Biden gives press conference on the issue most pressing the world; COVID boosters and masks
Biden once again was pulled from his basement to speak to the media today. Fox News reports on it thusly;
As the world is watching the panicked withdrawal of Americans from the Taliban-controlled country, Biden focused his remarks on promoting the booster shot for COVID vaccines and mask mandates for children at schools while scolding Republican governors who oppose his agenda.
However, the president shocked the nation as he walked away from reporters after he concluded his speech.
You read that right. Refused to answer any questions. Back into hiding. He’s the presidential equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil.
Even a CNN political director, David Chalian remarked on Twitter;
President Biden seems to be getting better at leaving the room without taking reporters’ questions at precisely the moment he has many many questions to answer.
Fox News does point to an interview Biden did with former Clinton White House Press Secretary and left wing ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.
Biden did, however, take questions about Afghanistan during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who asked the president if the withdrawal could have been “handled better in any way.”
“No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens,” Biden responded.
Here’s a tattoo for Biden to get while he’s hiding from the world.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Afghanistan, Biden, COVID-19
That interview with Stepaplopahdop is a fking train wreck. When pressed about people falling off our nation’s aircraft, “That was 4 or 5 days ago” Xiden snapped back.
There’s a major disturbance in the force, my friends.
I am 100% in the ‘Fk these a-holes’ camp, but the amount of infighting happening amongst these clowns is worrisome. If they seriously start to fracture not-a-one of them has the intelligence and humility to not go scorched earth.
When titans fight, humans flee.
(Have a plan)
They didn’t “fall off the aircraft” ok? That was US forces training the Afghan military in airborne operations. They just got a little excited about their first jump in jump school and forgot their parachutes. Mistakes were made but when you show “great progress” like the last 22 commanders in theater there will be some growing pains.
prezzy sniffy’s handlers are laughing their asses off and saying, “…this is working out better than we had ever hoped it would.”
Still gotta wonder how much Dominion made off of the “election”?
“No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens,”
I believe the last line 100%.. I truly believe he doesn’t know how that happens.. or much of anything else for that matter…
He sure did fuck up the draw-down in Afghanistan… but I don’t see an issue in the guy giving a press conference on COVID.
Over a thousand largely preventable deaths of Americans in a single day, and over 600K in total, surely deserves some focus by POTUS, no? One catastrophe doesn’t stop because another unfolds, sadly.
“Over a thousand largely preventable deaths of Americans in a single day” from CoV-AIDS? AbsoFKINGlutely not happening.
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/
“7-day average: 615”. I’m no math guy, but 615 supposed ConVid deaths is less than 1,000.
Someone check my work.
They really need to stop the bullshit about this non-pandemic, it was old a year ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reports-more-than-1000-covid-deaths-single-day-2021-08-18/
A seven day average will, naturally, be lower than a current high if we’re on an upward curve. If you were a math guy, you’d understand that.
And yes, Reuters has a different number than your site, and different from the CDC for that matter. But Johns Hopkins and Reuters both show just over 1K:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/united-states
And with all that said… on a day when an average of 615 Americans are dying daily still warrants some action by POTUS.
Uh, and it’s still going on? You’re commenting on an article lambasting Biden for not talking about Afghanistan. Wasn’t that ‘old’ like 15 years ago, or, maybe, are we still dealing with pressing issues there?
What’s the average age? How fucked up are these people?
How many untested not-a-vaccines had they received?
There are many more Americans dying from the consequences of government intervention than this ‘cold’.
Give it a rest.
I’m tired of hearing it. You’re in a cult. Seek help.
And this: A seven day average will, naturally, be lower than a current high if we’re on an upward curve.
It’s a seasonal curve, which ended 2 weeks ago. The rate of change is negative. The seasonal curve happened last year too. And oddly enough, the year before that. It is common for seasonal colds to surge in early summer.
If this was a ‘pandemic’ the numbers would be rising, over all, not locally. It doesn’t meet that criteria. Lets pretend it did, it fails on point number two: the CFR is not evenly distributed among age demographics.
Failed that too.
This is a cold. A bad one. Its time to move on, maybe prevent 20-somethings ODing by given them something to live for? maybe? compassion guy, try it.
Man… you mask loving covid whores are unbearable.
I … didn’t even mention masks? But hey, rant on, snowflake. You do you.
