FoxRule – Sounds About right

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Biden Applies FoxRule to All Major Employers

Requires Corporations With 100 or More Employees to Follow the Good Example Set By Fox News

Afghanistan Exit, Blame Biden, Texas, Terrorism, Horse & Mask, Clapton, GOP

  • Tommy Christopher carries the tragic story of loss and bitterness as a few families of slain Marines express fury at President Biden.
     
    One of the several times I was proud of President George W. Bush was when his visit to a hospital to be with wounded military personnel was interrupted by an angry mother of one of the wounded. Aides tried to get him out. He refused to leave until he had absorbed her anguish. He simply stood and took it.
     
    Conservatives, on the other hand, were vicious in their public attacks on a another angry parent, Cindy Sheehan, whose son had been killed in Iraq.
     
    Let’s hope those of us on the left of today’s center line possess more empathy, more compassion, in the face of horrible grief and bitter fury.
     
  • At The Onion, our nation is stunned to see that a 20-year catastrophe could end so catastrophically.
     
  • Robert Levine, at The Moderate Voice, traces how our mission in Afghanistan transmuted from necessary and doable to tragically impossible. We went way past our original intention: get bin Laden and get out.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life says that, of the many reasons for our 20 year debacle in Afghanistan, the most salient is our failure to understand the importance of culture.
     
  • ISIS-K and the Taliban have been fighting with each other for years, two extremist militant groups who hate Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims who do not sufficiently hate Shiite Muslims, the United States, and most of all each other.
     
    About 3 months before last year’s US presidential election, as then president Donald Trump was making concessions to the Taliban in Afghanistan, ISIS-K forces attacked a prison, letting 1000 inmates escape.
     
    News Corpse watches as Senator Lindsey Graham goes on air to slam President Biden for a host of things that happened when he was citizen Biden, including the prison break that happened when Trump was in charge.
     
  • My long time conservative friend, Unabashedly American Darrell Michaels writes an open letter demanding his Congressional Representative remove President Biden from office.
     
    He quotes such widely accepted authorities as right wing Nigel Farage in Britain and right wing Glenn Beck here. His charges include withdrawing all forces from Afghanistan without any advance warning, which should surprise those who followed the activities of Donald Trump before Biden took over.
     
    Biden announced early on that he would respect Donald Trump’s notification that all troops would be withdrawn. I think my calculation is correct, that Mr. Trump’s follow up on that pledge was to withdraw 83% of our forces, and secure the release from Afghanistan prisons of 5,000 Taliban fighters.
     
  • Security matters, like any set of technical issues, attract televised experts who speak in bewildering techno-language that tends to obscure what they want to explain. In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson reviews our exit from Afghanistan and provides a clear (thank you) overview of the case that the exit enhances our security.
     
    Has to do with devoting anti-terrorism resources to fighting threats as they exist now, rather than getting bogged down forever fighting threats as they existed decades ago.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil picks out a few data points as a September rally approaches and racist incidents get more violent. I suppose the white supremacists in the US cheering the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan could count as a concern. They praise it as a template they can follow here.

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Taliban Cheered, COVID, Mea Culpa, Stephen Miller Time, Doocy Dooed

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  • My long time conservative friend, Darrell Michaels at Unabashedly American, wants to help out our President. Wow.
     
    He helpfully links to a suggested speech, pretty much a mea culpa for President Biden, in which the President proclaims that it is obviously his fault things in Afghanistan are so chaotic, and promises to try to be more levelheaded, which is to say conservative.
     
  • Green Eagle seems to feel that the most accurate way to look at the Afghanistan withdrawal is to consider the long ago entry into the war, the conduct of the war, the eventual commitment by one President to get out, as well as the fulfillment of that commitment by the next.
     
    He seems dissatisfied with press coverage that extends only to Let’s blame Biden Cause He’s There.
     
    Seems Green Eagle has more than a point.
     
  • driftglass makes a compelling argument with numbers, tracking casualties in Afghanistan with time devoted by mainstream news outlets. Not a good record for the press.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors shows Mr. Trump explaining how he completely destroyed ISIS and that bin Laden was not really a big deal. After all, he only had one big hit on 9/11/2001. Just a couple of buildings is all he got.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson is taken aback by Republican responses to the Kabul explosions.
     
  • As News Corpse reports, there is a hell-freezes-over moment as a Fox Network personality scolds the GOP for its knee-jerk attack on Biden after the Afghanistan terrorism attack.
     
  • Various snafus would have been logistically inevitable while evacuating after an American loss. And people have died. Conservatives are shocked that you don’t control what you want when you lose.
     
    But there have been bureaucratic tangles as well. Hackwhackers documents the role white supremacist Stephen Miller played, while in the Trump administration, in deliberately making each step more and more convoluted. The idea was to keep inferior people out – those with deficient cultural, racial, or religious characteristics.
     
    Even without the snarled matrix, people would have died. Seems car bombs don’t care about paperwork. But the tangles didn’t help.
     
