Meanwhile Sweden had one death in the past 8 days while we had over 11,000!
Good for Sweden!
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The foolproof plan is not as foolproof as we had hoped it would be because Trump's wonderful, warpspeed-produced vaccines are not holding up as well as we had hoped against mutations and variations in the viruns, so let's be sure to blame Biden for that.
HAVE THE REPUBLICANS MADE A BIG, BIG, BIG MISTAKE?
Quote of the Day September 5, 2021 at 12:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“I think the Supreme Court will swat it away once it comes to them in an appropriate manner. If it’s as terrible as people say it is, it‘ll be destroyed by the Supreme Court.” — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), quoted by Politico, on the new Texas abortion ban.
Newsom Seizes on Abortion Rights Before Recall Vote September 5, 2021 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “is making abortion rights a central theme in his campaign to hold on to his office after a Texas ban on most abortions took effect this week, arguing Californians’ rights could be also be jeopardized if he’s replaced as governor by Republican Larry Elder,” the Sacramento Bee reports.
Abortion Looms Large In Virginia Governor’s Race September 5, 2021 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post: “Texas pushed McAuliffe’s efforts into overdrive… Youngkin grumbled a bit that the issue was suddenly overshadowing all others.”
Did Texas Just Upend the 2022 Midterms? September 5, 2021 at 12:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook: “Suddenly, stories that weren’t great political terrain for Biden and Democrats — the fallout from the Afghanistan pullout, the new Delta surge, humdrum new employment numbers, etc. — were replaced by the Texas news, then the Supreme Court non-ruling — a storyline that Democrats know will motivate their liberal base and potentially drive moderate women to the polls.
“And that’s giving Democrats big hopes both in upcoming elections and for 2022. They can use what’s happening in other states — and the judiciary’s non-intervention — to nationalize their campaigns. All of these changes may end up provoking a backlash that motivates turnout for Dems in the midterms.”.
THREAD TOPIC: HAVE REPUBLICANS MADE ANOTHER BIG, BIG, BIG MISTAKE?
Beshear Calls Special Session on Covid-19 In Kentucky September 5, 2021 at 11:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) “is calling for a special session of the General Assembly to address the commonwealth’s alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths,” the Louisville Courier Journal reports.
“Beshear’s call comes two weeks after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled a lower court was wrong to block new laws limiting the scope of the governor’s emergency powers, giving the Republicans’ legislative supermajority a substantial say over any new policy measures to address the pandemic.”
Texas Leads In Child Deaths from Covid-19 September 5, 2021 at 11:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Houston Public Media: “Texas schools have amassed more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in students in just a couple of weeks. More than a dozen school districts have closed temporarily as a result of the disease, and Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.”
Patients Overdosing on Horse De-Wormer September 5, 2021 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 180 Comments
A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups, KFOR reports.
BEARS REPEATING: Covid-19 Cases Soar Where Schools Have Opened September 5, 2021 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Wall Street Journal: “The recent spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has thrown back-to-school plans into disarray, temporarily driving tens of thousands of students back to virtual learning or pausing instruction altogether.
“The shutdowns are hitting classrooms especially hard in the Deep South, where most schools were among the first to open, a possible warning of what’s to come as the rest of the nation’s students start school this month…
“It is difficult to assess precisely how badly schools have been hit by the virus, partly because of variations in data reporting. But according to an analysis of the available data from state health departments, the number of infections in school-age children has climbed more rapidly in states where students have been back in school for weeks.”
HuffPost: 15 MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOL STAFF DIE OF COVID-19 IN JUST 10 DAYS.
Patients Overdosing on Horse De-Wormer September 5, 2021 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 180 Comments
A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups, KFOR reports.
The lying POS horse manure spreading and constantly spamming "pastor" can't grasp that is a totally debunked story
I guess the real question is whether or not 59 dead is from a recent time period or if that is overall. If we are talking from the beginning, then we are looking at 3-4 deaths a month. Nobody wants to see ANY dead kids, but it happens.
The leading cause of death for kids that age is Automobile injuries. The second leading cause is suicide. I think we have to consider what it important both to the health and the mental health of children and weight that out.
I have no issues with Texas closing their schools if they have had that sort of outbreak. But schools are opening all over the country. We will no doubt see these same outbreaks as the virus spreads out (as it always does). Florida (btw) has been passed up by several states and are not even in the top ten anymore in positive testing and their deaths have slowed considerably.
Now the media will concentrate on Texas (while ignoring all of the states with higher rates per capita) because it is a "red state". You - Roger will follow along.
Because you cannot stand the truth.
Biden had no plan and just expected it to go away on it's own.
try reading and comprehending rather than shouting and lying "pastor"
Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.
And when F'n has to steal a post from Ch, a very poorly expressed one at that (with Ch's usual pirroting and dancing about) you KNOW F'n is REALLY DESPERATE.
As usual you ignored the fact that the government of Sweden enforces laws that you have been calling a Democrats hoax in order to take away your choices.
The Swedish government's approach has received considerable criticism. Some Swedish scientists had called for stricter preventative measures throughout the pandemic,[8] and an independent commission (Coronakommissionen) found that Sweden failed to protect care home residents due to the overall spread of the virus in society.[9] In December 2020 both King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven admitted they felt that Sweden's COVID-19 strategy had been a failure due to the large number of deaths.[10]
Following agency advice, the government has passed legislation limiting freedom of assembly by temporarily banning gatherings of over 50 individuals, banning people from visiting nursing homes, and physically closing secondary schools and universities. Primary schools have remained open, in part to avoid healthcare workers staying home with their children.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home. The karensdag, or initial day without paid sick-leave, has been removed by the government and the length of time one can stay home with pay without a doctor's note has been raised from 7 to 21 days. Socialist philosophy
They actually followed the same path as governor Cuomo when he saw that elderly people were infected and dying unnecessarily, he and almost every other Democratic States imposed.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home.
Health officials continue to move the goal posts. When will it finally be enough?
I really thought my Messiah Trump had given us vaccines that would solve all our problems, and he did it at warp speed, as he loved to remind us -- many, many times.
Why have we kept having to move the goal posts, then?
I'm just so disappointed. It's becoming more and more difficult to regard Trump as God's gift to America.
Taliban preventing departure of 6 planes filled with Americans and allies, says Rep. Mike McCaul
Rep. McCaul said this is 'turning into a hostage situation'
"In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now," Mr. McCaul said. "State has cleared these flights and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport."
"The Taliban wants something in exchange, this is really … turning into a hostage situation where they are not going to allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America," he said.
