The name of this blog is Pink’s Politics. The name comes from my high school nick-name “Pink” which was based on my then last name. That is the only significance of the word “pink” here and anyone who attempts to add further or political meaning to it is just plain wrong.

Monday, August 16, 2021

Do We Even Have a President? A Rant.

As I write this our President is still in hiding.  The press secretary has closed her press office for a week.  Democrats continue to simply point a finger at the previous administration for every failure of the current Biden administration.  Indeed, as noted in my previous post, blame seems to be the only thing this administration does well.  This morning, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the failure of the Afghan military is to blame for the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan.

As America and the world fall apart around us, I wonder what the Biden voters are thinking?  How do they feel when they learn that the people we abandoned in the middle of the night in Afghanistan are clinging to the final aircraft leaving Kabul and then falling to their death from 1000 feet in the sky?  How do they feel when they learn that gunfire at the airport involving our military has now resulted in at least two deaths?  How do they feel when our woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley tells us that terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda will now reconstitute themselves far more quickly than expected and in less than 2 years?  What about the Afghani women and children to whom we gave education and hope who now will be faced with the harshness of Sharia law for their progress?

Do you even know that this embarrassment that some experts call the worst blunder in American international history is even going on?  Where is the outrage?  You certainly had plenty over every word out of President Trump’s mouth.  Or are you now just too busy wondering if your neighbor is wearing their mask when they have visitors inside their own house?

Those of you that are old enough must be feeling some of the same as you did in 1975 during the final pullout from Vietnam.  Or doesn’t it matter any more just so long as we don’t have Donald Trump for president?

The terrorist threat is back.   Not from your neighbor who opposes vaccines and mask mandates but from the new power of the Taliban combined with our open borders.  You who voted for Biden were so afraid of Trump – do you feel safer now?

But you have all seemingly gone into hiding with our supposed President.  Do you have any idea how Biden is absolutely destroying this country beyond any hope of repair?  And now he is doing the same to the world.

Good luck when you can’t buy gas or food or other necessary or nearly necessary consumer goods; when inflation is so high that your paycheck becomes close to worthless.  Good luck when the big government entitlement and other help programs run out of money because no one is working or able to pay the taxes they require.  Good luck when your primary value in life becomes hate rather than tolerance for anyone who thinks, looks, or is in a different identity group from you.

And as to the world and America’s place in it:  Biden’s handling (or mishandling) of the Afghanistan withdrawal has put us in peril with both our allies and our enemies.  The allies will never trust us again, and the enemies know that if they just are patient, we don’t have the stamina to finish the fight and they can win whatever battle they have with us in the end.

Perhaps you don’t know what is going on.  Afterall, while the Taliban can still post on Twitter and other social media, Trump along with other conservative voices are banned.  You are fed only what supports the party line; contrary facts and expert voices are excluded.  Pelosi banned questions from Republican Congress people to experts about what is happening in Afghanistan.   Even the facts you are given by the administration and the mainstream media are often distorted.  But perhaps you don’t care.  You got rid of the “evil orange man” and so all is well.

I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are clueless about what is going on.  So, here are some current news pieces you may not have seen.  I hope that you will read and think about them and perhaps take a moment to speak up.  At least take the time to say a prayer for the American lives that were and are being lost in Afghanistan apparently for nothing and for the Afghanis who stood by us and helped us while we were there and whom we are now abandoning to the Taliban.

From former U.S. Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011 :

“This is the worst loss in American history. Our most popular president has vanished. Prove me wrong.”

“Everything Democrats touch turns to s**t. Prove me wrong.”

“My friends who died for no reason would be disgusted with this administration.”

“Have any of our generals and admirals resigned out of disgrace yet?”

“We’ve heard more from The Taliban than we have from the most popular president in our history. Anything @PressSec ?”

“People are being killed trying to evacuate Kabul. But don’t worry… Jen Psaki will tell us what’s actually happening once dips**t goes to sleep.”

“Do I have this all right?: Our border is wide open, China’s biological weapon is surging, we closed our pipelines but opened Russia’s, the Taliban is back in charge, we are defunding the police and people with penises are women. What did I miss?”

“Joe Biden opposed the raid to kill bin Laden. At least he lost Afghanistan in 7 months.”

“Remember when people held hands and jump to their deaths out of the twin towers? Neither does @POTUS”

From Kurt Volker, expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities.  “Afghanistan’s End Portends a Darker U.S. Future” LINK  

NY Time Guest Opinion “Biden could have stopped the Taliban, He Chose not to” LINK

The New Yorker – “Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era?” LINK

From USA Today,  “Biden's Afghanistan horror: A well-intentioned miscalculation with disastrous, predictable results”    LINK 

“Please America, don’t miss this one lesson from Afghanistan” LINK 



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