After another auction, I’m back!
Back at it!
The EPL got off to a rousing start, as Liverpool, ManUre, and Chelsea all won convincingly. Spuds knocked off Man City in a boring game (for the most part), and Arsenal continued sucking ass, which is fine by me. Anyway, glad soccer is back. And if the way the referees called games over the weekend is any indication, the rest of the year is gonna be exciting and very physical. Elsewhere, I’m happy Dodgers fans have somewhere to go now when the team is on a road trip. And Roger Federer is going to miss several months, obviously including the US Open. Dude is starting to physically fall apart. He’ll never win another Slam. And that’s sports.
Fess Parker
Big birthdays today include football pioneer Amos Alonzo Stagg, British author, soldier, and diplomat T.E. Lawrence, cartoonist Otto Messmer, circus master Robert Ringling, Israeli leader Menachem Begin, writer Charles Bukowski, actor Fess Parker, infielder Willie Jones, football player/announcer Frank Gifford, guitarist Bill Spooner, wife of aforementioned football guy Kathy Lee Gifford, moviemaker James Cameron, musician Madonna, actor Steve Carrell, pitcher Xavier Hernandez, outfielder Quinton McCracken, and football great Colt Brennen.
Right, now on to…the links!
Shitshow
Jesus, talk about a shitshow. I don’t know what else to call it. I’m glad we’re out of there, but the way we pulled out, without destroying or securing our materiel and without securing our embassy staff and those who helped us during our misguided 20 year “adventure” there is simply shameful. And the man at the wheel is nowhere to be seen (aside from a single photo and a written statement).
Haiti just can’t catch a break. Fortunately, the Clinton Foundation has tens of millions stashed away to help. Oh wait, they stole that money. I guess those poor people are fucked, again.
Will this idiot keep his job?
We’re about to see what Canadians are made of. Will they reward their jailers or will they stand up and demand to be treated like free people? I’m really not sure anymore.
Good luck. I won’t be giving them any money.
Looks like Minnesota is going full retard. Didn’t anybody tell them you never go full retard?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You stupid, weak-minded fuck.
::Shrug:: You get the government you want. Good and hard.
What the fuck? There’s got to be more to this story, because not showing up to contest the claim makes absolutely zero sense.
Here’s a fun little song. Hope you enjoy it as much as I will.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Hey, what’s Shakin’?
Muh bacon!
“Jesus, talk about a shitshow.”
They need the troops to fight the real terrorists: anyone refusing to bend the knee to the marxist globalist cabal they fortified the last election in order to take power away from the people that are not idiots.
There’s are real legitimacy crisis. I’ve seen this compared with Bush during Katrina. All the bluster about “America is back” and “the adults are in charge now” was nothing but the insane ramblings of a dementia patient.
You know, I was actually thinking about that just this weekend. The cabal spent 4 years lying about the guy they saw as an existential threat to their globalist agenda, managed to rig an election after abusing a pandemic, to get rid of him, only to spend less than 8 months peddling propaganda about how great it was to have them back in charge while they completely crashed and burned things both at home and abroad.
Afghanistan was a waste of time because they never fought to win. Americans lost their appetite for the only thing that wins wars – you kill most of the enemy and destroy everything that allows them to live a decent life, until they cry uncle – and these things now are just so some connected people can make a shitton of tax payer money. But I am glad we are getting out finally, even though I suspect this is going to blow up on us because the idiots are in charge and they will make it worse.
These fuckers are not worrying about what is gonna happen as much as they are worrying about how they will peddle the lie that the only culprits are Boosh and Cheeto prez, while Obama and Biden get a pass.
whaddup doh’
I’ve been trying to figure out what that apostrophe replaces for a while.
Doha?
Dohyo?
Dohms?
Doherty (Shannon)?
Brenda?
I was born over 10 years after the fall of Saigon. Is Kabul comparable? To me this seems extremely significant but half or more of the usual media outlets are dead silent, as is our leadership. It feels like no one is in charge and no one cares. Did it feel like this in 1975 or is this dereliction of responsibility a modern phenomena?
I think at some point you need to pull your dick out of the wasp’s nest. However doing that still means you put your dick in a wasp nest. You own that.
It’s the baleful influence of the Boomers, who have insisted on viewing everything through the lens of what happened between the death of John Kennedy and the resignation of Richard Nixon.
You may recall one of my hobby-horses that I fortunately haven’t felt the need to talk about much recently is the overuse of the -gate suffix to describe any scandal. Likewise, any military action has to be compared to Vietnam.
Baleful influence of the boomers has a good ring to it. It’d be great for us to cast that yoke off of our culture and discourse.
I think it’s only the first half of the Boomers, along with a generation (starting about 1930 or so) old enough to remember WWII but not old enough to have fought in it and be part of the Greatest Generation and so be resentful. I’d argue it concludes with the people old enough to have the fear of the draft as part of their formative experiences, so ending in about 1955 or so. Maybe a year or two later if there are high schoolers interested in the Watergate hearings.
Album title? I’m going with album title.
I would go with reunion tour.
I remind you that we ignore the real problem that we have at our own risk. For example, the US embassy in Kabul spent more time planning for Pride month than they did for the withdrawal and the people they were leaving behind…
come on man, priorities
Priorities
The media is being quiet because they’ve been rah rahing this thing for twenty years which wasn’t the case towards the end of Vietnam. They’re complicit and have either been suppressing the true situation or so incompetent they missed it. They’re not going to trumpet that. As for the Biden et al silence, well that’s just good old fashioned stonewalling after a major fuckup which is a time honored tactic.
Sounds about right. I tend to be more of a blabber until I dig myself deeper after a major fuckup kind of guy. I could learn from this.
Oops we did it again?
Someone on Twitter claimed that Trump ordered Mattis to prepare to leave Afghanistan. Being a loyal Deep Stater, he did nothing of the sort for several years. Therefore the reason the evacuation seems so unprepared is because it was, deliberately.
I saw no proof of this offered, however it probably deserves some investigation, at least into who planned the pullout and how they botched it.
They are desperate to find a way to hide the fact that Biden changed the withdrawal date to deny Trump a victory for pulling us out, pissing off the Taliban and giving them the perfect recruitment tool, which means they have to invent whatever reason they can that this is Cheeto Prez’s fault.
The rumor I heard was Esper was a foot-dragger as well, which is why he left early.
I stay in touch with a lot of senior military folk, and they generally don’t want to leave.
That tends to be because they don’t want to give up a fight after it has started, not so much because of what we’re supposedly fighting for.
Plus the combat tour is essential for future senior officer promotions. Check that box baby!
It might have gone more smoothly if that asshole Biden hadn’t reneged on the deal and tried to insist on a 9/11withdrawal for purely political purposes. He broke his word and thus lost all semblance of trust with every tribal leader in Afghanistan. What the fuck did he think was going to happen? It’s not like Facebook, Twitter and CNN have much pull over there.
Also, the Trump withdrawal date conveniently fell before the war-season in Afghanistan, while the Biden date fell during the war-season. In addition to altering the deal, Biden was essentially asking the people he had just snubbed to wait another year before conquering Afghanistan.
“however it probably deserves some investigation”
Do you even Deep State, bro?
in·ves·ti·ga·tion – (ĭn-vĕs′tĭ-gā′shən): noun: 1. The act or process of wasting massive amounts of taxpayer money and time while being able to claim you’re doing something about corruption: a politician under investigation (see also sat•ire (ˈsæt aɪər)).
A couple of big differences. In 1975, major American combat units had been out of Vietnam for two years. South Vietnam was invaded by another country with a real military – and Congress prevented our military from providing the air support we had promised.
In Afghanistan, we were still there and still providing air support to our allies – and the whole thing still crumbled – this is way more embarrassing.
Is Kabul comparable?
No. The Vietnam War was part of a larger conflict and so had greater significance to the international order. There’s nothing comparable today to the Cold War, and the Islamicists have nowhere near the reach, power, or support now that the Communists did then. On the flip side, the US had completed its withdrawal from Vietnam over a year before Saigon fell, while the US had apparently not completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan before Kabul fell, so the competence of American leaders now versus then fares poorly by comparison.
There’s nothing comparable today to the Cold War
I’d argue that Cold War 2: Far East Boogaloo is getting close. Yeah, we’re not getting the “duck and cover” style propagandization, but the desire of the authoritarians to either steamroll or enslave us is just as strong.
It’s actually called the Great Game. The cold war was a small part of what had been going on for centuries in Central Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
In regards to standardized testing, it was originally implemented partially because of charges of anti-semitism at American universities.
To some extent they’re doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Standardized testing is largely trash.
…no, it’s really not.
Round here it works decently well… Although there is also non standardized testing
I mean the testing shows who learned stuff. The education system is not good at getting enough students to be proficient. But that is not the fault of the tests
There have been standardized testing opponents for a while. I wonder if they just repackaged it with woke word salad.
It’s a necessary evil. Standardized testing at a state scale is a means of auditing if the students are actually learning the curriculum. I’ll be the first to admit it’s imperfect, but it’s better than nothing.
Can’t have anything that shows schools have basically turned into babysitting indoctrination factories and that they no longer even try to teach the things – basic things – they were supposed to teach kids so they at a minimum could function in society without government support. And that last part was done by design, I believe.
It’s also the only thing that allows colleges to compare prospective students on a level playing field. There would be no feasible way to compare students from different schools or different schooling methods (such as home-schooling or tutoring) without standardized tests. Of course standardized tests favor students who are good at taking tests, but so does the education system in general.
Standardized testing is largely trash.
Compared to what? From what I’ve seen and read, it’s probably the best predicator of one’s ability to function in, for example, an academic environment?
It probably doesn’t do a great job of predicting success in the more postmodern areas of study.
I said in an academic environment, not a thinly disguised activist environment.