  • Certainly we feel anger and frustration, even denial, at an unambiguous loss in Afghanistan. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged suggests we should know that, early on, American officials said no to an unambiguous win in Afghanistan. The Bush administration would not take yes for an answer.

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COVID – FDA Vaccination Approval Fact

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Sadly, there do exist chronological adults for whom this would be
startling news.

Afghanistan, Biden Blame, GOP, Bush, Anti‑Vax Costs, Dental HIPPA, Racism

  • Hackwhackers provides a clear picture of the top two issues this week: COVID and Afghanistan.
     
  • Darrell Michaels of Unabashedly American really hates our President for his criminally incompetent handling of Afghanistan policy.
     
    Darrell is a longtime friend, so I felt compelled to respond on his site.
     
    It is true I’m elderly and I have learned not to completely trust what I read.
     
    Perhaps news reports on which I rely are wrong. They say Mr. Trump withdrew 83% of our forces in the last few months of his administration. As I understand it, that drawdown from 15,000 to 2500 was completed 5 days before Mr. Biden became President Biden.
     
    During that almost-transition, Mr. Trump ordered his administration to share no information with Biden or his people about the troop reduction or about anything else.
     
    Prior to the election Mr. Trump pressured the government of Afghanistan to release all 5,000 Taliban prisoners they were holding.
     
    As early as April, I read accounts that the Taliban seemed to be gaining a lot of ground. I do see a connection to the troop reduction and the massive Taliban release.
     
    I understand there existed a program of expedited immigration for those who risked their lives to help American troops. Emerging accounts now indicate that, within the Trump administration, Stephen Miller and others devised methods of red tape delay and bureaucratic obstruction. They deliberately sabotaged the rescue program.
     
    They were highly motivated by nativist ideology, especially against non-white immigrants and Muslim refugees, all of whom they see as culturally inferior. They were unswayed by reports of pro-American heroism by those refugees.
     
    We do know that a substantial proportion of conservatives are actively propagating against the refugees about whom Darrell and I share anxious concern.
     
    I suggested my friend’s anger might better be directed toward them.
     
    I asked Darrell if all that reporting is wrong.
     
    There seem to have been more recent developments reporters have been holding back for security reasons. We are now learning about rescue and transport operations into and out of Taliban areas. So I suggested we may want to wait for a more complete picture.
     
    I shared my elderly perspective that there is no orderly way to lose a war.
     
    And I asked my friend to tell me where my information is incorrect.
     
    I have known Darrell for years. I am confident he will post an informed, probably snarky, and very very conservative answer.
    Let’s track this.
     
  • Tommy Christopher reports on conservative condemnation of President Biden for suggesting the Taliban transformed themselves to a more tolerant posture.
     
    Seems Biden was directly asked if the Taliban have changed. He answered NO but speculated they are under pressure because they want to appear legitimate.
     
    ABC, bless their hearts, published a clip with the entire question and answer, but included a transcript that left out the word “No.”
     
    See how losing a single word can transform Biden’s unequivocal No into the Yes that never was?
     
    Nice, ABC.
     
  • Infidel753 sees the Taliban victory, complete with religious absolutism with rules and standards imposed on any who remain unwilling, as a tragic triumph for religion.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson covers the under-covered aspect, just coming into central play, of the Taliban takeover: money.
     
  • Nojo explains how so very much of our struggle in the Middle East comes from our addiction to immediate drama at the expense of the rest of the story, the backstory, the whole story.
     
  • Laura Ingraham speaks from her perch on the Fox Network, asking viewers if they really want to accept responsibility for welcoming thousands of invading refugees from Afghanistan.
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged goes step by step as if talking to a small child, explaining to poor Laura how adult responsibility actually works in the moral universe.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has a thought about Republicans who are angry about Afghanistan.

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COVID, God and Science, Fatal Fatalism, Death Party, Unvaccinated War, Florida

  • You would think conservative Christians might keep up with Francis Bacon’s reconciliation of God and science. They have had 400 years:
     
    God created the universe.
    Science is a study of God’s creation.
    God created science.
     
    North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz watches our brethren bravely insist they will trust God, not science! Right up until they can’t breathe.
     
    This is an old story, but it works:
     

     
  • About this whole COVID thing, Marjorie Taylor Greene goes existential fatalist about fatalities – We’ll all die of something. M. Bouffant, ever the angry cynic, at Web of Evil draws the angry cynical essential reductio, which does indeed look a bit absurdum.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit distills to its essence what today’s Republican Party has adopted as its rock bed principle.
     
  • NOJO describes our newest COVID attack as a sort of biological civil war, with one side going all suicide vesting with weapons of mass destruction.
     
  • According to The Borowitz Report, Ron DeSantis’s favorability numbers are plummeting among Floridians who describe themselves as “somewhat,” “very,” or “strongly” opposed to being dead.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever ponders the degree of sympathy we ought to have when the willfully unvaccinated die. He decides it depends on to which of three broad categories the unprotected belong.
     
  • Journalist Imani Gandy has this about right.

    There are no words.

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Jan 6, COVID, Climate, Defund, Racism, Creeps, iSpy, Cuomo, DeJoy, Tan Man

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