Sunday, August 29, 2021

Compounding the errors. Timing is always of the essence...

So there was an attack against vulnerable Americans and Afghans trying to escape the self-inflicted chaos that is Afghanistan. This attack killed over a dozen Marines and a hundred people overall. We still remain vulnerable as we speak. In fact, just as vulnerable as we were during the first attack. Now we have credible threats of more attacks taking place over the next couple of days (before the deadline).  

After the deadline, even Joe Biden's self proclaimed security guards and friends (The Taliban) are offering that Americans staying behind will be in even more danger (especially if we are still operating as a military or evacuating people). Get out by August 31st or else is the message.

So as we are desperately trying to get as many Americans out as we can over the next couple of days here, we are now experience additional threats of "retaliation" from the drone strikes that apparently killed an unknown planner or two somewhere miles and miles away from Kabul. Yesterday we lost valuable time which we can never get back as Americans were once again told to stay away from the Airport. We garnered those retaliatory threats with the timing of our retaliation. We played their game and lost.

The question becomes if you are going to retaliate, why retaliate while your own citizens are still in a vulnerable state? Could the drone strike not waited till we were out of  Kabul and no longer had vulnerable Americans sitting in Afghanistan? 

The answer seems to be politics. The drone strike was an obvious attempt to provide a narrative that Joe Biden is on top of this and that he was not taking it lying down. But most of the time quickly thrown together plans are not the best plans. They are simply a reaction, rather than a well thought out plan. Didn't Biden and his advisors think about whether or not our own actions would trigger another reaction from the Taliban or ISIS-K?

Everyone knows that the 13 service people are on the head of the President. Any other attacks in or around the airport are also now on his head, as are anyone who cannot get out because we had to give up evacuation time dealing with a triggered threat of retaliation. This was not a well thought out plan as it pertained to the safety of our Americans. But it appears that politics were more important. 


64 comments:

Roger the predictable said...

If Trump did this you would be happy and jumping up and down and killing black people because you are racist. I say this because I have no real other argument.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Joe Biden made a solemn trip to Dover Air Force Base early Sunday to mourn with families of 13 service members killed in a suicide blast in Afghanistan as their remains returned to the United States.

It is the gravest task to fall on any American president and is the first time Biden has attended a "dignified transfer" since taking office seven months ago.

The President and first lady Jill Biden will meet with the families of those killed, according to the White House, prior to the transfer at noon ET.

I cannot understand how difficult this is to any President.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

SLDS SLDS SLDS SLDS

 Could the drone strike not waited till we were out of  Kabul and no longer had vulnerable Americans sitting in Afghanistan? 

The answer seems to be politics. The drone strike was an obvious attempt to provide a narrative that Joe Biden is on top of this and that he was not taking it lying down. 




C.H. Truth said...

IF the families of fallen soldiers that have been interviewed so far are any indication... Joe Biden will be the last person they want to talk to.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kabul-bombing-victims-americans-marines/2021/08/28/2a85c00e-0778-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html

The stories are heartbreaking.

Commonsense said...

IF the families of fallen soldiers that have been interviewed so far are any indication... Joe Biden will be the last person they want to talk to.

I'd be surprised if any of the families talk to him other than giving him a piece of their mind.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

After 9/11 the first attack on the mainland since the British American war in 1815 the country uninted behind President Bush.

This attack on our forces was not on American soil but the Republican party of Trump attacked the President.


Commonsense said...

IF the families of fallen soldiers that have been interviewed so far are any indication... Joe Biden will be the last person they want to talk to.

I'd be surprised if any of the families talk to him other than giving him a piece of their mind.

C.H. Truth said...

Roger... everyone, including CNN and Democrats are blaming Biden for these deaths. Only cognitive dissonance and cognitive decline prevent you from seeing the obvious differences here.

You really have no argument, do you?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Hours after an Islamic State attack in Afghanistan killed more than a dozen U.S. service members, former president Donald Trump continued his efforts to rewrite the history of his 2020 deal with the Taliban.
“We had an incredible agreement, they weren’t killing our soldiers,” Trump said Thursday, contrasting the lack of attacks on U.S. troops after his Taliban deal with the “tremendous danger” that he said American troops were facing under a Biden-negotiated security agreement with the Taliban.
Trump failed to mention that his agreement required significant U.S. concessions in return for Taliban cooperation, even as the Taliban continued to attack and kill Afghan forces after the deal was signed. The agreement also hinged, in part, on a May 1 withdrawal deadline for all U.S. forces, which Biden later extended.

rrb said...

