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JoanofArgh's JournalRoseberry's (Y'all Qaeda) been a registered Republican since 2016
Investigators said Roseberry had a propane tank in his truck but said they aren't sure if there are any explosive devices in the vehicle.
Roseberry posted multiple videos to a now-removed Facebook page Thursday, demanding to speak with President Joe Biden. Officials have not determined Roseberry's motive at this time. During a lengthy Facebook live video, Roseberry said, "the revolution is on" and that he'd "die for this land."
WCNC Charlotte confirmed that Roseberry is a registered Republican voter since 2016.
Investigators said Roseberry's criminal history was "nothing that serious." In the late 1980s, Roseberry was charged with larceny over $200 and driving without a license. He was given probation for those offenses. U.S. Capitol Police said Roseberry's mother recently passed away. Members of Roseberry's family told police he was dealing with "other issues."
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/floyd-ray-roseberry-washington-dc-bomb-suspect/275-bcca45ff-e9ed-4126-a5c8-3bff662023eb
Larry David went off on Alan Dershowitz in Martha's Vineyard
According to a spy for Page Six, the Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm maven let the famed lawyer have it on the porch of a convenience store on the wealthy New England island. The snoop even wrote down the exchange, as it was too surreal to not be documented:
David: No. No. We really cant. I saw you. I saw you with your arm around [Former Trump Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo! Its disgusting!
Dersh: Hes my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I cant greet my former students?
David: Its disgusting. Your whole enclave its disgusting. Youre disgusting!
Dershowitz who described himself as a liberal Democrat who voted for Biden just as enthusiastically as Larry did confirmed the incident to Page Six, saying that he and David used to be friends but that David broke up with him after he started working for Trump. And hes not the only one. Heated exchanges, he said, are typical of what happens now on the Vineyard. He added, People wont talk to each other if they dont agree with their politics. People like David screaming at him in public is, he said, the price of principle, adding that he believed Trumps first impeachment was unconstitutional. (Hence the T-shirt.)
Dershowitz dismissed David as a knee-jerk radical, claiming he takes his politics from Hollywood. He doesnt read a lot. He doesnt think a lot. He also said David was guilty of contemporary McCarthyism, and that [Joseph] McCarthy would have been proud of him.
https://uproxx.com/tv/larry-david-alan-dershowitz-trump-screaming/
Nobody Cares Who Lost Afghanistan It's not a political liability for Joe Biden - Bill Scher
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1428080113774628866?s=20Reagan's approval stayed steady after the Lebanon withdrawal
Ford's approval went up after the Fall of Saigon
JFK's approval was stratospheric after Bay of Pigs
Why Biden's fate likely isn't tied to Afghanistan. My
@monthly
latest:
We did trainand there was no attention paid to thisour army had a unit in there training, the president said, and made a very capable military. But some units of the army refused to take up arms against some of their same ethnic background, or religious background. And so it was agreed that there was no longer any point and we withdrew.
That isnt President Joe Biden in his Monday address about the Afghanistan withdrawal. Its President Ronald Reagan in his April 1984 press conference after the U.S. military withdrawal from Lebanon. Seven months later, Reagan was re-elected in a landslide.
The only difference between what Reagan said in April 1984 and what Biden said Monday is that Biden put it even more straightforwardly than the president remembered as the Great Communicator. The Afghan military collapsed, Biden said,
Its a cold political truth that voters dont punish American presidents for policy failures beyond American borders so long as the failures dont hurt Americans directly. Even in the 1952 election, when Dwight D. Eisenhower famously echoed Sen. Joe McCarthys accusation that the Democrats lost China, his knockout blow against Adlai Stevenson wasnt that half a billion people in a far-off country were now subject to Communist rule. It was that nearly two million U.S. soldiers fought in Korea, and more than 36,000 of them died there. Ike pledged to bring the troops home.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/08/18/nobody-cares-who-lost-afghanistan/
Pakistan's Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan Islamabad Will Come to Regret Aiding the Taliban's Resur
Pakistans security establishment is cheering the Talibans recent military gains in Afghanistan. The countrys hard-liners have funneled support to the Taliban for decades, and they can now envision their allies firmly ensconced in Kabul. Pakistan got what it wished forbut will come to regret it. A Taliban takeover will leave Pakistan more vulnerable to extremism at home and potentially more isolated on the world stage.
