Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
After completely fucking up the withdrawal out of Afghanistan, Biden came out of his vacation to take full responsibility by blaming Trump and the Afghan Army and boldly stating that he does not regret doing what everyone already agrees with him on doing, ending the war.
Cluster fuck doesn’t even begin to define the withdrawal.
Preliminary report on the AZ audit currently being prepared.
Supreme Court to hear challenge to NY gun control regulations.
Whitmer kidnapping case continues to fall apart.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
How YOU doin’ pimp-juice ?
Cocking & rocking!
“The lead FBI agent credited with foiling the plot, special Agent Richard Trask, 39, was arrested in July and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm after allegedly beating and choking his wife after returning home from a swinger sex party.
An affidavit alleges Trask got on top of his wife Sandy in their bed and âgrabbed the side of her head and smashed it several times on the nightstand.””
CWAA
âgrabbed the side of her head and smashed it several times on the nightstand.â
So their roleplay went south ?
Dead South. Don’s sunglasses…
But the Whitmer plotters also threatened/discussed/disliked DeWine (Cunte – OH)!
/local news has pulled the story claiming that
Now your people should also hold meetings to give them medals for considering ridding you of your asshat?
I am not sure what victories in the Supreme Court accomplish for gun rights; McDonald & Heller resulted in essentially no changes to the policies of the cities that “lost”
I would beg to differ – Chicago drastically changed in the face of their defeat. They still try to make things a hassle, but their defacto ban on firearms went away, and the State of Illinois had to allow CC.
I am concerned that ACB and Kavanaugh will join Roberts in ignoring the constitution and allowing “common sense” restrictions based on a government claim of a compelling interest, so as to respect precedent and not rock the boat. Oh, and any decision will be narrowly tailored to apply only to New York, leaving New Jersey’s prohibition on carrying intact.
It will be like Qualified Immunity cases. Decisions in favor of rights will only apply to the specific case.
Yep.
I didn’t read the McDonald ruling. I read the Heller ruling. Scalia is a piece of shit.
Morning, Banjos.
I wonder if New York will just ignore the ruling, or come up with an even worse “solution” to the issue of plebs having rights.
Before the hearing begins, they’ll put a TRO on the law in question, declare the issue moot and pinkie swear to never enforce the law again.
Then pass a completely new and even more abusive law and thumb their faces at the idiots that will need to spend 10-15 years to get it before the SCOTUS to shoot it down… AGAIN…
I don’t know, but there is almost no way a regular person can carry a gun in NYC.
“The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear a challenge to New York gun control that will highlight the extent of constitutional protections for carrying a gun outside the home.
The case centers on New Yorkâs requirement that concealed carry applicants show âproper causeâ before being issued a carry permit.”
I doubt the chickenshit court will make everywhere “shall issue”.
A real court would make everywhere constitutional carry.
People had really high hopes for this court that have been pretty thoroughly trashed by now. The last thing “the supreme court is good on” is the 2nd amendment. This will either restore a bit of hope or dash it completely.
“I donât know, but there is almost no way a regular person can carry a gun in NYC”
Even if you travel through, and have a dis-assembled firearm in your checked baggage, that had a giant red sticker on the outside that said “firearm in luggage”, at Kennedy airport.
Ask me about the week I spent in jail in Kew Gardens, Queens, NYC. And the $4K it cost me to not get a dime @ Riker’s.
To be fair, I met a lot of interesting people.
Article?
YES!
“Get a dime?”
Ten days incarceration?
Everyone loves turgid prose. Joining the chorus requesting you to write an article.
I thought a dime was ten years.
I thought it was ten cents.
I must be out of touch.
Well, I’m pretty sure a regular person can easily carry a gun in NYC, it’s just highly illegal.
/pedant
Watching from NJ. This state is supposedly “may issue”. In reality they are “won’t issue”.
Yup. Unless you are politically connected, you will not get a carry permit.
by blaming Trump and the Afghan Army and boldly stating that he does not regret doing what everyone already agrees with him on doing
I’m sure the Taliban will like the new toys that we left behind.
I really don’t understand how a withdrawal that was negotiated, agreed too, and likely largely planned out by the previous admin could become such a clusterfuck unless it was deliberate. Of course something something malice, something something stupidity.
A friend with a funny tin foil hat suggested that this could’ve been inside sabotage to make the Biden admin look bad. If so, the saboteurs are pretty shitty people to play with lives like that.
I think some conspiracy theorists take comfort in thinking that someone competent is in charge behind the scenes, even if the competent are malevolent. The reality that we are governed by fools who have no idea what they are doing is more disheartening.
If so, the saboteurs are pretty shitty people
The government is full saints. . .
The ones who actively want to do evil are fairly rare; those who can’t really tell the difference (between evil and good) are far more common.
^^^
All it takes is a handful of truly evil people to shepherd the amoral masses to do mass evil.
Your average German wasn’t any different than your average American in the 1930s.
Im gonna drag this question over from the previous thread- how does our congress have the legal authority to declare Pfizer, Moderna, et al immune from liability if the vaccine they manufacture causes illness or death ?
FYTW?
^
Actually they can do so under emergency powers. But the fact they did it doesn’t bode well and undermines the fact they feel the thing works/doesn’t have too many side effects…
FYTW
Necessary and proper clause.
Interstate commerce clause.
Mix and match as desired.
General Welfare!
It does almost seem like a reverse bill of attainder.
The same authority to explicitly exempt firearms manufacturing from certain lawsuits against their products.
Many/most vaccines have been exempt for 35 years when liability issues threatened to withdraw vaccines across the board. And exempt isn’t quite correct. Congress established a fund and process for those injured by vaccines, in place of not being able to sue manufacturers directly. The covid vaccines are covered under a slightly different program due to the EUA status but it’s the same framework that’s been in place for a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compensation_Program
https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp
Easy for you to say
I don’t see any real relation between protecting firearms manufacturers and those who produce vaccines, personally. In a world with common sense, Congress wouldn’t need to protect gun manufacturers because the courts would toss cases where assholes try and sue for how someone decided to misuse a product. The side-effects of a vaccine are an entirely different issue, and removing all responsibility for them really does nothing to combat claims that Congress is owned by big pharma.
It’s not that the details are the same, but Congress can and does set the scope and relief that is less than total and unlimited liability.
To directly answer Tres’ question, Article III Sections 1 & 2 which authorizes Congress to establish courts and their jurisdiction.
Vaccine Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compensation_Program
Coming soon to channel 35 weekdays at 1:30pm.
Congress has authority over the jurisdiction of courts.
I have no reason to be so especially dispirited by the fall of Kabul but I am. There’s something so disquieting about these events. I think our
propagandamedia is loathe to say it, but this really is a harbinger of sorts.I think it bothers me so much because it makes me think about 2001 and what kind of country we were back then, how much has changed, etc. It puts the 20 years of contrast in such stark relief. There are people who voted in 2020 who weren’t even born when the war started. The country they know and the one I knew are radically different places with radically different stated values.
The wokeposting from the Kabul embassy over the years is an absolute nightmare too.
It is a tremendously different country from the one I lived in in early 2001.
That’s why I feel there needs to be a 1999 party. Its only platform is rolling all laws and regulations back to that level. As ideal as a 1776 party? Now, but you can sell people on partying like its 1999 a bunch easier.
Yup. I truly believe that my cohort (early millennials) was the last to get even just a taste of America, land of the free. Looking at the difference between life when I was 4 (1992) and my kid’s life at age 4 (2021) makes me want to cry. Stifling is the word that comes to mind, and we’re fairly “free range” and traditional parents.
Hard to fathom how bad things could get in 20 years. August 2001 seems like a slice of heaven we’ll never see again in this lifetime.
Remember when there was concern W would lead us into a more isolationist policy?
Prior to 9/11, I used to hopefully believe that would be true. Scott Horton has disabused me of my delusions in that case. Bush was a lying SOB just waiting for the opportunity.
Bush was an empty water jug that the neo-cons all pissed in.
^^^ this. The idea that any of these presidents go in with this secret notion to do immensely stupid things attributes too much power and forethought to the president. They have 25 people a day in their ear, painting a picture the military-intelligence cabal wants painted. If they happen to have been pre-primed to frame their foreign policy a certain way, they’ll gladly fall into that framework. If not, then they’ll be worn down by daily briefings used to scare the shit out of them.
Not saying they don’t carry responsibility for their decisions, only that it’s not something where I think any of them go into the presidency thinking “Im’a start a couple wars in the middle east”.
Replying to Trashy:
It might be better if a few of them went in thinking “I definitely will not start any wars.” and stuck to it (absent actual aggression against us by outside actors).
Imagine if Trump had recognized what he was up against, and resigned in early 2020, saying “I have tried to do my best, but I am thwarted at every turn by this swamp. I knew what I was going into, and underestimated the capabilities of this system to drag everything in its direction. I can no longer take part in the charade that our system of government is functioning as designed, and will no longer lie to the American people that it serves them well.”
Of course, Trump as himself could never have done that for several reasons, but imagine a president with the ability to do so.
