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Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 08/14/21 Vol.364, Q Day 1387
qalerts.app ^ | 8/14/2021 | FReeQs, FReepers, and vanity

Posted on 08/14/2021 7:23:30 PM PDT by ransomnote

The Biden Regime Shared Part of Its "Enemies" List With Reporters


Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.

Q describes this awakening as follows: 

"The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).

When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable. 

When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’. 

"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma. 

When you are awake, you are able to clearly see. 

The choice is yours, and yours alone. 

Trust and put faith in yourself. 

You are not alone and you are not in the minority. 

Difficult truths will soon see the light of day. 

WWG1WGA!!!" ~ Q (#3038)

The video, Qanon is 100% coming from the Trump Administration, is just one of many excellent responses to the all-important question, "Whom does Q serve?"

Q Boot Camp is a quick, condensed way to learn the background and basics about the Q movement. 

Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see. 

In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.

Where We Go 1, We Go All





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To: Melian

OMG...that is hilarious.


301 posted on 08/15/2021 10:54:20 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: grey_whiskers; greeneyes

Bacon has skyrocketed in price also. A 24-oz. pack that cost $5.98 or less about a month ago now costs $7.98, IF you’re lucky. Insanity!

Glad I listened to sisterly nagging and laid in a supply when it was cheap, divided it into individual portions, & put those in the freezer.


302 posted on 08/15/2021 10:55:31 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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1 year delta




303 posted on 08/15/2021 10:55:55 AM PDT by foldspace
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304 posted on 08/15/2021 10:57:55 AM PDT by foldspace
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305 posted on 08/15/2021 11:00:55 AM PDT by foldspace
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306 posted on 08/15/2021 11:01:55 AM PDT by foldspace
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To: greeneyes

Thanks for the reminder to take my Vit. D3 today!


307 posted on 08/15/2021 11:02:11 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: AFB-XYZ

I may go back to raising my own pig again!


308 posted on 08/15/2021 11:03:29 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: meyer
We are a polite people, but we also respect Samual Colt and we all know someone with a backhoe.

That would make an awsome sign to hang over a few driveways I know- except we would sub Mr. Smith and Mrs. Wesson. Mind if I steal it?

309 posted on 08/15/2021 11:03:30 AM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side)
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To: C210N

In late!

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(1/4) Many have asked me for my thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan. Since it figures so critically in my background and analytical qualifications, I will give them here in this space. Be mindful that this will be a long post and may break into multiple sections.

I was assigned to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Hood, TX, as a second lieutenant fresh out of Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course in 2009. I took up my role as the Assistant S-2 (Intelligence Officer) in one of the brigade’s two Attack battalions (Apaches). The S-2 serves as an advisor to the commander (in this case, a battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel). The assistant S-2 is clearly the new guy learning under the more experienced primary S-2, typically a captain or senior first lieutenant.

The brigade was just returning home from a deployment to Iraq when I arrived, but thanks to the troop surge coming in Afghanistan, was quickly spun up for a new deployment under a new brigade commander (one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever known), Col. Dan Williams. Notice of the deployment came in Dec 2009 when the colonel told me “poppy fields in June” at a brigade dining event. I had just been promoted to 1st lieutenant at this time.

By April, our brigade was divided into multiple task forces (with the task forces now holding three types of helicopter – Apache, Chinook, Blackhawk, but not Kiowa). I was shifted to another battalion-sized task force that was going to be missing its S-2 for the first few months of the deployment due to personal reasons. He was a captain, and had experience in the Iraq tour the unit completed in 2009. I was fortunate to have been trained by a brilliant officer, 1LT/CPT Wightman - a great guy with whom I’ve never agreed with politically. He helped me immensely to develop critical S-2 skills.

I had the same analytical skill then as I do now – but without the combat experience and day-to-day know-how that comes with “soldiering.” That is why God made NCOs (non-commissioned officers). For several months, my intelligence section operated with three people, when we were allotted eight on paper. 1LT Keshel, SSG Head, and SGT Millhouse. SSG Head (now retired SFC) was an infantryman by trade who transitioned to MI (Military Intelligence) MOS. As the NCO in charge, his job was mainly to lead our analysts and perform essential administrative functions, but due lacking manpower and the demand of 24 hour operations, he was pressed into a more analytical role than his position would typically entail. One of his duties was getting me straight. He laughs still when we talk about the first rocket that landed near us on Kandahar, the first full day in Afghanistan. He didn’t move from his bunk. I followed the entire drill, including hitting the deck and then going to a bunker. The next time a rocket hit, I didn’t move either. You never forget that level of embarrassment. Over the course of several months, SSG Head got me set up for success, right around the time our captain came in country.

