MAJOR UPDATE: Is This Pelosi's Master Plan For Election 2022?

If so, my bet is that it's headed for a fail. Perhaps even a backfire.

Law prof Jonathan Turley has the story at The Hill:

Democrats' Jan. 6 subpoena-palooza sets dangerous precedent

For "Dems" I think it's entirely fair to read: Pelosi. As Turley details, the Dems are going full witch hunt on the GOP side in the House, issuing an tidal wave of subpoenas for their phone records. Given that the FBI has announced that, woops! there really wasn't any "insurrection", one assumes that the idea behind this tactic is to find in the phone records contacts that might prove embarrassing for GOP members and useful in the campaigns of endangered Dems.

My view is that Americans, for all their foibles and gullibility, have a constitutional aversion to witch hunts. This will NOT distract them from the many manifest failures of the Zhou regime. It just may anger many Americans, who all polling shows have moved past January 6.

Anyway, Turley has some points to make, and they're worthwhile.  This tactic may never get the chance to backfire--it could get quashed in court:

Updating The Boost Stage

Well, first a brief political update--although, really, it's all politics. And in a very real sense it seems almost pointless. Election 2022 is pointing toward being one of the few most consequential elections in American history, but until that happens most of the real political news is at the grass roots level. As Emerald Robinson recounted recently (How The GOP Committed Suicide Trying to Stop Trump), once Mitch McConnell and the RNC conspired with state GOP organizations to install Zhou in the White House, the stage was set. We're seeing the results of Mitch's perfidy and the only real question is what happens when people get to register their views. The Federalist summarizes the current situation well, and the highly predictable future for the next year: 

Biden’s Presidency Is Already A Total Disaster

The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy.

And now Afghanistan, ...

The administration is stumbling from one disaster to the next, with no end in sight and public opinion plummeting on nearly every major issue. ...

...

The corporate press, keenly aware that things are not going well for this White House, will soon back away from their critical tone on Afghanistan and resume their usual routine of running cover for Biden. In the coming days we’ll almost certainly see outlandish polls showing that, aside from Afghanistan, Biden is doing pretty well, actually, considering all the crises his young administration has had to face.

But don’t buy this line. Biden has not been overtaken by events, he is not a hapless victim of history or coincidence. Every problem his White House has encountered, it has made worse. Every crisis his administration has faced has been of its own making. And as bad as things have been thus far, they are going to get even worse.

There's plenty more at the link, if you need the reminder. Remarkably, the author leaves out the near collapse of NATO, under the pressure of the Zhou regime's fecklessness. But there are just so many disasters you can cover in one article. 

Is This Some Sort Of Parable Or Metaphor?

This story has been out there for a few days, but now we have a link to a pretty detailed account:

Secret Service Records Show Biden Dog Major Repeatedly Bit Secret Service Personnel

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 36 pages of records communications from the Secret Service that show the Bidens’ dog Major was responsible for numerous biting incidents of Secret Service personnel. One email notes that “at the current rate an Agent or Officer has been bitten every day this week (3/1-3/8) causing damage to attire or bruising/punctures to the skin.” The documents show that agents were advised to protect their “hands/fingers” by placing their hands “in their pockets.” Photos of the dog bite injuries were redacted (blacked out) by the agency.

...

“We’re sure Major is a good dog but these records show he was involved in many more biting incidents than the Biden White House has publicly acknowledged,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disturbing to see a White House cover-up of numerous injuries to Secret Service and White House personnel by the Bidens’ family pet.”

 

Law prof Jonathan Turley has written about the law of dog bites in the past, and he reengages today with a link to an article he wrote back in March:

It appears that the Biden's dog Major is continuing to bite people regularly. https://t.co/J9jr6xK3hS It appears that the "one free bite" accorded under common law is well exhausted for the Bidens. https://t.co/fAGDuWVyI4

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 27, 2021

UPDATED: Who Wrote The List?

