YES... thank you Jack Keane - who's going to fact-check it right now. The Afghans have been fighting the ground war since 2014 and we've been providing air support/intel. They've pushed back on Taliban offensives every year since then.
Keane says that this yr, after Biden took over, we took away air support and intel.
Keane said we achieved a stalemate, which isn't perfect but better than what's happening now.
With the stalemate, and CIA presence, intel capability we were able to protect the American people by keeping al-Qaeda from ramping up in Afghanistan.
"We pulled the plug on them, and they collapsed. That's a fact." - Keane
Keane says that POTUS is misrepresenting the choice he faced, and the choice he was given. The Afghan Study Group report in 2020 recommended a force of 4500 to stay and said if we don't it's likely Taliban will take over and al-Qaeda will return.

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11 Sep
In Jan '19 @GavinNewsom's spox claimed Newsom ponied up $3.7M of his own cash to buy a Sacramento estate but in July '20 the SacBee that actually, Newsom's cousin Jeremy Scherer floated them the cash b/c the Newsoms didn't have time to get a mortgage... redstate.com/jenvanlaar/202…
And instead of, I dunno, telling the sellers of the vacant home that they needed a few more wks to get a mortgage, or having the cousin purchase the house in his own name, they went through the convoluted, expensive, and tax-paperwork-intensive process of creating an LLC to...
..purchase the home. Some argue it was for privacy purposes. But the Newsoms transferred the home OUT of the LLC and into their names just 10 mos later, then got a $2.7M cashout refi. If they paid that to Scherer, where's the other million? And why is none of it on their taxes?
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4 Sep
🧵It's go-time for the #CARecall. Here's how to ensure that we #RecallGavinNewsom:

1. VOTE! Drop your mail ballot in an official dropbox in a secure location + track online, or... california.ballottrax.net/voter/
..vote in person starting TODAY in Voters Choice Act counties, or Sep 11 in every county. You can also simply turn in your mail ballot at the polling place (then track online to make sure it was counted). Find polling places here: sos.ca.gov/elections/poll…
2. Make sure your like-minded friends/family/acquaintances vote! Don't let them get discouraged and think it's worthless. You can take their mail ballot to a dropbox for them or bring them w/you to the polling place. They're not registered? Use same-day registration at the polls.
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24 Aug
Since @tedlieu is trending, I want to remind him I'm still going through all of his shady biz dealings. Here's just a smidge - my 1st piece from 2019 abt him funding his kids' robotics team with donor dollars, which I'm now investigating add'l info on: redstate.com/jenvanlaar/201…
And then the first part of the Stanford University donations story, from 2019.

redstate.com/jenvanlaar/201…
And then the update, once Ted Lieu's son was admitted to Stanford after Lieu's $50,000 contribution from campaign funds. redstate.com/jenvanlaar/202…
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16 Aug
This speech is bad... really, really bad.
It's disingenuous and I can't count the number of falsehoods already
WOW... just wow. The way he is slamming the Afghan people is despicable.
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16 Aug
Nights like tonight I miss him more. And I'm even more pissed at the life Afghanistan and all the other hellholes he went to trying to keep us safe took from him. But I still miss doing nothing with him.
This show makes me laugh so hard - and I know that he is still laughing. Anyone else need major laughs? Here you go.
C'mon, go down the rabbit hole with me:
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14 Aug
If only the @LATimes were this interested in Gavin Newsom's Form 700's, which are devoid of any mention of the Tobia Way LLC that purchased his $3.7 million estate - cash - and which he claimed in a deed transfer that he and his wife fully owned... 1/ latimes.com/california/sto…
Here's how it went down. The LLC, registered to Gavin's cousin Jeremy Scherer, purchased the estate in Dec 2018. Gavin's spox said in Jan 2019 that the Newsoms purchased the home in cash, presumably using the LLC for privacy. If that's true the $3.7M investment in the LLC would..
...have to be noted in Newsom's 2018 Form 700, as well as the ownership interest. It's not. Then in Oct 2019 the home was transferred out of the LLC and to the Newsoms. They avoided over $4k in transfer tax by claiming to be members of the LLC. LLC wasn't on 2019 Form 700 either.
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