LC, covid isn’t even important enough to hit the local morning news panic attack button any more. There’s a “get your shot” ad before the news comes up, and that’s about it.
The newsies are more interested in sucking up to WDC liberal politicians who don’t give a flying frak in space about US citizens until voting season rolls around.
I guess I don’t see addressing this as ‘panic’ – people around here are asking about boosters, and maybe I’m paying more attention than most, as a friend just lost her mother to it, sadly.
I just think if we had 1K Americans needlessly die in a single day from anything – a flood, a wildfire, a plane crash, gang shootings, a terrorist act, and yes, even a bad cold for those who wish to characterize COVID that way – it would be expected to have POTUS, regardless of who held the office, address it.
That doesn’t excuse him from the shitshow in Afghanistan, it’s just yet another thing he’s got to deal with. I want to live in a country where a President can, shockingly, do more than one thing at a time. Call me crazy.
We lose, on average, 1,800 people a day in this country to heart disease, 1,600 a day to cancer (which Biden has promised to cure by the way), and nearly 500 a day to accidents.
The problem is that Biden can’t even seem to do one thing at a time.
Drug ODs:
2019: 70, 630 or 194/day
2020: 90,000+ or 247/day
Every. Single. One. “Preventable”. But that cold tho
“More than 90,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, a record high according to provisional estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overdose deaths increased by almost 30% since the beginning of the pandemic and rose over 50% in some states.”
https://usafacts.org/articles/drug-overdose-deaths-hit-a-record-high-in-2020/
Hey, I’d love the government to be better at handling addiction. And my personal cause is suicide prevention, having lost a number of friends to it.
I actually argued that point to someone telling how Black Lives Matter is the most important issue right now, and I pointed out the huge gap is deaths of young black men from police vs. the number of suicides we deal with, and they didn’t like that.
And one key difference between suicide or drug overdoses and COVID is that the former at not communicable in the realistic sense of the word. Yes, suicides happen in clusters. But it isn’t that you pass by some stranger in a store who later commits suicide, and your chances go up.
We all have different things we would address. I know plenty of people who want COVID addressed, because much as you sneer and call it a cold, lots of people have lost loved ones to that ‘cold’. Seems pretty reasonable for POTUS to tackle it.
Good on ya standing up to those BLM monsters. Just a heads up, they’re quite allergic to facts. Be carful around those babies.
We now have therapeutics and a limited-use preventative against this infection. At this point your concern in suicides and the thing I keep harping on, drug over doses, seemingly are on an uptick due to this incoherent and unnecessary response to an illness that only really harming people that are out of the workforce. I’m not trying to be heartless, just pragmatic, if someone is ‘at risk’ they can get shots and/or stay home. It is unreasonable to expect the rest of us to behave this is an issue.
To that point, tens of thousands of people are at risk of violent deaths in Afghanistan and now all stops are being pull to protect the machine from the well-deserved black eye.
THAT is the problem.
The difference is this is still new and easily preventable in a majority of cases. We’re desensitized to accidents and health issues like heart disease and cancer. But we also spend a lot on addressing them, and the vast majority of people don’t argue against rules of the road, for example. I mean, have you ever encountered people who say, “The government forcing me to stop at stop signs is tyranny!” or, “I don’t care if it’s a one-way road; the government can’t take my freedom to drive where I want!”. In other words, the government has already succeeded at bringing those deaths down to a ‘reasonable’ level.
And yes, feel free to argue ‘reasonable’ – I don’t know what it means either. But we’re doing better than we were in the past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
LC:
If Hiden Biden is So Gun Ho and OBSESSED with vaccines and masks, then why doesnt he get the FDA to approve the Vaccines?
I wouldn’t characterize it as ‘obsessed’, but that’s neither here nor there – simply put, that’s not how things work?
The FDA likely will soon. They’re reviewing things. They have a process. It’d kind of be like a President ordering the FBI to approve a background check on someone. Can they? Maybe (although it’s more likely they’d simply work around it), but it’s not really how things operate. There’s a process to follow.
So…
When Hiden Biden was VP, did he ever address illegal drug abuse? You know, his Son who had or has a drug abuse issue?
What about Obesity in the US? I don’t hear him addressing that.
But come to think about it, drug abuse and obesity is a personal decision, just as abortion is a personal decision.
We all know why he chose to address Covid Booster shots. It’s called DEFLECTION.
