And a civil rights activist in the Bronx said he grew suspicious when he heard last year that politicians were prioritizing minority neighborhoods for coronavirus vaccinations. “Since when does America give anything good to Black people first?” said the activist, Hawk Newsome, a 44-year-old Black Lives Matter leader who is unvaccinated.
All three situations reflect a trend that has become a major concern to public health experts: Young Black New Yorkers are especially reluctant to get vaccinated, even as the Delta variant is rapidly spreading among their ranks. City data shows that only 28 percent of Black New Yorkers ages 18 to 44 years are fully vaccinated, compared with 48 percent of Latino residents and 52 percent of white residents in that age group.
This vaccination gap is emerging as the latest stark racial disparity in an epidemic full of them. Epidemiologists say they expect this third wave will hit Black New Yorkers especially hard.
So this is the funny thing here folks. How long have we been hearing about "disinformation" and social media effects on silly anti-vaxxer conservatives who apparently are listening to non-existent radio talk show hosts who tell them that the vaccine is putting chips in their arms. Of course, I never met a single person who believes this or have even heard a legitimate talk radio host demand this sort of conspiracy, but it lives on none-the-less.
But as it pertains to the very real argument that the real anti-vaxxers who are actually distrusting the Government are young black men who are taught to not trust the Government, then this same media will sing a different tune.
For the supposed white conservative antivaxxers (which cannot be verified by any actual vaccination data) the media shows disdain and even looks to blame these unidentified people for vaccinated and others catching the virus. But for these undervaccinated black people, we are being led to believe that they are once again the victims.
In other words, the media makes an assumption about conservatives and then tries to draw conclusions without corresponding 1-1 data in order to make a political narrative that the are unvaccinated antivaxxers due to disinformation. But they take actual raw data showing that young black people (obviously not conservative) are undervaccinated and they attempt to downplay or shift the blame away from the concept that liberal disinformation is to blame.
Get the irony?
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When I talk to blacks about vaccine hesitancy they uniformly bring up Tuskegee and the government experiment on them.
Personally I was more concerned with the deaths of Hank Aaron, who was used as a PSA example of getting vaccinated and Marvelous Marvin Hagler shortly after being vaccinated. Neither is considered an "official" vaccine death but both died shortly afterwards. They tell me I am wrong so I must acquiesce to them.
But national numbers I have seen are similar to what New York's are
And these are not Trump voters or likely to be swayed by Trump
This is on Biden and his administration
and that recent "influencer" commercial they recently released is definitely not going to help.
Biden's "influencer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JSjNZ-EBFo
We had Biden, Harris and Cuomo all saying they did not trust the vaccine. That's gone down the media's memory hole.
Many Blacks still remember the Tuskegee experiment which went on for decade after decade, allowing black men with syphilis to die as experiments to see how long they could live without being given the medications they were being told they were being given.
No wonder some are suspicious!
I guess that mustn't be mentioned, however, because it might seem like "Critical Race Theory."
As more and more continue to sicken or die, however, I expect that young Blacks and other Blacks will start doing the same thing that Trump-leaning White holdouts are now doing-- rushing to get vaccinated, now that they more clearly see the handwriting on the wall.
California is taking care about this issue right now Scott
With the newly provided blessing of the federal government, Los Angeles County health officials began offering third doses of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines Saturday for people with severely compromised immune systems.
Among those qualifying for the booster shots are organ transplant recipients, people undergoing cancer treatment, HIV patients and people on select “immunosuppressive medications.” The Los Angeles County Public Health Department urged people to consult their doctors to confirm their eligibility for the third shot, which should be administered at least 28 days following the second dose.
The third doses are being offered at vaccination sites in the county offering the Pfizer and Moderna shots. People looking for the shots will be able to simply “self-attest” that they have a qualifying medical condition.
Joe in May said IF you are fully vaccinated you can stop wearing the mask.
Well, wasn't that special.
Biden will be acting vigorously and in many ways, and that without playing down the seriousness of the situation.
The American people will respond well to a President they know they can trust to level with them about Covid and the possible need for boosters, and so much more.
Omg, yes, the third shot is gping to work.
Peanuts comic strip.
"so much more" Roger
Put meat on that bone,?
We thought we could move away from masks and now see that we can't.
Trump, on the other hand, knew EVEN AS HE WAS DOWNPLAYING the seriousness of the virus, how dangerous it was
-- or at least that's what he later claimed.
Which time was he lying?
Want to go for,"Both times"?
"We thought we could move away from masks and now see that we can't"
Biden is the President.
He failed.
Obama Birthday party is a super spreader.
Carri Lester Mccormick put this ON FACEBOOK TODAY
She's a RELATIVE OF MINE ·
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•Time• the zoom meeting was set for
•Time• the family said their goodbyes
•Time• of death
That was someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, spouse.
That was their •time• to go. And I feel confident in saying the virus made it too soon.
I’ve stood outside a patient's room with clasped hands, giving a thumbs up to a patient through a window as they were being extubated.