My dad died in September, three months in. I went home for his funeral, and when I got back the captain (CPT Kolano) was back. We are the same age – he graduated college a year ahead of me and therefore was ahead of me in career progression. We had both been 1LTs at the same time, and he made CPT a year before I did, going into this deployment. One drawback of battalion staff sections is that officers often hold the same rank, and become friends, and then have to report one to the other. Of course there is basic professionalism, meaning that no one will undermine the one who outranks them – but it’s not always easy. CPT Kolano and I didn’t really get along personally during our deployment, but fortunately we actually became real friends when we returned and were sent to the Captains Career Course together in Arizona. He is still in, a Major – one of the better intelligence minds I met in the Army – a strategist, workaholic, and fitness nut. We gelled pretty well about halfway through the tour


310 posted on 08/15/2021 11:04:39 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times)
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To: C210N

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(1/4) Many have asked me for my thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan. Since it figures so critically in my background and analytical qualifications, I will give them here in this space. Be mindful that this will be a long post and may break into multiple sections.

I was assigned to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Hood, TX, as a second lieutenant fresh out of Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course in 2009. I took up my role as the Assistant S-2 (Intelligence Officer) in one of the brigade’s two Attack battalions (Apaches). The S-2 serves as an advisor to the commander (in this case, a battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel). The assistant S-2 is clearly the new guy learning under the more experienced primary S-2, typically a captain or senior first lieutenant.

The brigade was just returning home from a deployment to Iraq when I arrived, but thanks to the troop surge coming in Afghanistan, was quickly spun up for a new deployment under a new brigade commander (one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever known), Col. Dan Williams. Notice of the deployment came in Dec 2009 when the colonel told me “poppy fields in June” at a brigade dining event. I had just been promoted to 1st lieutenant at this time.

By April, our brigade was divided into multiple task forces (with the task forces now holding three types of helicopter – Apache, Chinook, Blackhawk, but not Kiowa). I was shifted to another battalion-sized task force that was going to be missing its S-2 for the first few months of the deployment due to personal reasons. He was a captain, and had experience in the Iraq tour the unit completed in 2009. I was fortunate to have been trained by a brilliant officer, 1LT/CPT Wightman - a great guy with whom I’ve never agreed with politically. He helped me immensely to develop critical S-2 skills.

I had the same analytical skill then as I do now – but without the combat experience and day-to-day know-how that comes with “soldiering.” That is why God made NCOs (non-commissioned officers). For several months, my intelligence section operated with three people, when we were allotted eight on paper. 1LT Keshel, SSG Head, and SGT Millhouse. SSG Head (now retired SFC) was an infantryman by trade who transitioned to MI (Military Intelligence) MOS. As the NCO in charge, his job was mainly to lead our analysts and perform essential administrative functions, but due lacking manpower and the demand of 24 hour operations, he was pressed into a more analytical role than his position would typically entail. One of his duties was getting me straight. He laughs still when we talk about the first rocket that landed near us on Kandahar, the first full day in Afghanistan. He didn’t move from his bunk. I followed the entire drill, including hitting the deck and then going to a bunker. The next time a rocket hit, I didn’t move either. You never forget that level of embarrassment. Over the course of several months, SSG Head got me set up for success, right around the time our captain came in country.

My dad died in September, three months in. I went home for his funeral, and when I got back the captain (CPT Kolano) was back. We are the same age – he graduated college a year ahead of me and therefore was ahead of me in career progression. We had both been 1LTs at the same time, and he made CPT a year before I did, going into this deployment. One drawback of battalion staff sections is that officers often hold the same rank, and become friends, and then have to report one to the other. Of course there is basic professionalism, meaning that no one will undermine the one who outranks them – but it’s not always easy. CPT Kolano and I didn’t really get along personally during our deployment, but fortunately we actually became real friends when we returned and were sent to the Captains Career Course together in Arizona. He is still in, a Major – one of the better intelligence minds I met in the Army – a strategist, workaholic, and fitness nut. We gelled pretty well about halfway through the tour

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(2/4) He would run day operations and briefings, and I would create and disseminate the intelligence summaries that influenced operations in all of RC-West. It was the most widely disseminated intel summary in all of the region, which is the size of Georgia. I would handle deliberate operations missions briefings in the middle of the night and brief pilots in the early morning hours before we traded posts. All in all, I spent about 4 of my 12 months as the primary S-2 in his absence, and 8 as the Assistant S-2, working a cross shift that included the night hours.

