UPDATE August 27, 2023:
Sacrifice and sacrificed are not the same thing, Mr. President, and lying about it doesn’t absolve you of guilt.
The thirteen service members murdered by a terrorist at Abbey Gate during President Biden’s historic, shamefully botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan deserve better than lies and a perfunctory 172-word statement from the man responsible.
One sentence in the White House commemoration “Honoring Sacrifices of the Service Members Killed” stands out:
But we will never fail to honor our sacred obligation to our service members and veterans, as well as their families, caregivers, and survivors.483
As Elle Purnell reports in The Federalist,484 the president’s sacred obligation includes lying to a Gold Star parent about the death of his son Beau, who Biden claimed came home in a flag-draped coffin. Like his remarks to devastated Maui residents, the president has a habit of drawing sympathy to himself, as if he is deserving of equal empathy even when his comparisons are outrageously inappropriate and tone deaf, if not outright lies.
This is not how America honors the sacrifice of 13 dead heroes. It is how Joe Biden puts the loss of service members he sacrificed into a context that absolves him of guilt, accountability, and responsibility.
Texas House Republican Jody Arrington observed this loss of brave American lives by telling the truth:
Two years ago today, President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan devolved into an international embarrassment, a tragic loss of American soldiers, and a geopolitical catastrophe that emboldened our adversaries such as Russia, China, and Iran.
Nearly 20 years of American military service and sacrifice were undone in a matter of days as President Biden ignored the advice of top military officials, causing serious damage to America’s credibility and the needless loss of 13 American heroes.485
Don’t expect the Biden White House to accept any culpability for one of the most damaging foreign policy and military blunders in U.S. history. As House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) reminds us:
President Biden and his Administration’s decisions during the Afghanistan withdrawal led to the deaths of 13 servicemembers, left Americans completely stranded, allowed U.S. military equipment to fall into Taliban hands, jeopardized progress made by Afghan women, and destabilized the entire region.486
There wasn’t room in Biden’s 172 words for any of these politically damaging details. Instead, the White House offered trite jargon and a nod to the families who deserve accountability and genuine remorse:
We pray for the families of our fallen warriors. We grieve with them, we honor them, and we will always continue to support them.487
At least part of this is true. Americans pray for the families. We grieve with and honor them.
Our president and commander in chief, on the other hand, had an opportunity few of us will. He had a chance to express our nation’s support face to face after sacrificing these 13 Americans on the pillar of his incompetence. Biden told a lie instead.
Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, and Lieu claim neo-Nazis “armed to the teeth” are marching in America’s streets. Where?
We knew it was coming after the shootings in Jacksonville and sure enough, four House Democrats outdid their usual inflammatory partisanship and false claims with a press release warning:
Neo-Nazis are armed to the teeth and marching in our streets.484
Where is this happening?
They didn’t say.
Why didn’t they say? Because they are liars who know they won’t be challenged.
The four followed up with a threat, though it’s unclear just who and what they are threatening:
No one in America is safe unless everyone is safe.485
If Donald Trump said this, he would be accused of a domestic terror threat and promptly be indicted again. Are they coming after us until violence is eradicated from our country forever?
If so, the issue at hand is damning for the Democrat Party because there is one place where their politicians have control over crime: the cities they govern. From what we’re seeing across the country from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, their equity-focused criminal justice policies aren’t working out so well for law-abiding citizens who just want to be safe.
This assumes Jeffries & Co. have an interest in protecting Americans. If they did, they would work with Republicans to do exactly that. The real concern is hidden in their hysterically overeager partisan rant:
The racist shooting in Jacksonville is the inevitable consequence of reckless public officials who coddle right-wing extremists, whitewash painful parts of our history and flood our communities with weapons of war.486
The obvious insinuation is that Republicans are aware of dangerous, right-wing extremists in their communities and do nothing to stop them.
This is ridiculous, though the reverse is absolutely true. Democrats ignored and even justified the crimes committed during the 2020 race riots, release criminals into our communities without bond every day, seed illegals across the country, and do little or nothing to address the endemic shootings in the neighborhoods where they are the ones responsible for law enforcement. Instead, they concoct other excuses for violence that have political value “like organized terrorists like the KKK”487 and demand that we defund the police.
