co/Xt4CatjEZw
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 24, 2021
(Just two days ago, Crow, along with other Congressmembers called on the Administration to extend the perimeter in order to safely relocate the Afghans who aided the US in Afghanistan.)
And here is Republican Representative Peter Meijer sharing similiar concerns about the deadline:
This is what breaking promises looks like. Prove me wrong @POTUS – extend the 8/31 deadline and get our people out. We can’t change the past, but we still have time to make this last part right. @WHCOS https://t.co/uaRNhv6caF
— Rep. Peter Meijer (@RepMeijer) August 24, 2021
Although the Taliban warned the US about extending the deadline, Biden officials said on Monday that such rhetoric would not influence the President’s decision…
As the deadline to evacuate looms, approximately 58,700 people have been evacuated from Kabul since Aug. 14, when the Taliban took control of the government, according to a White House official. Since the end of July, the U.S. has relocated approximately 63,900 people.
Officials have been vague when asked how many Americans still need to be evacuated, only saying that there are “thousands,” and blaming it on citizens not registering with the embassy when they arrive or deregistering when they leave.
The thing is, no one doubts the might and ability of the US military to go in and evacuate every last American stranded in Afghanistan. But clearly, there has to be the will to do so by those with real power. With that, I’ll leave you with this:
House Armed Services Chair Adam Smith, coming out of a briefing by top admin officials on Afghanistan, says the evacuatuon is a “much better, flowing effort at this point.”
Aug. 31 is still the goal, he says. “I’m very confident we will get as many as it is possible to get out.”
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 24, 2021
Smith says the briefers “assured” lawmakers there is a plan to go past Aug. 31.
“That’s not exactly breaking news. Of course there’s a contingency to go past Aug. 31. It would be malpractice if there wasn’t.”
“Absolutely” there’s a risk to soldiers going past Aug. 31, he adds.
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 24, 2021
*we will get as many as it is possible to get out. Oh.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (174549) — 8/24/2021 @ 10:57 amCNN is reporting that, despite pressure from our European allies and even from Congressmembers from his side of the aisle, President Biden has agreed to the Pentagon’s recommendation saying that the US will hold to the August 31 deadline
None of these twits has ever haggled w/towelheads at a carpet bazaar…
Good grief.
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzCWLOHUes
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 11:15 amHip deep in sheep dip.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 11:53 amBiden speech pushed back to 4:30 PM EDT.
“You bought him. You own him.”
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 11:56 amThe stories from private citizens coming out of the country paint a significantly worse picture of the rapidly deteriorating situation. Just WTTSHTF…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:00 pmBreaking- U.S. Military has begun withdrawing from Kabul airport. ‘Stranded’ U.S. Civilians will soon be ‘on their own.’
[ ] high crime
[ ] misdemeanor
Choose.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:02 pmLOL. Nice spin by the Biden administration…
The Taliban made the deadline 31 August.
Biden is just playing along, but making it seem like he drew the line in the sand.
Good doggie, Joe. Good doggie.
Hoi Polloi (15cfac) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:05 pmCan you guess why THIS MAN is smiling?!?!:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fc01411200d26acc65cfad513ef0d657-c
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:06 pmThe airport has been closed by the Taliban.There is no way out.
The never punctual and always babbling but nonetheless mouthy Biden or his handlers have pushed his “remarks” back to 430PM eastern. Only acceptable “remarks” shoudl begin “Today I resign from the office of…” . Let these liberals own this debacle. bring on President Kamala
Bugg (024e40) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:06 pmDCSCA:
You forgot the Gerald Ford Option, which is the only one that matters.
And you own Biden too, just like I owned Trump. It’s that being an American thing…
Appalled (1a17de) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:08 pmThe US military has already begun their own withdrawal, per Jennifer Griffin.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:10 pmFrom the airport.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:10 pmLink for reporting on Taliban saying “No extension, Joe”:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cia-director-william-burns-held-secret-meeting-in-kabul-with-taliban-leader-abdul-ghani-baradar/ar-AANG6Hb
Hoi Polloi (15cfac) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:12 pmHell breaking loose. Fox News reports tunnel to airport blown up ‘stranding’ people; escape routes closing. Brits pulling out after a KIA. ‘Private’ efforts under way- civil aircraft, etc.
Incompetence reigns.
______
Kamala in Hanoi.
Why is THIS GAL smiling?!:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/64/7a/53/647a53c65aeabed4883586c07dbeddc0.jpg
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:12 pm@13. They don’t know how to dicker with towelheaded carpet bazaar hagglers.
It’s pure incompetence.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:14 pm@10. Beaush!t. Here’s the deal: “You bought him. You own him.”
Warned you about this dumb-azzed, brain damaged mick. But noooooo. Your hatred for Trump suckered you into buying this sack-of-crap from Wilmington–or is it Scranton this week.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:18 pmDCSCA?… I notice you’ve chosen Fox News to get your updates on Afghanistan.
I’d say you’d nibbled on the red pill, but you’ve still got some wacky flowing through your veins.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:19 pmCredentials and an Ivy League education have certainly taken some recent hits. 🤬
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:23 pm@17. Running the dials- prefer CSPAN but they’re forced to cover House when in session and swtich cablers when they go to more sh!t shoveling about Covid-19 updates — and, of course, CNN is now a totally ‘Zucked’ concert channel.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:24 pmCoverage at daily mail is depressing enough.
Joe (7b911f) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:25 pmShorter Nikki Haley on Joe Biden, Coward-In-Chief:
Not. A. Fan.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:26 pm$85B in US equipment and weapons given to the Taliban…
Santa Biden.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:29 pm[√ ] Blunder.
Unless lying and spinning about such a serious thing can be characterized as a misdemeanor.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:30 pm@19. Red pill, hell. Colonel, never denied being a Rockefeller Republican. The greatest joy in 50 years was watching Trump neuter the modern ideological conservative movement into irrelevancy.
Glorious.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:30 pmI’m not clear where this scene is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1F0BNgX7T8
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:32 pmThey are dealing with this so badly, so incompetently, so incoherently, so ineffectually that one wonders if it is not done on purpose.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:32 pmMost will probably be resold on eBay to our friends like China.
Hoi Polloi (15cfac) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:33 pm21; Niki still wants more interventionism to keep the spigots of campaign cash from her military industrial complex donors open. Been the problem with GOP Inc. for a very long time.
Does it ever end? Are we capable of learning from our myriad mistakes? Almost every 9/11 hijacker got past a bordering on nonexistent immigration system, and then laughed past any oversight coupled by the FBI and CIA. Both indifferent to hostile to their actual jobs.
Bugg (024e40) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:33 pmWhat I wonder is, if U.S. intelligence trusts sources it should not trust.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:34 pmEarlier today Bill O’Reilly: Trump had better people (even if they didn’t last long)
Democrats would give Biden a D+ on this; Republicans, an F (but they are partisan)
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:36 pmThing is, Colonel, everybody who knew anything about Biden over 50 years knew he was incompetent. Back in the 70s we’d get his BS piped into South Jersey over Channel 12 Wilmington.
He’s a plagiarist, a mental lightweight, a ticking medical time bomb– and a swamp creature supreme– a bum. And now just to damn old for this gig. The Peter Principle in spades. He’s the very reason a ‘Trump’ was elected in the first place.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:38 pm“U.S. intelligence”… based on decades of failure, that’s an oxymoron.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:38 pmDemocrats would give Biden a D+ on this; Republicans, an F (but they are partisan)
Democrats aren’t “partisan”?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:41 pmRockefeller Republican is as meaningless a term as WH Taft Republican would have been in 1964. If you want to define yourself in a meaningful way, say Nixon Republican. Your current incarnation does have the touch of the Spiro Agnew after all, and your language these days suggests that you are a ok with the circa 1968 Southern Strategy.