It was late in 2010 that I began reading “Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare” by Marston and Malkasian. After shooting out the intel summary and eating midnight chow, I would go to the back office, and when free, would read that book to the hum of our generators. The book assembles a series of historical vignettes outlining failed counterinsurgencies throughout recent history. The bottom line was clear – counterinsurgency doesn’t work – unless it is conducted on an island. Navies can be used to patrol islands and keep enemy fighters, weapons, and supplies out. The forces on the island can then be used to separate insurgent factions from peaceful factions. And once separated, the insurgents can be eradicated. It sank in like the stone on Goliath’s forehead. Immediately, given that I was paid to think strategically, I abandoned all hope that we would ever win the war in Afghanistan. Since I was already in an aviation brigade, I thought at the “30,000’” level just as I see the political landscape today. It was at this time, looking at upcoming deployments going as far out as eight years, that I started to see the hopelessness in making this my career. Now I’m very glad I began to feel that way.

Our unit got to the point to which Apaches were using $70,000 hellfire missiles to destroy $50 repeater towers on mountainsides made of duct tape and PVC pipe. One time, we had to shoot TWICE! Our pilot teams were hamstrung by our own lawyers – having to call for clearance to fire at enemy fighters who were clearly engaging our ground troops and causing needless casualties. A couple of our pilots were permanently grounded and lost their wings because they had to fire in defense of ground troops, and accidentally fragged some with danger close engagements. Coalition “partners” in our region were giving away communications equipment to the Taliban in exchange to not be attacked. Guess who was getting attacked.

Counterinsurgency (COIN) exists in a textbook at Fort Huachuca. They preach it like it is gospel. If you point out that the only successful modern counterinsurgencies take place on islands, or in antiquity, when every living and breathing thing in a given nation is put to the sword, you get scoffed at. In the textbook, we have our successful decades long COIN operation when the nation (in this case, Afghanistan) is able to provide its own security. The Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) were the two primary entities tasked with learning to stand up and take their own bullets so we didn’t have to.

Want to know what they were busy doing in my 2010-11 tour? They were going out on patrol and selling ammunition to the Taliban and other terror cells. Then they would return to their duty stations and claim that they expended however many rounds they sold off and get replenished – and the cycle continued. One time, I went for a run when I wasn’t on shift, just so I could stay in some sort of decent physical condition. I carried my rifle with me and ran with it like a private at Marine boot camp, primarily because you never want to be *that guy* that loses his weapon in a combat zone, but also because we shared our base with pit vipers, wild dogs, and most notably, Afghans. Keep in mind, these are the ANA/ANP that are supposedly on our side, but one of the biggest threats to coalition forces in the entire country, right behind IEDs, was getting shot in the back of the head at dinner by the ANA or ANP. Most senior


311 posted on 08/15/2021 11:05:26 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times)
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To: C210N

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(1/4) Many have asked me for my thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan. Since it figures so critically in my background and analytical qualifications, I will give them here in this space. Be mindful that this will be a long post and may break into multiple sections.

I was assigned to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Hood, TX, as a second lieutenant fresh out of Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course in 2009. I took up my role as the Assistant S-2 (Intelligence Officer) in one of the brigade’s two Attack battalions (Apaches). The S-2 serves as an advisor to the commander (in this case, a battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel). The assistant S-2 is clearly the new guy learning under the more experienced primary S-2, typically a captain or senior first lieutenant.

The brigade was just returning home from a deployment to Iraq when I arrived, but thanks to the troop surge coming in Afghanistan, was quickly spun up for a new deployment under a new brigade commander (one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever known), Col. Dan Williams. Notice of the deployment came in Dec 2009 when the colonel told me “poppy fields in June” at a brigade dining event. I had just been promoted to 1st lieutenant at this time.

By April, our brigade was divided into multiple task forces (with the task forces now holding three types of helicopter – Apache, Chinook, Blackhawk, but not Kiowa). I was shifted to another battalion-sized task force that was going to be missing its S-2 for the first few months of the deployment due to personal reasons. He was a captain, and had experience in the Iraq tour the unit completed in 2009. I was fortunate to have been trained by a brilliant officer, 1LT/CPT Wightman - a great guy with whom I’ve never agreed with politically. He helped me immensely to develop critical S-2 skills.

