Officials say bomb was targeting another suicide bomber. Local police have said casualties include one small child
- A child has been killed in an explosion as the US launched a military strike targeting ISIS-K militants in Kabul
- Explosion has been heard in Kabul just hours after the US Embassy ordered all staff to leave the airport
- Security official from the recently deposed government said it was a rocket that hit a house
- Joe Biden has said that commanders informed him an attack is 'highly likely' in the next 24-36 hours
- It follows the US drone strike on ISIS-K in revenge for the suicide blast in Kabul that killed 13 US
- Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said US should have warned the group before strike on ISIS-K
A child in Kabul has been killed in an explosion as the US launched a military strike targeting a vehicle containing 'multiple suicide bombers' driving to the Afghan airport, just hours after Joe Biden warned of the possibility of another jihadist atrocity following this week's attack.
Two US officials speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters that American forces launched a strike in the capital city targeting suspected ISIS-K militants who were aiming to attack Hamid Karzai International Airport, where Afghans are trying to flee the Taliban.
A Kabul police chief later claimed that a child had been killed after a rocket struck a house in the Khajeh Baghra area to the north-west of the airport, in what is thought to be a separate incident. Two witnesses said the blast appeared to have been caused by a rocket.
So US officials say this was a US Strike that was targeting the vehicle of another ISIS-K suicide bomber that was in the area. They claim that the suicide bombers were killed with no casualties, but that it triggered multiple other explosions. The bomb that blew up the house (which is the only thing being confirmed by local police) was supposedly a separate incident that coincidently took place at pretty much the same time.
Of course, this could be propaganda from either side. Obviously the Biden Administration has not been honest in all of this, and it would be foolish to totally trust the Taliban. But from what we can literally see the bomb did appear to hit a house and there appeared to be casualties based on emergency vehicles, etc. There doesn't appear to be two separate explosions (from the footage we see) much less an original explosion, which triggered other explosions, that took place while a separate bomb hit a house and killed a child. One would expect more than just one isolated area of fire and smoke.
We have no confirmation from any local sources of a car explosion or any dead ISIS-K members. So, of course, critics of the United States will believe that they hit a random house and killed a small child.
All we know is that Kabul has another bombing (at least) and that people were asked to stay away from the airport (again) and we are running out of time. Even if everything we claim is true, the idea that things have escalated while we are on the final days of evacuations is more reason to believe that the manner in which we went about our withdrawal was even more deeply flawed than we originally even thought.
Why didn't we wait for another couple of days before escalating the situation with random retaliatory strikes? Wait till Americans were no longer vulnerable and until we had finished the largest amounts of evacuations we could have.
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Biden fucked up, plain and simple.
Retaliation could've waited until the last American was safely out of harms way. Then you reduce the entire fucking city to smoldering ruin, and then do it again, "bouncing the rubble" as cali often says.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly disputed reports that the United States government had provided what’s been described as a “kill list” to the Taliban, stating on Sunday morning that “it’s simply not the case.”
Just hours after a deadly suicide bombing attack killed 13 U.S. service members outside the Kabul airport, Politico reported on Thursday that U.S. officials gave the Taliban a list of American citizens, residents and Afghan allies to grant entry through the outside perimeter of the airport, which is controlled by Taliban militants.
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The report prompted immediate backlash and outrage from lawmakers and military officials, with many calling for resignations of Biden administration officials over what they felt was effectively a “kill list.” President Joe Biden, when pressed on Thursday by reporters on the story, didn’t explicitly deny that the U.S. has handed over names to the Taliban. At the same time, he said he wasn’t sure there were specific lists.
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Blinken was much more forceful in his denial of the story.
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“Some of these lists of people that you're trying to get out of the country you've had to give to the Taliban. And I know you guys have some -- that you think some of this has been a bit overreported or exaggerated,” NBC anchor Chuck Todd asked. “But given the Haqqani network's ties to the Taliban, how can you be sure any list you share of Afghans who helped Americans won't be used for horrendous reasons by the Haqqani network or others?”
The secretary of state responded that “it’s simply not the case,” adding that “the idea that we shared lists of Americans or others with the Taliban is simply wrong” and that they didn’t put those trying to leave the country at risk.
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“What was shared?” Todd interjected.
“So, in specific instances when you're trying to get a bus or a group of people through, and you need to show a manifest to do that, because particularly in cases where people don't have the necessary credentials on them or documents on them, then you would—you'll share names on a list of people on the bus so they can be assured that those are people that we're looking to bring in,” the secretary replied. “And by definition, that's exactly what's happened.”
He continued: “We've gotten 5,500 American citizens out of Afghanistan. And to the extent that in an individual case with a particular group or a bus to verify that the people on the bus or in that group were people who were supposed to come out, American citizens, especially again, if they lacked the right document with them, that's what we would do. But the idea that we put anyone in any further jeopardy is simply wrong.”
White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan was also confronted about the Politico report during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, and Sullivan essentially reiterated what Blinken said on Meet the Press.
“I never thought a feckless piece of crap would send him to his death and smirk on television while he’s talking about people dying, with his nasty smirk,” she continued.
“The dementia ridden piece of crap needs to be removed from office. It would’ve never happened under Trump,” she said.
“For every Democrat who cheated or voted for Biden that left my son in harm’s way and left this dementia ridden piece of crap who’s a treasonous man who got into office because he was running out of funds for his family, you did this to my son,” she continued. “To every Democrat who’s listening, you did this to my son to prop up a disgusting human being. I guess I don’t have anything else to say.”
https://conservativebrief.com/rylee-mccollum-49698/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=CB08
I hope that every parent in attendance at Dover spits in his face.
It's what he deserves.
We have no confirmation from any local sources of a car explosion or any dead ISIS-K members. So, of course, critics of the United States will believe that they hit a random house and killed a small child.
Another conspiracy theory bullshit
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.
https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression
It's incurable.
Just like your mother
Sad story Scott.
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.
Masking and Sweden.
Roger...
are you suggesting that the UK press are all about conspiracy theories and that is why they are not just accepting the Biden Administration explanation?
are you suggesting that the reason why the Swedes did not implement lock downs and mask mandates is because they all are conspiracy theorists?
Is this your genius level "Roger knows more than everyone else about everything else" logic?
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.
https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression
97 other countries are going to help Afghanistan's escape Afghanistan and screen them.
I know that I'm wasting my time arguing with you. But I still wish I could help you.
The demographics of Sweden and again the fact that they have universal health care services..are the reasons, not masking and social distancing
I don't know more than anyone else.
I also know that approximately 10% of people who have been tested are more intelligent than I am.
I have admitted failure and mistakes and apologized to others, including you.
But you never have in the last 19 years.
Unvaccinated, Unmasked Teacher Caused Mass Outbreak
August 29, 2021 at 12:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 42 Comments
“An unvaccinated elementary school teacher in California infected more than half of their students with COVID-19, ultimately resulting in a community-wide outbreak in Marin County,” Axios reports.