There's not much point in discussing the utter shame that the political and Deep State establishment has brought America to. They think we deserve this. So be it. It's up to us to react and prove that we don't. I doubt anyone actually cares what Zhou said--I know I don't, and I can't imagine any serious person caring. The interesting question is: Who wrote the list? Ron Klain or someone else? Miss-Information? 

Who really runs the country? 🤔🤦🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/ldqrLfTees

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 26, 2021

The great thing would have been if Kelly O'Donnell had asked: Uh, who wrote that list?

Sadly, that's not the most shameful list we heard about today. That would be the list of Americans and Afghan friends that we reportedly turned over to the Taliban.

UPDATE 1: As usual, ER is on to something--it's not just Zhou's credibility (did he ever have any?) that's swirling downward ...

Polling: Major Problems For Zhou Regime

Right. I know that subject line sounds pretty obvious. However, an interesting article in The Atlantic examines some of the recent polling more closely, and comes up with some interesting insights that go beyond the usual day to day issues in the news.

It’s the Pandemic, Stupid

What new polls reveal about American priorities

First of all, all the polls and aggregations skew liberal, so the numbers may well actually be worse than represented. The polls that The Atlantic looks at are: the RealClearPolitics average, the FiveThirtyEight trend line, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll, and an NBC News poll (which got the most media buzz).

All the polling data shows Zhou's numbers plunging--virtually in freefall. The author, Russell Berman, sets up the "easy explanation" for the terrible ratings: the debacle in Afghanistan. That's pretty obvious, after all, and it's reflected in the polls. However, Berman then goes on to point out that a closer examination reveals bigger trouble ahead--Afghanistan doesn't even make the list of important issues for poll respondents. That means something else is driving the plunge in the polls:

About The Attempted Federal Takeover Of Elections

I can see that readers are aware that the Dem House passed their longed for Federal takeover of elections--authority which the Constitution explicitly reserves to the States. There's a brief article on this at American Greatness:

House of Representatives Passes Bill That Would Enable Federal Control Over State Elections

Here are some relevant excerpts:

The bill passed along party lines in the lower chamber, by a margin of 219-212. No Republicans voted in favor of the bill, which is named after the far-left Georgia congressman who died in office last year. The bill seeks to restore a statute from the original 1965 Voting Rights Act that had been struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013; the statute would permit the federal government to conduct its own review of local and statewide election laws and procedures if the state is considered to have “a history of voter discrimination.”

In the 2013 decision, Shelby v. Holder, the nation’s highest court ruled that demanding the states first seek permission from the federal government before changing voting laws was unconstitutional.

...

The bill now heads to the evenly-divided United States Senate, where Republicans are just as opposed to the bill as House Republicans were. Even several moderate Democrats have questioned the integrity of the bill, thus putting its future in doubt.

Shelby v. Holder was a 6-3 decision and is based in the constitutional principle of federalism:

UPDATED: Vax 'Authorization': Short And Long Versions

The other day we asked--tongue in cheek--why would anyone not trust their government.  As if on cue, the government has provided a perfect, well, reminder of that basic fact of life. The FDA 'authorization' of a Covid 'vaccine' is another one of those now-you-see-it-now-you-don't government actions. One is left wondering, What does it mean? Fortunately, there are people who can explain it.

First the short version, via Twitter:

1/ So now that Come-Here-Naughty is approved (ish), the @moderna_tx @JNJNews lose their Emergency Use Authorizations, right? Because there's an approved alternative and you can't have an EUA when there are "adequate, approved, and available alternatives."

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

2/ Or is this another reason @us_fda is going out of its way to say Comirnaty is not available?

"although COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) is approved... there is not sufficient approved vaccine available for distribution to this population."https://t.co/XrqIORQZVt

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

3/ Whatever game(s) they are playing here, they're being too clever by half.