Appalled (1a17de) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:41 pmBiden ran ‘to save America’s soul.’
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:41 pmNow he’s running from saving American lives.
@34. Beaush!t. Conservative whine; bitter dregs. Trump is one.
Your time is done.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:42 pmI didn’t name who I was referencing in my earlier comment but it should be obvious.
Appalled (1a17de) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:43 pm“America is back!” Which is why the best images of Joe are his backside as he runs away from podiums, cameras and a friendly press.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:46 pmlying demented POS
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:46 pmThe planning for 9/11 was done in Afghanistan or in Pakistan, and Osama bin Laden personally met with and approved every hijacker, but the training was done elsewhere (possibly hijacking practice in 1999 in Iraq) and in the United States.
All hijackers got various forms of visditor;s visas.
Most were from Saudi Arabia. Saudis generally got easy entry to the United States because the only big concern of the U.S. immigration system was whether they would stay here and the Saudi government had built up a good record of that not happening.
The pilots were trained here. It was U.S. policy that as many foreign airline pilots as possible should get U.S. training = fewer accidents.
In 2001, George W. Bush offered the Taliban the option of turning in members of al Qaeda. They declined (or couldn’t, or they didn’t believe that) so they got invaded.
By 2002, someone wrote now, the Taliban were ready to surrender in exchange for amnesty – the U.S. had such a great victory, though, that W declined to grant impunity.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:47 pmThe neocon whack-jobs have been tagged and bagged.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:47 pmGood Lord! Look at what the NBC News correspondent in Kabul is reporting:
We can only pray that all American citizens can make it out of Kabul alive. I think we all now acknowledge that our Afghan collaborators are totally screwed.
JVW (ee64e4) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:49 pm# 34 – I doubt my time ever arrived…
Appalled (1a17de) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:50 pmColonel Haiku @32.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. It’s been a roblem for along, long, time.
Remember how in 2012 the best intelligence was that attacks in Benghazi were spontaneous? AS the week wore on, they got further and further from the truth.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:51 pm“America is back!” Which is why the best images of Joe are his backside as he runs away from podiums, cameras and a friendly press.
You call that running!?!? That’s Joe’s Dementia Shuffle…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:53 pmImagine Joe being worried the ‘troops’ are under threat. [He’s actually worried about a Biden-Carteresque hostage crisis.] That sorta is a core part of their the job, Joe. THat’s why they’re armed.
So he meets w/t G7. Classic senator behavior: “go to committee” for cover- ‘safety in numbers.’
Peter Principle in spades.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 12:53 pmFolks, here’s the deal: this is ‘the leader of the Free World,’
Chaos. Utter chaos.
“Would you believe KAOS?”- Agent 86, Maxwell Smart [Don Adams] ‘Get Smart’ NBC TV
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:00 pmKilling all the Americans-
mg (8cbc69) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:01 pmLets all the voters for worse than Trump off the hook, because – No Hostages.
From another thread- this ‘high crime’ alone should merit impeachment:
Staggering Costs – U.S. Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan
The U.S. provided an estimated $83 billion worth of training and equipment to Afghan security forces since 2001. This year, alone, the U.S. military aid to Afghan forces was $3 billion.
Here is a breakdown of estimated vehicle costs:
•Armored personnel carriers such as the M113A2 cost $170,000 each and recent purchases of the M577A2 post carrier cost $333,333 each.
•Mine resistant vehicles ranges from $412,000 to $767,000. The total cost could range between $382 million to $711 million.
•Recovery vehicles such as the ‘truck, wrecker’ cost between for the base model $168,960 and $880,674 for super strength versions.
•Medium range tactical vehicles include 5-ton cargo and general transport trucks were priced at $67,139. However, the family of MTV heavy vehicles had prices ranging from $235,500 to $724,820 each. Cargo trucks to transport airplanes cost $800,865.
•Humvees – ambulance type (range from $37,943 to $142,918 with most at $96,466); cargo type, priced at $104,682. Utility Humvees were typically priced at $91,429. However, the 12,000 lb. troop transport version cost up to $329,000.
•Light tactical vehicles: Fast attack combat vehicles ($69,400); and passenger motor vehicles ($65,500). All terrain 4-wheel vehicles go up to $42,273 in the military databases.
This month, the Taliban seized Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft. As late as last month, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense posted photos on social media of seven newly arrived helicopters from the U.S., Reuters reported.
Black Hawk helicopters can cost up to $21 million. In 2013, the U.S. placed an order for 20 A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft for $427 million – that’s $21.3 million for each plane. Other specialized helicopters can cost up to $37 million each.
The Afghan air force contracted for C-208 light attack airplanes in March 2018: seven planes for $84.6 million, or $12.1 million each. The airplanes are very sophisticated and carry HELLFIRE missiles, anti-tank missiles and other weaponry.
The PC-12 intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance airplanes use the latest in technology. Having these planes fall into Taliban control is disconcerting. Civilian models sell new for approximately $5 million each and the military planes could sell for many times that price.
Basic fixed-wing airplanes range in price from $3.1 million to $22 million in the DLA database.
Of course, helicopter prices also range widely depending on the technology, purpose, and equipment. For example, according to the DLA, general purpose helicopters range in price from $92,000 to $922,000. Observation helicopters can cost $92,000 and utility helicopters up to $922,000.
Even if the Taliban can’t fly our planes, the parts are very valuable. For example, just the control stick for certain military planes has an acquisition value of $17,808 and a fuel tank sells for up to $35,000.
The howitzer is the modern cannon for the U.S. military and each unit can cost up to $500,000; however most are in the $200,000 price range. At the higher end, there’s GPS guidance on fired shells.
A common price of a M16 rifle is $749, according to DLA. Adding a grenade launcher can push the price of the M16 to $12,032. M4 carbine rifles are slightly more expensive with unit prices as high as $1,278.
Just the sights on night-vision sniper rifle scopes can run as high as $35,000, however, most vary in price between $5,000 and $10,000.
Here are the costs of other types of weaponry provided to Afghan forces:
•Machine guns, i.e. the M240 model, were priced between $6,600 and $9,000 each.
•Grenade launchers cost between $1,000 and $5,000 each; however, in 2020, the manufacture sold 53 for $15,000 each.
•Army shotguns were acquired for only $150 each, according to DLA.
•Military pistols cost $320 each, such as the .40 caliber Glock Generation 3.
Each Aerostat surveillance balloon costs $8.9 million. Each ScanEagle drone costs approximately $1.4 million according to recent procurement news. Even as late at 2021, U.S. appropriations for the Wolfhounds radio monitoring systems approached $874,000.
Night vision devices: The total cost for the 16,000 night-vision goggles alone could run as high as $80 million. Individually, the high-tech goggles were priced between $2,742 and $5,000 by the DLA. Other equipment like image intensifiers are commonly priced at $10,747 each; however, sophisticated models run as high as $66,000 each.
Radio equipment: the cost of equipment adds up – receiver-transmitters ($210,651); sophisticated radio sets ($61,966); amplifiers ($28,165); repeater sets ($28,527); and deployment sets to identify frequencies run up to $18,908.
However, if the Taliban doesn’t have the expertise or technologies to program the equipment, it will become obsolete quickly. Or it could be sold off to other countries who wanted to acquire U.S. technology.
