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George Rebane

Let’s face it from the gitgo, Bumblebrain is so out of it that he and those supporters around him don’t even acknowledge the long list of tragedies that this administration has launched in its first eight months in office – border crisis, national crime wave, confused Covid response, $3.5T Green New Deal, mangled national employment, …, and now Afghanistan.  To them these atrocities either don’t exist or are just normative and expected reactions to their carefully laid out policies.

In Afghanistan we now see what has happened when they executed an exit policy that would have been rejected by a third-year ROTC cadet with a couple courses of military history and tactics under his belt.  The two most obvious and advised-against mistakes were the abandonment of the Bagram air base, and the withdrawing our last combat troops before starting the evacuation of civilians.  Everyone with a 3-digit IQ knew that the Afghan army would collapse as a fighting force immediately after we withdrew our air support, intelligence feeds, and contracted mechanics who kept their aircraft and their more complex combat systems operational.  And all, save the administration, knew that the Taliban would then be in Kabul in a fortnight.

Were there any honor left in the administration and its Pentagon political lackies, there would be a long list of resignations on the president’s desk to herald the much-needed housecleaning to make room for a more competent cadre of staff and military leaders.  And were any semblance of justice and concern for national security left in the Democratic Party, there would be a long list of impeachment filings against officials who were obviously derelict in their sworn duties or even criminal in their errors and omissions.

Since none of that is happening, and flacks like Psaki and Kirby are trotted out to obfuscate and confound what is really happening, we know that the cover-up of the century has been launched in preparation for next year’s midterm election.

Part and parcel of the Democrats’ national redoubt is California’s September recall election.  I am of the school that believes that Team Newsom with the help of national Democrats will do whatever is necessary to make sure Gavin does not get recalled.  The state’s election laws are now tailored to support election fraud and ‘irregularities’, abetted by everything from universal use of mail-ballots to the voting/vote counting period that extends before and after the 14sep21 election day.

California has been mismanaged so visibly and for so long that, post-Newsom, people will immediately ascribe responsibility to the state’s political monopoly.  A Republican governor will have the ability to reverse an untold number of misbegotten policies, codes, initiatives, and regulations that have been put in place by executive fiat.  The immediate impact of such a reversal will be apparent to a sufficient fraction of the state’s voters that it would most likely signal the end of the Democrats’ super-majority legislature, and perhaps even their massive embeds in the state’s various appointed and elected office slots.  The problem for the national Democrats is that such a political epiphany will be seen everywhere, and give lie to the progressive policies that have issued from state capitals and city halls across the land, those dominated by proto-Marxist politicians.

The amount of out-of-state money pouring in to support Newsom’s retainment attests to this assessment.  And we ain’t seen nothing yet when the fireworks erupt as the election draws nigh.  It will be a hot time in the old town for many a night.

Meanwhile, Biden’s tragic Afghanistan rout rolls on. (more here)

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264 responses to “The Ongoing and Tragic Biden Debacle”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In another example of why he owns the title the ponytail of ignorance. During the Trump admin about 1% of the total deaths occurred in afganistan 47 total. Foolish is as foolish does –
    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/476461-us-combat-deaths-in-afghanistan-highest-in-years
    😉

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  2. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I can’t believe idiots like Paul are allowed to vote. Lol.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Everyone is in opposition to creepy grampa joes plan –
    More than 8 in 10 (84%) Americans say that U.S. troops should remain in the country until all Americans are evacuated, according to a ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. And 71% of those questioned said that the troops should stay until all Afghans who helped the U.S. are evacuated as well.
    There was none of the typical partisan divide in the survey, with 87% of Republicans and 86% of Democrats and independents saying U.S. troops should stay until all Americans are evacuated.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/overwhelming-support-for-keeping-us-troops-in-afghanistan-until-all-americans-afghan-allies-out-poll
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Even our allies are freaked out by the public collapse of creepy grampa joe –
    Boris Johnson has been warned that Joe Biden “holds grudges” after members of the British government questioned his mental fitness following “completely mad” press briefings on Afghanistan.
    The warning follows a report in The Sunday Times that a British government minister said President Biden “looked gaga” while speaking to the press, with a government aide describing the American as “doolally” and the newspaper noting that “Such thoughts are normally never whispered in Whitehall, let alone briefed.”
    Doolally” is an insult with a strong pedigree in Britain, stemming from the name of a town in India where a sanatorium for soldiers rendered temporarily deranged by fever were sent in the 1800s.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/29/british-warned-biden-holds-grudges-after-uk-govt-sources-say-hes-gone-gaga/
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/29/abcs-karl-biden-admin-is-describing-something-that-isnt-reality-while-spinning-afghanistan-disaster/
    😉

