Psaki: In limited cases where people were trapped or in danger, “US security forces went beyond the wire, sometimes even a helicopter to pick people up safely. We didn't talk about these much—these helo hops—at the time” because dangerous and couldn’t send helicopter for all. pic.twitter.com/5nMpfaV5Ln
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 1, 2021
Biden says admin reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan. As of now, about 100 to 200 Americans "with some intention to leave" remain there. Most are dual citizens, longtime residents who'd earlier decided to stay, he says. He says "90%" who wanted to leave were able.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 31, 2021
The post-Saigon ‘MIA’ mythos was an endless gift to the GOP Death Cult, and they are slavering to revive it with a different set of cardboard characters switched in. The actual stats, per Reuters:
The White House on Tuesday said 98% of Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan were able to do so, and President Joe Biden affirmed that the United States remained committed to helping the remaining 100 to 200 U.S. citizens who had some intention to leave.
Speaking at the White House, Biden told reporters that most of those people were dual citizens and longtime residents, who had earlier decided to stay in the country given their family roots in Afghanistan.
“For those remaining Americans there is no deadline. We remain committed to get them out if they want to come out,” Biden said.
In his remarks, he noted that 90% of Americans who were in Afghanistan and wanted to leave were able to leave. The White House later updated a transcript of his remarks to show that the correct figure was 98%.
He said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was leading continued diplomatic efforts to ensure safe passage for any American, Afghan partner or foreign national who wanted to leave Afghanistan after the Aug. 15 takeover by the Islamist Taliban…
After the U.S. military-led evacuations began 17 days ago, U.S. officials reached out again and identified around 5,000 Americans who had decided earlier to stay, but now wanted to leave, he said.
In the end, the president said, more than 5,500 Americans were evacuated, along with thousands of citizens and diplomats from allied countries, as well as 2,500 locally employed staff at the U.S. embassy and their families, and thousands of Afghan translators and interpreters and others who supported the United States.
‘Everybody knows’ nagware is self-defeating…
that's about once a week, are you kidding me https://t.co/FgqSaRS2eC
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 1, 2021
there is no reason to shame people who thought they could safely stay (or still want to stay). but there's also no reason to try to shame state
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 1, 2021
House Republicans think all US expats and dual-citizens should be required to implant a GPS tracker as a condition of living abroad.
Let that sink in. https://t.co/9UclbGtOyL
— Mike Black (@MikeBlack114) August 30, 2021
From a week — just a week — ago:
Noticed some outlets presenting the figures in a lot of different ways. Recapping what was said by Blinken today.
A. There were as many as 6,000 US citizens in Afghanistan at the start of evacuations on Aug 14 who wanted to leave https://t.co/lH3RKFUHag
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 26, 2021
D. That leaves another 1,000 contacts who say they are Americans seeking a way out of Afghanistan. US is reaching out aggressively to these people, but some of these individuals may not end up being American citizens and some of them may choose to remain in the country.
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 26, 2021
F. But Blinken also notes it's very difficult to assess how many Americans are in Afghanistan because registration with the embassy is voluntary – it's possible there are Americans who never registered with the Kabul embassy when they travel to/began living in Afghanistan.
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 26, 2021
The above comments and numbers were pulled from the State Department's transcript of Blinken's remarks/Q+A this afternoon. https://t.co/BzEHJ38ydo
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 26, 2021
raven
It was POW/MIA and they were troops who were captured, killed and sometimes obliterated. This is nothing like that. That doesn’t mean these fuckers won’t try to make it the same.
Yarrow
WTF?
topclimber
I am SO glad that Congressional Committees in the foreign affairs realm scheduled multiple hearings two weeks ago, when “Biden fail” was the big headline.
Now come September we get a nice refresher on the terrific job he and our military and state department officials did. We all know the public needs to hear this stuff multiple times for it to stick.
Of course Faux News and the usual GQP suspects will find something to carp about, but the truth and the optics are both on the side of the angels this particular time. Bring it on!
Cermet
Facts don’t matter to the (right) wrong wing – further, thugs (aka GQP) always lie because they have nothing else and the deplorables are as stupid as they are gullible.
