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2021-08-16 Afghanistan
Remote control: World asks 'where's Joe?' as he Zooms his National Security Council from Camp David while 'shameful' American retreat leaves chaos behind in Afghanistan
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-16 08:35|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban 

#1 The media: "It will be horrible if the Taliban stop girls from going to school..."

Also the media: "Your children must remain at home while schools are closed indefinitely..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 10:08||   2021-08-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 This twitter thingy has some pretty funny stuff. If only I felt like laughing.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-16 11:13||   2021-08-16 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 How old are you Matt?

Or in other words, are you old enough to watch Islamic radicals demand an entire community to a stadium to watch them put a round from an AK47 through a woman's head in the end zone? Or broadcast to the world an American being beheaded?

Is this amusing to you?
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-16 11:35||   2021-08-16 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I assure you I am not the least bit amused. The link ridicules Biden, who is a worthy object of ridicule.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-16 11:45||   2021-08-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 BREAKING NEWS: Biden will RETURN to DC from his Camp David 'vacation' and address the nation on Afghanistan at 3.45pm following intense criticism at his silence over the Taliban takeover
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-16 11:47||   2021-08-16 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ How does one explain a colossal fok up such as this? His only redemption would be a 4:00 pm resignation.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-16 11:53||   2021-08-16 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Failure's no longer an orphan as long as the media and the dems (and the GOPe quislings) have Trump to blame...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 12:02||   2021-08-16 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Could be just the excuse that Harris and Pelosi need to invoke the 25th Amendment. But if I was Harris, as unprepared for this kind of responsibility as she is, I would fight and beg for Joe to stay in office as long as possible.

But, yes, the only honorable thing for Biden to do at this point is to resign.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-16 12:11||   2021-08-16 12:11|| Front Page Top

#9 He's just coming back to talk about his most recent ice cream cone.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 12:23||   2021-08-16 12:23|| Front Page Top

#10 as he Zooms his National Security Council from Camp David

Likely a photoshop.

Did the White House use photoshop in Biden photo?
Note the time in London and Moscow on the clocks. Clocks show 3 hour time difference. However, there is currently only a 2 hour difference. Before March, London and Moscow have a 3 hour time difference because of daylight savings.
Posted by Pholuns Speresh8593 2021-08-16 12:48||   2021-08-16 12:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Biden's options and probabilities:

1- The buck stops here. 0%

2- Speaks in gibberish that will later be interpreted to suit the facts. 20%

3- Denies that anything has happened. 10%

4- Describes steps his administration is taking to salvage the situation. 20%

5- Blames somebody else (Trump). 40%

6- I was lied to. 10%

The walkbacks will start 10 minutes after he stops speaking.
Posted by Matt 2021-08-16 12:59||   2021-08-16 12:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Boom
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 13:01||   2021-08-16 13:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Harris is all "i'm looking into Haiti, that's all joe despite my earlier statment."
Joe is all "Trumps fault, despite my claims we had it all in control just a short time ago."
Military is like "Biden didn't listen to us."
Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-16 13:37||   2021-08-16 13:37|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ sounds like a circular firing squad, or one ot those other circle thingees...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-16 13:54||   2021-08-16 13:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Geesh, take one day off from the news...

The media: "It will be horrible if the Taliban stop girls from going to school..."

Also the media: "Your children must remain at home while schools are closed indefinitely..."

Saw a brutal little quip, "Afghanistan liberated from people who insist on covering faces, tearing down statues, and practices genital mutilation."
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-16 15:15||   2021-08-16 15:15|| Front Page Top

#16 Escape from Kabul looks directed by Roland Emmerich.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-16 16:06||   2021-08-16 16:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Biden returns to vacation at Camp David...
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-16 18:59||   2021-08-16 18:59|| Front Page Top

#18 As Trump remains banned from twitter the Taliban continue to update the world from their twitter accounts.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-16 19:00||   2021-08-16 19:00|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ sounds like a circular firing squad, or one ot those other circle thingees...

Jerk.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-16 20:48||   2021-08-16 20:48|| Front Page Top

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