Not seeing the distinction in the current day.
for the definition of “academic” meaning useless in any practical capacity…
Standardized tests can serve many purposes, but the overemphasis of a single type of standardized test (general intelligence/IQ) and the lack of equally emphasized alternative paths to those who do poorly on those tests, serves to undermine their usefulness and bolster postmodern “nothing matters” appearances. The ruling class in America has no realistic answer (that they’d say in polite company or on the record) for what people who score below about 1200 on the SAT (or equivalent scores on similar tests) are supposed to do with their lives. Yet the world is full of opportunities, especially when you account for those that have been vainly offshored to foreign countries.
Why the hell did IOWA get to decide?!
especially when you account for those that have been vainly offshored to foreign countries
That’s a whole nother can of worms right there. The enforced minimum standard of living here in the US is too high to competitively host those jobs here.
Brendan Fraser knows.
Okay, it’s important here to draw a distinction between the optional, (sorta) private-industry standardized testing used for college admission (SAT), and the various state-wide standardized testing mandated by various state Departments/Boards of education.
The latter are the ones opposed by those school principals. They are hated by parents because they are annoying to the children and are used to keep children from advancing. The latter are also hated by government schoolteachers because they have to teach that Washington defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown, instead of spending the entire semester talking about slavery and inherent racism. It’s nigh impossible to fire a public school teacher but those tests provide an objective metric for measuring teacher performance, and they hate that.
Yup. Here in NY, there was a concentrated effort by the teachers/union to tell the students that the test was NOT mandatory and it wouldn’t affect their grade if they decided not to take it.
Then they used the low testing rate to demand that the test not be used to evaluate teacher performance.
For the tests to actually measure individual teacher performance, they’d have to be administered at the beginning and end of each term. But then they’d be working half as hard as they pretend to, instead of just a quarter as hard as they pretend to.
“Looks like Minnesota is going full retard. Didn’t anybody tell them you never go full retard?”
People in Wisconsin & North Dakota happiest to hear their neighbor is making its citizens idiots on purpose….
Cool sidebar, bro.
Damn. I tried to get it removed before the REEEEEEEEEEEing started.
Almost made it.
I wasn’t reeing. I said it was cool.
For some reason, when the site is viewed from my iPad, the scroll/slide doodad disappears. Not an issue on a windows machine.
I dunno, Im still learning and trying to decide if I like the thing.
Manic Monday: Have some Oh Hell No
I was cool until there was a car coming in the other lane. Also, he didn’t ollie at the end.
Pussy.
My first shot at the stupidest thing you’ll read all day.
https://i.redd.it/eczqdaj50lh71.jpg
That is pretty dumb. Let’s see if the FBI arrests any of them for trespassing.
Who in the fuck would believe these inept fuckers other than people that already drank the koolaid?
Holy shit. The day is still young, but that’s going to be tough to beat.
Also remember that our top military brass, practically the whole lot of them Obama appointees, has been more concerned with fighting “White Rage” and twitter wars against Tucker Carlson or other enemies of the cabal than with fighting to win any real existing (Islamic terrorism) or future wars (China)..
There is a reason we are being told top priority isn’t China or Islamic radicalism, but people not bowing to the globalist cabal….
And it ain’t gonna be pretty…
I’m pretty sure we’d need to tap into some of that “White Rage” to have a ghost of a chance in any future conflict. My tinfoil side think that’s the entire point.
Of course it does. That probably came from the DNC.
Seriously, you think the assholes in DC, that drank their own bathwater about how the Afghanistan govt/military was capable (or were they just lying all along for public consumption), and then see how easily the whole house of cards is swept away – you think they don’t have the same fear as Ghani?
Dressing up like buffalo guy with that bunch would result in summary execution.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/08/15/transgender-usaf-veteran-trapped-in-taliban-takeover-of-kabul/
How’s this for dumb? We just lost a war, and this is how it’s reported.
buh-lade, puh-lease!
Wait, they’re trapped on the outskirts of the airport? How the fuck do you manage to accomplish that?
What an incredible clusterfuck.
As long as they don’t identify as pre adolescent boys they should be just fine.
It was our “allies” that were into the boys. The Taliban doesn’t tolerate that practice.
Being a man pretending to be a woman might be ok in Iran, but I don’t know how the Taliban view that particular scenario.
Actually it is almost a given that the Taliban plays that game as well (this is cultural shit), but they just expect that those that do it, do it on the down low. They don’t like the flag waving..
Whether they indulge in that or not depends on how pious they are. I know Afghanistan is largely illiterate, so I imagine the Taliban’s views on pederasty depend on the views of whichever imams they are listening to, since they can’t read the Koran for themselves to find out they are supposed to be stoning those dudes.
‘It was our “allies” that were into the boys.’
Well isn’t that lovely.
Being a man pretending to be a woman might be ok in Iran
Even Iran is not big on “pretending”. You were born with a dick and you want to be a woman? The mullahs say that must be Allah’s will, but Allah does not pretend to carry out his will. You will take on all of the roles and responsibilities of a woman, and you will physically become as womanly as possible.
Whatever member of the Taliban that calls dibs on that girl is gonna be real confused for a hot minute.
I was waiting for that. Not from you Scruffy, but from smug progs.
The dishonest cunte that made that is dishonest and a cunte.
Reading the news, particularly with the fall of Afghanistan, I think I know what a citizen of the USSR must have been thinking. It’s rot and decay and propaganda attempting to hand wave away the role of Top Men in all of it.
You stupid, weak-minded fuck.
Credulous simpleton worships authority. Film at eleven.
The headline starts with the word “terror”. I believe that person really felt terror. The propaganda onslaught from the media was effective.
Not to mention an idiot that has no clue what she’s talking about. I’ve been told repeatedly that nobody ever told people that vaccines would protect them from getting covid, which is absolutely not the way it was presented in real life. Instead, they were supposedly told that the vaccine would just prevent them, personally, from getting as sick as someone who didn’t get it.
Apparently somebody forgot to tell people like the author (i.e. everybody), who believes that only unvaccinated people can give her the disease, despite the fact that vaccinated people with covid have a viral load that’s just as high as unvaccinated people with covid and at least presumably shed the virus at the same rate (it’s very difficult to determine this in practice). In other words, if you’re as concerned about contracting the disease as the author is, you should avoid everyone, vaccinated or not, at least if you’re following THE SCIENCE.
Or you can just panic, cite a bunch of statistics that have only a tangential relationship to your argument, and pretend you’ve said something worthwhile.
So the Canadian PM can call for an election whenever the fuck he wants?
Pretty much. Parliamentary system. All that he needs to do is go to his hand-picked Governor General and tell her what’s what.
It’s a relic of the fact that the king could call and dismiss parliament at his whim, I believe. The Prime Minister is the Prime Minister of the King, and so acts accordingly.
Who didn’t expect a turf war with two teams playing in the same home stadium with the same team colors? It is Los Angeles. There can be only one.
Regarding our election – we’re just too divided to send that embarrassing Clown packing. He’s got his strangle-hold on central Canada and everyone else is picking up crumbs. At least the Greens are done this time. He’ll get his mandate and continue fucking us over. My riding will vote for the opposition party at twice the rate that the others get. I don’t even need to get up on voting day. Deplorables.
Did it ever once stop to ask itself what fucking good the vaccine does if contact with a healthy unvaccinated person is apparently lethal to the vaccinated? Unlikely.
Why the Taliban won in one image
Admittedly, I underestimated the stupidity of the bureaucrats at State. And I had a low opinion of them beforehand.
THE ADULTS ARE IN CHARGE NOW!
/moronic leftists
IT’S CHEETO PREZ’S FAULT!
Absurdly, yet predictably, they’ve already started trying to lay the blame on Trump.
Even the Republicans who want to reassert their war-boner bona fides.
There’s a reason why the military tries to run their own diplomatic channels outside of the purview of the State Department.
I mean, it’s called winning hearts and minds. Nothing speaks to the average Afghan warlord like the LGBTI (I don’t know what the I stands for) flag.
Speaking of which, our war in Afghanistan is pretty misunderstood. Our initial strategy there was a minimal troop commitment. We put 2500 or so troops in country for the initial invasion, mostly relying on the Northern Alliance and our air power to take the country. By the end of 2002, that number had only risen to 10,000. Our Top Men Neocons were far more focused on sticking their dicks into Iraq.
Afghanistan is roughly 150% of the size of Iraq with a population of the same size. At our peak, we put 98,000 troops into Afghanistan compared to a peak of 170,000 into Iraq. By the time we had those troop levels in Afghanistan, the enemy had nearly a decade to build up their position after the initial invasion. Even if you are going to engage in nation building, that’s a pretty half-assed way of doing it. Thinking you can weed out a determined opponent with pitiful troop commitments.
I believe I is Intersex. A can be Asexual or Allies depending on who’s talking.
Maybe this will help.
I for indecisive?
To be fair, I don’t think it would have mattered if we’d put in more troops. Afghanistan is an entirely different proposition than Iraq. The terrain is much more difficult, logistics more challenging, the people are tribal rather than oriented to Sunni/Shia/Kurd groups, and the Taliban is much more of a zealot/religious organization than the Baath party ever was. There’s simply no way to subdue that sort of opposition force short of widespread slaughter that the American public would not have countenanced.
The mistake here was in not pulling out after the initial military victory, leaving a big sign in the middle of Kabul that said “if you harbor our enemies again, ten times worse will be inflicted on you”. That sort of message would be respected in that part of the world, even if they’d still hate us (which they do anyway). Instead, we’ve looked feeble and inept.
Pretty much
The idiots in DC believed their own bullshit. Purple thumbs for everybody!
We should have gone in and wrecked the Taliban and their criminal enterprises, killed as many of them as we could, then left that shithole. This nation building shit our globalist class is so enamored off doesn’t work unless you are willing to kill off all men of military age to make it evident that resistance is futile, and we have lost the appetite for fighting wars to win in the western world. That’s why we shouldn’t allow our political class to start new ones unless they promise to win at all costs (to the enemy, not us) and do so fast.
“And so, the political masters of the now laughably mis-named ‘free world’ fly absurd flags, fretting about people being mis-gendered whilst the USA loses its longest war ever to a bunch of goat botherers with a good command of practical chemistry. Communo-fascist China must be wetting themselves with laughter. It is like a snuff movie set to a Benny Hill soundtrack.”
sounds about right,
They forgot that their job was to break shit and kill the enemy, not to be a make-work project.