IF the families of fallen soldiers that have been interviewed so far are any indication... Joe Biden will be the last person they want to talk to.


Our heroes were returned to American soil and Dover AFB today.

Nobody from the Biden White House attended.



https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1431802734647267332

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

With a little cooperation with the Taliban militants.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said that a U.S. airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle Sunday who wanted to attack the Kabul international airport amid the American military’s evacuation there.

There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.

The attack comes as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul’s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago. After an Islamic State affiliate’s suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.

U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America’s longest war. However, Afghans remaining behind in the country worry about the Taliban reverting to their earlier oppressive rule — something fueled by the recent shooting death of a folk singer in the country by the insurgents.

Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to journalists that the strike targeted the bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.

A suicide bomber was killed by President Biden before he could kill American troops or many others.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://share.newsbreak.com/11i1j730

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden embarked on a solemn journey Sunday to honor and mourn the 13 U.S. troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as their remains return to U.S. soil from Afghanistan.

Biden and his wife Jill traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to meet privately with the families of those killed and then attend the “dignified transfer” of the fallen troops, a military ritual of receiving the remains of those killed in foreign combat. They left the White House for Dover on a misty, overcast morning.

The dead ranged in age from 20 to 31, and came from California and Massachusetts and states in between. They include a 20-year-old Marine from Wyoming who had been expecting his first child in three weeks and a 22-year-old Navy corpsman who in his last FaceTime conversation with his mother assured her that he would stay safe because “my guys got me.”

He is meeting with them right now
Despite the troll squad asshole Twitter tirade bullshit


rrb said...



This attack on our forces was not on American soil but the Republican party of Trump attacked the President.

Myself and countless others have renounced our association with the GOP. And that's for a reason, genius...

“It’s not just Romney, Sasse, Murkowski, Collins, and the usual cast of “useful idiots” for the Democrat Party either. It’s Lindsey Graham telling you that he’s ‘getting to the bottom of things’ every night on cable TV for five years.

“It’s Kevin McCarthy getting caught renting rooms at the Frank Luntz Day Camp for Future OxyContin Lobbyists after being forced to remove the unpopular neocon gasbag Liz Cheney from GOP leadership even though McCarthy was the one who had elevated her in the first place. You simply can’t quantify that kind of stupidity.”

[...]

As you watch the total collapse of the GOP establishment, it now seems obvious why so many GOP voters picked a flamboyant Manhattan real estate developer with a TV show about firing incompetent people to lead the party in 2016. Our corrupt political class is so out of touch that Donald J. Trump got elected to save us from them — because he was, by comparison, an honest man. The GOP managed to get rid of Trump, but they also managed to get rid of most of their voters. Their timing is impeccable too. McConnell and McCarthy and the rest of them have managed to hitch their wagon to Biden just in time for the credibility of everyone in Washington to bite the dust in Kabul.


https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-gop-committed-suicide-trying


The GOP is dead to me. They've reduced themselves to becoming a group of perverted child molesters led by Schmidt, Wilson, and Conway, and their Bulwark newsletter is financed by an Iranian socialist billionaire.

They decided long ago that their role was to act as valet's for democrats.

No honest Trump supporter has anything to do with republicans, but you keep believing that the GOP is the party of Trump, alky. That will serve my side well in the 2022 mid-terms.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-biden-troops-killed-509f29aaca012ee8e83871d2c03384bf

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Live news


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American forces launched a military strike in Kabul on Sunday targeting a possible suicide car bomb that was aiming to attack the airport, U.S. officials said.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike targeted suspected ISIS-K militants. They said they were citing initial information and cautioned it could change.

Witnesses reported an explosion near Kabul airport and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Two witnesses said the blast appeared to have been caused by a rocket that struck a house in an area to the northern side of the airport, but there was no immediate confirmation.

Just a few minutes ago

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

'A direct punch in the gut': Inside Biden's biggest crisis as he races to withdraw from Afghanistan
By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Herb and Phil Mattingly, CNN

Updated 8:45 PM ET, Sat August 28, 2021

Washington (CNN)
When Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley informed President Joe Biden just past 9:15 a.m. on Thursday that terrorists had detonated a suicide bomb at the Kabul airport gates, the President was angry and dismayed — but not surprised.

