Afghanistan Inspector General report condemns Biden administration after WH blames Trump –

  One America News Network (oann.com)

"A government watchdog claims that Biden’s botched pullout from Afghanistan has left tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind, and the president’s efforts to rescue and relocate them are being undercut by “bureaucratic dysfunction and understaffing.”

“The U.S. promised to resettle its allies in safety, but the United States is failing,” stated the stark assessment from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). 

"The SIGAR 2023 High-Risk List report was published on Wednesday, which details the significant threats to the $8 billion that the United States has given to the Afghan people after its withdrawal in August 2021.

"The report was released as Afghanistan experiences a “humanitarian catastrophe” brought on by the violent Taliban government, which seized power after the United States withdrew.

The hearing is titled “The Biden Administration’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General,” and it is taking place before Congress on Wednesday. Inspector General John Sopko and watchdogs for the Defense and State Departments, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be the participants testifying.

"They will be providing legislators with updates on their individual analyses of how the Biden administration handled the pullout, which resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and the displacement of thousands of additional Americans and Afghan allies.". . .

Bragg’s Obsession To Pin A Crime On Trump Deserves Disbarment And More

 The Brief: Bragg's Obsession To Pin A Crime On Trump Deserves Disbarment And More | Gregg Jarrett (thegreggjarrett.com)  "The consensus —even among Democrats who despise Donald Trump— is that Alvin Bragg has made a colossal mess of things.

"Recently, the Manhattan District Attorney compounded one legal blunder with another.  This should surprise no one.  Bragg is the kind of guy who could screw up a free lunch.  Incompetence is his métier.

"In his brief tenure as DA, he has managed to increase the number of criminals terrorizing the streets of New York City by refusing to prosecute many of them or dropping serious felonies to petty misdemeanors.  Innocent victims of the rampant crime fume and rage against Bragg, while prosecutors in his charge have abandoned ship.

"Like the crazed captain in Moby Dick, Bragg is obsessed with harpooning Trump, his white whale.  In the DA’s twisted mind, all evil in the world is personified by the former president.  You can almost hear Bragg channeling Ahab’s words, “They think me mad, but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!”

"Instead of getting a mental health check-up, Bragg chose to indict the former president based on a transparently invented crime that is wholly unsupported by the law and contradicted by the facts.

"His warped theory goes something like this: Trump supposedly violated campaign finance laws by paying money to a lying accuser in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement, which is legal.  Forget that the transaction itself does not count as a campaign contribution.  The federal prosecutors determined it doesn’t.  So did the Federal Election Commission.  Both reviewed the matter and concluded that no laws were broken.". . .

Illustrations by Moby Dick 1 Digital Art by Jerry LoFaro - Pixels; Conde Nast Art - Fine Art America

Tucker [blasts] Eric Swalwell's Career With Brutal Takedown ; Babylon Bee helps out

He was removed from the House Intelligence Committee in January by incoming Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his involvement with a suspected Chinese spy who successfully placed an intern in his office. 

 Trending Politics  "Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t hold back in crucifying Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) over his latest financial reports showing luxury travel to Miami and New York paid for by campaign donors.

“ 'When he’s not shagging Chinese spies, he gets to travel all over the world at his donors’ expense,” joked Carlson, referencing Swalwell’s relationship with Christine Fang in an alleged Chinese honeypot operation.

“ 'If he wants to he can hang out on the beach in a Hawaiian shirt with an umbrella drink, gold chains, and a chest wig.”. . .

. . ."Swalwell, who has been a co-chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee since 2016, hasn’t been shy about reporting his jet-setting excursions. Last summer he reported renting a limousine and holding a fundraising event at the five-star Ritz in Paris, far from the 14th congressional district southwest of San Francisco.

Chadwick Moore, a contributor at The Spectator, joined Carlson to dive deeper into the congressman’s spending habits.". . .

Security Concerns Raised As Eric Swalwell's Girlfriend Revealed To Be President Xi In A Wig | Babylon Bee  - "Security concerns were raised over how bad Chinese spying has gotten after it was revealed this week that Eric Swalwell had been secretly dating President Xi Jinping in a wig.