And there’s more… years 2017 through 2019
From 2017 to 2019, the U.S. also gave Afghan forces 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers, according to the since removed 2020 SIGAR report, reported by The Hill.
An unnamed official told Reuters that current intelligence assessment was that the Taliban took control of more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including American Humvees, and as many as 40 aircraft that may include UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters and ScanEagle military drones.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/23/staggering-costs–us-military-equipment-left-behind-in-afghanistan/
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:04 pmflushed peeved and smarmy
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:06 pmarms waving fingers pointing
pisshockey’s on it!
Blinken, Milley, Austin, Sullivan, Rice–
Fire them.
Now.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:07 pm47… and loving it!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:07 pmStabbing Back Better
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:07 pm“… part of the fabric of the United States.”
er… um… fuss with hair… this is one, flustered ginger.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:12 pmShe’s riding the adderall…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:14 pmColonel Haiku 118 on another tread: I had to cut and paste this to see what this was:
“Muh norms have been restored and America’s honor reclaimed!”
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:22 pm51. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/opinion/afghanistan-kabul-biden-blinken.html
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:25 pmUS embassy issues last alert for US citizens to leave afghanistan or they’re on their own, then recalls it 30 mins later.
—- Richard Engel, NBC News
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:26 pmThe silver lining is that this is on track to be the biggest airlift in US history and is anything but a success.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:30 pmDelusional Daughter Darth, war profiteeress and ‘Halliburton Hussy’ emerges from her mud hole to slam Trump, Pompeo and Biden… checking on the $$$$ of your stock portfolio, piglette?
Donated the family private jet to get ‘folks’ out of the mess your Daddy helped create.
Neocon pig.
Roast her ass.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:32 pmBiden offerred to pardon an Afghan drug dealer in exchange for the release of an American hostage, but first wanted proof of life.
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-biden-deal-taliban-last-hostage-needs-proof-life-1622286
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:32 pm“NEW: Leaked State cable with evacuation numbers (as of Aug 23 at 1500 ET):
Total manifested since midnight Kabul AUG 23: 483 AMCITS, 6,425 Afghans natls, 8 3rd country/unknown. Total = 6,916
Total manifested since op began: 4,407 AMCITS, 21,533 Afghans, 642 TCNs. Total = 26,582”
It will take a miracle to save those who remain. Remember them in your prayers.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:32 pm@62. OTOH, any of these contractees are extremely well paid- tax free- and knew the risks when they took the gig. If anything the private contractors have the responsibility to get them out and likely should have weeks ago– unless the ‘fine print’ shows their contract deal included having the U.S. military ferry them out if things go south. A caveat which only puts more $$$$$ into the Cheney Family Retirement Fund.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:38 pmStill waiting to hear from the president of the United States.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:39 pmRichard Cheney has had nothing to do with Halliburton, which is an oil services company, since 2001, *except for being owed money and which only could causeconcern for him if it went bankrupt, and that must have been paid in full a long time ago.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:42 pmSomebody buy Biden a watch.
A Spiro Agnew watch; they run backwards– so it’ll never be August 31, Joe!
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:47 pm“I’m very confident we will get as many as it is possible to get out.”
I am usually confident of my tautologies.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:52 pmWe have a POW/MIA flag. Is there a Left Behind to Die As We Ran Away flag?
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:54 pm@65. Dream on, Sammy.
Hell, the even tried to recruit my old man for a Saudi oil gig years go.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:55 pmBiden’s entire term will be littered with stories of The Abandoned. Drip. Drip. Drip.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:55 pm68.We have a POW/MIA flag. Is there a Left Behind to Die As We Ran Away flag?
Believe there’s one of those flags flying on the WH now beneath the U.S. Flag- at least it looks like it in the video shots. Goes w/feeding his pet rocks.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:58 pmso many votes for honesty, decency and competence — wasted
i mean the voters were wasted
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:00 pmWNBC Channel 4 news in New York at 5 pm: Briefing by President Biden expected “any minute now.”
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:04 pm69. DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 1:55 pm
When?
He worked for Halliburton for less than eight years.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:06 pmBuild Back Bungled!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:07 pmelections have consequences.
asset (471284) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:07 pmWTF? Build Back Better???
Senator 101; this dumb-azzed, brain-damaged Mick is going to try to bluster, blarney, malarkey and Beaush!t his way through this like he was shoveling crap on the senate floor.
The bottom line in my view, is you’re an idiot.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:09 pmWhen did he update us this morning?
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:10 pmMalarkey, senatorial word salad, horse dung… zero credibility.
Resign.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:11 pmGoing swimmingly well, per Joe. How many American citizens will you be leaving behind, Joe? How many Afghan allies?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:12 pmWho wrote this chop-suey for him?
Blinken? Sullivan? Milley? Austin? Sounds like a bowl of Susan Rice.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:14 pmBlames Trump????
Hey Joe– “Buck You.”
That’s where it stops, chowder head.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:15 pm@74. In the early 80s, Sammy. You don’t understand how H & KBR, etc, and their affiltes ad subcontractors operate in the oil biz. They’re into everything.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:20 pmThis makes Trump’s faux pas at Helsinki look like tripping on your shoe lace.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:22 pmTrump outta offer to put up Afghan escapees at any of his European hotels– and charge the Biden administration top dollar.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:26 pmTeh Gang Who Wouldn’t Talk Straight.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:29 pmWe’re going to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies unless we need to shut down an airbase and leave in the middle of the night.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:30 pm“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:31 pmColonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:12 pm
Oresident Biden said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will update (the press) about the situation with American citizens tomorrow.
About Afghan allies, Biden only wants to talk about the number of Afghans (of all kinds) he and other countries got out, not those he didn’t.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:32 pm#6
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:35 pm[X] Nobel Peace Prize for Biden
His doctors should fit Joe with an insulin pump filled with liquid adderall.
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:38 pmI would almost guarantee that Joe was not cleared medically to speak, hence the delay
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:15 pm
He blamed Trump for shutting down the refugee admission process – and the other day I think Jake Sulivan said the SIV process was dead in the water since March, 2020.
He’s had had seven months to set it up again. They claim they have, and they have a little, but he didn’t have the courage to fully reverse Trump’s policies and go beyond them – this, at least some of it, (the Afghans U.S. people know and worked with and sometimes depended on) on a matter which was a priority for members of Congress.
Literally, every member of Congress (and some retired members) is getting calls from someone says NBC News’s Richard Engel, who went back to Kabul, or is it the airport?
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:41 pmOh, Trump said at his rally in Mississippi the Afghan soldiers were only in the army because they got paid more, and when the money stopped coming, they quit. Not exactly the explanation.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:43 pmUS intelligence services information is distilled through Joe’s brain.
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:43 pmBiden voters were hoping for the two negatives to produce a positive through a feat of alchemy
Where are disloyal bastards like Vindman when we really need to impeach someone
Some commenters here appear to hate Biden far more than they love America (assuming they love this country and its people at all).
That’s the only way I can explain the glee in some of the comments on this disaster.
I can understand that emotion in “Czar” Putin, and other enemies, but not in decent people.
(In January 2009, I predicted the ways Obama would fail — and I said that I hoped I would be proved wrong. I wasn’t, but I still wish I had been.)
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:53 pmParaphrasing Gutfeld, we are sooo fortunate the media and Big Tech deep-sixed that laptop story.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:58 pm94… damn straight! Where’s that modern day Rambo, Bearclaw Vindman when he’s needed!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:00 pmJim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 2:53 pm
This was a goto during the Trump years too. Anyone not on board with the D/NeverTrump/TrueCon narrative hated America. I wonder how much all of this gaslighting contributes to global climate change.