Biden had just walked down from his third-floor residence to the basement Situation Room, where top national security officials were milling around the dark wooden table when first reports of explosions were transmitted into the basement command center. It was the nightmare scenario Biden had been fearing for days, one intelligence assessments -- derived partly from communication intercepts -- had warned was likely to happen.

Yet the complexity of the situation on the ground, the urgency of the evacuation mission and the unlikely partnership with the Taliban to control security around the airport had left US troops dangerously exposed, and offered Biden and his team limited options to protect them.


The group remained in the Situation Room for more than an hour, receiving updates from commanders in Kabul and poring over maps and images of the airport. Biden eventually decamped to the Oval Office, where he was updated by his national security adviser Jake Sullivan and chief of staff Ron Klain.

As the day wore on, the situation grew progressively grimmer. Reports of American casualties eventually turned into confirmation of American deaths, news that reached the White House by midday.

The death toll went from 4 to 10 to eventually 13, a devastating figure for a President who had yet to preside over a single US combat death. The Marines who were killed were believed to be conducting security screenings of those entering the airport; one military official said they were so close to the crowd, "the breath of the person you are searching is upon you."

Biden's national security team had little time to emotionally process the attacks, one official said, as they remained focused both on the airlift mission in Kabul, now entering its most dangerous phase yet, and a new objective to take out the terrorists. (On Friday night, the US military announced it had conducted a successful drone strike against an ISIS-K planner in eastern Afghanistan.)

For a commander-in-chief known to occasionally flash his temper, multiple aides who spoke to CNN described Biden as consistently calm and level-headed in the aftermath of the attack. Still, by the time Biden emerged into the White House East Room after most of Thursday behind closed doors, the strain of the moment was evident.

"Been a tough day," he said as he began a set of remarks he and his speechwriters had spent the previous hours honing. Biden wavered between weary sadness, a stark threat to "hunt down" the attack's perpetrators and a staunch defense of his decision to end America's longest overseas conflict.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20-year war," Biden said before walking away from the podium and onto what he said was another meeting.


Thursday was the deadliest day for American combat troops in almost a decade, and for Biden amounted to the worst day of his nascent presidency. A war that is almost over after 20 years is concluding in blood, anguish and — for the President who is ending it — fierce recrimination. Interviews with more than a dozen people, including White House officials, national security and congressional aides and others close to the situation, reveal an administration consumed by events in Afghanistan, driven by the President's unmovable desire to withdraw troops while also struggling to contain the chaos of war.

rrb said...



Cut down to its basics; the US carried out a drone strike on an alleged ISIS-K planner…whatever that means…located in Nangarhar province. At its nearest point, Nangarhar is about 30 miles from HKIA. As it is unlikely this “planner” was minutely paralleling the province boundary, odds are he was in or near one of the handful of towns in that province.

For retaliation to be effective, it has to have three elements. It must be timely, visible, and it must be at least proportionate (my bias is towards disproportionate).

[...]

Bottom line, this attack was bullsh**. It had nothing to do with deterring further attacks and everything to do with domestic public relations. It shows just how weak our hand is in Kabul and highlights the grotesque ineptitude of the Biden White House.


https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/08/28/joe-bidens-afghanistan-drone-strike-against-isis-k-is-a-joke-and-we-are-the-punchline-n434147


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://news.yahoo.com/u-carried-military-strike-kabul-134049919.html

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Biden's aides argue he is exactly the man for such a moment: a foreign policy veteran, a renowned empath, a military dad. Yet a legion of critics, including some Democratic allies, is now questioning whether his decades of foreign policy experience add up to sound policy or competent leadership at a moment of crisis.

As Biden's approval ratings already show signs of slipping, fears are rising among Democrats that mistakes made in Afghanistan could derail the party's ambitious domestic agenda. While Democrats were attempting damage control, Republicans attacked what they viewed as clear and devastating missteps.

A team of longtime Biden hands now faces scrutiny for not sufficiently preparing for what the President has said was inevitable chaos in the war's final days. Biden is currently focused on completing the mission in Kabul, aides said, but many of them expect he'll eventually hold someone responsible for what has happened.

