http://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/08/02/secdef-and-secstate-star-in-competing-friday-eve-news-dumps-n2399170
Another Friday night brought with it a standard question:
Tim Carney (@TPCarney) ~ Happy August Friday. What's the news dump going to be?
That's always a fair question to ask, especially when the people who are supposed to be in charge apparently have light weekend schedules.
That's because these Democrat morons (Obama, Biden, and now Harris) think the job of POTUS is mainly some ceremonial gig where all they have to do is pontificate, be fêted, vacation, and have fun at taxpayer expense.
RNC Research (@RNCResearch) ~ AWOL: Biden just left for a weekend in Delaware and Kamala is doing absolutely nothing today.
Tonight, there are a couple of things that caught a lot of attention which might yet again make you ask, "who's actually running the country?"
Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) ~ The Secretary of State is ordering naval fleets around while the Secretary of Defense is contradicting the White House’s own stated position and revoking the 9/11 terrorist plea deals. Meanwhile, Biden is in Delaware again. We have no president.
The Secretary of State is "ordering"??? That's NOT part of your job description, Blinken.
Backpedal alert! After White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spent the last couple of days insisting that the Biden White House had absolutely nothing to do with the plea deal to spare the 9/11 mastermind the death penalty, it was reported that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stepped in:
Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) ~ 8:01pm eastern on Friday. LOL.
Does anybody doubt that this is a completely political move with an election three months away? The Democrats must have sensed that decision was backfiring on them badly, so here we are:
Yashar Ali (@yashar) ~ NEWS: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea deal for 9/11 plotters that would help them avoid the death penalty. Austin has signed an order that relieves the overseer of their authority. Austin has now assumed direct oversight of the case. This puts the death penalty back on the table.
Full Story: http://bit.ly/3SzgjoO
The other interesting story that falls under the "Friday night news dump" umbrella that might make people wonder who's actually in charge is this one:
Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) ~ [i]Defense Secretary Austin orders air squadron and more missile defense; along with warships to Middle East. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Statement on Force Posture in the Middle East.
http://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3860557/deputy-pentagon-press-secretary-sabrina-singh-statement-on-force-posture-in-the/
Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) ~ Defense Secretary Austin orders Abraham Lincoln strike group to the Middle East as well as BMD ships and a fighter squadron after Iran vowed revenge for killing of Hamas leader in Tehran.
We can't help but notice the headlines aren't "President Biden orders ..." If we were the skeptical types, we might think the White House is trying to keep Biden and Harris insulated from any possible downside to these decisions.
Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) ~ America has no President. Just in case anyone was still wondering about that question.
The CYA stuff ahead of the election in three months has accelerated. Austin and Blinken will be the "decision makers" while Biden and Harris will be portrayed as merely helpless onlookers supposedly absolved of the consequences of whatever happens.
UPDATE: This is a realistic theory:
john jackson (@pvtjokerus) ~ Translation: This was splashing onto Kamala and she made a phone call.
http://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-revokes-plea-deal-for-9-11-terrorists-in-shocking-reversal/?utm_medium=social&;utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost
That's incredibly likely.
But, Cackles didn't want her Iran-loving, Hamas-loving friends in Minnesota and Michigan to blame her for the move, so she got Dopey in the Defense Department to do it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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