SOURCE: Footnote 9https://t.co/sEU2YzOwfP

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

The Covid - Kabul Connection

Alex Berenson really nails this. I think a lot of people had been sensing the connection, but he really gets its:

Hey ‘Merica! You can trust Uncle Joe about vaccines! He won’t lie to you or leave you behind! pic.twitter.com/mLYWCgvQr6

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 24, 2021

Things that don’t count:

Papers from Japan
Dying 13 days after your second dose
Full approval that isn’t *exactly* full approval
Myocarditis
First dose spikes
Data from Europe
Or Israel
Or anywhere that’s telling anything remotely resembling the truth

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 24, 2021

The kid gets it, too:

This kid wins the 💉Internet pic.twitter.com/xkm3rLhBAG

— Brian Hund 🎙 Libertarian since ‘92 🦅 (@brianhund) August 24, 2021

Briefly Noted: Scope Of Afghan Debacle Grows

Over the last week or so we've been reading about the scope of the debacle in Afghanistan. Much of the reporting has focused on the sheer quantity of military materiel that we've gifted to the Taliban, as well as the humanitarian crisis at the airport in Kabul.

This morning it appears that things are about to, if anything, get worse.

Thanks to a leaked State Department cable, we now have a handle on critical numbers. It appears that there are as many as 20,000 Americans still in Afghanistan. In the meantime, the US evacuation has been focusing--as far as one can speak of "focus" in this debacle--on evacuating Afghans. The upshot is that it appears unlikely, for reasons given below, that all Americans will be evacuated. Red State runs the numbers:

With the exact number in hand, educated guesses are no longer required. We know for a fact that this evacuation is going to fail. There are only 4-5 days left to get these people out due to the logistics of the 8/31 deadline, and according to the cable, there are perhaps 20,000+ Americans still stranded throughout Afghanistan. Even if you take the low-end estimate that only 10,000 Americans were originally stuck, that means we are still way behind schedule, and the situation on the ground in regards to getting to the airport is only getting worse. In other words, you will likely see fewer, not more Americans making it to planes over the next few days.

The Taliban is insisting on that 8/31 deadline, and the US, from all indications, isn't in a position to do anything about it. Or doesn't intend to. Word was that Zhou's CIA chief met with the Taliban to plead for an extension. It seems the Taliban are like most feral types--signs of weakness only encourage them. They told the CIA to pound sand. The result? The situation I speculated on last week:

The Taliban Just Pantsed Joe Biden and Signaled a Coming Hostage Crisis

I mean, if you're the Taliban you were probably saying long ago: 'Take American hostages? Hell yeah! That's the kind of thing we do.' That result was a no-brainer all along:

UPDATED: Proof Of Crash And Burn?

 Think about this ...

That is really stunning. https://t.co/nkguQs17RM

— shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) August 21, 2021

The relative silence of the GOP probably means they're content to allow this to metastasize:

I have written many times that I think the DNC will have a price to pay with the voting public if Biden proved over the first two years to be mentally unfit as he appeared to be. The GOP will hang him around the neck of every Democrat candidate in 2022. https://t.co/ot5B32hegr

— shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) August 21, 2021

They know that this isn't going to go away. Not only will the fallout be with us in 2022 but likely for many years to come. This is crash and burn on steroids--or so it appears to me.

The problem with this POV is they have no idea what catastrophe might come next with him in charge. What happens if China moves on Taiwan or Russia sends troops into Ukraine?
I'm not saying Harris is guaranteed to do better but it is a near certainty that Biden will collapse. https://t.co/rlckLUc7iv

— shipwreckedcrew.substack.com (@shipwreckedcrew) August 21, 2021

And this is like the definition of damned if you do, damned if you don't. So--what do you do? One can imagine that any problem-solving outreach by Dems to GOPers receives the not-my-problem-man response.

OTOH, there is another reason for general GOP silence:

Conservatives who voted for Biden acting like there’s you can call takies backsies. lol that’s not how elections work. Biden is “governing” as any reasonable person knew he would. This is what they voted for. Don’t let them forget it.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 22, 2021

UPDATE: Things aren't getting better--more crash and burn. Zhou has dementia, but what's Blinken's excuse? Oh, whatever, he was some foreign guy?

