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The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1330 - Biden’s Sickening, Cowardly, Pathetic Betrayal

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1330 - Biden’s Sickening, Cowardly, Pathetic Betrayal", an episode of The Ben Shapiro Show published October 3, 2022 (1 h 1 min, about 12,629 words). It mentions 74 people, works and ideas, including Taliban, United States (states), Al Qaeda, Tony Blinken, The Ben Shapiro Show.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: United States (states), American Empire, Bestow, Birch Gold Group
  2. – 20:00: Taliban, United States (states), Secretary of State, Abbey Gate
  3. – 30:00: Taliban, Al Qaeda, United States (states), General Kenneth McKenzie
  4. – 40:00: Taliban, Tony Blinken, Morning Wire
  5. – 50:00: Taliban, Tony Blinken, United States (states), Readers Pass
  6. – 1:00:00: Hacienda Heights, Taliban, United States (states), Matt Walsh Show
  7. – 1:00:51: Bradford Carrington, Fabiola Christina, Jessica Kranz, Justin Barber

Notable quotes from "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1330 - Biden’s Sickening, Cowardly, Pathetic Betrayal"

  • Allow other more up-and-coming countries to fill the vacuum left by the United States in the wake of our surrender to world events that seems to be the plan which is pretty ugly it's a pretty ugly plan because here is the thing.
    about United States (states) · at
  • Powers are not going away gang they're not China has best filled that Gap in Afghanistan Russia is about to fill that Gap and Afghanistan Iran is about to fill that Gap in the…
    about Russia · at
  • Military plane carrying evacuees out of Afghanistan took off and left Afghan airspace General Kenneth McKenzie the commander of us ascentcom said at a press briefing the Biden…
    about General Kenneth McKenzie · at
  • It was a full-scale disaster the country is now completely in the hands of the Taliban which we'll discuss in just one moment everything that could have been botched here was botched from the complete destruction of the Afghan military at.
    about Taliban · at
  • Living under the wonderful Taliban regime for the re rise of Al Qaeda and Isis oh that's good according to Joe Biden he did a wonderful job according to Joe Biden is the best president he's ever seen.
    about Al Qaeda · at
  • Armed military in the history of the world but let me tell you Ned price and that team over at State Tony blinken he's going to be on his phone with those people at the other…
    about Tony Blinken · at
  • And the New York Times is holding up California's 39th congressional district that's the district with Hacienda Heights in it they're holding up that District as a swing…
    about Hacienda Heights · at
  • At 1 30 PM Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five.
    about The Ben Shapiro Show · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Tony Blinken — Person · 6 mentions · first at
  • General Kenneth McKenzie — Person · 3 mentions · first at
  • Secretary of State — Person · 2 mentions · first at
    He actually put out a written statement and then he sent out the head of centcom and the Secretary of State to take the heat here is the statement put out by President Joe…
  • Zamari Ahmadi — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Actually we didn't hit a suicide bomber we instead killed a person named zamari Ahmadi who apparently had ties to the American Military in the past and killed 10 people seven of them kids that was on our way out.
  • Emanuel Macron — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Wow the International Community wow French president Emmanuel macron said Sunday the resolution would propose a U.N controlled safe Zone in Kabul for humanitarian operations but instead the resolution called for quote all parties.
  • David Martin — Person · 1 mention · first at
    It is it's all of those things so take for example take for example David Martin on CBS he said there's no question we're leaving for political reasons this is not about…
  • Richard Engel — Person · 1 mention · first at
    The wrong political choices and we can see it happening in real time NBC's Richard Engel who's been very good on this particular issue right Richard engel's been reporting on…
  • Leo Ortiz — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And then they found a bunch of people who agree with Joe Biden quote Brenda and Leo Ortiz had paid enough attention to the news from Afghanistan that was hardly a surprise when…
  • Patrick Wong — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Least for now when you have no good choice you still have to pick one said Patrick Wong a 65 year old independent who has voted for both Republicans and Democrats so I would love to see a quote from someone in this article who was.
  • Andrew Chang — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Actually divided about this decision instead they found somebody who voted for Trump named Tanya Chang and Andrew Chang in downtown Fullerton saying they may be exited more…
  • Tanya Chang — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Actually divided about this decision instead they found somebody who voted for Trump named Tanya Chang and Andrew Chang in downtown Fullerton saying they may be exited more…
  • Young Kim — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Missteps we couldn't have stayed there forever even representative young Kim was less critical of the president than many lawmakers in her party she said we don't have the…
  • Elliot Fell — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot fell executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis…
  • Mathis Glover — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Show is produced by Elliot fell executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford…
  • Pavel Wydowski — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Executive producer Jeremy boring our supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber…
  • Bradford Carrington — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Supervising producer is Mathis Glover production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz…
  • Justin Barber — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Production manager Pavel wydowski associate producer Bradford Carrington post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and…
  • Mike Caromina — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Post producer Justin Barber the show is edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the…
  • Fabiola Christina — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Edited by Adam cyovitz audio is mixed by Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire…
  • Jessica Kranz — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Mike caromina hair and makeup is by Fabiola Christina production assistant Jessica Kranz the Ben Shapiro show is a daily wire production copyright daily wire 2021 the head of…
  • Adam Ciovitz — Person · 1 mention
  • Brenda Ortiz — Person · 1 mention
  • Ian Pannell — Person · 1 mention
  • Nathalie Broadhurst — Person · 1 mention
  • Robert Ganzert — Person · 1 mention
  • Steve Borrelli — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

  • Taliban — Company · 33 mentions · first at
  • Al Qaeda — Company · 6 mentions · first at
  • The Ben Shapiro Show — Company · 4 mentions · first at
  • Matt Walsh Show — Company · 3 mentions · first at
    Alrighty we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon the Matt Walsh show airs at 1 30 PM Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show.
  • Bestow — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Policy was recently rated number one by Forbes higher than options from latter ethos and bestow getting started is super simple first you head on over to policygenius.com…
  • Washington Post — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Surrender of Kabul even though the Taliban apparently offered according to the Washington Post control of Kabul to the Americans to help broker some sort of agreement with the…
  • The Joint Chiefs of Staff — Company · 1 mention · first at
    By the way a presence on the ground of about 3 000 American troops according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a continued financial obligation of less money than we just handed…
  • Pakistani ISI — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Afghanistan and with the tacit backing of not only the Pakistani isi in many ways but also the Chinese military I'm sure so things are significantly worse than they were in 2001 by the way they're armed with 85 billion dollars of.
  • American Humane Society — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Working dogs to the Taliban which means they're just going to shoot them the American Humane Society condemned the effective death sentence the US withdrawal from Kabul in…
  • Andrew Klavan Show — Company · 1 mention · first at
    To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the…
  • Michael Knowles Show — Company · 1 mention · first at
    To podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the…
  • BLM (Black Lives Matter) — Company · 1 mention
  • CENTCOM (United States Central Command) — Company · 1 mention
  • Ethos — Company · 1 mention
  • Federal Reserve (The Fed) — Company · 1 mention
  • GQ — Company · 1 mention
  • Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) — Company · 1 mention
  • Ladder — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • Morning Wire — Product · 2 mentions · first at
    Important to understand what's going on in the political sphere that's why we started our newest podcast morning wire the daily Morning Show is dedicated to bringing you all…
  • Readers Pass — Product · 2 mentions · first at
    Include the hunter Biden files and BLM the organization behind a movement when you sign up with readers pass you also get access to the morning wire newsletter a Monday through…
  • Wall-E — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