"I do believe some people on his national security team should resign. That's up to them and it's up to him," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who has sharply disagreed with Biden's Afghanistan policy even as he has served as a regular critic of his own party.
The White House says Biden isn't planning to ask any of his military leaders to resign in the wake of Thursday's deadly attack, and press secretary Jen Psaki said the President maintained confidence in Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has faced particularly harsh criticism for his department's role in coordinating the evacuation of Americans and Afghans who worked for coalition forces over the past two decades.


Still, Psaki acknowledged there had been little time inside the White House to contemplate anything beyond the current evacuation mission, especially as Biden was warned during a Friday morning briefing that further attacks are likely as the military winds down its operations.

"There's not a lot of time for self-reflection right now," Psaki said when asked about the current state-of-affairs in Afghanistan, in which the US is forced to coordinate with the Taliban in the final days of the war. "The focus is on the task at hand."

Asked to describe these final tense few days, another White House official said, "It's like a high wire with no net, and every single minute you could fall off."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

'A ticking time bomb'
From the moment Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15, American and western intelligence agencies began warning of a heightened risk of a terror attack meant to create mayhem among the throngs of Afghans desperate to escape.
Scores of ISIS terrorists had escaped from prisons across Afghanistan, fueling fears they could penetrate the security the Taliban had set up around the airport.

In daily meetings of Biden's national security team, including through last weekend, a sizable amount of time was spent discussing what officials described as "active threat streams" coming from the Islamic State affiliate operating in Afghanistan.

The intelligence streams were "specific, serious, and credible" in the days leading up to the attacks at the airport, a person familiar with the matter said. And while US forces had been conducting counterterrorism operations around Kabul to try to mitigate the threat, officials were worried that it was "a ticking time bomb," this person added.

By Tuesday and Wednesday, the threat had become so acute that US officials began informing other western nations who were executing their own evacuation missions it was too dangerous to continue. At one point, US intelligence officials had access to communication intercepts directly tied to a potential suicide vest attack, one US official said.

Finally, on Wednesday night, the State Department issued an ominous and highly specific warning to Americans to stay away from the airport gates until further notice. It was a last resort in a situation where the Biden administration already had extremely limited options, an official said.

The warnings did little to disperse the crowds of Afghans desperately seeking a way out of the country. When the blast went off, bodies were scattered into fetid drainage canals, the survivors left to escape in a daze of horror.
Many in the White House had been frustrated in recent weeks with the intelligence community's failure to predict how fast Kabul would fall to the Taliban — even the most pessimistic assessments estimated it might take at least a month.

This time, the intelligence the White House was receiving about a potential attack outside the airport was tragically spot on. One official who spent hours on Thursday in meetings and calls described finally getting a moment of respite, only to find himself staring at a TV tuned to the graphic cell phone video of bodies strewn across the scene of the attack.

"It was a direct punch in the gut," the official recalled.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

'God forgive me if I'm wrong about that'
Some national security officials viewed Thursday's attack as the worst case scenario for Biden, given his political calculation that the withdrawal would likely have little negative impact on his standing with most Americans unless US troops were killed

"No one's being killed right now," Biden said in an interview with ABC News last week, knocking on a wooden table as he defended the execution of the withdrawal. "God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now."

In Congress and at national security agencies, scrutiny has increased over Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan and the subsequent execution of the withdrawal. Several sources familiar with internal discussions at the White House and on Capitol Hill about Afghanistan over the last several months, including meetings that have taken place in recent days, told CNN that much of the blame for the chaotic withdrawal has come to rest on Biden and the White House, rather than the military or intelligence agencies.

Others pointed to Sullivan, Biden's 44-year-old national security adviser, and what one official characterized as an indecisive White House-led deliberation process on Afghanistan, including the evacuation, describing it as "paralyzing."

Some White House allies said Biden appeared to be driven by his desire to get out, rather than focusing on how to do so.

The acrimony is shared among some of top foreign allies of the United States. Biden spent much of the week preceding the attack explaining to his critics why he was so adamant about getting US troops out of the country.
On Tuesday morning, he sat in on a high-level videoconference call as skeptical American allies beamed in from foreign capitals to voice frustration at his withdrawal plan.

When it was French President Emmanuel Macron's turn to speak, he pressed Biden to extend the date after telling him in a phone call last week the US had a "moral responsibility" to vulnerable Afghans now exposed to Taliban reprisals. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made similar entreaties.

