Republicans slam President Biden for failing Gold Star families who shared 'heartbreaking' testimony after losing loved ones during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal: 'Blood is on his hands'

Cheryl Rex, mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola said during her testimony: 'When [Biden] approached me, his words to me were, 'My wife, Jill and I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag draped coffin.''

 Daily Mail Online   "Top Republican lawmakers are slamming the Biden administration for failing to provide closure for the Gold Star family members of the U.S. troops killed during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal - who are still seeking accountability nearly two years later.

"The families of the 13 U.S. service members killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, shared their heartbreaking stories during a public forum in Escondido, California, organized by Rep. Darrell Issa. They said they have been lied to by the Biden administration, which has not taken accountability for the deaths of their children.

" 'We can never get these men and women back, and that blood is on President Biden's hands,' Sen. Joni Ernst told DailyMail.com.

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" 'These Gold Star families' voices will continue to be heard as we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice and demand accountability for their deaths,' continued Ernst, R-Iowa, the first female combat veteran elected to the Senate.

" 'I've met with some of these families and heard their stories. The heartbreak and anger over the lack of answers from the Biden Administration is palpable,' Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., told DailyMail.com Tuesday.

"Waltz is a former Green Beret who served in Afghanistan during multiple combat tours.  

"A suicide bomber detonated his deadly payload outside of the Abbey Gate at Kabul's international airport on August 26, 2021, killing 13 American service members and at least 170 Afghans amid the chaos of the exit. . . ."

The Americans killed in the blast were: (left to right, starting with top row) Cpl. Daegan W. Page - Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo - Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover - Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza - Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum - Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui - Cpl. Hunter Lopez - Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz - Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss - Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez - Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak - Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola - Sgt. Nicole L. Gee

Go On, Gavin, Don’t Be Afraid — Debate DeSantis

"How does he explain that people are fleeing from California and to Florida without losing his cool?" 

 Issues & Insights "Some months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would be “all in” on a debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis later accepted. Now some are wondering if Newsom’s offer was sincere because it looks as if he wants to avoid the verbal sparring. Which makes sense: Newsom probably knows he can’t take the heat.

"Newsom was fast-tracked for political stardom through his connections to San Francisco wealth and power. He was groomed and polished by the Gettys, the Pritzkers and the Fishers, not only in politics but in business, where he was set up not to fail.

"But on his way to the governor’s mansion in Sacramento, which took him through the San Francisco mayor’s and the lieutenant governor’s offices, he never faced a capable political opponent in an election or debate. His path to the next political office was always clear of anything that might slow him or cause him even the slightest adversity. It has always been Blue sailing for him in California.

"When Newsom did run into a minor storm, he crumbled. In what’s been called his “damn” interview in August 2021 with editorial and opinion writers from McClatchy’s California newspapers, the governor, about a month before he survived a failed recall, reacted to not-at-all-hostile questions by uttering “damn” nine times, and slamming “his desk with his hand and fist 59 times,” the California Globe Reported.

"A YouTuber who posted the video online called Newsom’s reactions “a whiny self-pitying recall rage rant.” Larry Elder, who ran for governor in the recall election, tweeted that Newsom had morphed “into Captain Queeg.”

When DeSantis confronts Newsom with hard questions, and indisputable facts, how is he going to hold it together? How does he explain that people are fleeing from California and to Florida without losing his cool?

Blinken Roasted Over Statement Condemning Russia Convicting Opposition Leader Navalny on “Politically Motivated Charges” While Biden Admin Persecutes Trump

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The United States strongly condemns Russia’s conviction of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny on politically motivated charges. The Kremlin cannot silence the truth. Navalny should be released.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 4, 2023

 Tom Fitton

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Agreed and I also strongly condemn the Biden administration's arrests and prosecution of leading opposition candidate

@RealDonaldTrump

on politically motivated charges. The Biden White House cannot silence the truth. The politically motivated charges against

@RealDonaldTrump

should be dropped immediately.

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@RichardGrenell

You interfered with the 2020 US election by pushing a fake story that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” - it wasn’t. But you pushed the Chinese government’s preferred talking point. You’ve lost any credibility and moral authority to lecture others.

Cargo Ship Transporting Nearly 500 EVs Burns for a Week before Being Towed into Port

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"Tugboats finally towed a cargo ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars, nearly 500 of which were reported to be electric vehicles (EVs), into a Dutch port for salvaging, allaying fears that it could sink and impact shipping lanes.

The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution.

The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones, on board caught fire on July 25 while traveling from the German port city of Bremerhaven to Singapore.

Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging.

…Much of the gray paint on the ship’s sides was gone, apparently scorched off by the heat inside the ship when the fire was raging." . . .

. . ."In some good news from the world of science, researchers have made a discovery that could lead to better lithium-metal batteries, as opposed to lithium-ion batteries, while reducing their risk of explosion.  Their findings suggest that by controlling the shape of the lithium it would be possible to create more explosion-resistant batteries than the lithium-ion batteries like the ones in the above stories." . . .