Moments before:
“Stay calm. The respiratory therapist is going to take this breathing tube out, okay? I need you to nod your head so I know you understand me. I know, don’t try to talk. You’re doing great.”
I've taught patients to call when they were ready to be intubated. Days of being on the BiPAP on 100% oxygen can only be effective for so long. They get tired.
“I can’t breathe.”
“Okay, let me call the doctor and get everything ready.”
“Tell my kids I love them.”
“Tell them yourself, we are calling them before this happens.”
“Please make sure I come off the ventilator.”
“Listen to me, you fight like heck, okay?”
“How am I supposed to fight when I’ll be asleep?”
“You just have to go into this knowing you want to fight. You will never be alone. We will fight this with you.”
To: Nurses, Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists, CNAs, PCTs, Phlebotomists, Rad and CT techs, and anyone else I missed---
How many times do we go home holding on to any bit of hope that what we are doing is making a difference for these patients?
We’ll spend 14 hours with hypoxia and hypotension, go home, and come back only to find out the patient didn’t make it.
All those times we felt like we weren’t doing anything for these patients - Your chance is here.
If you have even the SLIGHTEST bit of opportunity to prevent getting this virus and giving it to others - Take it.
Do it for the patients you lost. For some, you were the last person they talked to. The last hand they held.
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That’s the time I received the Covid-19 vaccine today.
Jenifer, RN
Stormont Vail Health
#wetogether
#mytime to make a difference
#mytime is for my patients
Day 1 of COVID-19 vaccine
RRB kicked a mud hole in Alky.
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At the current rate, there will be more than the six million jobs will be available before the election day.
Genius,
There are TEN MILLION JOBS AVAILABLE TODAY"
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
We thought we could move away from masks and now see that we can't.
They said if we got the vaccine we wouldn't have to wear a mask. They broke their promise and removed an incentive to get the vaccine.
On top of that, Biden and Harris said more then once they wouldn't get a vaccine developed by Donald Trump.
So the delta variant is raging chiefly through black and Hispanic communities because the shared Biden and Harris's suspicion about the vaccines.
Much cleaner when you reach in the womb rip the bloody baby out and throw it in the trash.
James, you have no moral ground.
James, in 2014 Halloween night and 13 days I went through this.
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•Time • I woke up alive on November 13th. I had a 20% chance of survival.
During the campaign.
Months before
Trump kept information about how dangerous it was because he didn't want to hurt the Wall Street investors and keep the DOJ high!
Bill Maher said, “[W]e’ve got a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Look, we need to rebuild infrastructure. On top of that, they want another, the Democrats want, and may get, 3.5 trillion, that’s for the second infrastructure, I’m sure a lot of worthy things in there. But if you ask me, what confidence do you have that these numbers, a trillion for the first bill, 3.5 trillion for the other bill are what the shit actually costs? I would say none, none. We just make numbers and pull them out of our ass"
Yep.
Friends and family came to pray and say goodbye.
I have been through three near death experiences.
The first time I quit drinking alcohol.
I had a bleeding ulcer and I had a 50 50 chance. June 25th in 2012.
The Ammonia poisoning gave me a 20% chance. October 31st 2014.
On June 2nd in 2017 I had a 12 hour surgery liver transplant.
NATIONAL POLITICS
Partisans Dig In On Opinions About Covid Vaccine Mandates
Amy Walter
August 11, 2021
@amyewalter
More than a year and a half into the COVID pandemic, and Americans are more polarized on opinions of the virus and mitigation strategies than ever, according to data from Quinnipiac polling.
In April of this year, just as many Americans were lining up for their first dose of vaccines, majorities of Republicans said they opposed businesses and universities from requiring a COVID vaccine for their employees or students, while solid majorities of Democrats supported such actions.
Today, that gap between Democratic support and Republican opposition has widened even further.
For example, in mid-April, Republicans' net disapproval of universities requiring a vaccine was 43 points (27 percent support vs. 70 percent oppose). Democrats had a net approval of 62 points (79 percent support vs. 17 percent oppose). By early August, however, those views had hardened. Republicans were a net 20 points more opposed to mandates while Democrats were net 13 points more supportive.
A similar, but not as dramatic, hardening happened on the issue of businesses mandating that their employees get vaccinated. Since April, Republicans have become a net 7-points more opposed while Democrats have become net-14 points more supportive.
Among independents, a majority continue to be opposed to these mandates. But, that opposition has lessened since the spring. For example, since April independent voters have become a net 7-points more supportive of businesses requiring vaccines and a net 8-points more supportive of universities requiring the COVID vaccine. Plus, independent voters are much more concerned about the Delta variant than Republicans. The August Quinnipiac poll found that while only one-third of Republicans were worried about the new variant, 56 percent of independents said they were concerned. In other words, independents see more risk in COVID and may be more willing to accept interventions.
For a politician looking to secure and motivate his or her base, the battle over COVID mandates is an appealing option (see; GOP Governors Greg Abbot (TX) and Ron DeSantis (FL). But, pay attention to movement from independents. While they continue to side with Republicans on opposition to mandatory vaccines, their opposition is more malleable than those of GOP base voters.