Reality trumps fantasy.
Did something happen in Afghanistan this weekend?
I don’t know what else to call it. I’m glad we’re out of there, but the way we pulled out, without destroying or securing our materiel and without securing our embassy staff and those who helped us during our misguided 20 year “adventure” there is simply shameful.
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” – B.O.
The most honest thing B.O. ever said.
That whole album by Timbuk-3 is a lot of fun! Still have the cassette kicking around here somewhere. Thanks, Sloop!
“We’ve had your back, and now it’s time to hear your voice,” Trudeau said. “Canadians need to choose how we finish the fight against COVID-19.”
I suppose you have more pastors to imprison.
Pastors to jail, janitors to fire, people to be ostracized from polite society. Just like it’s always been!
/looks up at LiveNation story
Well… at least there’s only a couple of venues here that use them for the majority of their ticketing. One of them is currently being sued (with LiveNation as another named party) in what may be the dumbest complaint I’ve seen this year. The venue has been notorious for being a pain in the ass to get in and out of for as long as I’ve been going to concerts.
And shit. Local news is reporting that the small independent venues had a meeting to discuss taking similar steps. I’ve got tickets for an event in November.
One here in NH decided to require proof of vaccination (natural immunity doesn’t count) and won’t issue refunds for tickets.
Folks involved with Reopen NH have been going after that venue. The venue has turned off reviews on some sites where they can do that, and it sounds like its staff aren’t answering the phone anymore. Folks in the Reopen NH group that bought tickets are disputing the charges through their credit card companies, claiming that the venue changed the terms after payment was received and won’t refund money. We’ll see what happens.
Spuds knocked off Man City in a boring game
You singled out the best game of the weekend as the boring game?
Sloopy is a star fucker and a Liverpool fan, which is why he has such a tediously desultory attitude toward teams/athletes he doesn’t like.
You’ll note there was no love for Camila Giorgi or Daniil Medvedev.
Giorgi was great.
I will hold my tongue on that other person.
It was especially nice to see Giorgi defeat Gauff.
Shame that Jabeur lost to Pegula, though.
I like Jabeur’s game. It’s refreshing to see something other than groundstrokes.
You crazy bastard, you. The Newcastle-West Ham game was easily the most entertaining game of the week. It made the later game yesterday seem boring by comparison.
West Ham had a two goal lead for the last 30 minutes, but ok.
160 Minnesota school principals sign woke ‘de-centering whiteness’ pledge: Demand end to ‘racist’ standardized testing that is an ‘Americanized caste system’
I am not sure what is going on these people’s minds but leftists certainly like their wordplay.
And their virtue signaling.
Wet streets cause rain
Am I the only person who remembers that Obama explicitly campaigned on an Afghanistan surge, which he implemented when he was elected?
Who was his VP again?
It was the right war!
“Virgin Pussy”? Michelle.
Biden has been pro-getting out of Afghanistan for a long time. A position for which I give him credit.
That said, this was a massive bungling of the job.
The problem is how they all invested in the credibility of the Afghan govt and defense forces. If they had been honest about the nature of our puppet regime and the level of commitment to it within the country we could’ve left and said “we did our best”.
Stupid is as stupid does
Haven’t heard that in decades.
“We’ve grown up in this first-world country thinking that water is a given,” said Julian Lopez, the owner at Café Beaujolais, a restaurant packed with out-of-town diners in what is the height of the tourist season. “There’s that fear in the back of all our minds there is going to be a time when we don’t have water at all. And only the people with money would be able to afford the right to it.”
You and the rest of the fucking hippies have expressed your explicit desire to turn your backs on first world living.
Be careful what you wish for.
Sure, live in a desert while at the same time avoiding or opposing infrastructure to address water supply. What could go wrong?
Mendocino is not a desert, the deserts have reservoirs, they planned for drought,
Mendocino is wet, until it isn’t,
/California is fucking huge
Yes, and most of it is nevertheless drought-prone. Until it isn’t isn’t some new historically unheard of phenomenon.
Coastal California is not a desert. The deserts are in the inland south beyond the coastal mountain ranges.
Drought-prone, then. This is not a new or unusual phenomenon. And they are clearly unprepared.
Yes, and as you implied, they are opposed to any new water storage.
/looks over at the Great Lakes
I think we’re fine on water here.
Oh, you’re not allowed to draw water from the lakes, that would cause canadian water to flow across the border and deprive our poor canukistani neighbors, possibly cause a resource war!
And you can always invade Canada and take theirs
Yep, I live on a sandpile, surrounded by Water,
We’ve grown up in this first-world country thinking that water is a given,
Well, he got that much right. What he didn’t bother to do is to incorporate that realization into any of his thinking. If he had, he’d have favored policies geared to ensuring that potable water continued to flow, rather than diverting it to brine shrimp or whatever.
During Jerry Brown’s (Dickhead, CA) first term, he ended a lot of the projects that Cali needed to sustain the inevitable population growth levels. And as we have seen, forty years down the road all of this shit is coming back to haunt the state.
You need enough reservoirs to hold enough water to take care of the population. And if you don’t have enough, then you have to drain the ones you have, essentially eating the seed corn. This whole thing will end very, very badly.
FTA:
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
A vid from Black Pigeon Speaks on the fall of A’stan:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oeM5VK3XZToX/
He always has interesting takes. TL/DW: It was a war that never was meant to be won and we’re just repositioning for the next one.
That’s the problem. This wasn’t even a fucking war cause in wars you at least try to fight to win something…
Gah. So depressing.
The terror when you find out the medical personnel treating you is unvaccinated
Unsurprisingly it gets worse.
I’m vaccinated. I never go out without a double mask.
I’ll leave a restaurant if no tables are available outside. I avoid being in close quarters indoors with strangers. I take all precautions.
Feel free to curl un into the fetal position and never leave your house.
Better wear gloves lest you catch cooties from doors.
It just feels cruel to point and laugh at these people yet they are the ones leading the new lockdowns. What to do? Where to go?
The cruelty is not putting these people out of their misery.
Zardoz approves.
The writer needs full protection; impermeable bag around head sealed with tape, lest any air gets in.
From the 80s until very recently, the military was the most respected institution in the federal government. The one place that held out against the social justice idiocy – until this administration.
Now every branch has gone full SJW. And like every other institution the left takes over, competence takes an immediate nose-dive. I know it was senior officers and civilians who turned an orderly withdrawal into a clusterfuck, but it will stick to the military as a whole. Makes me very sad although it’s probably a win for dissidents.
Once we go to a full peace-time footing, they can really focus on the important stuff – celebrating sexual preferences, rewriting history, getting women into the infantry, etc… And you can forget Americans looking at their soldiers with anything except suspicion.
Good luck getting normal kids to join that shit show. Like all leftist institutions, it will only be truly dangerous to normal people.
“Good luck getting normal kids to join that shit show.”
That’s what drafts are for.
Once it’s completely wokified, of course we’ll need universal conscription for those who don’t go to college. We need more indoctrination after high school because there are still too many deplorables out there.
Hey man,I want to apologize for flipping out on you the other night. Too much booze and a shitty week is no excuse. I was out of line.
No one ever has to apologize for telling me off.
Well played Sir.
‘Good luck getting normal kids to join that shit show. Like all leftist institutions, it will only be truly dangerous to normal people.’
I’m pretty much to the point of thinking that they don’t want normal kids anymore. I think they want a smaller yet radically politicized bunch of Marxists who will have no qualms turning on their fellow citizens when the orders come down to disarm the population.
*adjusts tin foil speedo*
…well that was almost a thought…the word military was supposed to be in there somewhere…
The problem is that they still want their global empire. And, while their little Marxists might be useful for attacking their fellow citizens (even on that, I have my doubts), there are a lot of people in this world who would be more than happy to teach them a whole new definition of the term “triggered”.
Two year Government service coming right up! If I were that age I’d vie for the one where the most girls and sunniest climes happened. Teaching ASL in the Bahamas? Sign me up yesterday!
Good luck getting normal kids to join that shit show.
There will always be someone looking for a lark and adventure. That’s why you sign them to a 2×6 before they spend a day in uniform.
My bigger concern is no longer having Iraq or Afghanistan, that we’re going to have a bunch of twenties year olds looking enviously at the combat patches and CIBs/CABs of their seniors and quite willing to go a little over zealous on domestic missions to prove themselves.
‘Rawls sustained a “serious and debilitating” head injury after he was assaulted by Henrickson and fell over “an uneven parking lot,” according to the suit.
La Fogata has 30 days to file a notice of appeal if they intend to seek a new trial, according to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure.
Rawls allegedly has a history of excessive drinking. Andrews jail records show he was arrested twice, in February 2019 and May of this year, on charges of public intoxication.’
So, a sloppy drunk who can’t behave himself in public gets shitfaced, gets in a fight and trips over his own feet in “an uneven parking lot” gets rewarded for it to the tune of $5 million plus because despite being a grown adult it was the responsibility of other adults to “mind him”?
*makes plans to visit the nearest La Fogota*
Holy shit. That skateboard thing is intense.
Like repo man intense.
70 mph on a board is definitely in the death wish category.
I still have visible scarring from 40mph skateboard road rash. Downhill longboard with a buddy in a follow-car. 70mph is dead if you hit anything.
I was impressed, but not overly so, until I saw that oncoming traffic and realized they didn’t close the road. HOLY MACKEREL!
You won’t need a 20 year struggle to pull out of Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/qgNDG
Fuck your freedom.
“You have to get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated, but you also have to do mitigation, and that gets to the controversial issue of mask wearing, and the mandating of things. Mandating vaccines, for example, for teachers and … personnel in the school,” Fauci said during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” …
“It’s the unvaccinated that are doing that, so we have a lot of tasks,” Fauci said. “We’ve got to do mitigation. Put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties and realize we have a common enemy and that common enemy is the virus. And we really have to go together to get on top of this. Otherwise, we’re going to continue to suffer as we’re seeing right now.”
