Posted on 08/31/2021 12:00:43 AM PDT by weston
Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka
BREAKING NEWS:
Biden is BLOCKING the rescue of over 86 Americans who are trying to fly out of Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1432718955576270862
Wonder who he'll be instructed to call on, if anyone.
This reminded me of my post, from the other thread, a few days ago....
Good Morning Deplorables!!
Thank you weston for the new thread.
Love the memes.
Hope you are well!
Hope all are well.
Stay safe kids.
Wow Dolly, you won.
Too bad it wasn’t the vaccine lottery here, the top prize was one million for getting the jab.
I hope and pray things work out for you Dolly, stay safe.
Thanks for the new thread and the PING!
Great job!
6 California families who were in Afghanistan make it out safely
PUBLISHED: August 31, 2021 at 2:39 a.m. | UPDATED: August 31, 2021 at 3:42 a.m.
FTA
SAN DIEGO — Six families from a San Diego suburb have now made it safely out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban’s takeover, officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, the whereabouts of two other families from El Cajon, east of San Diego, remained unclear. One family may have gotten on one of the last U.S. flights out of Afghanistan on Monday, while authorities were working to help the other family, which was still in the country, the Cajon Valley Union School District said.
The last U.S. planes departed around midnight Monday, marking the end of a massive airlift in which tens of thousands of people fled Afghanistan, fearful of the return of Taliban rule after it seized power earlier this month.
“We are still holding out hope” that the families can get out, said Howard Shen, spokesman for the Cajon Valley Union School District.
The district learned on Aug. 16 that eight families who have children enrolled in the district were stranded in Afghanistan after a relative of one of the families alerted school officials that their children would be missing the first day of the school year, which began Aug. 17.
El Cajon has a large refugee population, and the families had gone to Afghanistan in May and early June, weeks before the crisis unfolded. They were not part of an organized trip and traveled separately.
Three of the families were able to get out last week and make it back to El Cajon. Several of their children returned to school on Monday to the open arms of their teachers and classmates, the district said.
Three more families also made it safely out but were still on their way back to the United States, according to the district.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/31/6-california-families-who-were-in-afghanistan-make-it-out/
Thank you for the new thread
:)
Trump to be on Buck & Travis radio at top of 3rd hour.
😂🤣 Talented family.
Good use of your time?
Certainly, our brain does need to unwind with silly stuff now and again.😛
Thanks for the heads up, gub!
August 29 at 9:02 PM ·
You never know when the moment will choose you..... Mary and I were seated in the 1A&B bulkhead seats for our flight to Salt Lake City (connecting to SEATAC) as the plane loaded in Philly. Just a regular flight like any other. Mary and I were talking and over her shoulder I noticed a guy in line, coyote brown day pack with a MARPAT poncho liner rolled up and lashed to the side, khaki vertx cargo pants, crocks and a 2/5 Marines T-shirt. What stood out to me was that he was carrying a folded American Flag. My blood turned cold. "Mary", and I gestured towards him as he moved down the isle somewhere in the rear of the plane. She turned around and then she looked back at my face and she knew too. "You think"? Asked Mary "Philly is the closest airport to Dover AFB", I replied. Mary and I sat in silence staring at each other for a few seconds and then she said "I'm going to take his seat and send him up here, he needs YOU, Chuck".
Before I could even reply she was out of her seat and moving to the rear. A couple minutes later this Marine is standing next to me and he says "I was told to report to the bulkhead".
"Hey man, I'm Chuck have a seat". We shook hands. Long story short, this Marine was a Company Gunny in 2-1 Marines and had just escorted 10 of his men to Dover AFB. He was on his way to Pendleton after being relieved by other escorts to take his fallen Marines to their various places of internment.
We talked and I listened. This was his 6th deployment and he had worked Abby gate with his Marines for the past couple weeks. The things he saw at that gate are indescribable. He called it playing God, as they plucked At Risk Afghans out of the crowd.
He was the Marine captured in a meme giving children drinks of his bottled water. He was still in shock, his hands were still stained from the MASCAL. The weight of that flag in his lap was almost overwhelming to me as I sat next to him. I struggled with my own emotions as I got him fed and a cold beer and some water. And then I let him rest, he was so impossibly tired. Misha and I looked after him while he slept. After we had been flying for a couple of hours he woke up to go to the bathroom. He got up still clutching the flag, then he turned and looked back at his seat and then at me.... questioning. I nodded that it was safe for him to leave it. He set the flag on his seat and went to the bathroom. Now I was alone with the flag that had been over a coffin in a C17 hours earlier. This symbol of it all, the whole damn 20 years sat there next to me and I couldn't hold the tears back anymore. I texted my Marines, Jake, and Paul others and told them that fate had made me a Ranger Buddy of Marines tonight.
My thoughts were with the Gunny, it hadn't hit him yet. Mary and I could see it in his eyes, he was running on auto pilot.
Where do we find such men????
I checked with Delta to see if there was a late flight from San Diego to Seattle but the last flight of the night had gone, so going the rest of the way to San Diego so he wouldn't be alone was out of the question as I would be stuck there until tomorrow. I made sure that his unit had transportation waiting for him when he arrived there, and we parted company in Salt Lake to head to our connecting flights.
I'm writing this not to virtue signal but to remind everyone that outside of their life and its problems, there are men holding the line, doing what must be done no matter what. While my family stands down a hurricane and there is nothing I can do to help them tonight, God put me on a plane with a lone Marine carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, and Mary Pressburg made sure that for at least a couple of hours of his journey, that he wouldn't have to bear the weight of that flag alone, and I love her for it.
Misha showed the love that only an animal trained to serve could and I'm grateful for both. Sitting in 1A wasn't the mission I deserved, but it was the mission that I needed tonight.
Semper Fidelis
“‘I swear to God, if he checks his watch one more time...’”
It has been said that Biden wears his sons rosary on his left wrist so that may have been what he was looking at. Either way it was very disrespectful.
Biden is supposed to be speaking sometime today so will find out what his excuse is.
“are you telling me he checked his watch more than once?”
That is what one of the fathers said. I watched the whole service and I only saw it happen once close to the end.
Biden rolled his eyes when Mother was saying how much she will miss her son. He left raising his arms signalling “Whatever”
He is a shameless Bastard.
“Biden, checked his watch FIVE times ....”
I am going to have to go back and watch the whole ceremony again as I only recall one time.
“Biden was out cold for 32 seconds...Just because he *eventually* woke up doesn’t change that fact or make the video “misleading.”
My husband did that ALL the time. You could be talking to him and out he would go, but if you changed the TV channel he would wake right up and say “I was watching that”
So yes Biden was gone to la la land those few seconds.
The dad on Hannity said the idiot checked his watch with EVERY SINGLE CASKET being moved, so 13 times at least, the dumbchit!
I can’t stand to listen to one more lie from Bye-done’s lips.
Don’t even want to hear what his excuse is to disrespect these fine young people and their families.
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