Remember Vinamen (sp?) getting all pissed because President Trump wasn’t doing what he was told to do? Do any of us think he is unusual in his thinking in the government? The administrative state is alive and thriving in the US.
I’m as mad as anyone here over recent events.
Don’t lose sight that 2001 was well under the federal AWB, and the progress made in adding shall issue states/constitutional carry states.
2001 was also a period of mass political hatred, and while not as bad as 2016 it was still pretty intense.
The left was so, so sure their douche had won that the level of lying was pretty gross.
Selected not elected!
But the links above are actually chockful of white pills.
Using one’s rightfully acquired wealth to live a life of ease and bang young hotties? Isn’t that kind of the point of obtaining wealth?
I see she’s gone all in on the plastic surgery subscription plan.
She looks brittle like she would snap in half if she tried to laugh.
I thought drinking babies’ blood kept her young.
The Republican leader said the companies contracted to conduct the review, led by Cyber Ninjas, are putting together a report on their findings from the audit, which has been subject to intense criticism by county officials and others, including Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs , who has cast the audit as a “political stunt ” meant to cast doubt on election integrity.
That you are so against any sort of quality control casts doubt about election integrity.
People won’t trust elections if they discover they aren’t fair. It’s best to shutter the investigation for the good of the people.
It would be just so beautiful if the audit said “a few problems here and there but the election was basically sound” – the parties flipping sides would be spectacular, like a school of bait fish being chased by big predators.
The preliminary findings they’ve presented in public indicate that they will not find that everything was kosher.
Yeah, but I am amused at the thought of all of the flip-flopping if it was otherwise.
We should be more like New Zealand
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case — the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community since February.
Ardern told a press conference Tuesday authorities were assuming it was the contagious Delta variant, although genome sequencing is still underway.
An unvaccinated 58-year-old man in the country’s largest city Auckland tested positive for the virus. The man had traveled to other parts of the country, and had obvious link to the border, Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said Tuesday.
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“We are one of the last countries in the world to have the Delta variant in our community,” Ardern said. “We’re in the position to learn from experience overseas, and what actions work, and what actions don’t work.”
“Delta has been called a gamechanger — and it is. It means we need to again go hard and early to stop the spread. We have seen what can happen elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it. We only get one chance.”
New Zealand has been praised for its handling of the virus, which saw it close borders to almost all foreign nationals early, and impose strict state-run quarantines on incoming travelers.
That approach has seen it avoid the devastating outbreaks seen in other countries, and, prior to Tuesday’s announcement, life in the country had largely returned to normal. New Zealand has reported fewer than 3,000 Covid-19 cases and only 26 deaths in a population of about 5 million.
He probably got it from a toilet seat. Ban toilets.
So, what you’re saying is fucking sheep prevents the Delta variant?
Then explain how the Delta variant is in Scotland and Wales!
They should Fortress Kiwi for a decade. Nobody allowed in or out.
That would be interesting. They’d certainly emerge changed.
Just think of all the new finches!
The last time a country in that part of the world tried that, we had to nuke them.
It jumped right up and grabbed my meat
Got it from the toilet seat
Enjoyed the obscure reference
I sang that song to myself at work last Thursday night! Small fuckin world.
They were one of the last places to be inhabited by humans, so it checks out.
Then they killed most everything there.
They were asking for it. Those moas shouldn’t have been so dang delicious.
*Thinks about a chicken leg the size of my forearm*
With this policy, New Zealand will effectively be closed off from the world forever.
Narrator: No “actions” will “work”.
Whitmer kidnapping case rocked by allegations FBI told informant to lie, delete text messages
Attorneys for alleged members of kidnapping team are claiming FBI deceit and entrapment of innocent people
So it was an fbi plot from start to finish. I await the arrest of the participating parties.
A lot of shit these days seem to be malfeasance by US government entities trying to create some narrative for their political masters…
Busting crime rings is better for promotion prospects than saying their aren’t any to bust.
Barney Fife never wanted a promotion, he just wanted his bullet back… To shoot Andy in the back of his head for his bullying, controlling, anal-raping ways! “Look away, Opie, he can’t hurt us anymore!”
Bravo!
I would watch that Mayberry episode of Dateline NBC.
Aww, you’re adorable!
Is this guy serious?
The State Department joins the UN Security Council in calling for an “inclusive” government in Afghanistan
They will be totes cool with the Taliban as long as they fly pride flags!
Surprised there aren’t photos of a soldier reverently carrying the Pride flag out of the embassy. Maybe Pride already went before the fall.
You must be a glutton for punishment, saying that kind of thing in Swissy’s presence.
He just envies all our narrowed gazes.
That lustful, lustful gaze of punishment.
He likes narrow gays.
It’s late, but [golf clap]
Biden needs to appoint the most diverse person available as ambassador.
Then we can have another Bengasi-like event?
What difference, at this point, would it make?
I think he is serious. This stuff is such a disease. I guess it’s fine if you are just using wokeism to poison your enemies but when you start huffing the fumes yourself you’re in big trouble.
Look at him. Of course he’s serious.
“Preliminary report on the AZ audit currently being prepared.”
At this point I consider all of this a distraction. We have an election system that is designed – on purpose – to make it impossible to audit in any sensible way and assures that people can cheat and get away with it. Couple that with a bunch of hacks that made/make spuriously idiotic arguments about how foreign entities helped their opposition steal an election they though had been rigged for the state approved candidate, but then ban any and all people from pointing out domestic entities really stole an election when the thing is mired in so much real questionable behavior.
The fact that they keep fighting to prevent any sort of change that would provide accountability and auditability should leave everyone feeling that these things are just for show.
But our elections are a sacred institution of democracy? How could anyone dare to commit the heresy of rigging one? They would surely forfeit their souls, and no one would do that, therefore, our elections certainly remain incorrupt and perfect.
Any system that has a reward as high as our elections (the ability to steal hundreds of billions in tax payer lucre for you and your pals and the ability to lord it over your enemies as the state has the power to pick winners & losers) will become the target of abuse. The fact that the people most likely to abuse the system work so hard to keep it impossible to audit the system should tell you that they are already cheating and just want to keep it that way (or make it easier to cheat even more).
I remind you that one party has completely embraced the ideology of capitalizing on people’s feelings of jealousy & envy, and that one of that movement’s top men once pointed out that he cared very little about how voters voted, because it was whom counted the votes that had all the power…
I tried to make a similar argument to a proggy friend years ago. She was going on and on about the confluence of power between big government and big business, trying to make a case that big business should be hamstrung and regulated. I tried to point out that the reason that regulatory capture is a thing is that the government exercises so much power that it is unfathomable that businesses subject to that kind of regulation would not attempt to control it.
The fact that the government is so powerful is the single largest incentive to get control of it. Take away that power by devolving it back to individuals, and having meaningful barriers to its future concentration in any form, governmental or in the form of monopolies or cartels, and then the reasons for buying politicians, bribing regulators, and rigging elections go away.
“I tried to make a similar argument to a proggy friend years ago.”
There is your problem…
I bet you tried to use logic, facts, and reason to show her the error of her ways….
Proggies recoil from those things like vampires do from garlic, holy symbols & water, and sunlight…
The only way to get at a proggy is by using ridiculous emotional appeals that cheer on team blue.
Proggies BTW, can only see the evil and danger in government when it isn’t one of their own in charge or making the decisions. When it is one of their own, they would make excuses for anything, regardless of high the stack of bodies would end up like.
And of course, the solution to the problem is NEVER to reduce the benefit of taking over the government but to purportedly increase the cost by anti-corruption laws etc.
Even though people who successfully take over have no need to worry about said laws ever being applied to them. And even if they did, it would only ensure that the people who risked said cost would be in charge — see also: the war on drugs.
For someone that believes in power above all, there can be no argument that doesn’t end in MOAR POWER. If Tim Allen ever did political humor – he could mine this for years.
Curious concern since I figured you were on their side.
âXi Jinping, the ruler of China, suffers from several internal inconsistencies which greatly reduce the cohesion and effectiveness of his leadership,â Soros argued.
âThere is a conflict between his beliefs and his actions and between his public declarations of wanting to make China a superpower and his behavior as a domestic ruler,â the Hungarian investor, 91, said. âThese internal contradictions have revealed themselves in the context of the growing conflict between the U.S. and China.â
At the âheartâ of the Washington-Beijing conflict is âthe reality that the two nations represent systems of governance that are diametrically opposed,â Soros continued.
âThe U.S. stands for a democratic, open society in which the role of the government is to protect the freedom of the individual. Mr. Xi believes Mao Zedong invented a superior form of organization, which he is carrying on: a totalitarian closed society in which the individual is subordinated to the one-party state,â he explained.
âRelations between China and the U.S. are rapidly deteriorating and may lead to war,â Soros concluded gravely.
We’re probably overdue for a major conflict. And we have been woke-ifying the military just in time for it!
Well, if we inclusively conscript
bothall genders and throw the commie brigades at the worst fighting without evacuation potential, it would save us billions on helicopter rides.Small private liberal arts college? Operation human shield it is
The only unifying principle that I can ascribe to Soros’s behavior is opportunism.
