Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler thoroughly debunked a claim that the Taliban has seized $83 billion worth of U.S. military equipment — or $85 billion in former President Donald Trump’s retelling of it — but for some reason failed to award the maximum number of “Pinocchios.”
Despite Media sensationalizing the amount of equipment left behind in Afghanistan.The U.S. military rendered 70 armored vehicles, 27 Humvees, and 73 aircrafts inoperable before leaving Kabul. - Kaivan Shroff
The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans
- Biden administration negotiated with Taliban to escort Americans to airport: report
- Afghanistan Veteran Knocks People on TV 'Talking About How We Need to Stay Just One More Day, Just One More Month, Just One More Dollar...'
- GOP demands keeping troops in Kabul until all Americans evacuated
- Tourists, industry in limbo after EU drops U.S. from safe travel list
Bottom line, 90% of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave.For remaining Americans there is no deadline.We remain committed to get them out if they want to get out. - President Biden
IMHO, Trump Would Have Nuked Afghanistan If He Had His Way
Donald Trump has had a lot to say about how Joe Biden has mishandled the withdrawal from Afghanistan—but, when given the chance to explain what he would have done differently, Trump’s master plan boiled down to leaving the country in smouldering ruins before leaving it forever.
Great—my horse has worms and the pharmacy is out of everything except COVID vaccines. - Conan O'Brien
Republican Shenanigans
- DeSantis Administration Defies Judge’s Ruling, Withholds Salaries from Members of School Boards That Mandated Masks
- Florida reported 'artificial decline' in COVID-19 deaths as cases were surging
- 'We're Done': Sidney Powell Flees Interview After Being Grilled on False Election Claims
- Texas election bill poised for final passage
- GOP's Larry Elder looks for shock win in California recall
- Giuliani communications director resigns for role with tech startup
- Major Republican Donors Reportedly Bailing on Trump: Big Money 'Losing Interest in This S**t Show'
- Australian reporter clashes with Sidney Powell over 2020 election claims
- Legislation extending medication abortion restrictions advances in Texas
More people have died of #COVID in FL in the past 2 weeks than US military deaths in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. - Dr. Cole tweet
The New Normal: Republicans Trying To Incite A 2nd Civil War, While The Media Yawns
A video of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) falsely calling U.S. elections “rigged” and the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters “political prisoners” was removed from Facebook on Tuesday.
Rush Limbaugh really was a trendsetter. He died and now all the right wing radio hosts are following behind him. - Rod
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Rock The Voter News
- Biden Defends Afghanistan Evacuation, Rejects Criticism It Could Have Been Done Sooner or in a 'More Orderly Manner'
- Pelosi backs bill to expedite rental aid after eviction ruling
- Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden’s Tax Reform by Three-Quarters
- AOC, Tlaib, Pressley call on Biden to dump Powell as Fed chair
Somebody should tell the anti-vaxxers that the meat they eat comes from vaccinated animals. - Noel Casler
Fox News is driving political violence in the US, a media watchdog warned, after the primetime host Tucker Carlson predicted “revolt” against the Biden administration.
We need journalists running newsrooms.Not corporate whores. - Cheri Jacobus
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Business/Tech News
- USPS has shorted some workers’ pay for years, CPI finds
- Home prices rose 18.6 percent annually in June, a third straight record high
- Moderna vaccine creates twice as many antibodies as Pfizer: research
- Mike Richards fired as producer of ‘Jeopardy!’
I would worry about a system that made a 70 year-old drug addict in a diaper and a cheap suit with nothing on his resume but bankruptcy, sexual assault, mob ties and money laundering into the biggest cash cow the MSM has ever seen. They will be looking hard for the next beast. - Noel Casler
Uh Oh. Several Capitol Rioters Attorney Vanishes.
Several Capitol rioters are now without legal counsel as their lawyer appears to have vanished.
"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." -- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787
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