It's more worse than we were lead to believe!





Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the Biden administration was to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the United States in its 20-year war against the Taliban.

Why it matters: Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan's capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation.

Outsiders were frustrated and suspicious the administration was having plenty of meetings but was stuck in bureaucratic inertia and lacked urgency until the last minute.While the word "immediately" peppers the document, it's clear officials were still scrambling to finalize their plans — on the afternoon of Aug. 14.For example, they'd just decided they needed to notify local Afghan staff "to begin to register their interest in relocation to the United States," the document says.And they were still determining which countries could serve as transit points for evacuees.

The big picture: President Biden was determined to end the country's involvement in its longest war, and last April he announced his plans to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021.

President Trump had previously cut a deal for a U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.

Biden's approval ratings still haven't recovered from the chaotic scenes of those final moments, with Afghans falling to their death from military transports and a suicide blast that killed 13 U.S. service members and scores of Afghans outside the gates of Hamid Karzai airport.The Atlantic reported this week that thousands of vulnerable Afghans remain stuck in bureaucratic hell, terrified the Taliban they fought for years will hunt them down.Later this month, Congress will name members to a bipartisan, 12-person commission that will study the war and issue a report similar to the 9/11 Commission.

The details: Axios obtained the NSC's "summary of conclusions" for a meeting of the so-called Deputies Small Group.

It assembles top aides to various Cabinet members, and usually lays the groundwork for Deputies' or Principals' sessions, or works out practical details for executing decisions already made by their bosses.

The document regarded "Relocations out of Afghanistan," and the meeting was held from 3:30-4:30pm on the afternoon of Aug. 14, Washington time.At that moment, Taliban fighters were descending upon Kabul.The meeting was chaired by National Security Council official Liz Sherwood-Randall and included senior officials across multiple agencies, including Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Between the lines: The meeting notes highlight how many crucial actions the Biden administration was deciding at the last minute — just hours before Kabul would fall and former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would flee his palace in a helicopter.

Action items decided in meeting included:

"State will work to identify as many countries as possible to serve as transit points. Transit points need to be able to accommodate U.S. citizens, Afghan nationals, third country nationals, and other evacuees. (Action: State, immediately)""Embassy Kabul will notify LES [locally employed staff] to begin to register their interest in relocation to the United States and begin to prepare immediately for departure... (Action: Embassy Kabul, immediately)"

What they're saying: "While we're not going to comment on leaked internal documents, cherry-picked notes from one meeting do not reflect the months of work that were already underway," NSC spokesperson Emily Horne told Axios.

"Earlier that summer, we launched Operation Allies Refuge and had worked with Congress to pass legislation that gave us greater flexibility to quickly relocate Afghan partners," Horne said."It was because of this type of planning and other efforts that we were able to facilitate the evacuation of more than 120,000 Americans, legal permanent residents, vulnerable Afghans and other partners."

Behind the scenes: By the time the Saturday afternoon meeting happened, senior Biden officials across the government had been meeting around the clock to deal with the high-speed unraveling of Afghanistan.

The administration had taken some measures that would help them ultimately evacuate more than 120,000 people out of Kabul airport by Aug. 31 — the president's revised withdrawal deadline.Amid chaos and death, the effort to remove both U.S. citizens and cooperative Afghan nationals was executed in partnership with allies and many desperate improvised efforts from the private sector and veterans groups.Troops were pre-positioned in the region so they could get quickly to Kabul airport to run the evacuation. The administration had accelerated the Special Immigrant Visa [SIV] approvals. And Biden officials had explored with other countries the possibilities of them serving as transit points for evacuees — which ultimately led to a network that hosted tens of thousands of Afghans waiting for processing.Nonetheless, many of the key decisions hadn't been made on the eve of Kabul's fall.

The president himself — and his intelligence community — overestimated the ability of the Afghan military to defend their territory against the Taliban.

And complicating the situation further, Ghani had personally pleaded with Biden not to do mass evacuations of Afghans earlier in the year.He feared it would signal a loss of faith in his government.

The bottom line: Many outside advisers were sounding the alarm as the Taliban swept through provincial capitals heading into August.

"I kept being told by people in the [White House] the thing they were most concerned about was the optics of a chaotic evacuation," said Matt Zeller, a former CIA officer who contacted administration officials in February 2021 about protecting Afghans who worked with the Americans. "They treated us like we were Chicken Little. They didn’t believe the sky was falling.""On the 13th of July, we offered to work with them to help evacuate our partners," Zeller added. "We all saw this disaster coming before the inevitable occurred. They didn’t get back to us until Aug 15, the day Kabul fell."

Mark Jacobson, deputy NATO representative in Afghanistan during the Obama administration, told Axios: "That so much planning, prioritizing and addressing of key questions had not been completed, even as Kabul was about to fall, underscores the absence of adequate interagency planning."

