Desperate Democrats wheel out Obama to try to save Newsom

 Monica Showalter  . . . But something doesn't seem to be happening, so now they've pulled out their real ace in the hole, Barack Obama, man of pizazz and charisma, former popular president, since turned Hollywood figure, to try to turn this situation around for embattled Newsom with his familiar pious soaring rhetoric about sweep-of-history, a choice of moving forward or backward."...

Obama cutting an ad for Newsom on COVID safety is peak hypocrisy. Does he really think we forgot about his recent birthday party? pic.twitter.com/8Qlgv0B0KZ

— Patrick Witt (@patrickjwitt) September 9, 2021

 . . . "How's Obama's reputation these days? He recently held a big maskless birthday party extravaganza event on Martha's Vineyard that ended up apparently turning into a COVID superspreader event. That's pretty well in the same league as the public sentiment on Gavin Newsom, whose French Laundry restaurant party at a time when the rest of the state was locked down record, brought him his first wave of public opprobrium.

"How's the Obama record on endorsements though?  Here are some random headlines from previous years:". . . 

Joe Biden, from comedy to tragedy

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Lying Joe Biden, from comedy to tragedy - Washington Times   "How could a comic figure from the world of politics such as President Joe Biden suddenly become such a tragic figure on the American scene? One minute he is bringing all civilized observers to laughter by saying to Katie Couric that President Franklin Roosevelt dealt with the 1929 stock market crash by getting “on television” and reassuring his fellow Americans as only FDR could do. (For the woke folks in my audience Franklin Roosevelt was not the president of the United States in 1929, and the television had yet to be popularized. Go ahead, look it up.) So, one minute Joe cracks us up with his nonsensical statement about President Roosevelt. In the next minute, he is betraying an entire country, Afghanistan, and leaving its people tyrannized by ragamuffins. What is more, he has lied to his fellow Americans repeatedly, obdurately, blatantly.

"Joe has been living on a multiplicity of lies for years. His fortune has been composed by lies—how can a fifty-year creature living at the public trough become a millionaire? He has lied as a politician from his first day in politics. He has even been caught plagiarizing from John Kennedy, from Bob Kennedy, and, of course, from Neil Kinnock, who was at the time leading the British Labour Party. Joe’s son, Hunter, has also been an active liar for years, a fraudster, a cheat, and now most flagrantly, he hopes to get by with his deceits because he has said the Big Guy is watching out for him. The Big Guy is, of course, Papa Joe. Well, we shall see. But Joe, you can lie to the American people, and you can lie to the media. You can even lie to your priest, but you cannot lie to the ragamuffins who just beat you and walked away with enough military equipment to arm a small army. Moreover, you cannot lie to the clock. The clock says you have three and a half years remaining in office. That is three and a half more years to screw things up even bigger than you have screwed things up in the past six months.". . .  

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American Trapped Called Biden's State Department. Here's What Happened.

Any US allies must not only see the fecklessness of this president but - more terrifying - the character of Americans who vote for people like Biden; people who don yellow shirts to form a wall of protection for violent ghouls in our city's streets for starters. TD

 Townhall

"I mean, you can probably guess what happened to this woman. She was left behind. The woman named “Nasria” is one of the hundreds of Americans that Joe Biden said ‘sayonara’ to when we left Afghanistan on August 31. We had to be out of there. The troops had to go; Joe didn’t want to upset the Taliban. The US caved to terrorists, despite Biden saying that we would stay until every American was out. That was a lie. We left and now after a few speeches about Afghanistan, which were trainwrecks, he thinks this issue is settled. Biden has moved on. He moved on weeks before this fiasco of an evacuation began. The Biden administration said that all these people had to do was contact the State Department and they, like Travelocity, would work on ways to get them out."...

 At one point, a time and place meet like Psaki described was arranged by the State Department. The State Department never showed, though Nasria says they waited for 12 hours.

Voter Fraud Is a Supreme Court Problem

 Voter Fraud Is a Supreme Court Problem › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

                      It is time for states to end this tyranny by reasserting their own rights.

"As a few American Greatness writers, and many of its readers, have pointed out: If our votes don’t count, nothing else matters. Election fraud should be the top subject in our minds every single day.

"Last week, a brilliant piece by Ted McCartney suggested we march on Washington, D.C.—peacefully, but in huge numbers—with just a single demand: A constitutional amendment that requires all voting to take place in-person, on Election Day, with voter ID, on paper ballots, and that the ballots be counted that same evening on live-streamed television under the watchful eyes of as many in-person observers as want to be there.

"This is an excellent idea. But now we have to think about the other half of this problem: If election laws aren’t enforced, they are essentially nonexistent. 

"How many of us remember the way Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan refused to certify the election results because the numbers didn’t add up—but then the cameras turned off for a few minutes, and, when they came back on, the Republicans announced they’d changed their minds and had decided to certify the results anyway? 