Those who lost their lives to a white supremacist in Jacksonville deserve better than an unsubstantiated statement about armed neo-Nazis from deranged, foaming at the mouth partisans with nothing constructive to offer except attacking their political opponents while they turn a blind eye to violence promoted by their wayward, progressive law enforcement policies.
Like most things that counter the Democrat Party’s radical narrative, daily shootings in their cities are liberal collateral damage they ignore while the body counts grow and they indulge their leftist wet dream that Nazism and Biden’s GOP semi-fascism are alive and well and thriving in America. If anything is indicative of racism, it’s letting this killing continue when they have the means to intervene and yet do little or nothing to stop it except provide excuses for policies that only make matters worse.
The four conclude:
We urge the Department of Justice to aggressively investigate violent extremists in our society and prosecute them to the full extent of the law. 488
Merrick Garland’s agency should do exactly that and make sure it’s done on a fair, equal, and non-partisan basis that also pursues extremists on the far left. If you believe this is possible, you are probably looking out your window for those armed to the teeth neo-Nazis while you read this.
483“Statement from President Joe Biden Honoring Sacrifices of the Service Members Killed in the Terrorist Attack During the Withdrawal from Afghanistan.” whitehouse.gov. August 26, 2023. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-honoring-sacrifices-of-the-service-members-killed-in-the-terrorist-attack-during-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/, retrieved August 27, 2023.
484Purnell, Elle. “Joe Biden Needs To Stop Lying To Gold Start Families That His Son Died In Iraq.” August 9, 2023. https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/09/joe-biden-needs-to-stop-lying-to-gold-star-families-that-his-son-died-in-iraq/, retrieved August 27, 2023.
485“Rep. Arrington Commemorates Anniversary of Fall of Afghanistan.” arrington.house.gov. August 15, 2023. https://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1064, retrieved August 27, 2023.
486“Comer Announces Hearing on Biden Administration’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal.” oversight.house.gov. April 12, 2023. https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-announces-hearing-on-biden-administrations-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal/, retrieved August 27, 2023.
487“Statement from President Joe Biden Honoring Sacrifices of the Service Members Killed in the Terrorist Attack During the Withdrawal from Afghanistan.” whitehouse.gov. August 26, 2023. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-honoring-sacrifices-of-the-service-members-killed-in-the-terrorist-attack-during-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/, retrieved August 27, 2023.
488“Joint House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Shooting in Jacksonville.” democraticleader.house.gov. August 27, 2023. https://democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-releases/joint-house-democratic-leadership-statement-shooting-jacksonville, retrieved August 29, 2023.
489Ibid.
490Ibid.
491Ibid.
492Ibid.
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You’ve got it exactly backwards. Republicans are the lying bullies. Period. The end. Idiot.
Difficult to do without a congressional majority, but with any luck after midterms next year there will be plenty of Republican bullying to make up for the lunacy we’ve suffered from the left.
Thanks for reading, even if I am an idiot.
your one of the un-educated people, could be receiving monies from the SATAN children in washington dc, in other words THE STEALING & LAUNDERING LAIRS CALLED democrats! The above voting for lairs – when TRUTH Meets them in Face- they only know to say bad things bout the REPUBLICANS, more than likely you don’t have a profession other than waiting for the free deposit.
IN REALITY GET YOURSELF SAVED THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, NOT ala he’s SATAN in TRUTH!
Nope! Nice try though. The “h” in democrat stands for honesty. Democrats are allergic to facts and think with their asses! No brains at all! Go f*** yourself democrats!
False. You’re confused because you think the news is real. The news is not real. In reality, 85% of republican reps are democrats. They’re all lying Satanists who want to destroy America. Hence the wars, destruction of the dollar, the illegal alien invasion, refusing to use our own oil and natural gas. Etc. if you want to live in reality swap out fox and cnn for info wars. Propaganda will trick you and make you sound stupid so avoid the “news”
THE LOYAL DROOLING ASS-KISSERS WILL BELIEVE ANY LIE UTTERED BY A REPUBLICAN.
Such as?