It’s just a scratch
The outreach to China and Russia signals a push by the Biden administration to unite the international community as a bulwark against the Talibanâs push to seek legitimacy for its takeover of the country.
China and Russia are permanent members, alongside the U.S., of the United Nations Security Council, which issued a joint statement on Monday expressing deep concern for the future of vulnerable populations in Afghanistan under the Talibanâs Islamic-fundamentalist rule, where gruesome violence is used to maintain an order that keeps women, girls and minorities largely excluded from society.
The Security Council statement called for negotiations for a new government in Afghanistan that includes the âfull, equal and meaningful participation of womenâ and described the situation as a âcrisis of authority in the country.â
The U.S. has sought to work with China and Russia on issues of global stability, despite the nations’ adversarial relationship with the U.S. and what American officials see as efforts to undermine American leadership and the traditional Western order of free, open societies in favor of authoritarian control.
How China and Russia approach Afghanistan could either hamper or bolster U.S. efforts in the region.
“Just a scratch? I’ve cut your arm off.”
I guess there’s no such thing as peak self-delusion, either.
The fact that they think a UN resolution has a chance of affecting the internal activities of the Taliban in Afghanistan, especially after the events of recent days, shows how little they understand of the Taliban’s motivation.
How are they not the legitimate government? They’re the only Afghans willing to fight for control.
The left is used to having its own way even in defeat. They don’t seem to realize that losing a war isn’t like losing an election. You don’t get to then go around throwing a tantrum like a child to force your opposition to give you what you want despite their defeat. The Taliban controls the situation on the ground, doesn’t give a fuck about the international community and will institute whatever government it pleases.
It is a defining characteristic of the left that they believe anything can be negotiated, including reality. They recognize no limits on their power. When they come up hard against a wall, maybe they’ll understand. Unfortunately, they seldom do, because their opponents are often content to take a step back or actually negotiate, even though progressives will not negotiate in good faith–they will just take more and more.
How many people here will actually be surprised that the hag that claimed the other side was harassing & intimidating her really just faked the whole incident like that French actor Jussie Smolliet?
I’m surprised people bothered to check if it was a hoax because “believe all victims”.
The problem they have is that when they claim it was a crime, the police end up looking into it, and until they have defunded all police, they run the risk the cops will expose them for the hacks that they are…
So why on earth do they claim it’s a crime? Just cry about it publicly, get your victimization clout, and move on. These people are twacked.
They passed laws making hate crimes even bigger crimes, which means police have to look into it…
Shows you how competent/intelligent they are…
Real hate crimes, not the fakes we do to raise awareness!!! /progressive diversitards
At the âheartâ of the Washington-Beijing conflict is âthe reality that the two nations represent systems of governance that are diametrically opposed,â Soros continued.
âThe U.S. stands for a democratic, open society in which the role of the government is to protect the freedom of the individual. Mr. Xi believes Mao Zedong invented a superior form of organization, which he is carrying on: a totalitarian closed society in which the individual is subordinated to the one-party state,â he explained.
Protect the freedom of the individual? Not in Joe Biden’s America.
Soros believes Americans should have the freedom to do whatever a marxist/fascist government wants them to do… You know, like the CCP does…
Whatever you evil fuck; you’d love to see the West take on CCP-style governance as long as you and your buddies are the Top. Men. in charge.
Yeah… I’ll have to squint real hard to see that America.
Xi is not of the Davos.
Something that I haven’t seen/heard and undoubtedly never will is all the smaht guys who’ve been saying “there is no military solution in Afghanistan, there has to be a political settlement involving all parties” admit that the Taliban proved they were 100% wrong.
The political solution involving all parties is the one being implemented by the CCP in Kashgar and Dzungaria, mass incarceration and extermination of the locals with population replacement from a more loyal group.
We just aren’t the ones to implement it.
Just wait until Winston gets his feeble claws into this. We’ll be in for a slap-fight the likes of which we’ve never seen!
He already crapped out a ton of strawman beatings in my links yesterday.
Stop it. You might summon him.
So I believe my question went unanswered – which is the bigger parody, Winston or his mom?
One would think that the last couple of centuries and the last fifty, in particular, would have taught us this particular lesson.
History, something something, repeat it.
History, something something, repeat it.
Steyn has a brutal piece up that riffs on that.
and amongst the many other choice bits in there…
*outright, prolonged laughter*
That Madonna thing. I can’t even. Stop trying so hard you old bat.
Anthony Quinn says “for my 80th birthday, I decided to knock up some chick.”
Men age better though / #sexist
It’s true! Living proof. Most men work harder and need to stay in shape. I’m late middle-aged and my job will kill me one day.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx, as disheartening as they may be.
The Biden logo is brutally funny, though.
I hope y’all have a great day!
Right?
It’s interesting that Former-Governor-Walking Cuomo still unhesitatingly issues decrees to force people (health care workers) to be vaccinated. You’d think he might just focus on destroying evidence and keeping his head down.
That’s the misdirection. Paper shredder go BRRRRRRRR in the basement.
It’s not in the basement.
And we burn the materials afterwards so it can’t be reconstructed.
There is speculation that he ain’t going anywhere.
That Biden thing. Sad, really sad but I still laughed. Yes, I am a horrible human being.
I wanted NOT to laugh, but then I would have to cry…
So laughing it is..
Foster’s: It’s Australian for beer all over your mask
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1427460450636140544
Note the tone. He’s chiding the children for their insolent behavior.
I wonder what they’re going to do when the virus gets fully loose in the populace, because it’s inevitable.
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
WaPo headline:
“Biden’s promise to restore competence to Presidency undercut by chaos in Afghanistan.”
Nonsense. Don’t be alarmed, everything is going according to plan.
Damn. When WaPo is throwing you under the bus…
There’s gotta be something more to this then since WaPo is a direct mouthpiece for Establishment Agitprop. Will Biden hit the bricks early?
WaPo works for the security state.
Whatever they publish is what the DOD/CIA/NSA want you to hear.
I tried explaining this to a few people yesterday. It didn’t take.
While this is technically true, they were sympathetic bedfellows and protectors of Al Qaeada, and are currently in a similar position with what’s left of ISIS. I guess the question is whether 20 years of war with the US will make them more cautious about who they align themselves with, or whether its just going to embolden them because they know the US aint coming back in.
“Biden, hit hard by the unexpected collapse of his Afghanistan exit strategy, which many commentators noted was largely planned by the outgoing Trump administration, made the difficult decision to step aside to allow a clean break from the past. Sources say he had many long discussions with advisers over how to best help the country deal with the complex and disheartening situation and to help it come out stronger than ever.”
— WaPo, January 2022
CNN too.
Not sure how it will end or even how much it matters, but seems to me that it’s the Deep State trying to shift the blame to Current Occupant in hopes of avoiding any sort of responsibility and accountability for their 20+ year fuck ups.
Thereâs something so disquieting about these events. I think our
propagandamedia is loathe to say it, but this really is a harbinger of sorts.I think it’s the pure level of incompetence that was revealed. Leaving Afghanistan was a conscious choice. There’s really no excuse for it to have been such an abject clusterf**k. I think it’s been clear for a while now that the Top Men are venal and corrupt. But, I think there was always an assumption that they were at least reasonably competent at their venality and corruption. What the bugout makes clear that, not necessarily at the operational level, but at the senior leadership level, these guys are complete screw-ups. I mean, the whole matter probably would have been better handled if they’d outsourced the withdraw to a regional manager for Waffle House, Chick-fil-A, or Wal-Mart.
Seriously. I thought these people were supposed to be experts in logistics. Apparently that only goes for one-way trips.
âAmateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.â
First you either remove or disable the hardware and then you evacuate the people. Biden and his cronies couldn’t even get that right. Now thousands of Afghans will die for nothing. Again. Joe wanted the pull-out to happen on 9/11. Shame on him. Shame on all of them. That doddering old fool has the blood of nations on his hands and doesn’t even know better. If this breaks America the same way that it broke the USSR, I’ll point and laugh (not funny haha).
General Miley showed us what the top brass thought was their priority:
Fighting “White anger” and the terrorists it creates, “AGW” and the fact we will all end up living on Dune, and reforming the military to remove barriers that prevent people from doing whatever the fuck they want regardless of if they can actually do it are the things they are focused in, are the priorities.
Winning wars or showing competence are for losers.
As I have repeatedly said: our country’s leadership and bureaucracy has become progressively more incompetent – despite it also becoming more credentialed- as it became more progressive in thinking. This is because higher education stopped producing critical & capable thinkers and started rolling out indoctrinated idiots with high opinion of their mediocre skillsets. Coupled with the fact that these people never had a real job in the private sector and literally have a world view formed by living in the unrealistic bastions of academia, this has led to a level of ineptitude that is staggeringly scary while the inept fucks feel permanently entitled.