But during his own seven-minute remarks in the meeting, Biden revealed his decision: he was sticking to August 31, in large part due to heightened security risks, noting that each day the threat level was increasing. The risk of an attack, Biden gravely told his counterparts, was "very high."

Throughout the week, Biden never reconsidered the end-date, according to aides, who said Thursday's terror attack only cemented his view that remaining in the country any longer would be a mistake. He dispatched CIA Director William Burns to Kabul to meet face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in a meeting one official describes as "an exchange of views on what needs to happen to be done" by August 31.
His determination was that staying past then would be impossible.


On Wednesday evening, Biden spent 35 minutes huddled in intense conversation with a small group of lawmakers who'd come to the White House for a pair of bill signings, including Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat who once worked in President George W. Bush's White House as an intelligence briefer.

After the signing, Biden invited Slotkin and a few others to stay for a "frank conversation" about the situation in Afghanistan, she said afterward — including next week's deadline.
"It's clear the President is deeply engaged on the situation in Kabul," she wrote on Twitter, saying she brought up her concerns about what happens after the United States withdraws its troops next Tuesday. "We did not always agree, but the President clearly has Afghanistan at top of mind."

rrb said...



He is meeting with them right now

Nice.

He brings the ultimate in disrespect and disgrace with his presence.

Nikoui’s father, Steve Nikoui, told the Daily Beast that he feels like Biden “turned his back” on his son Kareem.

“They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside providing security,” Steve Nikoui said. “I blame my own military leaders… Biden turned his back on him. That’s it.”

Steve Nikoui also said he felt more secure in his son’s safety when former President Donald Trump was in office after he joined the U.S. Marines, saying, “I really believed this guy didn’t want to send people into harm’s way.”


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/27/father-of-u-s-marine-killed-in-kabul-joe-biden-turned-his-back-on-my-son/




Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

'A reckoning'
Even before Thursday's attack, Republicans had been pummeling Biden over Afghanistan, charging that a delay in evacuations in the spring had contributed to the last minute chaos.
Lawmakers had voiced frustration over the lack of information coming from the administration in recent days as its public messaging has stood in stark contrast to the reality on the ground. Earlier this week, Biden officials refused to answer questions about Burns' meeting with the Taliban during a classified briefing on Afghanistan, with one source familiar with the closed door session calling it a "glorified press briefing."

The briefers also would not say how many Americans were left in the country despite being repeatedly pressed for specific numbers, the source said.


After the attack, the political implications began to ripple around the Hill immediately, with GOP condemnation of Biden coming almost immediately after the first reports emerged that US service members had been injured. The calls for resignations and impeachment of Biden and his top advisers only escalated as more grim details were learned about the extent of the US casualties.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tamped down the GOP demands for Biden to leave office, but he declared on a call convened for House Republicans Thursday evening that Biden would face a "reckoning" on Afghanistan, saying it was an "absolute disgrace" that the Taliban were dictating the US withdrawal, according to a source. McCarthy's committee leaders dashed off quick requests for agencies to preserve documents -- a sign of how Republicans will make investigations into the administration's Afghanistan decision-making one of their priorities should they retake the majority next year.

McCarthy reached out to the White House Thursday to set up a call after the attack, and the President called McCarthy back, according to a source familiar with the call, in which McCarthy pressed Biden on the Americans still in Afghanistan.

Democrats, too, have deep frustrations about how the administration handled the Afghanistan withdrawal. While most Democrats support Biden's decision to remove US troops from the 20-year war, Democratic sources say they feel Biden's team bungled the execution, failing to prepare for the contingency that the Afghan security forces would quickly fold. Few Democrats rushed to defend Biden publicly after this week's attack, which did not go unnoticed in the West Wing.

Democratic sources say they don't buy Biden's explanation that the intel didn't predict the Taliban's quick rise to power, and they fault Biden's team for delaying the evacuation of Afghan interpreters. Before Thursday's attack, top congressional Democrats had been urging Biden to extend the August 31 deadline to withdraw US troops, saying it was obvious that there wasn't enough time to finish evacuations by then.

"Although it is clear to me that we could not continue to put American service members in danger for an unwinnable war, I also believe that the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled," Rep. Susan Wild, a moderate Pennsylvania Democrat, said Thursday, in one of the harshest criticisms of Biden coming from within his party.