Will someone rid us of this tyrannical garden gnome?
But what is the point in defeating the enemy if you lose your liberty in the process?
That assumes their enemy is the virus, not liberty itself.
“Put aside the key point at issue, and then my argument is perfect. Therefore, my argument is perfect. Obey me, slave.”
realize we have a common enemy and that common enemy is the virus.
If I have to choose sides between you and the virus, I choose the virus. I have a much better chance of recovering from the virus and never having to deal with it again.
Albania ready to accept Afghan refugees, says PM Rama
The Tirana government has approved a request by Washington to temporarily house Afghan political refugees seeking entry to the United States. They include interpreters, fixers and other helpers to the US military.
https://www.dw.com/en/albania-ready-to-accept-afghan-refugees-says-pm-rama/a-58870238
poor people Albania of all places
You get the government you want. Good and hard.
I suspect that if there’s anyone in California who doesn’t want the government they currently have, many of those people live in small towns.
*Spins the wheel of what is racist today?*
Who Wants To Return To The Office?
The group most enthusiastic to return to in-person work is white men — 30 percent want the office to be the only place where they work. Roughly half as many Black men — almost 16 percent — feel the same. White and Black women are in the middle, around 22 percent each.
That might be because in the U.S., office culture was originally created to accommodate the needs of white people, and specifically men, says Angelica Leigh, a professor of management and organizations at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Leigh’s research shows that when dealing with the aftermath of massive social events that disproportionately affect people of color, such as the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, many employees of color supress their emotions in order to fit into the norms of the office. She and her colleague refer to that suppression as identity labor.
Me using those numbers to back-up an argument that black men are lazier would have just as much validity as anything that comes out of that academics mouth.
“Identity Labor” We’ve heard it all, Folks, take down the big-top. Show is over.
I fucking hate white men so much you guys.
The Fuck You School of Business sounds about right.
“identity labor”
OFFS!
Fuck off, bigot!
I have worked in offices for 10 goddamn years already and not one of them have I ever felt anything other than contempt about the setting. Men value being outside, doing physical work, and having something concrete to show for your efforts. The office is a place for neutered sycophants and passive aggression. The only reason for favor going back to the office is that “work from home” is rife for its own, less obvious but ultimately more destructive, neurotic pathologies.
Apologies for the Twatter link, but there are some good screenshots of the White House putting out an old or doctored photo of Biden supposedly handling the Afghanistan withdrawal.
https://twitter.com/AF632/status/1427092332671684608?s=20
And this guy noticed that his outfit changed with 26 minutes.
https://twitter.com/based_hoppean/status/1427116935754489857?s=20
The only skill that the new globalist cabal seems to have is the ability to peddle lies.
Doing things right and in a way that they workout, seems to not be in their toolbox, though.
LOL
Our propagandists are of a low quality.
I mean, to be honest, the image of a sad looking Biden sitting alone in an empty room while people on a TV talk to one another about what the actual policy is going to be is a pretty representative image of his White House.
Even if doctored, why the CIA and forward stations were not blurred out is fucking ridiculous. The press as usual is still hitting with kid gloves. Any other person with a R after their name and they would be screaming for impeachment and/or removal.
This is simply insane and staggering. Desperate Afghans hanging onto U.S. Air Force aircraft taking off at #Kabul airport. Unreal scenes.
https://twitter.com/RioMoussallem/status/1427209580745007106
What a mess.
I hope they don’t have video showing that Galaxy speeding up to take off and the people flying off it like a bad cartoon…
According to a comment in the thread it’s out there. I can’t say I want to see it though.
Falling off in flight.
and they probably weren’t even communists.
Keep these images coming.
We need more reminders of the shitshow it is.
Holy shit.
If only there had been that much determination to actually have a legitimate govt in their country.
Here’s more video of those people, who are now certainly dead.
https://twitter.com/FrankFarman/status/1427193658206478338?s=20
Well this is going to top Vietnam for images.
There are more and way better cameras now.
That’s awful.
How else was this gonna end? It was destined to be this or possibly something worse.
Yeah. At least we’re out. This is probably the thing I’m least critical of at the end of Biden’s term.
We didn’t have to arm them to the teeth on the way out.
Biden’s body count is gonna make Cuomo’s look like childs play.
Every General that had a hand in the handling of the war should be fired. Not a one of them understood what was going to happen, or they did and didn’t have the balls to tell the truth: whatever it is we’re doing over there isn’t why we went there in the first place. 20 years of this nonsense. No way it was gonna go smoothly at this point.
You mean GENs like this? Dumb fuck thinks because we propped up a few people that made for a legit govt.
Well, look at his supplied bio
Another blow to Joe.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Biden administration to “enforce and implement” the Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico policy in response to a lawsuit from Texas and Missouri, which claimed that the administration’s attempt to terminate the policy was illegal and harmful.
The two Republican states had sought a preliminary injunction against the administration’s June 1 memo formally ending the policy — officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). They argued that the ending of the policy was in breach of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
The ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, orders the Biden administration “to enforce and implement MPP in good faith” until it has been “lawfully rescinded” in compliance with the APA, and until the federal government has enough detention capacity to detail all migrants subject to mandatory detention.
They will find another Obama era judge to reverse this decision, because they desperately need to “fundamentally change” America now that a large portion of the serfs are rebelling against their ineptitude and corruption.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the manager/owner of the place was involved in hinkiness. “Loot the accounts and run” has happened to more than a couple of restaurants I used to frequent. My favorite Mexican restaurant when I was in college didn’t open one day because the owner was tipped off that the cops were coming to arrest him for his part in stolen goods ring. And I had a fraternity brother who delivered pizzas for a place that closed as usual, and the owner skipped town without telling anyone.
It is unfortunately very common for people that run an establishment in legal/financial problems to decide to cut their loses and run. Especially when they have the ability to run of with a good chunk of change to another country (preferably one where the US has no extradition rights).
And restaurants are excellent fronts for various other illegal operations.
It’s not like there is anything important going on.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki is taking a break from her duties at the same time as controversy surrounds the silence of President Joe Biden, who is on vacation while the Taliban quickly seizes control of Afghanistan.
Fox News sent questions to Psaki’s White House email address Sunday morning and received an auto-reply. Hours later, on Sunday evening, Fox News attempted once again to reach the White House spokeswoman. The same auto-reply, stating that the voice of the White House would not be available for the next week, was sent.
“I will be out of the office from August 15th-August 22nd,” read the email returned to Fox News. Instead, Psaki’s reply directs the press to reach out to other press officers in her absence.
Most. Transparent. Admin. Evar.
In the height of their arrogance, they don’t even feel the need to seriously explain to the American people (even in their hackneyed way) what the fuck just happened. They don’t have to offer you rubes an explanation or justify themselves.
I LOLLED when you used the word “explain” here Broche.
Seriously, what can they explain? Explaining, after all, means providing details & facts of a story, right. That’s not what the adults in charge now can do, because none of the facts & details would result in anything but people seeing them for the corrupt & inept fuckwads they are.
Hence the need to get the people to believe a lie, preferably one that eventually allows them to blame someone else for their failures, when it becomes impossible to pretend they didn’t fail…
I’m willing to bet they are bewildered – that they’re all walking around saying “we convinced ourselves of a narrative, and reality is busting it all up – not fair”. With psyches shattered, you can’t expect them to offer a coherent statement of the public!
I would bet dollars to donuts that you are exactly right. The left has so insulated itself from anything that counters the “narrative” that they have zero idea what is going on anymore, and when they are caught with their pants down they spin lies. Lies that they have started to believe are the truth.
Never get high on your own supply.
And they’re right. We the people seem to not only deserve, but demand this level of feckless indifference.
That’s hilarious. The whole executive branch on vacay at once.
Maybe they all have the ‘vid.
If they attended Obama’s super-spreader event, that might not be farfetched….
But asking “who’s in charge?” Is forbidden.
Zombie Al Haig.
Honestly, I would take Haig, even the zombie iteration, over every single current cabinet member, the VP and POTUS.
Fuck, I would take the headless body of Spirew Agnew right about now.
Yes
Will the stonewalling work or will this be Katrina II Electric Boogaloo? This looks terrible, just the worst course of action they could take.
Well, they’re certainly going down in history as the administration that gave Afghanistan to the Taliban. I’m sure thinking up a way to spin that in the usual political bullshit-speech way is difficult. But maybe just say the truth:
“Yeah we did a shitty job in the pullout. But we had to go sooner or later. It’s called the graveyard of empires for a reason. The outcome was inevitable, so we ripped the band-aid off.”
Also, “….should have done it 15 years ago.” It true, AND you can throw it back onto Bush. However, it leads to followup question of why Obama didnt rip off the band-aid.
And the follow up question of why Biden pushed it back. They could have had the pull-out wrapped up before the war-fighting season started and the Taliban began conquering if they had kept to the Trump timeline. That would have saved a modicum of face.
Because Trump can’t be allowed credit for anything.
They prioritized “stick it to Trump” over actual planning. Now they’re going to own it.
An honest media would be reaping in viewership with this administration. Instead, they sided with what they thought would get them shot last.
Vacations come first. Can’t cancel that and get your ass back to the office when there’s a major event like this.
It makes no sense. I’ve taken production meetings on vacation if there’s a problem. There has to be more going on here.
Complete dump of blame on:
American people for demanding to leave
Trump, because
Bush, it was his war
I think that is what the radio silence is about. Lets the talking heads formulate all those narratives so Biden et al can neatly place their views on top of them.
Maybe, but I think Malice might be right.
No shit. I’ve walked my back up through problems from the beach in Mexico. I’m pretty sure my boss has worked from Europe before (doesn’t sleep much + time zone offset meant he could have the day with the grandkids before logging in + had some poor quality peers at the time that it was just easier for him not to take official vacations).
Yeah… I’ve known an IT gal who was down in Florida for vacation; and was asked to fly back in the middle of the week to take care of tape back up issue.