You want to fire unvaxxed people so that you can feel safe getting a haircut and you want to lecture everyone on decent people?
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:05 pmBabble incoherently, pretend we exist in an alternative universe where this is competence, say God bless America, answer no questions and turn tail and RUN AWAY!!!
We can expect a repeat performance within days.
Thanks voters, or…Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Arizona, Vegs Dem crooks! As a famous war criminal might say, “Great job, Brownie!”.
Bugg (024e40) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:08 pmTrump would have left these folks behind because he didn’t care. Biden did it for Principle. See the difference. No word on what Hunter gets out of it.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:16 pm98… ouch.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:16 pmPresident Biden, as he does every time, opened up with something other than Afghanistan. He spoke about the infrastructure bill (he talked about it like there was just one bill or at least like there was not this splitting things up into only two bills) and about the voting bill he would like to see pass.
He stated that when he came in as president we needed to overcome the most significant economic downturn, [he said recession] if not since the depression, then from the time of (Lyndon) Johnson. (!??) [This makes you wonder what alternate universe he is living in. Better ask Jeff Greenfield.]
That done, having reassured Americans that he cares mostly about America, he turned to Afghanistan.
In brief, he said, we and NATO and the European Union are united, and nobody is going to do anything to recognize the Taliban before the others, except that the Secretary General of the United Nations will try to get some humanitarian aid sent to Afghanistan. He wants to thank NATO, the EU, etc.
The evacuation is proceeding very well, and 70,700 people have been taken out of Afghanistan since August 14 (when Kabul was falling) and 75,900 if you go back to July 31. Just in the past 12 hours, 19 military U.S. flights have left, and 31 from other countries, for a total of 50 flights in just the past 12 hours, 6,400 on the 19 U.S. planes and 5,600 on the 31 other planes.
The Taliban is co-operative, but the longer this goes on the more dangerous it gets. here is danger from ISIS-K, which he keeps on saying is an enemy of the Taliban. If the evacuation is not finished, he might extend it past August 31.
The terrorist threat is now different than 2001 and comes from many countries.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:18 pm[X] Nobel Peace Prize for Biden
And an Emmy for Presidential Statements. Of course, they took Cuomo’s Emmy back.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:19 pmBiden took no questions.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:20 pmYou want to fire unvaxxed people so that you can feel safe getting a haircut and you want to lecture everyone on decent people?
No, but I won’t get a haircut where they employ unvaxxed barbers or won’t tell me they don’t. Freedom!
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:21 pmThis is now Day 10 of the Afghan Hostage Crisis.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:24 pmThe never Trump voters cant understand Independents pointing out the facts joe cellar was worse than Trump.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:25 pmMan up, Karen.
White House delayed these “remarks” for 3 1/2 hours. It was 6 minutes long. How much prep and narcotics does he need to talk for 6 minutes? The remarks were the usual boilerplate nonsense about allies, and really Biden raised 2 domestic issues to fill even that brief a statement. He took no questions.
Pretty clear this man is physically incapable of doing this job.
Bugg (024e40) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:30 pmColonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:16 pm
Should I have asked who “some commenters” are first? It would be the decent America loving thing to do I suppose.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:30 pmHe’s a bum.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:39 pmKevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:21 pm
Not being sarcastic; I’m starting to think some sort of badge would be a good idea. Then people who wanted to associate based on vaccine status could. It’d make it much easier for you to know which places are safe for you.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:44 pm#98 frosty – Oh, I don’t doubt that some Trump haters made the same mistake that Biden haters are making now — but I wasn’t one of them, wasn’t even commenting here, then. (In fact, in the 2016 election, I gave reasons for voting for Trump (least bad for social conservatives), Hillary Clinton (least bad on foreign policy) and Libertarian Gary Johnson (least bad on economic policy).
If you can find a single comment here in which I have expressed glee at an American disaster, please point it out to me, so that I can correct the record, and apologize.
And I don’t want to fire any stylists. I want them to get vaccinated, mostly for their own good and for the good of all the people they regularly come into contact with. But I do think I have a right to protect myself by not having my hair cut by someone who isn’t vaccinated.
And I predict that, if enough people feel the same way I do, stylists will be under pressure from their shops (and, possibly governments) to get vaccinated.
But what I predict is not what I prefer. I hope that is clear, now.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:46 pm108.White House delayed these “remarks” for 3 1/2 hours. It was 6 minutes long. How much prep and narcotics does he need to talk for 6 minutes?
He led w/domestic Beaush!t. But given her credentials, it has the stink of Susan Rice all over it:
‘In July 2020, it was widely reported that Rice was under consideration to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate in the 2020 general election. However, Kamala Harris was selected as Biden’s running mate on August 11, 2020 [Why? Rice had never campigned for an elected office before.] On September 5, 2020, Rice was announced to be a member of the advisory council of the Biden-Harris Transition Team, which planned the presidential transition of Joe Biden. In November, she was named a candidate for Secretary of State in the Biden Administration.’
‘President-elect Joe Biden chose Rice to head the Domestic Policy Council. This was considered a surprise by many political commentators, noting her experience in foreign policy over domestic policy.’ [So her nose -and ass- be inside the tent, behind the curtains.]
Also: ‘Rice married former ABC News executive producer Ian Officer Cameron.’ Hence, ABC News is the go to for one-on-ones like that GMA Beaush!tter last week.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:51 pmIt’s going to be amazing: Biden is going to turn out to be such an awful President that the GOP is going to lazily re-nominate Donald Trump, who will pull a Grover Cleveland and defeat the guy who defeated him four years earlier. And then we’ll have four more years of Trump, whose successor will lose to the Gavin Newsom-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-Presidency ticket in 2028.
JVW (ee64e4) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:56 pmJim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:46 pm
Who do you think is gleeful over this disaster besides DCSCA?
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:00 pm108. Bugg (024e40) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:30 pm
They were maybe waiting to see what happened on the infrastructure bill (Nancy Pelosi scheduled a vote on the smaller, bipartisan bill for Sept 27) and they had to carefully word things about how much the allies agreed.
It had to be consistent with the truth, and yet tend to mislead.
It looks simple but required much work.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:04 pm113. Joe Biden probably set up his criteria for vice president with Susan Rice in mind. But Rice could have become a campaign issue because of Benghazi and so Kamala Harris was substituted.
The same Benghazi problem stopped Joe Biden from nominating her for a position that required Senate confirmation.
He must have thought she made mistakes on foreign policy to name her for the position she has. Or was i t just that her appointment would be criticized??
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:09 pm*we will get as many as it is possible to get out. Oh.
Talking and not saying anything has always been a Biden hallmark. I attributed it to “old-timey politician” (our very own Dan Rostenkowski was even better at it), and recently I found out that Biden’s father was a successful used car salesman as well.
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:17 pmHere’s a small story that cheered me up — a little.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:19 pm@115. Gleeful? Moi?
ROFLMAOPIP the glee is seeing the vindictive conservative ideological imbeciles so angry at being shuffled to the bottom of the deck; so hateful toward Trump’s persona; who jumped ship and bought into the idiocy of a known plagiarist an lying-azzed, brain-damaged mick out of spite, get what they paid for.
“You bought him. You own him.”
Glorious.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:29 pm109… no, the sanctimony is seen and recognized when it surfaces, frosty.
Some folks have a tendency to conflate alarm and concern with hate. The sometimes have difficulty understanding the gravity of actions taken, lack of action, our leaders’ disconnection from reality.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:30 pm@117. Nah. This has her fingerprints all over it. Just stay behind the curtain and work the smoke and mirrors around the image of the Wizard..