  • American Empire — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    Slash Ben we'll get to all the devastating news in just one moment first your reminder that as the American Empire dies it's about time that you diversify into something that…
  • Spanish Empire — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Using them against you that is the history of world affairs it applies all the way from the Spanish Empire through the English Empire certainly through the American Empire applies to the Roman Empire as well somebody fills the Gap.
  • Roman Empire — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    The English Empire certainly through the American Empire applies to the Roman Empire as well somebody fills the Gap always and forever somebody fills the Gap and so your choice is do you stand up for your prerogative as the.
  • Critical Race Theory — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Transgenderism and genderless bathrooms and whether our kids learn about critical race Theory that you don't care about world affairs or that you believe that America is so…
  • Greek mythology — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Called aerocyclin and I apologize if I mispronounce the name but this particular King in Greek mythology he was so greedy that he decided that he was going to cut down a sacred Forest outside of his castle.
  • British Empire — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    States a day of humility for a world superpower Afghanistan has been called the graveyard of Empires the British Empire fought in Afghanistan and withdrew in defeat the Soviet…

Places & events

  • United States (states) — Place · 18 mentions · first at
  • Russia — Place · 4 mentions · first at
  • Hacienda Heights — Place · 4 mentions · first at
  • Middle East — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Afghanistan Russia is about to fill that Gap and Afghanistan Iran is about to fill that Gap in the Middle East these are all malevolent powers and they all are not shy about…
  • Thessaly — Place · 1 mention · first at
    We are watching in Afghanistan today there's a Greek myth there's a king of thessaly who is called aerocyclin and I apologize if I mispronounce the name but this particular King in Greek mythology.
  • Abbey Gate — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Allegedly killed an Afghan family so because Joe Biden was humiliated by that terror attack at the Abbey gate at Kabul International Airport according to local reports on the…
  • Bagram Air Base — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Like just a few months ago and he was predicting all of this he was saying yeah I've gone to Bagram air base and I'm like going around I'm looking he did a report where he went…
  • California's 39th congressional district — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Basically the story and the New York Times is holding up California's 39th congressional district that's the district with Hacienda Heights in it they're holding up that District as a swing District it went 54-44 for Joe Biden in the last.
  • Fullerton — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Instead they found somebody who voted for Trump named Tanya Chang and Andrew Chang in downtown Fullerton saying they may be exited more quickly than they should have but I…
  • China (People's Republic of China) — Place · 1 mention
  • Hamid Karzai International Airport — Place · 1 mention
  • Iran — Place · 1 mention
  • Kabul — Place · 1 mention
  • Kabul Airport (Hamid Karzai International Airport) — Place · 1 mention
  • Russia (Russian Federation) — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

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    The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by expressvpn you have a right to privacy defend your right to expressvpn.com slash Ben we'll get to all the devastating news in just one moment first your reminder that as the American.
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Full transcript with timestamps

American troops leave Afghanistan and leave hundreds of Americans thousands of green card holders and tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind the Biden White House Pats itself on the back for a job well done and the Taliban take over our helicopters I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show the Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by expressvpn you have a right to privacy defend your right to expressvpn.com slash Ben we'll get to all the devastating news in just one moment first your reminder that as the American Empire dies it's about time that you diversify into something that actually has some lasting value like Precious Metals you see it at the pump the grocery store and construction costs another month of the highest inflation since 2008 another month where that paper money you're carrying around is worth less what is your plan to protect your savings you have homeowners insurance in case of a fire what

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get started today alrighty so Americans are going to have to decide whether we wish to be a world power whether we wish to be the most powerful country on planet Earth whether we wish our values to be promulgated around the world or whether we wish to just sink back in a warm bath eat ourselves to death and then slit our wrists in our gluttoning that seems to be the choice being made by the Biden Administration that we ought to spend money that has not yet been created in the trillions of dollars that we ought to pay ourselves to do nothing and we ought to Pat ourselves on the back for doing all of this in the name of equity and social justice and meanwhile that we ought to allow other more up-and-coming countries to fill the vacuum left by the United States in the wake of our surrender to world events that seems to be the plan which is pretty ugly it's a pretty ugly plan because here is the thing

Empire is is generally not a choice very often Empire is simply a reality of the world this does not mean the United States must go around conquering countries and then taking them over as Colonial assets or anything like that it just means that when you're a very powerful country you have a lot of interest in the world those interests are frequently challenged and if those interests are challenged you have to defend yourself and when you leave a vacuum somebody else fills that vacuum so for all the talk about how America needs to shirk off its burgeoning Empire how America doesn't have to be an Empire how we need to bring all the troops home how we need to consolidate at home the history of world powers demonstrates that this is not actually an option you either are aggressive in foreign affairs in defense of your own propriety and defense of your own of your own priorities and your own values or that

