TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden won’t speak publicly on 9/11 anniversary.

A BIG CIVIL RIGHTS WIN: NRA victory over Biden’s ATF pick its biggest in a decade. “When President Joe Biden picked gun control advocate David Chipman to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, it looked like the Senate Democrats would steamroll the GOP with votes to spare. The early count was 55 votes for Chipman, according to insiders. . . . Unlike political campaigns, the fight against Chipman was one of informing people of his past and what he would do if he became the head of ATF. Also, the NRA made the case against politicizing an office that has avoided it.”

HOW IT STARTED: Biden says he would ‘shut down the virus, not the country’ during the final presidential debate.

—Business Insider, October 22^nd, 2020.

How it’s going: Nearly 70% of Americans think things are bad in US: poll.

—The New York Post, yesterday.

American voters failed to heed former President Obama’s most important warning, as quoted by the Politico last year: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

EVEN IDAHO:  No state is red enough for its state universities to escape the critical social justice movement.  It’s everywhere.

WELL, OKAY THEN: Psaki Reassures: ‘Inflation Completely Under Control Outside Of Food, Gas, And Housing.’

Is it the Bee? Or the New York Times? Admit it, no one can tell anymore.

AS A LONG-TIME RESIDENT OF BOTH STATES, NO ONE IS BETTER QUALIFIED TO DO SO:  Mark Pulliam reviews Kenneth P. Miller’s Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America. 

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY:

Shot: Senior White House adviser: Biden will ‘run over’ governors standing in way of vaccine mandates.

—Fox News, yesterday.

Chaser: Trump claims without evidence that he can ‘override’ governors in ‘many different ways’ if they don’t allow houses of worship to reopen.

—CNN, May 26^th, 2020.

KEEP ROCKIN’! Outrageous: Los Angeles Times Engages in Malicious Fake News to Hurt Larry Elder.

QED:

Related: Rose McGowan claims Gavin Newsom’s wife tried to get her to bury Harvey Weinstein allegations.

(Classical reference in headline.)

AUSTIN BAY IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS: After 9/11, America was on guard duty against terrorism. Then we bugged out.

Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks taught Americans that anarchy in even the world’s most remote and impoverished corners provided anti-American terror cults with a base for global operations. If you read “anti-American” as also meaning “anti-modern” and “anti-personal freedom,” we’re in complete agreement.

On 9/11′s 20th anniversary, I no longer see common national purpose. Mismanagement and strategies of calculated grievance divide America. The Biden administration’s Afghan bug out has sowed further discord. Americans know failing to extract all American citizens and the Afghan interpreters we promised to protect is a huge moral and historical stain that also seeds long-term national security risks.

Our immediate present and troubling future are this essay’s subjects, but to understand them we must critically assess decisions, actions and inactions that spawned our 2021 Afghanistan catastrophe. That means more than angry dispute and talking-head accusations. It means holding decision makers accountable for their incompetence, misjudgment and mismanagement in the planning and execution phases of the U.S. military withdrawal. The Biden administration bears most of the responsibility for the failure.

On August 31, Reuters published a partial transcript of a July 23 phone call between President Joe Biden and then-Afghan government President Ashraf Ghani.

BIDEN: “I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban. And there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”

Confident propagandists love to play “Nothing to see here, move along” and its variants that slickly ignore essential context or suppress key facts.

Instead of punishing the Taliban and aiding the Afghan government in order to secure the extraction of U.S. citizens and deserving Afghan nationals, Biden was concerned with political optics.

Flashback: A reprint of Austin’s 9/11/2001 DMN column: On Point: The World Trade Center Attack 21st Century Pearl Harbor.

The war against international terror is one of the toughest America has ever faced.

War against terror requires leadership that is consistent, resolute, tenacious, persevering, relentless and personally courageous. A counter-terror war, waged against calculating radicals like Osama bin Laden, requires forceful and steady diplomacy. Such a war will necessarily play out in the cruelest shadows and corners of the globe, where targets are poorly defined, immediate goals fuzzy and mistakes a near-certainty.