“The outbreak, which took place in May, highlights the stakes surrounding a debate across the U.S. among school districts considering implementing stricter measures to curb the spread of the virus, like universal masking in schools.”
98 Countries Will Take Afghan Refugees
August 29, 2021 at 12:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
“The United States and 97 other countries said on Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the American military departs next week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving,” the New York Times reports.
DeSantis Advised by Doctor Who Promoted Parasite Drug
August 29, 2021 at 12:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
“A California psychiatrist who has advised Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on the coronavirus pandemic recently promoted a drug for COVID-19 patients that federal disease experts have strongly warned against after a spike in calls to poison control centers,” the Miami Herald reports.
“The surge of interest in the parasite drug, ivermectin, prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to issue a national alert advising against its use to treat coronavirus.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
August 29, 2021 at 12:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
“I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory.”
— Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, quoted by the BBC.
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Victory has become impossible, so...
Inside Biden’s Biggest Crisis
August 29, 2021 at 12:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments
CNN: “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.”
“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.”
Heat Turns Up on Blinken and Sullivan
August 29, 2021 at 11:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
Washington Post: “In private discussions, some House Democrats have raised the prospect of whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan — two of Biden’s most trusted aides — should lose their jobs.”
Both men appeared on the Sunday shows and Playbook says “it wasn’t pretty.”
Jordan Spoke More Than Once to Trump on Jan. 6
August 29, 2021 at 11:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
Playbook: We know that Donald Trump and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke once on the day of the Capitol riot, but the Ohio Republican has said he doesn’t remember when their conversation took place. We have some new details that could help clear up that timeframe — including confirmation of at least one more phone conversation between Jordan and the then-president during the siege.”
“After a group of lawmakers were evacuated from the House chamber to a safe room on Jan. 6, Jordan was joined by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for a call during which they implored Trump to tell his supporters to stand down, per a source with knowledge of that call. The source declined to say how Trump responded to this request.”
“Jordan has previously disclosed that he spoke to Trump on Jan. 6, but not the existence of more than one call on the day — a rare piece of new information on the former president’s moves during the riot at a time when House Republicans are loath to discuss such specifics.”
Taliban to Ban Opium Production
August 29, 2021 at 1:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
Wall Street Journal:
“Taliban leaders, seeking international acceptance after seizing power in Afghanistan, have told farmers to stop cultivating opium poppies, residents of some major poppy-growing areas say. This has caused raw opium prices to soar across the country.”
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Why didn't Trump get the Afghan government to do this? He had four long years to do it.
It's all on him.
Past research shows conspiracy theories are associated with anxiety, social isolation, and negative emotions.
Well Roger...
We might feel sorry for your anxiety, social isolation in your assisted living area, and negative emotions that you display
But you simply project these onto everyone else.
For instance, I just sold my house, am moving to Seattle, things are busy but going well at work, and my youngest is doing well living on his own. My life is wonderful. Yeah a little anxiety about moving across the country, and as most Americans I am a little upset about dead marines that didn't have to be dead...
but nothing like what you and your ilk are going through right now. Biden is at best a joke who is only doing marginal damage and at worse is personally responsible for much of what has happened.
That upsets you because none of what is happening is what you expected (but of course, it's exactly what we expected). This is why you are in such disarray. The reality right now is not matching up with your imagination as to how the reality "should" look.
The country is fumbling around and it starts right up at the top! This is why you are lashing out at everyone else. You were wrong about Biden. It bugs you to no end.
An unvaccinated elementary school teacher in California infected more than half of their students with COVID-19, ultimately resulting in a community-wide outbreak in Marin County,” Axios reports.
LOL!!!!
It is quite literally impossible to determine where someone caught covid, much less isolate a whole group of infections to one person!
But apparently if Axios reports it...
It must be true!
Thanks for the laugh Reverend...
My how desperate you have become as your hero keeps failing, failing, failing, failing with more failing on top for good measure. Has he succeeded at anything so far?
100,000 more deaths over the next few months on Biden's watch.
better blame that one teacher who didn't mask!!!!
btw... nobody is masking here in Minnesota. Why hasn't everyone caught Covid?
LOL!!
You made my morning! Such desperation!!!
It bugs Ch to no end that he cannot pin everthing on Biden because each charge he makes evokes Trump's disasterous time in office.
Why didn't Trump get the Afghan government to do this? He had four long years to do it.
Obama had eight!
It's twice as much his fault!!!
LOL!!!!
like shooting ducks in a barrel !!!!
Boy does your desperation show, Reverend!
Last time I checked Reverend.
Biden is the President. It's on him!!!
No requirement to "pin" his decisions on him and his actions on him or his results on him! They are already his by definition!!!!
LOL!!!
You are so desperate!
I wonder, I watched CNN this morning as well as some FOX News. Even a little MSNBC. Nobody there is talking about any of this being "Trump's fault". I guess that must be a Goddard blogger deal, huh?
12:24
No, Ch, thanks for making my day with your pretzeling word salad.
Your laughing at the fact that over half the students in a class taught by an unvaccinated, unmasked teacher while trying to claim that proves nothing is despicable. Tell it to the parents.
But it shows how far you are prepared to go in your angry, irrational reactionism.
Why didn't Trump get the Afghan government to do this? He had four long years to do it.
It's all on him.
The poppies were grown in Taliban controlled areas and the Taliban derived income from it. Idiot.
It's all on Biden, eh?
Then why is his polling starting to improve?
He's at only -1 on the realclearpolitic aggregates, and if you eliminate the only two negative polls he's had lately, he's at plus 3.
(Two above 50%.)
Meanwhile, Trump is at minus 10.8 unfavorable.
(Not anywhere near 50%.)
The eightly-one million Americans who decided the last election will decide this as well.
Actually Reverend I have to ask?
Was everyone other than the teacher masked? According to the report, they were because they are required to wear masks. As a parent and being around children every day in my neighborhood, the children would not be wearing masks other than at school.
IF masks worked, then they should not have caught Covid while at school (since they would have been wearing masks). If they came home and played together outside of school (sans masks) - but they all caught Covid at the same time while in school... and masked.
I thought you caught it while unmasked, not while masked?
Pretty damned bad argument for wearing masks!!!
Seems like more desperation to blame something other than Biden incompetence!
If another 100,000 more Americans die in the next couple of months (as expected) Reverend. Where will Biden's approvals stand on his "handling of Covid"?
That is your real concern!
If that turns sour, he will be looking "UP" at what Trump numbers were!
Reverend...
You realize that none of those RCP polls were taken "since" the deaths of 13 Americans. All that negative drop took place just from general incompetence and while we (as a country) had seen no actual casualties.