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:32 pmJoe Biden probably set up his criteria for vice president with Susan Rice in mind.
Joe Biden’s criteria for his VP seems to have consisted of two items:
JVW (ee64e4) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:35 pm1. A woman (this was mandatory)
2. A minority, preferably a black woman (this was strongly encouraged, though in a pinch he might have settled for an Amy Klobuchar)
This is worth a read… https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/08/23/this-is-important-to-watch-colonel-richard-kemp-speaks-on-the-afghanistan-debacle/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:37 pmTalking and not saying anything has always been a Biden hallmark. I attributed it to “old-timey politician” (our very own Dan Rostenkowski was even better at it), and recently I found out that Biden’s father was a successful used car salesman as well.
Yep.
“Radio. Heater. Easy payments!” – Richard Nixon [David Frye] ‘I Am The President’ 1969
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:37 pm“When Biden said “the buck stops here,” he meant bribes and graft, not responsibility for his policies and actions (or lack of action).”
—- Big Mike
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:38 pmThe first two are in the hands of the Taliban now, but we can still spare ourselves the third one.
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:39 pmJim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:46 pm
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:03 pmJim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 3:46 pm
I know. This is something every authoritarian says. The greater good is the general motto of every effective dictator.
Are you willing to allow any medical exceptions? I might have missed any comments you made on that. I’ve got a family member who’s been told by their doc to not get vaccinated so asking for a friend.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:08 pmSammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 4:04 pm
We’re still talking about the speech this afternoon? You got “consistent” with the truth and “tend” to mislead? Remind me to not make you press secretary when DCSCA gets elected via write in votes.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:12 pmwhat i find hilarious are the commenters who think biden has impaired faculties
this guy was a zero back in ‘88
if you’re learning anything new about the guy now, you are the problem
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:26 pmhttps://rumble.com/vlmx5p-surrenderer-in-chief-joe-biden-lied-to-america-and-to-the-world.html
BuDuh (fdd65e) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:38 pm@124. Thought provoking interview. Thanks for posting it.
Chris (3d25b0) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:57 pm#129 Frosty – Here’s a definition of authoritarianism. I can’t think of anything I have said on this site — or elsewhere — that fits that definition.
As for your relative, of course I think medical exemptions can be appropriate, and seem to recall mentioning that once or twice on this site.
I hope your relative is protected against the disease and that those he or she meets have vaccinations and take other precautions, because that is best for everyone. Is that authoritarian, in your opinion?
And here’s a little story for you: Years ago, I was doing some work in our garden, being watched by my mother and my girlfriend at the time. My mother noticed that I was using a tool I said I didn’t need for the task.
My mother, to needle me, said something like: “I thought you said you didn’t need that tool.”
I replied, simply: “I was wrong.”
And both women broke out laughing, because it is so hard for anyone to admit they were wrong, so I surprised them.
Jim Miller (edcec1) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:00 pmThe other day the Sheriff of LA County said that the City Council of LA, the Board of Supervisors LA County put out position statements one day and pay PR firms to immediately fire off 500 emails praising the position. So the next day the PR firms send out announcements saying “We got 500 positive emails in less than an hour”
I am assuming former Obama minions if the WH are familiar with and even more sophisticated PR campaign… unfortunately the USA falls for it, the Taliban? Not so much
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:12 pmMr Finkelman wrote:
And in 2002, the best intelligence was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:21 pmCol.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:21 pmThoughts on “Stand by Your Man” by Tammie Wynette?
As President, Joe Biden is ultimately responsible for this debacle, but he’s hardly the only one at fault.
We’ve put trillions in resources in Afghanistan, but didn’t have enough time and energy and money to come up with contingency plans, just in case the withdrawal, which was in the planning for over a year, didn’t go quite as neatly as hoped?
What the f(ornicate) is that big building with a spare side there for, if it’s not to house military planners who are supposed to have us ready for any contingency? Was there no one who thought that, hey, maybe we need an alternate plan just in case the Afghan military doesn’t hold back the Taliban for three weeks? Was there no one there who thought, hey, maybe we ought to plan on getting all of our military equipment out of there?
There are a lot of military officers who should be filling out their retirement papers now.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:27 pmHow about some retirement papers from LoWest Point?
mg (8cbc69) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:33 pmThe flushing needs to start.
what i find hilarious are the commenters who think biden has impaired faculties
this guy was a zero back in ‘88
He’s never been an intelligent or perspicuous man, but 30+ years ago he could string together a series of sentences into a spoken paragraph — loquacious and stupid though his thoughts may have been — whereas today he can barely get through one and a half sentences without losing his train of thought or staring with those beady and confused eyes into his teleprompter as he struggles to transfer the jumbled thoughts in his dim brain to his garrulous mouth.
So no, I do indeed think he’s worse for the wear these days, even if he never was anything more than a third-rate mind in his heyday, and I believe that videos of Biden from 30 years ago which are readily available on YouTube make that abundantly clear when compared with the disaster that is a present-day Joe Biden speaking odyssey.
JVW (ee64e4) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:34 pmMr M wrote:
How far do you take that, Mr M? Do you decline to go to a grocery store in which a possibly unvaccinated employee worked in the deli or the meat counter? Do you decline your prescription, just in case an unvaccinated pharmacist filled it?
Of course, the big question is: do you ask other people about their vaccination status?
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:35 pmIrony: VP Kamala got to Vietnam; Biden got deferments… just like Darth Cheney.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:37 pmHe’s never been an intelligent or perspicuous man, but 30+ years ago he could string together a series of sentences into a spoken paragraph…
…only if he stole them from others, plagiarist that he be.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:44 pmMr Snowman wrote:
I’m sure if the government could figure out how to make the unvaccinated wear
six-pointed yellow starsprominent identification badges, the Democrats would require such. But, since it’s proof of vaccination, not unvaccination, the identification cards would have to be issued to and worn by the vaccinated, and they might not like that.Perhaps a laminated, picture identification to be worn on your shirt, like an employee ID badge. It could even have four spaces, in which a special mark could be placed, indicating how many doses of the vaccine you have had. After all, booster shots down the line will be pushed.
Heck, with that kind of system, we could mandate those badges for everyone, and the marks would tell us who hasn’t had even a single shot. They could be used for everything in society.
Except voting, of course; that would be wrong.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:45 pmFor a site which attracts so many people with law degrees, do you guys ever ask yourselves how Joe Biden ever made it through law school?
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:47 pmHeck, with that kind of system, we could mandate those badges for everyone, and the marks would tell us who hasn’t had even a single shot. They could be used for everything in society.
Except voting, of course; that would be wrong.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:45 pm
Or something even simpler–a three-digit number discreetly tattooed on the right hand or forehead, for example.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:49 pm#95
Is it decent to take a position as a puppet?
Does a throroughly decent man extort the Ukraine so his son can get a huge payday for doing nothing but a few face to face meetings with “the big guy” then deny those meetings occurred even though there are photos?
Does a decent man use his postition to leverage people into financing the drug fueled lifestyle of his son.
I could go on, but Biden is not more decent than Trump simply by not being Trump.
Joe is a stand alone ass, leader of a family of Washington grifters and a guy who Obama said could F-up anything.
I’m not so much laughing at his failures at I am laughing at anyone who believed he was better than Trump. Biden was simply different than Trump. He has 30 years of grifting, he says mean stupid things, He can’t tweet because his mind is too far gone and every time he opens his mouth on Kabul he belches lie after lie after lie.