The end of the United States 20-year war in Afghanistan also promises to mark a turning point in its relationship with Islamabad. Pakistan has long veiled its ambitions in Afghanistan to maintain relations with Washington, but that balancing actseen in Washington as a double gamewill prove impossible in the event that a reconstituted Islamic emirate is established in Kabul. This would not be the vindication that Pakistans military is expecting: the Taliban are less likely to defer to Pakistan in their moment of triumph, and the Americans are not likely to reconcile with the group over the long term. Pakistans nightmare scenario would be to find itself caught between an uncontrollable Taliban and international demands to rein them in.
The Talibans victory will have an equally disastrous effect on Pakistans domestic peace and security. Islamist extremism has already divided Pakistani society along sectarian lines, and the ascendance of Afghan Islamists next door will only embolden radicals at home. Efforts to force the Talibans hand might result in violent blowback, with Pakistani Taliban attacking targets inside Pakistan. And if fighting between the Taliban and their opponents worsens, Pakistan will have to deal with a new flow of refugees. A civil war next door would further damage the countrys struggling economy. Pakistani critics of their countrys involvement with the Taliban have long feared and predicted this scenario. But Pakistans generals see the Taliban as an important partner in their competition with India. Weak civilian leaders in Islamabad, meanwhile, have acquiesced to a policy that prioritizes the elimination of real or perceived Indian influence in Afghanistan.
Pakistans security establishment has long obsessed about imposing a friendly government in Kabul. That fixation is rooted in the belief that India is plotting to break up Pakistan along ethnic lines and that Afghanistan will be the launching pad for antigovernment insurgencies in Pakistans Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions. These fears have their roots in the fact that Afghanistan claimed parts of Balochistan and Pakistans Pashtun regions at the time of Pakistans creation in August 1947. Afghanistan recognized Pakistan and established diplomatic relations a few days later but did not acknowledge the British-drawn Durand Line as an international border until 1976. Afghanistan also remained friendly with India, leading Pakistan to allow Afghan Islamists to organize on its territory even before the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2021-07-22/pakistans-pyrrhic-victory-afghanistan?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_source=twitter_posts&utm_medium=social
There are now 3 Dem led subcommittees on the withdrawal from Afghanistan
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1427691039750565898?s=20New: Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Menendez (D-N.J.) says hell seek a full accounting of the Biden admins flawed execution of the U.S. withdrawal.
That makes *three* Dem-led Senate committees vowing oversight of how the Biden team bungled the withdrawal.
Menendez: I am disappointed that the Biden administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal. We are now witnessing the horrifying results of many years of policy and intelligence failures.
Menendez says the review will also look at how the Afghan army collapsed so quickly, calling it astounding.
Congress was told repeatedly that the Afghan Defense and Security Forces were up to the task The American and Afghan people clearly have not been told the truth
I hope they investigate Trump and Ghani as well . Why put the blame entirely on Biden when they don't know what happened?
This comment about the press is the truth
https://twitter.com/ArmandoNDK/status/1427616835080441856?s=20MSNBC not happy that evacuation today is orderly and not chaotic.
https://twitter.com/andy_farquhar/status/1427623870983458822?s=20
Early this morning the Washington Post quietly downgraded the situation from catastrophic to "eerie tension."
CNN and MSNBC are no better this morning. From a Marine who served in Afghanistan
From a marine, who served in Afghanistan
https://twitter.com/STEMthebleeding/status/1427458730212438025?s=20
Man, I picked a good day to mostly stay off this site today.
The number of bad takes by people who couldn't find Afghanistan on a map were coming fast and thick, and simultaneously ignoring the actual experts, ie those of us who survived by understanding Afghanistan is NOT the west
"We trained the army for 20 years!"
The average ANA service time was measured in weeks and months before they'd disappear, not years.
Very few "veterans" in the ANA, and those who did exist were often reassigned to be VIP guards or other non-infantry roles
"They had planes and helicopters!"