The next round of polls will include the events of the terror attacks and dead Americans. Wait till we start hearing from the people who are stranded in Afghanistan after we pull out over the next couple of days.
Or will Biden choose to escalate further and challenge the Taliban (who we are relying on for our security). Rock, hard place.
Americans are not stupid, Ch.
They know that people dying who chose not to be vaccinated is attributable to the Repulicans far more than to Biden and the Democrats.
A little more than fifty percent of Republicans are now vaccinated compared to Dems in the 80 and 90 percentages, and rising.
Trump even got booed when he recently advised getting vaccinated in Alabama.
Commonsense needs to ed-ju-mi-fi-cate on opium growing in Afghanistan.
https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/economy-development-environment/new-world-drug-report-opium-production-in-afghanistan-remained-the-same-in-2019/
What Went Wrong With the Pandemic in Florida
August 29, 2021 at 2:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New York Times:
“The Florida story is a cautionary tale for dealing with the current incarnation of the coronavirus. The United States has used the vaccines as its primary pandemic weapon. But Florida shows that even a state that made a major push for vaccinations — Florida ranks 21st among states and Washington, D.C., in giving people of all ages at least one shot — can be crushed by the Delta variant, reaching frightening levels of hospitalizations and deaths.
“Florida’s pandemic data, more scant since the state ended its declared Covid-19 state of emergency in June, reveals only limited information about who is dying. Hospitals have said upward of 90 percent of their patients have been unvaccinated. Exactly why the state has been so hard-hit remains an elusive question. Other states with comparable vaccine coverage have a small fraction of Florida’s hospitalization rate. The best explanation of what has happened is that Florida’s vaccination rates were good, but not good enough for its demographics.”
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No easy answers. No easy solutions.
But thank goodness Trump is not in charge!
The GOP’s New Definition of Freedom
August 29, 2021 at 2:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Charlie Sykes:
“About a week after testing positive for Covid-19 himself, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning the use of vaccine mandates in the public sector and for businesses that contract with the state.
“The Republican’s guidance was sweeping — overriding both local control and private sector rights.
“So much for limited government, property rights, or conservative principles. Abbott’s order was also a revealing indication of how the GOP now defines freedom.”
GOP'S NEW DEFINITION OF FREEDOM:
YOU DO WHAT WE TELL YOU TO DO.
YOU DO NOT DO WHAT WE TELL YOU NOT TO DO.
Funny Reverend...
According to the CDC older white people are vaccinated. Younger people and especially blacks are not.
As I showed, in Florida the vast majority of new cases and deaths are coming from Broward, Miami Dade and other highly urban black counties that voted overwhelmingly for Biden?
Are you telling me that older white people are Democrats?
And the millennials and younger and blacks are Republican?
Some Americans are really stupid... like those who believe that 80-90% of Democrats are vaccinated. But most are not. They might be simple, but at the end of the day, if 100,000 more people die over the next couple of months and our leaders are doing nothing other than pointing fingers...
People will drop their opinion of the leader's "handling" of Covid.
Because Americans don't care how a coach might be "handling" the team. IF the team wins, he/she is a hero. When they lose, that coach is a failure and people will call for his head.
Americans dying will be no difference. They will not give Biden credit for anything other than failure if we are failing.
That's Thecoldheartedtruth about America today.
You will never give him credit for anything.
Just the opposite when Trump was the President.
In New York, for instance....
less than 30% of blacks under the age of 30 were vaccinated.
If those are Republican voters, then I would guess Democrats are in big trouble come 2022, huh?
Team Biden Voters continue to chalk up impressive international and domestic losses.
You will never give him credit for anything.
Okay Roger.... humor me. What should I be giving Biden credit for exactly?
The border (which the Administration finally admitted was an unsustainable problem, that they do not have a solution for)?
Inflation (which always follow huge amounts of adding money into the economy)?
The death Soldiers?
The fucked up withdrawal?
The amazing Covid RESULTS that we are seeing right now?
The fact that we keep falling "under" economic expectations?
The issue Roger... is that I am willing to provide Biden with full accountability or his decisions and what has happened on his watch. You continue to blame Trump, the GOP, or whomever is your boogieman of the day.
Projection , not actual thought.
Roger AmickAugust 29, 2021 at 1:47 PM
You will never give him credit for anything.
🤣😂Just the opposite when Trump was the President
😂😂
This matters more than ever.
The United States may indeed manage to kill more isis-k fighters and destroy some of their modest arsenal. But the central flaw in U.S. strategy is the belief that military force can eradicate extremist groups or radical ideologies. On Friday evening, a senior Biden Administration official acknowledged that the United States “can’t physically eliminate an ideology. What you can do is deal, hopefully effectively, with any threat that it poses.”
No matter who is the President, at any time, now or in future.
I really wish that the Republicans would act like the Democrats in the post 9/11 attacks.
Instead they are catering to their base. And of course, Donald Trump.
If Trump had been reelected, the odds are that he would have withdrawn from Afghanistan too.
There is no credible answer to the question would he have done a better job???
Since he will be the President until?
We should have a soars moment.
"You will never give him credit for anything."
Actual. Always Wrong Roger i give worthless joe credit for all his policy failures.
His crime waive is just beginning in America because of his open Federal Prison Policy on Day 2.
🤣Roger AmickAugust 29, 2021 at 1:59 PM
This matters more than ever😂😂
Pure Comedy Gold
"Wagging the Dog" is a punk move by a punk prez.
There is no credible answer to the question would he have done a better job???
You're joking right?
Even just today it has been revealed that he ignored advice on keeping the Bagram Air Base open... which he has continuously lied about. Milley has stated that he was ordered to abandon Bagram in order to reduce troop levels. Other officials have stated that Biden was counseled not to do so.
The simple concept that he could have evacuated Americans starting a month ago would have prevented all of this.
He could have decided to wait till after we left to start retaliating against the ISIS-K as to not escalate things to the point where we are today (nothing coming in or out due to security concerns most of the day).
There are a 101 things that could have been done differently.
To claim that there was no credible alternative to what we did?
Are you serious?
Oh wait... you are a genius who knows more about military strategy than everyone else here. Right?
... which he has continuously lied about. Milley has stated that he was ordered to abandon Bagram in order to reduce troop levels. Other officials have stated that Biden was counseled not to do so.
ALL SPECULATION AND BULLSHIT.....SEEMS THAT IS ALL YOU POST ANY MORE LIL SCHITTY !!!!!!! Very sad that your mind is as shot as Rats........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
There are a 101 things that could have been done differently.
To claim that there was no credible alternative to what Trump would have done.
Are you serious that you can see an alternate universe?
I wonder why polls indicate that Republicans are vaccinated far, far less than Democrats are.
You should move to Rapid City instead of a blue States.
South Dakota experienced a large spike in COVID-19 cases recently after the state’s governor, Kristi Noem, a Republican, said at the end of July she will not be ratcheting up efforts to encourage people to get the COVID vaccine.
