Posted on 08/16/2021 12:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?
The events of the last 72 hours have been breathtaking in their speed and their seriousness. The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan, after America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to install and keep a secular government in that landlocked, opium-producing country. In the rapid advance of the Taliban, ten thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilian allies have been trapped in the country, with no chance of escape.
Women will be raped; men will be beheaded or tortured....unless we pay the Taliban billions in ransom. The President and his spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, are nowhere to be found. Biden, as addled as he is with cognitive decline, released a pathetic picture of himself at Camp David, alone and looking dejected (while, by the way, blowing the cover of several CIA Department Heads on the panel of TV sets Biden was looking at), while Psaki has decided to take a week-long vacation starting on August 15th. Calls are going unanswered. Nobody is home at the White House. We have no leadership whatsoever.
What does this mean for YOU?
In the last 72 hours, the standing of America as a force to be feared has evaporated. Every tin-horn dictator, every evil actor, now knows that America is a paper tiger and is rudderless. Our leadership is incompetent and unresponsive to any real crisis. We are much more preoccupied that transexuals and perverts be revered and that those on the political right (you know, the EFFECTIVE people) are called 'domestic terrorists'.
I expect China to move on Taiwan. I expect Islamic terrorists to swarm across our unsecured southern border. I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
As international upheaval inevitably happens, you can expect instability in the prices of commodities. Food, energy, products ... all these things will fluctuate wildly in price. An overheated stock market will tumble, costing people billions and trillions of dollars in losses. As terrorist events occur with more frequency and more deadliness, our government will clamp down more and more on personal liberties, perhaps outright ignoring the Constitutional freedoms we have been guaranteed. They have been encroaching on those liberties anyways, with terrorist events occurring more often, they will consider that justification for the outright trampling of our rights.
What does this mean for YOU?
It means rampant inflation and bare store shelves. It means unavailability of products, energy, food. It means domestic police-state tactics to deal with the increase in REAL terrorism, as opposed to the imagined terrorism of 1/6/2021. It means companies will collapse and jobs will evaporate. It means wealth you have laid up will be drained of value quickly.
It means uncertainty, unavailability, and unrest.
What can you do about all of this?
Draw closer to the Lord, and appreciate all you have right now. Prepping is okay, but what will it do but extend your survival for a few more months? The answer is to continue to go on, to go to work as if all is well, to be prudent with your finances to the best of your ability, to be prepared to learn new skills and embark on new careers, to be prepared to remake our country in a sane fashion after the 'woke' are demonstrated to have been utter fools.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, warns us of the way that reality always asserts itself in the face of the insane imaginings of those who deny reality. I would say that America has reached a place of such a dearth of reality (57 genders? REALLY?) that when reality hits, it will be powerful and very painful.
** I expect China to move on Taiwan. **
I expect China to replace the US void in Afghanistan
Well, not entirely unscathed. The long, vacant stares of veterans returned from war: what horrors were they remembering?
The elites vote for wars our sons and daughters fight, while their children become JAG officers (Beau Biden).
Everything you said about Biden’s bungling of the Afghan pullout is true. It does make America look weak and foolish. It will lead to greater and bolder acts of terrorism her at home and across the globe.
But on a positive note - we can only hope this does immense damage to the Pedo Joe and the Ho. Already we see CNN and other media outlets bringing down harsh criticism on how badly he bleeped things up.
Maybe this incident will show all Americans how desperately urgent it is to rid DC of Biden, Pelosi, AOC, and other Rats.
And if China does use our weaknesses as an excuse to invade Taiwan, then maybe a good old fashion war will stimulate our economy, bring our nation together like it was immediately after 9/11 and take the focus off the COVID nonsense.
Nah. Take heart and be brave. We are smart and durable people, and so long as we keep our morale high, we shall prevail.
Remember, in the long run, the words of Rudyard Kipling have taken hold. The Gods of the Copybook Headings, with terror and slaughter, returned. The “woke” and the snowflakes have been shown to be utterly foolish and their bleatings meaningless, in the face of hard reality.
This can be a chance for us to advance our goals: A return to traditional American values; the re-embrace of God and Jesus; the reformation of the political landscape.
Chaos is not a pit. Chaos can be a ladder.
This is true. I'll pray for your son.
One of our biggest problems is that no one gets dismissed.
When I started medical school the involuntary attrition rate was 33%. Somehow, since then, that rate has become zero.
Today, when you get your acceptance letter, you can practically start looking for office space.
In context, in a normal country, Milley would be dismissed this morning. His stock in trade is force posture and readiness. Within the month, he said ANA could hold the country indefinitely. In fact, they could not hold it for a week.
This indicates incompetence so profound, I don't even know what to say.
But does anyone in our public life even feel an obligation to ASK if he should stay? No, of course not, because no serious person even IMAGINES that he will be or even could be dismissed over this enormous failure.
Agreed, but perhaps -- to appropriate that old punch-line of the obscene joke -- maybe it's their turn in the barrel.
In my case, I have a genetic condition that requires medication to suppress my immune system. My specialist waited for data to tell me to get the shot, and which one to get (J&J.)
Now we learn that immune compromised/suppressed people get ZERO benefit from the China virus vaccine. Guess who WILL NOT be getting a so-called "booster?"
Why the EFF would I get a booster for a vaccine that I received three months ago? I'd say that's one WORTHLESS vaccine! I'll live my life, boost my immune system as best I can with Vitamin D, C, exercise, continue losing weight (within 20lbs of my ideal weight now) and take my chances. I don't need a worthless "booster" that will simply require another "booster" in three months. No thanks, not what I signed up for when I took the stupid ineffective vaccine the first time.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, with terror and slaughter, return.
At some point, standards will NEED to be re-established.
You also forgot to mention that the Taliban is allowed on Twitter but the President is not.
This does not diminish us; this diminishes Twatter.
well, afghanistan is where empires go to die...
It will be Austria 1938 all over again.
We need a better class of 'elites'...this bunch is more like self-absorbed (but wealthy) white trash...
Ping!
It will be Austria 1938 all over again.
Or, 1929 Russia/Ukraine 😢
Or.....Great Leap Forward/China 💔
Praying NOT so.
When I saw empty shelves in Italy, I went shopping for TP, a small chest freezer and meat & frozen veggies to put in it and also stocked up on canned and dry goods.
With our income, we're eligible for food stamps but have refrained. I'm half tempted to do it now just to help us put some food aside.
Wasn't that drug addicted whore-monger Hunter Biden also in the 'military'? You know, one of Washington DC's private school 'elites'?
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