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kpete's JournalThis pic is for my friend Nancy who is an unvaccinated nurse
Get your vaccination Nancy and MAYBE we will let you play with us again?
https://twitter.com/FordJohnathan5/status/1425972104881741824?s=20
Only one president has had the courage to do the right thing in Afghanistan.
US policy in Afghanistan has been 20 yrs of bad decisions & bad execution in the face of an insoluble challenge. Our local allies were very flawed, our enemy was resolute & the last 3 US presidents have wanted out & knew what's happening now would happen. But sure, it's on Biden.
It is the same man who advised we do this in 2009 when he was Vice President. It takes courage because he knows that he will receive the critiques his opponents are heaping on him now.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 13, 2021
America's war in Afghanistan will rank alongside Vietnam as one of our great modern failures of strategy and execution. Many are to blame for that. Whatever arguments might be made that the US departure could have been better executed, one thing is absolutely clear.
The bulk of the responsibility for that failure lies with past administrations and with the leadership in Kabul (and to some extent with Taliban enablers beyond the country's borders). Biden is doing what is right and what must be done. It is time to turn the page.
MORE:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426164809804959748.html
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1426164823801438213?s=20
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1426164809804959748
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As awful as the security situation in Afghanistan is today, it was a disaster almost two decades in the making. The U.S. should have admitted the truth long ago and ended the war even before the conclusion of the Bush administration. Above all, America must permanently cease waging “nation-building” wars, restricting deployments abroad only to fights directly related to U.S. national security.
https://twitter.com/LievenAnatol/status/1426143429663334401?s=20
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/why-afghanistan-is-falling-to-the-taliban-so-fast/
But, I have nothing appropriate to wear...
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1426150913660669955?s=20
https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1426145118143328262?s=20
Past Socialist Plots
https://liberalsarecool.com/post/659365839888433152/social-programs-in-america-created-america
Yeah Sure - DeSantis-Pledges to roll out mobile clinics dispensing monoclonal antibodies & Regeneron
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NEW COVID APPROACH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a new state treatment plan to help fight COVID-19, announcing that the state will start dispensing monoclonal antibodies and the drug Regeneron through mobile clinics.
https://twitter.com/WPLGLocal10/status/1425863902815002624?s=20
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a new state treatment plan to help fight COVID-19, announcing Thursday that the state will start dispensing Regeneron monoclonal antibodies through mobile clinics.
DeSantis made the announcement in Jacksonville, which has been particularly hard hit by the delta variant, but he curiously didn’t say a word about the record increase in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Regeneron is the treatment former President Donald Trump received when he came down with COVID-19 last year.
DeSantis is urging people at high risk — the elderly, the obese, people with diabetes — to get the monoclonal antibodies at the first indication of COVID-19.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/08/12/desantis-sets-plan-for-regeneron-and-monoclonal-antibodies-to-fight-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wplg10
Chattanooga mom tells TN Schl Board her daughter will opt out of ALL school dress code restrictions
Chattanooga mom telling a Tennessee school board that her daughter is now opting out of ALL school dress code restrictions.
https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1425922242656055306?s=20
I hope the cops get those guys! Oh wait, I'm one of those guys!
Here's how Robert Reeder changed the topic when the FBI asked him why he said, on his own video, that he had done battle with the police. h/t @alanfeuer for liberating the 140 page transcript.
WOW Read:
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21APe3Dha4wpH4Lzc&cid=477107F019583E73&id=477107F019583E73%211117&parId=root&o=OneUp
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1425801044576047114?s=20
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1425788160718540803?s=20
TikTokker rips the unvaxxed for taking hospital beds away from people, like his wife, who need them
“Hey folks, how are you doing? I’ve just got a quick question about this whole COVID, ‘not getting vaccinated and running to the fucking hospital once you get the virus’ fucking deal, because this shit is out of fucking control, all right? And I’m gonna give you a quick story on why I think it’s out of fucking control. Last week I had to bring my wife into the hospital. She has stage 4 breast cancer, she was dealing with some symptoms, and I had to bring her in to get some fluid drained. She was having some pain, blah, blah, blah. She was in there for two days. On the third day—she honestly should have stayed one more day, maybe two more days, okay?—but on the third day instead of draining her fluid, and what they wanted to do … they told us that she had to be discharged because they had no room left in the hospital because of COVID. Here’s my question. … Ninety-nine percent of everybody that’s in the hospital with COVID right now is unvaccinated, okay. If you really fucking believe that COVID is not real, if you really believe that’s not a big deal, and you really believe that you don’t need to get the vaccine, that is your fucking right. Okay? I’m not going to argue with you about that. What I am going to argue with [you] about is you running to the fucking hospital once you get the virus. If you don’t trust the medical field to prevent you from getting it, why do you trust them to cure you from it? Why do you run to the fucking hospital? If you really believe that COVID’s not a big deal and it’s not this, that, and the other and you don’t get the vaccine because of it, stick to your fucking guns and keep your motherfucking ass at home. Stop running to the hospital, putting everybody else at fucking risk and, in turn, the collateral damages. People like my wife who actually need medical fucking help for a chronic fucking disease get kicked out of the hospital because your dumb ass is too stupid to go get a fucking vaccine shot. Keep your ass at home. If you really believe COVID’s not a big deal, prove it. Stick to your fucking guns, keep your ass at home, and fucking deal with it.”
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1425575387585650691?s=20
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/11/2045207/-TikTokker-rips-the-unvaxxed-for-taking-hospital-beds-away-from-people-like-his-wife-who-need-them?utm_campaign=trending
FDA to authorize 3rd shot of Pfizer & Moderna as soon as Thurs. for people w-weakened immune systems
Breaking News: The FDA is expected to authorize a third shot of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as soon as Thursday for certain people with weakened immune systems, an effort to better protect them as the highly contagious Delta variant sweeps the U.S.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1425635670052179971?s=20
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