The Midwestern state saw the country’s biggest two-week increase in COVID cases at 230%, according to New York Times data. The state recently increased the frequency with which it reports its COVID cases—from once a week to every weekday—which may have contributed to the boost.
Despite the spike, the state still has a much lower concentration of new COVID-19 cases (20 per 100,000 people) than current COVID hotspots such as Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, which all have more than 100 cases per 100,000 people.
The state has fully vaccinated 41% of its population as of publication, according to New York Times data.
At last week’s 81st annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Gov. Noem reiterated that she will avoid mandates, including masks or vaccines. Noem said she prefers to give her constituents the information they need to make informed personal decisions. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was criticized by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who worried it could become a superspreader event, as it had been in 2020.
“There comes a time when you’re dealing with a public health crisis that could involve you, your family, and everyone else that something supersedes that need to do exactly what you want to do,” Fauci said on Meet the Press.
In a tweet about the motorcycle rally, Noem said she has “chosen to let people take personal responsibility for decisions the government has no authority to make.”
When COVID vaccines were first broadly introduced, Gov. Noem put out a video supporting vaccinations and talked about South Dakota’s initially high vaccination rate, which has since fallen.
The governor also took a shot at President Biden on Twitter Wednesday, saying he was pushing his authority too much.
“President Biden is overstepping his authority to try to push masks in schools and mandate vaccines,” read a tweet from Gov. Noem’s account. “He’s doing it to distract from the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan where Americans are left behind.”
Hi guys.
Biden is exactly what you guys voted for his capabilities are shocking.
Joe pictured with all US Service Members that were killed ?
Are they published?
Ignore ignorant, ignorable KansasDim.
I guess blacks are Republican now?
I watched it and I cried.
At their deaths, the 13 young service members were on the ground for the U.S. coda to its longest war, assisting a chaotic evacuation of Americans and of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are now fleeing the Taliban after their return to power.
“The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others,” Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Their bravery and selflessness has enabled more than 117,000 people at risk to reach safety thus far.”
Biden held his hand over his heart and appeared to shut his eyes in prayer as each transfer case was taken off the military aircraft and placed in an awaiting vehicle.
Family members of the fallen often travel to Dover to be present for the return of the remains of their loved ones to American soil. Thursday's attack left so many casualties that military officials said the Dover Fisher House, which the Defense Department provides for families of the fallen, was not large enough to accommodate all the grieving families, so some loved ones stayed off base.
Biden was joined by several top aides, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Eleven of the fallen service members’ families chose to allow their transfers to be open to media coverage. Two others took place out of view, but Biden was present for those as well.
Biden's three most recent predecessors as presidents all attended such dignified transfers. It was Biden's first time taking part in the ritual as president, but he has been here before.
Later Sunday, while getting a Hurricane Ida briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, the president opened his remarks by telling workers that he had just come from Dover. "We met with the families of 13 fallen heroes in Afghanistan who lost their lives in their service of our country and while we’re praying for the best in Louisiana, let’s keep them in our prayers as well.’’
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-pay-respects-us-troops-120436061.html
The pictures are heartbreaking
South Dakota experienced a large spike in COVID-19 cases recently after the state’s governor, Kristi Noem, a Republican, said at the end of July she will not be ratcheting up efforts to encourage people to get the COVID vaccine.
LOL last week when they were at the bottom you were screaming Dencity
I wonder why polls indicate that Republicans are vaccinated far, far less than Democrats are.
Because they don't. As Ch pointed out on an earlier thread, the unvaccinated tend to be minorities. Actual scientific studies show that. Not polls design to support a narrative.
The type of polls you often quote.
Roger 🖕 your a fake and a fraud.
You life is a flaiming garbage dempster . You are a disingenuous human.
I watched it and I cried.
At their deaths, the 13 young service members were on the ground for the U.S. coda to its longest war, assisting a chaotic evacuation of Americans and of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are now fleeing the Taliban after their return to power.
Over 1,000 bodies when to the Dover mortuary during Obama's administration you didn't cry then.
When president Donald Trump tearfully attended the dignified transfer ceremony, you didn't cry then.
So why now. Unless you're crying over the demise of the Biden presidency and the eventual shellacking the Democrats are going to receive in Congress.
To claim that there was no credible alternative to what Trump would have done.
Are you serious that you can see an alternate universe?
What we do know of Trump is that he doesn't like to appear weak or a loser. He may not like his military advise on grand strategy but he'll listen to him on tactics. I'm sure he would have never abandon Bagram air base until the evacuation of American and Afghan allies was comple and the final solder has left Afghanistan.
Abandoning Bagram air base was such a bone headed move only Biden and Obama's national security team could have thought of it.
"I CRIED"
🤣 sure you did Queen Roger🤣
???Joe pictured with all US Service Members that were killed ?
Are they published????
Answer : Nope
Jill is a pos.
What we do know of Trump is that he doesn't like to appear weak or a loser.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Which makes him look weak and a loser.....see his bone spurs, cramps...
Unvaccinated Americans Whiter, More Republican Than Vaccinated
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Americans who say they will definitely not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are overwhelmingly white and Republican, according to polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
North Korea Appears to Have Restarted Reactor
August 29, 2021 at 4:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“North Korea appears to have resumed operation of its plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon in a move that could enable the reclusive country to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The development… adds a new challenge to President Biden’s foreign policy agenda, alongside the dangerous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and stalemated talks on restoring the 2015 deal on Iran’s nuclear program.”
THANK YOU, DONALD. THIS IS WHAT ALL YOUR SCHMOOZING WITH KIM HAS BROUGHT US. NORTH KOREA IS CLOSER TO HAVING BIGGER NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES THAN EVER BEFORE.
BUT TRUMP "DEMANDED" THAT HE KNEW BETTER THAN ALL THE WORLD LEADERS AND OUR ALLIES, AND CH BELIEVED TRUMP WHEN NO ONE ELSE DID.
Wrong. African Americans are the biggest unvaxed demographic.
Of course they did. Trump is gone. They have no fear of Biden.
Don't you ever vet anything you post Ballz??????? Good god......typical loser....!!!!!!!
www.kff.org › coronavirus-covid-19 › issue-briefLatest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity | KFF
Aug 18, 2021 · White people account for the largest share of people who remain unvaccinated (57%), but Black and Hispanic people are less likely than their White counterparts to have
Link for the lazy one from NY.....sad
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
Lol. Kaiser Foundation, whose board of trustees includes Kathleen sebelius and president & CEO drew Altman writes regularly for axiod.
Dumb fuck dopey.
Ad homnen ballz is all you ever got..........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Why don't you have a link for you factoid?????? And all you ever post are lies and bullshit!!!!!!!