"In Georgia, drop boxes that had been receiving dozens or a hundred votes a day suddenly, over Columbus Day weekend, received thousands—but there is no camera footage of these particular drop box locations, so we can’t see what happened. Georgia law requires that all drop boxes have cameras. Any location with no camera footage—and there are several—broke the law. But the Georgia pols figured: Who cares? Who’s going to hold us to account? The Supreme Court?". . . 

The Swoon Is Over: Europe Breaks up With Biden Over Afghanistan Betrayal

 RedState

"Welp, that was a short marriage. Mere months after glowingly calling the new love of their life “a return to adulthood,” no-longer-swooning European leaders have kicked the inept “cheater” — beleaguered Joe Biden — to the curb, correctly labeling his haphazard, unilateral, disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, “cowardice,” “the greatest debacle that NATO has experienced since its foundation,” and worse."

Jaxon Pollock  Europe sours on Biden - BBC

Candidate for German Chancellor called Afghan withdrawal

"greatest debacle that NATO has experienced since its founding" Czech President labeled

@POTUS' actions "cowardice"

 The Vacuum Left by the US –Published in El Periódico (Spain)

. . . "The first commitment that will be put to the test will be allowing those Afghans who want to leave the country to do so. The United Nations Security Council demanded yesterday (China and Russia abstained from voting) that the Taliban should ensure that their territory will not be used to threaten or attack any country and guarantee the free movement of their people. The reasonable expectation is that, with an openly hostile local branch of the Islamic State, it is not in the Taliban’s immediate interest to become once more a sanctuary for terrorists. Although not going so far as to tolerate U.S. activities in their territory by way of drone attacks — which Joe Biden intends to maintain — that would cause potential innocent civilian casualties." . . .
Also from Spain: Biden’s Chaos – Watching America

 ...On the contrary, the U.S. has abandoned the Afghans to their sad fate and given a boost to the Islamic State group, euphoric after seeing its enemy bite the dust. How is it possible for the world’s greatest power to make a fool of itself in this way, humiliated by totalitarian bearded men, and that its intelligence services did not foresee the rapid fall of Afghanistan? Can the U.S. be trusted? The shadow of Vietnam and Jimmy Carter looms over Biden, whose ineptitude has unleashed chaos.

 After the Taliban, Iran eyes victory over US | Arab News

Making catastrophic foreign policy mistakes will be the Biden’s administration’s legacy. The president is making a habit of giving the other side all the leverage it needs while negotiating in the name of diplomacy. That is exactly what happened with the Taliban during the humiliating exit from Afghanistan, which the radical Islamic government of Iran was watching, taking notes on and cheering.

"You Left Us to be Killed by the Taliban"

 

Chuck Schumer Falsely Claims All Americans Who Wanted To Leave Afghanistan Got Out (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)  "Senator Chuck Schumer of New York was caught openly lying about Americans getting out of Afghanistan this week.

"He falsely claimed that all Americans who wanted to get out of the country have done so.

"This is simply not true and Schumer knows it."...

"You Left Us to be Killed by the Taliban" - Former Afghan Special Forces Member Sends Message Begging Friends in US to Help Rescue Him after Biden left him Stranded (thegatewaypundit.com)   ..".Emily Miller continues to lead efforts here at home to rescue the hundreds of America and thousands of SIV holders left stranded in Afghanistan.

"On Monday Emily posted a report on her Twitter page from an Afghan who was a member of the National Mission Brigade,  a group of special forces trained by the United States.  The man worked for the United States for 11 years and is now trapped in Afghanistan.  Now that the Biden administration allegedly left a “kill list” for the Taliban his life is in danger.  He waits for the Taliban to come kill him and begs US private groups to assist him knowing that Susan Rice and the Biden regime have left him stranded."...

Nancy Pelosi’s Archbishop Says Excommunication Is An Option For Abortion-Supporting Catholic Politicians |

  The Daily Wire

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the archbishop of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) home diocese in San Francisco, California, penned in an essay for The Washington Post over the weekend noting that excommunication from the Catholic Church remains an option for those Catholic politicians who insist on being publicly supportive of abortion in violation of Church teachings.

The archbishop said, plainly, in his appeal to Catholic politicians to resist support for abortion, particularly in light of abortion restrictions taking effect in places like Texas, that “[y]ou cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings.”

“This summer, we provoked an uproar by discussing whether public officials who support abortion should receive the sacrament of the Eucharist,” Cordileone wrote. “We were accused of inappropriately injecting religion into politics, of butting in where we didn’t belong.”

“I see matters differently,” the archbishop continued. “When considering what duties Catholic bishops have with respect to prominent laymen in public life who openly oppose church teachings on abortion, I look to this country’s last great human rights movement — still within my living memory — for inspiration on how we should respond.”. . . 