Conservatives who voted for Biden acting like there’s you can call takies backsies. lol that’s not how elections work. Biden is “governing” as any reasonable person knew he would. This is what they voted for. Don’t let them forget it.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 22, 2021

UPDATED: Further Reflections On Chris Wray's Turnaround Re January 6 Event

NOTE: Since publishing this, I've revised it somewhat, adding a third consideration. I'm still digesting Tucker's entire monologue because it covers more than just the January 6 Event--yet most of what is currently going on in DC seems connected.

If I understand what Thomas Lifson is saying that Tucker Carlson is saying, then the motive behind the FBI's change of stance regarding the January 6 Event has to do with concealing federal involvement in that event. Lifson writes:

“If there was organization going on, some of it came from the feds.”

...

Dropping the allegations of coordinated activity, aka, insurrection from the charges  would allow these unindicated co-conspirators to avoid being called as witnesses by those who otherwise might have been charged with crimes of conspiracy.

 

But--in bigger picture terms--organization coming from the feds means federal agency involvement in the coup against Trump. I read that as arguing that The January 6 Event, to the extent it was directed by the feds, was an op with the goal of providing a legal basis for removing Trump if push came to shove. An insurance policy of sorts against the unthinkable--Trump staging a comeback by showing election fraud before Zhou could be installed.

Now, why would the FBI be concerned at this point in time to conceal that--the Zhou regime is a fait accompli for now, right? Is there something important about this point in time? At least two reasons come to mind, and they ultimately revolve around the crash and burn of the Zhou regime that is now undeniable.

Is Chris Wray Bailing On The Regime?

Has Chris Wray held his finger up to test the political winds, and does he see a GOP Congress coming? Is he looking to ingratiate himself with those he sees as his future masters in Congress?

That could be one way to interpret the latest FBI leak, which totally undercuts DoJ's already struggling inquisition against January 6 Event participants. Via Red State:

According to four current and former law enforcement officials, the FBI has “found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result.” The FBI doesn’t believe that the riot was “centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.”

Obviously this is speculation. Nevertheless, this is not what a prosecutor wants to read in the news. What kind of witnesses will FBI agents make?

Further evidence of regime collapse?

UPDATED: Briefly Noted: Considerations Going Forward

America is in a pretty unique constitutional situation at present. However it turns out, whoever occupies the White House, I just can't see anything going back to something resembling normal. Nor should it. To complicate matters, the crisis will be deepened by challenges to the Dem narrative of a new normal--which increasingly looks like the bad old normal of the Carter years, but worsened by an out of control and divided Left.

The Covid Regime will be increasingly challenged in the coming months. The CDC is now openly admitting that the gene therapy injections have only a very limited period of effectiveness. This is confirmed from the Israeli data, where the government is warning of "mortal danger" to induce people to get "boosted" after only 5 months. Serious "breakthrough" cases in Israel--cases of infection by new variants after the gene therapy has lost protective strength--are multiplying rapidly and are a clear majority of cases. How long will it be before the general public tumbles to the reality of ADE--that it's the gene therapies that are inducing the new variants and leaving the vaxxed with less protection. People will realize that sooner rather than later. There will be a lot of unhappy people.

Here in the US, the narrative or rareness is being challenged on multiple fronts.

What's The State Of Play For Zhou?

Obviously from our distance we can only speculate, but rationally it's hard to see how he can continue to occupy the White House--in fact, there are reports that he doesn't even want to sleep there anymore. That sounds like a dementia case who can't think past his next meal and a comfy place to sleep. Can you imagine how weird things are in the regime right now? He was given a couple of tries at blustering through, but blew them--including a shambolic performance whiffing at Stephanopoulos soft balls. 

On top of that we're getting truly disturbing reports from the UK that Zhou refused or--more likely--wasn't allowed to take calls from Boris Johnson for something like 36 hours. I assume that whenever Zhou disappears for a few days he's under intensive medical care. He probably wasn't in a condition to take those calls. 

Think about that. A vote in the UK parliament to condemn a White House occupant? That's how low we've fallen:

UPDATED: It Gets Worse

C'mon, guys!