Still waiting for your link ballz!!!!!!!! Why is that?????? Oh I know.....You lied and I shoved it up your snowy white ass again!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
See ya.......asshole!!!
The President has negotiated the deal, so even though our troops won't be in danger, we will still get our Afghanistan allies out of Afghanistan.
“The United States and 97 other countries said on Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the American military departs next week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving,” the New York Times reports,
But despite this, Sleepy Joe is demented according to someone who has a lot more psychological problems than the President of the United States of America.
WASHINGTON — The United States and 97 other countries said on Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the American military departs this week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving.
The Taliban’s chief negotiator, Sher Mohammed Abas Stanekzai, had announced on Friday that the group would not stop people from departing, no matter their nationality or whether they had worked for the United States during the 20-year war.
The joint statement released on Sunday on behalf of more than half of the world’s governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 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.
The countries also pledged to “continue issuing travel documentation to designated Afghans” and cited a “clear expectation of and commitment from the Taliban” of their safe passage.
Sleepy Joe Biden is the big dealer in history.
98 Countries Pledge to Accept Afghans After U.S. Military Departs https://nyti.ms/3BpUTiz
Your new hero DeSantis is a fucking murderer
MIAMI — The unexpected and unwelcome coronavirus surge now unfolding in the United States has hit hardest in states that were slow to embrace vaccines. And then there is Florida.
While leaders in that state also refused lockdowns and mask orders, they made it a priority to vaccinate vulnerable older people. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, opened mass vaccination sites and sent teams to retirement communities and nursing homes. Younger people also lined up for shots.
Mr. DeSantis and public health experts expected a rise in cases this summer as people gathered indoors in the air-conditioning. But what happened was much worse: Cases spiraled out of control, reaching peaks higher than Florida had seen before. Hospitalizations followed. So did deaths, which are considerably higher than the numbers currently reached anywhere else in the country.
Hi crybay Roger.
Wimp
Great News
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JamesNewLeaf August 29, 2021 at 4:12 PM
North Korea Appears to Have Restarted Reactor"
Jamesnewleaf
Sleepy Donald Trump Mistakes ISIS-K For ISIS-X
Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore
People who opt out of shots shouldn’t expect their employers, health insurers, and fellow citizens to accommodate them.
For months, institutions and companies have been drafting plans to aggressively promote vaccination or require it outright, and last week the FDA gave them license to click the “send” button. The same day the agency granted full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, New York City’s public school system announced that its teachers and other employees will be required to get shots. The next day, Louisiana State University made a similar demand of its students and faculty. Within about 24 hours of the FDA move, other major employers, such as Chevron and Goldman Sachs, rolled out new vaccine mandates. In a novel twist, Delta Airlines announced that it would impose a $200-a-month health-insurance surcharge on unvaccinated employees. Regardless of the reasons for their hesitancy, unvaccinated employees will literally have to pay for it.
If you get the shot yourself it's free.
The fallen include:
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah
Marine Corps Sgt. Johanny Rosariopichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts
Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, of Sacramento, California
Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio,
Marine Corps Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska
Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California
Navy Hospitalman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tennessee.
According to rrb two of them are beaners
So did deaths, which are considerably higher than the numbers currently reached anywhere else in the country.
Oregon has more. So much so they are ordering refrigerated trucks to act as temporary morgues.
Roger, you have zero standing .
By Shawn Boburg, Meagan Flynn, Alex Horton, Ellen McCarthy, Dalvin Brown, MarÃa Luisa Paúl, Rebecca Tan and Jose A. Del Real
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/08/27/us-service-members-killed-kabul-airport-names/
The stories are heartbreaking.
Sleepy Joe Biden is the big dealer in history.
Have you ever known the Taliban to keep it's word.
😂The stories are heartbreaking.🤣
Roger , the summer soldier.
Rank : Pussy
You loony toons believe this shit story.
Critical Race Theory has become the central issue in American politics over the past year, thanks largely to the efforts of commentators like Christopher Rufo and army of grassroots parent activists standing up against the anti-white, anti-American poison being taught in American schools.
But Critical Race Theory, or CRT, didn’t originate in America’s primary schools. CRT began as a legal doctrine within America’s law schools — and it is in this capacity that it can still do the most damage.
Case in point: A federal judge in Nevada just recently demonstrated the potential of CRT as a legal doctrine in what might be called America’s first entirely CRT-driven constitutional ruling. If allowed to stand, this ruling would enshrine open borders as a permanent feature of American law.
The replacement theory addiction system is unpatriotic but it works well on you loony toons..
Josh Marshall
August 29, 2021 1:11 p.m.
This morning The Washington Post published an illuminating new look at the fall of Kabul. What is most telling, however, is the commentary about the facts revealed in the article. First let’s look at the new details.
The flight of former President Ghani, which triggered the final collapse of the Afghan government, was driven at least in part by apparently false reports that that Taliban fighters were in the palace searching for him. The more resonant claim is about the mechanics of the turnover of control in Kabul.
The US government wasn’t the only one surprised by the rapid collapse of Ghani’s government. The Taliban was too. There was either an agreement in place or one being prepared for Ghani to turn over power to an interim government that would attempt to negotiate a new power sharing regime in the country. The Taliban had no immediate plans to enter the capital. Ghani’s flight short-circuited that plan. With no government in control of the capital the Taliban contacted the US and said either the US could assume control of security in the capital or the Taliban would. The Post quotes a US official quoting Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political wing telling Gen. Frank McKenzie: “We have a problem. We have two options to deal with it: You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.”
McKenzie said that evacuation was the only US mission and that the US would thus only hold on to the airport. In response the Taliban entered the city and took over.
There’s a wave of commentary suggesting this was the moment when the US sealed the country’s fate or that the entire rushed exit over the last two weeks could have been avoided by the US taking over Kabul with Taliban acceptance if not explicit agreement. As the Post put it, “the scope of [US] defeat was total.” It is worth noting that this account suggests a level of communication and coordination between the US and the Taliban that many have been slow to appreciate. But the bigger issue here is the continued inability of most commentators to grasp the inherent dynamism of all military situations and especially those of state collapse.
The idea that a few thousand US Marines or soldiers could take over security for a city of 5 million during a process of state collapse is frankly insane. The Post article portrays the decision as Biden remaining adamant about leaving no matter what. And that is clearly the underlying part of the equation. But if you think holding an airport in this situation is fraught, vulnerable and highly dangerous try taking over security for a city of 5 million under the same circumstances. Force protection alone would require vastly greater numbers. Multiply the number of IED attacks by splinter factions and rival extremist groups by tenfold and consider the civilian collateral damage as Marines try to assert control of a city of that size when everyone knows Taliban rule is just over the horizon.
Unvaccinated Americans Whiter, More Republican Than Vaccinated.
Americans who say they will definitely not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are overwhelmingly white and Republican, according to polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
This is a demonstrable lie as refuted by the CDC's own study. Yet James knowing perpetuates it using a poll to the narrative it wanted.
And it's a dangerous lie by not making black and Hispanic vaccinations a priority.
This was clearly the only possible decision. Some who claim otherwise are simply being disingenuous. But what this mostly shows is the deep lack of understanding from the ‘there had to be a better way’ crowd of the inherently dynamic nature of all military deployments and especially any actions in the context of state collapse. It’s on a par with the idea that the US could have evacuated two or three hundred thousand Afghan nationals and then allowed the US-backed government to stand on its own.
As I noted above, force protection alone would require a dramatically greater deployment. But the issue isn’t so much numbers as dynamism. You are always in the process of establishing security – which is to say, by force – or relinquishing it. You are in a dynamic process of moving toward greater or lesser control in a process that feeds on itself.
The control exercised by an occupying military or a state is always an interplay between current force and force played out into and expected in the future. The US might be able to occupy a city like Kabul or even a country like Afghanistan with a few thousand troops if it is in the process of expanding the number of troops deployed and planning to stay for the indefinite future. If it is planning on turning over the territory to a hostile force in days or weeks ten times the number likely wouldn’t be enough. There are no timeouts. Trying to do both at the same time or apply the brakes a bit as the situation moves toward state collapse is a recipe for bombing attacks on US troops and civilian ‘collateral damage’ as US troops try to defend themselves and establish order. It’s like standing on a dock as the boat leaves. You stay on the dock or you leap into the boat. You can’t do both.
That’s not much solace to people trying to flee Kabul today. But it’s critical, really a sine-qua-non, for anyone trying to understand the range of options available to what amounts to an occupying power in such a situation. It’s also essential to understand how and why governments fall, usually slowly and then all at once. Because, again, the nature of control is always an interplay between the present and expectations about the future. There are no timeouts.
In different words, I have been saying the same thing since he decided on the August 31st is end of the war.
Mr. DeSantis and public health experts expected a rise in cases this summer as people gathered indoors in the air-conditioning. But what happened was much worse: Cases spiraled out of control, reaching peaks higher than Florida had seen before. Hospitalizations followed.
Florida was the first state in the country to be hit with the delta variant. Nobody could have predicted that.
As stated, DeSantis targeted nursing homes, prioritize people at risk, and now the vaccine is generally available. He has now is providing outpatient treatment centers to prevent hospitalization of COVID patients. Unlike Harris and Biden, DeSantis (as was Trump) was an early booster of the vaccine.I don't see how much more a governor can do to protect the public against COVID.
If you really want to know the COVID murderers are look no further than Biden and Harris who irresponsibly spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the vaccine.
And now a vaccine is about the only thing preventing hospitalizations and death from the delta variant of COVID-19.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
This was clearly the only possible decision.
I would rather listen to Afghan vets who were familiar with the situation In Afghanistan than Josh Marshall.
https://youtu.be/1Q_EGGil1CY
Bill Maher made fun of conservatives like Scott!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has the capacity to evacuate the approximately 300 U.S. citizens remaining in Afghanistan who want to leave before President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline, senior administration officials said, as rocket fire in Kabul and another U.S. drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants underscored the grave threat in the war’s final days.
“This is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission these last couple of days,” America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said Sunday not long before confirmation of the drone strike in Kabul.
The steady stream of U.S. military jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan’s capital continued Monday even after rocket fire targeted the airport. No one claimed responsibility for the rockets, which hit a nearby neighborhood. U.S. Central Command spokesman Bill Urban said five rockets targeted the airport and a U.S. defensive system on the airfield known as a Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar System, or C-RAM, was employed against them. He said there were no U.S. casualties and the airfield continued to operate. Further details were not immediately available. The White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the rocket attack.
https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-0b5f6afe4d84dfe62dd741dc81cbc6e2#
Joe Biden “will remember” comments about his mental acuity emanating from senior figures in the UK, and will “bear a grudge” against Britain, sources told the Telegraph.
It came after Cabinet insiders were quoted as suggesting the US president “looked gaga” and described him as “doolally” in the wake of the fall of Kabul.
“The Brits have their view. But they should be careful. What’s been said is offensive and he will remember it. He actually has a long memory,” a US source told the Telegraph.
“It’s always been his way that if somebody says something really bad to him, or about him, he doesn’t speak to them again. He does bear grudges. Boris Johnson should know that.”
The source added: “The president is not ‘gaga’. He’s actually picked up his game quite a bit since the campaign.”
Comments by Cabinet insiders calling Mr Biden “gaga” were first printed in the UK, but were repeated in the Washington Post and read in the White House.
It’s almost funny. Any threat that Biden will “remember” emanating from the vicinity of the White House should probably be taken with a grain of salt. Would anyone who knows what he’s talking about assert that Biden “actually has a long memory”? Only behind a deep veil of anonymity.
Would any White House source go to the trouble of denying that Biden is “gaga”? That still leaves “doolally.”
Joe Biden thinks August 31, 2021, is the “end” of Afghanistan. In fact, it is a new beginning of yet another chapter in the much despised “war on terror.” But this time around, the Taliban are victorious. They have been reinvented as the best-equipped jihadist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower, and will take ownership of hundreds of billions of dollars of Western investment in infrastructure in Afghanistan’s major cities.
This disaster can be attributed to Biden’s apparent desire for a 9/11 “no more Afghanistan” anniversary parade—itself to be staged to hide his multifaceted border, economy, energy, and foreign policy failures.
The Chinese are debating now whether to ramp up the assault rhetoric against Taiwan, as more Chinese voices conclude that Biden would support the Taiwanese in meager fashion, as he did U.S. contractors and Afghan interpreters. The Russians are pondering which exposed NATO country or which former Soviet republic might be probed and dissected—in expectation of a tough-guy Biden Corn-Pop lecture but not much else. Kim Jong-un is considering replaying his old role of rocket man, as he calibrates the Biden responses to more missiles launched in Japanese air or water space.
Watch Iran especially. The theocracy believes this is the most opportune time in 20 years to announce that it is or will soon be nuclear, to unleash Hezbollah, and to step up global terrorist operations on the assumption that Biden will bow his head and declare “We do not forgive; we do not forget” and then retire for an early nap.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/29/our-afghan-nightmare-tanks-for-nothing/
In other news, US rockets blowed up a family of innocents who were NOT ISIS-K.
9 people, including 6 children.
Very conspicuously checking your watch at DOVER AFB when you're supposed to be there to honor the men and women you needlessly sent to their deaths due to your incompetence.
NOT cool.