The same method of the former President Trump used to get elected once!
It didn't work last year..
Thousands of youngsters are being hospitalized because they didn't get vaccinated, because of people like you!
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Hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients in their 30s have hit a new record, U.S. government data show, a sign of the toll that the highly contagious Delta variant is taking among the unvaccinated.
Thirty-somethings, who are in prime ages for work and parenting, had largely avoided hospital stays for Covid-19 during earlier phases of the pandemic because of their relative good health.
Yet the age group is seeing new Covid-19 hospital admissions increase during the recent Delta-driven surge, which doctors and epidemiologists attribute to the failure of large numbers of Americans to get vaccinated and their highly active lives.
Yes disinformation is the most dangerous situation Scott Johnson MD schizophrenia
The rate at which adults ages 30 to 39 are entering hospitals with Covid-19 reached about 2.5 per 100,000 people as of last Wednesday, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services, up from the previous peak of roughly 2 per 100,000 people in early January.
“It means Delta is really bad,” said James Lawler, an infectious-disease physician and co-director of the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The strain is more transmissible, Dr. Lawler said, and studies indicate that infected people can develop more severe illness than from other strains.
The Delta variant was first identified in India and became the dominant strain in the U.S. in early July. It has pushed new infections higher after the drop that followed widespread rollout of vaccines earlier in the year.
New infections have climbed above 123,000 each day, using the seven-day average, which helps to smooth out irregularities in the data, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.
Hospitalizations, too, have increased from low points in the spring when more Americans became immunized.
Preliminary studies indicate vaccines protect against Delta, especially against severe cases or death, but the shots appear to be less effective against the variant than they are against the earliest versions of the coronavirus.
Uneven vaccination rates across the country and age groups has left pockets of people at risk from the tenacious Delta variant.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-covid-19-hospitalizations-for-30-to-39-year-olds-at-record-rate-11628938800?mod=mhp
The Wall Street answered your question Scott
I have been saying that before I read this article
A fully vaccinated man died of covid on Tuesday but according to the media "doctors said" his condition "could have been worse if he was not vaccinated at all."
From The Hill:
Fully vaccinated man dies of COVID-19, daughter says he was cautious
Vaccines are not 100 percent effective.
By Christian Spencer | Aug. 11, 2021
Story at a glance:
- A woman's fully vaccinated father died from COVID-19.
- Doctors said the condition of the father could have been worse if he was not vaccinated at all.
- The father was mostly indoors and wore a mask, his surviving daughter said.
A woman's fully vaccinated father died from COVID-19, with her saying she "can't imagine how much more he would have suffered if he had not gotten the vaccine."
Yvonne Rodriguez saw her ill father, Patricio Elizondo, for the last time at the hospital. She remembered him struggling to breathe on his own, Newsweek reported.
[...] According to Jan Patterson, an infectious disease specialist at UT Health, Rodriguez was right in her assessment, that her father would have suffered more if he had not been vaccinated.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, "There is some evidence that vaccination may make illness less severe for those who are vaccinated and still get sick."
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December timeline on the Insurrection act of January 6th.
Dec. 1: Attorney General William P. Barr says in an interview that he has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Barr later attends a previously scheduled meeting with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and is called to meet with Trump as well. Barr reiterates what he said in the interview, adding, according to a new book by The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker: “We’ve looked into these things, and they’re nonsense.”
Early December: Trump calls the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Bryan Cutler (R), twice to talk about overturning that state’s results. Cutler informs Trump that the state legislature has no power to do so, according to an aide.
Dec. 5: Trump calls Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to pressure him to get the legislature to overturn the state’s election results.
Dec. 14: The electoral college finalizes its votes, paving the way for Biden’s election and sending them to Congress.
Separately, Trump announces Barr will soon step down as attorney general, putting Rosen in line to replace him on an acting basis.
Dec. 15: Trump hosts Rosen in the Oval Office and reportedly tells him he wants the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting Trump allies’ election lawsuits. Trump also urges Rosen to appoint special counsels to investigate his baseless claims, including ones involving voting-machine company Dominion. Rosen refuses and reiterates what Barr said about the lack of evidence for such steps.
In addition, Trump, who had recently become aware of Vice President Mike Pence’s generally ceremonial role in presiding over Congress formalizing the electoral college vote, decides Pence is his best chance to overturn the election. He tells allies to pressure Pence, and the topic will come up frequently in their conversations over the following three weeks.
Dec. 18: Trump and top aides meet with conspiracy-theorist supporters, including Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, who discuss a number of extreme measures to overturn the election results, including instituting martial law and seizing voting machines.
Dec. 22: Meadows visits Cobb County, Ga., where the Georgia secretary of state’s office later says it prevented him from entering a room where signature audits were being conducted. During the visit, Meadows meets with Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson.
Dec. 23: Trump calls Watson and urges her to search hard for election fraud. “When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised,” Trump says in a recording of the call, adding, “You have the most important job in the country right now.” Trump says he called at Meadows’s request. Watson later says she was “shocked” the president was calling her but didn’t feel pressured.
