Like 'I WILL END COVID'? Twitter mocks Biden's promise to stop pipeline for Russia if it invades Ukraine



President Joe Biden bolstered international confidence on Monday with another of his inspiring speeches, this time promising that "if Germany, uh, if Russia invades" Ukraine, "then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We, we, we will put an end to it."

Asked by a reporter how exactly he would do that "since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control," our commander in chief responded, "I promise you we'll be able to do it," following it up with his signature creepy smile.

Watch:


BIDEN: "There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."\n\nREPORTER: "How will you do that, exactly? Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control?"\n\nBIDEN: "I promise you we'll be able to do it."pic.twitter.com/xczO8eqhcS
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Strangely, there were a few people who seemed to doubt the president's promise, or at least his ability to remember making it, and took to Twitter to express their concerns.


So; is he still going to "cure cancer", "shut down the virus", "eliminate your student debt", \u201cWe\u2019re going to stay until we get [all Americans] out [of Afghanistan]\u201d, \u201c[I will] end the opioid crisis\u201d? A bunch of promises, none kept.
— SkyShark (@SkyShark) 1644268522


He also promised to "end cancer as we know it".
— Seth Meister \u26a1\ufe0f\ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f (@Seth Meister \u26a1\ufe0f\ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f) 1644267478


And he promised to wipe out COVID
— Em or M (@Em or M) 1644268660
That smile with all the Botox is disturbing
— Patrick (@Patrick) 1644267703
Sounds like \u201cI WILL END COVID\u201d
— Daddy Flex \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Daddy Flex \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1644270080


Political promises are meaningless.
— JRC (@JRC) 1644267481


\u201cTrust me\u201d LOL
— Chris Westrick (@Chris Westrick) 1644270395


Biden never had to approve it in the first place, but he did.https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1490791554088321024\u00a0\u2026
— Stephen L. Miller (@Stephen L. Miller) 1644269505


\u201cTrust me bro\u201d
— Best Friend (@Best Friend) 1644276144

Rescue UPDATE: Stranded Afghan interpreter who once helped rescue Biden has finally escaped — but not with Biden's help



An Afghan interpreter who helped save then-Sen. Joe Biden's life in 2008 was among those stranded in Afghanistan after Biden's troop withdrawal. He has now escaped the country with his family, but not with President Biden's help.

Thanks to private organizations, including The Nazarene Fund, the interpreter and his family have now been rescued.

Watch the video clip below to hear Glenn Beck share the details:


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Biden admin blocked charter plane from Kabul carrying more than 100 Americans and green-card holders from landing anywhere in the US: report



The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied U.S. landing rights to a charter plane carrying more than 100 American citizens and legal permanent residents attempting to flee Afghanistan, flight organizers told Reuters.

What are the details?

Bryan Stern, one of the organizers and a founder of the nonprofit group Project Dynamo, reportedly spoke with the news agency from the tarmac at Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates, where his chartered plane had been grounded for 14 hours.

Passengers had arrived on a flight from Kabul, Afghanistan. Once there, Stern said he planned to transfer them to a chartered Ethiopian Airlines plane for a flight to the U.S. that DHS Customs and Border Protection had cleared to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

But according to Stern, the CBP then changed the clearance to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., only to then deny the plane landing rights anywhere in the U.S.

"They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a U.S. port of entry," Stern said.

"I have a big, beautiful, giant, humongous Boeing 787 that I can see parked in front of us," he added. "I have crew. I have food."

The plane, chartered from private Afghan airline Kam Air, was reportedly carrying 117 people — including 28 U.S. citizens, 83 green card holders, and six Afghan nationals with U.S. Special Immigration Visas. At least 59 of the passengers were children.

What else?

The DHS did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment. But an anonymous administration official vaguely told the news agency that the U.S. typically takes time to verify manifests before clearing chartered flights to land in the country.

The administration officially completed its evacuation operation late last month but, in doing so, left behind a largely unknown number of American citizens and Afghan friendlies in the now Taliban-controlled country. President Biden has said repatriating those who wish to leave Afghanistan remains a top priority, but several ad hoc groups have argued their actions show otherwise.