" 'Hey, wait a minute!" said an FBI agent as he saw Rep. Swalwell holding hands with a woman who looked suspiciously like President Xi in light makeup, a dress, and a wig. "That's that Chinese guy! Get him!" Pulling the wig off, the agent revealed the Chinese woman to be Xi himself.

" 'Cheryl... why? Why did you lie to me? We had something great!" Swalwell said, tears in his eyes, as President Xi activated his jetpack and escaped.". . .

What Happens To A Country That Loses Its Mind? –

 Issues & Insights   "To see biological males win “woman of the year” awards and others compete against women in sports, and at least one paid to promote sports bras, it’s obvious the American mind has slipped a few gears. But our current troubles are about more than celebrating what is clearly a mental illness that needs to be treated. We have lost our way almost entirely across the board.

"The locus of our insanity, one could argue, is Washington, D.C. The federal government developed a habit long ago of spending beyond its means. But the foolishness has reached new levels.

"The federal debt is heading to $31.7 trillion like a freight train at full throttle with no brakes. Spending is outpacing revenue by more than $1.5 trillion. Social Security is headed for collapse sooner than its appointed guardians had expected, but the collective vision among our “leaders” on the Potomac doesn’t go beyond the next election. So nothing is done.

"Despite the obvious problems, the Democrats want to tax higher and spend more. The supply of vacuity seems endless

"Washington is also at the axis of weaponized government. Free speech is being crushed, dissent from the left’s political agenda is considered an imprisonable offense, and court rulings are to be ignored if they offend progressive sensibilities (yes, we know, two words that don’t belong together). The Democrats see the IRS not as just a revenue collector but also as a truncheon with which to discipline those who refuse to live under their boots. Parents who grouse at school board meetings? They are of course terrorists who must be watched.

"It’s no coincidence that we’re living in riotous times. The damage seems to build with every news cycle. But to listen to the Democrats and their communications department, also known as the mainstream media, the only riot in U.S. history was on Jan. 6, 2021. In their twisted minds, rampaging, killing, burning, and looting in the name of George Floyd, or some imagined resistance to fascism, are just benign elements of mostly peaceful protests. Democrats have even contributed money to bail out the “protesters.' ”. . .

Who Really Cares About Dead Kids?

Jones told Teen Vogue that "more policing does not lead to community safety." (The thousands of black men who are still alive thanks to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's more policing policy would disagree.) Instead, Jones proposed "more funding to social workers, public education [and] ending poverty." (Why didn't anybody else think of that?). Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter  "We've heard a lot lately about how Republicans don't care about dead kids -- just keep your hands off their guns! The bullhorn insurrection staged by Tennessee legislators, for example, was justified on the grounds that they were JUST TRYING TO SAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES!!!

"As MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell put it, the bullhorn episode showed "who is trying to protect the children of Tennessee and who isn't."

"The amazing statistic that's supposed to make us give up our guns PRONTO is that since 2020, gun violence has become the leading cause of death for American children.

"You're supposed to be thinking of the little kids killed in school shootings, like in Uvalde or the Christian school in Nashville. In fact, the odds that a child will be killed in a mass school shooting are 1 in 10 million.

"The trick is that "children" includes 16-to-19-year-old gang members. Exclude 16-to-19-year-olds, and the number of kids killed by guns every year plummets from 2,811 to a few hundred.

"It turns out, black teenagers are using guns to kill a lot of other black teenagers.

"This will come as a surprise to most people because black-on-black violence is not considered newsworthy. (By contrast, any white-on-black violence, even the sort of thing that wouldn't make local news if the perp were black, will get front-page coverage at The New York Times, international headlines and a call from the president.)

"Based on arrests reported in the local news, here are a few recent examples of "children" being killed by gun violence. You will notice that none of these suspected homicides would have been prevented even if Republicans gave up all their guns.". . .

The food that can feed, and maybe save, the planet: Bugs

 

Two words in this report give rise to caution: "maybe", and "CNN".TD

Bugs: The food that can feed, and maybe save, the planet | CNN

"On a morning in the not-too-distant future, you might toast bread made with cricket flour, drink a protein smoothie made from locust powder, and eat scrambled eggs (made extra-creamy with the fat from mopane caterpillars) with a side of mealworm bacon.