I’m ok being called unpatriotic by dunces supporting Biden. I support the USA. Biden is at his best when he celebrates his core constituency; fools, dotards and wishful thinkers to name a few. Best way to support the USA is to change the make up in Congress to at least impede the old billy goat dumber urges
steveg (ebe7c1) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:49 pmThe biggest character swindle is that he ‘has empathy’– he cares.
Makarkey, blarney and Beaush!t. The Afghan desperate is exhibit A.
This Irish punk has a history of being a mean, quick-tempered mick, always ready to brawl but somehow ends uphold another’s coat and never leaving the saloon. Corn Pop could take him- and Trump sure as hell could- behind the gymnasium or outside the ring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:55 pm@145 this seems like a question only a person who hasn’t gone through law school and has been lucky enough to go through life only meeting the top 50% of lawyers would ask. Please read that as the complement I intended.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 6:57 pmMr Snowman wrote:
I have used an attorney solely for buying property, securing power of attorney documents, and wills. Somehow, I’ve managed to go through 68 years of life without committing any felonies.
Or, at least not getting caught for committing any felonies! 🙂
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:11 pm@144 – this is why I’m warming to my system. I don’t need tattoos or anything invasive. A QR code anyone can scan from outside the 6’ social distancing recommendations would be fine. If you can’t see mine assume I’m unvaxxed.
No government mandates are required for that. Businesses are free to tell people not wearing the badge they aren’t welcome. Other businesses should also be free to tell people wearing the badge they aren’t welcome. I’m good with badged and unbadged seating on public transportation. I’m interested in seeing how that works out.
I suspect the pro-mandate crowd has worked out some of the problems with the passport system though and that’s why they’re pushing mandates. There are a lot of problems if you “allow” unvaxxed to roam free with the same rights as the vaxxed.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:18 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Assassination_attempt
Now if this was really an attempt to kill Cheney, they didn’t come close, or they had no idea what was his car or of he would arrive by car. Ad we can;t necessarily believe it was the Taliban or that Osama bin Laden was involved.
In the raid on the house Osama bin Laden was living in they seized many documents, mostly computer files. In one of the files, written in 2010, Osama bin Laden had written to attempt to kill Barack Obama and General David Petraeus but not to attempt to kill Joe Biden because he was totally unprepared for the presidency (an opinion he must have come to through a highly placed source in Pakistan)
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Letter-from-UBL-to-Atiyatullah-Al-Libi-4-Translation.pdf
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:25 pmIf most of the lawyer-politicians could hack it as lawyers, they would not have gone into politics. cf. Paul Newman, The Verdict
And then you have the successful ones, businessmen, doctors, dentists, trust-fund babies, wives, sons-in-law, et ilk, who got their bundle (one way or another) and now they want the power and something to fill their time.
I don’t know which is worse.
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:28 pmI suggest vaccine life clocks get installed in the palms of the hands belonging to the “fully vaccinated.” As the vaccine’s efficacy fades, the red light in the life clock dims. Until they get a recharge booster, they must wander the earth with the great unvaxxed.
It will make it much easier to spot a compliant barber.
BuDuh (fdd65e) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:30 pmWe have cameras everywhere, now, and facial recognition technology. We don’t need to badge or mark anyone. The AIs will immediately recognize everyone in the Vaccinated Database who is spotted in a public place. And, of course, who is not.
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:33 pmAnd, of course, who is not *in the Vaccinated Database, I mean.
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:34 pmOT, but only slightly:
Supreme Court rejects Biden’s bid to delay ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed President Biden’s request to halt a lower court order that revives the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” border policy, effectively forcing the new administration to make a “good faith” effort to push illegal immigrants back across the border.
“good faith effort”
my god
et tu scotus?
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:35 pmBut you will still not leave your skateboards on the trailer steps like mommy told you not to, won’t you?
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:36 pm131. JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:26 pm
What we are learning is that he is an extremely poor politician. Because he did this withdrawal for political reasons, and it isn’t helping him.
And I think I realize why I didn’t realize it.
Because when someone is a Senator, he can take one position, and shortly after another position that contradicts it, without severe problems. Or he can advocate something that is unworkable, or that has virtually no chance of working out all right, without problems, because the chances are well over 95% that nobody will take his advice. But when someone is in an executive position, this is not the case.
Being wrong has consequences. And trying to be a bit centrist doesn’t stop someone from being drastically wrong, particularly when the reason for staking out a position is not honest analysis, but trying to somewhat satisfy all, or most, people. He can get to some place that sounds somewhat good, but doesn’t work in practice.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:37 pm@155 some of us are also wearing masks
you know, that cover faces
JF (e1156d) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:39 pm@154 – my QR code covers that. It would bounce to a website with a picture, vax date, other details, etc. I wouldn’t recommend we hire the same guys that did the initial Obamacare website.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:41 pm@159 I’m glad you’re noticing this Sammy. Senators are generally bad options for POTUS for exactly this reason. Long serving ones are worst of all. It’s also why governors are usually better choices.
It also sounds like you’ve discovered the problem with the road that branches to the right and left around the canyon.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:54 pm@155 Sure. Why do you think they lifted the mask mandates despite the almost certain resurgence of the virus?
nk (1d9030) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:56 pmEvery male senator wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and says, “Good morning, Mr. President.”
Every female senator wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and says, “I need to lose ten pounds.”
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/24/2021 @ 7:57 pmThe American citizenship of Afghan Americans in Afghanistan is not being recognized by the Taliban.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:15 pmI have not been back in quite awile. Decided to check in
Its so nice to have the adults back in charge.
Good call on your end.
Mythx (95ef20) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:23 pm130. frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 5:12 pm
That’s why it took so long to prepare Biden’;s remarks, although it was probably further delayed by waiting to see what happened in the House with the infrastructure bills.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-ongoing-evacuation-efforts-in-afghanistan-and-the-house-vote-on-the-build-back-better-agenda
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:37 pm@162, I think Senators could be good, but not cynical or flip floppy ones.
I think also it can be noticeable if they call for impractical things or not.
Senators get a real education on public matters.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:41 pmConsistent with the truth:
But “tend” to mislead:
He implies that getting them all out is part of the U.S. mission, but he never says so!
“Just as” is probably an outright lie because the United States is probably not trying as hard as the other countries. I think that maybe they are even admitting them inside the airport without prior certification, and a case number maybe.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:42 pms. I think that maybe they are NOT even admitting them inside the airport without prior certification, and a case number maybe.
(One person was told – now this is some days ago – go home and wait for a telephone call.)
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:45 pmBiden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis
The sad part is that Bin Laden wrote this in 2010, when Biden still had all his faculties, to the point that he ended up being the mediator during the early 2011 budget fight that ultimately ended in the Budget Control Act and the use of sequestration.
Joe is clearly a shadow of the man he was then, and if the DNC was a ordinary citizen, they’d be charged with elder abuse for doing this to him. The guy should be sitting on his porch in Delaware and enjoying his retirement, not being put in a position to be the face of a nation that he is in now way capable of executing.
As much as I despise Kacklin’ Kammy, and in no way do I think she’s ready for this either, she can’t be any worse than this. Can she?
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:51 pmCol.
Thoughts on “Stand by Your Man” by Tammie Wynette?
Blues Bros. in a rowdy C&W bar doing a decent rendition of it and how much Duck Dunn is missed by bass guitar aficionados.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:51 pmDCSCA $78.
Biden said: we updated you this morning.
Hearing this live, I also missed that Biden wasn’t saying that he personally did this. (and he was only speaking about the number of people flown out of Afghanistan)
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/24/2021 @ 8:54 pmIt can always get worse. And it probably will before it gets better.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/24/2021 @ 9:14 pmAs much as I despise Kacklin’ Kammy, and in no way do I think she’s ready for this either, she can’t be any worse than this. Can she?
