OUR BOTCHED AFGHAN EVACUATION, BY THE NUMBERS
According to Portman, the U.S. evacuated only 705 of the 18,000 applicants for special immigrant visas (SIV). It’s estimated that we evacuated only 30,000 of the 60,000 Afghans deemed to be “at risk” as a result of our withdrawal.
Furthermore, an estimated three-quarters of the people we evacuated fit within none of the following categories: U.S. citizen, green card holder, SIV applicant, P1 or P2 visa holder. Thus, we failed miserably at getting out the people who deserved to be evacuated, while evacuating huge numbers of people with no recognizable claim to the privilege of being rescued at the risk of American service members’ lives, or even with a plausible claim to being “at risk.”
So basically we just randomly threw people on aircrafts and flew them out without any real rhyme or reason for it. Now we have about 100,000 plus refugees and most of them are just people who happened to get to the airport over those who didn't. If we are looking at this logically, it almost would seem like the Taliban knew who we wanted leaving on the planes and simply prevented them from entering the airport. Instead allowing a bunch of people we didn't necessarily want or desire to evacuate enter the airport and board the planes.
Meanwhile, Dementia Joe and crew have thrown out their shoulders patting themselves on the back over how many people they got out, while still not fessing up to how many people actually got left behind. Does our President "really" believe he did well here? Not sure if there are people around him who are in his ear telling him that this was a good result or if they understand that this sucked and are just spinning. One thing we know almost for sure is that Joe simply doesn't know any better either way.
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New reporting from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reveals that former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) did extensive research on psychological disorders in preparation for dealing with former President Donald Trump.
Business Insider, which has obtained a copy of Woodward and Costa's new book "Peril," reports that the authors claim Ryan was surprised to see Trump win the 2016 presidential election, after which he realized that he would soon have to figure out how to have a productive relationship with the incoming president.
A New York-based Republican donor who also happens to be a doctor reached out to Ryan and warned him that he would "need to understand what narcissistic personality disorder is."
Ryan was initially surprised that the doctor was saying the incoming president suffered from a psychological disorder, but the doctor sent him more information about the condition, including an email with "thoughts on how to best deal with a person with anti-social personality disorder."
Ryan subsequently did more research of his own and grew more convinced that Trump really was a pathological narcissist.
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This was illustrated in a different passage of Woodward and Costa's book in which Trump could not understand why he should bother denouncing neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville on the grounds that "these people love me."
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That's why Paul Ryan left office.
So Roger...
You simply believe EVERYTHING you read?
You know the tell tale sign of a genius is cynicism and the ability to dismiss other people's claims that are unproven.
Apparently you are more gullible than genius.
Indy was right. You are half as smart... maybe!
"Apparently you are more gullible than genius."
Yep, according to Roger's own posting he was scammed out of a considerable amount of savings, he lost so much that it forever changed his life.
But, he learned nothing and was scammed a 2nd time.
But, he learned nothing and was scammed a 2nd time.
That takes real genius!
this summer's Delta variant surge, California has succeeded in being one of just three states to no longer be in the "high" transmission category for COVID-19, along with Vermont and Connecticut.
Much like the California Department of Public Health's former color-tier categorizations, the CDC now has these categories for the nation, and for weeks now, all 50 states have been in the red-coded "high" transmission tier. California, Vermont, and Connecticut are now moving down to the "substantial," or orange tier. This puts us on the road back to the yellow-coded or "moderate" tier, where we were in early July, and hopefully the blue or "low" tier where we were in June.
State epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan spoke in a panel discussion Tuesday, as reported by the Chronicle, and said that vaccination rates have helped us, as well as high rates of compliance with changing public health orders.
"Our mitigation measures, like masking, are going to work regardless of the variant," Pan said.
Back in late July, when the CDC updated its mask mandate in light of the Delta variant, it recommended masks indoors for all areas with "high" or "substantial" transmission rates, regardless of vaccination status.
California had to drive transmission levels down to between 50 and 99 new cases per day per 100,000 residents. The seven-day average of new cases in San Francisco hit 95 as of September 9, which amounts to 10.9 cases per 100,000 — a number that would have still would have qualified our county for "Purple" tier status under the state's framework of a few months ago. Back in early May, San Francisco was averaging just 26 new cases per day, or 1.8 per 100,000, before the Delta variant came and ruined everything.
"I do think that this virus, and certainly Delta, finds our most vulnerable," Pan said. "I would like to say to our unvaccinated, 'You do have a choice. Your choice is to get infected at some point or to get vaccinated.'"
Across the Bay Area, daily new cases have been declining as well, and hospitalization numbers have been dropping since leveling off in late August. After reaching a peak of 1,195 COVID patients in Bay Area hospitals on August 25, the hospital census across the region has dropped to 918, which is still higher than at any time since mid-February.
New COVID outbreaks are now concentrated in the south — even while things seem to be calming down in Florida and Louisiana. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia are now seeing major upticks in new cases, likely being driven in part by kids getting infected at school, college kids getting back to partying, and these states' lack of mask or vaccine mandates.
Still, due to the major surge of the last two months, ICUs in Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi are either full or overfull, with Alabama saying that it has no ICU beds currently available.
As one emergency room doctor in Lexington, Kentucky, Dr. Ryan Stanton, tells the Associated Press, entire families are being infected, and one-third of all new cases in the state are now in kids under 18.
"The problem now is we have been trying to educate based on science, but I think most of the education that is happening now is based on tragedy, personal tragedy," Stanton said.
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Dr. Fauci🤡🖕 on Tuesday concerns over the potential “monster” coronavirus variant emerging, asserting there is “always a risk” of that occurring."
Of course.😆
I actually read a lot more conservative websites than you do
But unlike you I can make up my own mind Scott.
Plus smart people in history have been gaslighted like you have ever since Trump was nominated.
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