Taliban's mocking Iwo Jima propaganda
image tells us who they are
Posted By: PageTurner, 8/22/2021 7:59:53 AM
The Army of North Vietnam had Jane Fonda. Fonda was a willing useful idiot to them and their propaganda and had a grand old time gleefully bouncing up and down on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American fighters. That image was catnip to the communists, but sickening to Americans, and the putrid image reverberated for decades. But not even those masters of propaganda, burning with hate for the U.S., could top the Taliban, which must have spent months brainstorming to come up with crap like this
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So House speaker Nancy Pelosi has hosted another tony fundraiser for Democrats. It was in wine-country Napa Valley, of course, redolent of the Tuscan countryside.
Ken Vogel, a New York Times reporter who's apparently worth reading (look at his Twitter feed), has a couple of posts: (Snip for tweet) The all-white fat cats, who paid $100 to $29,000 a pop, are all seated in close quarters in that same general region where Gavin Newsom held his unmasked French Laundry dinner, with, again, none of them wearing masks. And the service staff? They're black, they're Hispanic, they're maybe Filipino. And to a person, they're all masked.
Video: Chuck Schumer and Stephen Colbert
hoof around like elephants while
Afghanistan burns 20 replies
hoof around like elephants while
Afghanistan burns 20 replies
Did someone say 'cringe'?
Get a load of this: (Snip for tweet) Sadly, you can't unsee it.
The two middle-aged men hopping around to gangsta rap like elephants with the much younger blonde ponytailed chick who has a canned beverage and cellphone in her hand, in New York's Central Park, are Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and big-name multimillionaire leftist media personality Stephen Colbert.
It's the dance of the elephants in its own right, ridiculous enough, given that you know that neither of the oafs would listen to that kind of music unless they had to, but it comes as the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is collapsing
The Army of North Vietnam had Jane Fonda.
Fonda was a willing useful idiot to them and their propaganda and had a grand old time gleefully bouncing up and down on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American fighters. That image was catnip to the communists, but sickening to Americans, and the putrid image reverberated for decades.
But not even those masters of propaganda, burning with hate for the U.S., could top the Taliban, which must have spent months brainstorming to come up with crap like this
So much for the U.S.-U.K. alliance.
The commander of the 82nd Airborne, in a story I hope is wrong, has reportedly told this to the Brits, according to the Washington Examiner's Tom Rogan:
I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army's 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations.
A few days ago, on Aug. 14, I wrote about CNN's sudden about-face on Joe Biden's performance in Afghanistan.
It was a shocking, stunning change; it wasn't half-hearted stuff. The Trump-hating news site ran a devastating -- and insightful -- analysis pinning the blame for the Afghanistan fiasco squarely on Joe Biden. Prior to that, the network had carried water for him, skewed the news, and engaged in sycophancy, to the point of ending up a target of James O'Keefe.
Now it's The Atlantic's turn.
Just this morning they ran three bam, bam, bam commentaries that also pinned the blame for the fiasco squarely where it belonged,
Exclusive: Taliban terror begins with
âkill listâ drawn up as women
face torture and death 8 replies
âkill listâ drawn up as women
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Brutal new rules have been drawn up by the Taliban which means women will face torture and death while targets on a 'kill list' could be murdered on their doorsteps.
Harrowing reports have already surfacing from Afghanistan as the government collapsed which paved the way for the Taliban to seize power nearly 20 years after being driven out by the West.
The Mirror understands there are claims of summary killings by the Taliban as fighters perform door-to-door searches throughout Kabul city.
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Joe Biden and his media acolytes call him Mr. Empathy and Mr. Compassion. His Afghanistan speech yesterday told a different story, and should end that phony spin forever.
My takeaway was how cold, and hard, and compassionless Biden was as he sought to extricate himself from the catastrophe of his own making. He blamed everyone but himself for his failure, particularly the Afghan army. He smarmily assured terrified Afghanis left behind he'd now speak out for their human rights instead of actually protect them. He effectively told U.S. servicemembers their service was for nothing. It was appalling.
Videos: Yes, Joe, it's like Saigon
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Joe Biden made a big deal about his rigid, hasty, ill-planned, badly executed Afghan pullout not being another Saigon, a reference to the disgraceful final pullout of the U.S. presence in Vietnam in 1975. (Snip for tweet, quote) The more he says it, the less true it gets. His dishonesty is palpable. He seems to think that by making this claim, the press will repeat it ad nauseum and it will become standard wisdom.
But images don't lie, and here are the pictures and videos of horror rolling out this morning:
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The militants have seized territory at an alarming rate while Afghan government troops and their allied militias fail to put up an effective resistance â surrendering at times without even putting up a fight.
The U.S. embassy in Kabul said Wednesday that it was receiving reports that Taliban members were executing surrendering Afghan troops and unlawfully detaining some members of the government, including military leaders, provincial officials and police officers.
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and Mike Pompeo for 'getting rolled'
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(Snip)He was first appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as Director of the National Security Agency.
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Democratic nominee for Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe on Monday called on all employers in his state to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations following the Food and Drug Administrationâs full approval of the Pfizer vaccine.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) was seen without her mask over the weekend at a Democrat Party fundraiser event full of unmasked attendees.
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The event was exclusively for old white liberals at a super spreader event while their ethnic, masked staff wait on them hand and foot.
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The Biden administration still isn't sure if the Taliban is an enemy.