Stern's group is reportedly one of several volunteer groups consisting of U.S. military veterans, former U.S. officials, and other activists that organized to aid evacuation efforts amid the Biden administration's bungled military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

These volunteer groups have assisted Americans stranded in the country in getting to the Kabul airport for evacuation and have also organized private chartered flights out of the country. Meanwhile, many activists have complained that the Biden administration — rather than facilitating their goodwill efforts — has routinely stood in their way.

Earlier this month, the administration stopped a plane full of American citizens and Afghan nationals chartered by Glenn Beck's charity from departing Kabul, even handing the manifest over to the Taliban.

Lawmakers from both parties 'angrily stormed out' of classified Afghanistan briefing after Biden admin refused to answer 'basic' questions: report



Multiple lawmakers from both parties "angrily stormed out" of a classified briefing on Afghanistan this week after Biden administration officials failed to answer simple questions about its ongoing evacuation efforts, CNN reported.

Citing three anonymous sources, the network said that both Republican and Democratic members of Congress "grew frustrated" after officials from the State Department, Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, and Office of the Director of National Security "failed to answer their basic questions."

The walkout reportedly occurred during a Wednesday morning briefing for members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Though CNN did not specify the exact questioning, the report seemed to note the frustration revolved around the administration's failure to offer precise information regarding the number of American citizens who still remain in Afghanistan following the U.S. military's official withdrawal last month.

A day after the last U.S. plane departed Afghanistan on Aug. 30, President Biden said in a speech to the American public that "about 100 to 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan with some intention to leave."

Since then, the administration has continued to say that roughly 100 Americans still remain in the now Taliban-controlled country.

But some lawmakers said "they do not understand that accounting, given the department has said that they evacuated more than 75 Americans from Afghanistan through evacuation efforts in the last few weeks," CNN reported.

In any case, the administration has apparently been vague and imprecise with its information both in public addresses and in private meetings with lawmakers.

Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, confirmed to CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that "everybody walked out" of the intelligence briefing earlier that day.

He added that either the administration is "not being transparent" or officials don't "know the answer to that question" regarding the number of Americans still stranded.

"The fact is, I believe there's still hundreds of Americans still left behind enemy lines. The majority of the interpreters that you and I talked about for so long did not get out," McCaul said. "And now we're getting reports of executions, beheadings of their families and themselves, horrific stories."

"I don't think they know all the answers, quite honestly," he declared of the administration.

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In response to a request for comment, a State Department spokesperson told CNN that "as a general matter, we do not comment on communications with Congress, especially those conducted in a classified setting."

Military admits Biden admin’s 'righteous strike' in Afghanistan killed 10 civilians — including 7 children, aid worker — zero ISIS-K terrorists



The Biden administration's Aug. 29 retaliatory drone strike on supposed ISIS-K terrorists in Afghanistan failed to kill any terrorists but resulted in the deaths of 10 civilians — including an aid worker and 7 children — a U.S. military investigation has determined.

Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., commander of the U.S. Central Command, made the announcement Friday afternoon in a Pentagon news conference, saying, "I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike."

"Moreover," he continued, "It is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS Khorasan or were a direct threat to U.S. forces."

"This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport, but it was a mistake, and I offer my sincere apology," McKenzie added.

#BREAKING: "It was a mistake" 10 civilians, 7 children KILLED in US drone strike www.youtube.com

The drone strike came on the heels of an ISIS-K terror attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 100 Afghan civilians while injuring hundreds more.

Following that attack, President Joe Biden vowed that the U.S. would retaliate, declaring in a speech from the White House, "To those who carried out this attack ... know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."

And so the U.S. military did retaliate on Aug. 29 by striking a supposed ISIS-K planner believed to be transporting explosives in the trunk of his Toyota sedan.

"Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties," said U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban, USN, in a statement. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, later touted the revenge attack as a "righteous strike."

But in the days following, the success of the strike was called into question, namely by the New York Times. The paper, through an investigation of its own, concluded that the attack did not terminate an ISIS-K terrorist but actually killed an innocent man who worked for a U.S. aid group along with his family.

On Friday, the Times saw its reporting confirmed by the U.S. military.

