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General Milley: ‘What You Saw Unfold' with Afghanistan Evacuation Was One of the Plans'
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg becomes first openly gay Cabinet member to have a child as he and his husband Chasten welcome newborn twins Penelope and Joseph
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] and Oh So Cute(!) pic of them in the hospital holding their tokens chilruns - without wearing masks. So precious
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2021 09:55 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Butt gig. Can't wait for the custody feud during the "ghey divorce."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine Walter Becker trying to sing "This is your ghey-tian divorce" without cracking up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Posted by: Tom || 09/05/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Buttgieg, spit.
Posted by: Xyz || 09/05/2021 15:22 Comments || Top||

#5  They have no idea of the problems these children will present. Review of such children shows many varied social integration issues. The end results are far from normal. Let me just say you get what you pay for and there are no refunds.
Posted by: Dale || 09/05/2021 15:28 Comments || Top||

#6  The end results are far from normal.

To them - a bonus. Then they will call that the 'new normal' and if you object your racist.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2021 17:10 Comments || Top||

#7  whatever I think of his policies or of his lifestyle, I wish him and his family good health and happy times
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/05/2021 21:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Amen. Also (I gotta be meeeee!)...

Buttigieg squeezes one out
With help of proud husband, no doubt.
A transport! A movement!
A stylish improvement!
"Here, bold my hand, honey, and shout."
Posted by: Lemuel Trotsky2537 || 09/05/2021 22:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Howie Carr: Joe Biden craps out on Afghanistan, Hurricane Ida response
[Bawston Herald] It’s Weekend at Biden’s, and what a busy time it’s been for Dementia Joe.

Presiding over the most humiliating military and foreign policy disaster in U.S. history, massive inflation, supply-chain breakdowns and COVID cluelessness — and those are the highlights of his feckless administration.

What makes Biden’s hologram presidency so ... special is that Dementia Joe can always cut directly to the heart of an issue, as he did in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

All dialogue guaranteed verbatim.
exactly
"The unprecedented flash floods in New York and New Jersey is yet another merminder that these extreme storms in the crimate clisis crisis are here. We need to do muss be better prepared."

Can we quote you on that Mr. President?
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!
He can’t do it alone, though. Joe must confer with his top White House aides on the crimate clisis.

"I’m here with uh with my senior adviser and uh boy who knows Louisiana very well man and New Orleans’ Cedric Richmond."

A former Congressman who happens to be black. And Dementia Joe called him "boy." Imagine if Trump had said that ...

But this morning let us first consider the inner Dementia Joe, the "praxing Catholic," as he describes himself, as he spoke with Jewish leaders on the eve of the high holiday he calls "Russia Shona."

Most of the attention has focused on his abject lie to the rabbis that he visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the 2018 massacre. He didn’t, of course — just flat out made up something that didn’t happen. It’s a Biden thing.

The president waxed philosophical as he struggled to describe what he wanted played at his daughter’s wedding, music usually reserved for a funeral but ... Dementia Joe.

"There’s a psalm based there’s there’s a hymn my favorite hymn in the Catholic church based on a psalm and it’s uh it’s a psalm that talks about uh um life and uh and uh and so uh I I uh asked that that psalm that hymn in the Catholic church ..."

Well, get to it man. For real. No joke.

"And it says may He lift you up on the eagle’s wings and bury you on the breath of dawn and let the dice shine upon you et cetera."

Let the dice shine upon you! Luck be a lady tonight, can somebody shout amen?

The dice have not shined upon Dementia Joe of late. You might say he’s been rolling snake eyes. Especially on Afghanistan.

"Now some say we should have started mast evacuations sooner and couldn’t this have be have been done in a more orderly manner."

But Joe defended the evacuations, which he mispronounced as "evacci-ations." He lauded the military for their "bravely" — not bravery, but bravely.

It’s Norm Crosby time whenever he reads from the teleprompter. He spoke of "deploring" (not deploying) generators. At one point, he read identify as "identivize," and at another time as "innenify." He reads "transmit" as "transfer." An "airlift" becomes "airmiff."

He issued an "emergely" declaration for the state of California.

During Hurricane Ida, he botched the names and acronyms of almost every agency he mentioned —— "the Federal Aviation Commission, the FAA," as he put it, not to mention "the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, HUD."

Having spent his entire life doing nothing but grifting and bloviating, he seems out of touch with "ordinary people," as he condescendingly refers to his fellow citizens.

"Look," he said about Bernie Sanders’ $3.5-trillion welfare bill, "this is about good-paying jobs for ordinary people, blue-collar workers, jobs at prevailing wage not $15 an hour or $20 or $30."

Thirty bucks an hour is no longer a good job at a good wage? I guess not if you can set your crack-addled son up in an $83,333-a-month no-show job from a Ukrainian energy company.

