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Abbey Gate
New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan
The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members and about 170 Afghans who were desperately seeking US help to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul. For two years, the US military has insisted that the loss of life was caused by a single explosion, and that troops who reported coming under fire and returning it were likely confused in the chaotic aftermath, some suffering from the effects of blast concussion.
But video captured by a Marine’s GoPro camera that has not been seen publicly in full before shows there was far more gunfire than the Pentagon has ever admitted. A dozen US military personnel, who were on the scene and spoke to CNN anonymously for fear of reprisals, have described the gunfire in detail. One told CNN he heard the first large burst of shooting come from where US Marines were standing, near the blast site. “It wasn’t onesies and twosies,” the Marine said. “It was a mass volume of gunfire.”
When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
We are shocked by these shocking developments.
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday ordered key evidence in Jack Smith’s classified documents case to be unredacted.
The newly unredacted documents revealed Biden’s White House had direct ties to the Mar-a-Lago raid. The Biden Regime was also directly tied to Jack Smith’s investigation despite claims to the contrary from US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
New: Unsealed records detail allegations that Jay Bratt, Jack Smith’s lead prosecutor in classified docs case, threatened Stanley Woodward–atty for Walt Nauta–with sinking a judicial nomination if he didn’t get his client to flip on Trump
Related: Politico is outlining how a group of Lawfare ideologues meet every Friday to discuss their constructed legal filings and the next week of attack angles against President Donald Trump.
Very Fine People On Both Sides
News From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
RFK Jr. Didn’t Kill Himself
He’s on the Michigan ballot.
The news was confirmed by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office. The Natural Law Party has filed its documents with the Bureau of Elections. Kennedy will appear on the ballot in November.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Via John Conrad: I was skeptical of Biden’s Gaza Pier plan but wasn’t expecting it to go this bad
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
From the always perceptive Associated Press: Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
“I made it clear to the Israelis — don’t move on Haifa!“
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
I’m offering three examples of widely followed stories where I believe we faltered. Our coverage is out there in the public domain. Anyone can read or listen for themselves and make their own judgment. But to truly understand how independent journalism suffered at NPR, you need to step inside the organization.
Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn
We pretend our president’s not deep-fried; our deficit’s not a ticking time-bomb; and it’s OK that our kids can’t really read…
The Oyster Bunny
4th Turning
It’s global crisis wildfire whack-a-mole now.
Ever since the United States achieved superpower status, the world gets a little wobbly whenever the president here is weak. Our current chief executive is run by committee. The bad people in the world know that they won’t be getting any decisive moves from the United States in response to anything they do, so they’re acting up.
Gosh, if only we’d been warned.
The Army has started doing something about recruitment, replacing “woke” recruiting ads featuring diversity with more traditional ads featuring white men jumping out of airplanes, which led some wags to suggest – probably correctly – that this means they expect to have to fight soon. But it won’t be easy to undo the damage of recent years, including the wanton betrayal of Americans, and foreign allies, in Afghanistan. People noticed, and you can’t turn on a dime after something like that.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Electric cars will decide the outcome of the American election
If Joe Biden loses to Donald Trump this November, he can apportion blame towards his administration’s many unforced errors, from the botched Afghanistan bug-out to the mess at the southern border. But the biggest blunder of all has yet to fully reveal itself: the ill-conceived drive to push electric vehicles into making up over three-fifths of all car purchases by the 2030s.
Just last week the administration issued a draconian mileage requirement, one of many ‘nudge’ policies attempting to usher in an all-electric future. Replacing a massive $3 trillion industry with a singular technology represents a severe economic threat under any circumstances, but ramming through changes just as EV sales are slowing is nothing less than madness.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
Biden remembers crossing the Key Bridge “many many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.”
Related: Let’s meet the Commissioners for the Port of Baltimore…
Clown Show
So what was the leader of the free world up to this week? And the next president?
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
If the woke regime felt that its reign was under threat, and believed itself justified (if not morally obligated) to defend itself, what wouldn’t it do to retain power?
It might seek to break, bankrupt, and jail its political opponents and those who would dare defend them via lawfare; obstruct justice for political “made men;” and delegitimize and destroy any institution that would dare stand in its way. That effort is already afoot.
Another line of attack might be to weaponize every public and private power center against those who would back its political opponents — demoralizing if not terrorizing the electorate into submission, or dividing it so it can more easily be conquered. That effort too has been humming along.
Still another line of attack might be to wage information warfare against the public in a bid to prevent it from fully understanding the nature and extent of, let alone discussing, the ruling regime’s depredations. It would do so not only by propagandizing via de facto regime media but by crippling alternative sources and prohibiting citizens from freely sharing news and views anathema to the ruling regime.
Grab a coffee.
Don’t Mess With Texas
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BOMBSHELL: America’s top intelligence agency sent the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Pentagon a memo that celebrates an official who says “crossdressing makes me a better intelligence officer.”
The world’s most powerful intel apparatus has been hijacked by woke feds. Here’s the proof.
I, Napoleon
@libsoftiktok: Drag Queen ‘Shangela’ who was invited by Kamala Harris to the White House to celebrate Pride Month was just accused of multiple s*xual ass*ults.