But this time, it did not work.
Hiden Biden is sending the messsage (contradictory) that he really does not care about the health and welfare of US Citizens, here in the USA and Afghanistan.
All he cares about is himself. Typical Narcisstic Personality Disorder. It’s all about HIM…and we all KNOW IT.
BTW, Sorry to hear about your friend’s mother’s passing, LC.
The Puppet-in-Chief is just running cover for a ‘medical intervention’ disguised as a vaccine whose effectiveness decays at about .14% per day.
Its a billon dollar industry tactic to strong arm and manipulate people into taking this poison, even if there is a statistical zero chance of them dying from CONvAIDS-1984.
Roh-Dog…
Yup!
BTW, my comment above was meant for LC.
Question for LC: LC, out of curiousity, did you ever serve in the US Military…and if so, were you ever FORCED to get the Anthrax shots (Yes, FORCED, i.e. BEFORE 9-11).
Nope, not military. Gotten plenty of ‘required’ shots due to being overseas in a variety of places, but none quite like the Anthrax shot.
Thank You, LC.
Can only speak from personal experience, but I am one of many Soldiers who was FORCED to take the Anthrax BEFORE 9-11, i.e. a Guinea Pig
And had to continue AFTER 9-11 because of numerous deployments.
I obeyed Military Orders…against my will, but, I chose to serve, so I sucked it up.
And now, over 20 years later, I am ohyscally paying the price for taking the anthrex.
It’s all recorded. I am in the Database…
And I’m truly very sorry to hear that. I’m inclined to think this is a bit different, though. And we could argue the details of how, but how about a different analogy instead.
But let me better understand your position? Are you against the government injecting something in you because it’s not been approved? Or in general? (I’d understand either way!). And how do you feel we need to balance personal freedom vs societal needs?
For example, nobody argues (any more – fairly recent in Texas, if I recall) that we should allow people to drive drunk, right? Because even if someone should have the ‘freedom’ to do so, their rights bump up against the rights of others due to the danger.
With infectious diseases, it’s similar, no? If I had an aerosolized form of Ebola, for example, surely I shouldn’t be parading around your workplace, right? At what point do we say the risks of a contagious virus require some intrusion in personal freedoms?
And much as I encourage people to get the shot and wear masks, I’m not even convinced that’s the case now. I argue for those things not because I think the danger to society is so great, but because the risk is low and the effect is high. But I don’t think the government should line people up and forcibly jab their arm.
At the end of the day, I think we all find ourselves on a spectrum. If I could walk into your kids school with a 99.99% lethal, highly contagious virus, surely you’d suggest that’s not good. If it’s 0.000000001% lethal, that’s so low as to mean we’re not likely to have anyone in the world die, so that’s OK. It’s the big, big space between that’s interesting, in my opinion.
Understood, Ninja. Just providing backup, unsolicited as I’m want to do.
Sorry?
Just fed right the fk up about all this noise.
Roh-Dog…Yep…I truly believe alot of us are fed up…and we still have 3 more years to go…that is, IF our Country is not overtaken by another Country…
As I said above, we all have different things we want addressed. I can’t say why Biden hasn’t addressed drug abuse. I wish he would. I’ve got addicts in my family, and I’d love to see better resources to prevent others from falling into that. But at the same time, I do think there’s a difference in that I can’t sit near someone at a bus stop and four days later come away with a case of drug addiction simply because they were an addict. That’s why COVID matters a lot to a lot of people, and even that doesn’t obligate him to comment on it.
… But it sure does seem reasonable, when over 600K Americans are dead from it. Surely you can see that, no? The argument isn’t, “Why didn’t he address this other thing I care about?!”, it’s, “Was it right for him to talk about COVID booster shots, given the rising cases especially in places like Florida?”
You seem to think that’s some sort of deflection, but it just seems like routine action. It hasn’t derailed the conversation of the clusterfuck that is Afghanistan. It literally just gave people some information they were asking about. Maybe not in your community, but definitely in mine.
So, no, I don’t think all Biden cares about is himself. I don’t think he’s a shining example of excellence, or a great POTUS, or even all that bright. But I fail to see how addressing a growing concern about Americans is not the job of the American President.
LC:
If Biden cared so much about COVID Vax and the “importance” of the Booster, then why didnt he stay AFTER his CANNED address and take Questions????
