Perhaps Blackie can repeat the famous statement he made to that Indian woman. I’m sure the Afghan embassy staff would appreciate a “thank you for your donation”. Its chaos for embassy staff, fires raging in B.C., drought in the Prairies, churches being burned down, country drowning in debt, etc. etc. And yet Dear Leader is only interested in establishing a dictatorship. Please help me! And while Dear Leader is on the campaign trail, people are falling from planes. I’m sure Justin is shedding some tears with his teddy bear.
Are You Feeling Better Yet?
When the head of your local rape crisis centre is a trans woman:
Wadhwa, a self-styled “strategic thinker,” insists that “therapy is political” – which apparently means that a woman who’s been raped by a man and then seeks help from other women will be told, on the orders of a man, that she “can’t really… recover from trauma” until she “reframes” that experience to incorporate the most modish and deranging iteration of transgender ideology. Failure to do so is “unacceptable” and will of course be “challenged.” Because priorities.
What Comes Next
What began with the border crisis was joined by the covid outbreak. The trillions of dollars in stimulus turned on him to become inflation. Without a pause Afghanistan came out of the box months ahead of his scenario. Now with stunning speed, Kabul has almost fallen. Before he can react to one thing, yet another challenge emerges. Each time the loop goes round he is further and further behind.
Perhaps fortune will cut him a lucky break, but while there have been instances in history of a leader reversing the adverse tide, such feats require talent. Napoleon was reported to have said at Marengo, “This battle is completely lost. However, there is time to win another.” But Joe Biden is not Napoleon and his foes can apparently use time much better than he.
Events take the measure of a man. Biden may not even be, if events so far are a fair test, even the equivalent of Arthur Percival or Lord Elphinstone. Not since the fall of France in May 1940 has so mighty a paper force collapsed so swiftly before a foe. Biden has beaten the record and not in a good way.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that to this considerable tale of woe is likely to be added as much mischief as America’s enemies can contrive. They will pile it on. For no less than the Taliban, America’s near-peer adversaries now have the estimate of the hapless man in the White House. This confirmation of incapacity is possibly a greater loss than the fall of Afghanistan itself.
August 16, 2021: Reader Tips
You know what to do.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Via Bjørn Lomborg on Facebook: Over a month in 1930, Indiana Bell moved their entire headquarters 90° and shifted it 52 feet south. Everyone kept working inside while it moved 15 inches per hour. Adaptation is not as hard as many people think…
Walk on Boy
Billy Strings
Paper Bag Over the Head Territory
Mark Steyn-The Scale of Humiliation
The scale of America’s global humiliation is so total that I see my friends at Fox News cannot even bear to cover it. As I write, every other world network – the BBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24, not to mention the Chinese – is broadcasting the collapse of the American regime in real time; on Fox, meanwhile, they’re talking about the spending bill and the third Covid shot and the dead Haitians …as if the totality of the defeat is such that for once it cannot be fixed into the American right’s usual consolations (“well, this positions us pretty nicely for 2022”).
On the leftie side, of course, the court eunuchs have risen as one to protect the Dementia Kid, and are working as hurriedly as the Kabul document-shredders in an effort to figure out a way to blame it all on Trump.
Blackie Calls An Election But Can’t Explain Why.
While the CBC’s Rosemary Barton stared dreamy eyed, Big Chief Gay Eagle tried to explain why we need the election. When questioned by his loyal reporters, it was the same scripted answer. Canadians deserve to have their say, or some drivel like that. Surely Gerald Butts can do better than that. Meanwhile he doesn’t seem concerned about what is happening in Afghanistan. Apparently he left stranded 100 Gurkha contractors there. Great, another country he has ticked off. Explain it to us again Justin.
From Meme to Reality
Its All Trump’s Fault.