Separately, Barr departs as attorney general, elevating Rosen to acting attorney general.
roger's roommate:
You don't fucking care about anyone else but yourself and the politician you support.
FACT CHECK - TRUE
Blogger Roger Amick said...
A fully vaccinated man died of covid on Tuesday but according to the media "doctors said" his condition "could have been worse if he was not vaccinated at all."
Let's see.
A fully vaccinated man who religiously wore mask died anyway from COVID-19.
How is this anyone's fault?
Dec. 27: Trump calls Rosen and top Justice Department officials. According to Donoghue’s notes, Rosen pushes back on Trump’s entreaties, saying the department “can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election.” Trump responds that the department should “just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R[epublican] Congressmen,” according to Donoghue’s notes.
In the meeting, Trump also seems to threaten to replace Justice Department leaders. He says, per Donoghue’s notes: “People tell me [the acting head of the department’s civil division] Jeff Clarke is great, I should put him in. People want me to replace DOJ leadership.”
Dec. 28: Clark circulates a draft letter in which the Justice Department would urge Georgia’s legislature to hold a special session based on supposed “irregularities” in the vote. The letter includes what amounts to a road map for Georgia to overturn its election results, suggesting the legislature might ultimately choose a new slate of electors — i.e., for Trump.
Donoghue rejects the idea out of hand, noting in his emailed response that the supposed irregularities the department was investigating “are of such a small scale that they simply would not impact the outcome of the Presidential Election.” He adds, “There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this” and says sending the letter is “not even within the realm of possibility.”
Late December: Rosen, who has discovered Clark is engaging in unauthorized conversations with Trump, speaks with him about the matter and tells him not to do it again, according to Rosen’s closed-door testimony.
Dec. 29: Trump aide Molly Michael emails Rosen, Donoghue and another Justice Department official a draft of a potential Supreme Court filing that would involved the Justice Department challenging the election results in six key states. Michael says Trump asked her to send the draft.
Separately, Meadows meets with Justice Department officials and mentions a baseless theory that a company in Italy combined with the CIA to rig the election.
Dec. 30: Meadows emails Rosen twice about theories about the election, including a translated letter from an Italian man with similar accusations involving “advanced military encryption capabilities.”
Separately, Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson asks Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs in a phone call whether there is anything the White House could do to show appreciation for those conducting the state’s audit, according to Reuters.
Dec. 31: Pence asks a judge to reject a lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to help overturn the election. Trump becomes livid.
Six days later..
Looks like roger is going on one of his full out off-topic rants
guess his nurse must have quit
and his roommate is quivering from the hate in roger's eyes
The people who got people to doubt scientists. Like you and Trump
Blogger Roger Amick said...
December timeline on the Insurrection act of January 6th.
Lord he's desperate to make a conspiracy theory out of this.
He's grade A, tin hat nuts.
Questions About Feds’ Involvement in January 6 Demand Answers
Our system of government is built on trust. It is our duty to safeguard that trust.
By now it’s clear that federal law enforcement had some degree of infiltration among the crowds gathered at the Capitol on January 6. Intelligence reports released publicly days before the incident indicated “militias” and loosely organized groups of individuals intended to act violently that day. It’s unlikely those reports were based solely on Parler posts.
Based on the available camera footage, it appears that key individuals were leading the assaults on protected points of entry. One prominent militia leader, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, appears to have actively planned and directed individuals both on the day of the incident and in the days leading up to it. Yet he remains a free man. This is in drastic contrast to the dozens of Americans currently being denied due process in a Justice Department prison in our nation’s capital.
Our law enforcement and intelligence community officials need to answer some basic questions—questions that can be answered without “exposing sources or methods” or resorting to excuses about classification.
Normally, the FBI oversees domestic human intelligence operations that pertain to terrorism. This helps keep conflicts between law enforcement and intelligence agencies at a minimum. Human intelligence operations are very sensitive in nature, which in turn has given rise to extensive documentation and oversight.
Congress should subpoena the director of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. field office, the chief of station for the CIA’s national resources office in D.C., the director of the D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police and the D.C. Metropolitan Police and ask them the following questions under oath:
1) How many confidential human sources (CHS), intelligence sources, agents, informants, or undercover law enforcement officers were present at the Capitol on January 6?
2) What role did these sources/agents/undercovers (SAUs) play during the events of the day?
3) How and what did the SAUs report to their controlling officers on January 6 and prior to that day?
4) How many SAUs were in direct contact with individuals currently detained or charged by the Justice Department?
5) How much involvement were SAUs allowed to have in illegal activity on January 6 or prior to that day?
6) Were the SAUs instructed to report threats of imminent danger? How many reported any plans to attack prior to January 6 or attacks in progress that day?
7) Prior to January 6, how many SAUs had infiltrated or were reporting on groups or individuals planning violence against the Capitol?
Congress should also demand that the Capitol Police release all footage from the 6th so the actions of the SAUs may be verified against their own testimony.
Congress should also subpoena all operational documents pertaining to SAUs and their handlers and take testimony under oath to determine how much influence the U.S. government had in the events of January 6.