Fox News is reporting that they have reached out for comment to the White House and the National Security Council.
oh that's right he's on vacation with Americans left behind, the southern border overflowing, Covid surging, drug deaths soaring, energy supply crashing, flooding, inflation etc etc
Trish Regan https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1434522070239662092 Dems want a series of new taxes to help “pay” for their $3.5 trillion SOCIAL remake.
We’re already $28 Trillion in the hole.
NO amount of taxation will pull us out now.
As such — The promise of a strong middle class with upward mobility in America is doomed.
Republicans don't deserve House majority if they push lies -says Adam Kinzinger September 5, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters)
U.S. House of Representatives Republican Kinzinger said his party does not deserve to win majorities in congressional elections next year if it pushes lies and conspiracy theories, saying that it "desperately needs to tell the truth."
"If we're going to be in charge and pushing conspiracy, pushing division, and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority," Representative Adam Kinzinger told CNN's "State of the Union".
He also blasted House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's warning to private companies not to cooperate with a House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as "pretty scary."
Many Republican lawmakers have embraced former President Donald Trump's false claims that his November 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread fraud, allegations that have been rejected by multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own administration.
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress was meeting to certify President Joe Biden's victory. Nearly 600 people have been arrested on charges related to the attack, which is being investigated by a select House committee headed by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat.
Republicans, including McCarthy, have played down the violence of that day, with one Republican lawmaker comparing scenes in which rioters attacked police, smashed windows and sent lawmakers running for safety to a normal "tourist visit."
McCarthy, a Trump ally who could become speaker of the House if the Republicans win the majority in elections next year, last week said that if companies comply with the select committee's instructions and turn over private information, they will be violating the law. A Republican majority will "not forget and ... hold them fully accountable," he wrote on Twitter.
History and redistricting favor Republican chances of regaining control of the House and Senate, which Biden's Democrats currently narrowly control.
Kinzinger stopped short of calling McCarthy's comments obstruction, but said the Republican leader should "never go there again."
"That to me is a pretty scary place to go in this world if we start using our power as a way to get the outcome that we want," Kinzinger told CNN.
The House committee probing the attack on Monday told 35 telephone, email and social media companies to preserve records which could be relevant to its investigation.
Kinzinger is one of two Republicans on the investigative panel; the other is its vice chair, Representative Liz Cheney. Both are Trump critics.
On Saturday Thompson and Cheney issued a statement denouncing as "baseless" a comment McCarthy made in an interview last week that suggested the FBI and Senate committees had concluded Trump had no involvement in the attack on the Capitol.
On Saturday Thompson and Cheney issued a statement denouncing as "baseless" a comment McCarthy made in an interview last week that suggested the FBI and Senate committees had concluded Trump had no involvement in the attack on the Capitol
The FBI said they had found little evidence of any coordination. In other words not an organized plot or insurrection. But nice straw man about not concluding that Trump had not been involved in something that wasn't.
American Thinker wants a new Insurrection act on Washington DC!
Maybe Washington, D.C. Should Be Quarantined
By J.B. Shurk
If you've ever spent time overseas, you more than likely have overheard someone say, "Don't get me wrong, we love Americans, but we hate the American government." Almost to a T, whenever I've heard this conversation in public, the American response is, "Oh, we don't much like our government, either."
So there you go — Americans and foreigners really can agree on something. Even when America is winning, maybe especially when America is winning, American hegemony around the world is not particularly beloved. Sure, when the you-know-what hits the fan and some poor, wretched soul is praying for a miracle, it is more often than not a member of the United States Armed Forces who shows up out of nowhere to prove that miracles can happen. But when the U.S. government preaches about the glories of a "rules-based international order" that everyone knows is set up to benefit Washington, American heroes are always overshadowed by America's hubris. Watching our enemies celebrate and allies fume over Biden's textbook example of how not to withdraw safely from a battlefield, I wonder how many people in the world today would take the time to defend the delicate reputations of the powerful ruling class that controls D.C. Can you imagine a future when you might overhear someone saying, "Don't get me wrong, Americans sure can be a cocky bunch, but boy, do we love the American government"? Me neither.
This has gotten me thinking. Now that Fauci Fascism is spreading in the forms of arbitrary and capricious mask mandates, forced vaccinations, lockdowns, and government control over housing and markets, all in the vain delusion that tyranny can cure illness, maybe the best way to survive the continuing beatings being handed out by the strong arm of the State is simply to quarantine Washington, D.C. from normal, healthy people.
Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain doesn’t know how many Americans are stranded in Afghanistan, how many have gotten out since the military pulled out, or how they’ll be evacuated.
For U.S. presidents there is a high bar when it comes to accountability. It was put there by Harry Truman in the form of a frontier aphorism about accepting responsibility. He placed it on his Oval Office desk for all to see. “The buck stops here!” it read, a reminder to Truman and all who came after him that it is unseemly for a commander-in-chief to shirk this duty, or to make excuses when things go wrong.
“The greatest part of the president’s job is to make decisions—big ones and small ones, dozens of them almost every day,” Truman explained in his farewell address. “The papers may circulate around the government for a while, but they finally reach this desk. And then, there's no place else for them to go. The president—whoever he is—has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.”
Yet, it’s also human nature to try and deflect culpability by pointing out others’ shortcomings—so much so that Jesus of Nazareth warned his followers against it. And presidents are all too human, as Americans have been reminded in the last few weeks watching Joe Biden pass the buck for the violent and chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan. He hasn’t reminded anyone of Harry Truman.
“I take responsibility for the decision,” Biden said Tuesday. On Aug. 16, he was equally explicit: “I’m the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.” Except that he has blamed, in turn, faulty intelligence, Afghanistan’s president, the Afghan army and, of course, Donald Trump. Most incongruously, Biden even blamed the Americans left behind in Kabul who couldn’t make it past Taliban checkpoints to the airport. “Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan, with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan,” he said. “All the way back as far as March.”
Can you explain why Biden has failed so miserable with his fool proof plan while Sweden (who did it wrong according to all liberals) have had only one death in the eight days (compared to over 11,000 for the U.S.)
I am just curious, here Reverend?
What is the new Biden plan for getting this under control?
Among those who haven’t appreciated Biden’s buck-passing are the families of the 10 U.S. Marines and three other service members killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport. These Gold Star families are not alone: Biden’s job approval rating has plummeted in the past two weeks. Voters judge presidents by their actions, even when the results are beyond their ability to control. But it also seems that many Americans respect leaders who own up to their mistakes.