Gin & Tonic
@Yarrow: That’s pretty clearly a sarcastic rejoinder to the “House Republicans” tweet.
Wakeshift
Incredible accomplishment, paired with incredible bad faith. So, our new normal I guess.
Spent the afternoon silently raging about TX, but happened across headlines that (some? most? of) the group of students from CA who were stuck in AFG visiting family or whatever got unstuck and are out and headed home.
Another moved goalpost met, getting people out after the deadline.
Let us celebrate the end by mourning the loss, the pain, the waste.
And then renew our efforts to resist our homegrown terrorists and their enablers.
Can we retake and repurpose the tag line “Peace through Strength”? Or something… Need a rallying cry.
Ken
Speaking of being unable to find people because they just charter a helicopter and fly into Afghanistan without telling anyone their plans, any word on Representative Mullins’ location?
Kay
Guffaw. They refuse to use the only real numbers they have and instead have chosen to pretend they have some other more accurate but also more damaging set which they then never reveal.
Hillary Clinton testified for hours and hours on Benghazi and there were something like 12 inquiries. Did it change the coverage at all?
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Good thing everyone who gets vaccinated already has a tracker chip implanted. Saves time and red tape.
Another Scott
Speaking of “left behind”, …
[womp, womp]
Cheers,
Scott.
dmsilev
@Ken: Last I heard, a spokesbot from his office had a statement that boiled down to ‘He’s fine, but I can’t tell you where he is or give you any actual evidence that he’s actually fine.’.
RaflW
@dmsilev: “He’s in a Covid ward” would be a terribly malicious rumor, one that, if it somehow propagated, might cause him to resurface? Just a mere hypothetical, of course.
Wakeshift
@dmsilev:
I will take that as confirmation that jackals’ speculation yesterday was absolutely correct.
He’s in Tahiti with the unlawfully large payload of cash.
ETA: If we’re very very lucky, never to be heard from again.
Suzanne
Joe Rogan has Covid LMAO.
Amir Khalid
@Another Scott:
Those dastardly Americans.
Another Scott
@Ken: He posted something on Instagram.
FWIW.
I hope someone from Treasury asks him about the “large quantity of money” that he supposedly had with him, if/when he’s back in the US…
Cheers,
Scott.
Ksmiami
Everyone should read Rick Wilson’s advice on the GOP phone records and then write to your dem representatives. We need to fucking bury the traitors and fast
Villago Delenda Est
Naturally, the Rethuglican hard-wired vermin of the Village are doing all they can do to further this false narrative, because one, that’s where their political sentiment lies, and two, that’s where the ratings/clicks are.
RaflW
@Suzanne: Sucking up doses of expensive treatments that will likely save his life. Medical science is great for his stupid ass now that he’s sick, but prevention? A.. a… vaccine? Ohhh, too scary!
Fuck him.
MC
Anyone have advice on how to keep on truckin’ through all the madness? I’m totally spent.
Amir Khalid
@Suzanne:
And the fool is self-medicating with Ivermectin.
Ken
@Another Scott: Ah, Instagram. I should have realized any news would come through official government channels.
Urza
@Suzanne:
Made me happy to hear it. Though he’s already on Regeneron. Get tired of people at work that should be liberal talking about how great that idiot is. Literally the number 2 reason i’m trying to get a permanent WFH spot after being an introvert.
Mike in NC
@MC: Weed gets me through the day.
Kay
Shitty, sloppy, low quality work and they can’t pump it out fast enough. They’ve literally had the same set of numbers for 2 weeks. It isn’t that complicated. They STILL can’t start with the total and work backwards.
If these mathematicians have a different number than 120,000 they have to produce it. If they don’t like Biden’s number- and they don’t because it doesn’t work with their narrative- they have to go find a different one.
CaseyL
@MC: Revenge fantasies, that you try to figure out how to actually do.
MisterForkbeard
@Amir Khalid: Actually, rich dude that he is… He got a doctor to make house calls, prescribe a number of “solutions”, and to professionally administer human-grade ivermectin on the spot, along with Regeneron and some other things. The doctor is apparently making continued house calls.