As expected Dementia Joe is blaming Trump for the disaster in Afghanistan. I’m surprised Blackie isn’t blaming Harper yet. Western countries seem to have leaders that are more interested in protecting their own images, rather than stick up for the values we used to have. Can we ever expect to have great leaders again? The fascist states of Russia and China must laugh at us. Its always someone else’s fault.
Obamas Middle Finger to the World
There’s a glorious moment in the life of a certain kind of politician, when either because their careers are over, or because they’re so untouchable politically that it doesn’t matter anymore, that they finally get to remove the public mask, no pun intended. This Covid bash was Barack Obama’s “Fuck it!” moment.
He extended middle fingers in all directions: to his Vineyard neighbors, the rest of America, Biden, the hanger-on ex-staffers who’d stacked years of hundred-hour work weeks to build his ballyhooed career, the not quite A-listers bounced at the last minute for being not famous enough (sorry, Larry David and Conan O’Brien!), and so on. It’d be hard not to laugh imagining Axelrod reading that even “Real Housewife of Atlanta” Kim Fields got on the party list over him, except that Obama giving the shove-off to his most devoted (if also scummy and greedy) aides is also such a perfect metaphor for the way he slammed the door in the faces of the millions of ordinary voters who once so desperately believed in him.
Return of the Hockey Stick
Despite years of being told that defects in prior hockey stick temperature reconstructions “don’t matter” because the Hockey Stick “doesn’t “matter”, the first figure of new IPCC Summary for Policy-Makers is a Hockey Stick.
When ordinary Canadians hear the phrase “warmest in more than 100,000 years”, very few know that Canada was under a mile of ice for most of that period. So when Michael Mann and IPCC zealots demand that we “Make the Climate Great Again”, people, especially Canadians, need to think whether the climate was really all that “great” in the Ice Age, when there was a mile of ice over most of Canada
Women’s Liberation Achieved
Wuhan Flu: Follow The Sciencers
Avoid the viral videos, ignore the conspiracy kooks and shun the anti-vax charlatans.
When it comes to protecting yourself and your family with the latest, most up to date science and information on COVID-19 here is no better source than the American Association of Biological Sex Deniers.
Its A Good Thing Dementia Joe Is On Vacation.
Taliban enter Kabul and demand SURRENDER.
As the Taliban advance accelerates, the US is scrambling to evacuate more than 10,000 American citizens from the capital, with officials said to be trying to strike a deal for Taliban fighters not to descend on Kabul until the US can pull everyone out.
However, a senior US official told the New York Times the Taliban have warned the US it must cease airstrikes or else its extremist fighters will move in.
Many Promises Made But Few Kept
In his latest Substack article, Alex Berenson explains how those in charge of the vaccine rollouts have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
This Could Be An Actual News Story.
The Media Will Be Swooning This Morning!
The CBC’s Rosemary Barton will be giddy with excitement, as her hero arrives at the home of the GG with his ex-wife. Expect a great speech from Dear Leader on how only he can save Turtle Island. Journalists have been asked not to applaud constantly during his speech.
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August 15, 2021: Reader Tips
Nearly 100 years ago, a film called The Man in the Iron Mask was released. We present it to you tonight.
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The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The latest: 52 bombers head to Afghanistan.. to bomb their own planes.
Bumped for update: US Embassy will be completely evacuated within 72 hours and staff are already being rushed to Kabul airport as Taliban warlords close in: First of 3,000 Marines arrive and refugee crisis begins.
Bad news for a Biden White House making plans to pull their staff from the roof of the American Embassy — the Taliban are in the air.
🇦🇫#Breaking:
For the first time, the Taliban fighters have deployed aviation.In this footage, the crew of one of the Mi-17 helicopters of the Afghan Air Force, which went over to the side of the Taliban, is transferring militants.
#Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/owV1pOZdv4— The RAGEX (@theragex) August 13, 2021
Related: The Taliban are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than 166 other nations around the globe.
It was always impossible to destroy the Taliban, or so we shall be told by all the sombre grey generals of CNN. Just as it was impossible to destroy ISIS.