A govenment of the people, by the people, for the people is not a two-party plutocracy where corporations and the uber-wealthy control the government and control the very narrative we hear every day. It's a war between personal freedom and liberty versus authoritarianism and tyranny.
American troops are performing this mission as professionally and as effectively as they always do, but it is not without risks.
As we carry out this departure we have made it clear to the Taliban if
they attack our personnel or disrupt our operation the U.S. presence will be swift and the response will be Swift and Forceful we would defend our people with devastating force if necessary. Our current military mission we shortened time limited scope and focused in its objectives, get our people and our allies safely as quickly as possible and once we have completed this mission we will conclude our military withdrawal. Will end America's longest war after 20 long years of bloodshed the events we're seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would ever deliver a stable united secure Afghanistan, as known in history as the graveyard of Empires.
What's happening now could just as easily happened five years ago,
or 15 years in the future.
We have to be honest, our mission in Afghanistan has taken many missteps, made many missteps over the past two decades.
I'm now the fourth American President to preside over war in Afghanistan, two democrats and two republicans, I will not pass this responsibly on to a fifth President, I will not mislead the American people, by claiming that just a little more time
in Afghanistan will make all the difference, nor will I shrink from my share of responsibility for where we are today and how we must move forward from here.
I am President of the United States of America, and the Buck stops with me! I'm deeply saddened by the facts we now face, but I do not regret my decision to end America's war fighting in Afghanistan and
maintain a laser focus on our counter-terrorism missions there in
Our mission to degrade the terrorist threat of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and kill Osama bin Laden was a success. Our decades-long effort to overcome centuries of history and permanently change and remake Afghanistan was not, and I wrote and believed it never could be, I cannot and will not ask our troops to fight on endlessly
another in another country's civil war, taking casualties, suffering life-shattering injuries, leaving families broken by grief and loss.
This is not in our national security interest, it is not what the American people want, it is not what our troops who have sacrificed so much over the past two decades deserve.
I made a commitment to the American people when I ran for President that I would bring America's military involvement in
Afghanistan to an end. While it's been hard and messy and yes far from Perfect. I've honored that commitment, more importantly I made a commitment to the brave men and women who served this nation, that I wasn't going to ask them to continue to risk their lives in a military action that should have ended long ago.
Our leaders did that in Vietnam when I got here as a young man I will not do it in Afghanistan. I know my decision will be criticized,
but I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another President of the United States, yet another one a fifth one because it's the right one it's the right decision for our people, the right one for our brave service members to risk their lives serving our Nation.
That's the right one for America.
Thank you, may God protect our Troops our Diplomats and all brave Americans serving in harm's way.
Interesting Twist on any attempt of success to be called a Failure, I wonder what Donnie's excuse Is... Hmmm maybe that he was Fired before he would do the same...?
Trump Angrily Demands That Biden ‘Resign In Disgrace’ After Afghanistan Falls
President Biden BLAMES Trump for Afghanistan withdrawal
So, who is right and who is wrong, or has it become who is right and who is left...?
Originally posted at the Hill, one can easily see their posts are Pretty Pathetic compared to mine and I make No Money posting or from Ignorant Disqus comments... Carry On!!!
Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from
practicing
law in New York state, essentially
suspended
for repeatedly lying. This is coming down
from the appellate division of the
supreme court in the state of New York
there was a complaint that was filed
against him and against his law license
a panel of judges came forward with
their decision in a 33-page opinion.
They
say in part, we conclude
that there is uncontroverted evidence
that responded that being Giuliani
communicated demonstrably false and
misleading statements to the courts
lawmakers and the public at large in his
capacity as lawyer for former president Donald J Trump in the trump campaign in
connection with Trump's failed effort
at re-election in 2020. we get to see
the machines that are crooked
the ballots that are fraudulent and if
we're wrong
we will be made fools of so
[Applause]
let's have trial by combat well to
continue that metaphor as Giuliani
insisted was he has now had his
sea legs blown off. Hello everybody I'm David Schuster and thanks for joining us
in suspending Rudy Giuliani's law
license the appeals court said the
hallmark of our democracy is predicated
on free
and fair elections.
Photo courtesy of BBC
The ruling means Giuliani will now be blocked fromrepresenting clients as a lawyer Giuliani could appeal this ruling
however it's another fall from grace,
most recently Giuliani was seen whoring
for that my pillow guy
on a streaming radio show they're simply
the very best pillows ever made
but I just found out that they also have
a wide assortment of other incredible
products like their mattress topper
sheets,
towels and slippers and more
earlier in his life and career Giuliani
was a respected federal prosecutor
mayor presidential candidate and
possible cabinet pick,
over the past year though he has been
reduced to an embarrassment
there was his oozing hair the news
conference at four seasons landscaping
his star turn and Borat your phone
number and your badges
and his role in the January sixth
insurrection
now Giuliani's under federal criminal
investigation and he's a defendant in a
1.3 billion
defamation suit for having claimed the
long-dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez founded a voting software company
that helped steal the presidency
from Donald Trump.
