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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1421845116814168069?s=19

It is real frustrating that we have three good vaccines that take it from hospitalization to home with the flu/cold and we still aren't getting people to get the shot. The fact it is taking private companies to mandate the shot or lose your job is the only way forward

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Meanwhile in Tennessee

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-incentivizes-giving-cows-vaccines-but-giving-humans-covid-shots-not-so-much/

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


boop the snoot posted:

I refuse to believe trump has the capability at his current age to drive anything more powerful than a a GTI or something without throwing it into a wall.

Him and Max: Both giant racists and lover of walls

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


West Wing poisoned 21c liberal minds

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Burning Beard posted:

I've been running errands all over town and I could count the number of helmets, much less protective gear, on one hand so far.

"Helmet? Protection gear? I don't need that nanny state liberal poo poo"

Revves engine and drives straight into a wall

Edit: Not a DuffelBlog article

https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/1425094952976060432?s=19

Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Aug 10, 2021

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1425212056806977537?s=19

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Tarrant County isn't a notable absence as that's bright red DFW area where the open/"Constitutional" carry felons are located

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


mlmp08 posted:

Seems a bad plan for the fall…?

https://twitter.com/jessekellydc/status/1426173709723779074?s=21

PS this meme format sucks, even when done by people who understand it.

Just because right wing idiots can't do the meme correctly, or rather implicate themselves as pedophiles, doesn't mean we can't have good stuff like these

https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1425875649164685315?s=19

https://twitter.com/PresidentDawg/status/1426206130938777612?s=19

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Seeing tweets saying that Dostum has fled to Uzbekistan so that's not a great sign for the "federal" government

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

lmao that Sergeant Major of the Afghan Army that I met will never see his dream fulfilled of running a McDonald's in Afghanistan.

In the mid-2010s during NATO staff training in Poland before going in-country, they had an Afghan General talking about how he wanted all of us to come visit Afghanistan with our families in the next 5-10 years. The group I was with were mobilized Navy reservists of intel (me and a few others) and PAOs, we all looked at each other and tried to stifle a laugh in the large auditorium filled with alliance folks. I assume that someone that high up and being able to go out of the country to talk at a training had a plan for his family when things when sideways.

Edit: https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1426737819905662978?s=20

With J-bad down, not much left. I think it is a safe bet that the Taliban will let the US/NATO/Third Country Partners leave and then move on Kabul

Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Aug 15, 2021

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1426935561068191746?s=19

I will always remember the few times we went over to the Embassy for Sunday brunch

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/AP/status/1426948541273067529?s=20

Everything old is new again

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/starsandstripes/status/1427045633915899907?s=20

Big news on Gilbert's no-hitter on first career start

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


facialimpediment posted:

There was a fair bit of "well... they didn't fight!" gaslighting, along with "well... a lot of the interpreters didn't want to leave!" nonsense. Also a lot of conflating the decision (getting out) with the how to do it (the current clusterfuck). But some news is something I hadn't heard - looks like Ghani was feeding the administration a load of bullshit, making the admin think they had more time, while also pulling poo poo like this:

https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1427354474159513608

The wires just noted that an inbound flight just came in, so hopefully the airfield gets people out to wrap this up soon and save a shitload of lives. Not holding my breath though.

“When I hosted President Ghani and Chairman Abdullah, at the White House in June, and again when I spoke by phone to Ghani in July, we had very frank conversations. We talked about how Afghanistan should prepare to fight their civil wars after the US military departed, to clean up the corruption in government, so the government could function for the Afghan people,” Biden said.

He continued, “We talked extensively about the need for Afghan leaders to unite politically — they failed to do any of that. I also urged them to engage in diplomacy, to seek a political settlement with the Taliban. This advice was flatly refused. Mr. Ghani insisted that the Afghan forces would fight. And obviously he was wrong.”

I don't blame any rank-and-file ANA/ANP soldier for cutting a deal with the local commanders and going home

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028106402/8-paradoxes-that-sum-up-americas-20-year-mission-in-afghanistan

SIGAR: Great for documenting what is messed up and then having all the mil and pol people ignore suggestions to make things better

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008



I know someone with a plan who can solve that for you Mr Private Jet Landlord

https://c.tenor.com/-99Po3fsBpUAAAAC/mao-ze-dong-waving.gif

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


shame on an IGA posted:

lmao the jet is a rental and they photoshopped the company logo on the tail

So the classic former F1 title sponsor Rich Energy gambit

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1428091752867586052?s=19

Makes sense for why they didn't keep Bagram and planned for HKIA

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1428862191051100160?s=20

It is like a 5-year old's concept of how to win a war

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1429503313746305029?s=19

All right wingers support the police or troops or whatever until it inconveniences them and they jettison them quicker than a human crewmember in FTL. Also still laugh that actual, factual war criminal Allen West was TX GOP chair

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/asia/taliban-women-workplaces-afghanistan-intl/index.html

Are we sure the Taliban didn't get trained by USFOR-A or NATO

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/AllThingsCivil/status/1430593459518427136?s=20

https://twitter.com/AllThingsCivil/status/1430597494367477771?s=20

https://twitter.com/AllThingsCivil/status/1430600602636148745?s=20

I hope those anti-vax troops get admin or general discharges. Nothing honorable about not being willing to look out for the good of the force.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Grip it and rip it posted:

Its crazy how many people on these boards are only able to read and analyze the news through the distorted lens of American politics, and think doing so provides some kind of useful insight.

:hmmyes: insightful commentary, OP

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Kesper North posted:

And the dude claimed he hit a deer. Jesus.

"drat, that deer had some cool glasses"

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1/status/1431977182344134667?s=19

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1432023672508796930?s=20

Saw tweets earlier today about how Irish Joe wasn't at Dover despite the fact the transfer hadn't happened yet

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


RIP to a legend

https://twitter.com/vas_90s/status/1432034806481788934?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWZNDjTQj8

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/NickFrancona/status/1431755608714272769?s=19

I know it has been said before but you've got to be a tremendous shitbag to get your team to all do the right thing and intervene. Appears he really was like that

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


boop the snoot posted:

The next forever war will be in space that’s why we have the space force

Or perhaps very tall mountains

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Good speech by Joe. If he really wants to say we're not at war then have DOD end date the GWOT Service, Expeditionary, and National Defense medals

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/forbesmm/status/1432868820390236165?s=20

And that Congressman's name: John Rambo (from later Rambos not First Blood). He's gonna go save all of POWs in Afghanistan just like he did in Vietnam

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