All_Pro_Bills

Can you put your endless holier than thou virtue signalling routine on hold for a few minutes to enjoy a little attempt satire?

You and you're buddies just need to disguise yourselves as COVID-positive Central American transsexual rights activists and US Customs will wave you right through.

All I'm saying is if you agree with that idiot you might want to re-evaluate your standards for evaluating and grading success and competence. Because from where I sit the entire execution (maybe a bad choice of a word here) of this exit strategy/retreat looks like a complete and total disaster of Biblical proportions. It takes an exceptionally high level of incompetence and stupidity to fail this bad. And anyone believing and suggesting this is some kind of success needs to get the loose screws in their head tightened down a couple turns. If Letterman was still on late night TV doing his top 10's this one would positively make the "top ten screw-ups of all time list".

What happens when the Dems run out of excuses to not show ID?

Kate's an idiot. Or if she believes her own bull crap maybe she can get her ass over there and walk some citizens through those Taliban checkpoints? Do you follow every moron and imbecile on Facebook?

Absolutely, something obvious to anyone capable of critical thinking and original thought the day after the election last November. Mental skills that have been banned from the public domain and social media. As unless some 24 year old Silicon Valley "credentialed idiot" censor/fact checker working under the guidance of Dorsey and Zuckerberg on social media approves of your words and thoughts they cannot be considered to be "information".

Oh, absolutely not the end. There must be something here. There evil one must be destroyed and his followers punished. Like Belushi in Animal House. The TDS zealots will say "its not over until we say its over!" Taliban = the American Left.

"Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases," said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. "Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages." FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said. Insurrection narrative... Rest In Peace.

The image of people hanging on to departing aircraft and falling to their deaths isn't good optics for one. And if I was stuck there I'd be worried as those savages have no incentive to play nice here as Biden's lack of foresight has left the US in a very weak position.

Yup. The question wasn't "do you support the decision to leave thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies behind to be slaughtered by the Taliban?"

So far the suspect is a "white male shouting anti-government slogans". The provided by a student on her way to a race in politics class near the Library of Congress. So its only a matter of time before all the dots are connected to... you know who inciting violence!

Lordy, lordy. We're still on the first page and you're already changing the topic..

Hey maybe the driver left his drivers license and suicide note or some extremist manifesto statement on the front seat too? And a 8x11 glossy picture of Trump with a heart circle in red ink around it too.

My immediate reaction was isn't this convenient. Something to take the focus off Afghanistan. Right on queue. A false flag event. A deep state specialty. And of course its a "Trump" supporter. Now all the media and talk can move off the topic of how Biden screwed the pooch on the withdrawal while stranding thousands of Americans leaving them in immediate danger.

I disagree. Experts at assessing, managing, understanding, and mitigating risks should be in charge of coordinating and defining responses and proposing them to public officials. All risks. Not just the risk posed by the virus. Social risks, economic risks, other risks, benefits, and consequences. What expertise do pandemic experts have on issues of the economy, business, and commerce? None. Yet all their pronouncement impact those thing significantly. Sure public health officials should have a voice but not the deciding voice on every issue. But we're supposed to forever and obediently go along with them decreeing we all stay in our homes, get shots every 6 months, cover our faces, and stop all social interactions when they issue some edict? And then be subjected to government oppression, coercion, and threats if we don't comply? And yet with all this the virus still spreads and mutates? Meanwhile, these pandemic and health experts you cite at the FDA for example, sit for months and months on all kinds of treatments and medications that have been submitted to them for approval. So there's your medical experts at work with a business as usual approach. Somebody with a risk mitigation approach would push these overly cautious and slow acting officials aside and approve these things based on the likely outcome of death in people being deprived of these treatments. The hard ugly truth is nobody gets out of life alive. Some people are going to die. Maybe me and you. Who knows? But most people will live. If the goal is a zero casualty policy response that's a fantasy. The human race will survive and life will go on.

