Who can reconcile this?
- At the beginning of the week, the Administration suggested that there were approximately 14,000 Americans in Afghanistan to evacuate.
- As of today, they are suggesting that about 5100 Americans have been evacuated overall.
- They claimed two days ago that they have less than 1500 left to evacuate.
Am I the only one confused by this?
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Bidenomics
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expects consumer prices to rise 4.8% in the fourth quarter".
Oh that slaps Roger and James.
Here are a couple of examples of interesting math. too.
Biden Announces Pay Raises for Federal Employees
August 27, 2021 at 4:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“President Biden on Friday announced all federal civilian employees would receive an average 2.7 percent pay raise, consistent with the increases he had proposed in his 2022 budget,” the Washington Post reports.
Wisconsin GOP Wants Taxpayers to Pay for Election ‘Audit’
August 27, 2021 at 3:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are seeking approval to spend up to $680,000 in taxpayer money on an investigation into the 2020 presidential election in the battleground state won by President Joe Biden,” the Associated Press reports.
“A GOP-controlled committee will vote on the spending by Monday without holding a public hearing.”
The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport.
U.S. Central Command said the U.S. conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State member in Nangahar believed to be involved in planning attacks against the U.S. in Kabul. The strike killed one individual, and spokesman Navy Capt. William Urban said they knew of no civilian casualties.
“U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” Urban said in his statement.
Biden authorized the drone strike and it was ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet publicly announced.
It wasn’t clear if that individual was involved specifically in the Thursday suicide blast outside the gates of the Kabul airport, where crowds of Afghans were desperately trying to get in as part of the ongoing evacuation from the country after the Taliban’s rapid takeover.
The airstrike fulfilled a vow President Joe Biden made to the nation Thursday when he said the perpetrators of the attack would not be able to hide. “We will hunt you down and make you pay,” he said. Pentagon leaders told reporters Friday that they were prepared for whatever retaliatory action the president ordered.
“We have options there right now,” said Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff.
President Biden on Friday announced all federal civilian employees would receive an average 2.7 percent pay raise
Yeah, you are correct Reverend.
That is a slap in the face for federal workers as inflation is 2-3 times the paltry 2.7% he is proposing. This is the President announcing that the Federal government is effectively giving them a pay decrease. You are absolutely correct to criticize this as an insensitive boneheaded tone deaf move.
Perhaps you are coming around in agreeing that Biden is starting to fail miserably. This is just another example of more failure.
Good catch!
U.S. Targets Islamic State Planner in Afghanistan Drone Strike
The U.S. military conducted an air strike against Islamic State in Afghanistan early Saturday, the Pentagon said, likely killing an extremist leader described as a planner for the organization.
Another example of success!
U.S. Targets Islamic State Planner in Afghanistan Drone Strike
The U.S. military conducted an air strike against Islamic State in Afghanistan early Saturday, the Pentagon said, likely killing an extremist leader described as a planner for the organization.
I said that the President would do that immediately after he got the information. He ordered the attack !
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-its-last-days-in-kabul-u-s-turns-to-taliban-as-a-partner-11630105650?st=75dazny0lfwgujy&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
US Taliban as a partner
The Wall Street Journal
The WSJ reports on kputz's bullshit
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reaffirmed the central bank’s emerging plan to begin reversing its easy-money policies later this year while explaining in greater detail why he expects a recent surge in inflation to fade over time.
At the Fed’s meeting late last month, “I was of the view, as were most participants, that if the economy evolved broadly as anticipated, it could be appropriate to start reducing the pace” of the Fed’s $120 billion in monthly asset purchases this year, Mr. Powell said Friday.
Since that meeting, the economy has seen “more progress in the form of a strong employment report for July, but also the further spread of the Delta variant” of the Covid-19 virus, Mr. Powell said Friday morning at a virtual symposium hosted by the Kansas City Fed.
Scott think about this for a minute:
Pentagon: U.S. can get up to a throughput of 30 C-17 evacuation flights out of Afghanistan each day.
16,000 people evacuated in the last 24 hours, about 11,000 of those on military flights.
Have you ever seen a C-17? I know most of my fellow aviation nuts have, but for my friends/family who have not, that is a HUGE aircraft. Absolutely immense. And the USAF is cranking out a full C-17 flight from Kabul every 45 minutes, using a SINGLE runway in enemy-controlled territory, non stop, 24 hours a day right now. This has literally never been done before in the entire history of aviation... the USAF is literally making history. They evacuated more than twice as many people YESTERDAY as we did in the entirety of the Saigon evacuation in 1975.