That was before the days of RDP; but when even last year, when shit was on fire at my last job, we worked over holidays, weekends, etc until things were fixed.
Is it possible Biden isn’t really the hardworking and competent leader we’ve been led to believe?
Funny, I’ve been led to believe he’s a lifetime politiciant with dementia.
Put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties
That guy needs to be pounded flat with a shovel.
“Heads. Spikes. Walls.”
Jack Woolley: Ireland’s first taekwondo Olympian hospitalised after Dublin attack
Jack Woolley was left needing surgery after being hit in the face during an evening out in Dublin. The 22-year-old, who is Ireland’s first ever taekwondo Olympian, was admitted to St James’s hospital following the attack.
https://news.sky.com/story/jack-woolley-irelands-first-taekwondo-olympian-hospitalised-after-dublin-attack-12381503
not a great look for taekwondo as a martial art
Yep. Taekwondo is next to useless in a real fight. Looks pretty, but useless.
/former taekwondo student
Having watched some of the taekwondo Olympic event, it’s a silly sport.
As silly as karate – where the American got disqualified in the gold medal match for hitting too hard?
Say what?
https://youtu.be/JYruhiF9M70
OFFS
Pretty sure in the Olympics you automatically lose if you knock out your opponent.
All it takes is talking when you should have been listening. Pay attention, Son.
There’s a big difference between guys who train to win point-scoring tournaments, and those who train for real fighting.
Just heard the incoming governor is signaling that she wants the indoor mask mandate for gyms and restaurants they have in NYC will now be a go for the whole state. Shes meeting with Fauci and the CDC this week. Im not wearing a mask in the gym again. I’ll be doing all my dining at home too. Fuck these people.
So she’s worse than the outgoing guy but at least she’s not molesting the help (that we know of).
Doubtful that she’s worse, since AFAIK she doesn’t have the power base to get away with Cuomo-level abuses of power.
The one silver lining to the Afghan crisis is I really stopped thinking about how much I hate the discourse around masks. I won’t mask, fuck these people.
We will either get resistance this time or entire industries will be destroyed.
Masking has just barely subsided in my little section of NYC. I’m the only one who won’t wear one at work and I constantly see people wearing them to the beach. However, I spent yesterday in Long Beach, about 5 miles away, in Nassau county and saw only a couple masks all day.
Baseball birthdays, with greater than 20 WAR:
Gene Woodling, Baby Doll Jackson, Yu Darvish, Willie Jones, Tiny Bonham, George Scales, Rick Reed.
Only 1 of which was mentioned by sloopy. Listing Xavier and Quinten is digging deep, unless you are judging on scrabble scores.
Darvish’s WAR is US only, b-r.com has not yet added in Japan League equivalencies.
Darvish has been shitting up my Fantasy team in the second half.
Has anyone talked to Swiss in the last couple of days?
Is he doing OK right now? This has got to be massively depressing.
My friend’s nephew just arrived in DC with the dog he trained. He was a security guard for the US embassy in Kabul.
Talked to him yesterday. Seemed OK, but the real bad stuff came out today. The soldiers on the ground that tried to do their best despite the idiot brass and political leaders, well, I will still tip my hat to them.
✔️Dog dead
✔️Afghanistan
✔️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahREWOODxQA
I’m taking a break for a while. Life is too harsh right now.
I’ve got a
sex dungeonguest room if you just need to chill in late-summer upstate. The is an occasionally-barky dog on premises however.My sympathies. My GSD just died yesterday. He had idiopathic epilepsy, and recently suffered a series of cluster seizures that ended up with him in the hospital with IV midazolam to try to stop the seizures. It finally did stop them after 2 days, but his brain was so traumatized that he never recovered. I’m still devastated.
Geez, I’m sorry WTF. Assume that’s him in the avatar? Looks like a lovable champ.
Yeah that’s him. He was a really sweet guy. Huge at 130 pounds but so friendly as to be a shitty watchdog.
Awww, my condolences. ?? Not just traumatic but expensive too.
Oh man, I am so very sorry. Gunter is such a handsome boy. All my best to you and the family.
I never thought I was a dog guy but now that I have two of them, I know I’m going to be heartbroken (twice) in the future.
https://poets.org/poem/power-dog
Sorry man
I’m really sorry to hear that WTF. It’s so sad when they go.
Sorry.
Shit, KK. Feel better if you can manage it. Much vibes sent from here.
KK I know the feeling. By the way, wifey said you are sweet for saying she was awesome.
Aw man. Sorry to hear that KK.
Take some time for yourself, we’re not going’ anywhere.
So sorry KK, we all hope it gets better
Keep the faith, KK. Good things will roll back around.
Sorry, Kippled. I know we have talked about losing our doges lately, but I know this is hitting you hard. My wife is sliding into the same funk, and it sucks.
Sorry.
Condolences to KK & WTF.
Condolences to both of you. I don’t know why dogs become such an integral part of our lives, but the sure do. And when it’s time to leave, they leave a giant hole. That hole never gets completely filled back up, but, with time, instead of tearing up, we can smile and laugh when we remember our friends.
Last night I took one of the kids to a concert at Wrigley Field. Besides Wrigley Field an the entire neighborhood being a shit show if you drive, the concert was fantastic. Sold out, no vaccines, no masks, no political bs, and the bands were just happy to play in front of people again. This is probably the last of those. I’m still waiting to see if I can get a refund for the Maroon 5 show this weekend. I’m with you Sloop. I won’t go to a show if they require a vaccine. So it will just be country music at the local fairground from now on.
It’s happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrHm4phj5RQ&t=2s
This almost makes it worse.
Amazing man.
Being skeptical of the government and protesting for a redress of grievances makes you a terrorist.
They are referring to anti-lockdown protesters as terrorists in public now
I forgot Biden was Senator during the fall of Saigon
People that don’t kowtow to the globalist state and it’s agenda are terrorists….
What are you rebelling against?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4NkkAQllfo
What have you got?
Interesting reminder of how the euro was tagged as the future, replacing the dollar.
Particularly love the mention about French taxation.
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope the auction went well.
Thanks for the Monday morning lynx, despite the theme of unbridled retardation.
Future isn’t looking too bright right now, but that is a great little tune!
Have a great day, y’all!
Apparently I lost a friend over THE VACCINE. About two weeks ago, during a normal text conversation about something entirely different, she texted “No more excuses. [Girlfriend] could bring it home from work even if you don’t go anywhere. Kids are dying here and hospitals are overwhelmed.”
I suppressed my initial reaction and instead replied “I don’t think this is a topic we should talk about. It would only cause rancor.” Hearing nothing for a few hours, I followed up “We can still be friends!” And it’s been something like two weeks, nothing. This is a person I talked to every day. And an extremely polite request that we not discuss this got me ghosted.
I’d be considerably less polite to someone accusing me of killing children.
Out of curiosity, where is “here” for her?
Florida. Which is not here for me, for the record.
ICUs could be overwhelmed depending on the locality but statewide load is at 91%.
That said, there are two confounding factors. It’s August and everyone is inside because it’s freaking hot. And the Feds are importing cases into the state by bringing illegals with COVID and dumping them there, causing more spread.
ICUs tend not to have a bunch of empty beds sitting around unused. That sounds like a normal occupancy rate.
It is mildly higher than normal, but I’m allowing for local variance. Jacksonville appears to be at or above capacity.
….Would?
I know, most of us don’t have so many friends that we can afford to throw them away wholesale.
But really, this doesn’t sound like someone who is really tight with you, who is as invested in your success and happiness as you are in theirs…
I got to use a line from Blue Brothers in context yesterday.
Went to a church in Fort Collins, during the music section I turned to my wife and said, “They’ve got both kinds of music here…country and western.” It was an odd but good church band. Apparently their secondary unit.
Once again, I could have taken a picture for the modern church or dive bar trivia contest. The guitarist looked like he was ready to join Skynyrd but had been born 50 years too late.
The control computer I’m shipping to the West Coast has made it to Portland. As long as the FedEx truck doesn’t get hijacked or arsoned, it should be ok.
It will be redistributed. You’ll never see it again nor get reimbursed.
Unrelated, I do want to appologise for not being able to make it out to the range in the current year. It has not been a good year for me in a great many categories to the point where I’m unsure if I even remembered to renew my membership with the club I’m in.
I don’t want it to appear like I’m ghosting you or avoiding activities for interpersonal reasons.
NBD. I just figured you weren’t as into the organized recreational gunfire as I am.
Having said THAT, did you get a 9mm upper yet? USPSA next weekend, and it’s supposed to be a small, mellow match.
I don’t have a functioning lower yet. It’s all just parts and tools waiting for me to clear the plastic crack off the workbench and attach the cross slide vice to the drill press.
If you don’t like the twitter link above:
“Three stowaways ‘fall to their deaths from plane’ and five are killed at airport as increasingly desperate Afghans climb on MOVING US Air Force jet as they flee from Taliban: All US Embassy staff have now been evacuated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9897561/ALL-Embassy-staff-Kabul-evacuated-airport-five-people-killed.html
Not a good look. Reacting to the bad optics:
“Biden’s statement ‘washing hands’ of Afghanistan ‘is one of most shameful in US history’: Left and right-wing media unite in condemnation of America’s ‘chaotic retreat’ and ‘betrayal’ of Afghan people”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9897611/Media-America-Britain-react-Afghanistan-crisis.html
Nice collection of front pages.
Yeah the not wanting to repeat helos evacuating people but having them fall of C-130s as it is rolling down the runway sure is so much better.
I still think it was planned this way by people in the IC and Pentagon. They want the general public to know so we rush back in.
See, there’s no way they planned for things to get this bad this fast. And I think the Taliban is acting as aggressively as it is just to slam the door on the idea of an American return.
See my post above about our troop levels in Afghanistan throughout the war and especially during the initial invasion. We didn’t invade like Iraq, but used Afghans to fight other Afghans with a minuscule initial force. That wouldn’t be possible today and the American public has no stomach for a massive invasion (even if that were logistically possible in Afghanistan given its location) of a country we just spent 20 years dicking around in.