As I have repeatedly pointed out, Trump was a manifestation of a large swath of the US voters realizing the top men were fucking idiots. Of course the top men saw Trump – and the people that voted for him by proxy – as an existential threat to their hereditary racket, and proceeded to drop all pretense of it being anything but a massive grift to gain back control. We have the most inept and destructively evil class of credentialed top men that can’t even wipe their own butts angry at the people that refuse to allow them free reign without accountability. And that’s why things are as fucked up as they are now.
Have you read George Friedman’s “The Storm Before the Calm?”
He writes that the current institutional crisis in the US is that government by the expert class is played out. That experts in all the little things that government does/needs to do are incapable of seeing the big picture and therefore unintentionally work in an uncoordinated, counterproductive fashion.
I haven’t finished the book yet, but I fear that his conclusion is going to be that at the end of the current cycle in 2030, the US will have figured out governmental efficiency–and it will look not like a lean freedom machine, but a trains-on-time fascism.
Maybe. I can see the trains-on-time fascism in the sense that everyone will claim the trains are on time when in fact the system continues to deteriorate before our eyes.
People in some areas are fine with trains are on fire fascism.
That experts in all the little things that government does/needs to do are incapable of seeing the big picture and therefore unintentionally work in an uncoordinated, counterproductive fashion.
But, Afghanistan was a test of that. The withdraw was a straightforward technical task. And the experts abjectly failed. As I said, they’d have done better outsourcing it to a regional manager of Waffle House, Chick-fil-A or Wal-Mart.
And this isn’t the first example of abject failure of the technocracy. They seem to be failing increasingly commonly. As waffles suggests, trains-on-time fascism only works if, in fact, the trains actually do run on time.
I’m not arguing against what you said.
Which is why we’re going to have a currency collapse first.
Really? So it wouldn’t have been a clusterf**k if the right Top.Men had planned it? What makes you think this would have been any different under Trump? Do you think there is some General that could have executed it better? Or is this not exactly what you should expect from our entire edifice of federal govt?
Maybe, maybe not. We will never know. We are in territory that no one will fall on a sword for this and everyone will just say “We are deeply sorry”
Go back up and read the Steyn link if you want a righteous take-down on those who should be held accountable.
That doesn’t change my opinion that this was ever going to end differently. The vast majority of the people of Afghanistan have clearly showed they are indifferent to the old Kabul cabal and the Taliban – they don’t fucking care. Yes, there certainly are the tragically deceived, who believed American lies (and perhaps supported the delusions the Americans had), and those folks are all well and truly fucked. But that’s how it was going to end anyway.
Yes, Trump’s plan would have worked better. Sticking to it would have been a better idea, and many of the reasons why have already been discussed on here. Trump had involved all the stakeholders in the negotiations of the withdrawal. Unlike Biden, he wasn’t pulling out in the peak of the Afghan war season. Biden calling his plan off pissed everyone in Afghanistan off from our “friends” to our enemies. It gave the Taliban a propaganda victory – another thing they could point to America screwing Afghans over on. It gave the Taliban time to cut deals with various tribal leaders/units in the Afghan military (you know, the reason they could take over so much territory so quickly to begin with – they aren’t meeting resistance in many cases).
We’ll never know for certain what happens if we follow the Trump plan now, but there were absolutely no positives to Biden’s changes.
And now Biden gets the blame, yay team!!! The Dems were stupid not to let it fall on Trump. Yay TEAM!!!
So you refuse to address any rational counterpoint to your claim, and just repeat yourself. For a guy who has on a number of occasions ranted about people he perceives as being blinded by some supposed loyalty to Trump or team red, you sure are lacking in self-awareness. You have a preconceived notion for how things were going to play out based on your own feelings about Afghanistan (and I put emphasis on the word feelings there, because you emoting and not thinking) rather than facts on the ground in this particular war.
The Taliban were going to end up in power, period. You aren’t debating that outcome are you? Just that it might have been ever so slightly less ugly, right? I’m taking issue with the aesthetics of it and making a big deal of that because of TEAMS.
The place was a shithole when we stuck our dick in it. There was no way our dick was coming out clean.
The Taliban were going to end up in power, period.
Well, no shit, Sherlock! Can you tell me a living soul on this site who didn’t think that was going to be the end result? And, yeah, there is a difference between the US leaving and the US hightailing it out of there with the Taliban kicking their rear ends from a couple of miles away. And it isn’t just aesthetic.
And it isn’t just about TEAM. You’ll notice, if you bother reading my original post, that I never actually mentioned TEAM or Trump or Biden. Because it was on the matter of a purely technical logistical issue (getting our people and equipment out of there without all hell breaking loose) that I saw the compounding failure.
If you need to, re-read what my direct response to you was. The thread veered off after that.
I responded to you that this is exactly what we should expect from OUR govt. It isn’t a matter of the party of the President, the whole fucking apparatus is incompetent.
Now, below that, things went off. And there is a strong “Biden is to blame” going on here that stinks just as bad as the TDS that folks around here complain about. The shit would’ve hit the fan with Trump, maybe just on a longer timeframe, but it would’ve been the exact same shit.
A couple thoughts, JI:
I agree this was going to end with the Taliban in charge no matter what.
Biden made it worse than it needed to be by rescheduling during the traditional fighting season and giving the Taliban even more time to prep.
The utter incompetence of the Pentagon is a given under any administration, but I doubt they are trying to #resist Biden the way they were Trump. I think what we are seeing here is their best – they really can’t do any better than this. Under Trump, we saw their worst – that’s what they look like when they are being seditious.
If I were Prez, there would be a line of generals and admirals outside my office today. They would be coming in, in 2 minute intervals, to pick up their pink slips. I would make it as public and humiliating as I could.
It isnât a matter of the party of the President, the whole fucking apparatus is incompetent.
It’s just that that I was initially commenting on. I would expect that our military, as corrupt as it may be, with billions upon billions of dollars of resources would be pretty good at moving troops and equipment around. It’s kind of a core competency. What this has made clear is that it isn’t a “big picture” thing. They’re incompetent on even the things they’re supposed to be able to do.
I understand an almost THE Hyperbole level need to point out one stands above the Teams, but I’m not sure it’s fair to The First of the Firsters to imply that what he wrote is team justification. Apologies if that’s not your intent, and you are simply pointing out how it will be *used* be the teams. I don’t see anything necessarily team based in Broke-tards comment, mostly a plausible hypothesis about why a cluster fuck ended, not surprisingly, in a further cluster fuck.
I think I’m clear enough in the comment following OBE, and now the one preceding this.
Copy. And I agree that the ultimate outcome was set in stone. It is *possible* (but probably unlikely) that sticking with the previous administrations agreements and plans would have led to a cleaner withdrawal – I’m sure there’s a “that’s what she said” in that last bit – and I think that’s the point that was being made. A cleaner extraction would have been a net good, for both us and Afghanistan so I’m not sure that pointing that out and speculating that sticking to our previous agreements and plans (why we would start now, I don’t know…) is necessarily focusing on the aesthetics for the benefit of Team.
The only substantial argument I can see is getting the hardware and people out sooner and having the collapse happen slower. The outcome we got was almost bad as it could get without Americans being held captive by enemy combatants. I think people just wanted it to be slower.
So, not that I agree with NR/McCarthy (since they tended to be reflexively anti-Trump) but he does point out that the Trump “deal” probably wasn’t going to be any better.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/remembering-the-shameful-trump-taliban-peace-agreement/
Biden did one thing to make it worse, in pursuit of cheap PR points.
He postponed the withdrawal so that it landed right in the middle of the traditional fighting season, giving the Taliban the best possible situation for engineering what just happened.
Response to Juris; At the risk of dead threading. I’ve little confidence that the Trump admin withdrawal plan would have been better, but I can see the argument.
And I’m no tactical genius by any stretch, but it seems like it could have been much cleaner. 1 – We are withdrawing. Military assets will be the last elements pulled out. 2 – We are removing embassy and support staff in an orderly fashion. Afghani’s who participated in our operation will be given the option to evacuate. 3 – If any of your military assets move towards Kabul or other centers controlled by us or the current Afghan government they will be destroyed. 4 – when our assets have been removed from your country, the military assets will be withdrawn in an orderly fashion.
Then it’s all yours, so long and thanks for all the … opium.
Did you actually read the McCarthy piece? He’s pretty much saying any resolution other than America staying in Afghanistan and continuing to pour blood and treasure into that sinkhole is as bad as what actually happened. Well, no. I don’t consider our getting the hell out a shameful defeat. McCarthy apparently does. And I don’t know, maybe you do as well. But, it’s an entirely different definition of the problem. I don’t see our leaving as the problem. I see the U.S. leaving with thousands still trapped there and most of our equipment there for them to just pick up as kind of colossal screw-up.
Here’s another along the McCarthy line – naturally an old NR buddy. And yes, clearly they say that the Trump plan would’ve been the same result as Biden.
I’m fine with that because I agree it was going to be a shitshow, regardless of who was in the White House.
I clearly disagree with both and their insane belief that somehow we were going to salvage the shithouse and turn it into a first class restaurant; if we just stayed at it longer. Ok assholes, how long?