"That meal will give you four times the iron, more than three times the protein and more key vitamins and minerals than the bread, smoothie, eggs and bacon you eat today – all while saving the planet.

"No way you’ll eat bugs, you say?

"Well, sorry to break this to you, but if you eat chocolate, pizza and spaghetti, you are already eating insects – and worse.

Bugs, rodent hair and poop: How much is legally allowed in the food you eat every day?

The US Food and Drug Administration allows 30 or more insect parts and some rodent hair in every bar of chocolate; nearly two maggots in a 16 ounce can of tomatoes or pizza sauce; and up to 450 insect parts and nine rodent hairs in every 16 ounce box of spaghetti.". . .

Sorry, CNN, you're not helping; this will have to come from someone better than you. And MSNBC. TD

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

- Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)

• Steven Spielberg thanked Tom Cruise for insisting to Paramount that his last Top Gun movie not be streamed until its run in the theaters was over. He said it saved the movie industry. Moving forward Tom Cruise's next movie will be shot in outer space or, as Scientologists call it, the Old Country.
• • The Hollywood Reporter ran an article about older stars dating young women in the wake of all the publicity generated by Leonardo DiCaprio from dating women half his age. People magazine reported that Al Pacino is fifty years older than his fiancée. They are planning an open-casket wedding.
• Transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney became a woke star thanks to the Bud Light boycott over [his] image on the cans. [His] face was also on the cartons. I saw it and just assumed it was a Surgeon General's warning that if you drink too many Bud Lights you may wake up next to a woman with a penis. [Sorry, Argus; I cannot call a man by a feminine term.TD]
•  Budweiser released a series of patriotic ads starring the Clydesdales Monday. They are desperate to retrieve the customers they lost when they decided to put a Transgender on the Bud Light cans. The greatest day of my life was the day I discovered I don't need alcohol in order to make bad decisions.
•  Chicago teens went wild looting the shopping district en masse Sunday. The kids used Instagram to time the surprise meet-up and the mob was looting stores and smashing cars well before the cops arrived. The five-second rule for food dropped onto the floor doesn't work if you have a two-second dog.
• • Elon Musk gave an interview to Tucker Carlson Monday in which the billionaire industrialist and innovator warned that AI could get recklessly out of control and cause civilization to collapse. I recently bought a book titled How to Overcome Artificial Intelligence. I saw it advertised on Facebook.
• • The AARP set up a Fraud Watch Network to help its members avoid online shopping scams that involve scammers pretending to be legitimate sellers. The bargains they offer prey on human greed. I sure hope the diamond bracelet I just ordered for my girlfriend is real, otherwise I'm out twenty bucks.

Megyn Kelly and Michael Knowles Team up to Totally Wreck Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light

 

Uh-huh. So you spend decades and untold millions of dollars promoting Bud Light as the “everyman’s beer,” then you get the brilliant idea that promoting a man who caricatures women — at best — is going to “bring people together,” how, exactly? I mean, this dumpster fire made the disastrous 1985 “New Coke” rollout, which still lives in marketing infamy, look not all that bad, in comparison.

 WATCH: Megyn Kelly and Michael Knowles Team up to Totally Wreck Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light – RedState  "First, I’m over the Dylan Mulvaney-Bud Light discussion — way over — to the point of ridiculousness. But when I ran across former Fox News host Megyn Kelly‘s latest podcast, in which she tag-teamed with Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles to blister the bejesus out of the subject, I had to write about it."

"On Monday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly went after Anheuser-Busch (A-B) big-time — over its transparent panicked attempt to stop the bleeding caused by Bud Light’s ill-advised hookup [no pun intended] with cartoonish “transgender” Mulvaney — with a syrupy patriotic ad, which only made things worse for the brewer. So how big-time did Kelly go? This big-time:. . . "Screw you and your stupid empty platitudes."

. . ."Anheuser-Busch’s monstrous Mulvaney fail will live in marketing infamy, alongside “New Coke” and other such disasters, which might make one think that this latest example of “Go woke, go broke” — while it won’t break the bank completely for A-B — would be a wake-up call to American corporations to stop pandering to a minute percentage of the population at the risk and expense of alienating loyal customers.". . .