The days of holding the peace in Afghanistan with a few thousand troops are over. And we aren’t retaking the country with those sorts of numbers. It’s over.
“And I think the Taliban is acting as aggressively as it is just to slam the door on the idea of an American return.”
Absolutely
The Taliban knows exactly what it’s doing and has planned this far better than the US has planned anything during the last ten years in Afghanistan.
Yeah, someone’s link above was pointing out the Taliban now control more of the country than they did before we invaded. There is no Northern Alliance anymore.
I agree, and I think their announcement that they are moving in to stop crime and protect the citizenry, along with the pledge to not enter private property, are part and parcel of that. I know the Taliban is evul, and I still haven’t gotten over the destruction of of the Bamiyan Buddhas, but frankly, the form of government they practice in Kafiristan is none of my business.
I feel a lot less outraged over the Buddhas after the last several years of similar cultural and historical destruction here by people who would fit right in with the Taliban’s methods and ideological outlook (aside from the specifics).
[rim-shot]
Good God , man! I couldn’t agree more; modern iconoclasm both baffles and disgusts me.
*shrugs* It split the world at one time.
^^^ It is their country, even if we don’t like ‘them’.
But they aren’t wearing masks!
If we hadn’t invaded Iraq, we could have used more force in Afghanistan.
I mentioned it the other day, but I favor a “get in fast, get out fast, leave an “I’ll be back” statement for if the Taliban returns.” If we had done that the first time around, we could have done it 4 or 5 times in last 20 years if necessary. Eventually it is obviously too deadly to return.
Exactly. Instead we groveled to ‘please let our people go’ and asked for permission to evacuate. If I were the Taliban I absolutely would be moving at the pace they did knowing that we can do whatever the fuck we want at this point because we didn’t have the condition of “we are leaving but remember, we can put a whole army here in less than 48 hours if need be; dont be dicks”
At the risk of sounding pedantic, I thought it was a Galaxy (C-5) at first, but on taking a second look it looks like a Globemaster (C-17). The C-130 is much smaller.
It is…I was just going off the top of my head. Actually much worse people clinging to the C-17 and I am surprised that the Apaches didn’t lay down cover for its departure.
That would have been interesting optics, now, wouldn’t it?
I am glad they didn’t but I am sure it was in their minds… It is sad people died because we didn’t secure the runway and lucky the helos didn’t see any threats.
The whole “it was Trump’s fault” thing was too big of a lie even for our shameful propagandists.
That’s encouraging to hear. I wasn’t so sure.
They can’t hide this or spin this. Just like the border crisis and inflation. This administration is a disaster, everyone can see it, and there is nobody skilled enough to talk their way around it.
Sooner or later, as the inept and corrupt become more & more dependent on operatives with bylines providing cover for them, losing actual skill or urgency in the process, there will come a moment when that game rigging will fail, and fail miserably. I think we are at that moment. The usual suspects are even at a loss on how to spin this into something less negative and drawing a blank.
TMITE
Honestly, at this point the journalisming is actually worse than President Pudding-cup.
There’s a town in Idaho called “Athol?”
What are the residents like?
Sthoopid!
It’s a small town just south of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
Beautiful country.
There is one in Massachusets too.
Mass-holes indeed.
Going to bed now my fine folks. Have a dandy one!
“Republicans DELETE webpage praising Donald Trump’s ‘historic peace deal with the Taliban’ and his support for withdrawing troops as the Taliban takes control”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9897939/Republicans-remove-page-praising-Donald-Trumps-historic-Taliban-peace-deal.html
LOL @ 404 page
Double-dosing viagra to get those war-boners raging!
“Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 1,297 with at least 5,700 injured: Rescuers rush to find survivors as tropical storm approaches the island”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9895671/Death-toll-Haiti-quake-hits-724-tropic-storm-looms.html
Yikes!
Jesus is still punishing the Haitians because of Papa Doc’s deal with the Devil. Pat Robinson told me so.
I thought it was punishment for Toussaint Louverture’s brutality causing a bunch of filthy, frog-talkin’, wannabe Court of the Sun King, slavers to flee and bedevil New Orleans.
WAIT! They can’t rescue the unvaxxed who aren’t wearing masks! That would cause a SUPER SPREADER!
The Clinton Foundation needs your donations now!
I’m no legal expert. Is the premise of this that a restaurant owes this guy money because they weren’t prescient enough about his assholishness to know he’d start a fight (and apparently lose)?
Well, the restaurant never responded so it’s basically just a default judgement.
I think the state of the law now is – find an entity with deep pockets (except the government, sovereign immunity, bitches!) that’s somehow vaguely connected with the cause of action, maybe just by being geographically close to a supposed tort, and just sue them. See what sticks!
I like the part of the suit about the restaurant not providing a parking lot suitable for a drunken brawl.
No attorney present to raise that point to a judge and voila – default win!
Y’know we should give the Feds even more power; I mean look how well they handled Afghanistan.
8:15 am Saturday morning. I’m walking past McClatchkey’s Tavern. The door is open, and people are at the bar drinking.
This must be a place for the locals.
Third shift got out?
I didn’t notice how they were dressed.
Later in the day, I was at the dog park when a drunk tiny ex-jockey came by after his day of shovelling shit at the track. The dogs LOVED him.
Now I’m sitting here wondering if he stayed at the track for love of horses or shortage of transferrable skills (no pun intended)
That would be my guess as well. There’s several bars around here that open at 08:00 right down the street from the old auto plants.
This whole thing will end very, very badly.
Been hearing this a lot lately. Feels like Afghanistan was the first thing to end in a while.
“The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action. The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions. We are concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls.”
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1426937799446564870
CWAC
I see we have gone to Baghdad Bob levels of talking to the American People on every aspect of what the administration is doing. God help us all. As a student of history, this level of bullshit coming out of the government never ends well.
The gibberish that comes out of that bitch’s mouth….Keep in mind that she used to pal around with this guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
As a matter of fact most of the San Fran pols did also. If they caught fire I wouldn’t bother unzipping. The sooner they have a 10.0, the better.
LOL
Keep digging
OK, so there is someone worse than the media.
“Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful President I’ve ever known in my life.”
“I would say that Herb Tarlek is a, um, hard worker, loyal husband, and all-around fine person.”
especially women and girls – how much is a 17 year old going for these days in old Afghanistan?
Back in the early ’90s I spent some time in England. One night over beers I asked a Limey “Hey, the sun never set on your empire. What happened?”
He answered “You will see.”
Now I see.
a limey or the limey?
Afghanistan Meant Nothing
A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
https://laurajedeed.medium.com/afghanistan-meant-nothing-9e3f099b00e5
This all seemed really obvious from the start.
That conflict was about globalist desires to test their nation building idea, cause the globalist plan still lacks an answer on how to make the more backward places on the planet bow the knee to their cabal….
That and in the process making a whole bunch of connected people get a huge chunk of taxpayer money collected by the IRS.
Has Swissy been around to comment? I’d be interested in his thoughts as he spent a fair bit of time in Afghanistan.
I remember how every year the US would have to decide how to deal with the opium fields. There were a few options. You could leave the fields alone, and then the Taliban would shake the farmers down and use the money to buy weapons. Or, you could carpet bomb the fields, and then the farmers would join the Taliban for reasons that, to me, seem obvious.
The third option, and the one we went for while I was there, was to give the farmers fertilizer as an incentive to grow wheat instead of opium poppy. The farmers then sold the fertilizer to the Taliban, who used it to make explosives for IEDs that could destroy a million dollar MRAP and maim everyone inside.
I remember we weren’t allowed to throw batteries away because people who worked on base would go through the trash and collect hundreds of dead batteries, wire them together so they had just enough juice for one charge, and use that charge to detonate an IED.
I am not sure I buy the last beat. batteries are cheap an available everywhere
Uh…..I’m assuming you’re quoting someone?
yes.l the article. I have no recollections of afghanistan. Forgot the quotes. Only the last sentence is mine
SHIT. Now I saw this was not a reply to comment 65. Goddamnit
There appears to be a robust market for counterfeit vaccine cards. I wonder if there is a single person working at the White House who has any idea what that means.
Unless they’re being preprinted with vaccination information, they’re just blank forms not counterfeit.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered an election Sunday as he seeks to capitalize on Canada being one of the most fully vaccinated countries in the world.
Maxime Bernier!
Concert promoter and venue operator Live Nation plans to require COVID-19 vaccines for its patrons “everywhere possible” beginning Oct. 4, the company said.
Go fuck yourselves.
The coalition vowed to ‘[dismantle] the practices that reinforce white academic superiority’ – including standardized testing and what they called an ‘Americanized version of the caste system in our schools’.
Go fuck yourselves.
Splayed on the examining table frozen in terror, the remainder of the visit was hell.
Go fuck yourself.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1426543777947267075?s=20
These people in the comments are not fit to live in a free country. And the whiny shitbag OP is a perfect example of the perfumed princes infesting the country’s armed forces. A fucking primadonna in FL that’s concerned about county hearings in CA.
I can’t even… That lady claimed the Jan 6 grannies being held for months and months without bail, on misdemeanor trespass charges are getting “…slaps on the wrist.”
They are going to parcel out a reckoning or their opponents are going to do the same.
Either way, it’s not going to be pretty.
TMITE is always bringing the hot takes
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1426994034619342858
Lol, what a fucking mess we have become as a people.
I deleted it but am still doubling down.
Everyone is trying to find their narrative and cannot with all this. Juris up thread pointed that out quite nicely. Hey I know..lets point to an unconnected event and say this is why it is all messed up!
The governor of an American state has what, exactly, to do with this event in a foreign country?
SHES KILLING MORE PEOPLE THAN THE TALIBAN! AND SHE IS AMERICAN TALIBAN!
Meanwhile, back at the prison colony
Australia’s most populous state on Monday reported its worst day of the pandemic with 478 new infections and seven COVID-19 deaths as pandemic restrictions tightened in other parts of the country.
The previous record daily tally in New South Wales was 466 new cases reported on Saturday.