He’s awful. and he’ll be just fine. And the crazies will credit Ivermectin.
E.
@Mike in NC: That’s how I’ve been doing it too, bro.
RSA
Funny. I was an expat in Europe in the 1980s. Places I visited without informing the U.S. embassy: former East Germany, former Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania… (but not to suggest that it was dangerous; we were careful).
I don’t think the U.S. has the policies or procedures or international agreements in place to keep track of where U.S. citizens go outside the U.S.
SiubhanDuinne
I legit don’t know the difference between Seth Rogen, Josh Rogin, and Joe Rogan.
Kay
This is more nonsense. They now are going to conflate applying for the special VISA to having the special VISA, although they know there was a top bound on the number of VISAS available, so this too is a nonsense number. A million could have applied. It doesn’t matter. There were X available.
frosty
That’s because there isn’t any difference. None of them are worth your time.
Sister Golden Bear
@RaflW: “Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to,”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MisterForkbeard: I don’t know much about steroids, but I’d be surprised if Rogan doesn’t already have a friendly doctor on the payroll
Sister Golden Bear
@Amir Khalid: He’ll die doing what he loves, owning the libs and being worm-free.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RSA: in the before times (fall, ’19) I flew into Austria and then traveled by train to Hungary to the Czech Republic to Germany to France, then flew out of Paris. I don’t think I showed my passport to anybody except in the airports, and when checking into hotels
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Yarrow: double post
Kay
It’s almost sad how people are earnestly trying to make this gibberish they’re pumping out make sense, and they can’t. Eventually they’ll give up, because they’re trying to solve this : A + B = C and they don’t have A, B or C.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Yarrow: just require them to be vaxxx’d
two birds, one fascism
HumboldtBlue
If you need an example of a media member getting it absolutely fucking correct, here’s baseball writer Jeff Passan introducing himself to the father of criminal Jacob Wohl.
Also, the rain and wind are so bad in NYC it’s raining INSIDE the Armstrong stadium (which, in theory, has a roof) and folks have pulled out umbrellas inside the main stand, Arthur Ashe stadium, which definitely has a roof.
trollhattan
I remain available to have Jen Psaki’s babies. That is all.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: I have a feeling if Markwayne had actually found any of the Americans he claims were abandoned in Afghanistan he would be very confused by the lack of let’s just say blue eyes
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Suzanne: justice for phil hartman
(yes i know it was andy dick who reintroduced phil’s wife to coke, but phil didn’t deserve to suffer rogan, either)
Argiope
@MC: Here’s what’s worked for me: Take a break. Seriously, go somewhere without internet for a little while if that’s possible so you aren’t tempted to seek news. If that isn’t possible, just walk away from current events for a specified time. A week to two weeks ought to do it. You can deputize a trusted friend to be your news filter and tell you about anything that is immediately actionable (and actionable means you can DO something about it, not just get enraged). You are allowed to step away from the ongoing shitshow for a short while, and you are not letting down the side if you do. This is a long haul and whatever it takes to be the happiest possible warrior is good to do. And this is important…during those two weeks, do stuff that brings you joy. Get in touch with wonder, or playfulness, or just plain fun. Recharge those batteries. Then get on back to it and find small ways to nudge things in the right direction.
Well, you did ask….
Danielx
@SiubhanDuinne:
Joe Rogan is the biggest asshole of the three.
RaflW
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Depending on the country, as I understand it some governments do collect the passport numbers and info from hotels. I seriously doubt they share it with the US, though.
Kay
Oh, no. Another number. NBC has to start all over. Americans + Afghans = ?&*!
Yarrow
@Gin & Tonic: Who can even tell anymore?
Yarrow
@Suzanne: Do you believe him? He could just as well be lying. Like Milo whatever his name is who also says he has Covid. I don’t really believe either of them. If Joe Rogan or Milo end up in a hospital on a ventilator then I might believe it.
Yarrow
@Urza: If he says he’s on Regeneron then follow the money. Is he an investor in Regeneron? Is he making money from claiming it saved his life?