Gap is filled by somebody who hates you who ends up taking those resources and using them against you that is the history of world affairs it applies all the way from the Spanish Empire through the English Empire certainly through the through the American Empire applies to the Roman Empire as well somebody fills the Gap always always and forever somebody fills the Gap and so your choice is do you stand up for your prerogative as the world's leading state or do you not you have enough confidence in your own values that you stand up for that or do you not are you so busy worrying about whether our troops learn about transgenderism and and genderless bathrooms and whether our kids learn about critical race Theory that you don't care about world affairs or that you believe that America is so evil that it has no place on the world stage or do you believe that America still is a repository of phenomenal

values and that the world is done an enormous good when the United States fills the Gap left by great Powers great powers are not going away gang they're not China has best filled that Gap in Afghanistan Russia is about to fill that Gap and Afghanistan Iran is about to fill that Gap in the Middle East these are all malevolent powers and they all are not shy about spreading their power around the United States again has a choice we can do what Joe Biden wants us to do we can sink back into that warm bath and we can eat ourselves into Oblivion we can essentially become the the fat blobs from Wally wandering around in space but our end is not going to be particularly nice yeah the cowardice has bloody borders cowardice and Retreat end with your friends getting killed and that is what we are watching in Afghanistan today there's a Greek myth um there's a king of thessaly who is called aerocyclin and I apologize if I

mispronounce the name but this particular King in Greek mythology he uh he was so greedy that he decided that he was going to cut down a sacred Forest outside of his of his castle and he was warned by everybody don't cut down the sacred Forest outside the castle because that is a repository of our values if you cut down that sacred Forest then something bad will happen he cuts down the sacred forest and in return He is cursed he's cursed with an unquenchable hunger in his stomach and no matter what he cannot satiate himself he must eat he must eat and becomes so bad that he impoverishes himself by eating and eating and eating he has to eat all the time he sells his daughter into slavery for food so that he can eat and then eventually he runs out of things to eat and he ends up eating himself to death he literally ends up eating himself right that is a I think an excellent metaphor for what a large

swath of the country would have us do at this point then we ought to satiate our own hunger by eating ourselves by cannibalizing our own Society by cannibalizing our values and we've cut down the sacred Forest of our values and now the only question is what is going to satisfy that hunger and apparently what's going to satisfy that hunger is endless social welfare benefits endless spending endless deficits destruction of many of the key institutions that were fundamental to our society because those were tied to that sacred Forest that we just cut down and then what inevitably happens to crumbling Empires they crumble I mean in the end crumbling Empires do not survive and again that is not because we opted to be an Empire and then we spread our domain too far and then because we had Imperial overreach then we had to regress none of that is none of that is true Afghanistan is a case in point of that

not being true we were expending minimal resources to keep that country stable and to prevent it from falling into the hands of terrorist enemies and to the hands of our geostrategic enemies minimal resources this was not about Imperial overage this is purely and simply about an America that does not have the willpower to be what it is and recognize what it is on the world stage it's about an America that that is rightly uncomfortable with colonialism and imperialism but is wrong-headed when it comes to the realities of the world and that is somebody always fills the Gap and the people who are filling the Gap are some of the worst people on earth which brings us to the actual news of the day the final American Military pullout from Afghanistan which put an asterisk by final because the chances in the future we'll have to go back into Afghanistan in order to kill terrorists or in order to rescue American citizens

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States would continue evacuation efforts and fully withdraw no later than August 31st but those efforts were wrapped up a full day early just days after an attack on the airport by is Horizon which is the Islamic State killed killing 13 U.S service members and as many as 170 civilians in one of the war's deadliest days so basically Joe Biden still had another 12 hours to theoretically get people out and he was like nope we're out evacuation flights ended on Monday and the military finished packing everything it intended to fly out of the airport onto transport planes before loading the remaining service members the last Air Force C-17 with the call sign moose 85 departed at midnight local time carrying the final American remaining forces a U.S military official said uh it was um a full-scale disaster the country is now completely in the hands of the Taliban which we'll discuss in just one moment

everything that could have been botched here was botched from the complete destruction of the Afghan military at the hands of the Biden Administration which removed all close air support and Military contractors to the complete surrender of Kabul even though the Taliban apparently offered according to the Washington Post control of Kabul to the Americans to help broker some sort of agreement with the interim government and even if that hadn't worked to at least ensure that Americans could could get out the bite Administration was like nope just give us Kabul Airport and you guys provide the security and then apparently on the way out we uh we allegedly killed an Afghan family so because Joe Biden was humiliated by that terror attack at the Abbey gate at Kabul International Airport according to local reports on the ground the United States fired a drone missile at what was supposed to be a suicide

bomber and now the report's credible reports from the New York Times Are that uh actually we didn't hit a suicide bomber we instead killed a a person named zamari Ahmadi who apparently had ties to the American Military in the past and uh killed 10 people seven of them kids that was on our way out so it is not clear exactly what happened there so we're still waiting for the details to emerge suffice it to say it is hard to imagine a more blown withdrawal than this one even if you think withdrawal was a good idea last night the Biden Administration did not release the president from his uh from his rubber padded room he is still trapped in the basement watching Matlock and eating oatmeal you'd imagine that after the United States withdraws from a 20-year commitment in Afghanistan and leaves behind hundreds if not thousands of Americans thousands of green card holders hundreds of thousands maybe of Afghan allies who

worked with us and millions of people who don't wish to live under the predictions of the Taliban that after all of that happened you would imagine the president of the United States might might make an address wrong you would be last night Joe Biden was busy hiding in the basement he actually put out a written statement and then he sent out the head of centcom and the Secretary of State to take the heat here is the statement put out by President Joe Biden he said quote I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled in the early morning hours of August 31st Cobble time with no further loss of American lives the past 17 days have seen our troops execute the largest airlift in U.S history evacuating over 120 000 U.S citizens citizens of our allies and Afghan allies of the United States they've done it with unmatched

courage professionalism and resolve now our 20-year military presence in Afghanistan has ended so he's going to Pat himself on the back for all of this for the 13 said service members for the 170 dead in that suicide bombing for the millions of people who are going to be living under the wonderful Taliban regime for the re rise of Al Qaeda and Isis oh that's good according to Joe Biden he did a wonderful job according to Joe Biden Joe Biden is the best president he's ever seen Biden continues tomorrow afternoon I will address the American people on my decision not to extend our presence in Afghanistan Beyond August 31st for now our report it was the unanimous recommendation of The Joint Chiefs and all of our commanders on the ground to end our airlift Mission as planned okay first of all if that's true if it was the unanimous recommendation of all military members on the ground to leave