Newly-Elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Declares Blacks Should Be Free To LOOT Without Fear Of Criminal Prosecution

  enVolve (en-volve.com)

Though Lori Lightfoot was voted out as a result of “widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation’s third-largest city,” voters replaced her with someone who is even more radical.

"Brandon Johnson, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, has stated that in order to combat “white supremacy,” black people should no longer be subject to criminal prosecution and be taken out of “state-sponsored policing.' ”

"During the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Johnson was an ardent supporter of the “defund the police” movement and spoke on a panel titled “We Don’t Call Police: A Town Hall on a Police-Free Future” in which he praised activists for pushing “an agenda that actually can transform people’s lives,” the Chicago Tribune reports.". . .

Definitely NOT the Brandon we've been cheering for all this time. TD

Chicago Couple Beaten in Viral Video Speaks out, 'They Said They Were Going to Kill Us' – RedState   . . ."The mob proceeded to rob the couple of their shoes, phones, a pair of glasses, an Apple watch, and a hat. DJ suffered injuries to his face, shoulder, and back, and pointed to his black eye in the interview. The police initially classified the beating as a robbery:". . .

Twitter removes woke policy against ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’ transgender people

  Rebel News

Prior to the move, the platform’s content policy read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.” 

"Twitter has removed its woke-oriented policy against the misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals, stirring controversy among LGBTQ activist organizations that the platform could become an “unsafe” space for transgender individuals.

"Prior to the move, the platform’s content policy read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.”

“ 'This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” the rule stated. The rule was put in place in 2018 following campaigning from activist groups. Other platforms, including TikTok and Pinterest explicitly ban misgendering and deadnaming as part of their content policies.

"On Monday, the company revoked its prior guidelines to replace them with a free speech-first policy built around the principle of “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” which only places warning labels on violative tweets and limiting their reach instead of banning the users who post them. . ."    

Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender or non-binary person by a name they used before transitioning or coming out, such as their birth name or former name, without their consent

Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest -

 Intellectual Takeout   . . .

Emphases in the original

. . ."It means that, when we elect men to public office we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. It means that after we’ve elected them we can’t sit back and say, ‘Our job is done. What they do now doesn’t concern us.’ 

That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want. If we allow them to have their way to grow strong and vicious, then the heroic struggle which welded thousands of lovely towns like this into a great nation means nothing. Then we’re not citizens, we’re traitors!

The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood. The kind of government we get, is the kind of government we want. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people can mean ANY kind of government. It’s our duty to make it be only ONE kind: uncorrupted, free, united! [Emphasis added.]

Leo Dee undermines cause by saying he's got "no hatred" for terrorists who murdered daughters and wife

 Leo Dee undermines cause by saying he's got "no hatred" for terrorists who murdered daughters and wife (ibloga.blogspot.com)   "The British-Israeli rabbi whose 2 daughters and wife were tragically murdered earlier this month by jihadists around the Jordan Valley has made a very bizarre and undermining statement about the jihadists themselves:

The Israeli-British rabbi whose wife and two daughters were killed this month in a terror shooting on a West Bank road said he has “no hatred” for the people who gunned down his family, in comments aired on Sunday.

Lucy Dee, 48, and her daughters Maia Dee, 20, and Rina Dee, 15, were killed after Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the car they were in as they drove through the northern Jordan Valley on April 7. The daughters were declared dead at the scene, while Lucy was rushed to a hospital in critical condition but died three days later.

The suspects remain on the loose despite promises from officials that they will be found and brought to justice.. . .

. . ."What Dee should really be doing is condemning any and all dhimmis who minimize the murder of his family, including those who substitute the word "murder" with "killed". That kind of disturbing mentality and MSM mandates are exactly what enable these tragedies to occur. It's absolutely awful these murders occur. But it's also awful when relatives of the murdered women take the lenient positions Dee is. That really hurts the battle against Islamofascism."

Dhimmi:  A non-Muslim subject of a state governed according to the shari'a who is granted the freedom to worship and is entitled to the protection of life and property by the state, although constrained to pay a special tax and not granted the full legal status accorded to Muslim subjects. The status of dhimmi was originally limited to Christians and Jews but has occasionally been extended to Hindus, Zoroastrians, and others.