President Biden has lost the trust of the military, our allies — and the American people. In April, the president promised that troops would come home from Afghanistan “responsibly, deliberately, and safely,” downplaying any risk associated with withdrawal.
Today, he says the “evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul was going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began.”
After a Kabul airport attack that killed 13 American servicemen, at least 90 Afghans, Biden has done nothing but deflect responsibility for the biggest foreign policy blunder in decades.
Sometimes you just have to say you were wrong, you are sorry, and you promise to do better in the future. But someone who never admits they were wrong, never apologizes for failures, and is never willing to change course will never become a better person.
An analogy. Those programmers who refuse to accept that there is bugs in the code and that those bugs will have to be fixed will always put out on inferior product that doesn't work. If that programmer simply insists that the bugs don't exist, that the product is just so complicated that it will never work quite as some expect, and passes the buck without offering a solution will ultimately lose business and likely their job as a programmer.
Joe Biden would have been better off accepting that they made mistakes and suggested to the public that they are working to get better. Heads should have rolled and he should have set up internal investigations into what went wrong.
But he seems to be doubling down on the idea that he and everyone in his team did swimmingly. He will likely not fire anyone for fear that it would be seen as a political failure. Rather he will rely on people nobody should be relying on when the next big decision comes along. Keeping in mind that every President makes big decisions all the time.
Let's be clear here folks. We have some big issues that have either been almost ignored to fucked up royally.
To the degree that Covid is making the deadly comeback, the powers to be have offered nothing other than sanctimonious lectures and finger pointing. Perhaps a plan of some sort that does not involve Dr Fauci demanding that nobody vaccinated is getting sick, when every day that is proven more and more untrue? Other countries have plans in place that involve treatments and things other than admonishments of those who do not trust the people who continue to lie to us.
We have had disaster at the border due to Biden decisions and lack of planning. We currently move forward without any real plan to stop that or even an acknowledgement that anything is wrong. To the degree that it is wrong is only argued to be someone else's fault. In fact, there seems to be little interest in even looking into any plan for the border. We just let if fester.
Inflation? Well that will just miraculously go away on it's own according to those apparently advising the President. But if magic anti-inflation incantations don't work then we will just spend more Government money (which Econ 101 suggests will create more inflation). But if it doesn't just go away or gets worse with more spending? Well we have nothing because our leadership won't accept that it's a problem.
See the pattern here? The Biden administration first denies any problems. If that doesn't work, then they find a scapegoat (generally Trump or conservatives) to blame it on. Then they basically make an argument that either there is nothing that can be done or that the situation will works it's way out on it's own. What they never, ever, ever do is provide any sort of plan to fix... anything.
Yeah... that is why everyone is losing or have already lost confidence in Biden.
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U.S. Used a Special Hellfire Missile in Afghanistan Airstrike https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-used-a-special-hellfire-missile-in-afghanistan-airstrike-on-islamic-state-11630190876
We elect President's for a four year term just for this reason in a Democratic Republic.
If we had a parliamentary system, the parliament has the authority to remove the Prime Minister.
Just because a President makes a decision, the people don't like, we can't replace the President.
Either try impeached or get the cabinet members to implement the 25th amendment, you have to accept reality.
The founding fathers feared situations like this. Public opinion is quite dangerous because it is volatile.
Only morons trust The New York Post! Because it is actually a Republican Pravda
The Trump administration first denied any problems. If that doesn't work, then they find a scapegoat (generally Obama or Crooked Hillary)
Scott, that's why we have the longest established government in history.
Unless something else happens, he will be the President until January 20th 2024.
Suggested other policies instead of acting irrationally.
Keeping in mind that every President makes big decisions all the time.
Let's be clear here folks. We have some big issues that have either been almost ignored to fucked up royally.
You think you can predict historical events. But you could be wrong again.
Purely political bias.
Persia let us fire this.
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon used a special Hellfire missile that packs no explosives to strike Islamic State militants in Afghanistan on Saturday in retaliation for a suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport last week, according to two U.S. officials.
The airstrike, carried out by a Reaper drone flown from the Persian Gulf region, killed two militants associated with the Afghanistan offshoot of the Islamic State extremist group, and injured a third individual.
The Pentagon declined to release the identities of any of the individuals targeted. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Kabul airport attack that killed 13 American troops and nearly 200 Afghan civilians.
The missile used by the U.S. in the airstrike, called an R9X, is inert. Instead of exploding, the weapon ejects a halo of six large blades stowed inside the skin of the missile, which deploy at the last minute to shred the target of the strike, allowing military commanders to pinpoint their target and reduce the possibility for civilian casualties.
It killed the targeted ISIS-K leaders
He is the Commander in Chief!