Americans behind every single person in that chain of command should be fired unanimous everybody was like yeah you know we got a couple hundred more people who are out there minimum and probably we should just leave if that was unanimous then the cowardice doesn't just rot from the head down it comes from the bottom up their view says Joe Biden I love these blaming his military commanders right he can't just take the hit not just military commander he says their view is that ending our military mission was the best way to protect the lives of our troops and secure the prospects of Civilian departures for those who want to leave Afghanistan in the weeks and months be ahead which is just nonsensical and now Joe Biden is claiming that the best way to secure the exit of the Afghan allies of green card holders and of the Americans were stuck in Afghanistan is to leave makes perfect sense I know that when somebody has been

kidnapped the best strategy for getting the kidnapper to release them is to completely leave them alone never bother them just you know just leave them alone it'll probably be fine says Joe Biden in this long statement again he did not appear on camera last night because the president is not sentient the president is not with us and the president happens to have just done one of the great immoral acts in American foreign policy history he says I've asked the Secretary of State of state to lead the continued coordination with our International Partners to ensure safe passage for any Americans Afghan partners and foreign Nationals who want to leave Afghanistan this will include work to build on the U.N security Council resolution passed this afternoon that sent the clear message of what the International Community expects the Taliban to deliver on moving forward notably freedom of travel oh man a U.N

security Council resolution woo boy by the way notice that yesterday this this big statement touted by the Biden Administration including over a hundred countries supposedly didn't include China or Russia calling on the Taliban for freedom of travel the Taliban says Joe Biden has made commitments on safe passage and the world will hold them to their commitment what with fluffy The Fluffy dolls and rubber hammers how exactly will we hold them to their commitments using what power using what threat the threat of economic failure they've been living in caves for the last 20 years the threat of military power you just withdrew the most powerful military on planet Earth and destroyed the Afghan military in the process what's the threat exactly diplomacy has been characterized as the velvet glove around the Iron Fist but there's no Iron Fist it's just a stupid glove and that's basically the Biden

Administration strategy he says it will include ongoing diplomacy in Afghanistan Oh weird because we threw all of our diplomats and coordination with Partners in the region to reopen the airport allowing for continued departure for those who want to leave and delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan oh interesting who's going to be um handing out that humanitarian assistance would that be the Taliban so basically he's now saying that we are now going to become the chief financial sponsors of the Taliban that's what he is saying right there this is amazing okay then he says we should be grateful Joe Biden says we should be grateful in the statement ready well you know I'll get to Joe Biden's statement that we should all be grateful in a second that's that's astonishing we should be grateful there are no words to describe the unmitigated Gall of this human being first let's talk about something a

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that the United States is going to collapse overnight I should say that we are on the brink of irrevocable Decay I think would be a more accurate way of putting it what exactly should be what should we be grateful for so here's what Joe Biden says first for our troops and diplomats who carried out this Mission of Mercy and Kabul and at tremendous risk with such unparalleled results an airlift that evacuated tens of thousands more people than any imagine possible really did any imagine that possible really is that what happened so you should be grateful for me right he says we should be grateful for the for the service members we're all grateful for the service members only one of us put them in direct harm by ISIS suicide bombers that would be you President Biden all of us are very grateful to the service members for the sacrifices they made over the last 20 years only you decided to hand over the country to the people

who are killing our troops for the last 20 years only you so I am perfectly grateful for the people who made the sacrifices that I did not I am not grateful at all for a commander-in-chief who is a buffoon and a fool and who has made all of those sacrifices nugatory over the passage of time but he says we should be grateful when he says we should we should join him in grateful prayer he says we should pray for the troops and diplomats but what he really means is that we should be grateful and prayerful to him because of course he's the one who organized this massive incredible Victorious Airlift second to the network of volunteers and Veterans who helped identify those needing evacuation guide them to the airport and provide support along the way by the way if you talk to the network of volunteers and Veterans they will say the Bible Administration was essentially no help why was it left to a

network of volunteers and veterans voluntarily working outside the auspices of the American government to get people out why that's Joe Biden and third to everyone who is now and who will welcome our Afghan allies to their new homes around the world and in the United States you know what would have been better is if they could have stayed in Afghanistan you know what that would have required by the way a presence on the ground of about 3 000 American troops according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a continued financial obligation of less money than we just handed to the Taliban in terms of military weaponry we apparently handed about 85 billion dollars in military weaponry to the Taliban we were spending about 70 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan to Simply hold up the country and then finally says Joe Biden I want to end with a moment of gratitude for the sacrifice of the 13 service members

in Afghanistan who gave their lives last week to save the tens of thousands and then he lists off all of the people who were killed in the suicide bombing that he made possible by handing security over to the Taliban what unmitigated I mean really the the utter shamelessness of this President you should be ashamed you should feel deep in abiding shame instead he is he's sitting at home in his recliner thinking about what a wonderful job he has just done not only in in effectuating the decay of America as a country but also in putting American troops In Harm's Way and forcing volunteers to do the work that he wouldn't allow the military to do what a disgrace the president of the United States is my God and for all you people out there who are like well yeah but Trump you know Trump didn't do this whatever problems you have with Trump you know what he didn't do this okay so the president was apparently too

embarrassed to actually go out and announce this thing himself so instead he sends out his lack he used to do it for him today we're going to get the president of the United States wobbling his way through another lackluster speech I am sure but as of last night he wasn't going to take any of the questions so he sends everybody else to go out and take the hit here was General Kenneth McKenzie of centcom announcing the completion of the removal of final trips yesterday I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens Third Country Nationals and vulnerable afghans the last C-17 lifted off from Hamed Karzai International Airport on August 30th this afternoon at 3 29 PM East Coast time and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the airspace above Afghanistan okay and then he continued he said this is the end of our 20-year Mission which

is pretty incredible the end of our 20-year mission was handing the entire country back to the Taliban and as we'll see the Taliban are having their day in the sun there is a general Kenneth McKenzie again every single person is part of the chain of command should be ashamed of themselves and should be fired why is it that nobody gets fired over this you lose a 20-year War to a bunch of ragtag cave dwellers who handed American military equipment and you're patting yourselves on the back tonight's withdrawal signifies both the end of the military component of the evacuation but also the end of the nearly 20-year mission that began in Afghanistan shortly after September 11 2001.

it's a mission that brought Osama Bin Laden to a just end along with many of his Al Qaeda co-conspirators and it was not it was not a cheap Mission the cost was 2461 U.S service members and civilians killed and more than 20 000 who were injured okay so how's all that going back in Afghanistan by the way we'll get to that in just a moment because suffices to say that all the purposes for which we went have now been completely overthrown remember Joe Biden said we only went there for two reasons one to kill Osama Bin Laden which was one reason but that was not the biggest reason and the second was to stop the threat of Afghanistan being a terror Base Afghanistan is now a giant Terror base run by the same exact people who housed Osama Bin Laden and by the way who have welcomed back in Al Qaeda Isis is now extremely active in Afghanistan and with the tacit backing of not only the Pakistani isi in many ways but also

the Chinese military I'm sure so things are significantly worse than they were in 2001 by the way they're armed with 85 billion dollars of sophisticated American military equipment they didn't have that crap in 2000 in just one second we'll get to the Taliban who are celebrating wildly because this is the Biden Legacy we'll get to that in a moment first let us talk about your Sleep Quality so I will admit I have not been sleeping well since this all went down but when I do climb onto my mattress at night not the one made of money the other one that is my Helix Sleep mattress that's why it's more comfortable than the mattress made of money it is in fact Priceless the Helix Sleep mattress is so good it is made just for me Helix sleep has a quiz it takes just two minutes to complete it matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you why would you buy a mattress made