I had the same analytical skill then as I do now – but without the combat experience and day-to-day know-how that comes with “soldiering.” That is why God made NCOs (non-commissioned officers). For several months, my intelligence section operated with three people, when we were allotted eight on paper. 1LT Keshel, SSG Head, and SGT Millhouse. SSG Head (now retired SFC) was an infantryman by trade who transitioned to MI (Military Intelligence) MOS. As the NCO in charge, his job was mainly to lead our analysts and perform essential administrative functions, but due lacking manpower and the demand of 24 hour operations, he was pressed into a more analytical role than his position would typically entail. One of his duties was getting me straight. He laughs still when we talk about the first rocket that landed near us on Kandahar, the first full day in Afghanistan. He didn’t move from his bunk. I followed the entire drill, including hitting the deck and then going to a bunker. The next time a rocket hit, I didn’t move either. You never forget that level of embarrassment. Over the course of several months, SSG Head got me set up for success, right around the time our captain came in country.

My dad died in September, three months in. I went home for his funeral, and when I got back the captain (CPT Kolano) was back. We are the same age – he graduated college a year ahead of me and therefore was ahead of me in career progression. We had both been 1LTs at the same time, and he made CPT a year before I did, going into this deployment. One drawback of battalion staff sections is that officers often hold the same rank, and become friends, and then have to report one to the other. Of course there is basic professionalism, meaning that no one will undermine the one who outranks them – but it’s not always easy. CPT Kolano and I didn’t really get along personally during our deployment, but fortunately we actually became real friends when we returned and were sent to the Captains Career Course together in Arizona. He is still in, a Major – one of the better intelligence minds I met in the Army – a strategist, workaholic, and fitness nut. We gelled pretty well about halfway through the tour

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(3/4) officers who have died in Afgh in the past decade have been killed by friendlies, either in cold blood, or in coordinated suicide attacks using people on our bases (contractors, ANA, ANP, etc).

On that run, I went out a few miles and found myself lost (lieutenant, okay) – a few turns around some jersey barriers and HESCO baskets later, I found myself on the ANA camp. I don’t hide very well, and I saw a bunch of pointing going on - I am guessing at the giant American officer surrounded by miniature Afghans – and I booked it out of there. These are our “allies.” These are the people responsible for guaranteeing the future safety and security of Afghanistan, at least according to the textbook. It was in these months in the transition from 2010 to 2011 that I realized counterinsurgency was hopeless. My mind began to think about life not in the military, giving my best years and risking myself for something so futile. I’ve told the story before in an article about my future assignment to Alaska when I read “Liberty Defined” by Ron Paul, which cemented in my mind the need to find a new career. I put in my papers to leave just three months after reading the chapter pertaining to endless war.

On the current issue itself – the mission in Afghanistan died of a Stage IV cancer that had first been discovered in 2001. As useless as he is, and with his means of occupying the White House being what they are, this is not the complete fault of Joe Biden. It is the summation of 20 years of useless war in a place called THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES. A “graveyard,” for goodness sakes, and we thought we would turn out different? Most veterans before the internet became the all-powerful self-education tool it is believed in the mission to get even after 9/11. That was my inner drumbeat when I was signing up. We didn’t think about the history – we thought about the imagery – all the G.W. Bush phony patriotism and feeling like we needed to have his back when the media did their thing. We didn’t realize the lies of the fake political system and the fake neo-con patriotism – the same patriotism that leads the military bases in Afghanistan to have three contractors for every one soldier standing in the chow line, and occupying the phone tent when you want to use that 15-minute window to call home. It is indeed a military industrial complex.

What is old is new. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The British tried for many years to pacify Afghanistan, centuries ago. Abject failure. The Russians wasted a decade there and were sent running like scalded apes. We spent two decades there. You could potentially make the case for “justified warfare” for a year after 9/11, with valid intelligence on targets. But once the targets became hunted, the ones with strategic value left. Why do you think it is that we killed Bin Laden in Pakistan? The Pakistanis acted surprised that he was there. But they knew. Blood is thicker than water. That is why Karzai said a decade ago that he would side with the Pakistanis over America in a war. I remember commenting at that time that if I were President, I would have every single American soldier home by December, and let them figure it out.