Candid answers to these questions are vital. Americans have been fed a divisive narrative about January 6 as an “insurrection.” We need to know we can trust our law enforcement and intelligence services.
Our intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies exist to protect the American people. I honorably and proudly served in our intelligence community in the military as green beret and in the CIA as a paramilitary operations officer. To accomplish our mission, we have been afforded a great deal of trust by the American people.
Sadly, many senior leaders in our community have abused this trust in recent years, while the rank-and-file of these organizations risk their lives daily. Therefore, it is essential that we be upfront and transparent with the public about what happened on January 6—and do all we can to discourage activity that might cause us to grow further apart and distrustful of those who are supposed to protect us. Our system of government is built on this trust, it is our duty to safeguard that trust.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/12/questions-about-feds-involvement-in-january-6-demand-answers/
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The people who got people to doubt scientists. Like you and Trump
Neither I more Trump told people to doubt the science.
That would be Harris and Biden who got people to doubt and not trust the vaccines.
BTW what science is available falls against mask wearing. So you the one who is telling the people to doubt the science.
August 14, 2021 at 2:06 PM Delete
Blogger Roger Amick said...
A fully vaccinated man died of covid on Tuesday but according to the media "doctors said" his condition "could have been worse if he was not vaccinated at all."
So there’s a worse condition than death. I guess sharing a room with another man when you’re in your 70 and eating creamed everything at every would be
Questions About Feds’ Involvement in January 6 Demand Answers
Our system of government is built on trust. It is our duty to safeguard that trust.
Wouldn't be the first time the FBI used undercover agents to incite riots.
We might have our first official case of “missing video.”
Prosecutor told Judge Mehta this week there is no CCTV surveillance video from doors at the east side of the Capitol.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1426283000900300803
Amazing how many times that happens with government witch hunts. Mueller's team"accidentally" wiped all their phones clean of text messages by "accidentally" inserting wrong passwords 10 consecutive times. Amnesia by the whole team...
And some of the same people didn't record Hillary's interview, gave immunity to her whole team who got to watch what she said and then destroyed her hard drives.
and it goes on and on...
continuously, even forging documents
Crooked FBI and DOJ
* and Epstein couldn't be reached for comment on his missing (turned off) video
After 9/11 the neocons got Bush to invade Afghanistan to keep al Qaeda from doing it again.. That made sense then.
For now, though, it seems unlikely that these threats will take center stage in U.S. foreign policy. The Pentagon, with its $740 billion budget, still sucks up a larger share of discretionary spending than any other government agency. Meanwhile, the foreign policy establishment has shifted its focus increasingly to the competition with the likes of Russia and China.
“After 9/11 everyone raced to become a Middle East or counterterrorism expert,” said Gans. “After covid, you don’t see many foreign policy people racing to become global health experts.”
On one subject most foreign policy experts agree: America needs to temper its faith in its armed forces. “We had so much faith in our military that we were inevitably going to overstep,” said Dempsey, the Afghanistan veteran. “A military bureaucracy unchecked never yields good outcomes.”
Obama should have withdrawn after he killed Bin Laden.
President Biden is going to get attacked for this. But we had to go home...
Very sad to see Lil Schitty now plays the race card about blacks not taking the vax due to mistrust while his white boy GOP politicizes masks and blames biden for the current spike and that red state undervax performance cannot be verified as being driven by his race!!!!!! Getting more and more straw man arguments to confirm what he thinks is truth instead of finding the root cause......lies and GOP bullshit!!!!!!!! God how much more bull is he going to shovel???????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
President Biden has listened to this...
Through he did not say so explicitly, his standing as a military leader helped give him the credibility to stand up to the pressures of this new, powerful interest group. He eventually described it as a necessary evil.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be might, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
I suspect that he has cut the militarily budget. To help pay for his plan.
Getting out of Afghanistan is going to hurt his popularity but he doesn't care about that like too much other politicians do.
Obama was born in Kenya
Obama was born in Kenya
The same shit happened today by Scott
Biden is doing a pretty good job, so far.
His love affair with DeSantis is going to look like his TLS.
Crooked FBI and DOJ
Sedition.
But you probably don't know what it means.
Joe could reverse himself on His closure of private prisons.
Endearing himself to Border patrol Officers and Federal US Marshalls.
They believe that CRT is an extinction doctrine will strip self-esteem and free will from them, if they teach them about our dark past, including slavery and discrimination, so they will be ashamed, so they will be prey for every American hating, Marxist-loving socialist ballast masquerading as an agent of change for the good. And vote for Democrats that you believe about the President and the Democrats.
This is what he said..
Until people realize that CRT is an extinction doctrine with the sole goal of stripping every white person of every defense they have to protect their self-esteem, agency, and free will, they will be prey for every American hating, Marxist-loving social ballast masquerading as an agent of change for the good.
Sounds about right. CRT is as racist a doctrine as anything generated from a KKK ot NAZI mimeograph.
The earlier it finds it's way to the trash-bin of history the better.
I suspect that he has cut the militarily budget. To help pay for his plan.