Anyone who wants to pop off about this being a failure needs to shut their piehole unless it's to commend the incredibly hard working men and women of the US Air Force, and the ground forces supporting their mission. It started rough, no denying that, but in less than a week, the situation has been stabilized and the mission exponentially increased to a tempo never before seen, not even during WW2. The part that gets me is the logistics of supporting this mission - the ground crews are going full throttle right now, bringing in fuel, oil, fluids and servicing the aircraft as best and as fast as they can. What they are achieving right now is nothing short of incredible.
You are saying that the militarily is a Democratic hoax!
Bonkers
Anyone who wants to pop off about this being a failure needs to shut their piehole unless it's to commend the incredibly hard working men and women of the US Air Force, and the ground forces supporting their mission. It started rough, no denying that, but in less than a week, the situation has been stabilized and the mission exponentially increased to a tempo never before seen, not even during WW2. The part that gets me is the logistics of supporting this mission - the ground crews are going full throttle right now, bringing in fuel, oil, fluids and servicing the aircraft as best and as fast as they can. What they are achieving right now is nothing short of incredible.
You will never shut your piehole
https://www.wsj.com/articles/powell-says-fed-could-start-scaling-back-stimulus-this-year-11630072789?st=39ekadynvlwkqrd&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
U.S. Launches Reprisal Strike In Afghanistan
August 27, 2021 at 9:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 154 Comments
“The U.S. military announced its first reprisal strike in Afghanistan since an attack on the Kabul airport killed as many as 170 people, in addition to 13 U.S. service members, as the U.S. officials again warned Americans to leave the airport because of security threats,” the New York Times reports.
Said a Navy spokesman:
“The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties.”.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the U.S. military said it used a drone stri3ke to kill a member of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate Saturday.
The strike came amid what the White House called indications that IS planned to strike again as the U.S.-led evacuation from Kabul airport moved into its final days. Biden has set Tuesday as his deadline for completing the exit.
Biden authorized the drone strike and it was ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet publicly announced.
Scott "Einstein" won't post it
LMAO and again THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP THWAP
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reaffirmed the central bank’s emerging plan to begin reversing its easy-money policies later this year while explaining in greater detail why he expects a recent surge in inflation to fade over time.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/powell-says-fed-could-start-scaling-back-stimulus-this-year-11630072789?st=39ekadynvlwkqrd&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
THWAP is a fucking blast
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How Joe slams faux news with facts and agility....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/27/biden-escalates-his-efforts-puncture-fox-news-bubble/
Something donnie never did!!!!!!!!!!
Fox News is the new Republican's religion.
When it debuted in 1996, Fox News was an afterthought in Republican politics. But after switching to a more hardline conservatism in the late ’90s it quickly attracted viewership from more than a third of all Republicans by the early 2000s. And as anyone who’s watched Fox knows, its fundamental message is rage at what liberals are doing to our country. Over the years the specific message has changed with the times—from terrorism to open borders to Benghazi to Christian cake bakers to critical race theory—but it’s always about what liberal politicians are doing to cripple America, usually with a large dose of thinly veiled racism to give it emotional heft. If you listen to this on a daily basis, is it any wonder that your trust in government would plummet? And on the flip side, if you’re a progressive watching what conservatives are doing in response to Fox News, is it any wonder that your trust in government might plummet as well?
Fox News isn’t the only source of conservative animus toward government. The conservative media ecosystem includes talk radio, websites, email newsletters, and so forth. But all of these outlets had only a temporary effect in the early ’90s before fading out in the face of a booming economy. Only Fox News has had an enduring impact.
And that effect is huge since rage toward Democrats means more votes for Republicans. As far back as 2007 researchers learned that the mere presence of Fox News on a cable system increased Republican vote share by nearly 1 percent. A more recent study estimates that a minuscule 150 seconds per week of watching Fox News can increase the Republican vote share. In a study of real-life impact, researchers found that this means the mere existence of Fox News on a cable system induced somewhere between 3 and 8 percent of non-Republicans to vote for the Republican Party in the 2000 presidential election. A more recent study estimates that Fox News produced a Republican increase of 3.59 points in the 2004 share of the two-party presidential vote and 6.34 points in 2008. That’s impact.