Doing so, however, cuts against a modern political ethos in which politicians are relentlessly on the offensive and always blaming the other side. Although this wasn’t always the culture in U.S. politics, the tension between taking the heat and wanting to passing the buck is not new.
In the aftermath of the CIA’s Bay of Pigs debacle, for example, John F. Kennedy sounded resigned to accepting blame. In April 1961, during the 10th press conference of his three-month-old presidency, Kennedy acknowledged as much while answering a question from legendary NBC correspondent Sander Vanocur about why information wasn’t more forthcoming from the administration about the disastrous attempt to invade Cuba.
“There’s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan,” Kennedy noted ruefully. “Further statements, detailed discussions, are not to conceal responsibility because I'm the responsible officer of the government…”
But almost immediately, Kennedy aides gave background briefings to reporters in which they pointed fingers at Kennedy’s predecessor. And while it was true that the CIA planned this ill-conceived Cuba adventure under Dwight Eisenhower’s tenure in the White House, it was Kennedy who gave the go-ahead. When Stewart Udall, a member of Kennedy’s Cabinet, made the mistake of publicly faulting Eisenhower, Richard Nixon—who’d been Ike’s vice president and JFK’s 1960 opponent—issued a blistering public statement. It was left to White House press secretary Pierre Salinger to clearly say that, yes, the buck stopped with President Kennedy.
JFK was hardly alone. Some of America’s most popular postwar presidents have struggled living up to Harry Truman’s example. Their first instinct is usually best, but they don’t always stick to it.
After the horrific Lebanon barracks bombing in 1983, a suicide attack that killed more than 20 times the number of Marines lost recently at the Kabul airport, a statement was drafted by White House aides that seemed to hold the military commanders accountable. President Reagan refused to give it. Instead, he ordered that no military officer be court-martialed or disciplined and told the White House press corps: “If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this office and with this president. And I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good.”
By 1987, during the endless recriminations for the scandal known as “Iran-contra,” Reagan wavered from this path, however. White House aides quietly told reporters that the president was “gratified” when former National Security Adviser John Poindexter admitted that he had concealed from Reagan that profits from Iranian arms sales had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels known as the contras. “The buck stops with me,” Poindexter said.
But no American had ever voted to elect Adm. Poindexter president and his mea culpa was widely panned. Reagan had a convenient habit of not remembering decisions that turned out badly. This excuse was a double-edged sword for a 76-year-old president. It skirted the line of admitting that he was out to lunch, as satirist Art Buchwald pointed out wryly. “The White House has changed its strategy in regards to what the president knew about the contra connection and when he knew it,” Buchwald wrote. “Originally, the president didn’t know anything. He didn’t even know where Nicaragua is.”
The larger scandal, although this point seemed to elude Democrats and the media, wasn’t the contra angle. It was that the administration had sold lethal armaments to the ayatollahs at a time the U.S. was leading an embargo against Iran in hopes of retrieving American hostages. Ultimately, when confronted with the evidence that he approved this ill-fated scheme, Reagan fessed up, albeit reluctantly.
“A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages,” Reagan said in a March 4, 1987, Oval Office address. “My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.”
He is not the first President to blame someone else, despite taking credit for his own failures or success.
“I take responsibility for the decision,” Biden said Tuesday. On Aug. 16, he was equally explicit: “I’m the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.” Except that he has blamed, in turn, faulty intelligence, Afghanistan’s president, the Afghan army and, of course, Donald Trump. Most incongruously, Biden even blamed the Americans left behind in Kabul who couldn’t make it past Taliban checkpoints to the airport. “Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan, with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan,” he said. “All the way back as far as March.”
I am curious as to why you are cutting and pasting a hit piece against Joe Biden.
Brandon Darby https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1434540035978711040 Dammit. One of my horses is refusing her ivermectin because she found out it’s also used on hundreds of millions of humans. She said it’s a “human anti-parasitic.”
So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama. Joe Biden has returned the favor in the wake of the awful Afghanistan pullout. As things started to unravel, the 46th president said it was the 45th who had left the Taliban “in the strongest military position since 2001.”
Biden went on to blame many others (though never himself) while adding a new wrinkle to the presidential avoid-the-blame game. This disaster wasn’t my fault, he said, but didn’t it all turn out great? He was talking about the airlift efforts, and in evaluating himself, this president likes to grade on the curve., The mission, Biden proclaimed, was an “extraordinary success.”
Carl M. Cannon is the Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics. Reach him on Twitter
Can you explain why Biden has failed so miserable with his fool proof plan while Sweden
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! While Lil Schitty thinks sweden is an analog for the US........LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Sweden pretty well failed as did trump who wished 650k americans would get better instead of dying!!!!!! Add the science deniers of the GOP spreading bullshit about vaccines and the social media tidal wave so many trust rather than facts and you have a steamroller of stupid that Lil Scotty is now the bus driver on with his laughable opinions......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Ponder me this Lil Schitty....if anti bodies from having covid were sooooo bjullet proof.....does that explain why YOUR TRUMP got the shot himself after recovering??????
So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama. Joe Biden has returned the favor in the wake of the awful Afghanistan pullout. As things started to unravel, the 46th president said it was the 45th who had left the Taliban “in the strongest military position since 2001.”
Under Trump they never left their provinces on the outskirts of the country. They never moved on the Afghan army until after Trump left.
Now they have 85 billion dollars worth of US Equipment and control of Kabul.
Do you seriously believe that nonsense, Roger? That it was Trump (and not Biden) that provided them with "strongest military position since 2001"?
I would argue that they are in a "slightly" better position today under Biden's international leadership than they were under Trump. But that is just that running a whole country and having 85 billion worth of American equipement thing that pushes me towards that belief.
If you get past the pay wall, it shows like almost every President ignored the militarily or even the diplomats.
We are going to leave far too many of our allies in danger. Unless the Taliban government denies the rule of Sharia law, tens of thousands of women will be denied an education and non consensual marriage.
To go beyond that at this time would require future projections.
Scott the government Trump left behind collapsed and in 11 days.
The Afghan Government was installed by Bush almost two decades ago. Obama oversaw that same Government for eight years, while Trump oversaw it for four years. Neither Obama or Trump created that Government.
During those first three administration the Taliban never moved on the Afghan forces other than on the fringe and they never attempted to move into Kabul during any of those tenures.
It's unreasonable and illogical to blame the third out of the four Presidents who was in charge while Afghan had a Government holding off the Taliban. It literally makes no sense. The only way it makes sense is if you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Then, of course, everything is Trump's fault.
The only one of these Presidents who will leave the Taliban in any distinguishable different position is BIden. THat is simply a fact that will not go away no matter how much you want it to.