Jason Aldean is right and here’s why -

 Stephanie Lundquist-Arora; American Thinker   "When I was 16 and waiting tables in my small town’s Big Boy, where my mother also worked, a visiting city-dweller, let’s call her “Professor,” treated me like I existed to be part of her small-town experience. Professor was fascinated that I had spent my whole life there and attended a high school that hosted an annual tractor day. She peppered me with questions and was overly enthusiastic, probably for a future cocktail party anecdote, that my weekend plans included a bonfire party in the woods and a swim across a nearby lake. It occurred to me that I was a zoo animal on exhibit in the eyes of this woman when, in a tone that made me wonder if she was going to try to pet me, she said, “Aren’t you just as American as apple pie?!” At her university, I believe that’s called a micro-aggression, but not if it is targeted at rural Americans, apparently. 

"People like Professor love the small-town experience because they get to feel superior. Like almost all other aspects of small-town culture, Professor doesn’t understand that residents of rural America generally do not measure their status based on what they do to earn money. Professor does though, and has fewer people to compete with for “best job title” in small towns. She sits at rural cafes and revels in the sanctimonious glory of her educational enlightenment and her kindness to the “little people.”

"I imagine that Professor is sitting at her desk on a university campus at this moment hopping mad about Jason Aldean’s hit song, “Try That in A Small Town.” Professor does not bother understanding small-town culture because, to her, it is not worthy of understanding. More explicitly, who cares about the white, working class? Certainly not Professor, who is also white, but hates to be reminded of that fact. And since she disagrees with values like patriotism, well then, they must be racist, of course." . . . 

A favorite soccer team; anybody playing against the US Women

😦CARLI LLOYD REVEALED ALL! I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE SAID THAT! USA WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM NEWS - YouTube

From the comments: "As a citizen of the USA, I am a proud supporter of any team that plays against the US Womens Soccer Team."

"I'm a big soccer fan. Played my whole life, even up to the professional level. I used to watch almost every USWNT game with my mom and sister who both were huge fans. None of us watch women's soccer anymore at all and it's all due to Megan Rapino and the USWNT lawsuit against the USSF. Rapino and the USWNT have done more damage to women's soccer than anyone in the sport's history."

Trump rails against indictment, describing it as "persecution of a political opponent"

 

"This is the persecution of the person that's leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot. So if you can't beat him you persecute him or you prosecute him," Trump said while giving brief remarks on the tarmac at Washington Reagan National Airport before boarding his plane to return to New Jersey. (CNN)

 Marjorie Taylor Greene Seeks to Impeach Garland for 'Persecuting' Trump (newsweek.com)   "I'm introducing articles of impeachment on Merrick Garland," she added. "Because we cannot tolerate this in America, where our great institutions are welded[sic] and abused in such a way to impeach people's political enemies."

"It's Called Trump Derangement Syndrome" - Maricopa County Republican Chair Releases Statement on The Persecution of President Trump    "Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Chairman Craig Berland released an official statement yesterday denouncing the radical left’s political persecution and “feeble attempt to burn President Trump at the stake of a fake indictment.”

"On Thursday, the Biden Regime announced they were going to indict the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 election, President Donald Trump. The radical left Marxists are terrified of President Trump saving America from their reign in 2024.

"The House Oversight Committee on Thursday was finally allowed by the corrupt Biden FBI to view an “unclassified” document proving Joe Biden was taking bribes from Ukraine for political favors, the most egregious criminal accusation against any sitting president. Just four hours later, the Regime struck back, and President Trump announced he had been indicted on junk charges by Biden’s DOJ." . . .

UPDATED: The gods of soccer had enough of toxic feminists

Why I'm HAPPY THE USWNT LOST IN DISGRACE - YouTube

"Might be nice to call out by name the women on the team that didnt act disrepectful. I feel sorry for them being mixed in with the activists. Regardless of how those few women played they at least represented our country well. They deserved better teammates."

"As an American who still hopes and believes better for our country, I can proudly say that I'm glad Sweden won. The American womas team was a huge embarassment and they deserved to lose the way they did. This American refuses to support wokeness, lgbtqabcdxyz, etc. Oh, and by the way, ALL LIVES MATTER. I hope and pray for better days for America."

Image courtesy of The Slammer.

The gods of soccer had enough of toxic feminists - American Thinker . . ."Honestly, who knows?  I did hear from many soccer analysts that this team did not play hungry.  Maybe they had something else in their minds.  Maybe the young women from Sweden had more fun on the field.  They looked like it.

"Last, but not least, the era of Megan Rapinoe is finally over.  She can now move on to advertising sandwiches or Biden's re-election.  Her attitude polluted this team and had many of her countrymen actually cheering that she missed the penalty kick.

"Let me get back to baseball or the NFL, and I will consider another soccer post when the World Cup comes to the U.S."