We all know why.
DEFLECTION.
Guess we’ll just have to disagree on this. Not because I think Biden is awesome, but if that’s ‘deflection’, it’s super ineffective.
It’d be like looking at someone wearing a wool hat in Chicago in the winter, and concluding they’re wearing it for ballistic protection, vs to keep warm. It doesn’t offer damn near any ballistic protection, but it obviously helps keep someone warm.
In Biden’s case, he simply didn’t want to deal with shit he either can’t answer or doesn’t have a good answer on. COVID needed addressing, so he did, and just ducked all the other shit. Not deflection, avoidance. Feel free to call it cowardly, even.
LC, C’mon, man…
You’re being deliberately obtuse.
You know damned well that no one is objecting purely to Biden’s addressing the Covid issue, but rather that he totally (and dishonestly) ignored the Afghanistan problem when it was the issue foremost in most American (and Allied) minds. Even the media present had that same reaction.
I don’t understand, when you are non-military, why you so like to come to this military site and be deliberately provocative to numerous regulars here, many of whom have honorably dedicated the best years of their lives in service to this country.
It smacks of juvenile behavior.
“no one is objecting purely to Biden’s addressing the Covid issue”, um, I could make that argument. Since the emergency EO of the last guy thru to a time that the disease was endemic, you could argue the Fed had some right to make a response. Since the time this virus became endemic the states should be setting and implementing policy. If guidance and coordination between states is needed, thats what the non-profit, semi-gov agencies are for, CDC, NIH, etc.
(I can also argue that those agencies are explicitly unconstitutional…but not now. beer.)
I .. actually don’t know that. My assumption, and sure, maybe it’s wrong, was that people were literally objecting to Biden addressing COVID. Look at some of the shit here about how it’s fake, vaccines don’t work, etc. I think it’s a reasonable take given this crowd.
And as I said, Biden most assuredly fucked up Afghanistan, and is absolutely trying to avoid the tough questions. I don’t love the guy. I just disagree that the COVID stuff isn’t important, or is a deflection of some kind.
And I really don’t think I’m ‘deliberately provocative’, outside a few rare comments like the one to OldManchu earlier. I’ve worked with plenty of people in the military. I’ve got family and friends serving right now. Just because I’m not military doesn’t mean I don’t have a connection to it.
LC, you may very well have a remote connection. But until you’ve been there and done that, there is an ineffable, but very real distinction, that neither you nor I can accurately define.
Look at it the way we do: until you’ve worn the uniform and served, you simply don’t get it. It’s an inexplicable change in your relationship to the rest of society that remains with you to the very end of your life.
If you haven’t been there then you don’t have a clue as to what I’m saying, but I can promise you, all the veterans here do…
I admit I’m a little confused – is your issue that I’m on this site, while not being military? If that’s to be a rule for commenting here, I have no problem with that. Though I’ll point out that Jonn knew enough about me and had no problem with my presence, and moreover, we’ve got plenty of others who aren’t veterans (to my knowledge) but also comment, like Only Army Mom. Does that apply to them too?
As for my comments, I don’t think I’ve ever tried to suggest I know anything about combat. My comments tend to be on other areas this site touches upon. If ‘first-hand knowledge’ of something is required to contribute here, do you hold yourself to that standard? People who aren’t agents are commenting about the FBI. People who aren’t climate scientists comment about climate change. People who aren’t immunobiologists are commenting on the vaccines.
We don’t have to like each other, Poe, but I do tend to be civil in my disagreements with others here, and a large part of why I come back is to learn. And I often do. But sometimes discussions touch on things that maybe I know a little bit about, and I feel it’s important to engage in those conversations from time to time.
It’s as if we have Krusty the Klown and sideshow Bob as our Prez/VP. How in the hell have we fallen this far?
Check out the White House’s own Baghdad Bob here.
Even uses the phrase “Mission was accomplished”.
Bireme didn’t want to start a war but he was ‘smatt enuf’ to preposition Troops to deploy…and not start a war? Just to put the ‘not-a-surge’ into perspective, the Troop levels were 2,500 before and they want to go up to 7-8,000. That might sound a little ‘invasion-y’ to the Taliban.
“We didn’t think the regime would fall in 11 days…”, boy did we fk up! -GEN Milley and his totally-not-a-backdoor man, Austin.