While we are averaging well over a thousand a day.
That is just a reality that does not go away because you decide to quote for the umpteenth time some debunked article about how Sweden "failed" in Covid even as they continue to drop in the European statistics for deaths per Capita. They are now in the bottom half of the Europe. And yes, Roger - their Demographics are closer to most of the main European nations as they are with the less densely populated Scandinavian countries that are about the same population size as Minnesota.
A very conservative Republican former Senator disagreed with both of us.
President Joe Biden "made the right decision" to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan and bring an end to America's longest war, but "there's no question that a lot went wrong in the execution of that exit," former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said during a weekend telephone interview.
"We stayed way, way too long," Nebraska's former two-term Republican U.S. senator said.
"We were never going to win that war," Hagel said, not in a tribal country where "the Afghan government was losing and getting weaker while the Taliban was growing stronger.
"Biden could have put 50,000 more U.S. troops in there" and it would not have changed the eventual outcome, Hagel said.
"They are elusive," he said. "There is no surrender."
Withdrawal of U.S. troops will not endanger U.S. security interests, Hagel said.
The per capita was lowered dramatically because they shutdown the economy and followed medical experts. But you for some time you can't do.
Following agency advice, the government has passed legislation limiting freedom of assembly by temporarily banning gatherings of over 50 individuals, banning people from visiting nursing homes, and physically closing secondary schools and universities. Primary schools have remained open, in part to avoid healthcare workers staying home with their children.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home. The karensdag, or initial day without paid sick-leave, has been removed by the government and the length of time one can stay home with pay without a doctor's note has been raised from 7 to 21 days.
You spent a year comparing about economic shutdowns.
The Sweerd's listened to scientists and medical experts.
Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving but unclear why Associated Press KATHY GANNON September 5, 2021, 7:59 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren't able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind to flee.
An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said that the would-be passengers were Afghans, many of whom did not have passports or visas, and thus were unable to leave the country. He said they had left the airport while the situation was sorted out.
The top Republican on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, however, said that the group included Americans and they were sitting on the planes, but the Taliban were not letting them take off, effectively “holding them hostage." He did not say where that information came from. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the accounts.
SOUNDS A LITTLE UNCERTAIN JUST WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.
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The foolproof plan is not as foolproof as we had hoped it would be because Trump's wonderful, warpspeed-produced vaccines are not holding up as well as we had hoped against mutations and variations in the viruns, so let's be sure to blame Biden for that.
virus
HAVE THE REPUBLICANS MADE A BIG, BIG, BIG MISTAKE?
Quote of the Day
September 5, 2021 at 12:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“I think the Supreme Court will swat it away once it comes to them in an appropriate manner. If it’s as terrible as people say it is, it‘ll be destroyed by the Supreme Court.”
— Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), quoted by Politico, on the new Texas abortion ban.
Newsom Seizes on Abortion Rights Before Recall Vote
September 5, 2021 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “is making abortion rights a central theme in his campaign to hold on to his office after a Texas ban on most abortions took effect this week, arguing Californians’ rights could be also be jeopardized if he’s replaced as governor by Republican Larry Elder,” the Sacramento Bee reports.
Abortion Looms Large In Virginia Governor’s Race
September 5, 2021 at 12:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post:
“Texas pushed McAuliffe’s efforts into overdrive… Youngkin grumbled a bit that the issue was suddenly overshadowing all others.”
Did Texas Just Upend the 2022 Midterms?
September 5, 2021 at 12:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Playbook:
“Suddenly, stories that weren’t great political terrain for Biden and Democrats — the fallout from the Afghanistan pullout, the new Delta surge, humdrum new employment numbers, etc. — were replaced by the Texas news, then the Supreme Court non-ruling — a storyline that Democrats know will motivate their liberal base and potentially drive moderate women to the polls.
“And that’s giving Democrats big hopes both in upcoming elections and for 2022. They can use what’s happening in other states — and the judiciary’s non-intervention — to nationalize their campaigns. All of these changes may end up provoking a backlash that motivates turnout for Dems in the midterms.”.
THREAD TOPIC:
HAVE REPUBLICANS MADE ANOTHER BIG, BIG, BIG MISTAKE?
Beshear Calls Special Session on Covid-19 In Kentucky
September 5, 2021 at 11:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) “is calling for a special session of the General Assembly to address the commonwealth’s alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths,” the Louisville Courier Journal reports.
“Beshear’s call comes two weeks after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled a lower court was wrong to block new laws limiting the scope of the governor’s emergency powers, giving the Republicans’ legislative supermajority a substantial say over any new policy measures to address the pandemic.”
Texas Leads In Child Deaths from Covid-19
September 5, 2021 at 11:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Houston Public Media: “Texas schools have amassed more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in students in just a couple of weeks. More than a dozen school districts have closed temporarily as a result of the disease, and Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.”
Patients Overdosing on Horse De-Wormer
September 5, 2021 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 180 Comments
A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups, KFOR reports.
BEARS REPEATING:
Covid-19 Cases Soar Where Schools Have Opened
September 5, 2021 at 7:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Wall Street Journal:
“The recent spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has thrown back-to-school plans into disarray, temporarily driving tens of thousands of students back to virtual learning or pausing instruction altogether.
“The shutdowns are hitting classrooms especially hard in the Deep South, where most schools were among the first to open, a possible warning of what’s to come as the rest of the nation’s students start school this month…
“It is difficult to assess precisely how badly schools have been hit by the virus, partly because of variations in data reporting. But according to an analysis of the available data from state health departments, the number of infections in school-age children has climbed more rapidly in states where students have been back in school for weeks.”
HuffPost:
15 MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOL STAFF DIE OF COVID-19 IN JUST 10 DAYS.
FUCK OFF "pastor"
for those who don't know who the lying POS is
"pastor" James Boswell
Normal, Illinois
also answers to pederast
and a devoted follower of GODdard who he worships
and spreader of horseshit stories from the state FAKE NEWS media
JamesNewLeaf said...
BEARS REPEATING:
Patients Overdosing on Horse De-Wormer
September 5, 2021 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 180 Comments
A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups, KFOR reports.
The lying POS horse manure spreading and constantly spamming "pastor" can't grasp that is a totally debunked story
repeatedly
Yet he keeps the lie going
what a pathological liar and POS "pastor"
Fuck off "pastor"
The lying POS horse manure spreading and constantly spamming "pastor" can't grasp that is a totally debunked story
repeatedly
Yet he keeps the lie going
what a pathological liar and POS "pastor"
Fuck off "pastor"
in case the POS is hard on seeing too !!!
