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Sadr sets out rules for the US when Sadrists assume premiership
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Dan Bongino drops major sponsor that caved to Antifa boycott campaign—'Cancelling works both ways'
[PostMillennial] "Cancelling works both ways," he said. And to those companies that would bow down to left-wing bully boy activists on Twitter, "If you don't support free speech, get out. I'm not interested at all."

Dan Bongino took to the air on Friday to speak out against unhinged left-wing activists who are going after conservative news outlets and pundits, and the businesses that capitulate to their whims.

The Post Millennial has been a target of left-wing activist @nandoodles, Nandini Jammi, and her comrade Antifa
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/18/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Joey bag of donuts has left the room. Great to see Dan Bongino lives as he talks.
Posted by: Dale || 10/18/2021 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  When will accountability be imposed on these liars and crooks who are basically extorting companies for political and financial clout and gain? There is little difference between them and the mafia "Nice business you have there be a shame if something happened to it".

Is it going to need people breaking some heads?
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 10/18/2021 19:14 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Gates seems to double down on claim that Biden's been wrong on top foreign policy issues for decades
[FoxNews] Robert Gates, the former defense secretary under President Obama, seemed to reiterate in an interview that aired Sunday night that he believes President Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.

Gates, who spent about three decades in the CIA, was introspective during an interview with CBS’ "60 Minutes," and was asked by Anderson Cooper, the correspondent, about his 2014 memoir titled, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."

Cooper pointed out a part in the book where Gates called Biden a man of integrity but wrote that he believes he’s "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

"I think he’s gotten a lot wrong," Gates responded, before pointing out Biden’s opposition to "every one of Ronald Reagan’s military programs to contest the Soviet Union," the first Gulf War, and even pointed to their differences regarding Afghanistan during the Obama administration.

He said he believes Biden made a mistake in Afghanistan in the way he handled the withdrawal.

Biden has defended his administration and essentially said there was no easy way out of the country after two decades.

"When I hear we could have, should have continued the so-called low-grade effort in Afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost," Biden said. "I don’t think enough people understand how much we’ve asked of the 1 percent of this country who put that uniform on."
True, but that doesn’t answer the challenge.
Gates, who is 78 now, told "60 Minutes" that he lives in Washington state to get as far away from D.C. as possible, but admitted that it was difficult to watch the withdrawal and subsequent chaos in Kabul. He said President Trump failed to plan properly and once Biden said there would be a "firm deadline date, that’s the point at which I think they should have begun bringing those people out."

"You have to be pretty naïve not to assume things were going to go downhill once that withdrawal was complete," he said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/18/2021 06:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Warmonger wants wars to go on forever.

Gosh, what a surprise.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 10/18/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  He said President Trump failed to plan properly and once Biden said there would be a "firm deadline date, that’s the point at which I think they should have begun bringing those people out."
If 'Trump writes all of the plans' (like Napoleon Bonaparte standing over a map table) why do we nee the Chiefs of Staff or the Pentagon?
...and note that Trump should have made a better plan for Biden's talent for screwing up.

I feel like The Man In Black talking to Vezzini: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Posted by: magpie || 10/18/2021 19:26 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-10-18
  Sadr sets out rules for the US when Sadrists assume premiership
Sun 2021-10-17
  Thailand Ends 17-Day Security Op in Deep South Swamp
Sat 2021-10-16
  Lebanon on edge as funerals held for seven killed in Beirut gunbattle
Fri 2021-10-15
  Socialist Labour Party MP in Leicester, England and a BLM activist, has been convicted over threatening to throw acid on the face of a woman
Thu 2021-10-14
  Six dead, dozens injured as Beirut protest erupts into heavy gunfights
Wed 2021-10-13
  Antifa member files frivolous lawsuit claiming he was injured by cops while rioting
Tue 2021-10-12
  Iraqis nab ISIS finance chief with $5 million bounty on his head
Mon 2021-10-11
  NIA raids 16 locations across Kashmir amid fresh civilian killings
Sun 2021-10-10
  UN: 10,000 Displaced as Clashes Escalate over Marib
Sat 2021-10-09
  Suicide bomber kills at least 100 at Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan
Fri 2021-10-08
  Now in Power, Taliban Set Sights on Afghan Drug Underworld
Thu 2021-10-07
  Tunisia police seize equipment used by pro-Ennahdha channel
Wed 2021-10-06
  Turkey seeks to merge al-Nusra and National Army in Syria's Idlib
Tue 2021-10-05
  Palestinian president hosts Israeli minister in West Bank
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