AFGHANISTAN WAS A FAILURE OF THE SUITS, not the boots.

BOOTS V. SUITS: Go with the boots.

AFGHAN INTERPRETER: Taliban beating women outside Kabul airport.

So they should just identify as men. Problem solved.

(Yes, I know. It's a flip remark, unkind to the Aghani women, but it accurately describes the progressive Left.)

THE DANGER of Biden's fragile ego.

Weakness begets weakness, and poor decisions beget more poor decisions. Biden has always stood for one thing and one thing only: His own narcissistic political advancement. Until now, it was pathetic and pitiable. Now, it's deadly.

Correct.

THE CDC doesn’t deserve trust on masks.

The CDC doesn't deserve trust, period.

RESIGN. Just ... resign.

Now.

TO BE FAIR, DeBlasio did accomplish something useful.

THE MEDICAL PRICING SCANDAL is getting real.

What I find interesting (as a Medicare 'enrollee') is the statements I get from Medicare following (usually months later) each covered procedure. As a general rule, the statement shows how much was charged, how much Medicare allowed (and paid), and how much the patient can be billed (usually 20%). The ratio of billed to allowed is typically about 10 to 1.

Guess who's paying the difference?

ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MARICOPA COUNTY: Give up election information or lose state’s $700M.

Get the data and keep the $700 million anyway.

Linked from Instapundit.

WALKING AWAY FROM AMERICA:

President(ish) Joe Biden.

YOUR ELECTRIC CAR CAN (WILL?) set your house on fire.

So -- the interesting question is "Will California burn down before the next earthquake takes it out to sea?

IEEE SPECTRUM: The joy of disobeying yoour phone. The road less traveled is almost always the better road.

Frankly I'm somewhat surprised by this post, since the IEEE went 'woke' Left years ago.

DON'T TRUST; verify.

I'M NOT ALONE: Nuke ’em from orbit.

I DON'T KNOW. Can America survive the Biden administration?

As has been said many times before, hope is not a plan.

AN EDITORIAL EMAIL FROM TOWNHALL:

Watching the Biden and Harris team of socialists move in was frightening enough, but the last seven months have been completely terrifying. Their cabinet secretaries are all radical leftists. Their CDC is completely incompetent. Their defense department lost Afghanistan with tens of thousands of American citizens left behind. Their irresponsible spending in the first trillion+ dollar "Covid" bill was bad enough, but long before that money has been fully spent, they're spending even more money we don't have. The "infrastructure" bill is a nightmare and along with the upcoming five trillion dollar reconciliation bill, they are going to bankrupt us all.

And the Washington press corps is a bunch of slobbering idiots crawling over each other to help the White House and Congress screw normal Americans.

Jonathan Garthwaite is the editor at TownHall. I thought the email was worth posting.

IT AIN'T 'EQUITY'; it's idiocy.

Even the Left is finally beginning to get the message.

THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE COUNTRY ARE INCOMPETENT. Is there a leader left in America?

I'm hopeful, but not optimistic.

FIRE THE GENERALS: The first step in saving our military.

All of them. Then start over.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY creates a hostile educational environment on account of race.

Is that legal? Only if you're a progressive. (And in control.)

OF COURSE: At least according to the health police.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Oh, and let's fund the Taliban too.

LESSONS FROM MOTHER NATURE: Hunker down.

Somewhere, some hurricane a long time ago, I suggested much the same thing. Prepare -- remove things that can blow away; sandbag; protect doors and windows; get extra water and food that needn't be prepared; get batteries; prepare to live without power for several days; then hunker down and wait til it's over.

What I'm seeing from the post-hurricane 'news' coverage appears (to me) to justify that attitude.

Also -- allowing authorities to scare you out allows them to keep you out.

CLIFFHANGER.

CAROLINE GLICK: Joe Biden's catastrophic judgment.

How did America sink so far so fast?

BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASICS: Digital devices to keep tabs on 'woke' teachers.

I wish it were otherwise, but I fear that there are far too many classrooms in desperate need of them.

AMMO GRRRLL calls on us for small, pointless rebellions. Paraphrasing a bit, she writes:

Maybe all those small, pointless rebellions are practice for more urgent and important battles against those who would dictate to liberty-loving Americans how to live every minute of our lives. Remember that old typing exercise? “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country”? It is. And, by the way, we women always knew “men” included us.

She's right.

NO EFFING WAY IN HELL: The Great Reset.

IMPRIMIS: Gender ideology run amok.

Seriously, how has USA come to the point where a miniscule minority of seriously mentally ill people dominate American civic life?

Seriously.

AMAZING: Boston Dynamics robots nail Parkour obstacle course.

THIS IS SAIGON 2.0, and it only took President Biden seven short months to get us to this point.

So next election, vote. Vote early (like Democrats), vote often (like Democrats), and vote Republican (unlike Democrats).