No confidence, what-so-ever.
There’s a rumor in the dark nether regions of da interwebz that Milley is resigning and wishes he hadn’t back the steal. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
Milley and Austin can go suck the Barbed Cock of Satan for what they didn’t do… and holding back our forces when they should be going out and getting Americans and Afghan allies out – While the Brits and French are going out on patrols to get their people out.
I’d much prefer the ol’ Little Nicky method: both of them having a pineapple crammed up their ass every day for eternity.
https://youtu.be/42oucm_lj50
I love how the dems create these new jobs when they get in office. WTF is a “Principal Deputy” National Security Advisor and since when was one needed? Reminds me of the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of State I believe that was around in Obamas latter years as prez. What a complete waste of money to employ these unqualified morons who know nothing of National Defense or intelligence
When you work for the Washington Post for a decade writing articles critical of Repubs and complimentary to dems they will be happy to give you a job where you can openly suck up since you are so good at it already.
What is with the background music and the shift from camera to camera? This is a moment of real gravity, you don’t need the production effects.
It really highlights how he looks like he didn’t wash the shampoo out of his hair though. Clearly didn’t get any make-up before going on camera either. Dude looks corpse-like.
To postulate that Biden had but two choices of action in Afghanistan is patently dishonest. In an issue as complex as our continuing presence, there are myriad courses of action that may be negotiated.
Lyin’ Biden indeed…
What happened to freedom?
Want the vaccine? Get it.
Don’t want it? Don’t get it.
I got vaxxed and I mask up every time I leave my house. That’s what I want to do. I chose that path. However, I will defend your right to be unvaxxed and unmasked. That’s your right to decide.
This is the Liberal way, and is the path for the most good, for the most people, all the time.
I appreciate you.
Well, it sure as hell isn’t the Progressive way. Politicians that were traditional “Liberal” D-rats are not running the show anymore.
With all due respect (and then some), they ain’t even Progressives, not in any traditional way. They are full-on Authoritarians with a very specialized hybrid base of week-willed servants animated to do their bidding for the ‘greater good’, regardless of outcome.
The pawns are marching ‘cross the board. Steel yourselves.
That which isn’t compulsory is forbidden.. and vice versa apparently..
Dumbkirk
Priceless….
If you REALLY want to leave a foreign land where you spent 20-some years trying to civilize the locals, you DO NOT ANNOUNCE IT.
You just pack up and go back home.
It’s kind of like a bad relationship/marriage: just pack the wagon, hitch up the horses, get the dog up there, and go.
If I be in Moscow or Bagdad, I would wonder who has their hands on the Nuke buttons and might worry a bit….that’s Moscow, Idaho and Bagdad, Arizona….
There is no moderate Islam and there is no radical Islam, there is just Islam with death to all infidels or slaves to Islam.
May God be with ALL the troops as no one else appears to be!
Common sense strategy to leaving a 20 year warzone:
1. Get US Citizens/NEO’s out.
2. Get weapons/equipment out. Disable/Destroy assets to be left in place in order to render inert.
3. Case the colors, remove servicemembers.
No muss, no fuss…..no people falling off fucking airplanes.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”-Barack Obama, 2020.
Even then, we didn’t expect him to fuck things up THIS much.
Whatever happened to the time honored tactic of spiking the cannons to prevent the enemy using them? Guess the generals were too busy with their DEI studies to remember it.
Very surprising Biden’s puppet masters let Stephanopoulos have an interview. Stephanopoulos supports Hillary Clinton, and Hillary is a frenemy of Biden.
She probably loves him by now for making Americans consider the possibility that even a Hillary presidency wouldn’t have been this bad…
Yesterday, Ole Joe said this happened 4-5 days ago:
UPDATE With Pictures:
“Pictured: Afghan Football Player, 19, Who Died Trying To Cling To Landing Gear Of US Evacuation Flight In Desperate Attempt To Escape The Taliban”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9908157/Afghan-football-player-19-died-trying-cling-landing-gear-evacuation-flight.html
“A former Afghan national youth team footballer died when he became trapped in the landing gear of a US evacuation flight in a desperate attempt to flee the Taliban, it emerged today.”
“The remains of Zaki Anwari, 19, were discovered in the wheel well of a US C-17 transport jet when it arrived in Qatar after taking off from Kabul with despairing Afghans clinging to the fuselage on Monday.”