What a fucking asshole.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9-1ZJjXIAEWmq5?format=jpg&name=small
https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters-55adf4d46aff57b91af2fdd3345dace8
Will drive Scott crazy mothrf***r
At this point, there are only two conclusions that can be drawn from what’s happening in Afghanistan, beginning with Biden’s decision to jettison Trump’s careful plan and continuing through to the present day:
(1) Everyone in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon is so incompetent that a roomful of drunk kindergarteners could have handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan better than they have, or,
(2) What we’re witnessing is deliberate. I can believe that of Biden, who is a Chinese puppet. That the Pentagon brass would engage in this conduct means that they too are on the Chinese payroll which is a very distressing thought. Alternatively, it's deliberate because these people have been so steeped in America-hatred that they are willingly sabotaging America to destroy it. They are the contents of the Trojan Horse.
China China China China China China China China China China China China China China
The Democrats will call it The Red Scare
Data for the white folks who are the majority of the unvaxed
Yahoo Finance
Unvaccinated LA residents were 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19: CDC study
Adriana Belmonte
Adriana Belmonte·Senior Editor
Tue, August 24, 2021, 4:23 PM
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bolsters the argument that unvaccinated individuals are at a much higher risk of experiencing the worst outcomes of COVID-19 than vaccinated individuals.
“These data indicate that authorized vaccines protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19, even with increased community transmission of the newly predominant Delta variant,” the CDC report stated.
The actually source for this blog is
https://redstate.com/streiff/2021/08/29/thatll-teach-em-us-drone-strike-targeting-suicide-bombers-in-kabul-kills-family-of-nine-including-four-kids-under-age-five-n435012
Redstate insanity
Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new U.S.-made war chest
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States.
"They'll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward," U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters a few days later at the Pentagon.
In a matter of weeks, however, the Taliban had seized most of the country, as well as any weapons and equipment left behind by fleeing Afghan forces.
Video showed the advancing insurgents inspecting long lines of vehicles and opening crates of new firearms, communications gear and even military drones.
"Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
Current and former U.S. officials say there is concern those weapons could be used to kill civilians, be seized by other militant groups such as Islamic State to attack U.S.-interests in the region, or even potentially be handed over to adversaries including China and Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/planes-guns-night-vision-goggles-talibans-new-us-made-war-chest-2021-08-19/
Thanks to Slow Joe, the Tally-Bon is now one of the best equipped military forces in the WORLD.
Let that sink in.
Wonder how long that equipment will take to become boat anchors?????? Like the Iranian F14's,,,,,,, a few will operate but the majority cannibalized and grounded....With today's technology....those copters need 4-8 hours maintenance per hour flown.....Who in the Taliban is qualified to work on those copters without any manuals?????? Yep, rat, I am sure you are worried about this threat!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Poll: 84% of Americans curiously opposed to bugging out and abandoning citizens
Whatever mealy-mouthed words Joe Biden has used to justify his disgraceful rout from Afghanistan so far, they have resulted in a unanimity rarely seen in American polling. Unfortunately for Biden, Americans across the political spectrum appear united in disgust at the collapse Biden engineered. Overwhelming majorities in a new ABC/Ipsos poll agree that US troops should not leave Afghanistan until all Americans have been evacuated
Be Wary of Predictions Three Years In Advance
August 30, 2021 at 8:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Jonathan Bernstein: “It’s true that the available Senate seats in 2024 will be extremely challenging for Democrats. There are no obvious pick-ups — no states that President Joe Biden won that are currently represented by a Republican — and several Democratic seats that will likely be very difficult to defend. One, Senator Joe Manchin’s seat in West Virginia, seems almost certain to flip to Republicans. If that happens, and Democrats need even one net seat to win a Senate majority, they would have to hold several other tough seats while finding two or more unlikely wins.”
“So yes, betting more than three years in advance, I wouldn’t take even odds that Democrats would win a new majority in 2024. But it’s one thing to assess the odds; it’s another to be too confident about the future. It’s not hard to come up with a few ways Democrats could win a seat or two.”
Just Give Every American an ID
August 30, 2021 at 8:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
The Atlantic: “Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. But so are national ID cards. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska.”
“In the American psyche, however, a national ID card conjures images of an all-knowing government, its agents stopping people on the street and demanding to see their papers. Or at least that’s what leaders of both parties believe. The idea is presumed to be so toxic that not a single member of Congress is currently carrying its banner.”
What Taliban Rule Will Look Like
August 30, 2021 at 7:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments
“With U.S. troops departing Afghanistan after 20 years, it’s now time for the Taliban to decide how it intends to run the country — and for the U.S. to decide how to work with that government,” Axios reports.
“The militants are offering vague assurances that they have changed with the times, while foreign powers are assessing what leverage they have to hold the insurgents-turned-rulers to those promises.”
Most Think Afghan Pullout Won’t Impact Terrorism
August 30, 2021 at 7:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 31 Comments
The majority of the American public — 56% — does not believe the withdrawal from Afghanistan will have a significant impact on American security from terrorism, according to a new ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Quote of the Day
August 30, 2021 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 80 Comments
“The chance of another 9/11 just went through the roof.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by The Hill.
NO, I THINK OUR JET PASSENGER LINERS ARE NO LONGER VULNERABLE TO TAKEOVER FROM TERRORISTS.
Republicans Fuel Refugee Backlash
August 30, 2021 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
Politico: “An increasingly vocal group of Republicans — led by Donald Trump, who made immigration restrictions a hallmark of his presidency — oppose the resettlement of Afghan refugees in the U.S., claiming that they could be dangerous, or will change the make-up of the country.”
“And they plan to make it an issue in next year’s midterm elections, along with broader attacks about Biden’s messy withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
Democrats Won’t Blink In Debt Showdown
August 30, 2021 at 6:41 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
Politico: “Senate Republicans are digging in deeper and deeper in their resistance to raising the nation’s borrowing limit, with 46 of them vowing to oppose an increase this fall that will need at least 10 Republican votes. Yet Democrats still plan to burn their most expedient ticket out of the debt mess, with no intention to shift course and pass an increase along party lines.”
“Their move to pass a budget resolution without tackling the debt ceiling, completed last week, adds a perilous deadline to Democrats’ season full of lofty promises on infrastructure and social spending. It’s not only the majority party facing a fall challenge, however: Republicans will have to actually block a debt ceiling increase instead of just talking about it.”
Lawmakers Flooded with Evacuation Requests
August 30, 2021 at 6:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
Associated Press: “Across the county, the offices of members of Congress have become makeshift crisis centers, flooded with requests for help getting people onto one of the last flights leaving the Kabul airport before President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline for the withdrawal of all U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan.”
Pentagon Prepared for ‘Mass Casualty Event’
August 30, 2021 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
Politico: “Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.”
“Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent ‘mass casualty event.’”
EU May Halt Nonessential Travel From the U.S.
August 30, 2021 at 6:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“The European Union is set to recommend halting nonessential travel from the U.S. because of the spread of Covid-19,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“European officials have been considering the move for much of the last month, with the average U.S. infection rate now above that of the EU.”