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uniforms we're here right now with the Taliban as they enter into the what was only minutes ago uh it was an American controlled portion of the military airport now they're taking over and there they are I'll wear an American Gear so um they uh they didn't just defeat the Americans in their own View and they're now wearing around their skin so that is uh that is pretty amazing also remember there was this talk about their goat hurts they can't fire helicopters yeah um uh yesterday they're they were flying around our helicopters here's some video from Kabul so apparently I found somebody who knows how to at least fly a helicopter glad we gave them a helicopter so you the law-abiding American citizen you cannot have an AR-15 but the Taliban will just hand them our helicopters and they're using it to good effect the helicopters allegedly there's video that emerged from Kabul yesterday of them

using our helicopters to excellent effect uh namely to take their enemies and tie them to the bottom of the helicopters and then hang them Scarface style so this this video emerged yesterday you can see there is a person who is hanging from the bottom of the helicopter so things are going incredibly well in Taliban land already meanwhile remember that time that Joe Biden said Al Qaeda wasn't in Afghanistan that we defeated al-Qaeda in Afghanistan so our purpose there was done oh yeah um one of the al-Qaeda leaders is back in fact this is one of the co-founders of Al Qaeda along with Osama Bin Laden good friend to Osama Bin Laden he arrives back in Afghanistan to plot its in cheers

Taliban leaders are back and Al Qaeda comes with them a good thing that we said that we wouldn't allow any country that harbors Al-Qaeda to its regime to survive I've noticed not only it's surviving but uh they are back and they look exactly the same as they did 20 years ago so I hope you enjoyed that meanwhile women are sitting outside the Kabul Airport pleading and speaking English saying uh where the hell are we supposed to go now and they have a good question there was some of that video emerging yesterday president president

we don't know what to do there please help us please help our families we don't know we are in danger it is many days that we are outside the edge and we didn't get access what should we do please save us we should be thankful and grateful guys we should be praying in in gratitude to the to the president of the United States by the way um yeah Jen's hockey was asked okay so you've said that there's going to be quote unquote Over the Horizon capability here right you said that we're going to be able to strike at Targets inside Afghanistan Terror targets inside Afghanistan my shoes asked about this yesterday and uh she had no good answer as to whether we have any sort of actual Over the Horizon capacity is there any concern that we're limited in our ability to respond in a timely manner if we've got eight hours of flight time and then they can only hang out over the target for like four or

five hours before they've got to turn around and go back is there a future sort of ongoing uh worry that we're going to be behind the eight ball again well first I would say the fact that we have had two successful strikes confirmed by centcom tells you that are over the horizon capacity works and is working oh really because I noticed that that over the horizon capacity Was Not Over the Horizon that was that we had people in Afghanistan at the time now we don't also one of those airstrikes allegedly killed an entire family so um yeah it turns out that the targets that you're striking are only as good as the people who are painting the targets okay but all of this puts aside a rather large American specific issue forget about the geopolitical and geostrategic interest the United States holds here let's talk for a second about the actual acute issue America is now admitting that we left people behind

that's an unbelievable statement now Jimmy Carter became not president because there were 50 Americans who were taken hostage in Iran we have left at the very least 250 Americans under the tender care of the Taliban plus thousands of green card holders plus tens of thousands of people who worked with us now this administration's been lying about this all along remember it was just a couple of weeks ago that Joe Biden said if there are American citizens Left Behind we'll get them out remember he said this to George Stephanopoulos this is like a week and a half ago are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out yes how about our Afghan allies does the commitment hold for them as well the commitment holds to get everyone out that in fact we can get out and everyone should come out and that's the objective that's what we're doing now that's the path we're on and I

think we'll get so Americans should understand the troops might have to be there Beyond August 31st no Americans should understand that we're going to try to get it done before August 31st but if we don't if they don't we'll determine at the time who's left and and if they're American Force if there's American citizens left we're going to State it'll get them all out Liar Liar Liar Godly liar what what a liar he is what a liar remember Jen's hockey got very upset with Peter Ducey for saying they were Americans stranded in Kabul again it was a week and a half ago I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded they are not we are committed to Bringing Americans who want to come home home we are in touch with them via phone via text via email via any way that we can possibly reach Americans to get them home if they want to return home there are no Americans stranded is the White House's official position on

what's happening in Afghanistan I'm just calling you out first thing that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when I said when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home we are going to bring them home and I think that's important for the American public to hear and understand it's important for the American public to be lied to by jensaki every single day repeatedly and then for all of her cheerleaders in the press to start clapping like seals so um here was the head of sencom General McKenzie yesterday saying yeah we didn't get everybody out there's a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out but I think it would stayed another 10 days Louie we wouldn't have gotten everybody out there we wanted to get out and there still would have been people who would have been disappointed with

that it's a it's a tough situation but I want to emphasize again that simply because we have left that doesn't mean the opportunities for both Americans that are in Afghanistan that want to leave and Afghans who want to leave they will not be denied that opportunity I think our department of state is going to work that very hard in the days and weeks oh man the department of state's going to work it super hard we'll get to the Department of State in a second they're going to tickle the hell out of those Taliban members they're going to hit them with pillows made of foam they're going to send them some strongly worded statements to those illiterate cavemen let me just tell you that what a humiliation I mean really like if you're General McKenzie at some point you just have to say I'm not going out there and I'm going to repeat this garbage aren't you going to say like get somebody else to be your spokesperson on

this because this is pathetic yeah man I mean we're taking out all of the we're taking out the most powerfully armed military in the history of the world but let me tell you Ned price and that team over at State Tony blinken he's going to be on his phone with those people at the other end of the phone they're gonna be picking up an actual rock connected to a wire like Fred Flintstone and they're going to be talking to him and let me tell you we're going to exert such unbelievable leverage we are going to absolutely threaten not to open a Planned Parenthood in Kabul unless they give us back our people I mean we are going to send them so much literature about their lack of opportunity for lgbtq people in Afghanistan we are going to try them so hard we are not going to send them a pride progress flag unless they let our people out our state department will not stand for any of this sort of stuff