Why all the issues? The nation is and has always been run by warlords. Vacuums continue to open and be occupied by the one with the most guns. These are savages. These are people who stone women for learning how to read – yet our idiot leftists and their media lapdogs have the audacity to liken traditional Americans to the Taliban. What a disgusting insult.

The warlords do not share Western beliefs and values. They, thanks to their fundamentalist belief systems, do not recognize the dignity of the individual. We have rights in this country because we were founded on the simple belief that man is made in the image of God, and therefore deserves dignity. With dignity comes rights. We enshrined them in our founding documents. The people of Afghanistan are viewed as serfs to be ruled.

The convenient excuse of extending rights


312 posted on 08/15/2021 11:06:34 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times)
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To: C210N

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:14]
(1/4) Many have asked me for my thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan. Since it figures so critically in my background and analytical qualifications, I will give them here in this space. Be mindful that this will be a long post and may break into multiple sections.

I was assigned to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Hood, TX, as a second lieutenant fresh out of Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course in 2009. I took up my role as the Assistant S-2 (Intelligence Officer) in one of the brigade’s two Attack battalions (Apaches). The S-2 serves as an advisor to the commander (in this case, a battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel). The assistant S-2 is clearly the new guy learning under the more experienced primary S-2, typically a captain or senior first lieutenant.

The brigade was just returning home from a deployment to Iraq when I arrived, but thanks to the troop surge coming in Afghanistan, was quickly spun up for a new deployment under a new brigade commander (one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever known), Col. Dan Williams. Notice of the deployment came in Dec 2009 when the colonel told me “poppy fields in June” at a brigade dining event. I had just been promoted to 1st lieutenant at this time.

By April, our brigade was divided into multiple task forces (with the task forces now holding three types of helicopter – Apache, Chinook, Blackhawk, but not Kiowa). I was shifted to another battalion-sized task force that was going to be missing its S-2 for the first few months of the deployment due to personal reasons. He was a captain, and had experience in the Iraq tour the unit completed in 2009. I was fortunate to have been trained by a brilliant officer, 1LT/CPT Wightman - a great guy with whom I’ve never agreed with politically. He helped me immensely to develop critical S-2 skills.

I had the same analytical skill then as I do now – but without the combat experience and day-to-day know-how that comes with “soldiering.” That is why God made NCOs (non-commissioned officers). For several months, my intelligence section operated with three people, when we were allotted eight on paper. 1LT Keshel, SSG Head, and SGT Millhouse. SSG Head (now retired SFC) was an infantryman by trade who transitioned to MI (Military Intelligence) MOS. As the NCO in charge, his job was mainly to lead our analysts and perform essential administrative functions, but due lacking manpower and the demand of 24 hour operations, he was pressed into a more analytical role than his position would typically entail. One of his duties was getting me straight. He laughs still when we talk about the first rocket that landed near us on Kandahar, the first full day in Afghanistan. He didn’t move from his bunk. I followed the entire drill, including hitting the deck and then going to a bunker. The next time a rocket hit, I didn’t move either. You never forget that level of embarrassment. Over the course of several months, SSG Head got me set up for success, right around the time our captain came in country.

My dad died in September, three months in. I went home for his funeral, and when I got back the captain (CPT Kolano) was back. We are the same age – he graduated college a year ahead of me and therefore was ahead of me in career progression. We had both been 1LTs at the same time, and he made CPT a year before I did, going into this deployment. One drawback of battalion staff sections is that officers often hold the same rank, and become friends, and then have to report one to the other. Of course there is basic professionalism, meaning that no one will undermine the one who outranks them – but it’s not always easy. CPT Kolano and I didn’t really get along personally during our deployment, but fortunately we actually became real friends when we returned and were sent to the Captains Career Course together in Arizona. He is still in, a Major – one of the better intelligence minds I met in the Army – a strategist, workaholic, and fitness nut. We gelled pretty well about halfway through the tour

Seth Keshel, [15.08.21 12:15]
(4/4) and liberty to Afghanistan was a lie. It is the military industrial complex speaking. We have domestic problems here that could have been addressed for the entirety of the Afghan war, without the loss of life, limbs, eyesight, blood, and treasure in a second Vietnam. This is why neo-con warlords like John McCain, Jeff Flake, Dan Crenshaw, Adam Kinzinger, G.W. Bush, and others, must be roundly ridiculed, mocked, despised, and rejected.

The military is a great place for a boy to become a man. I am glad that I served because I have the foundation of resiliency, determination, and realism that I otherwise would never have developed. Veterans are great employees because they can be in the right place, at the right time, and the right uniform. Discipline, personal pride, and fitness (physical and ideally, mental) are hallmarks modern veterans have.