Waging this war requires a national consensus to bear the responsibility of common defense and a commitment to common purpose.

It is a war we must fight — and we will win.

As Mr. Obama famously said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”

(Don’t underestimate how Mr. Obama also f***ed things up, as well.)

WE HAVE THE WORST POLITICAL CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Celebrating Our Enemies, Twenty Years after 9/11: America dives, Islam thrives.

When you are ruled by people who don’t much like the country or people that they rule, things go badly. And that’s where we are.

FROM DAVID L. BURKHEAD:  The Beasts of Trevanta.

Wounded in body and spirit after the fall of her kingdom and loss of her lover, the knight Kaila has one last duty to perform before dying: seeing two orphaned children home to their clan in Bringanzo’s Desert.

But all is not lost. When the shaman of Three Mountains Clan takes Kaila on a smoke quest she learns Kreg is still alive, fighting his way across the lands to her. She will raise an army to free him, though hell shall bar the way.

And once they’re united, not even the beast men who overran Trevanta, shall keep them from taking back their land.

WHY, THOSE THEY HOPE TO USE AS SHOCK TROOPS, OF COURSE:  Who are the Afghans evacuated ?

DON’T AVERT YOUR EYES:  Cone of Silence.

LOOK, THESE ASSCLOWNS WANT TO LOSE TO SOMEONE:  Us, At the Gate.

They’d like it to be the commies or the Islamists. Let’s piss them off. Make them lose to America.

(And before someone says we’re not barbarians? By their lights, we are. We don’t believe in 57 genders and 23 forms of oppression.  And that’s fine. Their walled cities stink to high heavens. We’re the barbarians pounding on the gates.)

YOU CAN RELY ON THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CARE OF YOU – TRUST ‘EM!   Vet’s body was found in stairwell of VA facility after disappearing.

Anymore the only thing the government does well is take your money and do crazy things with it. Oh, and make everything worse.

I BEGIN TO SUSPECT THAT LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT GOOD PLACES TO WORK:  Apple fires manager for alleged leaks after sexism claims.

A WORTHY ENDEAVOR:  List of lawyers for fighting mask and vaccine mandates.

FEDERAL HELP MOSTLY DOESN’T:  Farmers restore native grasslands as groundwater disappears.

WELL! GOOGLE IS A SYSTEM OF WHITE IDIOCY:  Google Employee Education Program Teaches That America is a ‘System of White Supremacy’.

IT’S ALL POLITICAL THEATER:  Postal Workers Reject Biden “Requirements”.

Then again, I reject Biden’s everything. Who is he to me that he can give me orders? It’s not like he’s the real president. (I don’t mean he’s not my president. He’s nobody’s president. He was never elected. Yes, he went through a form of swearing in. And? I can swear on a Bible to be a good world Empress. It doesn’t make it so.)

I’VE HAD OCCASION TO SCOLD TOM FOR HIS SPELLING, BUT:  Some Now Pushing $26 Per Hour Minimum Wage.

“Unserious” is the weirdest way to spell “raving lunatics” that I’ve ever come across.

OH, BOY, HOW MANY TIMES WILL THEY BURN DOWN THE REICHSTAG?  DC Police Prep for Sept. 18th Rally Supporting Arrested Jan. 6 Capitol Protesters.

Is this the “insurrection variant Delta”?
Dear idiots, when the boog comes, it won’t be telegraphed.

AMERICA: PUT THIS B*TCH UNDER HOUSE ARREST NOW:  Dr. Leana Wen: Mandate Doesn’t Go Far Enough, You Cannot Travel Without a Vaccine.

She should be forbidden from leaving her house until she explains to the satisfaction of a normal human being what “natural rights” means.

THE RACISTS SELF-IDENTIFY:  L.A. Times Uses Photo Making It Look Like Larry Elder Slapped a Woman.