MC
@Argiope: Thank you :)
Yarrow
@MC: Step away from the internet. All the bad news will be there when you return and the deluge of it is designed to demoralize you so you don’t have energy for the fight. Don’t let it. Get involved with a local race so you feel connected to your community. Exercise so you get endorphins going. Watch comedies so you can laugh – sitcoms, funny movies, whatever you enjoy but stay away from politics and current events. Have some ice cream or chocolate as a treat.
Argiope
@MC: sure thing. One other note, be prepared for a few withdrawal symptoms/angsty-ness the first few days of a news cleanse if you try one. That’s just your brain getting used to the lack of constant dopamine bursts from the 11! stuff. Once that settles down something nearly like peace and maybe even joy floats back in as your amygdala starts to ratchet down. Then when you re-enter the fray, you can better titrate the dose of the crazy you can tolerate and still feel balanced and get stuff done. Again, personal experience–your mileage may vary. Hope it all feels better soon!
Roger Moore
@RaflW:
A more plausible explanation is that he’s disappeared with the money and never intends to reappear. Or he will reappear with some unverifiable sob story about the Taliban taking all the money and having to extricate himself with no help from State.
JCJ
A few years ago my brother spent a year in Uganda with USAID. There was an election during that time and the State Department recommended Americans leave for a week or so before and after the vote. He and the others where he was in Mbarara did so. It was understood that if things went sideways he would not return. I do not understand not leaving.
prostratedragon
An anthem for knights errant: “The Bear Went Over the Mountain [Marlborough],” variations, Sor. Look out for that second variation. But no matter, all that you can see, …
Jim, Foolish Literalist
some scary shit going on in the north east
ETA: Flooding subways in NYC.
Benw
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: yeah can confirm out on LI we’re getting hammered with rain way worse than Henri. Weather crazy in NYC too
HeleninEire
@Benw: There are some streets here in Queens where the water is waist deep.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Jeez, those videos of NYC are scary. Flood water can come up so fast. The subway is just not a good place to be when it’s flooding.
Poe Larity
So if we go by the numbers, Stallone will be 84 when Rambo Kabul gets made in 2030.
Major Major Major Major
Boy it’s really coming down out here in NYC. We broke the one-hour rain record that we broke a couple weeks ago (thanks climate change). They shut down the whole subway!
ETA I see I was beaten to this, very well
Benw
@HeleninEire: @Major Major Major Major: it’s nuts! Out here in Suffolk the lightening and thunder are basically on top of each other, hang on there in the city!
Another Scott
Stay safe up there NE peeps.
In other news, the SCOTUS decision is out.
The vote was 5:4.
Sotomayor brings the fire in her dissent.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mai Naem mobile
These people who couldn’t get out were given several months warning to get out. I don’t give a crap about these people. You are in a dangerous country and you don’t take the self responsibility to get it together. They should have had a plan after Trumpov signed the deal.
The Pale Scot
Doggie baby-sitting in Cranford NJ. The house is a little higher than the surrounding area which is under water, cars abandoned everywhere. Fortunately the county drained the Rahway river a couple of days ago. The wee girl finally got off the porch and took care of business. All it took was taking off her rain coat, ’cause scotties don’t play that apparently.
James E Powell
Open thread personal news. I quit twitter and my fuck no on the recall ballot was received by the Riverside County Registrar. Texting people to do the same. Haven’t rec’d a single fuck off or “I’m voting for
TrumpElder” – most people do not respond. A few positives. We need a big push the next ten days on the mail ballotsI’ve seen a couple “Hey Democrats, don’t be complacent” articles but I have yet to meet any Democrats who are complacent. Everyone is energized, some by fear, others by a commitment to win.
Gary K
@SiubhanDuinne: Just call them all Rogaine.
Kay
@Another Scott:
The cowards didn’t even sign it.
Edmund Dantes
@Another Scott: this shows Roe will be curtailed immensely (or if they are really feeling their oats killed off for good) in Dobbs or whatever the Mississippi case is called.
6 weeks directly contradicts the precedent in Roe.
