Happy Thursday.
I'll start out with the satire this time.
Republican Politicians Vow To Get Real Mad And Stuff Following Afghanistan Crisis [note to the Bee staff: this isn't satire]
Brian Williams Tearfully Recounts Clinging To Outside Of Airplane To Escape Kabul
Psaki: 'A Record 331 Million Americans Have Not Been Abandoned In Afghanistan'
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The Afghanistan failure
Psaki refuses to discuss leaked Biden call with Ghani that shows he knew Afghan army was collapsing
Politifact-style fact check: Pants on fire! Biden knew the Afghan army would probably collapse, but he could not have possibly known how fast it would've collapsed.
In other words, the leaked phone call pretty clearly demonstrates Biden knew the Afghan army was in poor shape, but requested Ghani to lie about that if necessary. The evidence increasingly points to a royal fuckup of epic proportions, largely thanks to our increasingly worthless political, military, and intelligence "elite."
Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites:
According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001.
The scrubbed audits and reports included detailed accounting of what the U.S. had provided to Afghan forces, down to the number of night vision devices, hand grenades, Black Hawk helicopters, and armored vehicles.
Reports further quantified 208 aircraft and helicopters; 75,000 war vehicles – including 22 Humvees, 50,000 tactical vehicles and nearly 1,000 mine resistant vehicles; and 600,000 weapons – including 350,000 M4 and M16 rifles, 60,000 machine guns, and 25,000 grenade launchers.
The justification for all this scrubbing? Possible "security risk." The article then deftly points out one of the administration's recent genius 4-D chess moves:
It’s worth noting that the Biden administration already put these partners at risk when officials provided lists of Afghan nationals to the Taliban in a misguided attempt to clear them for evacuation.
Nobody has been fired for any of this yet.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says "we all have pain and anger" after 20-year war in Afghanistan.
"We all have pain and anger when we see what has unfolded over the last 20 years and the last 20 days, that creates pain and anger," Milley said. "I'm a professional soldier, I'm going to contain my pain and anger and execute my mission."
YOU'RE STILL TALKING, WHY ARE YOU NOT FIRED? Your mission should be to shut the fuck up and retire, preferably in Antarctica. 20 goddamn years and the Taliban are still in control, the country is ripe for brewing terrorism. Get the fuck out already.
That reminds me of a video I watched recently--sometimes the Youtube algorithm is helpful. Generals need to be fired. Frequently:
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SpaceX says Amazon is trying to delay Starlink because it can't compete
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Wealth inequality may not be as bad as we are told. Lately, few things seem to be as bad as we are told, except when the government is in charge--then it's worse.
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In other news, cryptocurrency is continuing to rise (I wish I could buy much more):