Psaki, during her briefing on Friday, said that criticism was easily made from outside the White House.

"It is easy to throw stones or be a critic from the outside," she said. "It is harder to be in the arena and make difficult decisions."

________

CNN's Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Melanie Zanona contributed to this report

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to journalists that the strike targeted the bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.

A vehicle loaded with explosives can kill hundreds of people.

It looks like the U.S. armed forces are in contact with the Taliban militants right now anyhow..

rrb said...




Marjorie Taylor Greene said it best -

"Biden is a piece of shit."

I like her. She's feisty.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

How many American troops were killed in Afghanistan while Trump was President as compared to how many were killed while Biden has been President?

rrb said...

Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...

How many American troops were killed in Afghanistan while Trump was President as compared to how many were killed while Biden has been President?



And there it is. The sum total of the left's argument in support of Biden, distilled down to two words -

"But Trump..."


This is 100% on Biden, pederast.

100%

Embrace the suck of the assclown dementia patient you and your ilk installed in the white house.

Own it, pederast. OWN IT.


Myballs said...

The last 13 months of Trump presidency had 0 deaths.

C.H. Truth said...

How many American troops were killed in Afghanistan while Trump was President as compared to how many were killed while Biden has been President?

By President?

Biden - 13 (13/year)
Trump - 60 (15/year)
Obama - 1728 (216/year)
Bush - 564 (71/year)

rrb said...



How the left REALLY feels about the USMC:


Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?

https://archive.is/Sea7b#selection-837.0-837.34


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Yes,
I thought
in 2017 there were 14
in 2018 14
in 2019 21
in 2020 11
totaling 60

Biden 13

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

This is NO MORE "totally on Biden,"
than I am a "pederast,"
which you KNOW I am not,
liar rrb.

You consistently make yourself and your lies
SO obvious and preposterous.

Myballs said...

According to stars and stripes, only 4 us servicemen were killed in action in 2020, the lowest since it began on 2001. Trump had things going in the right direction. Biden changed all that.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

U.S. Strikes Vehicle In Kabul
August 29, 2021 at 10:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The U.S. military carried out a strike on a vehicle in Kabul on Sunday in response to an ‘imminent’ threat to the Afghan capital’s airport by the Islamic State militant group,” the Washington Post reports.

“The U.S. military official said there were ‘significant secondary explosions’ following the Sunday strike, indicating the presence of a ‘substantial amount of explosive material.’”
_______

Aw, gee. Commonsense will not be able to wax gleeful over that.

Myballs said...

Well, we all do recall you posting thst you thought the 13 year old obama daughter was hot. You said that. Not rat.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The numbers killed in Afghanistan had been dramatically declining ever since Obama drew down the number of troops there and engaged them less in military operations.

HE had things going in the right direction.

rrb said...



Embrace the suck, pederast.

EMBRACE THE SUCK.

This is karma, bitch. It was wrong to steal the 2020 election. And now you and the fuckstick you installed in the white house with your thievery are enjoying the fruits of your ill-gotten gains.




Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

LOl His young daughter WAS starting to look good, and, as I predicted, has continued.
But it was the slightly older daughter I said was starting to look "hot."
And has continued.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

"It was wrong to steal the 2020 election."

I agree!!!
It WAS wrong for Trump to try to steal it.
I agree!!!

SLDS Detective said...

The military made this attack in order to make Sleepy Joe isn't demented.

A U.S. military drone strike blew up a vehicle filled with suicide bombers in Kabul on Sunday, a Defense official said, hours after President Biden had warned that a terrorist attack against the Afghan capital’s airport was “highly likely.” as he was eating an ice cream pussy.

A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Capt. Bill Urban, said the military was trying to determine whether the strike had caused civilian casualties, though he noted that there was no immediate evidence of that. The official who said suicide bombers had been targeted spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a military operation.

“U.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport,” Captain Urban said, referring to the Islamic State Khorasan group. He added: “We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material.”

Probably two pieces of dynamite.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If a few million former Republicans like rrb, they will guarantee the Democrats power for decades.

The GOP is dead to me. 

rrb said...



The military made this attack in order to make Sleepy Joe isn't demented.


When you steal content, you probably ought not to add your own idiotic gibberish commentary alky.