Another Scott
@Kay: Eh? Their names are on the various opinions. (It was released in the last hour or so.)
Cheers,
Scott.
RaflW
@Another Scott: Roberts gets to vote with the liberals to burnish his faux-moderate cred, but get the result he wants.
Fucking him.
Tazj
@Mai Naem mobile: Elizabeth Shackelford,a former American diplomat in South Sudan wrote a very informative Twitter thread about evacuations in a very dangerous situation. She explains how chaotic it is.People stay for all kinds of reasons including family, business and charity organizations. They all think they can stay until the last plane out.
In the end people may have the best intentions but they were warned many times to leave and their reluctance to do so just makes the evacuations more difficult.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Sorry, I see what you mean now. We only see the dissents in that pdf.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
@Another Scott:
the Talibs and their allies got rather used to the ANA and other Secutity forces, abandoning weapons and systems, undamaged and with the keys in the ignition, title and insurance in the glovebox.
So of course they would be “dissapointed” to find out that’s not what professionals do when gear has to be abandoned or left behind.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Looks like I picked the wrong week to honeymoon in Kabul
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Er, I was confused by the formatting. The first page or so is the unsigned opinion of the 5, then Roberts’s dissent starts. The page headers add to the confusion.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mallard Filmore
@Another Scott:
Maybe a blessing in disguise. How many hours of operation in those aircraft before the choice is maintenance or bouncing?
Jay
@Mallard Filmore:
the Taliban operated for years a small AirForce despite sanctions off of salvaged aircraft from the Russians, the Afghan Government and the various other factions.
Orxy on twitter is tracking captured equipment, broken down by make, model, status. They have already been flying captured/abandoned MI-17’s.
Mallard Filmore
@Jay: I was sure they could get the expertise but unsure about sourcing spare parts for our planes.
Jay
https://www.wonkette.com/oklahoma-rep-with-rambo-delusion-gonna-beat-taliban-to-death-with-illegal-piles-of-cash
Jay
@Mallard Filmore:
officially, no, unofficially yes, and there is always cannibalization.
Professionals “burn out” sensitive and operational equiptment before they leave it behind.
A couple of thermite grenades or even just a regular grenade and some fuel does wonders.
The ANA and other “security forces” didn’t do that.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Ksmiami:
Rick Wilson’s thread.
Jay
@Mallard Filmore:
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/08/the-taliban-air-force-inventory.html?m=1
Edmund Dantes
@Steeplejack (phone): man. I wish I believed enough the Democratic Party would get behind this.
large parts of it would these days. More than if this was 15 years ago, but I am afraid it’s still not enough.
The easiest tell will be how long they let the phone records thing drag out before they start throwing contempt charges out. How long they allow witnesses to just stonewall them.
Chetan Murthy
@Tazj: Shackleford’s statement
is deep and perceptive. I think it bears unpacking. B/c what these people are doing, is being free-riders. Evacuation of a vulnerable population is a collective action problem: not all of them can fit on that last plane out. Work out the game, where the choices are “leave early” and “stay late” and you’ll see that it’s a Prisoner’s Dilemma. And these people who stay far too late? They’re *defecting*.
There’s neither honor nor decency in being a free rider. Sure, we should try to help them. But we should all be clear that they made these choices, and they’re counting on somebody else expending blood and treasure to rescue them.
Free riders. Selfish Free Riders.
Chetan Murthy
@Edmund Dantes: I don’t understand. Roger Stone isn’t the man you subpoena for his phone records: it’s the telcos. My guess is, they’ll be forthcoming.
Shalimar
@Kay: Does it really matter which of the 5 had their clerks write it? They’re all guilty of this monstrosity, including Roberts.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Another Scott:
Fuck dissents. They’re useless, and mean your position lost.
After a few dozen 12-14 year olds get impregnated by daddy/brother/uncle/teacher/neighbor and are forced to *carry to term and perhaps prohibited from leaving the state*, perhaps some tweaks will be called for by “concerned” suburban women.