A Republican does anything wrong its all over ythe news even if it is all lies like with Trump this election era. A democratic lies daily and its published as gosphel!! There is no news without truth and the democratic party would self destruct if they had to tell one iota of truth as they are 100% liars, cowards, cheats and thieves!!!
Spot on, antiobama. There is no better proof than their new Inflation Reduction Act. Democrats are so arrogant that they don’t even try to hide the fact that they lied to Americans about the purpose of this bill or what it will accomplish. As you rightly point out, when they lie it’s gospel and anyone who reveals the truth will be denounced and cancelled by Big Tech and their complicit media.
There is no news without truth and the democratic party would self destruct if they had to tell one iota of truth as they are 100% liars, cowards, cheats and thieves!!!
When Dems say the violence is part of their agenda. They are telling the truth. They plan on using as much violence to make legal Americans afraid to stand up to them
Exactly right, Mea. All it takes is a liberal dog whistle to get the violent, peaceful protests started. As long as Democrats control Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the FBI, left-wing domestic terrorists have nothing to worry about.
Democrats are the biggest damn liars that ever lived or at least one of the biggest liars but anyway they are big time liars who don’t the meaning of the word truth and honesty, they think we’re fools who believe their lies but not all of us are foolishly enough to believe their lies and they like to feed us a heaping load of their bullshit lies and put blame on anyone and anything that they can put blame on cause that trash isn’t going to take blame for nothing cause it’s easier to put blame on someone else or something else but their favorite person to put blame on is Trump and he’s always been their favorite person to pick on, it isn’t bad enough that they used Covid-19 to do that stupid mail in ballot thing all so they can steal the election away from Trump but then they keep right on with their bullshit cause I think they feel threatened by Trump and I think they always have felt threatened by him especially now, I think they’re scared that Trump might run again in the 2024 election and win and get back in office and they sure don’t want that and I hope Trump does run again and wins because this country needs him back as President and I don’t give a damn what the birdbrains out there think cause they’re no damn better than the trash out there, doing the damage to America cause they support them and vote for them and when they do that, that makes them no better than they are cause they support the garbage doing the damage and to me that’s like a slap in the face cause to me when you support them, it’s like you support anything and everything they do, good or bad so I say” WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Wow! Faye, I think you covered it. I haven’t decided whether they lie because they think we’re too dumb to see through what they say, or because they don’t care what we think. Probably both. As far as Trump is concerned, I wholeheartedly agree. Democrats and sadly, many Republicans are terrified of a leader who won’t play their game of stringing us along, hurting Americans in the process, and doing absolutely nothing to make our country better. Trump got things done and Washington still hates him for showing how worthless and self-interested our elected officials are. The best way for him to end their hate is to be reelected. Afterwards he can’t run again and this will go away.
Exactly.
You’re absolutely right Faye. I live in Washington State where we do mail in voting all the time I am absolutely positive that Washington State enacted disability without the vote of the people so that the Democratic party that enacted it could continually steal the elections year after year after year trying to find something Democrats need to be removed their party should be disbanded based on their willingness to sell our country to foreign interest Joe Biden has proven that but yet the mainline media doesn’t seem to be too interested in checking into it that’s because they know it’s the truth. I don’t
What good does it do to point out democrat lies. The GOP won’t do anything about it.
I don’t disagree, Michael. They will hold hearings. They will issue a report. Nothing will come of it because they don’t have the political might and too many in the party don’t want to rock the boat that keeps lawmakers fat and happy.
You’re not wrong only it will take more than just a majority. Unfortunately most Republicans are so afraid that they won’t stand up to the lying oppressive Democratic regime. This is half of the problem. The other half of the problem is that none of the political individuals Republican and Democrat alike are willing to give up their ability to conduct insider trading based on knowledge that they receive from different committees. Thank you for listening I wish that my thoughts were not the truth.
I wish you were wrong too, Paul, but your comments are spot on. The willingness of the GOP to bend to the will of the Democrat Party is infuriating, including their support of the last omnibus spending package. Democrats know better.
As far as insider trading is concerned, let’s relegate that to the same list as term limits and an earmark ban. The difference between Republicans and Democrats is a lot less than the difference between politicians from either party and the American people. Both know where their money comes from.
Thanks for reading and offering your thoughts.
Bob