"This is especially surprising given the depth of experience on Afghanistan and contingency operations at that table."

https://www.axios.com/leaked-document-reveals-bidens-afghan-failures-c27d790c-3a50-4734-8543-7db710898bb2.html 

"Never underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up"... something someone said.

Yeah...people were warned.

Some just have to stick a fork into a wall outlet because...well, they're not going to believe you.

Why'd the singer have a bucket?
So she could carry a tune

Want to hear a song?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/biden-afghanistan-exit-american-allies-abandoned/621307/ 

The Atlantic.

Yeah...just like a righteous strike?




A major special forces raid believed part of a mission to kill or capture terrorists happened overnight in al-Qaeda held Idlib province of northwest Syria. Eyewitnesses observed helicopter gunships and jets active in the area of the village of Atmeh near the Turkish border for over two hours, including gunfire on the ground, in what's being called the biggest such raid since the 2019 killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Despite Pentagon spokesman John Kirby hailing the mission as "successful" in an early Thursday statement, citing "no US casualties" - already international reports are saying multiple civilians were killed in what's already looking like a botched raid.

"U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. First responders at the scene reported 13 people were killed, including six children and four women," The Associated Press reports.

"Residents said helicopters flew overhead and U.S. forces clashed with gunmen for more than two hours around a two-story house surrounded by olive trees," AP detailes. "They described continuous gunfire and explosions that jolted the sleepy village of Atmeh near the Turkish border, an area dotted with camps for internally displaced people from Syria’s civil war."

Initially there was speculation that it could be connected with last month's large-scale ISIS prison break from a Kurdish SDF guarded facility in northeast Hasakeh province. It led to over 120 US-backed SDF members killed after two weeks of running battles in the area of the prison, with possibly a few hundred ISIS terrorists having escaped.

As soon as last night's Idlib operation commenced, it involved overwhelming American firepower, but with reports of resistance from militants on the ground. "A journalist on assignment for The Associated Press and several residents said they saw body parts scattered near the site of the raid, a house in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province," AP continues.

Further, some sources suggest that US commandos were after Baghdadi's successor:

An Iraqi intelligence official in contact with the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday’s target was a high-ranking militant leader whose identity will be released by the White House later in the day. Information suggests he may be al-Baghdadi’s successor, the current IS leader known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the official added. He spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge sensitive information.

A subsequent White House statement early Thursday confirmed the target was the head of ISIS, namly the aforementioned Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi:

Biden's statement says the Islamic State commander has been "taken off the battlefield" - presumably killed. But that many civilians were slaughtered in the process will be a major area of scrutiny as the administration attempts to cast this as a "successful mission".

It proves further embarrassing for Turkey, given it directly backs the main Islamist factions in Idlib, which has become a terror safe-haven. It must also be recalled that the CIA and allied intelligence services actually helped Islamic fighters - included al-Qaeda in Syria - capture Idlib from Syrian government forces in the first place in 2015.

Video began emerging in the overnight hours confirming that a major US operation was underway, reportedly involving elite Delta Force commandos...

Local journalists and monitors who reportedly visited the location of the raid observed the following: "The top floor of the house was almost totally destroyed in Thursday’s raid, with the ceiling and walls knocked out." Some photographs of the aftermath have been published to Al Jazeera.

"Blood could be seen on the walls and floor of the remaining structure, which contained a wrecked bedroom with a child’s wooden crib on the floor," the AP report notes. "On one damaged wall, a blue plastic children’s swing was still hanging. The kitchen was blackened with fire damage."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-commandos-take-out-top-isis-leader-daring-raid-syrias-idlib 



More civilian blood on King Bidas' hands. Ya know, there's a war crime in there somewhere...is it going to be Russia or China that point that out to the UN?

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Well... just blocking DMV made the rest of the thread easier to read (the stuff that's actually worth reading).

I think I'll just keep him blocked out of convenience. I think he's got me blocked anyway.

What's da matter Ben? You don't like reading about your incompetent president?

It's not that Ray... it's if I'm participating on a forum, I would rather read original thoughts. It wouldn't be so bad if it was once in a while, but it's incessant.

It's about how much of my time do I want to put into reading long azz articles that aren't in my news feed (filled with sciency nerdy sh*t, and maybe a small percentage of politics).

Ben, I think Ray simply is incapable of original thoughts, critical thinking. It really isn't his fault. He is like an organ grinders monkey. The monkey does what it is repetitively shown to do. He can only do so much with the genetics he was born with.

Pro tip: if the wife asks what you'd like to do with her body, "Identify it" is the wrong answer

Anyone remember when we had a President that could rapid fire with no notes or assistance handle pressers and reporters questions? Would stay on the podium and talk until it got to the point that they only wanted "Gotcha" moments that weren't a productive use of time and energy?

Pepperidge Farm remembers...





An embarrassing clip of President Joe Biden is making the rounds on social media after he lapsed into a series of nonsensical broken phrases on camera.

Not that that’s new, or anything…

Sigh.