The Commander in Chief ordered this!
Two high profile Islamic State group targets were killed and one was wounded when U.S. military forces conducted a drone strike on Friday in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Saturday.
The strike in Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan was apparent retaliation against those who claimed responsibility for the attack outside Kabul's airport.
"We know of zero civilian casualties," Army Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor said. "Without specifying any future plans, I will say that we will continue to have the ability to defend ourselves and to leverage over-the-horizon capability to conduct counterterrorism operations as needed."
Your masking rhetoric isn't working in the courts
A Texas judge has issued a temporary injunction order against Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his ban on mask mandates, the Austin American Statesman reports.
According to the judge, Abbott’s ban was unlawful and exceeded his authority of the Texas Constitution.
Your own words describe you exactly.
But someone who never admits they were wrong, never apologizes for failures, and is never willing to change course will never become a better person.
If hadn't admitted errors I would not be alive.
Even from soars to today.
You are someone who never admits they were wrong, and never ever apologizes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-retaliates-against-isis-drone-strike-afghanistan-n1277844
Ch is forced to resort to an opinion piece of the New York POST.
James thanks. But like I said before is that CH is a drug addicted Trumpaholic.
Trumpism Has Entered Its Final Form
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Marvin Gentry / Reuters
Something happened last Saturday that was significant because it was unprecedented: Donald Trump spoke at a rally in the heart of Trump country—Cullman, Alabama, which gave the incumbent president more than 88 percent of the vote in 2020—and he was booed. The jeers were scattered but noticeable, enough so that Trump responded to them.
Trump had encouraged those in the audience to get vaccinated. “I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You’ve got to do what you have to do,” Trump said, “but I recommend: Take the vaccines. I did it—it’s good.” Yet for a large number of Trump supporters in the audience, even though the former president hadn’t embraced government or private-sector mandates, he had crossed a redline.
Two days later Alex Jones, the far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Trump courted in 2016, rebuked Trump. After playing a clip of Trump declaring that the vaccines are working, Jones responded, “BS. Trump, that’s a lie. You’re not stupid.” Jones added, “Shame on you, Trump. Seriously. Hey, if you don’t have the good sense to save yourself and your political career, that’s okay. At least you’re gonna get some good Republicans elected, and you know, we like ya. But my God. Maybe you’re not that bright. Maybe Trump’s actually a dumbass.”
These incidents are just a few of the straws in the turbulent wind, signs that something ominous is happening to the Republican Party. The GOP base may be identifying less and less with Trump personally—that was inevitable after he left the presidency—but it is not identifying any less with the conspiracist and antidemocratic impulses that defined him over the past five years.
In fact, the opposite is happening.
Not long ago, Trump was viewed as avant-garde, outrageous, and scandalous, America’s enfant terrible. His actions were viewed as so shocking and norm-shattering that he couldn’t be ignored. In today’s Republican Party, however, Trump is becoming what was once unthinkable—conventional, unexceptional, even something of an establishment figure.
In a right-wing movement that is home to a growing assortment of cranks and kooks—Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks and Madison Cawthorn, Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn, Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, Cyber Ninjas and QAnon, anti-vaxxers and insurrectionists—Trump looks rather ordinary. He wants credit for the vaccines that were developed during his administration, which mark a genuine medical milestone, but in some quarters of today’s Republican Party, that makes Trump suspect, too closely aligned with the hated Anthony Fauci, a dumbass.
The dark, destructive place the GOP has found itself in isn’t shocking. For more than half a decade, the Republican base—MAGA world—has been fed a constant diet of outrageous lies and conspiracy theories, not just by Trump but also by his allies in the party and the right-wing media ecosystem. Negative emotions such as fear, rage, and resentment have been constantly stirred up. Over time, transgressive behaviors became chic; “owning the libs” became the name of the game. What mattered was hating the right people.
The MAGA brain was rewired. The psychologist Daniel Goleman refers to “amygdala hijack,” an intense emotional reaction that’s dramatically disproportionate to the situation. When a person has been triggered, their emotions take over, and they see the world through a distorted lens.
Republicans who assumed that the party would return to sanity after Trump left office never understood how deforming the effects of his presidency would be. For many, Trump’s behaviors were initially a bug; eventually, they became a feature. Republicans ignored his corruptions and reveled in his cruelty. They entered Trump’s hall of mirrors, and they rather enjoyed it.
To better understand what’s happening in the GOP, think of a person with addiction who over time develops a tolerance; as a result, they need more potent and more frequent doses of the drug to get their desired high. And sometimes even that isn’t enough. They might turn to a more potent drug, which offers a more intense experience and a longer-lasting high, but at the price of considerably more danger. Almost like a black out drunk like some people I know. BTW rrb I was not a black out drunk.
