Joe Biden Says Afghanistan Had an Air Force. He Didn't Mention That He Helped Paralyze It.

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Joe Biden took some time out of his vacation to address the nation about his mess in Afghanistan. He blamed everyone but himself. It’s true that if the Afghans don’t want to fight for their country, why should we. Yet, the overall fiasco is Biden’s fault. Blaming Trump won’t work. Not even the liberal media is going to push that or accept it. It’s too ridiculous. Presidents can and have renegotiated past policies hashed out by a previous administration. The withdrawal could have been orderly. It could have been organized. Instead, we have people falling from US Air Force planes as they hang on in a desperate attempt to flee the country. The Taliban have taken over. They’re going door-to-door looking for those who worked with the US. The summary executions are merely on hold. Now, the US Embassy staff is evacuating. We’re gone. It’s over. And the utter failure to leave properly has left us with:...Read more and see tweet and video here.

Army Veteran, Biden Supporter Eviscerates President For Lying to American People in Afghanistan Speech

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet 

 

Army veteran Matt Zeller didn’t mince words Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” when asked to respond to President Biden’s Afghanistan speech, which co-host Nicole Wallace claimed, “95 percent of the American people will agree with everything [Biden] just said.”

Co-host Brian Williams, meanwhile, praised the president for his “consequential speech.”

“Didn’t run from it, he owned it, he owned his decision, he owned the fact that as he put it, the buck stops with him,” Williams said.

As Spencer reported, Biden did utter the words, "the buck stops with me," but most of the speech blamed everyone else for Afghanistan's rapid fall to the Taliban. 

"I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled,” Zeller shot back. “There was such a profound bald-faced lie in that speech. The idea we planned for every contingency? I have been...Read more and see tweet and video here.

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Important News x Two

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

“It is disappointing that some weak RINOs completely caved to Nancy Pelosi and Democrats who want to push irresponsible socialist legislation that jeopardizes the future of all Americans.” - Former Missouri Governor and now Senate candidate Eric Greitens

Last Tuesday while the 24/7 news cycle was focused on Andrew Cuomo's sexual conundrum and his then announced resignation, Joe Biden secured a policy win of sorts, but it's policy win that as usual comes with a very high price tag...a price tag “We the People” will now shoulder for generations to come...a price tag we simply cannot afford what with rising inflation and consumer prices soaring to their highest level in 13-years. And it's a price tag that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will add a whopping $256 billion to the deficit over 10 years.

But none of that seems to matter what with the Senate passing Biden's $1.2 trillion eight-year infrastructure package in a 69 to 30 vote...a vote where we bore witness to 19 Republican senators* selling out to Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democrats in a claimed show of bi-partisanship. And the only positive derived from this disaster of a vote is that hopefully now we will see those 19 RINO senators voted out of office when they come up for reelection.

Sorry Lindsay Graham but that includes you and Mitch McConnell too.

And why is this vote so grievous when bipartisanship is something we should actually strive for...because this supposed infrastructure package has more “pork” in it than anything else. In fact, “pork” might not be the correct word for this package as it's nothing but politically generated “wokeism” come to life. And while many media pundits think the bill, which Biden and crew claim will help to ignite economic growth and create jobs is a shoe-in to pass in the House, that might not be the case.

And why not...first because the far left wing of the Democrat party have tied the passage of this bill to the passage of their proposed $3.5 trillion anti-poverty/climate change efforts, neither of which have anything to do with infrastructure repairs or upgrades. And second, because the Jobs Act part of this bill, while it might sound good on the surface, is actually quite racist in nature because the jobs, projects, and contracts spoken of are being created and given out based not upon merit but upon race. In other words, neighborhoods in which jobs are targeted to be created are not only in neighborhoods where “people of color” are in the majority, but when a contractor or a subcontractor bids on a specific project the bill states that minority-owned businesses...which includes businesses owned by women...will get selected first, even if a white owned business is more suited for said project.

