B-Man Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 You can say that this is “only” symbolic, that we haven’t really been humiliated by a bunch of primitive terrorists. But symbols can be powerful, and this one is especially galling because it capitalizes on the fact that the Biden administration couldn’t even be bothered to bring our war-fighting materiel with us–not just uniforms, but airplanes, helicopters, guns, ammunition, night-vision goggles, and so on–when we bugged out of Afghanistan. To the victor goes the spoils, but the spoils didn’t have to include millions or billions of dollars in military equipment. Then we have the inflation in military honors. Increasingly, it seems that the fewer battles military commanders have won, the more medals adorn their chests. A friend sent this graphic, contrasting the medals worn by Dwight Eisenhower, victor of the Second World War and organizer of the Normandy invasion, still the greatest logistical feat in world history, with those that adorn David Pretaeus, architect of our Afghanistan strategy: To be fair, if you do an image search you can find a photo or two of Eisenhower wearing a few more medals, although still nothing remotely like the modern standard, as exemplified not only by David Petraeus, who I think had considerable merit, but also by Mark Milley, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who was in charge of the Afghanistan fiasco. Milley, in my view, should resign forthwith: Has Milley ever been a successful commander? Ever won a battle? I don’t know, but I will say with confidence that he is no Dwight Eisenhower, and certainly no Ulysses Grant. Inflation of military honors is symbolic and some may consider it unimportant, but I think it is part of the general deterioration of standards that we see everywhere in our country. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/just-because-its-symbolic-doesnt-mean-it-isnt-important.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blitz Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Wow More and more people figuring out China runs the show: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Xiden is really doing the job of president – that’s down from 47% in March. A majority of voter (51%) now say others are making decisions for Biden behind the scenes. Another 10% are not sure. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/who_s_in_charge_most_voters_don_t_think_it_s_biden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blitz Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Woo boy NBC? So it's like 35%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 That's because you over-sample Dems, NBC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Biden Administration Sent Out Thousands of ‘Bogus’ Visas to Americans in Afghanistan. David Fox, who runs a marketing company in Kabul, said he received an email from the U.S. Embassy’s consular services department that included the document, meant to help U.S. citizens and Afghan citizens eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to leave the country. Fox noted that the document looks like a U.S. visa, except it had no name, serial number, or barcode on it. Clearly, the Biden administration didn’t consider the most obvious result of such a foolish move. “And what do you think happened when these people received a document like this that has no name? Of course, they printed out a thousand copies,” Fox said. “You have tens of thousands of Afghans who now have this kind of ridiculous, bogus document that the State Department created.” https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/08/21/biden-administration-sent-out-thousands-of-bogus-visas-to-americans-in-afghanistan-n1471562 Heads should roll, but won’t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 "You get a Visa, you get a Visa, you..." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven Posted August 23, 2021 Author Share Posted August 23, 2021 guilty as charged 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njbuff Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 50 minutes ago, Unforgiven said: guilty as charged Rachel should tell that lying b!tch to go f herself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Unforgiven said: guilty as charged That Jill addressed it is very telling... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Westside Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 37 minutes ago, B-Man said: A bunch of white Democratic elitists who think POC are to stupid to take care of themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doc Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Nothing like having a President the whole world can respect... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 WHY NOT? HE ALREADY TOOK A KNEE FOR THE TALIBAN: Biden Takes a Knee During Photo-Op With WNBA Champions. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/08/24/biden-takes-a-knee-during-photo-op-with-wnba-champions-n1472184 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 He also took a knee to the balls... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 What a hollow speech by a hollow man, whose handlers thought it a good idea to have him throw in a biblical verse in order to cement Old Joe’s faith and probity, as if he ever had either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Hiding behind his tears — Sorry Biden’s decisions led to Kabul carnage by Michael Goodwin The deep grief on President Biden’s face as his eyes swelled with tears was painful to watch. But his personal suffering cannot exonerate him from the responsibility for what happened in Kabul. Nor can his obscenely shameful effort to shift the blame to former President Donald Trump and even his own military commanders be taken seriously. Biden says the buck stops with him, but he doesn’t really mean it. When the enemy strikes with deadly results, it’s somebody else’s fault. That’s not leadership and it certainly isn’t presidential. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 7 minutes ago, B-Man said: Hiding behind his tears — Sorry Biden’s decisions led to Kabul carnage by Michael Goodwin The deep grief on President Biden’s face as his eyes swelled with tears was painful to watch. But his personal suffering cannot exonerate him from the responsibility for what happened in Kabul. Nor can his obscenely shameful effort to shift the blame to former President Donald Trump and even his own military commanders be taken seriously. Biden says the buck stops with him, but he doesn’t really mean it. When the enemy strikes with deadly results, it’s somebody else’s fault. That’s not leadership and it certainly isn’t presidential. He teared up? Good lord. We’ve lost our balls folks. I’m starting to think, though a bit hysterical, that @oldmanfan is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanfan Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 1 minute ago, Chef Jim said: He teared up? Good lord. We’ve lost our balls folks. I’m starting to think, though a bit hysterical, that @oldmanfan is right. I said in another thread today we have not seen a run of weak Presidents like we've had this century since before the Civil War. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/kabul-bombing-white-house-blame/619901/ I THINK THE EXCUSES ARE BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE: “Biden is a stubborn guy,” one former Obama-administration foreign-policy official told me, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk more freely. “Sometimes he does not want to hear what he knows he doesn’t like … If the problem here was mostly not hearing what he didn’t want to hear and telling everyone to shut up and go away when they told him things he didn’t want to hear, that’s not the intelligence community’s fault.” Sorry, won’t fly. Nobody resigned in protest. Nobody even leaked that Biden was ignoring advice. And the “Intelligence Community” didn’t predict the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. Can’t pin it all on the dotard in the White House — who the “Intelligence Community” worked hard, and illicitly, to put there anyway. You guys own this disaster, all the way down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 It's all on Joey. He can blame anyone he wants but he's POTUS and it all falls on him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 NO QUESTIONS !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GETTOTHE50 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 13 hours ago, B-Man said: NO QUESTIONS !! Cmon man! That was 3, 4 days ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven Posted August 29, 2021 Author Share Posted August 29, 2021 ***** isn't even funny anymore. 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven Posted August 29, 2021 Author Share Posted August 29, 2021 Biden presidency reminds me of an old Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force". Gene Rodenberry saw the future. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Game, set, MATCH’: Here is the KEY f**k-up in Afghanistan by the Biden administration Someone said no. Now, since the buck stops with Joe we should be able to assume he was the one who said no BUT we also suspect Joe isn’t deciding much of anything these days so there’s that as well. https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/08/29/game-set-match-here-is-the-key-fk-up-in-afghanistan-by-the-biden-administration-oops-guess-it-wasnt-trumps-fault/ 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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leh-nerd skin-erd Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 5 hours ago, B-Man said: Biden traffiks in his son’s death, it’s an absolute disgrace. I recall him talking about how the Obamas offered to help with expenses after his son died. The guy was the AG of Delaware at one point, a well-to-do man and son of wealthy parents. If Obama had to lend him money they were a bunch of morons across the board. Then, he dropped the obligatory reference to his loss when the suicide bomber struck, no doubt knowing his comments would not be challenged. This, however is beyond the pale. His son was 46 years old, he developed and aggressive and deadly cancer, received the finest care in the world and died in the care and comfort of his family, most likely medicated to take away the pain. Tragic for the family, tragic for Biden, but not even close to what occurred here. The Marines were all very young, and were killed when a vest was detonated in an effort to cause maximum pain, suffering and ultimately death. That it occurred in part due to the chaos created by Biden himself, in the middle of a hell hole thousands of miles from home, in a losing mission makes it all the worse. I can’t imagine having to listen to this dim witted and demented ####### as he compared pain in their moment of heartache is outrageous. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Joe Biden today: "I'm here with, uh, my senior advisor, a boy who knows Louisiana very well, and new Orleans, Cedric Richmond." Cedric Richmond 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irv Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 God bless our brave Marines. May Biden and his clowns burn in hell for what they did. What a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 8 hours ago, B-Man said: Joe Biden today: "I'm here with, uh, my senior advisor, a boy who knows Louisiana very well, and new Orleans, Cedric Richmond." Cedric Richmond or as governor might say - Joe is nearly perfect in his anti racism tone 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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