Meanwhile, NARAL and ACLU will continue to send out fundraising appeals and yammering proven loser words about “a woman’s right to choose” while ignoring the far more potent rhetoric that gets men to buy-in on notions of medical privacy and being able to make intimate decisions without state and/or religious interference.
Winston
Since Roe is still the law of the land, then Texas has made an illegal law. Under the Texas law those who made the law are at the same time violating the law of the land, forcing illegal abortions. They are the ones, then, who should be civilly charged and forced to pay the bounty for enticement?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
And while I’m thinking about it, fuck RBG for thinking that she was indispensable. Fuck the Supreme Court, long our shittiest institution despite one short 20 year span when it wasn’t pervasively awful. Also, fuck Stephen Breyer. Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and the whole 2016 purity circus can fuck the fucking fuck right off, too.
And most of all, fuck my liberal SCOTUS-worshipping brethren who treat the black robed thugs with reverence and respect both on duty and off. They don’t deserve it, and should never enjoy a public meal or drink without spit or other bodily fluids in it ever again.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: currently shop vaccing water out of my basement. Power came back on at 3am and woke the whole house. At least the rain has stopped. I email my boss to let him know I need today off. Yesterday started with a call from my daughter from the ER at 4am…my new motto is “But wait! There’s more!”
but daughter is ok and cellar is drying out. Hoping my niece can get back to Houma this week.
Winston
@Winston: Many are already mobilizing complaints on the Texas Right to Life anonymous tip web site to rat out the republicans in the Texas legislator to do just that. If you want to file a complaint here is a list of the culprits:
Senator Dist Room # (512) Phone / Fax
Paul Bettencourt (R) 7 3E.16 (512) 463-0107 / (512) 463-8810
Brian Birdwell (R) 22 E1.804 (512) 463-0122 / (512) 475-3729
Dawn Buckingham (R) 24 E1.808 (512) 463-0124 / (512) 475-3732
Donna Campbell (R) 25 3E.18 (512) 463-0125 / (512) 463-7794
Brandon Creighton (R) 4 E1.606 (512) 463-0104 / (512) 463-6373
Bob Hall (R) 2 E1.610 (512) 463-0102 / (512) 463-7202
Kelly G. Hancock (R) 9 4E.2 (512) 463-0109 / (512) 463-7003
Joan Huffman (R) 17 1E.15 (512) 463-0117 / (512) 463-0639
Bryan Hughes (R) 1 3E.8 (512) 463-0101 / (512) 475-3751
Lois W. Kolkhorst (R) 18 GE.4 (512) 463-0118 / (512) 475-3736
Jane Nelson (R) 12 1E.5 (512) 463-0112 / (512) 463-0923
Robert Nichols (R) 3 E1.704 (512) 463-0103 / (512) 463-1526
Angela Paxton (R) 8 3S.3 (512) 463-0108 / (512) 463-7579
Charles Perry (R) 28 E1.806 (512) 463-0128 / (512) 463-2424
Charles Schwertner (R) 5 3E.10 (512) 463-0105 / (512) 463-5713
Kel Seliger (R) 31 1E.12 (512) 463-0131 / (512) 475-3733
Drew Springer (R) 30 E1.712 (512) 463-0130
Larry Taylor (R) 11 1E.9 (512) 463-0111 / (512) 475-3727
House Rep. Dist Room # (512) Phone / Fax
Steve Allison (R) 121 E1.512 (512) 463-0686
Charles “Doc” Anderson (R) 56 GW.7 (512) 463-0135 / (512) 463-0642
Trent Ashby (R) 57 E2.806 (512) 463-0508
Ernest Bailes (R) 18 E2.812 (512) 463-0570