Simply, what we're seeing here is just more race-based “pork” dressed in whatever is its current vernacular guise, and that probably will not sit too well with voters come the mid-term elections. And with all House members being up for reelection in 2022, the more moderate Democrat House members rightfully see this bill as being a possible albatross around their necks. And why...because they know that if passed this extremely high ticket bill could be the political death knell for Democrats in key red states, especially after the Keystone Pipeline disaster that has Joe Biden's name written all over it, as well as the obvious ploy of their allocating our taxpayer dollars to benefit those “of color” with white folks be damned.

Simply, more and more moderate Democrats are themselves getting tied of and are politically nervous about all this “people of color” minority based hate whitey propaganda.

So while the 2,702-page bill, entitled the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (H.R. 3684), reauthorizes federal funding on already existing federal public-works programs that will supposedly modernize and upgrade our nation’s aging and outdated infrastructure...as into much needed repairs to roads, highways, and bridges... said bill still adds among other things an additional $550 billion in new spending going into numerous water projects (including lead pipe replacement); upgrading the electrical grid; so-called safety projects; the building of a national network of charging stations for electric vehicles; and the expanding of broadband internet access...something of which is not really infrastructure related nor is it really needed.

But expanding broadband internet access is not the worst of it...not by a long shot...for what's tied into both the bill's ultimate passage and Joe Biden's signature is something that should send up red flags across party lines, with that something being that said bill actually equates to more of our taxpayer dollars being funneled into the far left's anti-American, anti-capitalism, “wokeism” agenda. 

And how do I know this...because for months now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has openly stated that the House would proceed on a “dual track strategy” for infrastructure, a strategy he claims was necessary to keep both the progressives and moderates in his Senate caucus onboard, and that the aim was always to jointly pass both the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal and the much larger Democrat vote only needed, anti-poverty/climate change package...Biden's so-called "Human Infrastructure" bill...which together has the potential of seeing a whopping $3.5 trillion price tag, and includes among other things expanding the child tax credits; establishing paid family and medical leave; the funding of universal preschool and free community college; and further action on climate change...you know the weather.

So what this 2-fer really is, is nothing but a politically driven “wokeism” dream come true as it includes the implementing of AOC's disastrous Green New Deal, programs related to gender identity and racial equity nonsense (notice I said equity not equality), plus a redirecting of funds from the still much needed $1.9 trillion Covid relief package...a package Biden had earlier this year signed into law...and funneling those monies into what are lopsided and oh so ridiculous social justice programs.

In fact, the ever vile Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has let it be known that the House, which is currently on summer hiatus, will not even take up last week's Senate passed bipartisan bill until Senate Democrats pass the aforementioned what should be a separate package without GOP votes via the “budget reconciliation” process...the process by which a bill can be brought up for a Senate vote and pass with a simple majority as long as said bill affects federal spending and revenue. And unfortunately, the currently still lumped together 2-fer spending bill does just that.

And sadly, it's an early Merry Christmas lump of coal from the powers that be to we still economically hurting American people.

“They have the advantage in numbers, in operational structure, in air forces and in modern weaponry and it’s really about having the will and the leadership to use those advantages to their own benefit...the recipe can’t be just a constant U.S. presence in Afghanistan that never ends.” - Pentagon spokesman John Kirby

Also something of importance lost in the afterglow of Andrew Cuomo's resigning from office is Afghanistan, with parallels to Viet Nam duly noted. And with Biden basically turning the country over to the Taliban...which is not unlike Nixon turning over South Vietnam to the communists... Biden's ordered withdrawal of all American troops by August 31st remains in place. Turning his back on both the Afghan people and the Afghans who helped our troops not only as translators but in the actual fight against these most vicious of muslim extremists, memories for many of Nixon ordering our troops departure and desperate Vietnamese civilians running towards transport planes must surely come to mind.