DON'T WEAR MASKS AND DON'T GET VACCINATED SAY MANY TEXAS REPUBLICANS
Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.
FUCK OFF "pastor"
for those who don't know who the lying POS is
"pastor" James Boswell
Normal, Illinois
also answers to pederast
and a devoted follower of GODdard who he worships
In case the POS has memory problems too
ROFLMFAO !!!
F OFF PASTOR is a pretty poor political argument.
DON'T WEAR MASKS AND DON'T GET VACCINATED SAY MANY TEXAS REPUBLICANS
Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.
repeating what CHT already posted today in response to roger
C.H. Truth said...
59 dead children is not a big deal to ch.
Actually it would be a big deal as we only had 400 total deaths of children through 9/1 according to the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge
I guess the real question is whether or not 59 dead is from a recent time period or if that is overall. If we are talking from the beginning, then we are looking at 3-4 deaths a month. Nobody wants to see ANY dead kids, but it happens.
The leading cause of death for kids that age is Automobile injuries. The second leading cause is suicide. I think we have to consider what it important both to the health and the mental health of children and weight that out.
I have no issues with Texas closing their schools if they have had that sort of outbreak. But schools are opening all over the country. We will no doubt see these same outbreaks as the virus spreads out (as it always does). Florida (btw) has been passed up by several states and are not even in the top ten anymore in positive testing and their deaths have slowed considerably.
Now the media will concentrate on Texas (while ignoring all of the states with higher rates per capita) because it is a "red state". You - Roger will follow along.
Because you cannot stand the truth.
Biden had no plan and just expected it to go away on it's own.
try reading and comprehending rather than shouting and lying "pastor"
"also answers to pederast"
And when he is forced to lie like that,
you know he is desperate,
with no valid arguments to field.
Oh and FUCK OFF "pastor" is not a political argument
guess I should have explained
ROFLMFAO !!!
He should try reading and comprehending rather than shouting and lying "pastor" and demented Roger.
Cognitive dissonance has made it impossible for him to comprehend science or medical experts.
Instead he reads Pravda phase two.
JamesNewLeaf said...
"also answers to pederast"
And when he is forced to lie like that,
you know he is desperate,
with no valid arguments to field.
Yet the lying POS "pastor" knows he answers to that
saying anything else is a lie
as he constantly does
as well as divert and post under a stolen moniker
very "christian" of him
Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.
And when F'n has to steal a post from Ch,
a very poorly expressed one at that
(with Ch's usual pirroting and dancing about)
you KNOW F'n is REALLY DESPERATE.
The Real Coldheartedtruth said...
He should try reading and comprehending rather than shouting and lying "pastor" and demented Roger.
Guess the Coldheartedfool had to chime in with his word salad
thanks roger
ROFLMFAO !!!
So no answer "pastor"
thanks for clarifying
but we already knew you wouldn't have a substantive reply
just Goddard spam
Why don't you speak more to the horse medication you and roger keep bringing up ?
Or are you all choked up ?
Oh and "pastor"
"And when F'n has to steal a post from Ch"
is another lie.
I didn't steal from him.
I quoted him with citation
Something you often don't do when you steal
But thanks for proving you have no idea about what you post about
Or what stealing really is.
What a POS
I wish I had good answers for James at 12:28, 12:31, and 12:36.
BUT I DON'T.
And he really SKEWERED me at 12:17.
JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...
I wish I had good answers for James at 12:28, 12:31, and 12:36.
BUT I DON'T.
And he really SKEWERED me at 12:17.
FUCK OFF "pastor"
(that is not a political argument)
or do the little boys call you "pastor" jimmy ?
and get off your high horse medicine
ROFLMFAO !!!
James , please repost your link.you gave me yesterday.
It was very imformative.
Thank you.
It's pretty bad when all I can do is yell F OFF PASTOR and ROFLMFAO.
And I really hated what was said at 12:52.
Ch, jump in here and try to rescue me, PLEASE..
or rather 12:53
Dr. Simone Gold
HEADLINES:
https://mobile.twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1434476643620433926
Israel no longer considers people who have received 2 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech shots as "vaccinated."
As of September 1, only those who received 3 doses are considered “vaccinated”.
Health officials continue to move the goal posts. When will it finally be enough?
And fully vaccinated people now account for 95% of severe hospitalizations in Israel
Guess that is headlines here now ?
Or is FAKE NEWS and big tech covering that up too ?
oh, and fuck off "pastor"
choked on that horse medication ???
ROFLMFAO !!!
As usual you ignored the fact that the government of Sweden enforces laws that you have been calling a Democrats hoax in order to take away your choices.
The Swedish government's approach has received considerable criticism. Some Swedish scientists had called for stricter preventative measures throughout the pandemic,[8] and an independent commission (Coronakommissionen) found that Sweden failed to protect care home residents due to the overall spread of the virus in society.[9] In December 2020 both King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven admitted they felt that Sweden's COVID-19 strategy had been a failure due to the large number of deaths.[10]
Following agency advice, the government has passed legislation limiting freedom of assembly by temporarily banning gatherings of over 50 individuals, banning people from visiting nursing homes, and physically closing secondary schools and universities. Primary schools have remained open, in part to avoid healthcare workers staying home with their children.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home. The karensdag, or initial day without paid sick-leave, has been removed by the government and the length of time one can stay home with pay without a doctor's note has been raised from 7 to 21 days. Socialist philosophy
They actually followed the same path as governor Cuomo when he saw that elderly people were infected and dying unnecessarily, he and almost every other Democratic States imposed.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home.
Health officials continue to move the goal posts. When will it finally be enough?
I really thought my Messiah Trump had given us vaccines that would solve all our problems, and he did it at warp speed, as he loved to remind us -- many, many times.
Why have we kept having to move the goal posts, then?
I'm just so disappointed. It's becoming more and more difficult to regard Trump as God's gift to America.
Taliban preventing departure of 6 planes filled with Americans and allies, says Rep. Mike McCaul
Rep. McCaul said this is 'turning into a hostage situation'
"In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now," Mr. McCaul said. "State has cleared these flights and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport."
"The Taliban wants something in exchange, this is really … turning into a hostage situation where they are not going to allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America," he said.
Fox News is reporting that they have reached out for comment to the White House and the National Security Council.
https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/taliban-preventing-departure-6-planes-filled-americans-and-allies-says-rep
Where's JOE ????
oh that's right he's on vacation with Americans left behind, the southern border overflowing, Covid surging, drug deaths soaring, energy supply crashing, flooding, inflation etc etc
Must have his "Do not disturb" sign up
"Gift" in German means "poison."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
I see the lying POS "pastor" james boswell, normal illinois continues to honor me by using my moniker
very clever, nobody will figure that out
ROFLMFAO !!!
no little boys stayed after service today "pastor"?