Cecil Bell (R) 3 E2.708 (512) 463-0650
Keith Bell (R) 4 E2.414 (512) 463-0458
Kyle Biedermann (R) 73 E2.418 (512) 463-0325 / (512) 463-6161
Greg Bonnen (R) 24 E2.504 (512) 463-0729
Brad Buckley (R) 54 E1.316 (512) 463-0684
DeWayne Burns (R) 58 E1.322 (512) 463-0538
Dustin Burrows (R) 83 E2.722 (512) 463-0542 / (512) 463-0671
Angie Chen Button (R) 112 GW.8 (512) 463-0486 / (512) 463-0793
Briscoe Cain (R) 128 E2.706 (512) 463-0733 / (512) 463-1323
Giovanni Capriglione (R) 98 E2.610 (512) 463-0690
Jeff Cason (R) 92 E2.402 (512) 463-0522
Travis Clardy (R) 11 E2.818 (512) 463-0592 / (512) 463-8792
David Cook (R) 96 E1.410 (512) 463-0374 / (512) 463-0364
Tom Craddick (R) 82 1W.9 (512) 463-0500 / (512) 463-7722
John Cyrier (R) 17 E2.318 (512) 463-0682 / (512) 463-9955
Drew Darby (R) 72 GW.17 (512) 463-0331 / (512) 463-0517
Jay Dean (R) 7 E2.908 (512) 463-0750 / (512) 463-0985
James Frank (R) 69 E2.604 (512) 463-0534 / (512) 463-8161
John Frullo (R) 84 4N.6 (512) 463-0676 / (512) 463-0072
Gary Gates (R) 28 E2.720 (512) 463-0657
Charlie L. Geren (R) 99 GW.15 (512) 463-0610 / (512) 463-8310
Craig Goldman (R) 97 E2.606 (512) 463-0608
Sam Harless (R) 126 E1.402 (512) 463-0496 / (512) 463-1507
Cody Harris (R) 8 E1.318 (512) 463-0730 / (512) 463-2506
Cole Hefner (R) 5 E2.718 (512) 463-0271 / (512) 463-1515
Justin Holland (R) 33 E2.422 (512) 463-0484 / (512) 463-7834
Dan Huberty (R) 127 GS.2 (512) 463-0520 / (512) 463-1606
Lacey Hull (R) 138 E2.302 (512) 463-0727
Todd Hunter (R) 32 1W.5 (512) 463-0672 / (512) 463-2101
Jacey Jetton (R) 26 E2.716 (512) 463-0710 / (512) 463-0711
Kyle J. Kacal (R) 12 E2.810 (512) 463-0412
Ken King (R) 88 E2.808 (512) 463-0736 / (512) 463-0211
Phil S. King (R) 61 1N.8 (512) 463-0738 / (512) 463-1957
Stephanie Klick (R) 91 E2.608 (512) 463-0599 / (512) 463-0751
Matt Krause (R) 93 4S.6 (512) 463-0562 / (512) 463-2053
John Kuempel (R) 44 GW.6 (512) 463-0602 / (512) 480-0391
Stan Lambert (R) 71 E2.814 (512) 463-0718
Brooks Landgraf (R) 81 E1.324 (512) 463-0546 / (512) 463-8067
Lyle Larson (R) 122 4N.3 (512) 463-0646 / (512) 463-0893
Jeff Leach (R) 67 GN.9 (512) 463-0544 / (512) 463-9974
Ben Leman (R) 13 E1.306 (512) 463-0600 / (512) 463-5240
J.M. Lozano (R) 43 1W.4 (512) 463-0463
Will Metcalf (R) 16 E1.314 (512) 463-0726 / (512) 463-8428
Morgan Meyer (R) 108 E1.302 (512) 463-0367 / (512) 463-0078
Mayes Middleton (R) 23 E2.712 (512) 463-0502 / (512) 936-4260
Geanie W. Morrison (R) 30 1W.6 (512) 463-0456 / (512) 463-0158
Jim Murphy (R) 133 1N.12 (512) 463-0514 / (512) 463-8715
Andrew Murr (R) 53 E1.308 (512) 463-0536
Candy Noble (R) 89 E1.414 (512) 463-0186
Tom Oliverson (R) 130 E2.910 (512) 463-0661 / (512) 463-4130
Chris Paddie (R) 9 E2.502 (512) 463-0556 / (512) 463-0611
Tan Parker (R) 63 1W.11 (512) 463-0688
Jared Patterson (R) 106 E1.310 (512) 463-0694 / (512) 463-1130
Dennis Paul (R) 129 GN.10 (512) 463-0734
Dade Phelan (R) 21 2W.13 (512) 463-1000 / (512) 463-1861
Four Price (R) 87 1N.9 (512) 463-0470
John Raney (R) 14 GN.11 (512) 463-0698 / (512) 463-5109
Glenn Rogers (R) 60 E2.316 (512) 463-0656
Scott Sanford (R) 70 GN.12 (512) 463-0356
Matt Schaefer (R) 6 E2.510 (512) 463-0584
Mike Schofield (R) 132 E2.410 (512) 463-0528 / (512) 463-7820
Matt Shaheen (R) 66 E1.420 (512) 463-0594 / (512) 463-1021