Like all other viruses, the potential for severe illness and death depends on your personal risk profile including the presence or absence of specific co-morbidities and health issues. Even in younger people. So the 10x number might be misleading and COVID death rates are skewed towards the elderly on the age curve. Every person needs to make a sensible assessment for themselves and the members of their families with the assistance of their physician. But for COVID-19, the use of medical knowledge and facts applied by professionals like doctors and researchers has been suspended while scientific debate and discovery has been suppressed and discouraged. And replaced by credentialed idiots and politicians making mostly arbitrary and subjective decisions enforced by threats of violence and penalties. While not providing a lot of information or insights into the policy and then changing it at their whim again without any explanation. Not exactly a policy aligned with the concept of positive reinforcement. And not seeming to take into account the impact of these policies on any other aspect of life. A policy best described as "shut up and do what we say or else". I'm not opposed to vaccination or mandates or some form of rational public health policies. When they make clear medical sense and in the context of accounting for other factors, benefits, and consequences. But what I am opposed to is all the petty dictators that are popping up in Mayors and Governors issuing edicts and proclamations through self-provided authority. Rather than executive or administrative edicts this requires some open and rational debate among members of city councils and State legislatures (and the national level if needed) hearing all views and listening to medical experts from all perspectives rather than all these mini-Hitlers threatening anyone that doesn't toe their line.

You're the last person left on the planet that thinks blaming Trump is an effective strategy for deflecting blame and excusing the gross incompetence of the current administration. Preaching to yourself at this point. It appears even the left leaning board posters have abandoned you on this. Some advice. Give it up already..

Saigon 2.0 or Saigon "on steroids" to plagiarize the President's perspective on another topic. Worse than the humiliating optics of Revolutionary Guard "students" marching US Embassy personal through the streets of Tehran.

Billsy continues to obsess about Trump. Probably for the rest of time. I can hear future generations of Billsy's speaking about how "200 million years ago Trump said mean things about people while White Supremacists pillaged and plundered the country once called the USA".

Also might want to scrutinize the authors of this 20 year policy and strategy inside the US government. And look no further than the Neo-Liberal and Neo-Con players inside the State Department, the intelligence agencies, the DOD, and the Pentagon advocating and prosecuting all kinds of wars, nation building, and regime change operations. Like the war in Afghanistan. All failures. These elected but mostly appointed and career bureaucrats inside the government cross the political divide. They can be Democrats as easily as Republicans. Liberals or Conservatives. Their love for war and belief in imposing their ideals on the rest of the world provides a common bond between them. And they need to be held accountable and eliminated. But will they? Doubtful.

And 90% of the worldwide supply of Poppy Opium (Heroin) that was mysteriously allowed to be grown under the watchful eye of US occupation forces..

My assessment: I'd say the comparison starts and ends with their wardrobe choices. Not the best looks. Some major disparities are in their choice of weapons. M16's and AK47's vs. Bull Horns and Flags. Very dangerous those flags! Perhaps DHS should issue a terror threat level 5 warning for anybody with a flag pole outside their home? And somebody should tell that out-of-shape slob Michael Moore to lose some weight because if he really thinks these guys are coming after him he's going to be the first lefty they chase down and throw into the flame pit if he doesn't get into decent fighting shape quickly. The ironic thing and also very comical is these big-talker leftists like Moore and all the other Hollywood fakers and posers kissing each others asses while virtue signalling to each other will be hiding behind the people they spit on and despise if the shooting ever started against some real terrorist threats like the Taliban. Truth..

CCP's propaganda machine already at work. "Afghan abandonment a lesson for Taiwan’s DPP: Global Times editorial". https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231636.shtml

Maybe. But going forward when some US diplomat says "trust us" to a foreign leader being asked to stick their neck out and take on some risks what will they be thinking? As the Empire's power and wealth is fundamentally based on a complex web of protection rackets, demonstrating incompetence in holding up our end of the bargain is going to have some consequences.

Years ago I took over a terrible project from another manager. After assessing the complete disaster I was persuaded by my manager and the project's business sponsor to push through with the original plan rather than pursue some other courses of action I proposed to them would give us a better chance of success. But they talked me out of it while making it clear that switching approaches at this point would be bad optics. So we proceeded as planned and ultimately the project failed miserably and was cancelled. I took "full responsibility" for the failure but when it came time to cut staff in the organization I still got fired. So Biden taking responsibility is not really important in my eyes because the results are what matters and the results of his decision to go ahead with this plan no matter the source of the plan is a failure of Biblical proportions. Also, from my perspective he threw a lot of others under the bus on his way to "full responsibility". My suspicion is he lasts maybe a couple more months as his incompetence on full display for the entire world has likely angered the Gods of the establishment/deep state. So watch for signs of VP Harris warming up in the Bull Pen.