What was seen as shocking in 2017 is now anodyne. The ethical lines that existed then turned out to have been drawn in sand. When you cross into territory devoid of moral axioms or epistemic standards—the kind of world you would find in a Turgenev novel—things can get very ugly, very quickly. Even Trump—whose derangement now includes turning a violent Capitol Hill rioter who was shot and killed by a police officer into a martyr, falsely accusing the police officer of murder, and issuing yet another barely concealed incitement to violence—can begin to look like a mainstream figure within the party. At some point in the future, the same may be said of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
All of this is not only worrisome but deeply dispiriting, especially for those of us who were loyal Republicans for our entire political life, until 2016. To watch an entire party bend and then break and stay broken, to witness it become what it once claimed to loathe, to see it move in an even more frenzied direction after Trump’s presidency than during it, is painful. But not nearly as painful as staying silent or becoming complicit with those who continue to cause grave damage to conservatism, to truth, and to our republic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/radicalism-post-trump-gop/619891/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The author wrote for Reagan and both Bush Presidents.
Real conservative people are good people, even though I don't agree on most things except for they care about the Constitution and the rule of law.
Peter Hermann Wehner is an American writer and former speechwriter for the administrations of three U.S. presidents. He is a vice president and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, and a fellow at the Trinity Forum, a nonprofit Christian organization.
The Sunday Funnies will have a picture of Trump at the bottom and says Do you miss him?
Ch says:
To the degree that Covid is making the deadly comeback, the powers to be have offered nothing other than sanctimonious lectures and finger pointing. Perhaps a plan of some sort that does not involve Dr Fauci demanding that nobody vaccinated is getting sick, when every day that is proven more and more untrue? Other countries have plans in place that involve treatments and things other than admonishments of those who do not trust the people who continue to lie to us.
James says:
First, nobody lied to us about Covid more often or more outrageously than Trump did. There were times when not even Ch could defend him, except to say he just didn't care what crazy remarks Trump made.
Second, italicized above you see Ch using the word "demanding" when he should say "claiming."
Besides, Ch lies:
Biden is neither "demanding" nor claiming that "nobody vaccinated is getting sick," only that vaccinated people get sick far less often and almost always far less seriously than unvaccinated people and have to be hospitalized and/or put on ventilators far less often.
Simple facts.
But Ch doesn't care if he spreads life- endangering lies in support of is fanatic fringe propaganda.
Our leaders, from a mentally compromised president through the puffed-up woke triumvirate of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd “stand down” Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark “white-rage–I-read-Karl-Marx” Milley, are constitutionally incapable of taking that reality on board. They are figures fit to lead the Eloi, not patriotic Americans.
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration just announced it conducted a drone strike that may have killed two people who might have been ISIS-K “planners.” We don’t really know, however, because the Pentagon will not release the names of the targets. In other words, as the commentator Raheem Kassam observed, “Joe Biden gave a list of Americans to the Taliban but won’t give the names of the terrorists he claims to have retaliated against to the American public.” I suppose the attack was in fulfillment of the little currant of tough talk someone inserted into Biden’s remarks: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
Want to bet?
They think that General Milly is a Marxist
of his fanatic fring propaganda
I read his comments carefully and as time has moved on, he's getting more irrational almost every day.
I have been reading about alzheimers symptoms and he shows signs. Sometimes they are very intelligent people can write very well sometimes. But then just a few words show signs of illogical things like never admitting being wrong and never apologize.
I suspect his wife is not seeing the signs that we do.
They really believe that they are hiding his demented symptoms.
I suppose the attack was in fulfillment of the little currant of tough talk someone inserted into Biden’s remarks: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
Want to bet?
I hope that one day he will get help.
But I see people here every day who are mentally disabled and it's heartbreaking.
There is no cure..
The CDC is using a common, but effective, Marxist tactic of redefining language and shifting the discussion to further their teardown of established societal norms.
"Doctor Fauci " is working with The Chinese virus Extraction Program
The Chinese Virus Phase Four
I sent him to heaven for me!
Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach for 30 years, died after a three-week battle with COVID-19, WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announced on Twitter Saturday night.
Bernier, 65, of Ormond Beach, has been remembered in recent days as a conservative who sought out and aired others' points of view while airing a morning comment, three-hour afternoon show, weekend shows and specials, such as remote town halls and political debates. He interviewed countless governors, senators, mayors, sheriffs, journalists, historians and authors. He also was an outspoken opponent of vaccinations.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, a longtime guest on Marc Bernier's WNDB radio show, said a representative of the station confirmed to him that Bernier died Saturday night sometime after 6 p.m.