Anonymous Impartial observer said...
"Gift" in German means "poison."
guess "pastor" jimmy is a "gift" to little boys
thanks for the clarification "pastor"
Trish Regan
https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1434522070239662092
Dems want a series of new taxes to help “pay” for their $3.5 trillion SOCIAL remake.
We’re already $28 Trillion in the hole.
NO amount of taxation will pull us out now.
As such — The promise of a strong middle class with upward mobility in America is doomed.
China is very happy with Joe
but probably not Hunter's paintings
Nathan Brand
https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1434547223942123527
There is a hostage situation in Afghanistan, and Joe Biden is on vacation.
Infuriating.
press getting ready to ask him about his Labor Day ice cream choice whenever he gets up
not much else going on
Much as I hate to, I have to agree with this:
Republicans don't deserve House majority if they push lies
-says Adam Kinzinger
September 5, 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
U.S. House of Representatives Republican Kinzinger said his party does not deserve to win majorities in congressional elections next year if it pushes lies and conspiracy theories, saying that it "desperately needs to tell the truth."
"If we're going to be in charge and pushing conspiracy, pushing division, and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority," Representative Adam Kinzinger told CNN's "State of the Union".
He also blasted House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's warning to private companies not to cooperate with a House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as "pretty scary."
Many Republican lawmakers have embraced former President Donald Trump's false claims that his November 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread fraud, allegations that have been rejected by multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own administration.
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress was meeting to certify President Joe Biden's victory. Nearly 600 people have been arrested on charges related to the attack, which is being investigated by a select House committee headed by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat.
Republicans, including McCarthy, have played down the violence of that day, with one Republican lawmaker comparing scenes in which rioters attacked police, smashed windows and sent lawmakers running for safety to a normal "tourist visit."
McCarthy, a Trump ally who could become speaker of the House if the Republicans win the majority in elections next year, last week said that if companies comply with the select committee's instructions and turn over private information, they will be violating the law. A Republican majority will "not forget and ... hold them fully accountable," he wrote on Twitter.
History and redistricting favor Republican chances of regaining control of the House and Senate, which Biden's Democrats currently narrowly control.
Kinzinger stopped short of calling McCarthy's comments obstruction, but said the Republican leader should "never go there again."
"That to me is a pretty scary place to go in this world if we start using our power as a way to get the outcome that we want," Kinzinger told CNN.
The House committee probing the attack on Monday told 35 telephone, email and social media companies to preserve records which could be relevant to its investigation.
Kinzinger is one of two Republicans on the investigative panel; the other is its vice chair, Representative Liz Cheney. Both are Trump critics.
On Saturday Thompson and Cheney issued a statement denouncing as "baseless" a comment McCarthy made in an interview last week that suggested the FBI and Senate committees had concluded Trump had no involvement in the attack on the Capitol.
BASELESS = LIES
That last post was by me.
Matt Whitlock
FAKE NEWS TWEET:
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1434531278779555850
Well at least Maya deleted a day later.
Would be quite a look for the sister of the Vice President to use fake news to attack half the country…
Well a day later and roger, the "pastor" and Goddard are still rolling with it
and boy are they still "outraged"
ROFLMFAO !!!
I made a mistake. Note the boldfaced:
The promise of a strong middle class with upward mobility in America is doomed if the Republicans regain power.
I have to admit, James's first posts in this thread are the most unanswerable.
On Saturday Thompson and Cheney issued a statement denouncing as "baseless" a comment McCarthy made in an interview last week that suggested the FBI and Senate committees had concluded Trump had no involvement in the attack on the Capitol
The FBI said they had found little evidence of any coordination. In other words not an organized plot or insurrection. But nice straw man about not concluding that Trump had not been involved in something that wasn't.
btw
Has Joe woke up yet?
hostages in Afghanistan - hundreds
Is it possible for someone to get him up ?
American Thinker wants a new Insurrection act on Washington DC!
Maybe Washington, D.C. Should Be Quarantined
By J.B. Shurk
If you've ever spent time overseas, you more than likely have overheard someone say, "Don't get me wrong, we love Americans, but we hate the American government." Almost to a T, whenever I've heard this conversation in public, the American response is, "Oh, we don't much like our government, either."
So there you go — Americans and foreigners really can agree on something. Even when America is winning, maybe especially when America is winning, American hegemony around the world is not particularly beloved. Sure, when the you-know-what hits the fan and some poor, wretched soul is praying for a miracle, it is more often than not a member of the United States Armed Forces who shows up out of nowhere to prove that miracles can happen. But when the U.S. government preaches about the glories of a "rules-based international order" that everyone knows is set up to benefit Washington, American heroes are always overshadowed by America's hubris. Watching our enemies celebrate and allies fume over Biden's textbook example of how not to withdraw safely from a battlefield, I wonder how many people in the world today would take the time to defend the delicate reputations of the powerful ruling class that controls D.C. Can you imagine a future when you might overhear someone saying, "Don't get me wrong, Americans sure can be a cocky bunch, but boy, do we love the American government"? Me neither.
This has gotten me thinking. Now that Fauci Fascism is spreading in the forms of arbitrary and capricious mask mandates, forced vaccinations, lockdowns, and government control over housing and markets, all in the vain delusion that tyranny can cure illness, maybe the best way to survive the continuing beatings being handed out by the strong arm of the State is simply to quarantine Washington, D.C. from normal, healthy people.
Hey james boswell, the POS liar from Normal Illinois
You do realize that when you post understand that when you post under JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy we can all tell it's really you?
a failed and lying "pastor"
Well you probably can't
that's why you do it
ROFLMFAO !!!
guess that's why you identify yourself so many times here
maybe in the short time you have remaining here on earth you are hoping someone will care.
We don't
The Afghan Fiasco Will Stick to Biden
It hit at his reputational core. He no longer comes across as empathetic, much less serious.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghanistan-withdrawal-fiasco-biden-mcchrystal-gates-holbrooke-obama-military-taliban-11630612285?mod=e2tw
behind a paywall
Chad Gilmartin
VIDEO
https://twitter.com/ChadGilmartinCA/status/1434509337855156225
@WHCOS Ron Klain admits the Biden plan is not working:
Rightwards arrow “We have more unfilled jobs in this America, in this country, than at any time on the record of measuring unfilled jobs.”