Those veterans will attest to what I’m saying. None of what I wrote is to detract from the bravery of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One of my best friends was a Marine combat engineer (Captain) who has had his life ruined by that stupid war. He is brave, led his men with valor, at the cost of concussing himself permanently and undergoing the emotional trauma that has caused great personal hardship. He reminds me of my Dad – who dealt with his issues from Vietnam in ways that often caused great pain to others, against his own desires.

In summary – though I have wandered – there was never a way to win a war in Afgh if we view “victory” as the locals being able to govern their own country. That was a lie used by the military industrial complex to engage in a war that is two decades long. We were astonished that we were serving there ten years after 9/11. Now that number is twenty years. I was new in my career when I showed up there, with just 2 years of service. If I were still in today, I’d be a Major, a couple years from Lieutenant Colonel, with 13 years of service. No results.

The only way to win it was to destroy everything that breathes and start over. I do not endorse that method because there are many innocents in Afghanistan, and there is no public will to do that, fortunately. That is how things were done in the days of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. But since Afghanistan is the size of Texas, bordering 6 nations, there are few strategic targets worth eliminating now. We are eliminating pawns, 19 year olds paid a hundred bucks and given an AK-47 and a couple Chinese rockets to fight for their own country. The knights, rooks, and bishops are hiding out in Pakistan or Iran, funneling money, explosives, and other weaponry into country to maim and kill coalition forces. Our leaders knew this all along but continued. Trump knew this, but knew that if he pulled the plug immediately, he would be blamed for exactly what you see going on right now – the same scenes from “Blackhawk Down” with our equipment and unit regalia being paraded down dusty roads, to our humiliation as a nation. Trump did what he could to empower our Generals to make the kinetic decisions to get as much done as possible, and he dwindled troop levels down enough to pave the way for a withdrawal – but two decades of horrific decision making has its consequences.

I hope this sheds light on the true picture in Afghanistan. It was doomed to fail, and now you see it all coming to fruition.


313 posted on 08/15/2021 11:07:14 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times)
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To: tatown

Juan O’Savin talked about taking a gut-punch before things turn around for the better. Afghanistan sure feels like a gut-punch.


314 posted on 08/15/2021 11:09:03 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Melian
DiFiChiSpy is an evil witch!

DiFiChiSpy shouldn’t have had a Chinese spy working for her for 20 years and be allowed within miles of the Capital. There is no justice in America at this time.

315 posted on 08/15/2021 11:09:40 AM PDT by nclaurel (Twice denied my “basic human rights” by being Double Banned by Twitter Communists)
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To: greeneyes

wow that is a boat load of stuff.


316 posted on 08/15/2021 11:10:34 AM PDT by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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To: greeneyes

Thanks for posting that link.

Have been sharing with ‘vax’d friends/family, who’ve had these shots and have now come down with china flu, or are experiencing other adverse effects and/or remorse.

I saved as pdf, and printed, all of his protocols out, the other day.


317 posted on 08/15/2021 11:21:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: AFB-XYZ

We don’t eat it that often, but I did buy some a few months back and froze it. I’ve been thinking about canning it to make room in the freezer for some more meats.


318 posted on 08/15/2021 11:21:56 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: miserare

👍you betcha


319 posted on 08/15/2021 11:24:28 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: ransomnote; All

Wins of the Day: August 14, 2021
https://greatawakening.win/p/12jw3bIa9M/wins-of-the-day-august-14-2021/
By WinsAnon at The Great Awakening https://greatawakening.win/
CAUTION: Might be some bad words at the links. 🤷‍♀️
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— Federal judge greenlights Nunes’ lawsuit against the Washington Post
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/14/federal-judge-greenlights-nunes-lawsuit-against-washington-post/

— GOP leaders in another county in Wisconsin is calling for election audit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/republican-party-rock-county-calls-forensic-audit-2020-election-something-suspected-five-days-2020-election/

— Fulton County voter registration chief who was present after hours when counting staff was sent home … resigns
https://www.georgiarecord.com/fulton-county-registration-chief-ralph-jones-resigns/

— Polls show GOP challenger is in a dead heat with Democrat Terry McAuliffe for Virginia governor
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/14/poll-virginia-gubernatorial-race-in-statistical-tie-three-months-from-election/