"The explosives the military claimed were loaded in the trunk of a white Toyota sedan struck by the drone's Hellfire missile were most likely water bottles, and a secondary explosion in the courtyard in a densely populated Kabul neighborhood where that attack took place was probably a propane or gas tank, [McKenzie] said," the paper reported. "In short, the car posed no threat at all, investigators concluded."

Mark Levin: 'Secret texts' blow the lid off Biden admin's Afghanistan deceit



On the latest episode of "LevinTV," host Mark Levin discussed a bombshell report from "Just the News," alleging that "secret texts" and email messages prove that the Biden administration had prior knowledge of the Taliban's imminent takeover, even as the president assured Americans that Afghanistan was prepared for the U.S. military departure. The newly encrypted texts also reveal how, after vowing to leave no American behind in Afghanistan, President Biden abandoned our own citizens outside the airport gates.

Watch the video clip below to see Mark reveal the depths of the propaganda that the Biden administration has foisted on the American public and the catastrophic. consequences for America's global standing:


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'Furious' Democrat rips into Biden admin for 'delay and inaction' on getting Americans out of Afghanistan



A Democrat U.S. Senator said he was "furious" at the Biden administration over the government's "delay and inaction" over efforts to get stranded Americans out of Afghanistan.

Sen. Dick Blumenthal (D-Conn.) released a statement expressing his frustration and anger on Monday.

"I have been deeply frustrated, even furious, at our government's delay and inaction," said Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"There will be plenty of time to seek accountability for the inexcusable bureaucratic red tape that stranded so many of our Afghan allies. For now, my singular focus remains getting these planes in the air and safely to our airbase in Doha, where they have already been cleared to land," he added.

"I expect the White House and State Department to do everything in their power – absolutely everything – to make this happen," Blumenthal concluded. "These are Americans citizens and Afghans who risked everything for our country. We cannot leave them behind."

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul said on "Fox News Sunday" that there were Americans being held hostage by the Taliban at an airport outside of Kabul.

"In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now," said McCaul.

President Joe Biden has been excoriated by critics over the disastrous military withdrawal and evacuation from Afghanistan. The debacle has hit Biden squarely in the polls, many of which show a steep drop in approval from Americans.

On Friday Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma accused the State Department of thwarting his mission to save Americans from Afghanistan. He went on to say that he was personally in contact with many Americans who were stranded in Afghanistan and were desperate to get out.

The Biden administration has estimated that between 100 and 200 American citizens who wanted to leave Afghanistan remained in the Taliban-controlled country, but critics are skeptical that the actual count may be much higher.

Here's more about Biden's evacuation debacle:

State Dept accused of blocking evacuation flights from Afghanistanwww.youtube.com

As Taliban holds Americans 'hostage,' Biden admin says there's little it can do: 'We do not control the airspace'



Biden administration officials are reportedly at a loss for what to do in response to the current "hostage" situation in Afghanistan, telling reporters they "do not control the airspace" as several planes holding Americans have been prevented by the Taliban from leaving the country.

What's the background?

News surfaced on Sunday that as many as six planes holding American citizens have been stranded at the Mazar-i-Sharif international airport for days as Taliban leaders seek to extract concessions from the U.S. government before allowing them to leave.

In a document sent to members of Congress over the weekend, the State Department said the flights have been cleared to depart for Doha, Qatar, and will do so "if and when the Taliban agrees to takeoff."

"The Taliban is basically holding them hostage to get more out of the Americans," a congressional source told CBS News.

It's the latest blunder in the administration's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan late last month, which concluded with hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghan nationals still stranded in the Taliban-controlled country.

Having ended its military mission, the U.S. now reportedly lacks the military force or diplomatic personnel to ensure that those stranded Americans can complete their chartered passage out of the country.

What is the administration saying?

In response to questioning from TheBlaze on Monday, the State Department effectively threw its hands in the air and conceded there's not much it can do at this point.

"We understand the concern that many people are feeling as they try to facilitate further charter and other passage out of Afghanistan. However, we do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace — whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region," a State Department spokesman said.

The spokesman added that the department also does not have a "reliable means" to verify the identity of the passengers.

