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-Great Cultural Revolution
Biden Says US Troops Should Be Dishonorably Discharged if They Don't Vax
[MSN] The White House said Tuesday it 'strongly opposes' a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that prohibits the Pentagon from punishing or dishonorably discharging any service member who refuses a vaccine.

'The Administration strongly opposes section 716, which would detract from readiness and limit a commander's options for enforcing good order and discipline when a Service member fails to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccination,' the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a statement on the yearly bill that funds the Pentagon.

'To enable a uniformed force to fight with discipline, commanders must have the ability to give orders and take appropriate disciplinary measures.'
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Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go vax your filthy son, you disgusting demented old perv.
Leave us alone.
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  #FJB
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 09/23/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3 

While rendering ones-self unfit for duty is covered under UCMJ and even grounds for Articles of dishonorable discharge.

I am not sure how this will play out in the courts.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/23/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I suppose the military is prepping for large scale resignations.
If they are honorably discharged will they be allowed to reenlist at a future date?
Can they hire "contractors" who are dishonorably discharged?
If Biden can exempt the postal workers he can exempt the military.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/23/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5  BCD can only be done by special or general courts martial. Further, any attempt to direct the verdict (as has now been done by the 'Commander in Chief') is basis for overturning on appeal. I guess if the military has time to waste on CRT they have time and manpower to waste on this game, they can play this game but understand they lose in the end. The discharges will all be later upgraded to general.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#6  How blind they all are. When the Iraq government replaced all the proven leaders of the army with political appointees, it all folded before ISIS just as the Afghan army before the Taliban. They're writing their own future right now. "It can't happen here." Really?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/23/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Prediction:

Military installation lock-downs and closures coming soon. General Mark Milley makes MSNBC announcement at 7:00.

Military installation land to be subdivided and sold in no-bid contract to multi-family developer China Construction America (CCA). CCA a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd. (CSCEC).
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 There are some parts of Fayetteville I would advise Evergrande not to invade.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/23/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Those who resign or are discharged will be replaced by Haitians, Mexicans, Guatemalans, Afghans, etc. The new troops will have no qualms about obeying illegal, unconstitutional orders from their dementia patient in chief.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/23/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#10  And be led by the likes of Southern Command tweeting a Happy Birthday Airforce pic featuring Migs.

Watch, it will be easy to maintain Russian surplus doctrine for the rank and file, augmented with future tech under the direction of the palace eunichs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Dishonorable. Really showing that ass.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Jeez, how to inspire loyalty.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/23/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||

#13  #6 "It can't happen here." Really?

Can, and is. Already started.
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 15:16 Comments || Top||

#14  South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited Hawaii this week as the remains of 68 Korean service members were repatriated at a ceremony at Pearl Harbor.

Nobody from the Joe Kamela was in attendance, not even Lunch Vader.

Kinda says it all about how they feel about service members especially rank and file.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||

#15  China Joe trying to neuter our military?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/23/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#16  Biden Learned Everything He Knows of the Military From Beetle Bailey....

Posted by: Caesar Henbane3597 || 09/23/2021 21:26 Comments || Top||

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#20 

Biden, just go to sleep.
Posted by: Caesar Henbane3597 || 09/23/2021 21:41 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Politico admits Hunter Laptop was real and scandal revealing
[USSAnews] In its review of Ben Schreckinger's new book, The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power, the remarks offer a shocking confession for a left-leaning outlet such as Politico.

"A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden's emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden," the report noted.

Politico added, "The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, 10 held by H for the big guy?"

Well like many lies, it served its purpose so why continue the lie
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Suppressing the truth in order to swing a presidential election should be a criminal offense.

Perhaps prosecute these assholes for violating election finance laws -- making an undeclared in-kind campaign contribution?
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ But you knew that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/23/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Chamber of Commerce Pressures Reps it Endorsed in 2020
[Townhall] After endorsing Reps. Cindy Axne of Iowa, Angie Craig of Minnesota, Antonio Delgado of New York, Josh Harder of California and Elaine Luria of Virginia in the 2020 election‐sparking backlash from Republicans at the time‐the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched an ad campaign on Wednesday pressuring these same centrist Democrats to vote against the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

"This reconciliation bill is effectively 100 bills in one representing every big government idea that's never been able to pass in Congress," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark said in a statement. "The bill is an existential threat to America's fragile economic recovery and future prosperity."