— Redistricting for 2023 Congress has the potential to flip the House to the GOP all by itself
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/13/release-of-detailed-2020-census-data-sets-the-stage-for-2022-midterm-congressional-elections/

— Tens of thousands march in Canada to protest vaccine mandates
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/vax-pass-hits-canada-tens-thousands-march-montreal-vaccine-passports-ahead-sept-1-rollout-video/

— Mask mandate for University of South Carolina declared illegal by state’s attorney general
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/university-south-carolina-forced-cancel-mask-mandate-attorney-general-says-illegal/

— Recall Fauci’s own comments about masks’ lack of utility
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1426262331672121353

— Biden getting savaged for making US dependent on foreign oil in just 6 months
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1426679426335612934

— 96-year-old WWII vet sings national anthem to honor our great country
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/08/14/watch-wwii-veteran-singing-national-anthem-at-michigan-baseball-game-wows-the-internet/

See you tomorrow.

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Extra Wins of the Day: August 14th, 2021
https://greatawakening.win/p/12jw3dXAfQ/extra-wins-of-the-day-august-14t/
By Puncake150 at The Great Awakening https://greatawakening.win/
CAUTION: Might be some bad words at the links. 🤷‍♀️
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

— Rock County Republicans call for forensic audit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/republican-party-rock-county-calls-forensic-audit-2020-election-something-suspected-five-days-2020-election/

— Cuomo once again makes a fool of himself
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/disgraced-governor-cuomo-says-won-state-tried-impeach/

— Protests erupt in Oklahoma over vaccine passports
https://nationalfile.com/freedom-movement-protests-against-vaccine-mandates-at-oklahoma-state-capitol-live-developments/

— “AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake Speaks At ASU Mask Protest: ‘When I’m Governor I Will Pardon Every Patriot Who Stood Up Against This Tyranny’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/az-gubernatorial-candidate-kari-lake-speaks-asu-mask-protest-governor-will-pardon-every-patriot-stood-tyranny-tells-asu-president-shove/

— The woke insanity never seems to end does it?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/academy-breastfeeding-medicine-urges-people-use-terms-like-chestfeeding-human-milk-feeding-individuals/

— “Board Certified Occupational Therapist Whistleblower: More Patients are Dying from the Vaccine than from COVID”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/board-certified-occupational-therapist-whistleblower-more-patients-are-dying-from-the-vaccine-than-from-covid/

See you tomorrow frens, WWG1WGA!

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What’s going on?...15 August 2021
https://greatawakening.win/p/12jw3Z1n6q/-whats-going-on15-august-2021/
By purkiss80 at The Great Awakening https://greatawakening.win/
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▪️A New Jersey prisoner released on parole because of a coronavirus is accused of killing a teenager 2 days later.

▪️A cyber symposium informant provides unique factual evidence from the TCF Detroit Center that voting computers were networked in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a gross violation that allowed massive voter fraud to take place.

▪️RSBN: “MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was reportedly physically assaulted after closing the second day of his cyber symposium. According to Lindell, he was attacked and punched in the ribs Wednesday night. “I’m fine, but I’m in pain,” he said at an event Thursday morning.

▪️Mike Lindell told the crowd at the cyber symposium that the home of Mesa County Clerk Tin Peters’ employee was searched by state officials. The man has four children. They took all of his computer equipment. Then Colonel Phil Waldren came on stage and reported that spies had infiltrated the conference. The event provided a wealth of factual evidence that the 2020 election was rigged and actually won by Trump.

▪️The Pennsylvania Prison Guard Union is threatening a lawsuit against Democratic Governor Thomas Wolf for forced vaccinations.

▪️The Biden administration is discussing mandatory vaccines for interstate travel, but “it is not under consideration at this time.”

▪️Tensions between the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Laurie Lightfoot escalate after the murder of 29-year-old officer Ella French. She is the first female officer killed in Chicago in 33 years. Her fellow officers were ready to pay their respects just like all their other brothers and sisters who had fallen in the line of duty - with the honour guard marching to the sound of bagpipes on, but the Deputy Superintendent of Police didn’t have 20 minutes “for that shit.”

▪️In Sydney, Australia, there is a “No shot, no job” program forcing wage earners to be vaccinated if they want to continue earning a living.

▪️Participant of the group Pussy Riot Margarita Konovalova (Rita Flores) was re-arrested for 15 days. The activist was arrested on charges of propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi attributes or symbols.