The two or three Leftist parties up here are all in on vaccine mandates. The pretend Right-wing party are hedging their bets. Only the Separatists and the Libertarians are against them. We’re fucked. Maybe I can make some sort of living picking cans. Brought over from the old thread, the most anti-vax people happen to be soccer-moms that voted for that clown last time. Perhaps there is hope. Wonder how the Muppet is doing? Must be hard as hell to run childcare facilities when you’re dealing with panicky government officials and momma bears. Godspeed, Friend…
Tucker unimpressed with American foreign policy ‘experts’.
Good rant.
Pity about the immigration thing but he has to go there. I listen to portions of his show nightly. I generally agree with him but his drug war shit’s all retarded and sometimes he sounds like a fag.
The U S State Department tweeting about how the Taliban had better form an “inclusionary” government is like watching some guy who just got beaten bloody lying on the ground yelling, “And don’t come back!” to the guy who just knocked him senseless.
That âinclusionary governmentâ speech will live forever in history as one of the dumbest things said by anyone, ever. Taliban started the usual gun confiscation and looking for journalists already. Heads in baskets on a soccer field starts next week.
Finally, Neville Chamberlain’s words can step down from the pinnacle of ill-fated pronouncements.
There have been so many bad pronouncements that I believe a contest should take place to identify and rank the worst ones.
Twitter is doing again that thing to make you make an account to see the stuff. I don’t want to have a twitter account.
Yup. *frowny face*
I think of it as my evil twin’s Twitter account.
You can bypass the block. Copy the link up until the end of the numbers and paste/go.
I have an account just for that reason but have never posted. They probably know how long my dick is.
r/bigdickproblems
It would be funny if randomly Biden decided to nuke Kabul. I mean not haha funny but still.
A contingency plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan? Pfffft. Why would we need that?
At least the lack of a plan was planned for.
I admit, I got clickbaited.
I occasionally get notices from nextdoor. This one was titled “in home euthanasia” and the excerpt was “can anyone recommend a doctor…”
It was for their cat.
Calico Kavorkian?
Wake up bright nipped with busty tits on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.li/jbLEP
My wife tells me that a number of the vet friends are blowing up FB with outrage. She asked if, since I did a couple of trips over there, I was upset about the withdrawal from shithole #1.
I told her no, when I was there last in 2015, I was patently clear that the population in general and the military, in particular, were not interested in anything resembling the western ideal and were less interested in fighting for it.
It’s hard to accept but the western ideal is really an aberration in the history of human thought.
As an aside, since I’d just been reading NA’s comment about someone needing a kitty kevorkian, my mind went with Vet == Animal Doc, and it seemed like an odd chain of logic.
Itâs hard to accept but the western ideal is really an aberration in the history of human thought. – problem is the “modern” “progressive” version of the western ideal is an even greater aberration
I believe distortion is the word you are looking for.
I was going to go with “Abomination”
the âmodernâ âprogressiveâ version of the western ideal is an even greater aberration
Disagreed. It’s reversion to the mean.
Oh, now that’s a very good take.
you may have a point. A different form of the mean but still dogmatic collectivist vicious
Well said. Liberalism (the dictionary definition) was and is wholly different from the norm today, let alone in the past.
You just did not bring enough intersectional feminists to educate the men to the errors of their ways
I will gladly give them as many pink-haired feminists as they would like.
Most people here aren’t interested in “the western ideal” much less willing to fight for it.
*Thinks about the last year+ in the US*…. Yup, checks out.
I’m glad you pointed this out. There’s been a lot of discussion about how the Afghan population rolled over for the Taliban–we could stand to do some serious national introspection along these lines.
Neighbor and I were talking yesterday, and we both agreed that if DC was actually being attacked, we wouldn’t offer to defend it. Fuck around here, yeah, the guns will be out – but risk our lives for that?
My wife told me to shut up about Afghanistan because she thinks ‘America broke its promise to Afghans and we don’t do it’ and if we don’t fight them over there, the Taliban will attack us here.
This is from someone who believes the Vietnam War was completely unjustified and a tragic waste of lives.
Vietnam War was completely unjustified and a tragic waste of lives. – yes but the US should have won that one as well, once they went in
Ahh, the Truman should have had MacArthur drop the bomb on the Chinese school of history.
Probably should have done Moscow too.
In 1945
Eisenhower making noises about just that brought the Chinese and Norks to the table to begin with.
Vietnam was different than inasmuch that there was an actual military to fight against. It was similar in that, like AF, we were stuck supporting a staggeringly corrupt government that was more interested in lining their pockets than defending themselves and that the objectives they hoped to achieve were not attainable by means of military intervention.
It’s just amazing to hear it from her, because her opposition to Vietnam isn’t even rooted in analysis but from bodies coming home, including her first high school boyfriend.
She wasn’t even a supporter of it or Iraq twenty years ago. I blame watching neocon apologists and everything is Biden’s fault talking heads on tv.
I’m saying this a lot lately.
IT WASN’T THE TALIBAN THAT ATTACKED US
True, not that it really matters, but they were harboring AQ et al to some degree or another.
I do think that a punitive campaign would have been in order. Break all their shit leave and say, “Don’t make us come back here.”
Hey, thats my line.
But, yeah, probably not original with me, so okay, go ahead. Because it is absolutely right.
Umm, don’t make me beat you? Really?
We helped create the monster there. Shocked I am that the thing would turn on us.
and post 2005 AQ was not a functional organization. AQ In Iraq Zarqawi was the last gasp of that organization.
We did achieve that objective in that regard but we couldn’t just take the W.
Why do you hate the Wahabi?
I think it overwhelms the delicate taste of hushi.
All the Afghans interested in the western ideal left during the USSR “occupation”. Anyone that came back during the last 20 years was only interested in feeding at the trough of the American taxpayer.
Any “ideal” that can only survive based on feeding off the productivity of others is unsustainable.
These fucking people. The lesson is never the government is just bad at spending.
are those estimation accurate?
Setting aside the “cancel all ___ debt” bullets for a moment, those figures are probably roughly accurate per annum. That’s $270 billion per year; over 20 years, the total cost would be $5.4 trillion. So you’d have a $3.4 trillion additional deficit (the original $2 trillion was already deficit spending) and no cancellation of any debt (indeed, there’d be even more debt).
Lest that reasoning seem absurd, the annual budget of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has the “limited” mission of “caring” only for veterans, is over $200 billion. Most countries in the world have GDPs lower than major U.S. government initiatives have budgets.
Though, the VA budget has quintupled in those two years, the average U.S. government welfare program (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) has tripled in budget in the same time frame. For comparison, population growth and inflation alone would account for a 72% increase.
So, my math is likely off, since it’s simple multiplication without accounting for change over time; however, the general point would stand either way: this would cost a lot more than they’d expect, and there’d still be no room left over for canceling massive amounts of personal debt.
in those twenty* years
No. “end homelessness” – just look at the gobs of cash lobbed at the NOGs, parasites and mooches in the name of “ending homelessness” in any large American city.
Homeless Inc is an evil enterprise that only serves to create more homeless.
just look at the gobs of cash lobbed at the NOG
“Once you have their money, never give it back.”
I guess Qasim Rashid doesn’t understand the difference between an all-in expense and an annual outlay.
And it’s starting to occur to me that he’s probably par for the course of our current leadership class.
The biggest problem that Democrats face, if we take their ideas at face value, is that everything the government does costs 5x more than they think it does, and will increase at twice the rate they think it will.
For comparison, the biggest problem that Republicans face, again if we take their ideas at face value, is that the government is run by people who hate them, and every additional dollar expended goes towards the subversion of their values.
Come to think of it, these two problems are not unrelated.
“The biggest problem that Democrats face, if we take their ideas at face value, is that everything the government does costs 5x more than they think it does, and will increase at twice the rate they think it will.”
The problem isn’t really that these people are economically illiterate and lie about how much these programs cost as much as nobody in government has any interest in solving any problems, because then it would cost them their jobs. In government you are incentivized to make the problem bigger, because that is how you increase your pay/power.
We truly are in a world where some people live with the idiotic idea government solves problems while others clearly see that government only creates or exacerbates problems.
JFC
They cheesed it on the withdrawal and theyâd cheese it on all of that stuff too. Hell, the DOD and the intelligence services are probably two of the less incompetent handlers of governmental business and they fucked this up royally.
Haaaaaahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
the whole matter probably would have been better handled if theyâd outsourced the withdraw to a regional manager for Waffle House
Unquestionably.
Have you ever heard of a Waffle House manager who went to Yale?
Yes.
Lock it down.
New Zealand has gone into a snap three-day lockdown after a new local case of coronavirus, assumed to be the Delta variant, was detected in Auckland.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the country would move to alert level four from 11.59pm on Tuesday (9.59pm AEST).
Ms Ardern said it was important for the country to “go hard and go early” to defeat the Delta variant.
Level four means reducing contact between people to the bare, essential minimum.
“As we’ve seen overseas, particularly in Sydney, unnecessary trips outdoors can spread the virus,” she said.
