Author: Blazingcatfur

After Afghanistan, No More Moral Blackmail From Failed Global Interventionists

The architects of the nation-building policies from Afghanistan to Iraq are failures and should be treated with the same disdain reserved for flat earthers or bloodletters.

Days after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which was initially sold as a necessary pre-emptive effort to secure deadly weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein planned to use against the American people, National Review ran an op-ed by former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum attacking everyone on the right who opposed the war as “unpatriotic conservatives.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office

There has been no end of commentary dealing with Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency and the scandal of his electoral loss. There’s no doubt that from the day of the “grand escalator ride” (and even before) to the day of his departure from the White House, a social, media, and political upheaval was in progress, and would not cease even when he once again became a private citizen. Reasons pro and con for the debacle have proliferated since Hurricane Trump made landfall in America, but the issues are basically very simple and can be stated economically.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

‘Seems like using the nuclear option’: Canadians who don’t want the jab decry COVID-19 vaccine mandates

TORONTO — Canada’s largest banks are the latest industry to announce mandatory vaccine policies this week, following the government’s announcement that federally regulated industries will require staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Ottawa’s vaccine mandate has been met with mixed reviews by the public, with some feeling that workplace safety is better served if all employees are vaccinated and others decrying the perceived infringement on personal rights.

Others were concerned about accommodations provided for those who cannot get a COVID-19 vaccine due to medical reasons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

American stranded in Kabul describes trying, and failing, to get into the airport

One of the most insightful reports I’ve seen about the state of evacuation outside of a Clarissa Ward segment on CNN. David Fox works in Kabul, is married to an Afghan woman, and has a young son with her. One would think that would make them a priority for evacuation, but there’s a problem: The crowding outside Karzai International Airport is so chaotic that they simply can’t get to a gate to make contact with troops or diplomats within.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

ABC News is accused of editing Biden’s car-crash interview to avoid him seeming ‘incoherent and confused’

ABC News has been accused of editing its Wednesday night interview with Joe Biden to flatter the president, removing mumbled statements and lapses of memory.

Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos was criticized for his claim that the chaos in Afghanistan this week was inevitable.

But on Thursday, when the full transcript was published by ABC, it emerged that chunks of it were edited out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Virginia college staff training video labels straight, white, Christian males as ‘oppressors’ who engage in the ‘systematic subjugation’ of minorities

A training video for student employees at James Madison University portrays people who are male, straight, cisgender, or Christian as ‘oppressors’.

These so-called dominant ‘oppressors’ are considered a threat to submissive groups of different races, genders, sexualities and religions, according to the video.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Peak Woke"

Jihadist attack in Burkina Faso kills 80 people

Burkina Faso’s president has declared three days of national mourning after suspected jihadists killed 80 people, including 59 civilians, in an attack in the north of the country.

The attack was the latest bloodshed in an area with high levels of Islamist violence.

The assault on Wednesday near the town of Gorgadji also left six pro-government militiamen and 15 military police dead, the government and the military said on Thursday. The initial death toll was put at 47 on Wednesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Burkina Faso, Islam, Islam and violence

Delingpole: Biden Dumped by European Fan Club After His Afghan Saigon

Europe’s politicians have had enough of President Joe Biden, the man whose arrival in the Oval Office just eight months ago they were treating like the second coming of the Messiah.

Leaders such as Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Angela Merkel have been careful not to make direct criticisms. But their parliaments have done an excellent job of doing their dirty work for them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Afghanistan

SHOCKA! FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated – sources

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Biden says he’ll evacuate ALL US citizens from Afghanistan, insists allies have NOT questioned America’s credibility and finally takes questions (from a pre-approved list) in speech he started 50 minutes late

Biden says he’ll evacuate ALL US citizens from Afghanistan, insists allies have NOT questioned America’s credibility and finally takes questions (from a pre-approved list) in speech he started 50 minutes late

President Joe Biden vowed Friday to ‘mobilize every resource’ to get Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan – and took questions, from a pre-approved list of White House reporters, about the conflict for the first time in nine days.

‘This is one of the largest difficult airlifts in history and the only country in the world capable of projecting this much power on the far side of the world with this degree of precision is the United States of America,’ Biden said.

He insisted that the chaotic takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, leading to disarray at Kabul’s airport as westerners and Afghans flee, did not taint the U.S.’s global reputation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Afghanistan