Getting out of Afghanistan is going to hurt his popularity but he doesn't care about that like too much other politicians do.
Better pray there is no terrorist attacks from Afghanistan or he will be view as the worst president since Buchanan.
The Taliban’s blitz across Afghanistan pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday, as U.S. diplomats appealed to the militants to stop the advance and President Biden warned that any moves to threaten American personnel or interests would be met with “a swift and strong” military response from the thousands of U.S. troops flooding into the capital.
In a statement, the president said that approximately 5,000 U.S. troops will be deployed to oversee the evacuation of U.S. diplomats, Afghans who have worked with coalition forces throughout the war and others at “special risk from the Taliban advance.” A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive and evolving situation, said that an additional 1,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division would join a force of about 4,000 soldiers and Marines either already on the ground or arriving soon.
In Qatar’s capital, Doha, U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with Taliban political leaders who demanded an end to intensifying U.S. airstrikes aimed at slowing the fast-moving push by Taliban forces to gain territory, occupy provincial capitals and hold key roadways. With Kabul squarely in the Taliban’s crosshairs, the fate of the Afghanistan’s Western-allied government hung in the balance. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in his first public appearance since the Taliban’s stunning advance over the past week, said he was turning to the international community for help even as events appeared to be overtaking him and his administration.
On Saturday, the Taliban appeared to have full control of Logar province, bringing fighters as close as seven miles from Kabul, a provincial lawmaker, Hoda Ahmadi, told the Associated Press. Logar’s flatlands, ringed by mountains, serve as an important gateway to Kabul, with roadways connecting to cities to the south
These are the best soldiers in the world.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive and evolving situation, said that an additional 1,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division would join a force of about 4,000 soldiers and Marines.
I knew a lot of veterans who were in Vietnam. When I saw people calling them traitors, I punched a couple of them were...
82nd Airborne Division are the best!
Airdamnborne
Strike Hold
Jason D. Meister
https://twitter.com/jason_meister/status/1426540084917059589
You can’t do this level of damage to a nation in such a short period of time unless it’s by design.
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1426634755597115400
I'm not a military strategist, but leaving billions of dollars in military technology for our enemy to use seems like poor planning.
or by design
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1426645043679477762
Is the Taliban aware that General Milley could get really mad if they don’t use proper pronouns in their Twitter bio?
a national disgrace
where's Biden ?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
These are the best soldiers in the world.
Commanded by the worst political generals in the world.
Nothing has changed in a150 years.
Richard Grenell
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1426663810786496514
Joe Biden is so incompetent that he armed the Taliban.
and is letting tens of thousands of Covid infected people to flood through our southern border
and the list goes on
and on
I'm not a military strategist, but leaving billions of dollars in military technology for our enemy to use seems like poor planning.
They were supposed to be left with Afghan government forces. The US traditionally abandons it's tanks and equipment because it more cost effective to build replacement equipment than transport the equipment back home.
(Although it's a real head scratcher why they left the drones.)
POLARIS
BIDEN VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/polarisnatsec/status/1426225950312837122
36 days ago, President Biden told the American people that the Taliban would not take over #Afghanistan after he ordered the removal of U.S. troops.
he should stick to playing Mario Kart
we are fucked
Julian Röpcke
https://mobile.twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1426503948127584256
Counting the boxes, Taliban collected another five #ScanEagle drones in Herat, each costing around 4.000.000$.
Let’s see how much Iran or China pay the Taliban for them to investigate our western technology …
does the "big guy" get a bonus ?
Kill the domestic oil industry then ask Russia and Saudi Arabia to boost their production to fix things.
Running away from a ‘nation building’ mess
Trump recognized nation-building in Afghanistan was nonsense. He also accepted the US had important interests. We didn’t want the country to turn into a terrorist Disneyland again that might attack us. Nor did we want the troubles of Afghanistan to destabilize South Asia. Nor did we want to look like a loser to the Taliban. These would just create another set of serious problems.
Trump scoped forces down to the minimum to deter the Taliban and protect US interests and started outcome-based negotiations with the Taliban, where our next steps would be based on them fulfilling their promises. Troop numbers were minimal.
We should have kept it this way — a small peacekeeping contingent to back up diplomacy.
Biden evidently forgot the failures of foreign policy under Obama and immediately went back to the old playbook of walking away and seeing what happens. He probably suspected Afghanistan would collapse, as the military warned him. No doubt he thought the Taliban would wait until the US was gone. Of course, they didn’t.
San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking the 86th anniversary of Social Security, which was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935:
“Eighty-six years ago, both parties came together to make a sacred promise: that after a lifetime of work, every American deserves to retire with dignity and security. Forged in the depths of the Great Depression, this fundamental guarantee has stood as a pillar of economic security, offering peace of mind to millions of hard-working Americans in retirement, with a disability or after losing a loved one.
“As our nation emerges from the pandemic, Democrats remain as committed as ever to defending the transformational progress of Social Security from callous, reckless partisan attacks – as well as strengthening the economic security of American families. That is why we are fighting to enact our Build Back Better agenda, which will deliver more jobs, greater tax cuts and lower health costs for working families. A top priority is to extend the Biden Child Tax Credit, a life-changing victory for families that Democrats secured in the American Rescue Plan and that I often describe as similar to ‘Social Security for children.’