The lockdown will last three days nationally at this point, though Ms Ardern said Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula would likely be locked down for a week.
Stay in your pod. Eat the bugs. Do as you are told.
This should go swimmingly.
A whole nation of cucks, kind of sad really.
Oh snap.
This is why WaPo dude is racing Tesla-boy
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3445882/nasa-golden-asteroid-everyone-earth-billionaire/
Money doesn’t work that way.
We’re all rich! The McClaren factory needs to expand.
That might be a bit inflationary, even if we were on the gold standard (which we sort of still are – in that gold prices, if you ignore gyrations, are a much better long term indicator of price levels than dollars). Ask Spain how much a flood of gold helps.
If they get ahold of that much weâll be using it for tin cans and wrapping hamburgers.
And my stereo will sound AWESOME!
The Spanish Empire could not be reached for comment.
Since we know it’s out there, can’t we just call it a “reserve” and start using it to back the currency?
Step 1: Go back to the gold standard (limited reserve), make noises about how anti-inflationary and responsible it is. You could probably pay Paul Krugman to write this up nice and pretty.
Step 2: Notice that there’s a solid gold asteroid out there
Step 3: Say “we have the technology to go get it.” Maybe fund a government program to study the way to extract it–to the tune of a couple trillion dollars
Step 4: Conclude that we already have it because we can go get it, we can call it a reserve
Step 5: Since it’s a reserve, we can issue all the gold backed currency we want, paying for the effort to study how to get it, and anythign else we want
Step 6: Enjoy!
That’s too complicated. Can’t we just steer it into Earth’s orbit, fail spectacularly, then embrace SMOD? That’d be worth 10 quadrillion to me.
Thank you for demonstrating the competence of the media.
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I think they just badly summarized this article. Also the nasa page doesn’t mention gold or other clickbait bullshit.
Yeah, the article I read the other day just mentioned a lot of nickel and iron.
Plus there are probably some other nice elements in there like iridium.
ICE?
DEFUND THE EARTH’S CORE!
The West has lost its virtue
We have abandoned the taboos that held us together
https://unherd.com/2021/08/why-the-west-will-collapse/
meh going forward anyway finding something other than religion was always necessary, because sooner or later religion changes or goes away. Not that it is easy. Especially for the not very smart or the ones who benefited fully from modern education.
I disagree. People always lose their religion during easy times – then succumb to corruption and belief if false gods (like the government) – which leads to very hard times – when they find their religion again.
It’s a cycle that has been seen on the West numerous times and is described repeatedly in the Old Testament.
I know it isn’t Spengler, but if I remember my Toynbee right, Western Christiandom isn’t fundamentally about Christianity, per se, but the fusion of Christianity with Greco-Roman classical rationality. So, the decline in religion doesn’t necessarily have to translate as a key challenge to the civilization.
That said, I think he might not be too far off. I believe, in roughly the 60s, the West saw the rise of a new civilizational ethos among its leadership and elite classes. I’ll call it post-modern cosmopolitanism. It seems to mostly reject the ethos of Western Christiandom, which it views as insular and less developed. The thing is, it’s not a hugely popular ethos. It’s popular in a fairly narrow, privileged segment of society. And, as an ethos, it seems less adept than Western Christiandom at answering the challenges facing our civilization. Mostly, to leverage off of Drake’s point, it seems to be riding off the fumes of the civilization created by Western Christiandom.
I see it as the rejection of the early Enlightenment and any attempts at rationality.
Marcuse, Foucault, Derrida… the giants of the postmodern era have thoroughly poisoned our educational institutions and our capacity for critical thinking. When objectivity is wholly rejected, the only metric left is power.
I would add that the post-WWII prosperity (in the West) was a major contributor. That prosperity was due to half the planet embracing Communism – aka elitist non-productivity. The west was so productive it harbored its own internal class of elitist sucklings – The Great Society. Eventually the productive hosts will die and the parasites will have to feed off each other to survive. We’re probably in that stage now.
But what about us? My generation is part of The Great Dying. We’re the ones that started noticing that we didn’t have a cohort anymore.
Baseball birthdays:
Dustin Pedroia, Jorge Posada, Boog Powell, Rudy York.
The first two guys were both one franchise players. If they hadn’t been the Red Sox and the Yankees, that might be impressive.
Speaking of a small market one franchise player, Joey Votto got his 2000th hit yesterday.
I watched the Reds waste a year of his life trying to convert him to an OF in AAA. That was while Adam Dunn was occupying 1B at the big club.
I am obligated to hate the Yankees, but Jorge Posada was one of those guys that played the game the right way.
Pissing on his hands?
âend homelessnessâ â just look at the gobs of cash lobbed at the NOGs, parasites and mooches in the name of âending homelessnessâ in any large American city.
Something something good money to be made prolonging the problem.
The only boost you need is vitamin C and D.
According to the New York Times, two administration officials confirmed the Biden administration will be pushing for Americans to have follow-up shots as early as mid-September.
âOfficials are planning to announce the administrationâs decision as early as this week,â reported the Times. âTheir goal is to let Americans know now that they will need additional protection against the Delta variant that is causing surging caseloads across the nation.â
As was the case with the first vaccine, the first booster shots will be for the elderly and frontline coronavirus workers. The proposed policy stems from data out of Israel that suggests âthe Pfizer-BioNTechâs protection against severe disease has fallen significantly for elderly people who were vaccinated in January or February.â
âSome administration officials have viewed Israel as a kind of template for the United States because it started vaccinating its population sooner,â noted the Times. âIsrael has almost exclusively used the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and it has a nationalized health care system that allows it to systematically track patients.â
You’d think the Jews would know better.
The Israelis have a strong commie streak.
Iâm saying this a lot lately.
IT WASNâT THE TALIBAN THAT ATTACKED US
But they were dancing in the streets!
Make
them
pay.
They’re still dancing in the streets. And we payed.
They’re mostly friendly…
Friendly chants of “Death to America”.
Kandahar and D.C.,now
By that logic, we should’ve bombed Dearborne into oblivion too.
I dunno about you guys but I’ve been avoiding any footage of those people falling off the transport. Call me what you will.
Nothing with wrong at all with that at all, Mr Festus.
Not into snuff films?
Has the internet ruined me? I guess in some way I am into snuff films.
I watched some of it yesterday… and had to turn away in disgust. It’s like watching 9/11 jumpers. I may be an introvert in heart but I do have the ability to put myself in the shoes of others. Sadly a lot of politicians (psychopaths that they are) don’t.
“Call me what you will.”
Human?
I try to avoid any video that shows the death of a real person. I really don’t care for them.
^^This^^
I saw a newspaper photo of a guy in a flooded river, obviously alive. The caption mentioned his body had not been found.
I can’t unsee it. No way am I watching those videos.
I shan’t call you anything other than “friend”.
Thanks, Swizzy, that means a lot. Sorry for your friends in the shithole and especially for the ones that never made it out. I have no words.
Nothing wrong with that my friend. Nothing wrong with it at all. See Lord Humungus above, that was where I was at.
Thanks everyone. It wasn’t so much that I needed to see that footage but that I was expected to. This is our mainstream media today.
A decent human being, possessed of a soul?
I’m totally with you. I don’t need to see that shit. Hearing about it is awful enough.
I watched it. You’re better off having not watched it.
I always avoid that too.
My wife was working in the second tower on 9/11 and there was a period of about two hours after it went down where I wasn’t entirely sure she got out (she did). I’m never watching shit like that again.
The only other time I rewatched it was when my kids were old enough but not alive when it happened (or were just born). Then again, I make them watch all kinds of stuff, well, now suggest they watch things to understand that the world isn’t sunshine and rainbows on our little corner of the world.
I counter a lot of that of course of what is good in the world. So far produced two critically thinking kids and the other is just chasing skirts at the moment.
Let’s just see the zoomed out version is good enough for me. I don’t need the full and grisly details of the splat. My imagination is just fine.
I’m a firm believer in bearing witness to reality. It brings things into focus very quickly.
As a reward, you get this:
https://archive.is/sh336
Thanks, Friend!
I don’t care for violence but I watched because I think it is valuable to understand what it actually looks like.
A lot of Afghan children are gonna be thinking Santa came early this year.
Thanks straff. You always manage to make me feel bad about myself for laughing.
Mommy, I think Santa missed the chimney.
Right there with you. I warned the girlfriend about it, and she ignored me and clicked on some videos on FB…
I turned the news on this morning for about 3 minutes. They threatened to show some of that footage. I turned the TV off. I dont need to see that either.
I will call you a decent person Festus. How do you like that?
I torqued my lower back the other day – remember, kids, form is very important when doing deadlifts and squats.
I still worked out today… because I’m that stupid.
you should not deadlift and squat that is toxic masculinity.
If it is not to bad should not be a problem to still work out.
It’s not gonna head without movement.
You kinky bastard!
Or heal, either
I find that head usually works best with movement.
Sorry.
Working out again is good and necessary, but build back slow. If something hurts, you need to change what you’re doing.