pathetic here's General McKenzie explaining oh you know they're just low hundreds low hundreds no we don't exactly no but in the low hundreds at least it's not the high hundreds or the thousands or something it's the low hundreds oh the low hundreds you mean like at least five times as many people as the Iranians had during the hostage crisis of 79 interesting the military phase of this operation has ended the Diplomatic sequel to that will now begin and I believe our department of state is going to work very hard to allow any American citizens that ever left and we think the citizens that were not brought out number in the low very low hundreds uh I believe that we're going to work we're going to be able to get those people out I think we're also going to negotiate very hard and very aggressively to get our other Afghan Partners out we're going to go it's negotiate hard with John McLean

so much negotiation underneath this pillow I have a gun and underneath this gun I have another pillow that that last pillow is the one I'm going to be using in this negotiation you're removed every capacity we had you removed all the leverage we had you're now begging the Taliban and by the way you're gonna bribe them the only question is whether you're going to do it illegally The Binding Administration is now claiming as we will see that they're going to funnel the money through the U.N which presumably will make it legal which by the way we've done before I mean we fund the unrwa which funds Terror groups all over the the Palestinian Authority in hamasstan so why not we can do it here too General McKenzie said you know we couldn't get everybody out but we did do a good job given the challenges yes I mean who created those challenges what are the challenges I didn't I wasn't aware there were any challenges I

was told this was smooth it was all part of the plan so funny how you mentioned there are challenges well would you like to discuss what those challenges were and how they got there General McKenzie or would you prefer to continue kissing the feet of the people who continue to maintain your position at the head of centcom you would like to bring out everybody that wanted to come out we're not able to do that situation wouldn't allow it I think we did a very good job of getting everybody that we could get that we could get out given the unique change the challenges of the Tactical situation on the ground the fact that really not if not all Americans wanted to leave they're Americans for a variety of reasons want to stay for a while I think we'll go back and they'll have the opportunity to uh they'll have the opportunity to revisit that and come out if they want um yeah great also by the way remember

how we left early we left early not only did we leave early none of the last Jets had Americans on them so for all this talk about how we were working until the last minute to get people out we absolutely were not here's Mackenzie saying yep no we sent some empty Jets back no American citizens came out on the last what we call The Joint tactical exfiltration the last uh five Jets to lead uh we we maintained the ability to bring them in up until immediately before departure but we were not able to bring any Americans out that activity ended probably about 12 hours before our exit although we continue the Outreach and would have been prepared to to bring them on until the very last minute but none of them made it to the airport and were able to be and were able to be accommodated so you know no biggie we left early and we left a bunch of people behind and the last few flights were empty but we did a

great job Mackenzie also is playing defense for the Taliban which of course they have to do if you surrender to a to a group of people who obviously are outclassed by you militarily you have to have an excuse the excuse from this Administration is that the Taliban are now our friends they're our best friends now here's General McKenzie just unreal unreal talking about how wonderful the Taliban had been I will tell you the Taliban have been very pragma very pragmatic and very business-like as we have approached this uh withdrawal we did not turn it over to the Taliban uh General Donahue one of the last things he did before leaving was talk to the Taliban Commander that he had been coordinating with as soon as about the time we were going to leave just to let them know that we were leaving but there was no discussion of turning anything over uh of that at all they were pragmatic they were business-like you

know really I was kind of surprised that their pragmatism in their business like manner as they allowed a suicide bomber to kill a bunch of Americans uh and as they threatened to kill all of our allies and we're dragging people out into the streets house by house and beating women it was really pragmatic though I mean Super Duper pragmatic okay in a second we're gonna get to the state department which again remains when you talk about the quote-unquote Deep State you know career bureaucrats who continue to design policy despite being lifelong incompetence the state department is the repository of all these near do Wells it's just a repository of useless human beings we'll get to the pathetic state department in just one second and it's head Tony blinken who never should be in charge of anything up to and including a Popsicle stand we'll get to that in just one second first let us talk about the fact

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more than I care about human beings I'm just going to point out uh that the U.S military abandoned its contracted working dogs to the Taliban which means they're just going to shoot them the American Humane Society condemned the effective death sentence the US withdrawal from Kabul in favor of the islamist Taliban militia has failed for contract working dogs according to Robert Ganser American humane's president and CEO these Brave dogs do the same dangerous life-saving work as our military working dogs deserved a far better fate than the ones which they've been condemned it sickens us to sit idly by and watch these Brave dogs who valiantly served our country be put to death or worse the uh Mr Ganser said the contract dogs should have their status upgraded to prevent such future abandonments well presumably they won't be abandoned in the future the same way because um because Biden won't be president forever

but you know just a pathetic cap or meanwhile the state department trotted out the uh inimitable Tony blinken so blinken who always has a deer in the headlights look I mean just consistently he has never looked not overwhelmed by his job he continued to look overwhelmed by his job while taking a Victory lap for this debacle so he said he wants to commend our diplomats yes our diplomats did such a stellar job here what a great job by our diplomat many many people made this possible oh yeah I'm sure that's true I want to commend our outstanding diplomats who worked around the clock and around the world to coordinate the operation they volunteered for duty at the Cabell Airport they flew to Transit countries to help process thousands of Afghans Bound for the United States they deployed to Ports of entry and American military bases to welcome Afghans to their new homes oh man look at those diplomats they've

been doing such a wonderful job in fact they're doing such a great job that we're leading with diplomacy while having no diplomats on the ground this is the new line by the way this is a line that you hear so much from people on the foreign policy left which is why don't we unleash diplomacy okay diplomacy is a tool it is not a strategy okay diplomacy is one of a a many tools in the toolbox when it comes to foreign policy but it is not a strategy you hear people on left talk about diplomacy like it's a strategy well you know we have our strategy is get wavert diplomacy that's that's not a strategy at all okay that's just the thing that you can use and if it doesn't work you better have some other tools in your toolbox you are willing to use but we have no other tools that means diplomacy is the strategy and it's not a strategy so here is Tony blinken saying we're now going to lead with diplomacy

um yeah that's worked out well so far a new chapter of America's engagement with Afghanistan has begun it's one in which we will lead with our diplomacy the military mission is over a new diplomatic Mission has begun oh and it's a new diplomatic Mission wow I'll bet that's gonna go great because if there's one thing the Taliban love it's diplomacy it's worked out fabulously in the past the The Diplomatic Mission it ended with the Taliban completely eating our lunch and taking over Afghanistan and all of our military equipment to boot so probably it's been great also um Lincoln said as an let me just give you an example says Tony blinken of how effective our diplomacy is we have already put together a super a super miffed and pissy diplomatic letter to the Taliban I mean man that letter is pissy the attitude on that letter let me tell you if I read that letter says Tony blinken I would probably like stop for a

