VICTORIA TAFT: What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland ‘Journalists’ Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack.

COURAGE: Reporters Barred from Kamala Harris Remarks to Troops at Pearl Harbor.

COURT MARTIAL: Military expert says General Scott Miller gets the lion’s share of blame for Afghanistan debacle, claiming by abandoning Bagram he prioritized politics instead of questioning Biden’s flawed decision to reduce US troops to just 700.

BRYAN PRESTON: Department of the Indefensible: Who Decided to Close Bagram Air Base and Why? “Gen. Austin ‘Scottie’ Miller was the commander at Bagram. Based on Biden’s requirement to pull all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan by date certain, and with just 2,500 troops to work with an no room for any additional deployments, and with the embassy as the priority over Bagram, Gen. Miller faced the task of planning for it. The Biden administration’s priority was the embassy, so Miller drafted a proposal to close Bagram and concentrate defensive forces on the embassy. His boss, CENTCOM Gen. Frank McKenzie, greenlit that plan, then it went to Washington, where Gen. Milley, SecDef Austin, and the Biden White House all were briefed and bought in. Bagram would close. The die was cast.”

HE’S TOO KIND: A Total F*cking Disaster’: Inside Seth Moulton’s Secret Trip to Kabul.

Seth Moulton saw things during his trip to Afghanistan that were “truly out of this world.” He spent about 15 hours on Tuesday at the airport in the capital city of Kabul, the epicenter of America’s messy withdrawal from the nearly 20-year war there. The Massachusetts congressman described the scene as “the most visceral, raw view of humanity that I will probably ever see in my life,” with “thousands upon thousands” of refugees camped out and “desperate” to fly out of the country, which was overtaken by fundamentalist Taliban forces. The experience left Moulton more convinced than ever that President Joe Biden made grave mistakes in his handling of the exit.

“The thing that everybody needs to understand, even if you completely agree with the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw, the way they have handled this has been a total fucking disaster,” said Moulton, who traveled to the country with Republican representative from Michigan, Peter Meijer. “It will be measured in bodies, because a lot of people are dying because they can’t get out.”

Democrats have circled the wagons against one of their own: Seth Moulton’s ‘moronic’ trip to Afghanistan backfires.

BUT WILL THEY FOLLOW THEIR OWN SCIENCE? Large CDC Study Doesn’t Support Mask Mandates in Schools.

SHE SEEMS NICE: Woke Army Sergeant to American Civilians: ‘That Weapon Is Pointed… At You.’

TEA LEAVES, READ AND ACKNOWLEDGED: Vice President Harris cancels plans to campaign for California Gov. Newsom.

The only thing I can’t figure out is which one decided the other stinks the most.

OH, CANADA: PM Justin Trudeau Abandons Kabul Evacuation Operation, Leaves Canadians Stranded.

HMM:

FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE NATION: Pelosi Tweets About Women’s Equality Day After Americans Killed in Kabul.

WE COULD USE A WIN RIGHT NOW: Feds to restart oil leasing after Biden loss in court. “Many of the promises that Joe Biden made to his progressive base during the campaign were the focus of his avalanche of executive orders signed shortly after taking office. Those actions won him widespread praise from liberals and most of the mainstream press. But one by one, a lot of those plans have begun to wilt after being exposed to the realities of the world.”

That’s an apt description of pretty much everything Biden has done as POTUS.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Jill Biden Should Be Arrested for Elder Abuse. “The country typically needs to hear from the president a lot in times like this. The problem with having Biden playing the role of president right now is that he is — for a variety of reasons — incapable of inspiring confidence. Obviously, the first of those reasons is that he is responsible for all of this. The other reason is that he is just a broken shell of whatever he once was.”

TO BE FAIR, CNN ISN’T THAT INTO CURRENT EVENTS: CNN Shocked to Discover Democrat Voters ‘Frustrated,’ Want to Recall Newsom Too.

BOMBSHELL: U.S. Officials Handed Taliban a List of Names of Americans and Afghan Allies.

HARD TO DO THAT WHILE RETREATING: Biden Finally Addresses Terror Attacks in Afghanistan: ‘We Will Hunt You Down, We Will Make You Pay.’

WATCH LIVE: Biden Responds to Kabul Terror Attack.

DEVASTATING: What’s the Real Meaning Behind Trump’s Biden Ad?

BREAKING: Reports of Multiple Additional Explosions Near Kabul Airport.

BIDENFLATION: Krispy Kreme Warns Donut Price Inflation To Hit Next Month.

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

Hot takes, cold drinks.

WATCH LIVE: Pentagon Briefing on Afghanistan Disaster.

FINALLY, SOME PLEASANT NEWS: ‘Calling On All The Influencers’: Models Rally Followers To Recall Gavin Newsom.

OOPS: Morning Joe Predicted Afghanistan Disaster Would ‘Fade From the Headlines.’

BATTLESWARM: Scenes From The Afghan Debacle. “Did the Taliban take over Afghanistan merely by telling everyone they were already in control?”