LINCOLN BROWN: Dear Leftists, I Hope You Can’t Live With Yourselves. “By now you have seen the photos of people falling off of planes trying to escape the Taliban. You have seen the photos of women being shot for not wearing a burka. And no matter how strenuously the legacy media tries to spin it, your alternative to Donald Trump has shattered lives beyond measure. But an idiot in a buffalo hat or a buffoon packing off Nancy Pelosi’s lectern is in no way comparable to what is taking place, and what will take place in Afghanistan.”

WINKEN, BLINKEN AND NOD: Mike Pompeo, predecessor to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, established a swift reaction evacuation capability known as the Crisis and Contingency Response (CCR) Bureau. Can you guess who “paused” — that is spelled k-i-l-l-e-d — the program only weeks before going forward with the Afghanistan debacle now playing out?

As for the poetic reference, Blinken is Secretary of State, Nod is in the Oval Office. Nominees for Winken? I’m thinking Hunter, but am open to other possibilities.

IT’S KINDA UGLY: First Look: Smith & Wesson M&P12 Shotgun.

WHERE’S KAMALA? Afghan Women And Girls Are Being Handed To The Taliban And The First Female VP Is MIA.

Harris is visiting Vietnam, where in 1975 Joe Biden voted to cut off all aid as the North swamped our allies in the South.

Update: Link was wrong before — sorry! All fixed.

HELL ON EARTH FOR AFGHAN WOMEN: Blaze Media reports an Indian TV interview with one of the early victims whose eyes were knifed out includes this chilling warning:

“‘It’s tough for the world to imagine what we built in the past 20 years,’ she told the outlet. ‘We built dreams. Now they are gone. It’s all over for us. Women who work with the government or police were being hunted and threatened even before the Taliban had taken over the country. Now, the concern has gone beyond letting women work. At this point, I am scared if they would leave these women alive. They don’t just kill women — they make animals feed on their bodies. They are a blot on Islam.'”

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

Hot takes, cold drinks.

THIS IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Taliban intensify search for Afghans who aided US.

Meanwhile, Biden has even lost Jen Rubin.

Maybe because this next graphic’s logic is undeniable.

Harsh, but fair.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Something Is Wrong with the President.

WELL, SOMEBODY NEEDS TO: Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor?

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Back to School Basics: Here Are the Best Recording Devices for Digital Davids to Record Unhinged Teachers and Their Raging Rants. “Here are some of the best hidden recording devices out there that are both affordable and easy to conceal. By the way, there is no expectation of privacy in a government school building unless it’s a bathroom. Check your local laws, but anyone trying to tell you that public buildings are somehow exempt from public recording is probably a lying shill with a government paycheck.”

NOT SURPRISING: Children living with someone who has mental health issues are two-thirds more likely to experience similar difficulties.

“FREEDOM OF CHOICE” USED TO BE A LEFTY SLOGAN: No, Republican Governors Are Not ‘Banning Masks in Classrooms.’ “Leaving the decision to mask children up to their parents rather than school boards is not a ‘ban.’”

WE NEED BETTER SEWAGE TREATMENT AND HANDLING, I GUESS: Analysis: Sewage pipes are leaking pharmaceuticals into the Chesapeake Bay.

OUT ON A LIMB: Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset.

TRUMP’S INTERVIEW ON FOX: “It’s amazing that this got so little attention. It’s devastatingly critical of Biden.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Air Force Academy Cadets Forced to Watch BLM Video.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP! COVID-19 vaccination efforts saved 140,000 lives in U.S., study finds.

SAD BUT TRUE: The Afghanistan Debacle Has Exposed The Moral Bankruptcy Of The West.

BREAKING: Capitol Police Investigating an ‘Active Bomb Threat.’

Update: The man in the truck is broadcasting live on Facebook. (Bumped.)

NOR DOES IT DO SO BY ACCIDENT, BUT BY DESIGN: Afghanistan was a ghastly display of how wokeness weakens America.

LOSING HIS BASE: Hollywood Declines to Donate to Gavin Newsom.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Joe Biden Walks Away From His Catastrophes. Is He a Moral Monster?

WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: Appalling: Biden Scrapped Trump Afghanistan Rescue Plan. “While Biden lied to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday that ‘We planned for every contingency,’ behind the scenes Biden’s State Department had already ‘revoked the funding and the approval’ for Trump’s response team.”

This one is red hot.

THE ARROGANCE OF ENTITLED ELITES: ABA Ignores Critics Of Anti-Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Standards.

Related: “What an embarrassment. . . . The Committee has obviously been captured by special interests.”