"We will not find durable or practical solutions in one massive bill that is equivalent to more than twice the combined budgets of all 50 states," Clark added. "The success of the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations provides a much better model for how Congress should proceed in addressing America's problems."

The ad spots highlight how the bill's tax increases "would be a body blow to our economy. Tell Representatives Axne, Craig, Delgado, Harder, Luria ‐ don't knock us out with these massive tax increases," the narrator says.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/23/2021 12:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The US Chamber of Commerce quit actually supporting small businesses some time ago.

Local chapters are somewhat, but not always, better.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/23/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Agreed, Mullah Richard. I joined my local CoC about ten years ago, and then I started reading here & there about how the national branch was supporting this & that policy that went against businesses here in the US. I never renewed and I remember blasting somebody who called me up asking me to rejoin.
Posted by: Raj || 09/23/2021 16:45 Comments || Top||

#3  2020 lobbying expenditure was about $30M and Business Roundtable was about another $10M

for context, the NRA did about $2M that same year.

The CoCommerce does have a magnificent building at 1615 H street in DC.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/23/2021 21:07 Comments || Top||


White House Blames Boris Johnson for Biden's Snub of American Press in Oval Office
[BREITBART] The White House on Wednesday blamed United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
after President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
snubbed American news hounds in the Oval Office on Tuesday evening.

Johnson called on two news hounds from his press corps for questions, but Biden did not do the same for American news hounds.

CBS White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe raised the incident with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
during the daily briefing Wednesday.

Psaki made the excuse that Johnson did not inform Biden or his staff "in advance" that he would take questions.

"I think our relationship with the United Kingdom and with prime minister Johnson is so strong and abiding, we’ll be able to move beyond this," she added. "But he called on individuals in his press corps without alerting us to that intention in advance."

When asked by another news hound if Biden felt upstaged by Johnson’s questions that set off the awkward exchange, Psaki quickly denied it.

"I think the president has not spent a moment worrying about it," she replied.

Reporters were visibly upset after Biden aides shouted them out of the room — at one point drowning out the president’s attempt to answer a question.
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He has had way too many September screw-ups to be allowed to answer ANY questions. (Da Staff)
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/23/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Baghdad Jen, on a roll
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  "I think the president has not spent a moment worrying about it,"

So what's he been worrying about, Jen?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/23/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ how to launder his 50% of the proceeds from the auction sakes of Hunter's "artwork"
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Just some White House cosplay re-enacting the evacuation of Kabul, no worries.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||


''What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery,'' congresswoman Maxine Waters said about US Border Patrol agents
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Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery"

Nice to know, Maxine finally admits her real age, 176 years old.

2021-1845=176 years

1845+20=1860 -Last 20 Years of slavery

1861-1865 - Civil War

1865 to 2021 = 156 years, since the last of slavery.

Maxine, no one should buy what you are selling - That situation died over a Century & a Half Ago.

You are a "witness" in your dreams... and so are any other race baiters.

Posted by: Zenobia Thrusoling9872 || 09/23/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Maxine Waters said about US Border Patrol agents stopping Haitian economic migrants from illegally crossing into the US.

What we witnessed was American citizens homes and businesses in the area being protected from a hoard of invaders.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/23/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#3  She's old enough to know, right?
Posted by: Raj || 09/23/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#4  I think she means slavery - like how the DNC enslaves people to vote democrat even today on the ole Vote Plantation. Where she's one of the overseers keeping the votes in line.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/23/2021 1:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Come on, man. She probably saw 'Gone With the Wind'.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/23/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  America's First Black Acting School
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/23/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  these slaves import themselves
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/23/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Frog Mouthed Black Bitch
Posted by: 746 || 09/23/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Dumber than a box of rocks. How the hell can people of her district look themselves in the mirror?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/23/2021 11:24 Comments || Top||

#10  She's reducing the horrors of slavery which is not something I think she is smart enough to realize.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/23/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#11  I honestly think virtually every single one of those Haitians will be an endless drain on the taxpayers, in jail, on welfare, in healthcare, in education and in public benefits of every kind, Why in Gods name do we tolerate any government that essentially allows people so utterly worthless to invade our shores and steal from our children's future? This is intolerable!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/23/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||

#12  It is worse.

These people are selling themselves into servitude for no money and generational service, and will be given just enough food and shelter to learn how not to work, and pass that knowledge on to their offspring.

It is absolutely dehumanizing by careful, deliberate design.

And Waters dares to be The Mouth of this Flesh Trade.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Dumb fucks do not know difference between a rein or a whip.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 09/23/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#14  The people selecting the still frames from the video do. Probably a pro sent to record and find such things, good equipment too, look how zoomed in and framed the picture is. That is the river bank, so the camera is on the other side of the river.

Then The Lie is made resembling the truth close enough the NPCs can run with it enough until Big Media has no choice but to report, and they report The Lie.

Now, The Mouth can get involved and neuter Boarder Patrol actions.

Saw somewhere, already, Boarder Patrol Actions will be limited to roads.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/23/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#15  One comes to expect Mad Maxine to say really stupid things. She never fails to come through.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/23/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#16  The problem is that idiots listen to her stupid words.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/23/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||

#17  She doesn't even live in her shithole district
Posted by: Frank G || 09/23/2021 20:22 Comments || Top||

#18  No actor has ever been bought,
So blacks thus enslaved have been caught
For the mirth of a nation!
That sunny plantation?
Theresienstadt it is not.
Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275 || 09/23/2021 23:59 Comments || Top||


George W. Bush to hold re-election fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney
[NYPOST] Possibly cornered Rep. Liz Cheney
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run....
is betting on figures from the fading Republican establishment to help her win re-election — setting up a clash between two GOP former presidents.

Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has been sidelined by House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
for voting to impeach President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, has invited President George W. Bush to hold a fundraiser for her next month in Dallas, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump is backing her challenger Harriet Hageman in the 2022 Republican primary for Wyoming’s sole House seat.

In his endorsement of Hageman earlier this month, Trump referred to Cheney as a "warmonger and disloyal Republican."​

The fundraiser comes amid a squabble between the 43rd and 45th presidents.
Posted by: Fred || 09/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ever since Trump blasted W for invading the ME looking Saddam's Yellow Cakes of Mass Destruction Bush has been sulking ever since.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/23/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  W should team up with Hunter B and do tag-team Sunday painting. They could livestream it on Hunter's pr0nHub channel (search for account owned by "Robert B. Hunter")
Posted by: Ethelred the Swank6539 || 09/23/2021 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  How long before Boosh is inducted into the Lincoln Project?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/23/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Donate to her opponent, Harriet Hageman, here.
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/23/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  The five people that like Liz Cheney like W Bush so this makes sense.

Any word on if her father will be coming out to support her?
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/23/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Proof that W really is as dumb as many of us feared.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/23/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if Dick Cheney, G.W. Bush's VP asked "W" to hold a fund-raiser for his daughter to try to save her bacon.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/23/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||



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  Five Killed in Five Attacks in Jalalabad
Wed 2021-09-22
  400 Caribbean Migrants March Through Mexican Checkpoint to Texas
Tue 2021-09-21
  Senior Huras al-Din ideologue and senior military leader
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Mon 2021-09-20
  Texas Governor Sends Highway Patrol, National Guard to Block Migrants at Border
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  Indonesia's most wanted ISIS militant killed in shootout
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  Roads Into Panjshir Reopen, Telecom Services Resume
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  US imposes sanctions on five individuals it says are linked to alQaeda
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  Seven Pakistani soldiers, five militants killed in gun battle in South Waziristan
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  US says nearly 500 Afghan citizens evacuated from Uzbekistan
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  Taliban seize $6 million and golden bricks from Amrullah Saleh’s residence
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  Zawahiri, believed dead, appears in video on 9/11 anniversary.
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