CNN, Don Lemon; useful idiots for the mal-educated

Top CNN Hack Comes To Biden’s Rescue After Afghanistan Falls

“I think you have to give [the Biden White House] some credit for what, No. 1, getting out, and No. 2, getting as many people out as possible,” the CNN anchor said.

 Don Lemon: 'Stop beating up' on Biden admin over Afghanistan, 'We don't know' if we left Americans behind   "CNN anchor Don Lemon offered a full-throated defense for the Biden administration amid the fallout of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

"During his nightly handoff with his primetime colleague Chris Cuomo, Lemon conceded that "many people didn't agree" with "the way" the withdrawal was handled, but quickly suggested such critics should move on, asking "how do we move forward from here?"

" 'I think that you also have to look at the number, again, the number of people they got out… I think you have to give them some credit for No. 1, getting out and No. 2, getting as many people out as possible," Lemon told Cuomo."... 

‘Don’t Go To The Hospital When You Get Sick!’: Don Lemon Screams At The Unvaccinated | The Daily Wire  ..."In a fit of pique, Lemon began shouting as he discussed the issue with fellow CNN talk show host Chris Cuomo at the beginning of Tuesday’s “Don Lemon Tonight.”

"The discussion came shortly after Cuomo apologized for running over his allotted time during the hand-off between the two shows at 10 p.m. Eastern. His show closed with the heartrending story of a woman who died of cancer after she could not receive treatment, due to the stress that COVID-19 put on the medical system.

" 'Listen, here is how I feel about that,” Lemon told Cuomo. “If you’re not going to get vaccinated, you don’t want to social distance, you don’t want to wear a mask, then maybe you don’t want to go to the hospital when you get sick.' ”. . . 

CNN and John Kerry; if you can't trust them, then who?

 

                                                                  AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Climate Change Now Gets Blamed For Everything | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com)  "Climate Change: CNN this week published a huge story saying the source of the migrant caravan wasn't so much corrupt Central American governments, violence or lousy economic policies. It was climate change. This is just the latest attempt by environmentalists to blame any and all bad news — even acne and animal bites — on climate change."...

Tornadoes, Emissions and Incoherence, Oh My: Biden Blows a Fuse Pushing Climate Change – RedState

A Complete List Of Things Supposedly Caused By Global Warming

"Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science. It provides the media with a new scare story, which has been picked up by the focus groups and turned into the new religion, offering us hell if we don't all change our ways." [BBC]

Portland's Black Residents ‘Drowned Out’ by Black Lives Matter Protests |

 Neon Nettle

African-American community feels dominated by mostly-white radical-left protesters

Not an original thought or slogan from this bunch.

 "The African-American community in the [Oregon] city is feeling silenced amid the nightly riots and violence caused by radical-left protesters, the Associated Press reported Monday."...

New Op-Ed in Newsweek: The Supreme Court Could Not “Block” Texas’s Fetal Heartbeat Law –

 Reason.com

President Biden is wrong: The Supreme Court lacks the “supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought.”

I have yet to see anyone explain how a case that involves a single named judge could be used to block the enforcement of a law by hundreds of judges statewide, who have no role in enforcing the law. For good reason, Roberts does not explain how his injunction would work. None of the dissenters can. Justice Breyer's proposals make no sense at all. I am grateful Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett stuck to first principles....

 

Althouse: "Don't say 'hostage' until you know it's a hostage situation. Watch out for fake news."

 Althouse  "I said in the comments yesterday, after I'd blogged about something else about Afghanistan and commenters tried to redirect me into the "hostage" situation. 

""Did WaPo report on the hostages? Seems like a bigger deal than [what you've chosen to blog about]," one commenter wrote. I've been irked by comments of the don't-blog-that-blog-this kind since 2004. Maybe you've noticed.

"Anyway. This morning, speaking of WaPo, I see this headline over there: "Blinken denies Taliban holding Americans in Afghanistan ‘hostage.'" 

"I don't trust Blinken, and I think avoiding the word "hostage" might be something you'd do if you had a hostage situation. So let's read: 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that some evacuation flights out of Afghanistan have been prevented from taking off because they included passengers without valid travel documents, an explanation that undercuts Republican claims that the Taliban is holding Americans hostage....

“It’s my understanding that the Taliban has not denied exit to anyone holding a valid document, but they have said those without valid documents, at this point, can’t leave,” Blinken said. “Because all of these people are grouped together, that’s meant that flights have not been allowed to go,” he said.... 

On Sunday, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said he received classified briefings indicating that Americans and Afghan allies are stranded at the Mazar-e Sharif airport. Taliban militants “are not clearing the airplanes to depart,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “This is really… turning into a hostage situation where they’re not going to allow American citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the United States of America.”... 

By now, Obama would have given the Taliban a pallet of cash.