New York Times: “Starting Monday, the officials said, the U.S. will be removed from a ‘safe list’ of countries whose residents can travel to the 27-nation bloc without additional restrictions, such as quarantine and testing requirements.”
THAT'S WHAT NOT GETTING VACCINATED IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS EARNS US. THANKS, REPUBLICANS! THANKS, TRUMP!
Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport
August 30, 2021 at 6:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
“Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul’s international airport struck a nearby neighborhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country’s longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan,” the AP reports.
“It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt.”
China Limits Video Games to Three Hours a Week
August 30, 2021 at 8:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
“China has a new rule for the country’s hundreds of millions of young gamers: No videogames during the school week, and one hour a day on Fridays, weekends and public holidays,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“China on Monday issued strict new measures aimed at curbing what authorities describe as youth videogame addiction, which they blame for a host of societal ills, including distracting young people from school and family responsibilities.”
THE IQ OF CHINA'S YOUTH MAY SOON FAR OUTSTRIP OURS IF WE DO NOT DO SOMETHING SIMILAR.
Wonder how long that equipment will take to become boat anchors??????
Small technology items like night vision goggles have a shelf-life of forever. M16 rifles and side arms will last as long as the ammunition does (providing the Taliban knows how to field strip and clean these weapons).
Drones, helicopters, and fighters are not useful to them as it requires train personnel to maintain and fly them. However, you can bet Chinese, Iranian, and Russian intelligence operatives are looking at the equipment.
What has happened to F'n Daddy?
1. He died of Covid?
2. Many of his relatives died of Covid?
3. His children are sick from Covid?
4. He is sick and on a respirator?
5. He has repented being a Trump supporter?
6. He has converted and become a Democrat and a real Christian?
7. All the above except no. 1?
However, you can bet Chinese, Iranian, and Russian intelligence operatives are looking at the equipment.
All of the things the ragheads can't use like the Blackhawks the Chi-coms will purchase from them. Ragheads flush with cash; Chi-coms completely up to date on our latest technology.
It's a shame really. If Biden had just had a phone call with a foreign leader that made fat boi traitor Vindman uncomfortable, we could impeach the piece of shit.
Biden would never have made a phone call that would have made a true patriot and lover of this nation like Vindman uncomfortable.
Trump, on the other hand, made a phone call that made LOTS of people, including many of his most ardent supporters, extremely uncomfortable.
It was a "perfect" conversation.
A perfectly traitorious one, that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman
Try casting aspersions on THAT man.
This is the most regrettable part of this situation.
The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies
For many who served in Afghanistan, the flawed evacuation efforts have brought feelings of shame and betrayal.
The only good thing is that our allies are going to help them out even after we end the war in Afghanistan.
Vindman's Military awards
At his retirement,
Vindman received the Legion of Merit.
His additional awards and decorations include
the Purple Heart;
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster (2nd award);
Meritorious Service Medal;
Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters (4th award);
Army Achievement Medal with two oak leaf clusters (3rd award);
National Defense Service Medal;
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal;
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal;
Korea Defense Service Medal;
Army Service Ribbon;
Overseas Service Ribbon (4th award);
Valorous Unit Award;
Joint Meritorious Unit Award;
Navy Unit Commendation;
National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation;
and Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.
He is a recipient of the Combat Infantryman Badge;
Expert Infantryman Badge;
Ranger Tab;
Basic Parachutist Badge;
the Presidential Service Badge;
and Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge.
Republicans actually want another terrorist bombing in the next day.
A terrorist attack would be another opportunity to take cheap shots, undermine public confidence, win a news cycle, and prepare political messages for the next round of elections.
In effect they are al Qaeda terrorists
The American public will know who really cares about our nation.
Donald Trump has the same thing I have! a 4F deferment
But I didn't have my family doctor diagnosis bone spurs.
Emanuel Cleaver Thinks GOP Will Redraw Him Out of Office
August 30, 2021 at 9:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) “keeps hearing Missouri Republicans will try to redraw his Kansas City-area district to get him out of office. He’s starting to believe it,”
the Kansas City Star reports.
Said Cleaver:
“I hear that literally every day from somebody. So I guess I have to, at this point, assume that it’s going to be a serious effort to alter the present construct of the Fifth District.”
Democrats Are Much More United Than Republicans
says Taegan Goddard
(and he's usually right).
Rand Paul Claims Scientists Won’t Study Parasite Drug
(and he's usually wrong).
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claimed that researchers won’t study the toxic animal deworming drug ivermectin as a potential COVID treatment because of their dislike for former President Donald Trump,
the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Said Paul:
“The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much that they’re unwilling to objectively study it. So someone like me that’s in the middle on it, I can’t tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump.”
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Actually, I guess it's really that not too many people are worried about having worms.
INSANE GOP
Ohio Judge Forces Hospital to Use Parasite Drug
August 30, 2021 at 9:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
An Ohio judge ruled in favor of a woman last week who sought to force a hospital to administer Ivermectin — an animal dewormer that federal regulators have warned against using in COVID-19 patients — to her husband after several weeks in the ICU with the disease, the Ohio Capital Journal reports.
INSANE GOP
Washington State Employees Sue Over Vaccine Mandate
August 30, 2021 at 9:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“Washington’s state employee union is asking a court this week to delay implementation of Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it should not move forward until its full impacts have been adequately negotiated,” the Seattle Times reports.
INSANE GOP
Coronavirus Infections Have Soared Since Sturgis Rally
August 30, 2021 at 9:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
Los Angeles Times:
“In the three weeks since the annual rally kicked off, coronavirus cases in South Dakota have shot up at a startling pace — six-fold from the early days of August.”
YET CH KEEPS RIGHT ON BLATHERING ABOUT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO VACCINATE OR WEAR MASKS OR HAVE SCOCIAL DISTANCING OR OCCASIONAL SHUT DOWNS OR MAKE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WEAR MASKS IN SCHOOLS OR... OR... OR....
Try casting aspersions on THAT man.
That man is part of the problem and should have resign his commission rather than leak classify information.
He's the sort of career bureaucratic officer the military doesn't need.
This is the most regrettable part of this situation.
The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies
For many who served in Afghanistan, the flawed evacuation efforts have brought feelings of shame and betrayal.
The only good thing is that our allies are going to help them out even after we end the war in Afghanistan.
To mine mind and the minds of many they are true patriotic heroes.
Certainly braver and more patriotic than Alexander Vindman.
Only James think Vindman is hero for putting his career at risk for politics.
These men put their lives on the line to bring Afghan nationals to freedom.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) “keeps hearing Missouri Republicans will try to redraw his Kansas City-area district to get him out of office. He’s starting to believe it,”
the Kansas City Star reports.
Elections have consequences and for some reason the Democrats fail to see the importance of winning state legislatures. Especially in the decennial elections where districts are redrawn.
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