"Given these constraints, we also do not have a reliable means to confirm the basic details of charter flights, including who may be organizing them, the number of U.S. citizens and other priority groups on-board, the accuracy of the rest of the manifest, and where they plan to land, among many other issues," the spokesman said.

Despite all of this, the spokesman noted the State Department will continue to "hold the Taliban to its pledge to let people freely depart Afghanistan."

What else?

The administration's apparent inaction contradicts the message it relayed to the American people following the conclusion of its incomplete evacuation in late August.

At the time, Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie acknowledged, "We did not get out everybody we wanted to get out," but insisted that "our Department of State is going to work very hard to allow any American citizens that are left" to obtain passage out of the country.

Others in the administration likewise promised that the U.S. would work tirelessly to get the remaining Americans safely home.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby, while admitting he did not "foresee a military role" in evacuating the remaining Americans, stressed that the administration would "use other tools available to us as a government to help the safe passage of Americans get out of that country."

New poll finds majority of Americans say Biden should resign over Afghanistan disaster



A new poll found that a majority of Americans said President Joe Biden should resign over the disastrous U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 52% of U.S. likely voters wanted Biden to resign.

Another 39% disagreed that Biden should resign, while another 9% said they weren't sure. That makes the net margin negative for Biden by 13 percentage points.

The survey was conducted between Aug. 30 and 31, at the time when the evacuation mission out of the airport in Kabul ended and several hundred American citizens were abandoned. Biden addressed the country the next day and defended the withdrawal by saying that 90% of the Americans who wanted to leave the country were able to be evacuated.

The poll also found that on a generic ballot Americans were equally divided on supporting a Democratic candidate or a Republican candidate, 40% for each.

"Over the last five months I have run the same question every single month, until this version this past weekend, the Democrats have led every single time," said pollster Scott Rasmussen to The National Desk. "So the trend is moving a little bit in favor of the GOP."

He said that the crisis at the border, and a loss in economic confidence added to the anxiety over the Afghanistan debacle.

"The last month has been pretty horrible for the Biden administration and it's beginning to show up in these numbers," added Rasmussen.

About 58% of voters said they were very motivated to get out to vote in the next election.

Other polling has found Biden's favorability plummeting from over 50% down to 41%. NBC polling found that Americans were souring on his performance in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.

The Rasmussen Reports poll was comprised of a national telephone and online survey of likely voters.

Here's more about the hit to Biden's poll numbers:

NBC News Poll: Biden's Approval Rating Drops Amid Covid Surge, Afghanistan Withdrawalwww.youtube.com

Ocasio-Cortez defends Biden on disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal: 'War is addictive'



Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York defended President Joe Biden on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan by accusing his critics of profiting from war.

The democratic socialist called the withdrawal decision "courageous" in a tweet on Wednesday.

"In case you're wondering why people are going on TV relentlessly attacking Biden for his courageous decision to leave Afghanistan when no other president would, here's one glimpse as to why," she tweeted with a video of herself grilling a military contractor in 2019.

In case you’re wondering why people are going on TV relentlessly attacking Biden for his courageous decision to lea… https://t.co/wdEwwPzqWW

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 1630527461.0

"War is addictive for the few who reap its profits, while the rest of us foot the bill," she added.

In a previous tweet, Ocasio-Cortez referred to the "crisis" in Afghanistan but she put the blame squarely on the United States and did not mention Biden's involvement or culpability in the disaster.

"We have a moral obligation to the Afghan people. The U.S. role in this crisis is indisputable," she tweeted.

"We must waste no time or expense in helping refugees safely & swiftly leave Afghanistan. We must immediately welcome them to the U.S. & provide real support as they rebuild their lives," she added.

Biden angrily defended himself in an address to the nation on Tuesday, one day after the evacuation mission ended in Afghanistan and stranded between 100 and 200 Americans citizens.

"We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety," Biden said. "No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history."

Biden's approval rating has plummeted in several polls since the withdrawal that some called a "moment of American humiliation." One poll showed his approval rating plunging to 41% after he had enjoyed ratings above 50%.

Ocasio-Cortez has also previously called on Congress to repeal the original 2001 authorization for military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here's more about the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal:

Glenn TEARS INTO Biden's “Afghanistan Success" Speechwww.youtube.com