▪️The Biden administration is trying to save California Governor Gavin Newsom from being recalled from office.

▪️No mainstream media reported the president’s naked son (Hunter Biden) complaining about the Russians stealing his laptop for blackmail in a conversation with a prostitute.

▪️The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mallorcas, blames Trump for the increase in illegal border crossings. Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents document the “horrific” conditions in Biden’s migrant facilities: illegals stacked literally on top of each other in cramped detention cells.

▪️At the same time, an audio recording was leaked in which Mallorcas privately tells his staff, “I was in Mexico a couple of days ago and said: Look, you know, if our borders are the first line of defence, we’re going to lose, and that’s unacceptable. We can’t go on like this, our people on the ground can’t go on, and our system is not set up for this.”

▪️40% of illegal aliens brought into the city of Texas tested positive for Covid-19.

▪️The Texas Tribune edited one of its articles after it “erroneously” reported that 5,800 children were hospitalized with Covid over a seven-day period. The report claims that there has been a huge spike in cases, resulting in 5,800 children being hospitalized in one week. The newspaper corrected its reports after the lies spread around the world and caused unnecessary panic.

▪️Biden refuses to publish logs of Delaware visits despite having made 17 trips to Delaware residences in six months. He is planning a two-week vacation.

▪️The oppressive mayor of Philadelphia orders all unvaccinated city employees to wear two masks beginning September 1.

▪️Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denies students’ request to block the vaccination mandate at Indiana University.

▪️San Francisco will require proof of vaccination to visit restaurants, gyms, bars and theatres.

▪️ In another attack on Ron DeSantis of Florida, Joe Biden criticized governors for “politicizing” masks in schools and then violated his own mandate by walking away from the podium and out of the hall without ever wearing a mask.

▪️Director of the CDC Walenski: “Only some immunocompromised people” may need the Covid booster vaccination.

▪️Biden Effect: U.S. producer price inflation rose to an annual rate of 7.8 per cent in July, a record.

▪️Governor of Texas: “Transgender surgery performed on children is abuse and violates the law. In addition, Abbott said he supports a judicial audit of voting in Texas.

▪️Canada will require all federal government employees to be vaccinated and all airline passengers, passengers on interprovincial trains, and large marine vessels.

▪️British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds an urgent meeting about the Taliban’s advance in Afghanistan. The Taliban are only 50 kilometres from Kabul, power is cut, roads are blocked.

▪️22 people have been arrested for forest fires in Algeria, and the fire continues to rage. “Criminals are behind most of the fires,” declares President Tebboun. The crowd lynched one of the alleged arsonists and burned him alive, storming the police station. The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the incident.

▪️China rejects new WHO investigation into the origin of Covid-19.

▪️British scientists are warning the public that high levels of infection with the coronavirus are likely to lead to another spike in cases this fall.

▪️YouTube deletes video of U.S. Congressman Malliotakis’ press conference announcing his lawsuit against New York City regarding the vaccination passport requirement.

▪️The global temperature in July 2021 was the highest in the history of meteorological observations (since 1880), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

▪️911 cases of the “vaccine-resistant” variant of lambda, which allegedly devastated parts of South America, have now been found in the United States.

▪️The United Kingdom will send 600 troops to Afghanistan to evacuate its compatriots.

▪️The Pentagon is moving thousands of Marines into position to evacuate the U.S. Embassy and American citizens in Kabul. Embassy employees are ordered to destroy important documents and desktops before leaving.

▪️Employees of the Danish Embassy are being evacuated from Kabul.

▪️Turkish residents, dissatisfied with the migration flow of Syrians into the country, began attacking their stores, cars and other property.

▪️The Australian capital Canberra is imposing seven-day restrictions after the first coronavirus infection in a year allegedly caused three more cases.

▪️Canada will host 20,000 Afghan refugees, giving priority to women leaders, human rights activists, journalists, religious minorities, LGBTQ+ and families of already resettled interpreters.

▪️The Taliban have banned coronavirus vaccinations in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia province and have posted a notice to that effect at a regional hospital. According to the provincial director of public health, the COVID-19 vaccination unit has been closed for the past three days and patients have been informed that the vaccine is no longer available.

▪️Trump asks: “Do you miss me yet?” after criticizing Biden for the tragic mess in Afghanistan, a completely open and broken border, record crime rates, high oil prices and rising inflation.


320 posted on 08/15/2021 11:25:09 AM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (President Trump won 2020! MAGA! WWG1WGA!)
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