He's not going to use a sharpie to draw lines on the map
President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi ahead of Ida's arrival.
Comparisons to the Aug. 29, 2005, landfall of Katrina weighed heavily on residents bracing for Ida. A Category 3 storm, Katrina was blamed for 1,800 deaths as it demolished oceanfront homes in Mississippi and caused levee breaches and catastrophic flooding in New Orleans.
In Saucier, Mississippi, Alex and Angela Bennett spent Saturday afternoon filling sand bags to place around their flood-prone home. Both survived Katrina, and didn't expect Ida to cause nearly as much destruction where they live, based on forecasts.
“Katrina was terrible. This ain’t gonna be nothing,” Alex Bennett said. “I hate it for Louisiana, but I’m happy for us.”
Long lines formed at gas pumps Saturday as people rushed to escape. Trucks pulling saltwater fishing boats and campers streamed away from the coast on Interstate 65 in Alabama, while traffic jams clogged Interstate 10 heading out of New Orleans.
Ida intensified so swiftly that New Orleans officials said there was no time to organize a mandatory evacuation of its 390,000 residents. Mayor LaToya Cantrell urged residents to leave voluntarily. Those who stayed were warned to prepare for long power outages amid sweltering heat.
Officials also stressed that the levee and drainage systems protecting the city had been much improved since Katrina. But they cautioned flooding was still possible with up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain forecast in some areas.
Edwards said 5,000 National Guard troops were being staged in 14 Louisiana parishes for search and rescue efforts. And 10,000 linemen were on standby to respond to electrical outages.
Ida posed a threat far beyond New Orleans. A hurricane warning was issued for nearly 200 miles (320 kilometers) of Louisiana’s coastline, from Intracoastal City south of Lafayette to the Mississippi state line. A tropical storm warning was extended to the Alabama-Florida line.
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-environment-and-nature-louisiana-coronavirus-pandemic-115ff1a54e18d9eee61a81afa8df9fad
"https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Coronavirus-Watch-Oregon-has-yet-to-bend-the-curve-on-COVID-19-surge-OHSU-says-575187901.html">CORONAVIRUS WATCH: OREGON HAS YET TO BEND THE CURVE ON COVID-19 SURGE, OHSU SAYS
Intensive care units continue to fill with COVID-19 patients statewide, shown here as health care workers rotate a critically ill COVID-19 patient at OHSU Hospital. A new forecast from OHSU shows the current surge of hospitalizations due to the highly contagious delta variant will continue for at least another week. (OHSU/Erin Hoover-Barnett)
OHSU's latest forecast on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations does not show any marked improvement yet in spite of growing state restrictions.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The latest projections from Oregon Health & Science University do not show any marked improvement in Oregon's ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the university said on Thursday, as mandates designed to combat the virus increasingly go into effect.
"We’re seeing the number of people hospitalized going up at rates we’ve never seen before,” said Peter Graven, Ph.D., lead data scientist in OHSU’s Business Intelligence unit. “We had hoped to see the new statewide masking mandate make a difference in flattening the rate of infection, but we’re not seeing that yet.”
Oregon has one of the most restrictive COVID-19 regulations in place including mandatory mask wearing.
Telling Thecoldheartedtruth got him fired.
An evangelical pastor and senior VP for a non-profit called National Religious Broadcasters was fired on Friday for promoting COVID vaccines on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. When Daniel Darling appeared on the show on Aug. 2, he said his faith motivated him to get vaccinated. “I believe in this vaccine because I don’t want to see anyone else die of COVID,” he said. “Our family has lost too many close friends and relatives to COVID, including an uncle, a beloved church member and our piano teacher.” But National Religious Broadcasters, a 1,100-member organization of Christian communicators, told Darling his statements violated their policy of remaining neutral about COVID vaccines, Religion News Service reports. He was told he could sign a statement admitting he had been insubordinate, and admit that his pro-vaccine statements were wrong, or be fired. He chose the latter.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida has again set a new record for COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, with the CDC saying Friday that the state added 27,584 to its tally.
Eight more deaths connected to COVID-19 were reported by the state to the CDC, raising the total to 43,640 fatalities since the start of the pandemic.
Florida’s case total is now at 3,179,493, the CDC data shows.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/08/27/florida-breaks-another-covid-record-with-27584-new-cases/
Oregon
OverviewUpdated 8/27/2021 with data from 12:01 am (updated Monday -
Friday)*Total cases268,401
Total deaths3,<----
115Positive tests377,916Negative tests5,849,938Total tests6,227,854
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/cartoons_of_the_week/2021/34/-6-mike_shelton-mike_shelton_for_08262021.html
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