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Biden's Presidency, all hail the Taliban!

Started by Ratman_tf, August 16, 2021, 04:44:19 PM

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Pat

Quote from: Mistwell on August 31, 2021, 08:11:42 PM
As for Irish she's what, 1/8th Irish and nobody identifies her that way nor does she identify herself that way?
One drop rule, remember. Her blood is tainted with whiskey and potatoes!

Trond

Quote from: SHARK on August 31, 2021, 08:06:06 PM

Greetings!

Yep! You are exactly right, Trond! All of these corrupt media companies have amply demonstrated how they are total Liberal Marxist propaganda machines, utterly untrustworthy, and utterly bankrupt of any morals or any kind of professional or journalistic legitimacy.

That's why nowadays I chalk them up to lying bastards entirely, and discard anything they say, or anything some Libtard quotes from them. It is mind boggling how disgusting they are. They lie, they fabricate, they deceive every day, in virtually every program, every video, every story they produce. It's so clown world that some pseudo-educated smug Liberals try to condescending insist such "News sources" are in any way legitimate, reputable, or professional. Anyone that is truly educated or even observant knows they have become disgusting, worthless rags. Pathetic programing that cannot be trusted for much of anything.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Speaking of Marxist propaganda, check out the latest Project Veritas videos exposing the Communist school teacher who is literally trying to turn kids into "revolutionaries".

Pat

A number of news sources, mostly conservative of course, are reporting that a group of US veterans, including Green Berets and SEALs, flew to Kabul and conducted a number of sorties to rescue the Afghanis they'd worked with. Including family members, they rescued several hundred over the course of a week (reports vary, but all are 500 or more). They called their mission the Pineapple Express, because they were telling their contacts to say the word pineapple, or a show a pineapple on their phones, to be allowed in the gates. Which sounds like a better plan than giving the Taliban a list of all their names.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/

Shasarak

Quote from: Pat on August 31, 2021, 11:03:48 PM
A number of news sources, mostly conservative of course, are reporting that a group of US veterans, including Green Berets and SEALs, flew to Kabul and conducted a number of sorties to rescue the Afghanis they'd worked with. Including family members, they rescued several hundred over the course of a week (reports vary, but all are 500 or more). They called their mission the Pineapple Express, because they were telling their contacts to say the word pineapple, or a show a pineapple on their phones, to be allowed in the gates. Which sounds like a better plan than giving the Taliban a list of all their names.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/

I would have just stuck with shibboleth.
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

HappyDaze

Quote from: Pat on August 31, 2021, 11:03:48 PM
A number of news sources, mostly conservative of course, are reporting that a group of US veterans, including Green Berets and SEALs, flew to Kabul and conducted a number of sorties to rescue the Afghanis they'd worked with. Including family members, they rescued several hundred over the course of a week (reports vary, but all are 500 or more). They called their mission the Pineapple Express, because they were telling their contacts to say the word pineapple, or a show a pineapple on their phones, to be allowed in the gates. Which sounds like a better plan than giving the Taliban a list of all their names.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/
I'll watch the film adaptation when it comes out.

oggsmash

Quote from: HappyDaze on September 01, 2021, 05:04:44 AM
Quote from: Pat on August 31, 2021, 11:03:48 PM
A number of news sources, mostly conservative of course, are reporting that a group of US veterans, including Green Berets and SEALs, flew to Kabul and conducted a number of sorties to rescue the Afghanis they'd worked with. Including family members, they rescued several hundred over the course of a week (reports vary, but all are 500 or more). They called their mission the Pineapple Express, because they were telling their contacts to say the word pineapple, or a show a pineapple on their phones, to be allowed in the gates. Which sounds like a better plan than giving the Taliban a list of all their names.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/
I'll watch the film adaptation when it comes out.

  I suspect you can find Tim Kennedy somewhere online talking and showing as many pictures as he can of him being involved, or wanting to be involved.

Ghostmaker



No, it's not a photoshop.  https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1432509849141657601

I just... why? Why would you post something this... vapid, this stupid? Why? Who is running things?


oggsmash

Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 01, 2021, 11:49:11 AM


No, it's not a photoshop.  https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1432509849141657601

I just... why? Why would you post something this... vapid, this stupid? Why? Who is running things?

  Well, it sure looks like the Taliban.

Trond

Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 01, 2021, 11:49:11 AM


No, it's not a photoshop.  https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1432509849141657601

I just... why? Why would you post something this... vapid, this stupid? Why? Who is running things?

He sounds, almost literally, as if he was born yesterday. It's as if someone asked a moderately intelligent 10-year old to write the assignment "what do you hope for Afghanistan in the future?".

Pat

Yesterday, Reuters published a leaked transcript of July 23rd call between Biden and the then-President of Afghanistan, in which Biden told Ghani they needed to change the perception that the fight against the Taliban wasn't going well, "whether it was true or not".

That directly contradicts Biden's statements today, and earlier, that he and his team were caught flat footed.

https://www.reuters.com/world/excerpts-call-between-joe-biden-ashraf-ghani-july-23-2021-08-31/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9945031/Biden-told-Afghan-President-needed-change-perception-Talibans-rapid-advance.html

Pat

Latest Rasmussen Report is out (9/1). Biden's down another 2 points. 42/56 approve/disapprove. His disapproval rating is 1 point higher than his highest approval rating during his presidency (55%). It's also notable that the number of people who strongly disapprove is 47%, 5 points higher than the total of all the people who approve, strongly or not.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/biden_approval_index_history

Prairie Dragon

Quote from: Pat on August 31, 2021, 11:03:48 PM
A number of news sources, mostly conservative of course, are reporting that a group of US veterans, including Green Berets and SEALs, flew to Kabul and conducted a number of sorties to rescue the Afghanis they'd worked with. Including family members, they rescued several hundred over the course of a week (reports vary, but all are 500 or more). They called their mission the Pineapple Express, because they were telling their contacts to say the word pineapple, or a show a pineapple on their phones, to be allowed in the gates. Which sounds like a better plan than giving the Taliban a list of all their names.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/us-vets-volunteer-to-secretly-rescue-allies-in-afghanistan/

Actually, The CIA et al have helped a lot of folks get out of the country.  The last of The CIA et al left weeks/months before The Taliban 'took' Kabul. 

jeff37923

Quote from: Ghostmaker on September 01, 2021, 11:49:11 AM


No, it's not a photoshop.  https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1432509849141657601

I just... why? Why would you post something this... vapid, this stupid? Why? Who is running things?

Oh, that is tragically laughable.
"Meh."

Reckall

Meanwhile the first Taliban land in the USA ::):

For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Ratman_tf

Quote from: Reckall on September 02, 2021, 05:15:25 PM
Meanwhile the first Taliban land in the USA ::):



How is this about Biden's presidency? Start a new thread if you want to yak about abortion. I might even participate.
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