Finally, Fox News also has an effect on what the mainstream news media reports, helping to spread conservative arguments far and wide. Remember the IRS “targeting” scandal of 2013? It was a routine news story until Fox News made it a cause celebre. Then it started to dominate the airwaves. More recently, critical race theory was an academic obscurity until Fox suddenly decided to give it the treatment earlier this year. Now you can hardly click your mouse without coming across yet another article or op-ed about it.
Why is Fox News so influential? Part of the answer probably lies in the fact that Fox News is cloaked in the trappings of news. Most conservatives who listen to talk radio shows understand that radio talkers are explicitly offering opinions and doing it with a large element of showmanship. But Fox News has well-dressed anchors and all the other accoutrements of a normal news outlet. So it’s no surprise that 65 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they trust Fox News—far more than any other news outlet. After all, why would a news outlet lie?
Even the distinction between the afternoon news shows and the primetime opinion shows—a favorite defense of Fox apologists—probably goes unnoticed by many viewers. At 6 p.m. there’s a guy in a suit and tie interviewing folks and delivering the news. At 7 p.m. there’s a different guy in a suit and tie interviewing folks and delivering the news. Sophisticated viewers know the difference between news anchors and trash talkers, but most people probably don’t. Sure, Fox’s lawyers had to admit in court that Tucker Carlson is not “stating actual facts” and that he engages in “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary,” but to regular viewers he is just another anchor and his outrage fest is just more news.
By itself Fox News is plenty damaging, but there’s one more thing that plays a supporting role in our story: religion.
The Fox pipeline is pretty simple. Fox News stokes a constant sense of outrage among its base of viewers, largely by highlighting narratives of white resentment and threats to Christianity. This in turn forces Republican politicians to follow suit. It’s a positive feedback loop that has no obvious braking system, and it’s already radicalized the conservative base so much that most Republicans literally believe that elections are being stolen and democracy is all but dead if they don’t take extreme action.
I understand that this is not an exciting conclusion. Liberals have been fighting Fox News for years with little to show for it. It’s more interesting to go after something new, like social media or lunatic conspiracy theories. But the evidence is pretty clear: Those things act as fuel on the fire—and they deserve our opposition—but it’s Fox News that’s set the country ablaze.
For the past 20 years the fight between liberals and conservatives has been razor close, with neither side making more than minor and temporary progress in what’s been essentially trench warfare. We can only break free of this by staying clear-eyed about what really sustains this war. It is Fox News that has torched the American political system over the past two decades, and it is Fox News that we have to continue to fight.
Kevin Drum
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/american-anger-polarization-fox-news/
Anyone who wants to pop off about this being a failure needs to shut their piehole unless it's to commend the incredibly hard working men and women of the US Air Force, and the ground forces supporting their mission.
Sure they are doing an exemplary job as are our marines and soldiers are in securing the airport.
But all that will be a footnote to the section on the big bug-out that was order by Biden and made such heroic efforts necessary.
You don't give Biden credit for the failure of leadership and cowardliness that made the military heroics necessary,
13 dead are coming back in body bags. 13 marines and seaman who would be alive today if it wasn't for Biden's withdrawal order. I doubt their families will be thanking Biden.
Note to Kevin Drum:
Fox New is successful because it report on news the mainstream media ignores at best or deliberately distorts at worse. Viewer of all political persuasions get straight unadulterated news, Balance views as represented by Juan Williams and other liberal commentators.
Bottom line, most liberals would rather watch Fox News than MSNBC or CNN which are nothing but propaganda clown shows that can't be taken seriously.
Drum wants a fascist society where only one view (his view) is allowed to be expressed.
Roger , you simpleton.
Tell me how this is wrong.
"Bidenomics
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expects consumer prices to rise 4.8% in the fourth quarter".
Being kind to Joe he has orchestrated
5.5 % inflation.
Reducing Federal government employees net income according to James.
"“President Biden on Friday announced all federal civilian employees would receive an average 2.7 percent pay raise, consistent with the increases he had proposed in his 2022 budget,” the Washington Post reports"
More than 105,000 people have been evacuated since Aug. 14, according to the White House, and approximately 110,600 people have been relocated since the end of July.
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