I’m just going to leave this here:

SO MUCH FOR A YALE LAW SCHOOL THAT LOOKS LIKE AMERICA:

THIS WOULD WORK BETTER IF HE WEREN’T SCREWING UP SO ROYALLY THAT IT’S MAKING NEWS: Biden Afghanistan policy counts on war weary Americans to lose interest.

Jim Bennett writes: Biggest Losers of the Afghanistan Debacle:

1. The Afghan people, of course.

2. Never-Trump Republicans and conservatives. They sold Biden as a competent moderate who would right the ship while the RINOs recaptured the party. Disastrously wrong on all counts.

It was always simple for me. This is a two-party system. You support the one or get the other. Not a single bad consequence of a Biden victory was unforeseen or forewarned.

Is anybody going to listen to these people ever again?

Probably a few but not many.

I certainly hope not.

FLASHBACK: Who? Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon? I always instinctively want to head-butt the “tough street guy” character. He wouldn’t last 15 minutes in real life, he’s too obnoxious.

YOUR KINDER, GENTLER TALIBAN: Taliban are rounding up Afghans on blacklist – private intel report.

Once again: Biden Says Taliban ‘Going Through Sort Of An Existential Crisis’ About Whether They Want To Be A Legitimate Government.

The Taliban know exactly what they want (a Sharia state) and how to get it (violently).

REUTERS: FBI FINDING “SCANT EVIDENCE” OF ANY COORDINATION BEHIND JANUARY 6 RIOT. “Exit question, of sorts: What impact would this finding have on Nancy Pelosi’s partisan commission on the riot? Presumably Pelosi will want to push forward, but if House Democrats try pushing findings unsupported by evidence from the FBI, that’ll make it look like a kangaroo court. Normally Pelosi might not care, but Biden’s utter incompetence in the Afghanistan crisis isn’t going to give them much room to use this as a distraction. Will people see the Pelosi panel as the House Select Committee on the Beating of Dead Horses?”

WHEN THE PRESS IS CALLING OUT A DEMOCRAT, IT’S A BAD SIGN: Multiple reporters call BS on Biden for saying Americans are able to get to the Kabul airport.

IT’S A DIRTY JOB AND I HAD TO DO IT: Fact-Checking Biden’s Address: Lies, Damned Lies, and the White House Teleprompter.

SKILLS CHECK: The Debbie Drill. I think I did that one in Dallas back in the ’80s.

MATT WELCH: You Staying at Home Is the Future Unvaccinated-Punishers Want. “Few people will ever go broke overestimating the desire among Americans to inflict punishment on their perceived political enemies. But not only will blue-state vax requirements end up disproportionately impacting Democratic-voting minority populations, they will also discourage basic human activity among populations that have already long since been nudged into vaccination.”

WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT WHO’S LOST MADDOW…: Rachel Maddow Cries While Telling Story of Afghan Translator Fleeing Kabul.

SORRY FOR THE ABSENCE; WE’RE IN MOVING HELL*. BUT THIS MATTERS:  What Is The Nazarene Fund?

Apparently Glenn Beck has started an effort to get five thousand Christians out of Afghanistan before they’re killed or worse. Remember the “young Turks” crucified Armenian Christian women. If you can, please help.

*And I’ll show up intermittently amid bouts of painting and cleaning, and be back on the regular by the middle of September, when we should be full time in new place.

HONESTY IS SUCH A LONELY WORD: Psaki admits Biden’s ‘infrastructure’ bill is not about infrastructure.

SCIENCE! It Turns Out All Those Plastic COVID Barriers Might Have Made Things Worse.

SKYNET SMILES: Atlas Shows Most Impressive Parkour Skills We’ve Ever Seen: Significant advancements in dynamic humanoid robots.

GENERALS OF THE CLOWN WORLD: “I hope you’re sitting down when you watch this:”

This is the most senior military officer in the United Kingdom speaking. This is the British equivalent of Gen. Mark Milley, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And he’s talking about the Taliban being “inclusive.” I wonder if he thinks they are deep down committed to diversity and equity too?

A friend who is a veteran of the Afghan war and who saw a lot from the inside says that this podcast episode from Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio is the thing to listen to for understanding how everything went wrong in Afghanistan. He urged me to have my son, who is considering the military, listen to it. I listened to it myself. The hosts are unsparing in their evisceration of senior military leadership, as well as the Obama and Trump administrations. They both say at the outset that they do not blame our troops for what happened, but rather the commanders who sent them in to do impossible things. They also say that they both know men who have died in Afghanistan, so this is personal to them. Joscelyn and Roggio recount the lies upon lies upon lies that US military and civilian officials have told over the years.

Around the 41 minute mark, as they’re wrapping up, co-host Joscelyn says, “You should be angry about this war for a lot of reasons, but it speaks to a broader incompetence in the American elite. It’s total incompetence across the board.”

Related: Did ‘gender studies’ lose Afghanistan?

Our elites’ wokeness certainly was a factor. So: yes. Next question?

Earlier: The suicide of expertise.

NO NEED TO BE SLOW, JOE: There Must Be 50 Five Ways to Leave Your Office.

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WELL, YOUR VISION GETS WORSE BUT YOU CAN SEE THROUGH PEOPLE BETTER: Key mental abilities can actually improve during aging.

WATCH: Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on Afghanistan.

Update: Biden was scheduled to speak more than 30 minutes ago but remains AWOL.

(Bumped, but at this point, what difference does it make?)

Another update:

Everything is going swimmingly.

Update: Finally, he’s speaking.

(Bumped again.)

JUSTICE: Justice Department Moves to Dismiss Bowe Bergdahl’s Case to Overturn His Conviction. “Bergdahl has been back in the headlines since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan. One of the leaders allegedly responsible for orchestrating the takeover, Khairullah Khairkhwa, was one of five prisoners freed from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and exchanged for Bergdahl’s release in 2014, various media outlets have reported.”

IN BOTH CASES, YOU WILL NEVER FIND A MORE WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY: Shocking ‘Kabul Airport’ video is actually from 2019 Dallas Cowboys game.

START MAKING CHIPS IN AMERICA: Toyota cuts global output 40% as senators ask Taiwan for chip shortage help; Ford to idle F-150 plant in K.C., and VW expects further production cuts.

WORD IS, OUR TROOPS ARE PISSED AT THIS: British and French troops are going out into Kabul to rescue their citizens while the US sticks to the airport.

THAT’S BECAUSE IT WASN’T. THE DEMOCRATS JUST NEEDED TO PRETEND IT WAS FOR POLITICAL REASONS. FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated – sources.

Flashback: The Coming ‘January 6’ Train Wreck.

James Bovard, author of the second piece above, comments: “I predicted last month that the January 6 Capitol Clash court cases would become a train wreck. Biden administration prosecutors are pretending that ‘trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism.’ But a new story today reveals that the FBI recognizes that claiming that that ruckus was an ‘insurrection’ is BS & that it was not an ‘organized plot to overturn the presidential election result.'”