Historians are already
noting Giuliani's crucial role in
sparking two presidential impeachments
and an ongoing criminal investigation
that could produce a Trump indictment, it
was Rudy Giuliani who revealed on
national television that his client Donald Trump had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen
for $130,000 hush money payment to adult
film star Stormy Daniels
that led to the investigation of Donald Trump's business affairs.
Three years ago it was Giuliani who
first urged the Ukrainians
to announce an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden, Giuliani admitted he wasn't engaged in
foreign policy but simply tried to help Trump,
(Volodymyr Zelensky on your left)
the house impeached Trump over Ukraine
the house impeached Trump began
for inciting the January 6 capital
insurrection. Giuliani encouraged Trump every step of
the way filling Trump's head with the
big lie about the election. All of Giuliani's actions the past few
years are insane to anybody
who has followed his career and in that
context
perhaps the latest Giuliani news is not
such a big deal
after all he lost his reputation years
ago
and it was long before the New York
appeals court suspended his law license,
when Giuliani cemented his standing as
one of the worst lawyers
in U.S. History.
Boy Howdy what a cast of Characters... Any of you Fools feel Embarrassed just Yet???
Check it Out Donnie's gonna Get Ph@cked!!!
Trump Lawyer Admits It: Charges Coming Soon
‘Bull****’: Watch Bill Barr Own Himself On Trump’s 'Big Lie'
Well.... All I can say Is my work is Done here, Good Luck!!!
So... I received more news this morning June 8th 2021 and felt I should edit this post as this is news as well.Rudy sure seems to be taking a Beating even his former employer is of little assistance, I could almost feel Bad for the Fella...?
SCORPIONS have shared the first snippet of their upcoming album. The LP is currently being mixed at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany with engineer Michael Ilbert, who has earned multiple Grammy nominations for his mix work with producer Max Martin on albums by Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.
Earlier today, SCORPIONS singer Klaus Meine, guitarist Rudolf Schenker and guitarist Matthias Jabs checked in from Peppermint Park Studios in Hannover, Germany, where most of the recording sessions for the new disc took place. Klaus, who celebrated his 73rd birthday last month, stated in a video message (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We're in the studio right now, as you can see — Peppermint Park in Hannover — and this morning, we decided to give you guys a little snippet.
"We're here for a year," he continued. "We spent so much time in here
working with the recording sessions. And right now it's so very
exciting to finally listen to the mixes coming in from Berlin the other
day. And we just wanted to share this moment with all of you out there.
And believe me, we can't wait — not only to give you a little snippet
but to play you the whole damn album. All right? And we'll see you out
there."
Tentatively due later this year, SCORPIONS' new album will mark their first release since 2017's "Born To Touch Your Feelings - Best Of Rock Ballads", which was an anthology of new and classic material.
SCORPIONS originally intended to record the new album in Los Angeles with producer Greg Fidelman, whose previous credits include SLIPKNOT and METALLICA. However, because of the pandemic, some of the initial work was done with Greg remotely, after which SCORPIONS opted to helm the recordings themselves with the help of their engineer Hans-Martin Buff.
Photo courtesy of... You Guessed It!!!
Meine previously told Talking Metal that the goal with using Fidelman to produce the new LP was to bring "the old vibe from albums like 'Blackout', 'Love At First Sting'or even 'Lovedrive'.
We try to focus on those albums and this attitude," he said. "If we get
there, who knows — it's so many years later. But it's the spirit and
it's the whole vibe around this album. This time, the focus is on the
harder songs."
According to Meine, SCORPIONS' new LP features "no outside writers at all," unlike 2015's "Return To Forever", which was largely co-written by the album's producers, Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen.
SCORPIONS' last full-length collection of new recordings was the aforementioned "Return To Forever", partially comprising songs the band had in the vault from the '80s. It was the final recorded appearance of SCORPIONS' longtime drummer James Kottak, who was dismissed from the band in September 2016. He has since been replaced by Mikkey Dee, formerly of MOTÖRHEAD.
So, Jake I've been glued to your twitter feed and I just want to read that you're reporting on this, so you've tweeted the senate cleared it.
McCarthy, McConnell could have appointed
whoever they wanted to the panel and
they would have done the leadership's bidding on the commission.
Now Pelosi will just empower her committees to investigate
January 6. They will have unilateral subpoena power
no republicans say house GOP expects upwards of 20
defections when the bill gets to the floor.