And now Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion on a liberal wishlist…
But Joe is sleeping and vacationing
must have survived the flooding in the Northeast
disaster averted
RNC Research
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1434514963821826056
Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain doesn’t know how many Americans are stranded in Afghanistan, how many have gotten out since the military pulled out, or how they’ll be evacuated.
good time for Biden to sleep in
James Melville
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1434420024303886337
For the 8th weekend in a row, enormous protests right across France against the illiberal and unethical vaccine passports.
I'm sure that even though I don't watch them our state media has been all over it.
getting bigger, not smaller
Scott won't read it before he calls me names
For U.S. presidents there is a high bar when it comes to accountability. It was put there by Harry Truman in the form of a frontier aphorism about accepting responsibility. He placed it on his Oval Office desk for all to see. “The buck stops here!” it read, a reminder to Truman and all who came after him that it is unseemly for a commander-in-chief to shirk this duty, or to make excuses when things go wrong.
“The greatest part of the president’s job is to make decisions—big ones and small ones, dozens of them almost every day,” Truman explained in his farewell address. “The papers may circulate around the government for a while, but they finally reach this desk. And then, there's no place else for them to go. The president—whoever he is—has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.”
Yet, it’s also human nature to try and deflect culpability by pointing out others’ shortcomings—so much so that Jesus of Nazareth warned his followers against it. And presidents are all too human, as Americans have been reminded in the last few weeks watching Joe Biden pass the buck for the violent and chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan. He hasn’t reminded anyone of Harry Truman.
“I take responsibility for the decision,” Biden said Tuesday. On Aug. 16, he was equally explicit: “I’m the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.” Except that he has blamed, in turn, faulty intelligence, Afghanistan’s president, the Afghan army and, of course, Donald Trump. Most incongruously, Biden even blamed the Americans left behind in Kabul who couldn’t make it past Taliban checkpoints to the airport. “Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan, with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan,” he said. “All the way back as far as March.”
Hey Reverend...
Can you explain why Biden has failed so miserable with his fool proof plan while Sweden (who did it wrong according to all liberals) have had only one death in the eight days (compared to over 11,000 for the U.S.)
I am just curious, here Reverend?
What is the new Biden plan for getting this under control?
Among those who haven’t appreciated Biden’s buck-passing are the families of the 10 U.S. Marines and three other service members killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport. These Gold Star families are not alone: Biden’s job approval rating has plummeted in the past two weeks. Voters judge presidents by their actions, even when the results are beyond their ability to control. But it also seems that many Americans respect leaders who own up to their mistakes.
Doing so, however, cuts against a modern political ethos in which politicians are relentlessly on the offensive and always blaming the other side. Although this wasn’t always the culture in U.S. politics, the tension between taking the heat and wanting to passing the buck is not new.
In the aftermath of the CIA’s Bay of Pigs debacle, for example, John F. Kennedy sounded resigned to accepting blame. In April 1961, during the 10th press conference of his three-month-old presidency, Kennedy acknowledged as much while answering a question from legendary NBC correspondent Sander Vanocur about why information wasn’t more forthcoming from the administration about the disastrous attempt to invade Cuba.
“There’s an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan,” Kennedy noted ruefully. “Further statements, detailed discussions, are not to conceal responsibility because I'm the responsible officer of the government…”
But almost immediately, Kennedy aides gave background briefings to reporters in which they pointed fingers at Kennedy’s predecessor. And while it was true that the CIA planned this ill-conceived Cuba adventure under Dwight Eisenhower’s tenure in the White House, it was Kennedy who gave the go-ahead. When Stewart Udall, a member of Kennedy’s Cabinet, made the mistake of publicly faulting Eisenhower, Richard Nixon—who’d been Ike’s vice president and JFK’s 1960 opponent—issued a blistering public statement. It was left to White House press secretary Pierre Salinger to clearly say that, yes, the buck stopped with President Kennedy.
JFK was hardly alone. Some of America’s most popular postwar presidents have struggled living up to Harry Truman’s example. Their first instinct is usually best, but they don’t always stick to it.
After the horrific Lebanon barracks bombing in 1983, a suicide attack that killed more than 20 times the number of Marines lost recently at the Kabul airport, a statement was drafted by White House aides that seemed to hold the military commanders accountable. President Reagan refused to give it. Instead, he ordered that no military officer be court-martialed or disciplined and told the White House press corps: “If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this office and with this president. And I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good.”
By 1987, during the endless recriminations for the scandal known as “Iran-contra,” Reagan wavered from this path, however. White House aides quietly told reporters that the president was “gratified” when former National Security Adviser John Poindexter admitted that he had concealed from Reagan that profits from Iranian arms sales had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels known as the contras. “The buck stops with me,” Poindexter said.
But no American had ever voted to elect Adm. Poindexter president and his mea culpa was widely panned. Reagan had a convenient habit of not remembering decisions that turned out badly. This excuse was a double-edged sword for a 76-year-old president. It skirted the line of admitting that he was out to lunch, as satirist Art Buchwald pointed out wryly. “The White House has changed its strategy in regards to what the president knew about the contra connection and when he knew it,” Buchwald wrote. “Originally, the president didn’t know anything. He didn’t even know where Nicaragua is.”
The larger scandal, although this point seemed to elude Democrats and the media, wasn’t the contra angle. It was that the administration had sold lethal armaments to the ayatollahs at a time the U.S. was leading an embargo against Iran in hopes of retrieving American hostages. Ultimately, when confronted with the evidence that he approved this ill-fated scheme, Reagan fessed up, albeit reluctantly.
“A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages,” Reagan said in a March 4, 1987, Oval Office address. “My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.”
He is not the first President to blame someone else, despite taking credit for his own failures or success.
Scott won't read it before he calls me names
I read it just fine. Especially this part:
“I take responsibility for the decision,” Biden said Tuesday. On Aug. 16, he was equally explicit: “I’m the president of the United States, the buck stops with me.” Except that he has blamed, in turn, faulty intelligence, Afghanistan’s president, the Afghan army and, of course, Donald Trump. Most incongruously, Biden even blamed the Americans left behind in Kabul who couldn’t make it past Taliban checkpoints to the airport. “Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan, with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan,” he said. “All the way back as far as March.”
I am curious as to why you are cutting and pasting a hit piece against Joe Biden.
Cernovich
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1434563019380432896
It wasn’t even the poor who got on those planes. It was the Afghan politically connected class + Taliban + some war lord pedophiles.
“The child bridges” got attention because they are girls.
Lots of those Afghan boys are sex slaves.
It was an evil thing the U.S. just did.
