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Revealed: Secretary of State Antony Blinken
'was on VACATION in the Hamptons
just hours before Kabul fell'

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Posted By: Ribicon, 8/29/2021 11:49:12 PM

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was reportedly vacationing in the Hamptons just hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban, despite warnings that the city was at risk. Blinken was one of several top-level Biden administration officials to have gone on vacation the Friday before the Afghan capitol was taken by the group on August 15. President Joe Biden himself was also on a trip away, and had arrived at the presidential retreat at Camp David that day. Blinken was already on vacation, according to a timeline of the events leading up to Kabul's capture compiled by the Washington Post. The officials appeared to not be overly concerned

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Cut the guy some slack; he wanted to boogie with the beautiful people, as one does. And of course the administration was unconcerned about the intentionally botched withdrawal; Americans are but pawns to them because they are the party of the people, dancing away maskless below the stars.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Omen55 8/29/2021 11:59:15 PM (No. 897647)
Their vacations are the most important thing to dem.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: john56 8/30/2021 12:02:42 AM (No. 897649)
Like he would have done something useful if he were in the office. We may be better served if Biden, Harris, and the clown car that is his advisors take off until January 2025.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Italiano 8/30/2021 12:08:08 AM (No. 897657)
Pencil-neck has to go.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Californian 8/30/2021 12:08:21 AM (No. 897658)
Thankfully, the adults are back in charge. And on vacation. It would be even worse if they did something or made decisions.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Quigley 8/30/2021 12:13:26 AM (No. 897659)
He was thinking about his GENDER people!!! Have a heart! Get your priorities straight. He was doing what The Hive Mind instructed! No more of this old think. The new things matter. The old things don’t matter.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 8/30/2021 12:37:04 AM (No. 897678)
Even Senator McCain, who was not a person I favored much, found Blinken to be "the worst of a bad lot" and said of Blinken, "This individual has actually been dangerous to America and to the young men and women who are fighting [for] and serving it.” Sen. McCain had this puke nailed cold, seven years ago.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Blackbird 8/30/2021 12:40:31 AM (No. 897680)
I can’t think of any other president’s cabinet as incompetent as this one. Of course I’d be surprised if Biden himself actually picked them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: PChristopher 8/30/2021 1:02:05 AM (No. 897692)
Maybe we should just arrest everyone in the Hamptons...seems to be the hive for traitors.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: subal 8/30/2021 1:15:24 AM (No. 897696)
"What difference does it make?" Think about that for a minute.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: lakerman1 8/30/2021 6:32:46 AM (No. 897776)
Am I the only one to notice that Blinken, Price from State, and Jake Sullivan all seem to have been fathered by the Banjo Boy from Deliverance?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: nina584 8/30/2021 6:37:43 AM (No. 897777)
This is Benghazi all over again. This moron and Susan Rice’s finger prints are all over this mess. Obama is probably the one directing. He is and was an incompetent leader who knows very little about war.He. created ISIS with Iraq equipment left behind and another of his terrorists creations is about to emerge with the donated military equipment in Afghanistan
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Reply 12 - Posted by: downnout 8/30/2021 8:01:43 AM (No. 897838)
But, but you just have to be in the Hamptons in August!! Muffy insists on it!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: hershey 8/30/2021 9:54:22 AM (No. 897967)
He's always on vacation...
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Reply 14 - Posted by: qr4j 8/30/2021 10:03:47 AM (No. 897977)
Biden time. Blinken and nodding. General MILLEY Cyrus -- twerking to the beat of his own drummer.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: red1066 8/30/2021 10:07:38 AM (No. 897981)
This clown is on vacation even when he's in D.C.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Come And Take It 8/30/2021 10:18:45 AM (No. 897993)
On vacation or not, it's hard to tell the difference with these dirtbags. They all wear their incompetence like a shirt wherever they go.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: ROLFNader 8/30/2021 10:23:19 AM (No. 897998)
While you're at it, tell us where Winken and Nodd were.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: earlybird 8/30/2021 10:27:23 AM (No. 898003)
Rich kid dabbling in government…lightweight to the max.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 8/30/2021 2:37:10 PM (No. 898317)
But we can still take comfort in knowing that they don't write mean tweets .
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