This time around, Biden appears to have been trying to wrap up his remarks at Ironworkers Local 5 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, when he went off on the random tangent.

“I don’t want to get going because I’d keep you here too long because you know all what I’m about to, what I’ve said, and you know what I’ve done, and you know what we’re doing, and I know what you’re doing,” he said.

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Um…what?

As you can imagine, Twitter was terribly inspired:

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Another day, another disturbing Biden gaffe raises questions about his cognitive function.

Of course, the frequency with which these things keep happening is just as concerning as the incidents themselves.

Is anyone ever going to do anything about it?

As long as President Biden has been in office, and even dating back to the campaign, questions have arisen as to just how mentally fit the elderly president is.

In the early days of the Democratic primary, Biden forgot where he was on more than one occasion, and when his team sequestered him in his basement amid the pandemic, his haphazard cable news appearances were often marred by angry outbursts as it was suspected he was using teleprompters for interviews.

Since assuming office — the oldest man ever to do so — he put off giving solo news conferences for so long that he set a new record. When he finally made the plunge, he appeared agitated, confused and was armed with notes and handy placards to help him navigate reporters’ questions.

Nonetheless, although questions about former President Donald Trump’s cognitive health were raised so frequently due to his mean tweets that he underwent a cognitive test while in office to prove he wasn’t bonkers (which he was very pleased to tell us he passed with “flying colors”), such a test was conspicuously absent from President Biden’s first full physical since taking office.

This only gets more conspicuous as time goes on and as incidents of his incoherent ramblings keep occurring.

After he awkwardly began yelling during a speech in late January, conservative commentator Candace Owens called out First Lady Jill Biden and the Democratic establishment as a whole for what appears to be a very irresponsible choice to allow this man to serve in office:

https://tinyurl.com/8cusw4vs

Over the summer, psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed said that one gets the feeling Biden is “just hanging on,” something which can be a “feature of dementia.”

As a report by The Western Journal has detailed, Biden’s consistencies with a Mayo Clinic list of possible symptoms of dementia points to the very urgent need for the president to get checked out.

Biden is surrounded by a team that, rumor has it, goes to great lengths to shield him from invasive press questions. They have been seen on more than one occasion ushering the slow-moving POTUS away from reporters even when he appears game to field questions.

Yet, since he’s forced to give public comments as president, it seems to be getting harder and harder to hide his failing verbal skills — and very possibly failing cognitive health, as well.

One certainly can’t diagnose the president without an exam by a medical professional, of course, but this is precisely why it’s growing more urgent by the day that the American people deserve, at the very least, to know he is being appropriately examined.

But do we have that?

Hardly.

So until we see those tests, there’s no doubt that questions about his cognitive health will continue to be raised.

https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-biden-exhibits-symptom-dementia-speaks-complete-gibberish-11-seconds/ 


Hail to the...yeah...whatever this mish mash nonsensical meat puppet is. Salute!

And yet - we all know that Joe Biden is the only one that can fix the terrible, terrible problems with this once great country.
Everyone says.
He is going to fight like hell, or we won't have a county anymore.
He alone can make the Jewish Space Lasers work for us...

Is this one of Kameltoes ideas?



$30 million program will provide 'smoking kits' to vulnerable communities

The Biden administration is set to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance "racial equity."

The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for "smoking kits/supplies." A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and "any illicit substance."

HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores. Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of "underserved communities," including African Americans and "LGBTQ+ persons," as established under President Joe Biden's executive order on "advancing racial equity."

Democratic-run cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have distributed smoking kits to residents. Some local governments, however, have in recent years backed away from their smoking kit programs over concerns they enable drug abuse. Louisville, Ky., for example, allowed convenience stores to sell smoking kits but later banned them. Legislators in Maryland ditched their distribution plan after facing backlash from local law enforcement and African-American leaders.

Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police, said government resources are better spent on preventing drug abuse rather than making it safer.

"If we look at more of a preventive campaign as opposed to an enabling campaign, I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances," Boatwright told the Free Beacon.

Other "harm reduction" equipment that qualifies for funding include syringes, vaccinations, disease screenings, condoms, and fentanyl strips. The grant program will last three years and includes 25 awards of up to $400,000.

An HHS spokesman declined to specify what is included in the smoking kits. Similar distribution efforts provide mouthpieces to prevent glass cuts, rubber bands to prevent burns, and filters to minimize the risk of disease.

It is against federal law to distribute or sell drug paraphernalia unless authorized by the government.

President Biden's son Hunter is a longtime user of crack cocaine.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/ 

^ Considering the sinking approval ratings, in their desperation they'll do anything to try to buy votes including giving away drug paraphernalia to and prioritizing the "underserved communities," including African Americans and "LGBTQ+ persons"

Still a big fat nothing for the Rez.🐴

I intend to live forever or die trying.
- Groucho Marx

should that be live forever or die trying?

Should be. Oopsie

All better now