Some more of Joe’s Greatest Hits, Labor Day-Russia Shona edition:

"For those hardest hit, the resources they need have to be get to them."

"I’m proud the Naval Academy the Naval Observatory once the head of the Naval uh the chief Naval Operations is now occupied by Vice President Kamala Harris."

"On my 16th birthday each of my children I put ’em on a plane."

"These are long-term prosperity we’re talking about."

"Next week I’ll lay out the next steps that are gonna we’re gonna deed to combat the delta variant."

"Today we learned the economy created 235 new thousand new jobs in August."

"Landmark investments to create even more good jobs and liver breathing room for millions of families."

"And they played and my mind’s going blank now what’s the song that is played where everybody is on the chair everybody uh you what what I can’t remember it anyway and that’s the song that was played."

"We used to remember all we had we always had you know the whole notion we had I guess it was every week was gonna be infrastructure week."

"Some more jobs uh some uh more mo- some uh months there are fewer some months more."

"We wanted to have a co-confessional uh um wedding."

"We have to shore up America’s competitive to meet these new challenges in the competition for the 21st century."

"I was raised by a righteous Christian father a father who uh who uh made sure that uh we uh we had we had dinner where we incidentally ate and we talked."

"So you know I don’t know what the hell’s going on here."

No kidding, Mr. President. And just so you know, we know you don’t know what the hell’s going on here.

No joke. For real.

Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2021 10:45 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  About six months from now, some lefty rag will publish this story: "I finally figured out how Ida was Trump's fault."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||


Larry Elder vows to replace Senator Dianne Feinstein with a Republican if he wins California recall election
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2021 10:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  better get him a Mexican driver too.
Posted by: 746 || 09/05/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||


Where is Kamala Harris? As Biden falters, VP is relegated to sidelines
[Just The News] It's no secret that the past few weeks have not been President Joe Biden's best. But what about the costar of the "Biden-Harris administration?"

The vice president has been conspicuously absent lately from coverage and appearances pertaining to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan — after having proudly claimed just four months ago to have been the "last person in the room" with Biden as he decided to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Kamala Harris' absence is especially puzzling given the recent drop-off of confidence in the president. The generally even-keeled Mike Pence was often trotted out to take questions as head of the coronavirus task force, especially after days of the more combative commander-in-chief duking it out with the press corps. The same, however, cannot be said of this vice president.

Speculation that the VP has been benched due to her performance in recent months is beginning to bubble up. "They had a minority, they had a woman, and now that they don't need her, they have her shelved," said Fox News' Will Cain

Harris' approval numbers appear to be plummeting even faster than Biden's, which are now underwater. Harris, however, according to the Real Clear Politics average, is now looking at a favorability rating of just 41.8%, with an unfavorability rating of 48.8%.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2021 01:35 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thinking the sign that Joe is out the door will be Kamel-la having a Ron Brown type "accident."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  No worries, she's used to being ridden hard and put away wet.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Only thing worse than Biden stumbling over his words is Kacklin' Kamala.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2021 15:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Pray overwhelming evidence of massive election fraud cans the whole bunch.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 09/05/2021 19:22 Comments || Top||

#5  She crossed the border into Tecate Baja Mexico yesterday'
Posted by: crazyhorse || 09/05/2021 21:51 Comments || Top||


Biden wants Afghan exit to end US global cop role
[SHAFAQ] "America is back," goes 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....
's catchphrase, but his unapologetic exit from Afghanistan shows America won't be back to business as usual.

Beyond the trauma of the Kabul evacuation, Biden is pitching a much broader retreat: a halt to using vast military resources to impose order and US values around the planet.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For those Americans fond of imagining their country to be a unique, invincible superpower — winner of the Cold War, then awesome military interventionist everywhere from Iraq to Africa ever since — this is a shock.

Ouch. A punch to the face is more like it.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 09/05/2021 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "Let's all forget 9/11", right? YJCMTSU

The mistake was allowing the 'experts' to deal with it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/05/2021 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  He's simply leaving the table per continued suggestions and threats from the Chinese.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  I think lots of Americans want this. It's part of the perversity of American history that a democrat will pull down the entire Wilsonian project.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5 
Having lost a number of DOD friends in places where they were inappropriately used as "Peace Keeping cops" and NOT Soldiers, all for political election year reasons and nothing related to protecting the USA.

Well OK maybe some Special Interest Groups and Wealthy Donor Business plans or resources.

Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Amen to #5. Say nothing. Strike quickly with no thought to mercy or detention. Get out quickly and continue to say nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Prompt Global Strike. Managed from CONUS or ships at sea. No boots on the ground. Getting rid of a pariah nation by remote control is a good form of "nation building."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Getting rid of a pariah nation

But there are so many.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 Well Skidmark we better get to work now because "we have a man's Job ahead of us."

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/05/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10 
So, Its Joes Idea for the USA
to engage in Isolationism...

Isolationism is a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who assert that nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. One possible motivation for limiting international involvement is to avoid being drawn into dangerous and otherwise undesirable conflicts. There may also be a perceived benefit from avoiding international trade agreements or other mutual assistance pacts.
More at Wikipedia

And Instituted, what will happen in a Post - Biden - World ?
Posted by: Blinky Gleasing7925 || 09/05/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#11  And they said Williams had mental issues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Biden's America: No ally trusts us and no enemy fears us.
Posted by: Matt || 09/05/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||

#13  There isn't a jacket big enough to cover Biden's owners.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#14  I just read Joe's Tuesday speech. After muddling through the post Afghan disaster spin, he reveals a bit of policy. There is much Trump and much Ben Rhodes in those two or three paragraphs of policy.

The old phrase even a stopped clock is right a couple of times a day seems to apply to Joe...either that or a blind hog found can find an acorn every now and then. Three acorns below:

1. Don't let your enemies dictate your foreign policy (Ben Rhodes reference...and he likely wrote this portion of the speech). Biden references China and Russia prefer that we are distracted, tied down, and wasting resources.

2. No nation building...very much Trump.

3. Prefers to respond to threats strategically when possible (uses new Pentagon buzzword "over the horizon" and respond tactically on when necessary to support the strategic strike...seems to be the policy of most on Rantburg.
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/05/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Politicians say a lot of stuff. Only mental deficients buy any of it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Maybe it is time we quit playing world cop and Get Our Own House and Borders In Order 1st.

It only works if we do both pieces, NN2N1. But while some small progress is being made on getting our house in order, the borders will remain unguarded so long as the Democrats are in charge.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#17  #15 Politicians say a lot of stuff. Only mental deficients buy any of it.
Posted by M. Murcek


Mental deficients revel in political propaganda.
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/05/2021 13:55 Comments || Top||

#18  I agree, we shouldn't be the world's cop. We should be the world's John Wick. You piss us off and the only thing left is the pile of dead. Leave us alone and we'll sit quietly at home, minding OUR business.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/05/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#19  So, Joe - is this like "America First"?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/05/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||

#20  The world's John Wick. I like that. Wick, and Rambo before him were trying to mind their own business when otbers made that impossible. As an aside, read David Morrell's books (The guy who wrote First Blood)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#21  Read Ender's Game
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/05/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#22  Never read Ender's Game. Never will. Also never read any Harry Potter books or any Tolkien. Never saw ET. Never read any Steven King. Somehow, I'm still alive and living a full life.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 20:00 Comments || Top||

#23  Too bad our enemies - you know those who desire to KILL US, get a vote.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/05/2021 20:38 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin Legislature Votes to Approve 'Special Counsel' to Audit 2020 Election
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] The Wisconsin legislature has approved an audit for the 2020 election. The news was reported by Right Side Broadcasting Network on Friday.

"Wisconsin Republican state politicians approved an audit of the state’s 2020 presidential election results, to begin in the coming weeks," RSBN reported. "Former state Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
Justice Michael Gableman was appointed to oversee the investigation of the election results."

The election audit details were reported earlier by the Wisconsin Examiner.

A copy of the letter via Rep. Mark Spreitzer.
"With no public hearing or public meetings — using merely a paper ballot distributed by Republican leadership to members’ offices — the committee that sets the Legislature’s agenda voted along party lines 5-3 to hire staff and officially begin an election audit under the direction of Speaker Robin Vos," the Wisconsin Examiner reported.

"The brief 5-line ballot did not specify any funding — or cost limits — on the election investigation, but Republicans have indicated they plan to spend $680,000 on ’at least to start’ in their hunt to find fraud and a ’steal’ of the presidential election," the report continued.

"The actual ballot wording allows Vos to appoint someone to ’oversee an Office of Special Counsel’ investigating the integrity of the election (Well before the vote he had already tapped former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman — an outspoken critic of the 2020 presidential election)," the report added.

The Examiner reported also added essential background on the audit.
Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is called "log rolling." See also: Kabuki
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2021 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/05/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem is that Wisconsin (and others states') Republican legislators, having been in office for a while, sit at the Capitol and think they have to 'get along' with others.

The opposition has no such delusion.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/05/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||



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  General Milley: ‘What You Saw Unfold' with Afghanistan Evacuation Was One of the Plans'
Sat 2021-09-04
  Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
Fri 2021-09-03
  British-born ISIS "Beatle'' due to plead guilty
Thu 2021-09-02
  Taliban confirm that the group’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada will be top authority
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  Six Iraqis on death row executed, three for 'terrorism': medic
Tue 2021-08-31
  Final US evacuation flights leave, ending America’s 20-year Afghanistan war, equipment left behind disabled
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  US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-29
  Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
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