I blame my equipment – ie, my 25lb plates aren’t the huge “crossfit” plastic style, so I have to stoop a little lower to grab the bar when doing deadlifts. Which means I’m temporarily, at the beginning, using the wrong form. I’ll have to come up with a different method for starting out.
I’d say lay down some thick boards to raise the bar, if wood didn’t cost more than gold.
Risers. It’s what I’m doing for rack pulls to get closer to conventional deadlift range of motion.
Jack stands work great.
Hexbar? Controversial, I know.
You have no idea.
A year later, the butthurt is still generating Comments From the Haters almost every week.
I love Rip.
Even before the whole Afghan withdrawal fuckup, I was feeling a 3AM rage-a-thon over the current state of America. The trillions of spending, most that will just cause inflation and go into the pockets of the politically connected. The powers-that-be screwed up – many times over the decades – and we are seeing the bitter fruits of those decisions.
Where this will lead us? I don’t know. Given history: âIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâfor ever.â
Orwell certainly had some insights – like a prophetic vision of the future.
https://www.azquotes.com/author/11147-George_Orwell
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
” We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
” In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
Root cause: We are dragging along with us large numbers of people who cannot produce anything useful. They are leaches, parasites, looters. The combined weight of them is not insignificant.
President Biden addressed the nation Monday, saying he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan after having a presence for 20 years, while admitting that the fall of the country to the Taliban “did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.”
At least he didn’t sugar coat it.
The US has said it may issue up 80,000 special immigrant visas to those who helped with combat operations and are likely to face revenge attacks from the Taliban
I wonder how many will be able to make use of those visas before the Taliban kill them.
The Republican leader said the companies contracted to conduct the review, led by Cyber Ninjas, are putting together a report on their findings from the audit, which has been subject to intense criticism by county officials and others, including Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs , who has cast the audit as a “political stunt ” meant to cast doubt on election integrity.
I think this will be a nothing-burger.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear a challenge to New York gun control that will highlight the extent of constitutional protections for carrying a gun outside the home.
Prediction: John Roberts will make sure New York State wins.
As stated above, what they’ve reported publicly so far indicates that they are going to find mass irregularities.
And? It will be nothing. It will be obscured in ‘conspiracy theory’ and spun effectively as a nothing-burger.
This.
No one in the mainstream media (even conservative) will even address it and social media will censor it.
Something something auditors with an agenda something something disregard
I’m biased after watching the Windham, NH audit.
“Shenanigans! Fraud!”
No, some dumbasses who laid out the ballot didn’t know that the optical scanner is thrown off by creases in the ballot. Absentee ballots had to be folded in order to fit into the envelope. The town used one scanner to scan in all absentee ballots. Which explained the oddities seen in the vote counts and the later corrections in the vote counts.
But, the usual suspects are still running around NH saying that there is shenanigans and fraud. How else can you explain the Republican governor winning re-election, the Republicans taking over the Executive Council and legislature, but the Federal Republican candidates all losing? How about this: The US Senate and US Representative Republican candidates were shitty and didn’t do the work required to take on entrenched incumbents (i.e. meet voters) because they were scared of Lil ‘Rona? The state legislative candidates went out and met voters. Folks canvassed for the Republican Executive Council candidates. And the governor, well, Republicans hated his opponent more than him so they voted for him. And Trump is poison. No need for shenanigans or fraud to explain what happened in NH.
So… I’m a bit biased against the claims of shenanigans and fraud anymore.
And did you watch the video where the Cyber Ninja reps laid out their early findings? Because they are finding things more troubling and in large numbers.
But the Cyber Ninja’s are not an “approved” auditing agency so therefore their findings are suspect at best.
Are you suggesting that this is how the media will report it, or your own opinion? I mean, they have and are going to continue to attack Cyber Ninja no matter what.
Considering I’ve already seen this approach, I’m suggesting this will be one way Cyber Ninja will be attacked.
There will be other ways of course.
I haven’t watched the audit proceedings, but one of the main “fortifications” I’ve seen in videos shortly after the election has been stacks of pristine absentee ballot that had never been folded and were all marked Biden with no downstream candidates.
These were sent to a special scanner that was offsite and had no election observers present while being counted.
Why the fuck was this not done a year ago, when the decision to withdraw was made?
The audit has been intensely criticized before the report is issued? Sounds legit.
I mean, the decision was made by Trump and the entire government was fighting him kicking and screaming on that, so…
And then Biden rejected Trump’s plan, only to put together his own half-assed plan to withdraw by, of all dates, 9/11.
Go fuck yourself, Joe
OPEC and its allies, including Russia, believe oil markets do not need more oil than they plan to release in the coming months, despite U.S. pressure to add supplies to check an oil price rise, four sources told Reuters.
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Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration urged the producer group to boost output to tackle rising gasoline prices it sees as a threat to the global economic recovery. read more
OPEC+ agreed in July to boost output by 400,000 barrels per day a month starting in August until its current oil output reductions of 5.8 million bpd are fully phased out.
One of the four sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters there was no need to release extra oil more quickly, while another said there was no concern that the planned schedule of increases would leave any demand unmet.
Two other OPEC+ sources said the latest data from OPEC and from the Westâs energy watchdog – the International Energy Agency (IEA) – also indicated there was no need for extra oil.
Calling for more can be seen as at odds with the United States’ efforts to lead efforts to fight climate change and its action to discourage increased domestic oil drilling.
But Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticised big drilling nations, including Saudi Arabia, for what he said were insufficient crude production levels in the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
“At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough,” Sullivan said.
America’s back (at the end of the line).
We’ve gone from speak softly and carry a big stick to incoherent ineffectual bluster.
I can think of one country that could increase their production easily.
Say what you want about Trump – and there are many bad things to say – but his ego and “tough guy” talk gave the impression of a slightly unstable, angry individual. Biden, on the other hand, looks as if a small breeze would carry him away.
looks as if a small breeze would carry him away
One nearly did.
Yep, it sounds like a lazy teenager demanding an increase in his allowance.
https://twitter.com/roslyntalusan/status/1427477676487499778
A white woman writing about asian food is white supremacy.
Professional grievance mongers, Reverend Al led the way.
Given how the definition of “far-right” has been expanded to “anything not explicitly Marxist” this clown could be hanging out here for all we know.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15878880/husband-race-row-far-right-2/
Unless I missed it she does not mention what books and groups he is associating with.
I am convinced that everything written in The Sun is a fabrication.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/08/17/raiders-to-require-proof-of-vaccination-at-home-games/
Seems I made it to the last football game I will attend. Though the writing is poor as they are saying it will be required to attend but it really is ‘required to not wear a face diaper’. Oh and they will offer on-site vaccinations, but you don’t get to go free after that.
No skin off my back. I checked that box of things to do in Vegas last Saturday.
How gangsta…
So wear it through the checkpoint and take it off.
Duh.
Which is basically what half the stadium did Saturday.
You could always go as an old-timey Saints fan (with a paper bag over your head).
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about “big picture” Decline of Western Civilization stuff, but if there’s one thing we currently have in excess, it’s unconstrained hubris and egotistical self-delusion.
So I finished Gurri’s book (now to Lasch and then an article), and one of the things he talks about animating the complaints about govt (and other institutions of the Center that operate on authority) is the unbridled sense of entitlement of the aggrieved in the Border (the area that harbors communities like this one right here).
I think that sense of entitlement is something that takes a couple of generations of prosperity to create, where hardship is utterly foreign, and expectations are allowed to inflate to egotistic excess.
I’ve heard there’s not much else to do in Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/horrifying-number-of-syphilis-infections-in-alberta-reaching-pre-antibiotic-levels-1.6139240
hawt
Now THATâS a disease to worry about. Neurosyphilis is no joke.
I speak from experience.
I always wanted to meet a syphilitic pickle.
Neurosyphilis is no joke.
Fortunately electro-gonorrhea is.
I dont worry about it. 25 years into a happy marriage and in the unlikely chance that I live another 25 years I will still be in it.
Die like Nietzsche. Live like Gretzsche.
Whoopsie!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secret-terrorist-watchlist-with-2-million-records-exposed-online/
One has to wonder if any Glibs are on the list.
One has to wonder
if anyhow many Glibs are on the list.My gun purchase background checks are still going thru…
Fast and Furious II…
One has to wonder if any Glibs are not on the list.
Damn your nimble paws!
One has to wonder if any Glibs aren’t on the list.
I mean, they could even end up on a list that prevents them from flying anywhere.
TOP MEN
Did you really expect a government computer to be secure?
Shit, a good chunk of these systems are 20-40 years old and in such a decrepit state that it’s more difficult to get them to actually run as intended than splice a new Workaround (nee Exploit) in.
Looks at our nationwide automation systems for radar….
We’re all screwed now. The Tallyban and Chicoms are gonna team up and build a rare earth metal laser that will shoot beams into the skulls of our politicians causing them to require all citizens to show papers to enter businesses and take experimental vaccines.
You are….too late.
Given the current state of stupidity we are currently in I would not be shocked if this was the truth.
HE should start taking Mandarin then?
