MEDIA SHOULD ASK: What Flavor Jihad Joe? BEN & JERRY'S LEFT HAND FECAL TWINKLE?
Posted on 08/23/2021 2:37:12 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Over the last ten or 15 years, the Left has outmaneuvered its opposition on virtually every issue of national importance. Immigration, racial politics, the rights of sexual minorities—in all these cases and many more, the Left is able to redefine the political field along its own woke terms. Virtually every question in public life has been successfully cast as a question of dismantling white supremacy, with the sides drawn as starkly as possible.
Immigration, housing policy, the staffing of symphony orchestras, minutiae of voting rules, the teaching of math—all these issues can be defined and dominated by reference to the legacy of white supremacy. In those few cases where race seems not to pertain, the contiguous domains of #MeToo, trans rights, or climate change usually cover the dispute and allow the Left to determine the direction of debate. But race blankets everything.
Until Afghanistan. The botched withdrawal of our small but persistent presence from the obstreperous, Central Asian shithole extraordinaire has stunned the Regime. We watch as one spokesperson after another stumbles nonplused into a linguistic void because there are no white supremacists to blame. Neither Ted Cruz nor Tucker Carlson nor “the Koch Brothers” (one of whom is dead, though that hasn’t changed the formulation) ordered the military out of Bagram Air Force Base. The Oath Keepers did not encourage a resurgent Taliban to seize Kandahar, nor did anti-vaxxers convince the Afghan army to sell its weapons. It would be a stretch even for Jen Psaki to connect the collapse of the Ghani Administration to the retreat of glacial ice cover in the Hindu Kush, and from there to Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.
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the bottom guy always makes me think this might just be his first taste of icecream...
Strong accusation against the military-industrial complex. Sadly, most freepers will not read the article.
It may hasten the ascension of Kamala Harris, who knows how to take orders and do what she’s told.
OUCH! That's gonna leave a mark. LOL!!!
Funny... makes me think he got 1 for himself and 1 for his favorite goat.
or little dancing boy
It’s the poison of modern leftism. We cannot say that Taliban values are evil. Instead we have to “respect Afghan culture.”
Imagine if we had to fight WWII or the Cold War respecting the culture of our enemies.
Yes. And the one in his right hand is for him and the other one is for his American friend! Thanks for sending that one to me!
most welcome
The article lays the disaster at the feet of the military & intelligence communities. Certainly there is a lot of that. But it should be remembered that in any operation of this type that key decisions need to be made at the presidential level. This president runs away from questions at press conferences & can’t be reached on weekends. Who is responsible will be fought over for years if not decades.
Actually, I DID see an article that claimed the collapse of Afghanistan is the result of global warming.
One of the major networks did try to tie the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan to climate change !
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The other part of ‘wokeness’ is denying the truth .
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