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Berejiklian blamed Sydney residents’ failure to comply with the city’s lockdown restrictions and stay-at-home orders for the escalating infections.
“The case numbers are disturbingly high and we are … at a fork in the road,” Berejiklian said.
“We will see the numbers come down when people stay home and people don’t move about unless they absolutely have to. Until we see that, we’re not going to see the case numbers go down,” she added.
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Tougher restrictions include a ban on people removing face masks to drink alcohol in public. This followed a “Walk. Talk. Sip” event advertised on social media that encouraged people to stroll from pub to pub in the suburb of Richmond with takeout drinks over the weekend.
“We’ve seen people turning the footpath into an impromptu beer garden and doing pub crawls,” Andrews said. “We’ve seen lots of people flouting these rules, not doing as they should, making really poor choices.”
The floggings will continue until health improves.
“He only beats me because he loves me. I’m such a disappointment to him.”
He beats you because he enjoys it, and you let him. He will continue to beat you until you get out of bed in the middle of the night and stab him in the neck with a pair of scissors.
Well, when you come to a fork in the road, take it.
OK, so you are forced to move and your choice is Afghanistan or Australia. I might actually lean to the former right now.
*looks at map of Taliban control of Afghanistan*
The Taliban spreads faster than covid.
It is almost as if every city they rolled into a
pile of brickscache of weapons and equipment were waiting for them.😉
You talking about the abandoned American weapons or stockpiles from other sources?
No solid evidence but yes.
Nifty weekend gun stuff!
I went down to Dad’s shop Sunday, to use his CNC mill.
One of his clients dropped by to drop off a couple guns for service, and he also brought along his ‘covert’ deer gun – a 6.8 SPC II AR pistol with a homebuilt Form 1 silencer and a thermal sight.
That thermal sight was just sick. To quote Ferris Bueller, “If you have the means, I highly recommend it.”
“China state-affiliated media
#环球时报Editorial: From what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and US military won’t come to help. As a result, the DPP will quickly surrender. ”
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1427267130467119104
Give the Chinese credit, they know how to capitalize on our ineptness and stupidity.
Nah, The Taiwanese will fight. I mean the US won’t interfere and the Taiwanese may well not be able to withstand the onslaught but they will at least try to resist.
Who could’ve seen this bit of propaganda coming?
But I think the Taiwanese are more likely to put up a fight.
It is propaganda heaven right now. Western diplomats ran away, Chinese and Russian diplomats stayed. Doesn’t take a genius to see how the world powers will use this to further diminish American spheres of influence about the world.
Well… they’re not wrong.
The Afghan government had nothing to fight for. What ideal did the Afghan soldier have in his mind that would be worth catching a bullet for? The Taiwanese will absolutely fight, they believe it to be an existential battle in a way the Afghans just didn’t.
^^^This.
They will almost certainly lose, but they’ll make the CCP pay for the victory. At this point, the only country I can see actually helping Taiwan out is Japan and I don’t even know what their capabilities are.
I don’t think Taiwan will lose.
As hilariously incompetent as we are, the CCP is worse. Don’t be fooled.
Like the Soviets did before them, the CCP believes there is a quality in quantity. China’s hardware might not be top of the line (it is practically all copied stolen IP made by crappy contractors owned by the CCP that can’t fail to deliver because there are consequences) but they are going for numbers. And yes, China’s troops are not as well trained or effective as we might consider to be competent, but again, they have numbers, and the CCP won’t lose any sleep if a million people die capturing Taiwan, because they are not soft shits. Chinese people might have been ticked at ineptitude costing lives, but the CCP would make sure the focus was not on that but on the fact they brought Taiwan to heel.
I guess we won’t know until this plays out, but I warn everyone that unlike us, the CCP (and other evil dictatorial types) care very little about their body counts as long as they reach the objective.
The point of this isn’t to spread truth but to raise doubt and undermine your certainty, or the certainty about the guy next to you. Mission accomplished, everybody! All without even firing a test shot.
We all know who to blame.
Cheney said, “Absolutely President Biden bears responsibility for making the decision. There’s no question that President Trump, his administration, Secretary Pompeo, they bear very significant responsibility for this. They walked down this path of legitimizing the Taliban, perpetuating this fantasy, telling the American people that the Taliban were partners in peace. President Trump told us the Taliban was going to fight terror. Secretary Pompeo told us the Taliban was going to renounce al Qaeda. The Taliban released prisoners across Afghanistan. There’s real concern they’re not just fighters in those prisons who will join the battle in Afghanistan, but the terrorists globally will be fed new soldiers for that fight. The delegitimization of the Afghan government — at one point, president trump said they would invite the Taliban to Camp David. ”
Perhaps treating them like adults was a better way to negotiate and get concessions, whereas reneging on the agreed terms and making no moves towards executing a clean withdrawal ended in disaster.
I blame the assholes who put us in a
warauthorized use of military force that couldn’t be won.That would be ever single member of Congress at the time except Ron Paul. Both Republicans and Democrats. In a bipartisan assfucking of the country.
Victory has a thousand fathers while defeat is an orphan – Napoleon.
After 20 years there were a lot of people involved in this failure. I don’t blame Trump or Biden alone.
Correct. From Bush to Cheney to Obama to Trump to Biden. Those are the easy household names we can attribute it towards. However the countless Pentagon brass that either lied to themselves or to the public and their battlefield commanders, they should be named.
I have truly enjoyed this in a sick way.
When announced under Biden, no acknowledgment whatsoever from the media that he was following Trump’s deadline for withdrawal. Biden was our hero who was ending our forever war and instilling peace.
Today, I *NOW* find loads of articles on how it was actually Trump’s plan and deadline.
Then, a delicious propaganda photo is released by the white house (obviously fake) of Biden “handling the situation”.
Lol. Horrible. Yet hilarious. Yet horrible.
Well, Obama did the same thing with pulling out of Iraq on Bush’s timetable, then tripled down, for peace, of course.
Slightly different because Obama asked Congress to extend the timetable in Iraq.
They said no.
Then the media gave him enormous credit for ending the war he tried to extend.
Then he just extended it anyway on his own.
I really don’t think the people will buy the Trump’s fault bit. I hope I’m right.
Several left wing friends on my Facebook are all in hilarious spin mode today and sharing the Washington Post article.
But, what matters is what do the independents whose opinion changes the next election think?
There’s no fucking way they’re buying it and they’re already out on even Biden before this.
What do those hot, luscious, erotic Millennials think?/Gillespie
Hang on while I scour Tik Tok for the proper dance move to express this moment.
You’re braver than I.
Those that would’ve blamed Trump no matter what will still blame Trump; say 40ish% of the population. However, I think you’re right that “moderates” and “independents” will mostly blame Biden.
Maybe Russia has finally adopted daylight saving time!
My guess is our ‘experts’ just don’t know Russian doesn’t do daylight savings. Could account for a lot the Cold War.
Looking at Afghanistan as an isolated terrorist entity is idiotic. Without mentioning Iran (and Wahabbis) as the main funders of the Taliban, one just exposes their ignorance of the subject. I put most of that blame on the party-centric journalist not asking the questions, letting the bullshitting bureaucrat off the hook. Iran breathed a sign of relief when Biden took office, and the Taliban were a beneficiary. The Pentagon is happy to let Afghanistan collapse further into chaos, anticipating a big, fat pile of cash from Congress to go back – and that is more likely if they can prevent the subject of Iran being brought up.
Iran has nothing to do with Wahabbis, in fact the Shia’s hate the Wahabbis as much as the Wahabbis hate everyone that ISN’T a Wahabbi (Shiite or Shia).
I understand that Iran and Wahabbis are totally different. The Taliban will take money and weapons from both though.
Hell, if I’m in a fight, I’ll take money and weapons from anyone who will give them to me. Come to think of it, I don’t even have to be in a fight if someone is feeling generous.
As seen before, the Taliban Government was supported by Iran, and Al-Quieda was supported by Wahabist Saudis. Money flowed into the coffers from both.
…who’s to blame
Everyone who’s last name is Cheney?
MASS PSYCHOSIS – How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
Worth watching. The visuals make clear the point of view of the authors/producers, which are likely on the conservative side of things. I worry that little things like that will cause opponents and people leaning away from liberty to call them “dog whistles” and to discount the message based on the viewpoint. The actual text/narration of the video avoids an obvious left/right leaning, but the many visual references may cause mental “speed bumps” to people who are inclined to the left/progressivism.
Being nuts is like being dead or stupid. Everyone can see it except you.
in the last month I had someone say to me “Facts don’t matter.” What can be gained by talking so such a person?
And that’s the problem in a nutshell: way too many people have been conditioned to only care about THEIR own emotions. Facts & logic be damned.
way too many people have been conditioned to only care about THEIR own emotions
AMEN!
For those averse to Youtube
https://rumble.com/vktiw2-after-skool-presents-how-an-entire-population-becomes-.html
Krystal and Saager are so dreamy /sarc
I get the feeling we’ll be bombing the Taliban in 15-18 months.
So brave he had to lie about it.
Well, was it Trump’s plan or not?
Hey, good news for the War on Drugs though! The Taliban love manipulating that poppy market!
Now I need to go find an opium den
As the mouthpiece of the Establishment, the fact that the MSM is going after Biden for Afghanistan goes to show just how deep the Permanent Warfare State goes. As awful as what’s happening over there is, this is the least egregious of his failures: US energy independence, the border, inflation; all IMO worse than Afghanistan because they affect the genpop more and are completely preventable. There is no way we could have left Afghanistan without some variation of what’s happening now coming to pass. However, even though he’s on the right TEAM, he has to be eviscerated for this because he’s on the wrong side of the issue. It’s clear the neocon/welfare-warfare state types are still running the show independent of TEAM.
???
I think “in theory” we could’ve left Afghanistan in a better way, but do I really think the U.S. government could? No. Because it’s utterly and inherently incompetent.
The U.S. is still operating on the “competency” glow that came from defeating the invincible Krauts and Japs in 1945. It started to fade in Korea and Vietnam but then we crushed the military juggernauts of Grenada, Panama, and Iraq.
