Even Obama…

…said Biden was a loser: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”

So Afghanistan is not a one-off. We have many more to look forward to.

Stolen elections have consequences

“Anger is the first stop for a dementia patient when they are cornered. His lashing out at all us “lying dog-faced pony soldiers” is not unexpected. The real problem is that he is in a position to have made this mess.

“Trump won.

“Stolen elections have consequences.”

—-ConservativeBoy at Instapundit

Delta’s bright spot

[S]aid Robert Colgrove, interim chief of infectious diseases at Mount Auburn Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. “A welcome development is that totally vaccinated, frail older people with medical conditions — even among them we’re seeing very few hospitalizations, unlike in the first couple of pre-vaccine waves of the epidemic when there were just enormous amounts of very, very sick [elderly] people.”

But Lambda is on the way and there are more than a dozen other variants of potential concern.

Via Google

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Rule 5: Audrey Ritchie

Special ops heroes

Epoch TV has a good interview with Michael Brewer, a special ops veteran who is one of scores of them who were independently guiding via phone and computer connections hundreds of Afghan allies and Americans to the airport until that closed down today. Now guiding them around the Taliban to borders of neighboring countries. Other reporting said they were being harassed by the State Department and the White House to cut it out. Makes Biden look bad, you know.

Son-in-law died

Lee, one of my OCS buds, lost his son-in-law to Covid this evening. His daughter, who is also on a ventilator, is still hanging in there. Son-in-law had co-morbidities with lung problems. Pretty deadly for a lung disease. At least he’s in a better place now, though it will be hard for his wife (when she finds out) and other relatives.

UPDATE: Not long after, his wife, Lee’s daughter, also transitioned as the docs were trying to wean her off the ventilator. Heartbreak all around, especially for their two children. At least they’re together again.

The grief shot

That famous photograph of Biden clutching his briefcase, which supposedly shows a politician in over his head, actually humanizes him. Grieving for the more than a dozen dead troops in Afghanistan. Much more eloquent than words.

Via PJMedia