Between the comments about Facebook censorship, women’s rights, and now this … yes they are trolling Joe Biden with memes. https://t.co/4iyoB3ylEz

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 18, 2021

This may be the tweet that seals Zhou's fate. 

Eight months and it's legacy time:

Besides which ice cream flavor he orders, do you think Joe Biden really gets to decide anything himself? pic.twitter.com/RW6WBmCeHI

— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) August 12, 2021

What can I say? Ya gotta laugh sometimes when you know it's only going to get worse.

UPDATE 1: Here's one I can answer: Barry is too busy working on the guest list for La Michelle's blow out birthday party at a luxury compound to be determined:

It’s the Obama-Biden-Harris-Clinton Administration! https://t.co/V3eSk9dXOG

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) August 18, 2021

This was kind of a trick tweet, btw. The question has been, Why isn't Zhou talking to world leaders? Get it? Justin Trudeau a world leader? Since when?

Still, why wasn't he talking to Kama Sutra. It just keeps getting worse.

UPDATE 2: This guy counts more than Trudeau--and his point is an important one when it comes to forcing Zhou out. But the Kama Sutra problem remains.

Biden has done more to destroy NATO than anything Trump was ever accused of. Eloquent British former soldier observes that Afghanistan was NATO mission and that Biden's chaotic abandonment betrayed NATO as well as Afghanistan. https://t.co/W0uwc1gKAC

— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) August 18, 2021

UPDATE 3: This can't go on much longer, after this afternoon's disaster. But ...

Terrified Biden Wanders Around The White House Wondering Where Obama Went

Establishment Wagons Circling? Regime Change Comes To US?

Sundance has a good post up, and you may be able to file it under--What goes around comes around, sub category Regime Change:

Something Sketchy in the Blame Game, Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Pentagon Collectively Throwing Biden Under The Bus

I wouldn't call this exactly sketchy. What it looks like is that the Deep State is trying to come up with an exit plan for Zhou that would allow them to remain in place. Sundance is citing a WSJ article, which means the sourcing is Deep Establishment. Notable for now is that this is the military--the institution most obviously under the gun for the Kabul debacle. We need to watch who else gets on the CYA bandwagon. 

Don Surber's latest post gets into this, too. Surber cites a CNN article that appears to be throwing Zhou under the bus--you know that's coming from the top. The NYT is citing Intel sources blaming Zhou, so there's another establishment power base that clearly wants Zhou gone. How long can that go on?

Well, there remains the Kama Sutra problem. That's a BIG problem.

Sundance asks:

C'mon, Man!

Worth far more than a thousand words:

A Digital Billboard in Wilmington, NC on Racine and Eastwood Ave. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/oNVwdNtr3n

— Amy Hudson (@bcuzicanb) August 17, 2021

pic.twitter.com/Y72R66GPZm

— Amy Hudson (@bcuzicanb) August 18, 2021

Supposedly people are seriously talking 25th, but the implications are almost unthinkable for the Dems. Kama Sutra, meanwhile, has cut and run for ... Vietnam? Anywhere else and she might have to take questions from the press, and she's failed at that repeatedly? Dunno if she'll visit Saigon--can't expect her to understand those optics, so it's possible.

What's virtually impossible is to recover from this degree of stupid and incompetent--not when people have started openly laughing at you. There are so many levels of difficulty here. How to get a new VP through the Senate--because that's what you need: a majority from a 50/50 chamber. GOP can just say no--and where's the wiggle room for Schumer without that 51st vote? And of course it's much worse than just that. Kama Sutra's polling is, incredibly, worse than Zhou's: lower than whale sh*t, and deservedly so. If you pull the trigger on the 25th and the GOP balks at confirming a VP, trying a do-over of the 25th may not be possible--even if they dared try. Only 8 months into an illegitimate regime and they're already looking for an escape mechanism? Is time to bring the military back to the Imperial City? I'd like to see Milley strutting around, now, with that rainbow collection of stuff on his chest.

Banana Republic territory. A Rocky Road ahead.

UPDATED: End Of Empire?