And SLDS? I still don't know what that is.

Something you're ailing from? Your Medicaid Acres room mate perhaps?

Myballs said...

Obama didn't have it down to only 4 killed in action. That was Trump.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sleepy "Joe" Derangement Syndrome

Myballs said...

Afghanistan deaths wrnt from 153 in 2008 to 496 in 2010. That was obama and Biden.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

During the Trump presidency, Scott believed that the deep staters were trying to destroy the Orange Monster.

Since Joe Biden was elected, he believes that cabinet members and again the MSM have been hiding his own behavior.

Conspiracy theories are a mental health crisis

No one's talking about the complex relationship between disinformation and mental health. That changes now.

By  Rebecca Ruiz  on June 27, 2021

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The complex relationship between mental health, conspiracy theories, and disinformation that no one's talking about. Credit: BOB AL-GREENE / MASHABLE

This story is part of a two-part series exploring the intersection between disinformation and mental health.

Every day, people who spend time online face a deluge of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and disinformation. Plenty of them move along, clicking past outlandish or false content that's designed to lure them in. Some, however, become ensnared for reasons experts don't fully understand. Thanks to algorithms, like the ones that drew many into QAnon, people quickly slip into dark corners of the internet and find a community of believers, or even zealots, who swear they've discovered hidden truths and forbidden knowledge.

These people might rightfully distrust government authorities, find political polarization invigorating, and search for information that confirms their own views, all of which could make them more vulnerable to falsehoods. Conventional wisdom says media literacy, fact-checking, and critical thinking skills are the best weapons against those impulses. Yet this approach rests on the dangerous assumption that people's emotional and psychological well-being has little bearing on their vulnerability to far-fetched ideas, elaborate lies, and cunning propaganda. In fact, recent research suggests that their mental health can influence what they're willing to believe.

Studies have shown that conspiracy theories appeal to people with unmet psychological needs. They crave knowledge, desire safety and security, and need to maintain positive self-esteem. Conspiracy theories, which may sometimes be true, help explain the unknown, giving people a deep sense of satisfaction. That relief, however, can be temporary. Past research shows conspiracy theories are associated with anxiety, social isolation, and negative emotions. Now a new wave of research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests a plausible connection between uncertainty, anxiety, and depression and an increased likelihood of believing conspiracy theories.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

If a few million former Republicans like rrb, they will guarantee the Democrats power for decades.


I wouldn't be so sure, alky.

Just yesterday I received a robo-call from my local town democrat committee. The call went on for two minutes telling me that the GOP candidate for Town Supervisor was the second coming of Donald Trump.

That was it. Totally vapid and ridiculous commentary that could've been an 8th grader's civics project.

You know what was missing from the call?

A single reason to vote for the democrat candidate.

I can't wait for these retards to start going door to door, and I WILL receive a visit because I'm now registered as an independent voter. And also, the vice chair of the committee lives directly across the street.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The only reason why I have been doing research on this issue, is because I actually care for Scott Johnson, because I have known him since soars Yahoo.

Coping by conspiracy"

Dr. Joanne Miller, Ph.D., an expert in political psychology, sees a similar challenge. Last summer, the Canadian Journal of Political Science published Miller's analysis of an online survey about conspiracy theories she conducted with 3,019 U.S. adults. Miller found that nearly half of respondents believed that COVID-19 was definitely or probably a Chinese bioweapon and that Bill Gates definitely or probably had plans to inject a tracking device along with the COVID-19 vaccine. Both conspiracy theories have dominated online discussion of the pandemic.

Miller, a professor in the departments of political science and international relations and psychological and brain sciences at the University of Delaware, unsurprisingly found that people who are predisposed to conspiratorial thinking were more likely to endorse individual theories. But those who expressed greater personal uncertainty were also more inclined to believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Political affiliation played a role as well: Self-identified Republicans were more likely to be believers. Those three variables — conspiratorial thinking, personal uncertainty, and party identification — all interacted to affect conspiracy theory beliefs.

On the other hand, those with higher emotional resilience, or the self-perceived ability to bounce back quickly from hard times and setbacks, were less likely to endorse a number of conspiracy theories.

Miller believes that while media interventions like fact-checking are important, they overlook the motivation behind why people turn to conspiracy theories and disinformation. She describes the dynamic as "coping by conspiracy."