Thanks Biden
can someone tell him when he gets up
Brandon Darby
https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1434540035978711040
Dammit. One of my horses is refusing her ivermectin because she found out it’s also used on hundreds of millions of humans. She said it’s a “human anti-parasitic.”
shit, now PETA is going to get involved
So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama. Joe Biden has returned the favor in the wake of the awful Afghanistan pullout. As things started to unravel, the 46th president said it was the 45th who had left the Taliban “in the strongest military position since 2001.”
Biden went on to blame many others (though never himself) while adding a new wrinkle to the presidential avoid-the-blame game. This disaster wasn’t my fault, he said, but didn’t it all turn out great? He was talking about the airlift efforts, and in evaluating himself, this president likes to grade on the curve., The mission, Biden proclaimed, was an “extraordinary success.”
Carl M. Cannon is the Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics. Reach him on Twitter
You can agree or disagree.
Roger Amick said...
You can agree or disagree.
So says the Coldheartedfool
Can you explain why Biden has failed so miserable with his fool proof plan while Sweden
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! While Lil Schitty thinks sweden is an analog for the US........LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Sweden pretty well failed as did trump who wished 650k americans would get better instead of dying!!!!!! Add the science deniers of the GOP spreading bullshit about vaccines and the social media tidal wave so many trust rather than facts and you have a steamroller of stupid that Lil Scotty is now the bus driver on with his laughable opinions......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Ponder me this Lil Schitty....if anti bodies from having covid were sooooo bjullet proof.....does that explain why YOUR TRUMP got the shot himself after recovering??????
So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama. Joe Biden has returned the favor in the wake of the awful Afghanistan pullout. As things started to unravel, the 46th president said it was the 45th who had left the Taliban “in the strongest military position since 2001.”
Under Trump they never left their provinces on the outskirts of the country. They never moved on the Afghan army until after Trump left.
Now they have 85 billion dollars worth of US Equipment and control of Kabul.
Do you seriously believe that nonsense, Roger? That it was Trump (and not Biden) that provided them with "strongest military position since 2001"?
I would argue that they are in a "slightly" better position today under Biden's international leadership than they were under Trump. But that is just that running a whole country and having 85 billion worth of American equipement thing that pushes me towards that belief.
Do you seriously believe that nonsense, Roger? That it was Trump (and not Biden) that provided them with "strongest military position since 2001"?
Hey but we are ahead horse medicine and they are not wearing masks
except the girls
and didn't notice if they had vaccine centers
so some pluses and minuses
of course with all the hostages things could still change
and we are ahead in CRT training
and tolerance
so they are weaker there by our scales
Scott just to put it simply.
I suspect that history will not be friendly to this President.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-biden-administrations-push-to-exit-afghanistan-11630855499?st=d2cwqumf64jj1fg&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
If you get past the pay wall, it shows like almost every President ignored the militarily or even the diplomats.
We are going to leave far too many of our allies in danger. Unless the Taliban government denies the rule of Sharia law, tens of thousands of women will be denied an education and non consensual marriage.
To go beyond that at this time would require future projections.
Scott the government Trump left behind collapsed and in 11 days.
The blame goes both ways.
But you can never blame anyone else but Trump.
I demolished his Sweden fascination.
Scott the government Trump left behind collapsed and in 11 days.
The Afghan Government was installed by Bush almost two decades ago. Obama oversaw that same Government for eight years, while Trump oversaw it for four years. Neither Obama or Trump created that Government.
During those first three administration the Taliban never moved on the Afghan forces other than on the fringe and they never attempted to move into Kabul during any of those tenures.
It's unreasonable and illogical to blame the third out of the four Presidents who was in charge while Afghan had a Government holding off the Taliban. It literally makes no sense. The only way it makes sense is if you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Then, of course, everything is Trump's fault.
The only one of these Presidents who will leave the Taliban in any distinguishable different position is BIden. THat is simply a fact that will not go away no matter how much you want it to.
so they are weaker there by our scales
Fucked up has posted more gibberish and bullshit than the fake farmer and that is amusing!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I demolished his Sweden fascination.
It's just a fact Roger.
One death in eight days.
While we are averaging well over a thousand a day.
That is just a reality that does not go away because you decide to quote for the umpteenth time some debunked article about how Sweden "failed" in Covid even as they continue to drop in the European statistics for deaths per Capita. They are now in the bottom half of the Europe. And yes, Roger - their Demographics are closer to most of the main European nations as they are with the less densely populated Scandinavian countries that are about the same population size as Minnesota.
A very conservative Republican former Senator disagreed with both of us.
President Joe Biden "made the right decision" to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan and bring an end to America's longest war, but "there's no question that a lot went wrong in the execution of that exit," former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said during a weekend telephone interview.
"We stayed way, way too long," Nebraska's former two-term Republican U.S. senator said.
"We were never going to win that war," Hagel said, not in a tribal country where "the Afghan government was losing and getting weaker while the Taliban was growing stronger.
"Biden could have put 50,000 more U.S. troops in there" and it would not have changed the eventual outcome, Hagel said.
"They are elusive," he said. "There is no surrender."
Withdrawal of U.S. troops will not endanger U.S. security interests, Hagel said.
Bs
The per capita was lowered dramatically because they shutdown the economy and followed medical experts. But you for some time you can't do.
Following agency advice, the government has passed legislation limiting freedom of assembly by temporarily banning gatherings of over 50 individuals, banning people from visiting nursing homes, and physically closing secondary schools and universities. Primary schools have remained open, in part to avoid healthcare workers staying home with their children.
The Public Health Agency issued recommendations to: if possible, work from home; avoid unnecessary travel within the country; engage in social distancing; and for people above 70 to stay at home, as much as possible. Those with even minimal symptoms that could be caused by COVID-19 are recommended to stay home. The karensdag, or initial day without paid sick-leave, has been removed by the government and the length of time one can stay home with pay without a doctor's note has been raised from 7 to 21 days.
You spent a year comparing about economic shutdowns.
The Sweerd's listened to scientists and medical experts.
American Female Pregnant woman trapped (left behind) in Afghanistan by President Biden.
Taliban stop planes of evacuees from leaving but unclear why
Associated Press
KATHY GANNON
September 5, 2021, 7:59 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren't able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind to flee.
An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said that the would-be passengers were Afghans, many of whom did not have passports or visas, and thus were unable to leave the country. He said they had left the airport while the situation was sorted out.
The top Republican on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, however, said that the group included Americans and they were sitting on the planes, but the Taliban were not letting them take off, effectively “holding them hostage." He did not say where that information came from. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the accounts.
SOUNDS A LITTLE UNCERTAIN JUST WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.
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