After four years of Trump's heroic--some might say, Quixotic--attempt to return America to the greatness of its founding principles, the ruling elite staged a coup that enabled them to plunge back headfirst into the moral, political, and financial corruption that is the progressive regime. It's been a long time coming. For decades America's status as an empire rather than a constitutional republic was concealed from its citizens, but especially with the end of the Cold War the ride on the slippery slope has accelerated. 

The origins of our problems actually pre-date the rise of America as a world power--you can trace those origins certainly to the progressive era that began in the late 19th century when our ruling elite embraced the German ideal of government by science inspired "experts". Anyone with some sense of irony will note the repeated invocation the terms "science" and "experts" in support of our Covid Regime, even as our rulers abandon virtually even the pretense to scientific guidance. We find ourselves in the hands of half educated crackpots, neo-gnostic ideologues, and cynical power and money hungry elites who operate through frontmen.

Emerald Robinson put an important part of the problem we're facing well in her two tweets late yesterday: 

The reason that neoliberals are weeping all over Washington today: Afghanistan's fall is not just a crisis in credibility for Biden but for Brookings, for the Council of Foreign Relations, for the entire foreign policy establishment.

The neoliberals are self-aware enough to know that if they failed to plan a basic evacuation from a third world country then nobody really believes that they’re competent leaders of the free world.

ER is focusing on the foreign policy implications of this failure--which is natural, since foreign policy is at the core of running an empire. Ask every president since Clinton.

Nevertheless, the implications are broader. Off the top of my head, here are two:

UPDATED: Like, Y'Know, Who's In Charge?

ER is a pro on twitter:

Who's probably in charge of the Biden-Harris White House comms team right now with everyone else on vacation? https://t.co/5aSBUQjtvn

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) August 16, 2021

The reason that neoliberals are weeping all over Washington today: Afghanistan's fall is not just a crisis in credibility for Biden but for Brookings, for the Council of Foreign Relations, for the entire foreign policy establishment.

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) August 16, 2021

The neoliberals are self-aware enough to know that if they failed to plan a basic evacuation from a third world country then nobody really believes that they’re competent leaders of the free world.

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) August 16, 2021

UPDATE: I shoulda known--best commentary is on Babylon Bee:

Taliban Enjoys Deep Belly Laugh Over Diversity Training Materials Left Behind By U.S. Military https://t.co/fNOZOOW6Bo

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 16, 2021

Heroic Secret Service Agent Dives In Front Of Biden As Reporter Tries To Ask A Question https://t.co/hkE6IqoVRa

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 16, 2021

Biden Demands Whoever The President Is Take Full Responsibility For This Mess https://t.co/nVcF3fmoXX

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 16, 2021

On the other hand, does self parody count as commentary, or is it a separate category of some sort?

The State Department calls on the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative government.”

This is not a Babylon Bee skit. It’s a real thing that just happened.

pic.twitter.com/6KSJ9Q7enR

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 16, 2021

UPDATED: Zhou Owns This

That seems to be the verdict of the MSM--lame excuses won't be acceptable. I remarked to my wife yesterday that some stories are just too big to ignore, and America cutting and running and leaving some behind is one of those stories. Zhou will be consuming large quantities of Rocky Road, whether he likes it or not. Indeed, he's already being forced to return early from his vacay. But, of course, this is really about his handlers and about America's political establishment. But for the political establishment, Trump is president. They know that, and the rest of the country knows it, too. Branding the majority of the country as potential domestic terrorists is revealed as too lame to be tolerated much longer by the evident moral corruption of the establishment--which leads directly to its incompetence.

Karl Denninger has a pithy post on all this today, which he spoils at the end with his stock anti-Trump rhetoric--actually contradicting himself within the span of a few sentences. What I mean is, he admits that staying was no solution, while adding that there's a right way to leave and this was manifestly the wrong way. But then he has to add:

PS: Don't forget who set the original we're leaving timetable over in Afghanistan.

That's just stupid. This is not on Trump because Trump didn't get the chance to do it the right way. Abandoning imperial ambitions to concentrate on MAGA was unquestionably the right thing to do.