moment and I would think about it very seriously here's Tony blinking talking about this this incredible masterful letter a kind of letter that changes the world more than half the world's countries have joined us in insisting that the Taliban let people travel outside Afghanistan freely as of today more than 100 countries have said that they expect the Taliban to honor travel authorizations by our countries and just a few short hours ago the United Nations security Council passed a resolution that enshrines that responsibility laying the groundwork to hold the Taliban accountable if they reneged so the international chorus on this is strong and it will stay strong amazing wow it's such the International Community is so strong that all of NATO has been ripping the United States up and down the British Parliament is screaming at Joe Biden and Tony blanken put together a letter with like a

hundred countries that doesn't include China or Russia but it's it's super duper important also you know he says there's U.N security Council resolution this is from Politico quote it divided U.N security Council pressed the Taliban on Monday to live up to its pledges to let people leave Afghanistan after the US with through its forces but China and Russia refuse to back the resolution which they portrayed as diverting blame for chaos surrounding the US pull out oh so like he says it was the U.N security Council resolution and uh and so everyone's on board except for like the two countries that now have the biggest stake in Afghanistan because we left China which is therefore the rare Earth's minerals and Russia which is there to basically rub America's nose in it so the two other competitive world powers with the United States China and Russia are both not interested in whether the Taliban allowed people to

leave but Tony blanken says diplomacy is the way forward the measure also calls for letting humanitarian Aid flow upholding human rights and combating terrorism well I mean if the forces that just left in ignominious surrender call for upholding human rights and combating terrorism then probably that's what's going to happen French Deputy Ambassador Nathalie brought her said after the vote quote Yeah support from the International Community wow wow the International Community wow French president Emmanuel macron said Sunday the resolution would propose a U.N controlled safe Zone in Kabul for humanitarian operations but instead the resolution called for quote all parties to allow full safe and unhindered access for Aid groups oh so there won't be a safe Zone in Kabul but there will be a call for the Taliban to be nice probably it's going to work guys they're like hanging people from helicopters

already probably if we guys Tony blinken is we got this man our diplomacy is top notch then Tony blinking gets really mad he put on his Mr Potato Head Angry Eyes and he says any legitimacy will have to be earned from whom you just surrendered every step we take will be based not on what a Taliban like government says but what it does to live up to its commitments the Taliban seeks International legitimacy and support our message is any legitimacy and any support will have to be earned and if you don't earn it then you won't get it you cave men who can't read but who have our military equipment and who just surrendered to okay then uh Lincoln decided you know what not taking any questions I'm out is he makes a statement turns around just for the exit who risked or sacrifice their lives as part of this long mission right up to today thanks for listening yeah

um no American will be left behind everybody will be left behind the bite administration's back such courage such unbelievable courage alrighty meanwhile in start to see the media turning in real time from Joe Biden is a disaster and this is horrifying two probably Joe Biden was right and you knew this was coming right it was only a matter of time so the coverage from the people on the ground in Afghanistan who have spent time there who have dealt with the American Military there who have spent years there covering the conflict that coverage was universally negative last night and the media were fighting that about it on all the networks they were saying you know this is brutal it's vicious it's terrible it's cowardly and it is it's all of those things so take for example take for example David Martin on CBS he said there's no question we're leaving for political reasons this is not about military

necessity is this is Again David Martin from CBS news reporting from the Pentagon it's on us and by us I mean us not not the 800 000 who who fought there they did what they were told to but we in this country made political choices that led to where we are today and they may turn out in history to be the right political choices they may turn out to be the wrong political choices they might be but they're political yes they are political choices and they are the wrong political choices and we can see it happening in real time NBC's Richard Engel who's been very good on this particular issue right Richard engel's been reporting on the ground in Afghanistan yeah I was at an event uh with Richard Engel spoke fairly recently like just a few months ago and he was predicting all of this he was saying yeah I've gone to Bagram air base and I'm like going around I'm looking he did a report where he went and he like

looked in empty air bases there was no one there it had been basically abandoned the United States was turning over the whole thing to the Taliban uh and Engel says yeah we've turned this country over to the Taliban this was a humbling day for the United States a day of humility for a world superpower Afghanistan has been called the graveyard of Empires the British Empire fought in Afghanistan and withdrew in defeat the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan for 10 years and withdrew in defeat the United States fought in Afghanistan for 20 years and is now tonight withdrawing just completed its withdrawal in defeat okay meanwhile abcc in Pennell says we're abandoning these people on the ground which of course is true I think many people will be left questioning tonight about the way those decisions were made the way the evacuation was handled and a final thought really just to those people still stuck in Afghanistan at home

afraid and feeling abandoned that of course is all true but you can see in real time as the media try to switch the narrative so for example the New York Times has a piece called quote what voters in a California swing District say about Afghanistan so they just went and they interviewed a bunch of people who greeted Joe Biden is basically the story and the New York Times is holding up California's 39th congressional district that's the district with Hacienda Heights in it they're holding up that District as a swing District it went 54-44 for Joe Biden in the last presidential election so the New York Times found a a Democrat lean District and uh and then they found a bunch of people who agree with Joe Biden quote Brenda and Leo Ortiz had paid enough attention to the news from Afghanistan that was hardly a surprise when their 11 year old son asked them a question how could so many Americans be killed last

week Miss Ortiz 41 tried her best to explain giving their son a brief history lesson on Osama Bin Laden the Taliban and Isis but by Saturday Miss Ortiz was focused on more personally pressing matters her three children were completing their first month of in-person schooling since the start of the pandemic she said she was saddened by the death of Americans but she wondered aloud how she could possibly focus on a crisis on the other side of the world when there was more than enough to worry about in the United States in her own backyard I don't think it was ever going to be easy to leave Miss Ortiz said while watching her children play soccer at the end of the day our country is where we need to be focusing we have our own issues getting the kids to school healing our communities it's not our war to fight anymore at a time of deep partisan division in a Southern California Congressional District where