I think she can be, and that the possibilities are not endless, but they’re damn near it. So, say a prayer, and don’t forget Biden… may he be given wise counsel and able to think with a clear head.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2021 @ 9:24 pmKamala would side with overturning the filibuster and packing the Court. As is stands, she’d only have until the mid-terms but we haven’t had Trump start helping.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 10:40 pmThe one good thing about Biden’s cowardice is that he’s enough of a coward to avoid wrecking things. Call him the anti-Trump. Trump rushed in where angels feared to tread. Biden is scared of his shadow.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 10:43 pmBiden was passed over every time he ran, except this time when his mediocrity was seen as a virtue.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/24/2021 @ 10:46 pmAnd because of the likes of you, we have worse than Trump.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:00 amhttps://thefederalist.com/2021/08/24/everything-liz-cheney-touches-turns-to-garbage-a-retrospective/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:21 amAnother worse than Trump person.
@177, I used to think this was correct. But the withdrawal has made me question that. Trump backed down several times from withdrawal in Afghanistan. Biden pulled the trigger. Maybe he didn’t have a choice or this was the least bad, but I doubt it.
Time123 (9c9ab7) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:33 amBiden was the right choice when our only other choice was the Orange Baboon. The only thing that restrained Trump’s bestiality in his first term was the Begggin’ Strip of reelection to a second term. Once reelected and a lame duck, he would have wreaked havoc. Put in hardwood floors and flipped America on Realtor.com.
nk (1d9030) — 8/25/2021 @ 4:07 am@177, I used to think this was correct. But the withdrawal has made me question that. Trump backed down several times from withdrawal in Afghanistan. Biden pulled the trigger. Maybe he didn’t have a choice or this was the least bad, but I doubt it.
Time123 (9c9ab7) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:33 am
Trump wanted to get them out by Christmas last year, but Liz Cheney and Jason Crow blocked the funding for it based on a phony-baloney intel report on “Russian bounties” that the spooks later admitted was “low-confidence”. Didn’t matter, since it got the effect they wanted.
It’s an open question as to whether he would have botched the withdrawal as badly as Biden and his team have done, considering the DoD lied to him about our troop presence in Syria. If it’s one thing the boobs in The Building love, it’s continuing ops in areas long after any rational objective has been achieved. Instead of just being incompetently executed, it’s just as likely that it would have been actively undermined and we’d have ended up with the same result anyway. But I doubt Trump would have agreed to a May 1st withdrawal deadline if he didn’t intend to make it happen for the bragging rights.
We’re seeing the spooks making the claim that they warned Biden about how fast the Afghan Army was crumbling and that he just didn’t listen to them. Since those reports are classified, we won’t know for sure unless someone leaks them or the OCA declassifies them, in order to at least clear them of not warning how bad it was getting.
Biden was probably fine with the withdrawal in principle–he’s been wanting to do it for years–he just didn’t want to stick to the May 1st deadline because it was Trump’s deadline. He changed it to the 9/11 date so he could get his symbolic Hollywood moment, but the Taliban had other plans.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/25/2021 @ 4:44 amThe one good thing about Biden’s cowardice is that he’s enough of a coward to avoid wrecking things.
All evidence to the contrary. Now THAT is some funny stuff.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 5:12 amTrump rushed in where angels feared to tread.
And on bone spurs and elevator shoes, too.
nk (1d9030) — 8/25/2021 @ 5:32 amTo do the (planned) withdrawal on 9/11 should have been an impeachable offense in and of itself.
A still-getting-it-from-Willie Brown version of Kamala Harris wouldn’t have been that bad; as prime whisperer his political instincts are more Clyburn/Carville than Squad. You’d get the shrieking in voting rights but little else on Green Nude and Stabenowian poison pills on immigration.
urbanleftbehind (0893e7) — 8/25/2021 @ 5:43 am“Mr. Biden, you did this! You planned this! You made the deal with the Taliban… this is the consequences of it! This is the repercussions of it! Mr. Biden, it’s your ill calculation! You were against Trump, now we’re against you! Go to hell, Biden!”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/watch-angry-afghan-screams-go-to-hell-biden-as-taliban-take-over/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 5:43 amCan’t blame that dude…now which swing state can we deposit them in to be the 21st century version of Cuban exiles (permanent margin of victory voters)?
urbanleftbehind (0893e7) — 8/25/2021 @ 5:59 amNew Hampshire.
nk (1d9030) — 8/25/2021 @ 6:05 amA question for the Biden Administration: Have you considered being good at your jobs?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 6:15 amI don’t particularly want “our Afghan allies” here. They betrayed their people, they’ll betray us. Many of them are the corrupt officials, bandits, and worse, which made the Taliban the better alternative for the majority of the Afghans. And Taliban or no Taliban, they still have their Afghan ethnic and tribal Dark Ages mentality (some would say barbarity).
nk (1d9030) — 8/25/2021 @ 6:32 amCheers,nk.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:06 amTrump is now claiming “thousands” of terrorists are going to come to the United States. Osama bin Laden counseled against sending terrorists alone – they should always be in groups of two. t least for suicide operations. (advice wasn;t always followed)
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:42 amAnd because of the likes of you, we have worse than Trump.
No, because of the likes of you, we had Trump. Everything follows from that.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:54 amAnd on bone spurs and elevator shoes, too.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:58 amToupèTouchèFactory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/25/2021 @ 4:44 am
That;s not the “spooks” – that seems to people in the State Department. And even they weren’t willing to go further out on a limb than to say that Kabul might fall within weeks of the withdrawal.
Joe Biden planned for all contingencies that were on the table. He didn’t have them make good plans for some of the worse ones, but he didn’t consider what actually happened even remotely possible.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:59 amTrump is now claiming “thousands” of terrorists are going to come to the United States.
See, I knew he’d show up to help.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:01 am@197. Yes, he is: Covid-19 illegals breaking into the U.S. are bio-terrorists.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:14 amKevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:01 am
You know you can just not listen to what DT says right? It’s not that hard to just filter out the noise.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:15 am@194. Ronald Reagan… “because of the likes of you, we had Trump. Everything follows from that.”
Trump is a Reagan Creation, Kevin.
Get over it.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:17 am182.Biden was the right choice when our only other choice was the Orange Baboon.
Dr. Zaius?!
“That’s some damn choice, Bob.” – Robert Kennedy [Martin Sheen] ‘The Missiles of October’ 1974
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:23 am178.Biden was passed over every time he ran, except this time when his mediocrity was seen as a virtue.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fc01411200d26acc65cfad513ef0d657-c
=mike-drop=
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:25 amDeflect, deflect, deflect. You voted for worse than Trump.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:31 amJust own it. Confession can be healing for your kind.
As much as I despise Kacklin’ Kammy, and in no way do I think she’s ready for this either, she can’t be any worse than this. Can she?
She can walk [in heels, too!] and speak in complete sentences. Enduring her for a few years would be worth it to cross off the ‘woman prsident’ thingy on the to-do list just like Obama checked off the black box. So unless the deliciously caramel Nikki gets the gig, we can return to middle aged white males running America–you know, when America truly was great. 😉
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:32 am191.I don’t particularly want “our Afghan allies” here. They betrayed their people, they’ll betray us. Many of them are the corrupt officials, bandits, and worse, which made the Taliban the better alternative for the majority of the Afghans. And Taliban or no Taliban, they still have their Afghan ethnic and tribal Dark Ages mentality (some would say barbarity).