“As Congress advances infrastructure and reconciliation legislation, the House remains committed to realizing the totality of President Biden’s vision, including the essential initiatives that will help us secure a cleaner, stronger, fairer future for all. Today, and every day, let us renew our vow to not only protect Social Security for every generation, but to strengthen the economic security for every family for decades to come.”
You left out the insult
Why would they pass up the opportunity to humiliate America?
Why wouldn't the Taliban pass up the opportunity to humiliate America. Gives them great street cred in the Muslim world.
And BTW it gratifies China and Russia to no end.
This is going to look worse than 1973 at the end of the Vietnam war.
Experts say Afghanistan's fall after the U.S.'s exit could be consequential in undermining American credibility on the world stage.
“I think this U.S. withdrawal, and the abrupt way in which it is being executed in the face of rapid Taliban gains, will have an even deeper impact than the U.S. departure from Vietnam in 1975, and far greater than the (temporary) 2011 withdrawal from Iraq,” retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a visiting professor of strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, wrote in an email to The Hill. Barno once commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“Unfortunately, I believe this tragic outcome will be the dominant verdict on U.S. military power and international will for many years to come – unless it is eclipsed by another major conflict. It will be a catalyst for future miscalculation by America's adversaries, and promote a dangerous belief that U.S. military power and political will to defend its friends and allies are both waning,” he added.
The Biden administration has not signaled any second thoughts about its decision, though officials have expressed concerns with the Taliban’s rapid advance.
The Muslims are a risk for Russia too.
U.S. Asks Taliban to Let Americans Leave
August 14, 2021 at 5:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“The Taliban’s blitz across Afghanistan pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday, as U.S. diplomats appealed to the militants to stop the advance and President Biden warned that any moves to threaten American personnel or interests would be met with ‘a swift and strong’ military response from the thousands of U.S. troops flooding into the capital,” the Washington Post reports.
CBS News:
U.S. Embassy in Kabul to be evacuated within 36 hours.
Biden Blames Trump for Afghanistan Chaos
August 14, 2021 at 5:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Biden
blamed his predecessor, Donald Trump, for empowering the Taliban and leaving them “in the strongest position militarily since 2001” but said he had to make a choice and that he would not pass on the war to a “fifth” U.S. president, Axios reports.
Said Biden:
“When I became President, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict.”
Quote of the Day
August 14, 2021 at 2:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“I hope and look forward to potentially having another conversation. And if this is my last one, may the world know that the Afghan people have suffered tremendously.”
— Afghanistan minister of education Rangina Hamidi, at the end of an NPR interview.
Biden Braces for a Brutal Loss
August 14, 2021 at 2:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“The Biden administration
is preparing for the fall of Kabul and a retreat from any U.S. diplomatic presence in Afghanistan — a stunning reversal of expectations,” Axios reports.
“It’s looking increasingly likely to high-ranking aides to President Biden that the U.S. will have no enduring diplomatic presence in Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31 — the date Biden has promised the full troop withdrawal will be complete.”
“It’s a major reversal from even a few weeks ago.
“The working assumption in Biden’s inner circle had been that Kabul could hold for the short term, allowing the U.S. to stay diplomatically engaged and help Afghan women secure their rights beyond the U.S. withdrawal.”
Why Afghanistan Collapsed So Quickly
August 14, 2021 at 2:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Politico:
“The breathtaking failure to mold a cohesive and independent Afghan fighting force can be traced to years of overly optimistic assessments from U.S. officials that obscured — and in some cases, purposely hid — evidence of deep-rooted corruption, low morale, and even ‘ghost soldiers and police’ who existed merely on the payrolls of the Afghan Defense and Interior Ministries.”
Afghanistan Cuts Short Biden’s Victory Lap
August 14, 2021 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook:
“We finally got infrastructure week. Yet at the end of it, infrastructure is not the biggest story — and the ones that obscured it spell real trouble for the White House.
“In part, that’s because they’re headaches on issues that are important to key constituencies for Biden.
For many members of the Washington establishment, the collapse of Afghanistan is horrifying.
For many younger voters and people on the left, the UN’s dire new climate change assessment is a call to action on an issue where they don’t see Democrats doing enough.
And for many in the Democratic base — especially Black voters — the continued lack of urgency around voting rights feels discouraging and self-defeating.”
TRUMP AND THE GOP WILL BE BLAMED MORE THAN BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS FOR ALL OF THAT.
Covid-19 Hospitalizations for Those In 30s Hits Record
August 14, 2021 at 5:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients in their 30s have hit a new record, a sign of the toll that the highly contagious Delta variant is taking among the unvaccinated,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Lindsey Graham Tried to Repair Friendship with Biden
August 14, 2021 at 5:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
told the New York Times he called Joe Biden shortly after the election to try and repair their fractured friendship, allegedly telling the president-elect that he only attacked Biden’s son, Hunter, to satisfy Trump supporters.