Democrats narrowly outnumber Republicans voters interviewed over the weekend were largely United on at least one issue after a two-decade war President Biden was right to pull American troops out of Afghanistan wow look to the New York Times to immediately ignore all of the current polling which shows that this move is deeply unpopular that Joe Biden blew it in massive fashion and instead find anecdotal evidence that a bunch of people agree with the decision to pull out of Afghanistan more broadly now that's not a shock in every poll Americans say they don't want us to be in Afghanistan then when they are asked how do you feel about having like 2 500 troops in Afghanistan just to make sure the Taliban don't take over the country and so it can hit Al-Qaeda a majority of Americans support that this is the problem of polling data pulling data very often depends on exactly what you're pulling if you pull Americans on

the broad question whether we ought to have troops in far-flung lands Americans will say no if you pull Americans on the exact number of troops the exact cost and what it is we are seeking to prevent Americans are generally in the ascent okay that is that is how it works on everything Americans generally when asked would you like to cut government services they're like absolutely and then you say okay would you like to cut this service and they're like no this is true throughout polling data so what the New York Times does here is they just go and they find a couple of people who agree with Joe Biden and they weave it into a front page story the bombing at Kabul Airport says the New York Times had done little to change their minds the killing of 13 soldiers leaving them more numb than saddened many said they were simply too overwhelmed to pay close attention to another overseas crisis we have a lot of

mending here to do said Miss Ortiz who considers herself a political moderate and voted for Mr Biden Afghanistan could be ignored say many of the voters in Hacienda Heights but the possibility of they're too young to be vaccinated children getting sick could not again like this demonstrates everything right okay the reality is that you're too young to get vaccinated children are not getting particularly sick from covid the New York Times is pushing that narrative leaders in Washington might worry about the threat of terrorism or or America standing with allies but voters in Hacienda Heights said they were far more concerned about issues directly affecting them covid-19 homelessness and climate change to name a few who wrote this the New York Times wrote this climate change so I'm not worried about what just happened in Afghanistan where America completely humiliated itself and handed over an

entire country to America's worst enemies I'm really worried about climate change says the mom from Hacienda Heights climates change if you said kova 19 and homelessness I might go along with you in L.A climate change seriously they seemed hesitant to hold Biden accountable for last week's attacks at least for now when you have no good choice you still have to pick one said Patrick Wong a 65 year old independent who has voted for both Republicans and Democrats so um I would love to see a quote from someone in this article who uh who was like actually divided about this decision instead they found somebody who voted for Trump named Tanya Chang and Andrew Chang in downtown Fullerton saying they may be exited more quickly than they should have but I think it was right to be out it was multiple presidents missteps we couldn't have stayed there forever even representative young Kim was less critical of the president than many

lawmakers in her party she said we don't have the luxury to be sad about what is happening but we have to Resolute gather information and get people to safety this is not the time to point fingers when people are desperate and people are dying but she added she was hearing from her constituents who are not satisfied with what they're seeing and hearing from our commander-in-chief they commit they quote one person who's a national Trump voter here who said quote about Biden he left Americans behind it's two-thirds of the way down in the article of course he left how many people there he led them to become sacrifices he is old he allowed young people to Die the only thing that makes me optimistic is that Trump is willing to fight back so um this is their entire art so watch this will be the narrative The Narrative this is what Biden is hoping for he's hoping that everybody just forgets about

the 250 people they admit are stuck on the ground in Afghanistan who are American citizens they're hoping that the foreign policy reporters who were stationed in Afghanistan get less and less air time the Richard angle those two reporting somewhere else and that Ian Pennell goes reporting somewhere else and then all of them just sort of recede into the background and then we go back to talking about Joe Biden's big spending plans and then we go back to talking about the insanity of masking your children but you should very much Master children and then we talk about climate change they want a change of topic and the media are going to Grant it to them and now that the American troops are out this is why Biden accelerated the timeline by the way remember we still have 12 hours to get people out he didn't take it Biden wanted out now not because that was the best policy but because he wanted the headlines to stop

and his assumption is the headlines will now stop because getting these people out watch the language is going to change over the next 24 hours getting these people out will now be a protracted process we're negotiating with the Taliban or figuring out ways to get them out and don't you worry even though it's taking a long time it'll be okay I mean after all the International Community is using the power of hashtag they're using the power of diplomacy to get these people out they're hoping that you get bored and you get tired and you get sleepy and by the way they may be right it may be right because after all isn't that the story of what just happened in Afghanistan who got bored and tired and sleepy and three quarters of the arguments made about Afghanistan were completely unrelated to the actual figures on the ground right now and when you talk to people about Afghanistan as this withdrawal began

people were like yeah we gotta end the endless war and you're like yeah they're 2500 troops there and zero people have died since February of last year and like well yeah but but it's still an endless war you're like yeah but it's not hey but but everybody is still because the American attention span is five seconds long this is how Empires crumble it's how countries crumble frankly and America right now is so bored and so fat and so stupid that we have decided that it is not important to stand up for foreign interests we don't have to have any long-term Vision at all we don't have to think beyond the next five minutes which is why we can spend money that our grandchildren will not be able to repay it's why we can blow out inflation and then assume the government is somehow going to magically take care of it it's why we can take coveted policies that are designed to have short-term impact but serious long-term

ramifications and then Champion those I mean all of this is dependent on Americans having an attention span that is that is shorter than the average Looney Tunes cartoon and dependence on a media that is willing to lie in favor of Democrats and move on from a news cycle as soon as that news cycle is no longer important to them and we'll see if it works we'll see if it works as a cynic I think it probably will which is why I think that for all the talk about Joe Biden being a disgraceful which he is empathetic which he is for all the talk about the cowardice and the Betrayal here and there's plenty of both I think Joe Biden knows that everybody will just move on and that was his plan all along if we have to leave Americans we'll leave Americans if we have to leave allies we'll leave allies if we have to leave Brewing card holders we'll leave bring card holders so long as six weeks from now we're not talking about

this Joe Biden does not give a damn he's checking his watch gang that's all he cares about he's checking that watch because every second that ticks by is a second until we stop talking about this he knows it that's why he's checking his watch alrighty we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon the Matt Walsh show airs at 1 30 PM Eastern be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread the word please give us a five star review and tell your friends to subscribe too we're available on Apple podcast Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts also be sure to check out the other daily wire podcasts including the Andrew klavan show the Michael Knowles show and the Matt Walsh show thanks for listening the Ben Shapiro show is produced by Elliot fell

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Who speaks in "The Ben Shapiro Show | Ep. 1330 - Biden’s Sickening, Cowardly, Pathetic Betrayal"?

Ben Shapiro (Host), Joe Biden (Guest), Antony Blinken (Guest), Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. (Guest), Robert Ganser (Guest), David Martin (Guest), Richard Engel (Guest), Ian Pannell (Guest).

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In order: 0:00 United States (states), American Empire, Bestow, Birch Gold Group; 10:00 Taliban, United States (states), Secretary of State, Abbey Gate; 20:00 Taliban, Al Qaeda, United States (states), General Kenneth McKenzie; 30:00 Taliban, Tony Blinken, Morning Wire; 40:00 Taliban, Tony Blinken, United States (states), Readers Pass; 50:00 Hacienda Heights, Taliban, United States (states), Matt Walsh Show; 1:00:00 Bradford Carrington, Fabiola Christina, Jessica Kranz, Justin Barber.

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