Shorter: The National Football League.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:46 amhis was Trump:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-only-15-percent-afghan-evacuees-are-american-calls-effort-complete-failure-1622615
Biden’s on the defensive on that. That’s why he keeps on saying that only U.S. citizens and oermanent residents will be taken directly to the United States – all others, even those destined for the United Staees almost immediately, who could have flown out before even, will get a security screening in places like Ramstein, Germany, before proceeding further
If you evacuate the civilians, and especially the diplomats, before the military, you’re announcing you expect the Taliban to take over the entire country when the U.S. military goes. Yet Trump now says Biden “surrendered Afghanistan to terrorists” How would he not have done that?
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:51 am.
That’s the contradiction in Trump’s statements, not the back and forth on Afghan allies, where you don’t have a strict contradiction. Americans first? Like as if you could hold planes and fill them only with Americans. And some are being used to process visas
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 7:54 am
How is a person letting their emotions override their critical thinking skills someone else’s fault?
frosty (3ee3f8) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:00 amAnyone saddened by watching the drag race to dementia?
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:04 am204, embrace the Bollywood dance-off 3 years from now.
urbanleftbehind (0893e7) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:05 amHe’s on top of his game, has been for several months now… http://ace.mu.nu/archives/meme%2020210825%2000a.jpg
Colonel Haiku (167903) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:07 amHe’s gonna go soon, maybe on live TV, but expect a 2004 Zell Miller-sounding freakout before he drops to the floor.
urbanleftbehind (0893e7) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:09 amStop playing “stump teh chump”, he’s already frostbitten.
Colonel Haiku (167903) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:15 am“So proudly we fail…”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:22 amFor Godsakes, keep the man away from “The Button”, and resist all his entreaties to convert it to teh Clapper technology!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 9:26 am“The U.S. Embassy is currently operating at HKIA, located next to the Goatcake Factory restaurant.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 10:09 amAt the end of an unrelated article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/world/europe/montenegro-cigarette-smuggling.html
The cigarettes didn’t result in the addicts committing crimes to pay for it, or in too many deaths of addicts, but people gt killed because of the business.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 10:50 amThere’s one province in orthen Afghanistan that has stayed out of Taliban hands. The resistance is led by the 32-year old son of leader of the northern Alliance who was assassinated in a devious plot on September 9, 2001 (and that and the Sept 11 attacks in the United States may have been intended as as a 1-2 punch)
He compares the situation to that of Europe on 1940 (except that nobody is fighting on) and wants outside help.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-taliban-resistance-ahmad-massoud-panjshir-amrullah-saleh-islamist-national-security-11629728994
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/world/asia/panjshir-valley-ahmad-massoud.html
He needs to be kept alive in order to provide the United States and allies some way of getting back in, if it becomes important.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 10:58 amDon’t be surprised if ol’18 wheeler Joe celebrates the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by flying a plane into a building.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 11:49 amDon’t believe SoS Antony Blinken could make it down a hallway in any U.S. high school without getting slammed into every locker.
What a wuss.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 12:06 pm“At least 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, California and 16 parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip abroad.”
Holiday in Jalalabad…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 12:45 pmPaging DCSCA on that one…
urbanleftbehind (0893e7) — 8/25/2021 @ 1:04 pmHoliday in
CambodiaJalalabadSo you thought you’d seen it all
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/25/2021 @ 1:16 pmA change of scenery, maybe greenery
But here your type will crawl
And ya won’t do lunch at Barney’s Beanery
As your thoughts turn toward your home
Braggin’ that you know, how the Afghans feel betrayed
As you stand barefoot in sewage
It’s time to taste what you most fear
Joe Biden will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
Brace yourself, my dear
It’s a holiday in Jalalabad
It’s tough, kid, but it’s life
It’s a holiday in Jalalabad
Don’t forget to pack a knife
The Gold Medal for # 1 Arms Dealer to Terrorists goes to-
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2021 @ 1:50 pmcellar Joe.
Stay off the podium
221. Ironic. But then, given the price of food, gas, the drought, gang gunfire and Covid restrictions, an Afghan vacation – [probably some Biblical excursion BTW]- looked relaxing. Rick and Ilsa were caught up in France w/t Nazis ‘knocking on the door,’ too. Local news showed a plane load of Afghan escapees arriving in SD last night. At least they were flown in — and didn’t break-in sneaking across the border.
“We’ll always have Paris.” – Rick Blaine [Humphrey Bogart] ‘Casablanca’ 1942
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:11 pm@223. Somebody whispered to Joe that Afghans export podium.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:13 pm208.Anyone saddened by watching the drag race to dementia?
ROFLMAOPIP
Fred Allen said something similar years ago in his book: “TREADMILL TO OBLIVION”.
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:19 pmHow is a person letting their emotions override their critical thinking skills someone else’s fault?
I have no idea. Perhaps you could tell me.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:27 pmStrike that last. Sorry Frosty, I had misconnected things.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:29 pmHow is a person letting their emotions override their critical thinking skills someone else’s fault?
mg said that voting against Trump was the source of all our ill. My response was that putting Trump up for the nomination in the first place was the killing stroke, and everything after that was consequence. Not sure how you got to your response.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:30 pmSomebody whispered to Joe that Afghans export podium.
Probably Hunter.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:32 pmDon’t believe SoS Antony Blinken could make it down a hallway in any U.S. high school without getting slammed into every locker.
He probably avoided hallways in high school. Voted “most likely to oversee a surrender” in his HS yearbook.
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:33 pmMr Snowman wrote:
And now we have Jeff Bezos selling vaccination card holders that you can wear around your neck on a chain.
No, they’re not in the shape of yellow Stars of David, but they’re not that dissimilar from a rabies vaccination tag to go on your dog’s collar.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:43 pmAre US citizens being asked to pay $2,000 for evacuation?
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul warned people on Wednesday the U.S. government “cannot ensure safe passage” to the airport for evacuation. The bulletin also included a message about every U.S. citizen needing to fill out a “Repatriation Assistance Request” form.
news.yahoo.com/us-citizens-being-asked-pay…
Reaganomics, eh Joey?!
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:55 pm“I trust his [Biden’s] judgement.” – Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 3rd in line to the presidency, 8-25-21
Why don’t you fetch him a pint of $15 ice cream to reward the old boy, dear.
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?!” – The Scarecrow [Ray Bolger] ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ 1939
DCSCA (f4c5e5) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:19 pmMr Duh wrote:
Watched a rerun of Logan’s Run, did you?
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:24 pmAnd now the United Nations are worrying that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan might result in a “COVID crisis” there.
The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana (3867c9) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:29 pmSomeone didn’t get the memo that Donald was no longer Pres. Or maybe that fire needed tending lest we forget…
felipe (484255) — 8/25/2021 @ 3:48 pmKevin M (ab1c11) — 8/25/2021 @ 2:30 pm
The common mantra is people didn’t vote for JB they voted against DT. You’re specific mantra of we got JB because of DT is similar.
Both are a version of emotion overriding critical thinking skills.
frosty (f27e97) — 8/25/2021 @ 6:17 pm236. Just Covid? Afghanistan is going to run out of medical supplies in a week, acccording to the World Health Organization. They were trying to get some of the plsnes going into Kabul airport to take suppliies with them, but suppose they do – the Taliban hae cut iff all travel on roads between the main part of the city and the airport – and who is going to drive back and forth?
Now mayebe China and Russia might supply some medical supplies, for a price. But it woulld only go to people approved of by the Taliban.
There might be a food shortage also.
Sammy Finkelman (51cd0c) — 8/25/2021 @ 8:34 pm