Biden, however, was reportedly not interested in patching up the relationship.
Colorado County Must Replace Election Machines
August 14, 2021 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Denver Post:
“Mesa County must replace its election equipment because it is no longer secure after an unauthorized person allegedly took photos of its passwords that were later posted online.”
Newsom Kicks Off Anti-Recall Campaign
August 14, 2021 at 2:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
San Francisco Chronicle:
“With ballots already arriving in the mail… Newsom said that the campaign had already invested $6.5 million in the largest get-out-the-vote effort ‘that’s ever been advanced in the state’s history.’
“Newsom said the campaign has sent 17 million text messages reminding voters of the recall, and has 5,200 volunteers in the field. It is ramping up door-to-door canvassing and phone banking along with the state’s largest labor unions and other left-leaning organizations.”
People who caused people to die because of your political agenda
“Hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients in their 30s have hit a new record, a sign of the toll that the highly contagious Delta variant is taking among the unvaccinated,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Disinformation from Scott's hero in on April 18th
Former President Trump said President Biden's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan is "a wonderful and positive thing to do," but criticized the timeline and said the U.S. "should get out earlier."
Hypocrisy award for S. Scott Johnson schizophrenia and alzheimers symptoms.
Bounce the rubble and salt the fucking earth, we tried to help these 7th century savages.
Maybe their women will finally take a stand
Dan Rather
@DanRather
So many have died who didn’t need to. So many suffering who could’ve been protected. So much sadness that will endure. So much lost that will never be regained. I will never understand why wearing masks was a big deal. I will never understand why vaccines became the enemy.
6:28 PM · Aug 14, 2021
Because politicians put their political ambitions over the lives of the people.
HOSPITALIZED
DAILY AVG. PER
100,000 14-DAY
CHANGE
United States 74,128 22 +69%
Florida › 15,098 70 +66%
Louisiana › 2,568 55 +71%
Mississippi › 1,506 51 +92%
Alabama › 2,370 48 +85%
Arkansas › 1,335 44 +29%
Georgia › 4,062 38 +98%
Missouri › 2,294 37 +19%
Texas › 10,391 36 +79%
Nevada › 1,086 35 –1%
Oklahoma › 1,256 32 +61%
DeSantis is still an evil Republican.
We are all to blame ourselves. We elected our leaders.
If there is a consistent theme over two decades of war in Afghanistan, it is the overestimation of the results of the $83 billion the United States has spent since 2001 training and equipping the Afghan security forces and an underestimation of the brutal, wily strategy of the Taliban.
The Pentagon had issued dire warnings to President Biden even before he took office about the potential for the Taliban to overrun the Afghan Army. But intelligence estimates indicated that it might happen in 18 months, not within weeks.
Commanders did know that the afflictions of the Afghan forces had never been cured: the deep corruption, the failure by the government to pay many Afghan soldiers and police officers for months, the defections, the soldiers sent to the front without adequate food and water, let alone arms.
Mr. Biden’s aides say that the persistence of those problems reinforced his belief that the United States could not prop up the Afghan government and its military in perpetuity. In Oval Office meetings this spring, he told aides that staying another year, or even five, would not make a substantial difference and was not worth the risks.
In the end, an Afghan force that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that Mr. Biden, and most Americans, no longer believed would alter events combined to bring an ignoble close to America’s longest war. The United States kept forces in Afghanistan far longer than the British did in the 19th century, and twice as long as the Soviets — with roughly the same results.
For Mr. Biden, the last of four American presidents to face painful choices in Afghanistan but the first to get out, the debate about a final withdrawal and the miscalculations over how to execute it began the moment he took office.
“Under Trump, we were one tweet away from complete, precipitous withdrawal,” said Douglas E. Lute, a retired general who directed Afghan strategy at the National Security Council for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
“Under Biden, it was clear to everyone who knew him, who saw him pressing for a vastly reduced force more than a decade ago, that he was determined to end U.S. military involvement,” Mr. Lute added, “but the Pentagon believed its own narrative that we would stay forever.”
He continued, “The puzzle for me is the absence of contingency planning: If everyone knew we were headed for the exits, why did we not have a plan over the past two years for making this work?”
— David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper
Afghanistan’s Taliban Enter Kabul
The Taliban began penetrating the defenses of the Afghan capital, the country’s last big urban area that remained under tenuous government control, after earlier capturing the eastern city of Jalalabad.
AUGUST 15
We must honor those who gave their lives to Protect and defend the Constitution of The United States of America. And all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
A dear friend and cousin who served two tours in Afghanistan, and 20 years in the
Marine Corps is deeply troubled, not about this President, but all of them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistans-taliban-seize-jalalabad-as-panic-grips-kabul-11629005282?st=pyo52n4bx6k8l23&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
The pictures are very disturbing.
PM DeleteBlogger Roger Amick said...
This is going to look worse than 1973 at the end of the Vietnam war.
Experts say Afghanistan's fall after the U.S.'s exit could be consequential in undermining American credibility on the world stage.
You can bet Taiwan is nervous. Hong Kong is lost.
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