And to that end, last Thursday, due to Afghanistan's “deteriorating security situation” and after speaking with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with the State Department, very strongly urged all remaining Americans in Afghanistan to depart the country immediately. And they also announced that “temporarily being deployed” to Afghanistan would be 5,000 troops to aid in the what was once called a “drawdown” of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul...a “drawdown” that would have resulted in a mere “core diplomatic presence” within the city...has now become an emergency evacuation of all Western diplomats and civilians what with the Taliban now having entered the Afghan capital. 

And with two-thirds of Afghanistan already under their control, and with Jalalabad falling into Taliban hands mere days ago, what was predicted to be Kabul's fall within a few weeks has already taken place with the Taliban's first act being the freeing of what's believed to be thousands of inmates from the city's Pul-e-Charkhi prison, with government forces offering no resistance. And with the announcing that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country late Sunday afternoon the fate of Kabul was sealed with the Taliban then entering the presidential palace.

So while the formally called “drawdown” of what was supposed to be a mission focused on “safeguarding the orderly reduction of civilian personnel out of Afghanistan,” as per Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, the fact is that with the Taliban now having entered Kabul said “reduction” is but wishful thinking for time itself dictates that while the clock ticks down said “reduction” will not be large enough in scope to safely evacuate all the Afghan civilians and their families who sided with and aided our fighting forces. And this is no matter that a joint 1,000 person unit from the U.S. Army and Air Force is being deployed to Qatar to help process visas for those Afghans who helped the U.S.

But know that neither the time frame allotted nor the number of persons involved can bring all the Americans and Afghan folks to safety. And really, why are visas even needed when it's a humanitarian crisis that's unfolding for those Afghans who risked their lives helping the U.S. when our southern border sees the welcome mat being laid out for disease carrying illegals...illegals with their hands out...for whom visas are a dirty word. Guess we all know the answer to that now don't we, as well as we know why Biden won't send troops to said border.

So while a U.S. infantry brigade does remain positioned in Kuwait, if needed, to help secure the now emergency evacuation's main point of departure, as in the Hamid Karzai airport, know that because of Joe Biden, America now sadly leaves Afghanistan in defeat after the Afghan military we both financed and trained began to unravel soon after his April misguided decision to announce for all to hear the pullout date of all U.S. troops...channeling his inner Obama I guess. Now taking away the Afghan military's much needed logistical, air, and moral support, this sad end did not have to be if only we and Afghan's President Ghani had not foolishly engaged in U.S. sponsored so-called "peace talks," And it's these "peace talks" where, as expected, the Taliban lied about their intentions while preparing for what has now proven to be a highly successful so-called "lightning offensive"...an offensive taking a bit over a week's time to accomplish.

And so lessons from the past, including lessons learned in Vietnam, should have taught us that to truly win any war, no matter whom the enemy is, that hard battles must be fought and blood must be shed...like in both World Wars...and that collateral damage is destined to happen. Fighting a war to win the “hearts and minds” of the enemy...in fact trying to make friends with the enemy...does nothing but lay the ground work for losing any given war with Afghanistan now being a prime example.

Simply, we either should have gone into Afghanistan strong and bombed the Taliban out of existence or not gone in at all...that's one lesson that should have been learned from Russia's defeat as well. Yet there's still a bit of time to correct some mistakes made, but that can only be done via a Commander-in-Chief who is of the right mind to know that by our leaving Afghanistan it creates a Middle East vacuum of power that will not end well for the U.S., for Israel, or for the West as the Taliban will surely align themselves with both Iran and China.

In fact, China has already stated that they will recognize the Taliban as the legitimate ruler of Afghanistan when Kabul is fully under their control, which unfortunately, as I write this, has now started to happen. And it's happened no matter that the Taliban had promised not to take over the capital by force, not to assume power directly, and not to act as the puppet master for what was hoped would be a peacefully initiated transition of government. But sadly, that is not now nor was it ever reality for when one is dealing with barbaric murdering savages like the Taliban promises made are always not kept.