Yes. It’d probably be worse if Trump were still President, but all this was bound to happen, and the politicians and arms dealers that gain power and riches from permanent war will lash out at anyone in an attempt to show that we should be continually at war in order to stop these things from happening.
Hopefully, people have maintained enough sanity to realize that the forever war itself plants the seeds for its own failure.
It’d probably be about the same, but the media would be going APESHIT.
That’s what I meant. I didn’t mean the actual situation would be worse.
haha. yeah. so true.
The actual result would be the same, but faster. Also we possibly would have left less hardware for the Taliban to pick up.
They’ll listen to her, she won a Nobel after all.
She’s not as cute anymore. The Taliban will only listen to someone cute.
Where is this “deeply worried about women” person tweeting from? Perhaps her Nobel prize money and fame could have been better spent on training Afghan women to fire weapons and defend themselves when their cowardly menfolk wouldn’t?
She better get used to keeping her trap shut and making them their falafels (sammiches?) when they want it.
We hate you, America!
PLEASE DON’T GO!!!
When you wish it was actually the news and it is just be The Bee.
Is this a logic result of their belief that instead of sending police you send social workers now making them not send troops but influencers?
Victory by mean tweets and demands they bow to crazy ideas!
For a bit of Canadiana electioneering from Max!:
The Other Options Suck
(Best election message EVAH. Be sure to click on the image accompanying the twat!)
I may have to get this as a lawn sign.
Sorry, I only use ER-PPCs or Light PPCs.
I like Bernier.
Hopefully he learned not to listen to his cock.
How about some amusement for everyone? TW- The Atlantic.
The Hot-Person Vaccine The internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna—but why?
I have found it funny that Moderna was always second class to Pfizer. I’m willing to be there was no statistical difference in efficacy between the two, but on an absolute basis one was 94% compared to 95%. That said by my early reads the Pfizer did have statistically lower side effects. Now with the dreaded Delta killing people left and right – or not – Moderna’s PR has it sitting with higher efficacy and longer lasting protection. What will the cool kids do?
But wait it gets better!
Pfizer Gang Is Pfinished Was a fun internet culture around vaccines ever going to last?
I got the Pfizer way back when, and I had heart issues for 2 months afterward. I would classify those heart issues as 10-15% cooler than Moderna heart issues. Easily.
I haven’t gotten any vaccine, and I haven’t had any issues.
I’m the coolest.
Yeah, but you’re going to drop dead of Covid. Unless you’re under 80 and not obese.
Check, and check.
I’m good.
I get a shot every month, I’m way cooler. B12 4 Life!
I don’t pay attention to this kind of stuff. Was this really a thing? Social prestige based on which vaccine people got?
The fucking Sneetches didn’t have anything on us.
Psy-op. Guaranteed. There were non-profits that I was directly aware of that were trying to find ways to make vaccines “cool” on social media.
Oh it was definitely a thing.
Early on, my plan was if I had to get a shot it was going to be one and done J&J. We saw what happened with that one, so I said okay, I’ll go with Pfizer.
Now, if someone kicks down my door in the middle of the night and actually let’s me choose which one, I would go with moderna.
I would still rather be injected with a syringe full of the live virus.
I thought I was being optimistic with 3 choices.
When I was forced to get the shot or find a new job, I went with J&J because a) one shot instead of two b)not an mRNA Frankenvaccine. The scary side effects had happened to women, so I was ok with that
You and I had the exact same thoughts.
Yeah, it was a thing. When you have people that are too dim and frightened to think for themselves, all they have left is following fads and “influencers.”
Emily Irish, an 18-year-old Reddit user who got their first Pfizer shot in late April, posted in the r/pfizergang forum a few days later to ask whether anyone else had lost their voice after receiving the vaccine. (Irish uses they/them pronouns.)
Imagine giving yourself pronouns and losing your voice.
I am now pro-vax. I will go out and encourage everyone under the age of 35 to “get jabs in arms” right now.
I mean, would we expect different results after how they reported people burning down cities? Never change CNN, never change.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1427283078993547267
CNN reporter outside Kabul embassy:
“They’re just chanting ‘Death to America’ but they seem friendly at the same time.”
“Fiery but mostly peaceful…”
???
Mostly peaceful beheadings.
Beheadings Little Matter
robc, you still around? I live in Fort Collins. I sent you a message in the forum a while back.
STEVE SMITH KNOW WHERE ROBC HIDING
There’s a forum?
I think I have been on it once, will check for the message.
I must have missed the “misinformation” clause of 1A.
“Journalists and the media have an incredibly important role and responsibility in preventing the spread of misinformation,” Murthy told CNN host Brian Stelter. “While we all have the right to make our own choices, we don’t have the right to irresponsibly spread misinformation.”
The remarks come amid Democrats seeking to use Big Tech to silence their political opponents under the guise of perceived “misinformation and disinformation.” Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico put forth the “Health Misinformation Act” last month that would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Of course, “misinformation” just means information that the powers that be disapprove of.
Wait, so does this mean John Adams WAS a Hermaphrodite?! Because the press couldn’t print it unless it was true!
I could kind of see this if journalism at least pretended to be about reporting facts. But right now journalism is just opinion and story telling. All he’s saying is that we should only hear one side’s opinions and stories.
“we don’t have the right to irresponsibly spread misinformation.”
Yes, we all do, you mendacious fuckwit.
JFC these people are evil.
Biden gonna address the nation earlier now that his handlers realized hiding away is probably not the best idea to sit and wait until Wednesday or so.
I am going with:
“we needed to leave” – which is good and I do commend him for following through on what his predecessor started and was blocked every which way to Sunday for even suggesting it.
“this wasn’t my plan” – he will squarely lay it at the feet of said predecessor, instead of saying it was always going to be messy.
They’re between a rock and a hard place, I’ll wager. Oatmeal Brains probably isn’t up to the challenge of speaking clearly on the subject, which is why they’ve been keeping him in hiding, but at this point they’re getting hammered even by their media allies so they have to produce him.
I expect a demonstration of advanced senility.
The smart play was to keep quiet, so naturally they’re gonna shoot Gropey full of drugs and parade him around instead.
Option two is a little hard to square with his firm pronouncements that this was not inevitable. Or maybe that will just be memory-holed.
“Can we be sure that the media pool will not ask questions about what Biden said in the past 6 months?”
“Yes, and our controlled opponent with Fox News will be the only one that asks such questions, we can green-light his appearance to the American people now”.
Not that I expect anyone in the media to ask, but something like “You have been president for 6 months. Why weren’t we drawing down equipment in a measured way for the past 6 months?” Instead we gave everything a stronger willed force needed in terms of military equipment and infrastructure to do what they did.
“Mr. President, why, when our exit from Afghanistan was well known for years ahead of time, did the previous administration not have a coherent plan for withdrawing and preventing the Taliban from seizing the equipment and arms we left behind? If Trump had been impeached and removed from office, would that have even given us time to make appropriate preparations and prevent this disaster?”
Here’s the answer:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/biden-national-security-adviser-says-afghanistan-army-lacked-will-to-defend-against-taliban_3950670.html
They’re going to blame our erstwhile puppets and probably Trump as well.
Friend of mine in a deployed location is offloading refugees from Afghanistan. He said a plane just landed with a corpse still clinging to it.
Correction, strapped to it.
I was trying to reconcile that.
Still – ugh… that’s awful.
Death by asphyxiations and hypothermia… fucking ugly.
Not to mention the multi-hundred-mile-per-hour winds over the wing/fuselage tearing at every tender part of his anatomy. I can’t imagine what the corpse would even look like by the time the plane landed.
Aerodynamic denudation is a thing.
Damn.
Fuck… the videos of those poor bastards clinging to the aircraft were bad enough. G/d rest and keep him, and many other poor unfortunate souls. In a just world the cocktail swigging FedGov set would see their uppance come by tumbrel cart.
that’s awful
https://www.rt.com/news/532206-kabul-airport-military-evacuation-chaos/
Anarchy. In a very bad way.
“As a measure of both the nation’s creaking infrastructure and the severity of the drought gripping California, there is the $5 shower.”
I don’t have shit to do with California’s insane short-sightedness.
I laughed.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-rides-donkey-into-dc-on-path-of-mypillows
It’s the time of year for the usual China / Japan Yasukuni Shrine kabuki theater. What I am at complete loss for is how a Chinese national who is a public figure would want to even get near the place.
China Actor Boycotted for War Shrine Photos Amid Japan Tensions
Even more interesting is how exactly did he end up walking around Tokyo in the first place? Covid border restrictions are still in place.
Good point! Olympics?
No supposed spectators and participants were supposed to stay in the bubble. Maybe work exception for filming something? Smells like special treatment.
Actor.
Dozens of brands including Coca-Cola, Maybelline, Clinique, and Nivea said they will stop working with Zhang.
Woke Capital showing its unerring backbone in the defense of justice once again.
Yup.
That said the kindest thing I can say about that shrine is that it is highly selective about what it does and doesn’t say about Japan and its history. I’d like to visit it firsthand, but I don’t want to give them the money from my admission.
After 9/11/2001, when the Taliban was still harboring Bin Laden and Al Qaida, we should have bombed them from the air. Punitively. No apologies for collateral damage.
Make the locals want to kick the Taliban out or at least make the Taliban want to curb their activities. If they acted up again against us, bomb the shit out of them again. Repeat as needed.
We have all this sophisticated targeting and bombing equipment, including unmanned options, but by putting “boots on the ground” to win hearts and minds and to build a nation, we gave up our military advantage, because on the ground we had to refrain from harming civilians, while the Afghanis didn’t give a shit. The mire martyrs the merrier.
Nation building is a crock. Afghanistan isn’t a nation. It’s a stretch of land full of tribes, warlords, and sharing only some aspects of culture. The idea that we were going to be able to find the local Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, plus a well-read and enlightened citizenry was always ridiculous.
Our luck, we’d do a Belgrade on some third party country’s embassy or nationals.
Hey, what’s old is new again. Might as well go retrobelgrade.