Looks like the PPT intervened in the markets yesterday to prop it up after a morning decline.
The split between the headline stocks and the rest of the market is getting pretty wide now. I think we’re ripe for a correction.
Powerpoint has a “manipulate the stock market” function? I knew Google Slides was less powerful, but damn.
Plunge Protection Team aka the Working Group on Financial Markets
Is that Wall Street’s version of the Edit Fairy?
More like white-out
Only the special edition of Powerpoint given out to leading members of the NWO.
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/hr-mcmaster-when-the-taliban-wins-al-qaeda-wins
Read your own fucking book, you cueball sheepfucking sack of shit.
He probably didn’t write, why would he read it?
Apparently he thought he wrote a how to manual.
And when Al Qaeda wins a Jinn gets his wings?
Being a fat fuck has nothing to do with weight. This is how you do it.
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1427630203220676625
You know, given what we’ve seen from Western governments, maybe the Taliban aint all that bad. I mean, there’s probably like way less diversity training and I doubt they give a fuck about Covid since it’s all just Allah’s will and all.
Good googily-moogily
What an asshole, if that fat douchebag can refrain from jamming doughnuts or vegamite sandwiches or whatever the fuck they eat down his gullet Iâve got something he can stick in his mouth.
Rule Britannia something something.
Fuck you. You are slaves now unless you respond to this crap accordingly.
oh noes:
Molson Coors retiring 11 âeconomyâ beer brands
Icehouse Edge? This cannot be allowed to stand.
âMilwaukeeâs Best Premiumâ
Nope, makes no sense, these are mutually exclusive.
The beers of my youth, gone, like teardrops in the rain…
Molson Coors retiring 11 economy ‘beer’ brands
Only Hamm’s Special Light? I’m safe….for now. I’m still pissed those fucking Canadians took away my Red Dog. If I weren’t so lazy I’d run for President just to follow The Hat’s advice and ‘Bomb the fuckers!’
Goddammit, more than half of the internet is unreadable. This is one of the only sites that I can actually read. The rest of the internet is worse than shit.
I remember how exciting the internet first was – finding punk rock reviews, 30-second music samples. Audio Galaxy, sleazy Myspace photos of girls I knew, and all of the audio information I could get my hands on.
Now? https://www.wallpapertip.com/wmimgs/154-1543733_sad-mickey-mouse-images-blood-mickey-hands-in.png
I am with you. I remember it being very exciting also…different material for me…but it was great. We all knew it was the dawning of a new age. There is still much to like but all in all it hasn’t exactly aged well.
Did you say before that you use an iPad? If so click on the aA in the address bar to put it into reader view. Way easier on the eyes than the mass of ads, videos and crap that the majority of websites that are not Glibs add to their pages.
No, I am on an apple using Mojave….I know, I know….
I know there are work-arounds but Jeebus, why put all of that shit on there anyway? What kind of idiots are designing sites these days? The people teaching web design these days really need to be in a different line of work.
What kind of idiots are designing sites these days?
The kind that found software engineering too demanding, but still wanted to do something related to the 6 week coding boot camp they took?
/anecdata
Why is every shittastic news site content to fuck my shit up with an autoplay advertisement video that chases me down the page and won’t let me close it until it has thoroughly raped my eyeballs. Then they have the gall to ask me to subscribe or whitelist so they can rape my eyes again.
Yep. If I wanted to play Asteroids or Space Invaders I would buy the goddamned games. The pages jump around up and down loading all kinds of pop-up shit. I just click the pages off.
See, the whole point of writing things is so that people can read what you wrote. If you make it unreadable, people wont read what you wrote.
hahaha. The whole point of writing things on the internet for these people is to get clicks that will register with their advertising providers and send them cash.
Disclose.tv Police cars revolving light
@disclosetv
NEW – Australia: No taking your mask off while drinking alcohol outdoors.
I laughed at this. Everyone else should as well as telling these tyrannical cuntes to fuck off.
V was supposed be set in England.
No. V was set in America. V for Vendetta was set in England.
/pedant/geek
I was being lazy đ
Australians – some of the most feared troops in WW2. Now? Jesus wept.
They took their guns away for a reason. It’s a penal colony FFS.
Everyone else should as well as telling these tyrannical cuntes to fuck off.
Australia disarmed the populace and have now unleashed their army against the citizens in door to door searches. Verbal exchanges will do as much good as throwing sand in the ocean.
Relatedly, the WSJ ran an article today where they interviewed a female government employee in Kabul. Her response to Taliban takeover:
It’s unnerving how far from reality someone like that can be. The Soviet Night Witches and female sniper teams during WWII are like an opposite evolutionary path from these government and NGO parasites.
How people can wrap it around their heads that only the government and their people are allowed to move about without restriction for their safety boggles my damn mind.
Time to fix the back slider screen door. The cat walked outside – through the bottom – while the greyhound was there. Given the number of dead bunnies we’ve recently cleaned up, I’m surprised I didn’t have to add a cat to the list.
‘Naked in the world of COVID’: Some J&J vaccine recipients feel unprotected against delta and want mRNA shots
Kevin Rosengren stared at the piece of paper in disbelief. No antibodies.
The 46-year-old resident of Richmond, Virginia, received theone-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine in March. He was confident in the vaccineâs effectiveness and finally felt free to leave his house, travel and meet with friends.
But lately, news of the highly contagious delta variant driving a surge of COVID-19 cases worries him. He doesnât want to bring the virus home to his unvaccinated 11-year-old son.
Rosengren confided in his pharmacist, who offered an antibody test to dispel his concerns. Unfortunately, the results only added to them.
âI had this coat of armor on before, and now I feel completely naked in the world of COVID,â he said.
Fool me once…
Someone can correct me, but isn’t this “vaccine” not really a vaccine-vaccine?
IIRC, the end result is supposed to be the same (spike protein production in deltoid muscle cells), but it uses an adenovirus as the vector rather than mRNA.
I’m no doctor – thank god – but that sounds like the “safer” one to take.
None of them are safe or effective. I dont want any of them near me.
The ‘tell’ is when the manufacturers were exempted from any liability. Good God. They might as have written “FUCK YOU” on the labels.
Safer in that using an adenovirus vector isn’t new. The most credible concerns I’ve seen about the vaccines focus on that spike protein itself. That would make the actual technology irrelevant (unless the mRNA carrier is doing unexpected things causing some of the weird spike replication issues that are being rumored). Were I strapped down to a table and forced to make a choice, the adenovirus vaccines carry one less axis of risk, so I’d choose them. That said, short of them holding a gun to my family’s head, I’m not getting any of them.
There are some claiming that the adenovirus versions have a limitation of sorts in that you form an immunity to the adenovirus vector itself. This would make follow up shots with the same vaccines ineffective as your immune system would wipe out the vector before the message is delivered.
Whether or not that is true, there is no possibility of forming an immunity to the mRNA vectors. You can just see the dollar signs dancing in the eyes of Pfizer and Moderna execs as they ponder boosters now and boosters forever.
My motto now:
I’m not wearing a mask or getting a shot unless you pay me to. I only wear a mask at work.
I’ve already knuckled under and gotten the vax because of the financial cost of refusal. I’ll probably get the booster if needed to keep my job. But that will be the only booster I get. If we do finish our descent into a dystopian public health hellworld, I will be on the fringes of society.
Well, I lost the game of “guess the TMITE” for that link. I thought it would be NBC.
CNN?
*clicks link*
Damn. I lost also. It sounds like one of those ‘Dear Zardoz’ letters. That dude needs to hide under his bed.
I had the J&J injection because it seemed the least likely to fuck my shit up. It made me have fever and chills for from 12-24hours post injection. Then I felt fine. I don’t recommend it, no shot is the best shot. I will not be taking any further injections and will actively resist any attempts to do so. My employer isn’t requiring the vaccine or masks, I’m just a big dummy.
As the hysteria ramps up again, I am getting concerned that we will mandate, not just the vaccine, but the “boosters” as well. I feel bad about it, but I am kinda hoping our vaccine mandate turns into a disaster, with hundreds of employees leaving.
Knowledge from the Before Times that has been lost:
You are immune to lots of bugs that you don’t show antibodies for. Antibodies are the short-term response to a new infection. The immune system has the equivalent of memory cells where the info to respond to that bug is stored.
Yes, never clear to me whether these anti-body tests are for current active antibodies (nearly useless to determine long term immunity) or are tests for the memory T-cells.
As far as I know, active antibodies. I think there are some newer tests that claim to identify T-cell reactivity, but I have no clue how good they are.
https://www.t-detect.com/covid-19/for-patients/
My son has a test in right now. We’ll see what it comes back with.
Seen on FB:
This was an entirely stupid thing to do…
Why did it never occur to our PTB to support the Afghan style of combat, to make that more effective. Instead, we trained them to rely on us. Wait, that does make sense – we always want dependence on our govt – that’s a perfectly progressive solution.
It makes sense. The unwritten policy goal of DC is to make everything and everyone dependent on them.
There is a huge difference in the way different cultures wage war.