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August 31, 2021

Did the Cyber Ninjas really have COVID-19?

They postponed their "fraudit" results down in Arizona with the excuse that several of the Cyber Ninjas had the Covid?

Has anyone seen or heard of them since?

I'm sure there are Republicans that know.

But they are silent.

Wonder why?

August 31, 2021

We should not waste our time and money attempting to build democracies around the world.

We should fix our own.

There is no Taliban or ISIS terrorist as dangerous as those in the membership of the Republican Party.

If the American people cannot see this, then woe is America.

And it is not just those white supremacists out in the hinterlands. It is elected Republicans sitting in the Congress of the United States.

We have much too big of a problem with our own democracy to worry about anyone else around the world.

The American people need to wake up.

August 31, 2021

They don't have a problem with Biden getting out of Afghanistan so much....

...as the way that he did it. That seems to be their criticism?

A few argue that we should have stayed longer. Some argue that it was going great just the way it was, with just 2500 troops. But, was it?

Not really. The Taliban was in the process of capturing every province in the country at almost lightning speed. And America was stuck with only 2500 troops.

The Afghan Army up and quit and their President fled the country. The Taliban stormed Kabul. Our country was presented with a dilemma. What could we do? Our 2500 troops were surrounded by the enemy. They needed support quickly. Biden sent in additional troops. It was a tense situation.

The problem was not just how to get out the Afghans who helped us, but how to withdraw the American troops? It was not a question of just flying out.

But my question is, how could anyone have done it better under the circumstances? Biden could be criticized for not withdrawing the troops sooner, I suppose? But not for the job that he did, in my opinion.

August 31, 2021

Pamela Brown

August 31, 2021

Live And Let Die

August 30, 2021

There is only one thing that can save America.

The Truth.

The truth about Afghanistan. The truth about Covid. The truth about vaccines. The truth about the insurrection of January 6th.

We cannot heal as nation until we confront these stark facts.

The war in Afghanistan is ending. After twenty years and thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, the quagmire is ending. The sucking sound you hear is the Defense industry holding their breaths. Their scam is about to end.

Joe Biden has been in the Presidency for 7 months and he will be their scapegoat. The previous three Presidents will mostly escape scrutiny. The people may see it differently than the media and the Defense establishment?

Covid-19 is a pandemic. It can kill you. It is better to listen to doctors and experts than friends on Facebook. There are those that have made it a political issue and they have made it worse. More people are dying because they do not trust the vaccine and refuse to take it. They prefer remedies and cures found on social media.

As for the January 6th attack on our Capitol, it was a domestic terrorist attack. People were terrorized. People were afraid they were going to die. Some people did die. These terrorists threatened the lives of numerous elected leaders because they were following their Cult Leader. There were people in Congress that were complicit and assisted them in the attack upon the symbol of our democracy. We cannot sweep it under the rug. It must be exposed.

We cannot heal as a nation until we confront these truths.

August 29, 2021

A quote by Thomas Paine:

"Voting is the right on which all other rights depend"

Thomas Paine

https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s40.html

August 28, 2021

A type of group-think, where they are unable to think independently?

People are dying because they are afraid of a vaccine. A vaccine tested and approved by scientists and doctors around the world.

They prefer to take anything else but the vaccine. They will take de-worming medicine that is meant for cows and horses before they will take the vaccine. They read about it on Facebook.

And they are dying. Why do they do it?

They are programmed into some sort of group-think. They are unable to think for themselves. They brag about their "independence" but they are totally dependent on fakirs and witch doctors.

What can be done?

August 28, 2021

Speaker Pelosi was very smart to keep Jordan and Banks off the Committee.

Banks has threatened the Big Tech companies to not turn over the evidence requested by the Committee. Rep Swalwell reminded him that there is such a thing as obstruction of justice.

Some people seem to be running scared.

Trump has threatened to use executive privilege to keep anyone from talking. Of course, the person that will decide "executive privilege" is the present executive, Joe Biden, not Donald Trump.

The information is scheduled to come from the different Departments of government, including Dept of Defense and DHS by September 12th. (Also, the National Archives) You can almost hear the whining and the gnashing of teeth already.

If the past is any example, we can expect Trump to order Republicans to not cooperate. They will have to decide, who do they follow? Trump or the law? He will go to his old standby excuse: it is a sham and a witch-hunt. They will do anything to prevent the truth from coming out.

The strategy of the Republicans will be to stretch it all out beyond the next election. If they can win, they will bury it.

August 27, 2021

Did CIA know that government of Afghanistan was ready to collapse...?

...and that the Afghan Army was just going to disappear?

Was everyone wrong about when they thought Kabul would fall?

It fell very quickly. The President resigned and left the country and their Army disintegrated.

America was caught with its proverbial pants down when the Taliban swarmed into Kabul.

They had no choice but to improvise. They started destroying all the records at the Embassy and then had to move out of the Embassy for security purposes.

President Biden had to send in more troops to supplement those assigned to the Karzai Airport.

It was chaos as the Taliban gathered in Kabul to choose their leadership and to plot a course for their country's future.

It is a good bet that no one expected the fall of Kabul to be so quick? Whatever plans were on the table had to be re-calculated.

Joe Biden is the President and he has to accept responsibility for whatever happens at the airport.

However, it appears that the former President set him up for failure? He knew that Biden had wanted out of Afghanistan for many years, as did the majority of Americans. Biden decided to complete the game by following Trump's plan. He only had 2500 troops and a deadline to get them out of the country.

Everything was going better than expected until yesterday. A suicide bomber killed and wounded over 30 Americans and killed over a hundred Afghans. It was a bloody and tragic day.

The Americans are in a position they never expected to be. They thought they would have the Afghan Army for security around the airport, not the Taliban.

Now, under the most extreme and unpredictable conditions, they are attempting to evacuate as many Afghans as possible before the Americans make their final exit.

They do not expect the next four days to be smooth sailing.

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