SIR, THAT IS NOT A WINDOW SEAT: JetBlue Passenger Fined $45K For Sticking His Head Up Flight Attendant’s Skirt.

REVOLTING: Aussies Shooting Rescue Dogs Dead in Anti-COVID Effort.

JOANNE JACOBS: Meritocracy without virtue. “The educated and wealthy have ‘turned elite higher education into a gilded ghetto for their children.'”

HE’S A FIRST-TERM LAME DUCK: Biden Laughs Off Poll That Found a Majority of Americans Think He’s Incompetent.

LIVING PROP: Cuomo’s dog Captain left at mansion after governor departed. “Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County in the final days of his third term, recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, Captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week.”

And the inevitable denial: Cuomo Denies Trying to Abandon His Dog.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Almost 15 Million 2020 Mail-In Ballots Unaccounted For.

THIS WAS OBVIOUS MORE THAN A YEAR AGO BUT THE PRESS WOULDN’T REPORT ON IT: Majority Say Biden Isn’t In Charge, Nor Mentally Capable.

DIGITAL DUNKIRK: Veterans Network Helps Afghan Interpreters Get to Kabul Airport.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: One Rule For Them, Another For You. “One thing Flu Manchu had made even more abundantly clear is that our leftwing political elite feel free to impose on ordinary people laws that they themselves feel under no obligation to obey. Like 1970s Hollywood convincing themselves that they deserved cocaine because they just worked so darn hard, our ‘betters’ believe rules are for the little people.”

SPENGLER: The Dr. Frankensteins of Foreign Policy. “John Quincy Adams said that America ‘goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.’ He never imagined that America would go abroad to create monsters.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts, diplomatic cable says.

Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at by Taliban fighters at checkpoints near the airport, it said, adding that criminals were taking advantage of the chaos while the U.S. military tried to maintain order “in an extremely physical situation.”

Some staff members reported that they were almost separated from their children, while others collapsed in a crush of people and had to be taken to hospitals with injuries, the cable said. Others said they had collapsed on the road because of heat exhaustion, it said.

“It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet” than face the crowds again, a staff member was quoted as saying in the cable.

None of this was necessary.

AMERICA’S RULING CLASS: Former General, CIA Chief Hayden Endorses Deporting Trump Supporters to Afghanistan.

SCHOOLING IS SUPPOSED TO FIX THIS KIND OF IGNORANCE: Students think America oppresses women… Then they hear about Afghanistan.

IT’S SO NICE HAVING THE GROWNUPS BACK IN CHARGE: Biden Administration Sent Out Thousands of ‘Bogus’ Visas to Americans in Afghanistan.

David Fox, who runs a marketing company in Kabul, said he received an email from the U.S. Embassy’s consular services department that included the document, meant to help U.S. citizens and Afghan citizens eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to leave the country.

Fox noted that the document looks like a U.S. visa, except it had no name, serial number, or barcode on it.

Clearly, the Biden administration didn’t consider the most obvious result of such a foolish move.

“And what do you think happened when these people received a document like this that has no name? Of course, they printed out a thousand copies,” Fox said. “You have tens of thousands of Afghans who now have this kind of ridiculous, bogus document that the State Department created.”

Heads should roll, but won’t.

SEEMINGLY? NY Times Bashes Biden on Afghanistan Incompetence: ‘Seemingly At Odds With Reality’.

DOG BITES MAN: Party First, Country Last: Biden & Harris Still Plan to Campaign for Governor Newsom.

SHOT: Biden says U.S. may extend Afghanistan withdrawal deadline as evacuations continue.

Chaser: No extension for foreign troops, Taliban warn.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Bumbling Biden Roughed Up By Brits Over the Weekend. “The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media insisted that Joe Biden would bring some missing dignity and respect back to the presidency. Anyone who’d paid the slightest bit of attention to Biden’s political career knew how laughable that was. He was a hot-headed spaz who had very few legislative accomplishments despite being in the Senate for decades. They were selling a fictitious, non-existent version of Biden.”

AMERICA LAST — IF THEN: Hundreds of released Gitmo detainees back to killing Americans. “Biden is clearing out the cells [at Gitmo] despite being fully briefed by his intelligence agencies that one in three released detainees have gone back to fighting against America — and some have actually managed to kill more Americans.”

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Does Joe Biden Even Know What’s Going On? Watch SecState Blinken Refuse to Say.

BIDEN LIED: Al-Qaeda Is in Afghanistan and They’re Going to Rebuild.

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).

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

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.