Jason Whitlock on Megan Rapinoe: 'She's One of the Phoniest Athletes Ever' (msn.com)    "Jason Whitlock: “I was thrilled with what happened on Sunday. ‘The Great Gay Hope’ ruined the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. I think their collapse mirrors the dissent of Megan Rapinoe. She’s made this whole thing the last three years about her brand and building herself up." . . . 

Jack Smith would have zero chance of getting a conviction, if this trial were held in a neutral venue.

 

Did Trump Know Election Fraud was a Lie? - American Thinker  . . ."Jack Smith would have zero chance of getting a conviction, if this trial were held in a neutral venue. However, it will be in Washington D.C., where about 95 percent of the citizens are Democrats. For this reason, Trump and the other defendants may have to win this one on appeal.

For more information concerning these matters, check out of Debunked? and How Elections are Stolen, a new book that outlines 23 problems that must be fixed before the 2024 elections."

How to commit the perfect coup against a president and his supporters - Bookworm Room   . . ."Everything from here on out is theory, but it’s theory based upon readily available facts. If you look at them in a particular way, those readily available facts show a sustained pattern of subverting the will of the people to obtain total political power, something that culminated with the recently announced indictment against Donald Trump.

"If I were trying to overthrow a duly elected president, I’d start by saying that he conspired with a foreign power to cheat in the election. I’d believe I could get away with this charge because I would have the media on my side, relentlessly pounding away at the narrative. It would help that members of the president’s own party, despising him for destroying their cozy little arrangement with the opposition, refused to support him politically.

"When it became apparent that the president was hugely effective at governing on those things that matter to ordinary people, such as the economy, national security, immigration, energy policy, etc., and that the false charges of treason and cheating, I’d look ahead to throwing the next election.

"What I would need is a way to prevent the president from campaigning and a way to institutionalize election fraud. Thankfully, I would have gamed out long before the election what a government can do if faced with a pandemic infection. COVID’s appearance was providential." . . .

I would further destabilize things by using an ex-con’s drug death in police custody, to set America on fire. The fuel would have been provided by years of anti-white and anti-police rhetoric, especially in the education world, from academia down to kindergarten.

 Jack Smith Went After a Republican Before - Case Got Unanimously Overturned by SCOTUS (thefederalistpapers.org)   . . ."Even the left-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the decision to overturn the convictions, which McDonnell said “says a lot.”

“There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his decision." . . .

A minister proudly touting her abortion exemplifies what leftism does to faith -

  Andrea Widberg; American Thinker   "In 2015, David Burge (Iowahawk) posted a now famous tweet describing leftism: "1. Identify a respected institution. 2. Kill it. 3. Gut it. 4. Wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect." In that short tweet, he perfectly described what leftism has done to Judaism and Christianity. And that act of wearing a religion's "carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect" is the best caption possible for a video in which a female Presbyterian minister, draped in a Planned Parenthood stole, celebrates her abortion and abortions generally. 

"My parents were not religious. Dad had a snootful of religion being raised in an Orthodox Jewish orphanage in Nazi Germany, even as his older siblings, both ardent communists, castigated religion as the evil opiate of the people. Mom, meanwhile, was the daughter of a non-religious Jewish man and an equally non-religious Christian woman. With both having spent some of their formative years among Jewish socialists in British-mandate Palestine and, later, Israel, organized religion was not high on their list." . . .

'I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin'.

. . ."Religious leaders, however, aren't supposed to be ordinary people, at least insofar as moral instruction goes. They are supposed to teach us those core religious principles and uphold those same principles in their own lives. If they don't agree with religious principles, they shouldn't become priests, pastors, ministers, or rabbis. 

"But that's not how the left operates. Rather than ignoring religious houses of worship and focusing on their own houses of worship (schools, colleges, TV shows, state houses, etc.), leftists infiltrate traditional religions and eat them from the inside out, wearing them as the skin suit Iowahawk described. And with that introduction, I give you Rebecca Todd Peters, dressed in her Planned Parenthood stole, assuring her congregation that abortion is a religious act and shouting her two abortions.

"Nothing more clearly shows what leftism has done to America because, when you think about it, human sacrifice is a pagan act. It is the antithesis of both the Jewish ethos and the Christian one:

Democrat Hypocrisy Towards Latest Charges Against Trump Summed Up By a Single Cartoon

 The Federalist Papers   "The problem isn’t that Democrats and their media allies are dirty rotten scoundrels. Everyone knows that.

"No, the real problem is that their followers don’t care.

"They so hate Donald Trump, and by extension any of his supporters, so much they’re willing to ignore practically anything in order to get rid of him and silence the rest of us.

"The latest charges against Trump, filed by Jack Smith, shows just how much Democrats are willing to destroy the rule of law in order to get Trump.

"The charges essentially criminalize speech that Democrats express freely when it suits them."

Here is what Democrat hypocrisy towards the latest charges against Donald Trump brutally summed up by a single cartoon:

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