Hugh D. Shine (R) 55 GS.6 (512) 463-0630 / (512) 463-0937
Bryan Slaton (R) 2 E2.420 (512) 463-0880
Shelby Slawson (R) 59 E2.704 (512) 463-0628 / (512) 463-3644
Reggie Smith (R) 62 E1.312 (512) 463-0297 / (512) 463-1561
John T. Smithee (R) 86 1W.10 (512) 463-0702
David Spiller (R) 68 E2.602 (512) 463-0526
Phil Stephenson (R) 85 E2.902 (512) 463-0604 / (512) 463-5244
Lynn Stucky (R) 64 E2.822 (512) 463-0582
Valoree Swanson (R) 150 E2.710 (512) 463-0572 / (512) 463-1908
Ed Thompson (R) 29 1N.7 (512) 463-0707 / (512) 463-8717
Tony Tinderholt (R) 94 E2.508 (512) 463-0624
Steve Toth (R) 15 E2.212 (512) 463-0797 / (512) 463-0898
Gary VanDeaver (R) 1 E1.304 (512) 463-0692 / (512) 463-0902
Cody T. Vasut (R) 25 E2.702 (512) 463-0564
James White (R) 19 4N.5 (512) 463-0490 / (512) 463-9059
Terry Wilson (R) 20 E2.714 (512) 463-0309 / (512) 463-004
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Geminid
@Winston: “I saw Goodie Morrison talking to a fox! And then my cow stopped giving milk!”
Booger
@SiubhanDuinne: Have you tried the Rogan Josh?
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Going back and looking at the fawning, careerist ass-kissing is instuctive:
Kay
Women- so stupid and hysterical. When will they gain some understanding of the role of SCOTUS in American life?
There are hundreds of these. There’s a large group of powerful people wholly invested in denying what’s right in front of them. They’re protecting something- I don’t think even they know what it is anymore, but they’re working hard at it.
Uncle Cosmo
If that’s an accurate prediction, it means that the fundraisers are running the show & are sure that sort of rhetoric will generate the most $$$. Kind of the mirror universe of the RWNJs who’ve gathered gobs of cash inveighing against Roe while understanding that the money tap would run dry the minute they managed to get it repealed.
One a somewhat related note, I got a form letter from the DNC the other day with a “return address” of PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, & as I opened it I thought, Here we go again:
But no. A thoughtful two-page letter with no bold, no caps, no terrify-or-piss-off-the-base blather, simply explaining why PUJOTUS**’s legislative agenda is so critical to the future of American democracy and why we must push to pass it.
Damn, I thought, they decided to stop appealing to the lizard brain and start treating us like adults.
I’m gonna throw the DNC some cash & let them know there’s more coming so log as they keep the manipulative fundraising assholes locked in an airless closet.
Uncle Cosmo
@Uncle Cosmo: PUJOTUS = President Uncle Joe Of The US. Probably obvious, but just FTR.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s where I was several months ago. BJ peeps filled me in. Here’s how I remember it.
I had never heard of Rogin with an I until I read your comment, so I am no help there.
WaterGirl
@Kay:
That’s a poorly constructed sentence. (From Nick Miroff.) I get that they arrive as parolees, not refugees – but I don’t know what the hell that means.
I do understand that they will only have government support and assistance for 90 days, though I wonder if that is actually true.
It isn’t at all clear to me whether they have a clear path to legal residency or not.