McConnell says he's undecided and signals he wants to look at it more. Why does McCarthy is so the plan is just to obstruct the investigation into the
capital insurrection.
You know Nicole I'll bring you up to speed because some of those tweets are outdated although not really so, McCarthy says he doesn't he'd said he
didn't like the scope of the investigation of the probe he was a party to the
negotiations that John Katco (to your right (of course?) had with democrats so he
was kept in the loop and then as soon as Katco cut a deal he
threw Katco under the bus, a few things to point out, yes there will be a lot of defections so this bill is going to pass the house.
Mitch McConnell, I I can't read
his mind but he seemed open to this to this
commission so if it gets through the senate this
will be a humiliating defeat for Kevin McCarthy,
Um and if it gets through the house with a bunch of republican votes that will
also be a pretty humiliating defeat for Kevin McCarthy.
The only goal here basically and I'm trying and I'm giving him the benefit of the benefit of the doubt,
but the only Uh goal I could see that McCarthy is trying to achieve here
is appeasing Trump, and is not having his fingerprints all
over that's McCarthy all over this committee
that will invariably be pretty bad for Donald Trump and could be pretty bad
for other republican members of the house McCarthy obviously spoke to Trump that day on January 6th.
But, but the point I was also making Nicole is:
It seems short-sighted to oppose this if you're republicans because Pelosi has given in to all the
republican demands here, she has given them equal representation on the committee republicans, she has given republicans a say in subpoena power and if Pelosi does go revert to the committees meaning run this investigation through the oversight
committee or the homeland security committee that will be a a structure in which republicans don't have a say, so they could have their hands on the process or not McCarthy has suggested that he would rather not have his hands on the process, which from an internal point of view is pretty embarrassing, but
at this hour Nicole and I'm going to go report pretty soon at the house at the house vote I do believe there's going to be a large number of defections on this bill tomorrow when it gets to the floor, the
number we don't know, we've heard anywhere from 20 to 40 it comes to a point where Um if you get a bunch of defections you could have a ton of republicans just jailbreak and vote for the whole thing, so a lot of really interesting dynamics here and to answer the core of your question I just really do think that republican leadership wants to again
like we talked about last week with Liz Cheney move on from January 6th, and those same human beings Um had a complete opposite reaction when the threat was foreign terrorists. What do you think
Kevin McCarthy wants to protect Donald Trump from you said he wanted to protect Donald Trump from what?
My guess is Um listen this this committee would be
outside experts right it wouldn't be members of congress, so theoretically these outside experts could could compel Trump to testify, they can compel people around Trump to testify and they could this committee could finally after a long time Uh put together the the what happened that day on
and trying to leave this insurrection on this building I'm standing in. In the rearview mirror it's not a
terribly helpful thing to have what would be a a commission investigating this until the end of the year.
This bill Nicole, calls for an investigation until the end of 2021. That's that's a pretty large chunk of time to find the truth, to get to the bottom of things.
And some people on the investigative side don't think it's nearly long enough, the 911 commission had much longer. I want to just press you on one more thing, you had some of the best reporting about
the undercurrents between Liz Cheney and
Kevin McCarthy having frankly as much to do about what she's been saying in interviews over the weekend about Kevin McCarthy needing to be
subpoenaed and needing to tell investigators exactly what he knows about what Donald Trump was doing, what Donald Trump knew, is that in hindsight what led to the purge of her and his leadership team as much as or more than her refusal to go along with a Big Lie?
Well, I I think that there was Uh the relationship between McCarthy and Cheney was absolutely broken and Cheney and I in com I've had
conversations with her, endless conversations with her about this very topic about her her just fervent,
fervent Uh desire for the January 6th commission
and for an honest January 6th commission and I I'm not sure she had ever at least publicly connected the dots between subpoena and McCarthy or the eventual subpoena of McCarthy but she had been I mean she at that Orlando retreat where their relationship kind of all fell apart, Cheney said disagreed publicly with McCarthy about the scope which was shocking to a lot of people because there they were at this at this retreat in Orlando trying to get on the same page and Liz Cheney was jumping off another page and jumping onto the page of many democrats and frankly what many
republicans had been saying quietly so I think that
all of that put together was the undoing of that relationship because she said she wanted to get to
the bottom of January 6th an event by the way for which she voted to impeach Donald Trump.
No Need for me to Illustrate the Obvious Hypocrisy, can it be McCarthy just does not want to be Forced to Testify...? What's your Take...?
Republican SNAPS at Trump: "Who the F*** Do You Think You're Talking To?"
Mitch McConnell: Trump ‘Provoked’ 'Capitol Mob
Kevin McCarthy Says Trump Bears Responsibility for Capitol Riots
Liz Cheney Loses Leadership Role in GOP
May 12, 2021