"Figuring out more effective ways to regain control when they're feeling like they're losing control or feeling uncertain is as important as the media literacy side," says Miller.

Someone, for example, might be persuaded against believing the popular conspiracy theory that 5G towers spread COVID-19, but if they're still looking for answers about the pandemic's origins and don't find satisfying explanations, another falsehood or theory is always waiting to provide the comfort of certainty.

Two other surveys about emotional well-being and conspiracy theories conducted during the pandemic yielded intriguing results. One survey of 797 participants in the U.S. and Canada found that half of respondents believed at least one major conspiracy theory about COVID-19, like that the virus is a bioweapon and a way to push vaccines. A second follow-up survey of the original participants revealed that those conspiracy beliefs were associated with greater anxiety.


rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Sleepy "Joe" Derangement Syndrome


That's "SLDS" alky?

LOL.

You're so fucked in the head you can't even rip off an acronym accurately.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Enough of that.

President Biden could have done better things than he did.

But I still agree with his decision about getting out of this war

Caliphate4vr said...

And SLDS? I still don't know what that is.

I figured the demented old fool was referencing some Mormon offshoot. Hell he can’t pleasure himself much less 3 or 4 wives

LOL

rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

The only reason why I have been doing research on this issue, is because I actually care for Scott Johnson, because I have known him since soars Yahoo.



That's about as creepy as it gets alky.

You 'care' for him like the Kathy Bates character in "Misery" 'cared for James Caan.

No wonder he blocked your mentally ill ass.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

SJDS

Caliphate4vr said...

Blogger rrb said...
Blogger Roger Amick said...

The only reason why I have been doing research on this issue, is because I actually care for Scott Johnson, because I have known him since soars Yahoo.


That's about as creepy as it gets alky.


What else does he have to do on a Sunday?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This fully explained his addiction to conspiracy theories.

These people might rightfully distrust government authorities, find political polarization invigorating, and search for information that confirms their own views, all of which could make them more vulnerable to falsehoods. Conventional wisdom says media literacy, fact-checking, and critical thinking skills are the best weapons against those impulses. Yet this approach rests on the dangerous assumption that people's emotional and psychological well-being has little bearing on their vulnerability to far-fetched ideas, elaborate lies, and cunning propaganda. In fact, recent research suggests that their mental health can influence what they're willing to believe.

Studies have shown that conspiracy theories appeal to people with unmet psychological needs. They crave knowledge, desire safety and security, and need to maintain positive self-esteem. Conspiracy theories, which may sometimes be true, help explain the unknown, giving people a deep sense of satisfaction. That relief, however, can be temporary. Past research shows conspiracy theories are associated with anxiety, social isolation, and negative emotions. Now a new wave of research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests a plausible connection between uncertainty, anxiety, and depression and an increased likelihood of believing conspiracy theories.


rrb said...


What else does he have to do on a Sunday?

The same thing he does Mon. thru Sat.

Camp here.

What a pathetic existence, and what a shameful waste of a liver donation.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

98 Countries Pledge to Accept Afghans After U.S. Military Departs

A joint statement from the United States and other countries said that they had “received assurances from the Taliban” that people with travel documents showing they were clear to enter any of those countries could safely depart.

Negotiated by the President of the United States Joe Biden.


rrb said...



I think it's hilarious that an obvious victim of mental illness himself, and the believer of every single fucking conspiracy about Trump, beginning with "Russia, Russia, Russia" sees fit to plagiarize a pile of gibberish painting Trump supporters as conspiracy theorists.

Your psychological projection never takes a day off alky. And for that i thank you.


Commonsense said...

Aw, gee. Commonsense will not be able to wax gleeful over that.

You dipshit. I already said I was gleeful when the reports first came out hack.

Commonsense said...

Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
'God forgive me if I'm wrong about that'
Some national security officials viewed Thursday's attack as the worst case scenario for Biden, given his political calculation that the withdrawal would likely have little negative impact on his standing with most Americans unless US troops were killed

"No one's being killed right now," Biden said in an interview with ABC News last week, knocking on a wooden table as he defended the execution of the withdrawal. "God forgive me if I'm wrong about that, but no one's being killed right now."


No one was being killed before. Biden's bug-out got 13 US military personnel killed along with untold numbers of Afghan civilians.