And this now leaves heaven alone to help the rightfully scared Afghan people. Think I'm wrong...I guarantee that time itself will show you that I'm not. Case closed.

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*The 19 sell-out Republican senators are: Roy Blunt of Missouri; Richard Burr of North Carolina; Bill Cassidy of Louisiana; Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia; Susan Collins of Maine; Kevin Cramer of North Dakota; Mike Crapo of Idaho; Deb Fischer of Nebraska; Lindsey Graham of South Carolina; Chuck Grassley of Iowa; John Hoeven of North Dakota; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky; Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Jim Risch of Idaho, Mitt Romney of Utah; Dan Sullivan of Alaska; Thom Tillis of North Carolina; Roger Wicker of Mississippi

**The core diplomatic presence would consist of the political section to coordinate with the Afghan government, the diplomatic security team, and the consular affairs team which would process the special immigrant visas (SIVs) needed.

Copyright © 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

                                                        

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NASA’s New Telescope Will Show Us the Infancy of the Universe

Twenty-five years and ten billion dollars in the making, the James Webb Space Telescope will enable scientists to see deeper into the past than ever before.

Rivka Galchen / The New Yorker

 

Next month, the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to take a slow boat from Los Angeles, spend a few days traversing the Panama Canal, and arrive at a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The telescope will have been twenty-five years and ten billion dollars in the making. Thousands of scientists and engineers from fourteen countries will have worked on it. It could have flown, sure, but it’s a tight squeeze—plus the telescope weighs seven tons, and Kourou’s airfield is connected to its spaceport by seven bridges not built to endure such a load. The telescope will be put into Ariane 5, a European rocket named for a mythical princess who helped a man she loved defeat the Minotaur and escape a maze. Ariane 5 will carry the telescope some ten thousand kilometres in thirty minutes. The J.W.S.T. will then continue on its own, for twenty-nine days, toward a lonely, lovely orbit in space, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, where we will never visit it, though it will stay in constant communication with us. From Earth, it will appear ten thousand times fainter than the faintest star.

 

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King Joe: Biden Looking to Override COVID Policy in Red States 

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Leah covered this development this morning. The Biden White House isn’t looking to enact a nationwide COVID vaccine mandate but will probably implement measures that pretty much make it impossible for anyone to do…anything without getting the shot. There is no mandate, but there is one seems to be the playbook here. The new action item is to mandate vaccination for interstate travel—all of this while COVID-infected illegals are shipped all over the country, but whatever, right? The Associated Press said that they’re not going to push it since it “would be too polarizing for the moment.” So, is this an emergency or not? A Biden White House official said that this is not being discussed at this time. That’s not a denial. They want to do this but can’t move on it due to the midterm elections. 

And it’s not just vaccine mandates for interstate travel, Biden is reportedly looking into whether he can overrule Republican governors on their COVID policy (via Daily Caller):

We Have Yet Another Data Point That Eviscerates Liberal Media's Narrative on the Unvaccinated 

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

At the start of the Delta variant, the media, the Democrats, and snobby liberal America knew who to blame. It was the unvaccinated. Yes, they make up virtually all the recent hospitalizations and new deaths. The goal should have been to convince these people to get the shot, not denigrate them, and certainly not mock their deaths. Liberal America took the latter route. The moral superiority complex kicked in and now those who were on the fence are firmly entrenched in their position to not get vaccinated. To make matters worse, the experts and the Biden White House continue to fail at messaging. The cherry on top of this government fail sundae is that they think bribing people $100 will boost vaccination rates. Some people are skeptical of government, some have questions about long-term risks, and others simply don’t want it. It’s their choice. It should always be a choice. Only a liberal would view the unvaccinated as a sub-human species. Yet, more and more stories have shredded this narrative. For starters, they’re not all Trump lovers or Republicans. It’s not religion either.