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  5. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Paul is one of the 14% who believe that Joe Biden could shit on Paul’s table and Paul would ask him whether Joe wanted some cofeve.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    To me the liberal mind has always been a source of amazement and, frankly, fear. They march to a system of logic that is uniquely theirs, and bears little to no relationship to the waves of causality that shape our world. My fear arises from my family’s (i.e. personal) experiences that arose from such thinking when it was ascendant in the Nazi and communist regimes, and with certainty will reprise itself in America if the Left is successful with its tireless designs to install monopoly politics. To hold Biden blameless for architecting the retreat from Afghanistan simply boggles this mind.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe is exposed as a quivering coward –
    “I’m not supposed to take any questions but go ahead,” Biden told Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs.
    Jacobs began, “Mr. President, on Afghanistan—”
    “I’m not gonna answer on Afghanistan now,” Biden interjected before walking away from the podium.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-refuses-afghanistan-question-walks-away-after-offering-to-take-questions-at-fema
    😉

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  8. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Yes George. I am often amazed at the complete lack of rationality or lack of understanding of cause and effect. The liberal minds is a unity of thought absent any critical thinking. It is dogma.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I am not holding Biden blameless George for the current situation. I have expressed that several times. However to suddenly and solely assign blame on our current President for the situation at hand and not in any way hold to blame the past three Presidents who got us to where we are to is idiotic to any reasonable person. Over four thousand Americans have died in Afghanistan and we have spent 2.5 Trillion for what? How can you in any way not comment on that?
    Do you support our military being there for 20 years George?

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 244pm – Try to get a grip on what’s happening here. We are talking ONLY about “the situation at hand” for which past presidents can truly be held blameless if we are to learn anything for going forward. Going back in the years-long causal chain is nothing but a desperate attempt to divert the otherwise productive conversation about holding people accountable for the situation at hand. But such a diversion is all that remains for today’s acolytes of the Left.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Funny,, Emery has yet to whine why we are still at war in Korea. How many presidents are you going to blame about that Emery?
    We are still “occupying” Europe and Japan. Yet Emery has jack shit to say.
    Emery has yet to publicly say anything derogatory about Biden.
    He’s been given the facts in spades, yet can only name Repubs in his bitching.
    His boy “O” could have ended the conflict, but didn’t. and crickets from Emery when confronted on that fact.
    This pooch fucking is all Biden. (facts already given)
    Biden or whoever has his puppet strings did this Trump’s hands are clean. Trump handed Biden a stable situation.
    Prove that wrong with real facts Emery..

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The reality on the ground that the creepy gampa joe admin denies –
    Stranded in Kabul: Americans, LPRs, SIVs stopped at Taliban checkpoint
    Video from Kabul shows a group of U.S. citizens, LPRs and SIVs stranded at a Taliban checkpoint.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/stranded-in-kabul-americans-lprs-sivs-stopped-at-taliban-checkpoint
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Read up Emery,, From the Proggy press.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/abcs-jon-karl-psaki-calling-afghanistan-withdrawal-and-evacuation-a-success-isnt-reality
    “ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl questioned the Biden administration’s description of the evacuation effort in Afghanistan as a “success,” arguing their statements are not based in reality.
    President Joe Biden and his national security advisers were initially defensive about both the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the effort to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from the Kabul airport. In his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Biden suggested that Afghanistan would have descended into chaos regardless of how or when they proceeded. Commenting on the U.S. airlift last week, which was one of the largest in U.S. history, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Fox News’ Peter Doocy that the administration would not call it “anything but a success.” “

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is going to be a big problem its as if they send send me your jihadis –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/29/cnn-bidens-agencies-bringing-afghans-with-no-documents-whatsoever-to-u-s/
    😉

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That should be if they said send
    😉

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  16. Walt Avatar

    That’s right Don, now who was it that opened the refugee gates the last time? They imported the “pressure cooker” bombers.
    One hell of a way to say thanks.
    Terrorists are always looking for an easy way in.. And Biden just handed them the free ride. No more trying to come in through Canada or the MEX desert.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about a loser in every way –
    The Biden administration has racked up a long line of losses in federal courts in what is one of the worst records in the first six months of any modern presidency.
    While most administrations tend to minimize such test cases to avoid creating bad precedent, the Biden administration has litigated with an utter abandon – elevating political over legal considerations in litigation. The latest is one of the most disturbing.
    Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down President Biden’s renewal of the controversial eviction moratorium. It was the second time that a majority of justices declared the moratorium as unconstitutional but, as in other areas, the Biden Administration has become openly and chillingly dismissive of such legal considerations
    What is most worrisome about these moves by the Biden administration is that they are neither subtle nor defensible. They are acts in open defiance of the existing law or recent rulings of the Supreme Court.
    After running on returning the country to strict adherence to “the rule of law, our Constitution,” Biden is honoring that pledge primarily in the breach.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-defies-law-courts-eviction-ban-jonathan-turley
    😉

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    Regarding “being there for 20 years”. As I have written endlessly, I am a student of and adherent to the 1946 Kennan ‘Long Telegram’ which outlined a successful strategy we have practiced for the US to hold back global tyranny since WW2. To continue doing this and not let the globe become a tripartite Orwellian world between the Russians, Chinese, and fundamental Islam, we need to keep our troops in low level combat operations across the world indefinitely. These are not wars per se, but low cost, low casualty police actions that hold back the eternal forays of evil against civilization. The Left understands none of this, and gladly sides with collectivist evil to promote their jaundiced concepts of social justice and equity. However, grasping this will outline the contours of an eternal pitched battle between good and evil, which from our current vantage there is no visible end save capitulation to the most atrocious forms of tyranny.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” we need to keep our troops in low level combat operations across the world indefinitely. These are not wars per se, but low cost, low casualty police actions that hold back the eternal forays of evil against civilization. ”
    I have to think on that. Overseas adventures certainly act as good training exercises but are quite expensive in terms of blood and treasure. I do have to wonder what the optimal model for a navy is since they get few opportunities for realism. Hypersonic missiles present something of a cost/benefit problem for designing fleets regardless.
    You can argue that war has moved from the battlefield to a combination of money and propaganda. Things like the Confucius Institutes and overseas business deals appear to be the approach of the Chinese, the Russians are rather out of the picture aside from dabbling in some internet shenanigans, and social media seems tailor-made for both the Islamic and Woke forces of the world (along with the ability to deploy mob-based bodies). Not much call for carriers and brigades in those cases.
    For the US to stay intact, it probably needs to think less like Rome and more like Byzantium.

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  20. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    “I am not holding Biden blameless George for the current situation.”
    &
    “How about the other 4500 Americans that died in Afganistan. Who can their families blame. Certainly not Biden.”
    Not even a good liar! Prolific liar yes….good liar no!
    “Do you support our military being there for 20 years George?”
    Shit….they’re on to me….quick, change the subject!!!!
    You’re pathetic Emery!

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joes wokenistas and their allies in tech have added steroids to the anti-Semites like the squad –
    Woke history hits Middle East as Palestinians accused of erasing history
    Palestinians seek to erase Jewish history, defining Israelis as ‘Zionist thieves,’ critics say
    Palestinian leaders and their western supporters on the political Left are now re-interpreting biblical history amid a wider expansion of woke activism in the Middle East, critics say. The Palestinian Authority (PA), emboldened by some in Europe and United Nations bodies, are looking to dismantle Judeo-Christian ties to the Holy Land as they seek to invent a new narrative favoring their claims on the region, opponents of the campaign argue.
    https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/middle-east-palestinians-woke-history
    😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 5:25 pm
    The video of the Soviet defector posted here a few months ago came rushing to the forefront of my mind: Only time I ever took notes of anything posted on RR. And, I just going toss them yesterday.
    Ideological Subversion.
    Active measures to change perception of reality
    Programmed to act to certain stimuli. (Immediate and forceful reaction, not response, I may add.
    Remoralization: explore Marxist-Leninist without challenge.
    Is it the criticism of Biden’s handing of the final withdraw in Afghanistan that has elicited such a programmed reaction from Paul empty emery, or is it just the mere criticism of Joe Biden?
    Is it one of those mental defense mechanisms that automatically get triggered to absolve/diminish Joe Biden’s accountability? Like, Joe Biden may have made some mistakes, but Bush, Obama, and Trump are more to blame! Why are you singling out Joe Biden????? Why, why, why.
    To repeat like a broken record: no one with a reasonable mind holds Joe Biden responsible for the Afghan War. All reasonable people hold Joe Biden accountable for what he did when he took over the patron on the last leg or the relay. Accountable only for his part.
    Why criticize Joe! You did not criticize Trump or Bush or the guy I could not vote for the second time (and vowed never to vote for a major party candidate for President again, ever, never, no way, not how!)…..that man being B. Hussein Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood sect sympathizer just like Iran. Why not criticize them!
    Why, why, why? Frankly my dear freakazoid, I don’t give a damn. Don’t give a fuck about your questions coming from someone (Y-O-U) who has been programmed to react to certain stimuli.
    It’s not your fault. You are not even responsible for what you say. Your perception of reality has been changed.
    BDS lasted through the W years, lasted through the Obama years, and stopped only to be replaced with the arrival of Donald J Trump, the through and through Limousine Liberal from Queens.
    That is 20 years of Derangement Syndrome. That is plenty of time to physically warp the brain permanently. Progressive and irreversible. The ideological subversion is complete. A sad tale. But, screw that. It a great day today and I relish in the zest of being alive in the USA. I am bestowed with the biggest and greatest blessings of life.
    Others have been through hell: 20 years in a constant state of turmoil, chaos, upheaval, tension, strife, and….sucks to be you.

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  23. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Good news everyone……it looks like Katrina 2.0 is headed for Nawleons! Let’s watch and see what Joey Fingers does next!

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Great fishniglio. Now we have LBJ quotes to suffer through.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    This will give the Proggys a new idea.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/29/gun-holding-taliban-fighters-afghan-tv-presenter-public-has-nothing-to-fear-cooperate/
    “The presenter of Afghan TV’s Peace Studio appears on video informing the Afghan public to “cooperate with it and should not be afraid” while members of the Taliban stand behind him at gunpoint.”

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    From Barry’s 6:21 pm
    Dan Crenshaw
    @DanCrenshawTX
    America, you need to know this: Biden is not letting US citizens through the airport gates. It has been impossible to get anyone through for the last 24 hours.

    This administration has been lying about their intent to save Americans. Unforgivable.

    Yep, only holding Biden accountible for his actions. His plan. His actions and his inactions. He ain’t responsible for the sun rising in the East or the Oakland Earthquake.

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Right on Cue, the President’s Mistakes Are Our Fault Again’
    “Still, this has happened pretty quickly with Joe Biden. Usually, it takes a couple of years before the press starts to sound like a bunch of hippies sitting around a fire saying, “you know, in a sense, you’re me and I’m you, and all of us are we — and so when the president makes a mistake, it’s really, like the universe making a mistake, isn’t it? And, y’know, we’re in the universe, so we are the presidency. That’s democracy, man.””
    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/right-on-cue-the-presidents-mistakes-are-our-fault-again/?

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    So far Biden has to lose the House, lose the Senate and lose re-election to compete in the loser sweepstakes with Trump, the biggest political loser in modern history. And by the way even though he’s dropped in the job approval polls he’s still 17 points above Trump for the same date of his Presidency and 15 over Trump the day he left office. You crack me up the way you attach yourself to this loser.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Here Emery, try and blame this epic pooch screwing on Trump.
    VERY reminiscent of when Clinton was offered Bin laden’s head on a plate and refused.
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/08/29/report-taliban-offered-biden-control-of-kabul-but-he-declined/
    “The chaos in Afghanistan could have reportedly been avoided altogether if President Joe Biden had accepted the Taliban’s initial offer for the U.S. to have full control of Kabul and the airport.
    According to a report from the Washington Post, as the Taliban began taking control of Afghanistan, senior U.S. military leaders met with Taliban political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Doha, Qatar, where an offer was made for the United States to have control of Kabul until all U.S. troops had withdrawn; the offer was declined. ”
    The screwups keep getting bigger and bigger.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Boy thats some snot dripping TDS goin on right there @726.
    So you are acknowledging the drubbing the socialist ems are going to take in both houses next year.
    Thank you for your candor.
    😉

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    Let me know if it happens. Till then it’s just an idea and your fantasy and Trump remains the biggest political loser in modern history.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    To this day, EMERY has yet to give an account of all the great thing LIBS have done to get people to re elect the no good scum. Name the accomplishments Emery. Sky high inflation? Yup there is a winner. The cost of fuel through the roof? Yup, people really vote for more of that.
    And this surrender to the enemy… Yaaa Good luck with that.
    Then there is pesky mid term loss to whoever holds the W.H.
    Remember that Emery?
    So when the Repubs have the House AND Senate, watch the impeachment papers stack up.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Not a loser when you cheat to win Emery. And that’s just what you LIBS did. The only loser is you. Your as useful as a condom in a convent.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    No proof Walt. It’s another one of your fantasy’s. Not one accusation has held up in ANY court. Show me one.

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Name the LIB that said THIS Emery. You should know.. You claimed to be a news guy.
    “If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed”
    And the voter reform laws that have been getting passed and DONE in more than half the states triggered by LIB cheating,, that ain’t going to happen.
    You really think Biden losing the war all on his own is an election winner? The people will hold ALL Liberals accountable.
    Lie your way out of that,,, loser.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Any time Emery,, tell us what makes LIBS electable.
    Name the accomplishments.(other than cheating.)
    You BS makes you sound like a coward scared 💩less.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    “”I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,” Biden said to a reporter before quickly changing his mind when he was asked about Afghanistan. ”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-implies-handlers-are-in-charge
    Niether does Emery.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What the heck are you people doing talking about Afghanistan!! There is friggin climate change and a monster hurricane. Every second you talk about Afghanistan is one second NOT talking about life ending Climate Change on our planet, people. Shame, shame. How dare you.
    https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker?

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ah, fiddlesticks to the barber. And what about that summer class of kids from Coachella Valley?? Haven’t heard if they got out after the teacher, chaperones, and school officials texted there Congressman in Riverside County and even La Mafia is making calls to get them out of Afghanistan. Bad time to work on an orphanage of go exploring mystic far away places.
    Anyway, what the hay is going on here?????? Oh ya, “we” are that impotent. “We” being our empathic left. Maybe they hate the family unit that much. Apparently so. ‘Collateral damage’will work.
    ‘Shameful: Nets Ignore ‘Terrified’ University Students Abandoned in Afghanistan to Taliban
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2021/08/30/shameful-nets-ignore-terrified-university-students-abandoned

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  41. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Joseph Robinette Biden….Man of Integrity™*
    https://www.facebook.com/amy.stillindc/posts/378705677151184
    Man of Integrity™ marketing, images, and trademarks wholly owned by Punchy Brand Political Branding and Marketing Enterprises Inc. all rights reserved

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  42. Walt Avatar

    As I recall, the LIBS were dead set AGAINST leaving when Trump was Pres. Emery pissed and moaned when Trump announced his withdrawal. ” How dare Trump abandon the people!”
    Even the enemy bought it. The Trump maneuver brought them out of hiding, and the troops bagged their limit.
    It showed the Proggy’s true colors. If Trump was doing it, they were against it. NOW they cheer Biden for “being brave”.
    Is this what LIBS consider brave? They screwed the whole dog pound.

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  43. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Walt | 30 August 2021 at 12:14 PM
    It showed the Proggy’s true colors. If Trump was doing it, they were against it. NOW they cheer Biden for “being brave”.

    You only need look at the language and phrasing directed at the COVID vaccines Trump vs Biden. While Trump was still in office getting the vaccination was literally taking ones life in one hands……after Biden was elected to not take the vaccine was the very height of irresponsibility! A strike at the very heart of society itself!
    Hypocrisy……it’s just what Progressives do!

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Another pounding on po ole Joe’s ribs.
    Biden Bragged About ‘Degrading’ Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Major Al Qaeda Figure Just Got Hero’s Welcome Home There.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-bragged-about-degrading-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan-major-al-qaeda-figure-just-got-heros-welcome-home-there
    I was there, man.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If it were not for double standards they would have none dept. Who wants to bet he gets another pass. –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-calls-black-adviser-boy
    😉

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