Most of them are decades old, lacking crucial maintenance, and trained crews to repair them. There was talk of the ANA getting maintained in Qatar, but that's obviously not a viable strategy.
"We should've trained them better!"
We taught them to read and write, drive, talk on comms, AND how to fight. Largely, they ignored our lessons, preferring to look "manly" on Liveleak vs being combat effective.
Plus it turns out they weren't getting paid by the Afghan govt.
"But the govt has fallen!"
For most people outside of Kabul and Kandahar, life doesn't change much. They're a tribal people, the Imam is their "leader", and his words ARE the law.
There is no patriotism in Afghanistan as we know it, their loyalty is to their village and Imam.
"We should've trained women to fight!"
The Afghani people never would've recognized a military force comprised of women regardless of their effectiveness. The Afghan govt would actively sabotage them, and it would embolden the Taliban that we were corrupting the country.
"We should've evacuated refugees sooner!"
You can't start an evacuation of a nation's citizens until the govt allows it. We've learned that Ghani refused, which isn't surprising, given what it would've resulted in: his death at the hands of the Taliban.
I can keep going, but the fact is there were 3 options:
1) we left in May, fewer refugees get out, Taliban retake Afghanistan in days
2) We leave now, packing 800 refugees into a C17 made for 100, meaning more refugees survive, Taliban take the country.
3) 200k more US troops.
2500 US troops since January didn't "hold the Taliban", because there were no engagements. It wasn't a deterrent, because most of those forces were transpo and support, not infantry.
It would take 50-75x that much to actually secure the country. 150-200k infantry forces.
And let's just say for giggles, the US takes the country back.
Then what? We put in another puppet govt that the Taliban can buy off while they're rebuilding in Pakistan?
Train another force that the corrupt govt won't pay so they can be bribed to surrender immediately?
Or the alternative, Afghanistan becomes a "US protectorate", mimicking the Philippines for the next 50 years.
But that ignores the rub: The Afghani people, unlike the Philippines, Koreans, Tawainese- didn't ask for democracy.
we just showed up
I'm Seeing Healthy People Die Every Day': COVID Spirals in Mississippi
On Monday, Aug. 2, a 34-year-old woman in Gulfport, Mississippi, started feeling dizzy at work. She tested positive for COVID-19 a few days after that.
By the next Sunday, she was dead. Her husband, also in his mid-thirties, died from coronavirus this past Saturday, according to Brian Switzer, the local coroner.
These are deaths I wouldnt have seen a month or two ago, Switzer, the Harrison County Coroner, told The Daily Beast. Im seeing significantly younger folks this time around, but theres still this idea that if youre young and dont have comorbidities, youre not going to die.
But as the Delta variant pushes the states entire health-care system to the brink of collapse, those coming face-to-face with COVIDs victims say the virus target has changed dramatically, from older to younger Mississippiansoften healthy, and virtually always unvaccinated.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/coroners-say-covid-19-is-spiraling-in-mississippi-and-younger-unvaccinated-people-are-the-ones-dying?source=articles&via=rss
Looks like EVERYBODY'S getting vaccine booster shots! Breaking from WaPo
The Biden administration is planning to announce that all Americans who have received the coronavirus vaccine will need booster shots to combat waning immunity from the immunizations and the highly transmissible delta variant that is sparking a surge in covid-19 cases throughout the nation, according to four people familiar with the decision.
The administrations health and science experts are coalescing around the view that people will need the boosters eight months after they are fully vaccinated, according to the people who requested anonymity to discuss a decision not yet public. The decision is likely to be announced as soon as this week.
The actual administration of the boosters would not occur until mid- or late September, after Pfizers application for additional shots for the general public is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, the individuals said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/booster-shot-coronavirus/
Lake Mead -the nation's largest water reservoir - is only at 40% capacity
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1427390450483089408?s=20
Lake Mead - the nations largest reservoir - is at only 40% capacity, triggering a declaration of water shortage for the first time ever.
Arizona will lose 18% of its annual water apportionment and Nevada will lose 7%.
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