“Anwari’s death was confirmed by the General Directorate of Physical Education & Sports of Afghanistan, Arian News reported on Thursday.”
Woke up this morning and checked to see if anything had changed.
General Milley still has his job.
Secretary of Defense Austin still has his job.
Joe Biden still has his job.
Not only did they turn Afghanistan over to some of the most sick, evil, demented monsters on the face of the earth, they also turned over thousands (if not millions) of US made weapons over to these same sickos.
Let any E1-E3 lose a single weapon, and he’s Court Martialed or NJP’ed out of the service. These clowns end up arming the Taliban and the most they have to face is a softball ABC interview by a former Clinton Administration staffer.
Pelosi, after praising Biden (“that I commend the President”) was asked about the assloads of military gear left behind.
“[T]his is what happens when you withdraw. Some stuff, some equipment is left there. It was thought that that would be used – it was hoped that it would be used by the Afghan military to defend its own country. The fact that it did not and could not was all more the reason for us to leave.”
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/81721-1
There you have it. This just happens when you leave and that the gear is going to be used against us is proof that leaving was the right choice? Mental gymnastics at the Olympic level.
Wow… I never thought I’d have as much outright CONTEMPT for Biden/Harris as I presently have with PM Trudeau/DPM Freeland. My Grandfather used to say “there’s a special place in hell..”.
As for Biden dodging reporters questions – redefines the very references of HEARTLESS and GUTLESS.
What a spineless POS, I dread to see what’s next from Senile Joe.
Put that man in charge.
Sgt. William Olas Bee:
“We pay the Joint Chiefs $16,000 a month; we pay a PFC $1,600 a month, and I guarantee you, if I ask a PFC, hey put your crayons down, if you let me know a good way to get everybody out of Afghanistan. And he could have came up with a better program,” he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/afghanistan-withdrawal-stupid-plan-that-armed-taliban-with-us-weapons
“Where’s Kamala? ‘Last Person In Room’ Harris Silent 6 Days Amid Afghan Pullout Chaos”
https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/kamala-harris-keeps-low-profile-after-afghanistan-chaos/
“While President Biden and key members of his national security team have borne the brunt of criticism and outrage over the swift fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban — and the scenes of chaos and carnage as Americans and Afghans attempt to get out of the country — Vice President Kamala Harris has kept a conspicuously low profile.”
“Harris has not been seen in public since Thursday, when she cut short a meeting with CEOs to discuss the Biden administration’s child care proposals to attend an intelligence briefing as the Taliban began their final offensive.”
“Since then, she has only appeared in still photos put out by the White House. Her only public statements have been on Twitter. She was not by Biden’s side, as she has been on other occasions, when he attempted to defend his decision to withdraw all US combat forces from Afghanistan in a White House address Monday.”
“Harris is scheduled to end her public silence Thursday with an address to the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists. The following day, she is scheduled to depart Washington for Singapore and Vietnam, her second overseas sojourn after a rocky trip to Mexico and Guatemala back in June.”
Kamala Harris is playing her fiddle while Rome burns.
Old “heels up Harris” is quite experienced at disappearing after a sudden pull out…
I think I’ll blow my head off if I hear one more time that there were “Only two options. Send more troops in or stay longer. If we had stayed past May 1st we would have had to send more troops in and thus casualties.” There were far more than two options since Biden chose to do something different from Trump, just for the sake of being different and not giving Trump any credit for this.
What bullshit. The Trump idea was to tactically and strategically and be out BY May 1St. Not after. I feel sure had Trump been in office, we would not have closed Bagram and it would have been the center for evacuation. I believe as others said above, we would have gotten NGOs and Aghan civilians out first, then our equipment leaving nothing of use, and then our troops. All from a defendable position in Bagram, not Kabul.
Meanwhile… “THE TALIBAN HAVE seized U.S. military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces, current and former military officials have told The Intercept.
The devices, known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, were seized last week during the Taliban’s offensive, according to a Joint Special Operations Command official and three former U.S. military personnel, all of whom worried that sensitive data they contain could be used by the Taliban. HIIDE devices contain identifying biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, as well as biographical information, and are used to access large centralized databases. It’s unclear how much of the U.S. military’s biometric database on the Afghan population has been compromised.”
It’s ok. They’re all sheltering in place. They’ll be safe.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated…