Epic scene reminded demonstrators of freedom fighter William Wallace portrayed by Mel Gibson in ‘Braveheart.’
Mounted police officers are commonly used at rallies around the globe, but mounted protesters seem to be an Australian innovation as a man was filmed encouraging people to break Covid-19 rules from the back of a white horse.
The epic scene was filmed in Tweed Heads on the border between Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), where around a thousand people gathered on Sunday to decry the ban on crossing state lines, introduced to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
A man galloped on a white horse among the demonstrators, while delivering a sort of a passionate pre-battle speech.
“Cross over! Everyone go across the border! Cross over! They can’t arrest us all,” the rider shouted, prompting applause and cheers from his fellow protesters.
Some people online found the video impressive or at least funny, while others pointed out that riding the horse into a crowd where there were kids was quite a dangerous thing to do.
The mounted protester also reminded commentators of 13th century Scottish independence hero, William Wallace, who was portrayed by Aussie actor, Mel Gibson, in the Oscar-winning movie ‘Braveheart’.
Wallace was fighting for freedom, and people who took part in the rally insisted that they were doing the very same thing. The closure of the border with New South Wales, which remains the worst-hit state by the Delta variant, and other Covid-19 restrictions are “a direct attack on my freedom of liberty, freedom to move,” one of them told ABC News. Such measures will “break up of the Commonwealth of Australia” and signal “the end of democracy as we know it,” he warned.
However, the horseman’s calls were unable to inspire the people to storm the border after all. The rally in Tweed Heads concluded peacefully, unlike a much larger demonstration in Melbourne on Saturday, which was marred by clashes with police and over 200 arrests.
Rescue dogs have been reportedly shot and killed in Australia due to COVID-19 restrictions in Australia.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that a NSW council in Australia is now slaughtering rescue dogs due to COVID-19 restrictions. This comes as thousands of children are being seized and brought to stadium quarantine facilities to be forcibly injected with the COVID-19 vaccine, and after a satanic ritual was aired live on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) news broadcast.
“Several impounded dogs due to be rescued by a shelter have instead been shot dead by a rural council in NSW under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions, alarming animal activists and prompting a government probe. Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week, according to council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government,” the report states.
“OLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission,” a spokesman from the government agency said.
The move has animal rights activists outraged and has prompted calls for an investigation. “We are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting and we totally reject council’s unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently undertaken as part of a COVID- safe plan,” Lisa Ryan, the Animal Liberation regional campaign manager, said.Along with the slaughtering of innocent animals, the Australian government is seizing 24,000 children from it’s citizens to place them in a stadium quarantine camp to be forcibly vaccinated. Parents will not be allowed to attend. Australia is also currently establishing more COVID-19 quarantine camps for citizens. Furthermore, citizens will be charged with “on the spot” excessive fines up to $5,000 per infraction if they violate the tyrannical COVID-19 rules as their children get sent away to get forcibly vaccinated despite their protest as Australia conducts one of the most authoritarian military lockdowns to date.
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24,000 children will be vaccinated in a stadium in Australia next week. No parents will be allowed access. pic.twitter.com/plYeuEG2SZ
During a news segment by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a video of a satanic ritual was aired seemingly by accident during a botched broadcast, as National File reported. During the news broadcast, the anchor was detailing regular programming when suddenly, the screen switched over to reveal a satanic ritual. In the video, viewers can observe an upside-down cross, satanic altar, candles and two cloaked individuals. One cloaked individual has his hood on and can be seen saying “Hail Satan” while throwing up satanic hand signs. The screen immediately switches back to the anchor, who continues her reporting as if nothing strange just happened.
A conservative digital media company’s focus on the culture wars in America appears to be paying off, as it is the fastest-growing private advertising and marketing business in the U.S., according to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list released Tuesday.
“We focus on working with groups that are advocating for or otherwise advancing conservative causes or conservative beliefs,” Olympic Media Founder and CEO Ryan Coyne told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
Olympic was founded in 2018 and has had many high-profile clients, such as Reps. Elise Stefanik, Jim Jordan, and Madison Cawthorn, Sen. Bill Hagerty and Turning Point USA.
The list ranks companies by their overall revenue growth over a three-year period, according to its website. Olympic ranked 13th overall with 20,330% growth.
Coyne attributed the success to the company’s “differentiated business model,” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday. It takes a “zero risk approach, whereby we only are able to be successful financially if our clients are successful financially.”
He also praised the team they had put together, saying they are “extraordinarily dedicated to our clients and the causes they represent.”
“What we’re building is … a pro-America, American exceptionalism-type brand that makes no apologies for anything,” and doesn’t give in to “what we consider woke nonsense,” he told the DCNF.
Coyne considers 2020 to be the group’s first full election cycle it participated in and noted that they were able to “bring on a number of different, fairly little known clients and turn them into pretty much household names on the conservative side of things.”
He cited Cawthorn as an example, who fittingly claimed to have built his “staff around comms rather than legislation” in an email obtained by Time in January.
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Kimberly Klacik, a Republican candidate for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in 2020, also saw her profile rise due to a viral campaign ad that Olympic promoted. She ended up losing the heavily blue district’s seat by 43 points, however.
Klacik paid about $3.7 million of the $8.3 million she raised over the course of the campaign to Olympic, The Washington Post reported, but she later wrote that much of the price tag was due to Facebook and YouTube’s “ridiculous fees to advertise.”
Coyne said anyone arguing Olympic made that level of money from the race is either “a competitor, a moron, or a writer for the Washington Post.” He’s also confident the company has the ability to make inroads in bluer areas of the country, citing the wins of Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia as examples.
“Democrats did an enormously … successful job going down there and flipping those seats. And it’s because they invested heavily and they worked hard in what were traditionally red areas,” he said. “Are some of these districts longer fights? Absolutely. But does that mean that they should go uncontested? Absolutely not.”
Regardless of the loss, Coyne noted Klacik now has a much larger platform than she previously did. She also remains a client of Olympic, according to the company.
Looking ahead to 2022, Coyne says his company will be “taking on wokeism head-on” and “unapologetic for American greatness.” The Make America Great Again message, he said, “still resonates deeply.”
Hotsenpiller told the crowd, “When you begin to see the headlines that you read, and they line up with Scripture, you have to step back and ask the question What time are we living in? What are the days we live in?”
He was referring to Revelation 16:12, which predicts a future during which the Euphrates river will be “dried up” so that “kings from the east” might have a way prepared before them. Two million troops will cross the Euphrates at this time, according to Revelation 9:16.
Hotsenpiller pointed to a 2009 New York Times article that reported not only that “[t]he Euphrates is drying up” but also that “[t]he shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times.”
He also pointed to a 1965 Time Magazine article that confirmed China indeed boasted a “200 million-man (and woman) militia.”
“Do you see the prophetic connection?” Hotsenpiller asked.
He went on to explain how CNN has a $50 million investment deal with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Pastor Hotsenpiller went on to quote Napoleon Bonaparte, who said, “When China awakens the world will tremble.”
“I want you to know that China has woke up,” said Hotsenpiller. “China is looking to rule the world.”
He also quoted Nostradamus, who in the 16th century said, “The great Asiatic Empire will spread across the sea and continents to destroy the Christian world.”
“Currently China owns 30 million acres of American farmland,” Hotsenpiller went on to say, “and China’s ownership of American farmland has increased tenfold…in less than a decade.”
He added that “Chinese buyers [account] for roughly 25 percent of total foreign investment in U.S. residential real estate.”
Hotsenpiller asked the crowd, “Did you ever wonder how CNN stays on the air? They have less than a million viewers,” adding, “The only way they can stay afloat is the money they are getting with the Communist Party.”
He went on to note, “CNN is a property of Warner Media, which is very closely tied to the People’s Republic of China. They have a $50 million investment deal with the PRC. Specifically, this is an investment in China Media Capital, a private company subject to the censorship of the Chinese government.”
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The state of Oregon is forcing me to contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job and health coverage when I need it most.
I am an Oregon state employee, but from the looks of things, I won’t be for too long. Kate Brown, the governor of Oregon, has announced a mandate for all state executive agency employees to have full COVID-19 vaccination by October 18 or six weeks after full approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), whichever is later.
I am currently five months pregnant. Under this mandate, I stand to lose my job and health care if I don’t allow a needle in my arm, even though the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are unknown.
Yes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now recommending the vaccine for pregnant women. The CDC says the risks of COVID-19 for unborn children and their mothers are greater than the unknown risks of the vaccine. But how can they know, if the long-term risks of the vaccine are unknown? These COVID treatments are, after all, only several months old themselves.
According to the CDC, the percent of preterm births among women with COVID-19 was 12.17, compared to 9.91 percent among women without COVID-19. That’s only a difference of 2.26 percent. Further, these numbers are not broken down by age and underlying health factors. In fact, these numbers are quite small when compared to the relevance of other factors like stress.
Finding another financially comparable job at this point in my pregnancy will be virtually impossible. It is a terrible decision to make between financial security — a roof over my family’s heads, food on the table, being able to pay for doctor bills — and putting something in my body that could ultimately affect me and my unborn child in ways I do not know.
What I do know is that the CDC has reportedno COVID-19 deaths for women my age (age 30-39) in the state of Oregon in either 2020 or 2021. What’s more, few have been hospitalized. At the highest point, the rate of weekly hospitalizations for women in their thirties even being hospitalized was just over seven out of 100,000. That is not even discerning between underlying health factors.
I understand my level of risk from the virus as a healthy 35-year-old woman and I understand that the long-term risk of the vaccine is unknown. My personal decision for my body and my unborn child is based on my conclusion that the unknown long-term risk of the vaccine outweighs the risk of the virus for someone my age at my level of health.
I was hesitant to write this, but as an Oregon state employee, the governor’s new mandate threatens me with “personnel consequences” up to termination. I am being forced to either contradict what I think is best for myself and my baby or face losing my job, income, and health coverage when I need it most.
In the state of Oregon, employers are compelled by law to cover abortion in health-care plans, but the state can terminate an employee for not getting a vaccine that is not fully vetted by the FDA. It’s worth noting the social and political pressure currently on the FDA to approve the vaccine soon. Hopefully, the rush will not diminish the necessary thoroughness of their evaluation and testing.
For my entire adult life, I have served the people. I gave 10 years of military service in the U.S. Army, serving as an information systems specialist in Fort Hood, Texas (during which I completed a 15-month deployment to Iraq), South Korea, and finally the White House Communications Agency, where I directly supported the office of the president of the United States, who at the time was President Obama.
Immediately after serving in the U.S. Army, I went on to public service in the state of Oregon as an IT systems administrator. I have been an Oregon public servant for seven years now. Most of those years have been under the governance of Kate Brown.
I find it unbelievable that someone could think abortion is simply a woman’s bodily “right to choose” while denying her right to choose whether to have a needle stuck in her arm. After 17 years, is this is how my public service should end?Lori is a mom and an IT Systems Administrator. She is also a 10 year US Army veteran.
The White House wants it as a “good will gesture.”
The Biden administration continues to pressure Facebook to collaborate and help it achieve its goals, one of them being to counter COVID vaccine skepticism and get more people in the US vaccinated.
After Biden shockingly denounced Facebook and others as “killing people” because they are allegedly letting COVID misinformation run rampant on their platforms, that pressure now continues in media reports, like the one The Washington Post published, citing three anonymous administration sources.
According to them, The White House and Facebook have had a series of meetings whose aim was to get the social media giant to turn over massive amounts of user data to the government, apparently as a “good will gesture” – since there doesn’t seem to be any legal ground for such a request.
Instead, the “tense” meetings saw the administration’s COVID crew “begging” Facebook to give them access to data showing how many people on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp see content branded as coronavirus misinformation, how many are still undecided whether to get the jab, and also the efficiency of Facebook’s censorship algorithms, i.e., how many people still get to see content that it aims to block.
It’s not obvious why the officials quoted by the article thought Facebook was under obligation to do this, but they accused the company of “hiding, filibustering and deflecting” – while at the same time commending Google and Twitter for apparently being much more accommodating in similar meetings around the same subject.
Although it is clear that these meetings are initiated and the data sought by the government, the criticism of Facebook in this matter conflates the notions of government and the public, saying it was the latter that “needs to understand” the scale of COVID misinformation and how to “potentially” fight this real or perceived problem.
The data Facebook has collected from its billions of users is described as “singular” and so complex and fine-grained that it can reveal people’s behavior and position on issues – clearly this is where the belief that the data would show the Biden administration how many users are still undecided on the vaccine comes from.
“It’s not that they wouldn’t provide data. It’s that they wouldn’t provide meaningful data, and you end up with a lot of information that doesn’t necessarily have value,” Andy Slavitt, who represented The White House in the meetings, said.
InfoWars’ Owen Shroyer has been charged with participating in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Shroyer, a co-host of controversial media personality Alex Jones, says he’s innocent of the charges, which include violent entry.
Shroyer was charged on Thursday with knowingly entering a restricted building, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
New: Infowars host Owen Shroyer has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol — feds say he went into a restricted area outside on the grounds https://t.co/Z7RY4jpv53pic.twitter.com/A7lgch5F3m
The charges are no more severe than those faced by most of the 500 or so rioters who entered the Capitol that day to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win, but Shroyer at the time was already barred from demonstrating on Capitol grounds after he live-streamed himself accusing Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler (New York) of “treason” during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
The FBI complaint against Shroyer alleges that the InfoWars host marched to the Capitol and simply stood in a restricted area outside the building. The violent and disorderly conduct charge stems from Shroyer allegedly shouting “they stole the election, we know they stole it, and we aren’t going to accept it!”
The complaint included a warrant for Shroyer’s arrest, and speaking on his InfoWars show later on Friday, Shroyer told viewers that he had to “turn [himself] in by Monday morning.”
“I plan on declaring my innocence of these charges, because I am,” Shroyer announced.
here's infowars host owen shroyer telling his audience that there is a warrant out for his arrest regarding January 6 pic.twitter.com/B5EzCf9Nru
Shroyer is the number two host at InfoWars, alongside stalwart conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Both Shroyer and Jones, along with the InfoWars channel, have been banned from multiple social media platforms, for allegedly spreading hate speech.
Shroyer is probably the most recognizable name on the American Right charged in connection with the Capitol riot. Others charged range from militia members accused of conspiracy, to so-called ‘MAGA Moms’ whose only crimes involved walking into the Capitol and snapping selfies.
(American Thinker) Probably the most truthful thing Nancy Pelosi has ever uttered is “We [Democrats] don’t agonize. We organize.” For decades, Democrats have been strategically honing extensive networks that coordinate action and funding between government agencies, elected officials, NGOs, corporations, schools, houses of worship, cultural institutions, unions, industries, and now the military. They are the industrious ant colonies of politics.
Republicans, on the other hand, do not organize. We agonize. We are more comfortable wringing our hands, quoting the Founding Fathers, listening to talk radio, and going on cruises than organizing and taking meaningful action. We are the Woody Allens of politics.
No doubt there are Republicans and conservatives who indefatigably dedicate endless hours to politics. But for those who’ve tried to herd conservative cats and nudge them to action, the “assiduous conservative activist” appears to be an outlier.
I honestly don’t know why, so I fall back on It’s just not in our DNA. Maybe we so value our privacy that we prefer going it alone? Maybe our rugged individualism makes us hopelessly self-sufficient? Maybe Don’t Tread on Me implicitly promises And I Won’t Tread on You?
Whatever the reason, the country is under a coordinated attack from within and if we don’t organize and take action, America will wither on the vine.
The good news is that Democrats have so wildly overplayed their hand, they’ve proven they aren’t sincere negotiating partners who share our goals for America. There is no reason, then, for Republicans to cross the aisle.
What about their Achilles Heel? Ask any Republican to pinpoint a major weakness of the American left and the silence is deafening. How can we defeat a political enemy without identifying its vulnerabilities?
The answer is in plain sight: when conservatives threaten, pressure, or forcefully engage the left; push and punch back harder than pushed or punched; or do the unexpected — the left panics and exposes their anti-American, anti-family, anti-freedom underbelly.
Independents and moderates don’t like this any more than we do. They understand that Democrats destabilize our democracy when they flout the law, disregard the Constitution, or defund the police. They see the hypocrisy in opening the border with no restrictions for COVID, criminality, or skills, yet closing it to Cubans or Afghans escaping real persecution. They fear being silenced by the Army of the Woke or petty authoritarians using COVID to curtail their freedoms. They’re revolted by demands to end racism with racism and nullify all of education and history, achievement, and progress in the name of white supremacy and privilege. They justifiably recoil when activists co-opt their children’s mental health with fanciful notions that something humankind has always taken for granted, is a choice along an ever-changing gender continuum.
Thankfully, fed-up parents are standing up to school closings, mask mandates, CRT, and Queer Theory. Popular support for President FUBAR is dwindling as “Joe’s ability to F things up” has resulted in his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, his manufactured border chaos, and his inconsistent messaging, censorship, and authoritarianism regarding COVID — not to mention his government subsidies and economic constraints that have destroyed businesses, created a labor shortage, jacked-up wages, and fueled inflation; and his indescribable lunacy closing down our pipelines while supporting the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline and begging OPEC for oil.
An exhausted and frustrated populace finally recognizes that Democrats, who enjoy one-party rule in D.C., in some of our largest states, and most major cities, have gone bat sh-t berserk with power. If Republicans had any gumption, they’d exploit these vulnerabilities. Instead, nineteen Senate Republicans sold us out for a pork-laden “infrastructure” bill that holds them hostage to a $3.5 trillion progressive spending orgy.
The only way to demand responsible governance from Democrats and Republicans is for every one of us to consistently exert pressure on them. The cure is not at the ballot box alone. Yet, when prodded to take action, I consistently encounter two excuses from otherwise dependable conservatives: I can’t change anything or I’ve already done my time; let someone else do it.
The side that lacks the will can never win a cold civil war and leftists rely on conservatives to retreat and surrender. We should never make it so easy for them.
Is there even one Democrat who thinks like this? I burned my bra in the 60s, let someone else protest #MeToo or I squatted at Occupy Wall Street, let the BLMers take it from here or Trump won so all is lost; I’ll just smoke this weed and wait for the Trumpocalypse.
No. They swapped bras for pussy hats and OWS signs for BLM t-shirts. They stonewalled Trump appointments and sabotaged SCOTUS nominees. Democrat bureaucrats burrowed into their agencies to topple Trump from within. They fought him on every policy. They saturated traditional and social media with lies. They marshaled porn stars, creepy lawyers, socialites, invisible whistleblowers, and biased Ukrainian-born servicemen. They manufactured reasons to impeach him — twice!
The more they were proven wrong, the louder and more relentless they became, understanding that victory necessitates outrageous action, participation, and sacrifice!
Calling out President FUBAR’s dementia and waiting for 2022 isn’t enough. There are no conservative superheroes who will magically make this all disappear or conservative grassroots organizations waiting to pounce. That network the left has? Conservatives don’t have anything like it.
The Republic’s preservation is entrusted not to our representatives but to the People through our representatives. We are the ultimate check on the three branches of government. Our responsibility is to ensure that constitutional principles endure and to tenderly care for the mechanisms built into a political system that guarantees maximum freedom for the most people with the least amount of government interference.
Popular sovereignty requires the lifetime participation of all. There is no box to check that you served and can now go home. No one exemplifies this more than Washington who understood that his duty after the Revolution was to the fledgling Republic, not his farm.
This country’s survival as that shining city on a hill and all the liberties it encompasses requires constant vigilance because those who would usurp those freedoms are always on the prowl. When complacency or apathy corrupt the beneficiaries of freedom, that freedom is almost always lost.
Quotes from the Federalist Papers are just words. “It’s a Republic, if you can keep it” necessitates your participation and action.
Stop whining that America is doomed because the Dems control everything.
Snap out of your bewilderment that West Coast insanity has come to a flyover state near you. Yeah, it’s in your school, church, neighborhood, your local councils, and state legislatures. That’s no reason to flinch. Did you learn nothing from Trump? Push back harder than they push! Punch back harder than they punch!
Or, has all this talk about patriotism, liberty, the brilliance of the Founding Fathers and our constitutional republic, just been idle talk? Criticizing congressional Republicans for their linguine spines is meaningless if our spines aren’t made of granite.
This is an all-hands-on-deck-call-to-action moment for conservatives. Being busy with work and family, hosting a radio show, donating to a think tank, being a tea partier, or working on a campaign does not absolve us from our constitutional obligation to further participate.
It’s time conservatives adopted the left’s mantra that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
It’s time conservatives stop agonizing and start organizing.
Things are not going well in Australia. The once ostensibly democratic country has been the scene of some of the strictest, most irrational lockdown policies of the entire pandemic. And while their neighbor, New Zealand, has gone absolutely insane (including locking down over a single COVID case), the Aussies are right there with them.
RedState has reported on past acts of tyranny, including police beating people for refusing to comply with draconian, nonsensical mitigation measures. These latest videos are the worst we’ve seen, though. The protests are getting larger and more violent.
Here’s a stampede occurring as protesters break through the police line of defense.
You’d think you were watching a scene from some Middle Eastern dictatorship, but no, this is Australia, and the people have obviously had enough. Police are seen assaulting protesters as they break through the lines, and people begin to run down the street. The newscaster on the first video admits that people have been pushed over the edge and are now lashing out.
But can you blame them?
There is no rationale behind locking down every time there’s a single or even a few hundred COVID cases — in a country of 25 million people. That’s not a sustainable strategy, because zero COVID is not possible. Human beings are not robots. They have emotional, physical, and mental needs, all of which are being ignored by the Australian government as it continues to violate the rights of its citizens.
Social interaction and a semblance of freedom are required to function properly. At some point, the existence of risk no longer becomes the dominant factor, and that point has long since passed ‘down under.’ You cannot just lock people in their homes indefinitely.
Yes, I understand vaccination rates are low, but that’s the fault of the Australian government for failing to get a largely compliant populace what they need. For the most part, Aussies aren’t like Americans. They have tolerated tyranny under the guise of protecting their neighbors. But the situation has become untenable. There is no excuse to still have a shortage of vaccines, in a Western democracy with direct ties to the United States and the United Kingdom.
That failure should not continue to be placed on the shoulders of the people who are being abused. Australians have had enough, and things are only going to get uglier if things don’t change. You can only push people so far before they push back.
President Joe Biden has made some really awful decisions, but one reporter called him out on the most dangerous and puzzling of them all.
After Biden wrapped up his final remarks on the evacuation of Afghanistan in a carefully controlled news conference Friday, he abruptly turned his back to the media and left the lecturn as reporters peppered him with more questions.
And that was the moment when one unidentified male reporter’s voice rose above the din of the others to ask the question that every sane, informed human is wondering right now: “Why do you continue to trust the Taliban, Mr. President?”
Since announcing that American forces would be leaving Afghanistan at the end of the month, the country has swiftly begun falling back into Taliban rule.
Meanwhile, some 11,000 Americans are essentially stranded behind enemy lines with another 80,000 Afghan allies in danger and also in need of rescue, according to The Washington Post.
But Biden isn’t worried about them — America is working with the Taliban to get them out of the country, so it won’t be a problem at all, right?
Not even close. During the same news conference, Scott Detrow of NPR challenged Biden on his ridiculous earlier assertion that Americans were not having trouble leaving, but the president stuck to his story.
Detrow pointed out that the video evidence makes it abundantly clear that those fleeing are reportedly being beaten and threatened by Taliban forces at these checkpoints surrounding the Kabul airport that Biden is putting his faith into.
Still, Biden claimed all was well with the terrorist organization as the arbiters of air travel for those wishing to flee.
“To the best of our knowledge, the Taliban checkpoints, they are letting through people showing American passports,” Biden assured Detrow.
This was the same narrative Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley advanced in his remarks Wednesday, somehow also expressing faith in the Islamic extremists to “facilitate safe passage of American citizens, U.S. passport holders, to the airport.”
“And that’s the primary means, and under the current conditions, that’s the primary effort,” Milley added. “We have the capability to do other things if necessary.”
Whatever their claims, the White House and the Pentagon have left the fate of Afghanistan and all still trapped there in the hands of violent savages who have no external motivation or goodwill to do anything but slaughter and oppress.
These are the same people fond of beheadings and honor killings, a regime whose dominance is already forcing women back under head coverings with much worse likely to come — even as they pinky promise to be nice to females (America’s strongly worded statement ought to do it).
The administration apparently has so much faith in the terrorist organization that it won’t even call the Taliban an enemy, as stammering Pentagon spokesman John Kirby demonstrated earlier this week.
Because of Biden’s incompetence — or worse, calculated corruption — America has no leverage against the brutal incoming regime, nor does it even have a significant remaining presence there to help those stranded.
Biden trusts the Taliban because he has nothing else at his disposal at this point. His foreign policy blunder has assured the U.S. of that.
From start to finish, every decision the president has made furthered the humanitarian crisis and military humiliation, including trusting the Taliban to allow Americans to flee to safety.
And the only thing the American people can trust is that Biden will continue to mess it all up.
The only way to demand responsible governance from Democrats and Republicans is for every one of us to consistently exert pressure on them. The cure is not at the ballot box alone. Yet, when prodded to take action, I consistently encounter two excuses from otherwise dependable conservatives: I can’t change anything or I’ve already done my time; let someone else do it.
