W E L C O M E
TO THE SHADE
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
AND EVEN MORE CATS
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CATS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CAT
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
President Biden: “Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden on Afghanistan: “As president, I’m adamant we focus on the threats we face today in 2021, not yesterday’s threats.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden on Afghanistan: “I’ve always promised the American people I would be straight with you.” He adds: “The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden: “It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghanistan’s own armed forces would not.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden on Afghanistan: “How many more lives, American lives, is it worth? How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden on Afghanistan: “We have safely shut down our embassy and transferred our diplomats.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden: “I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me. I’m deeply saddened by the facts we now face. But I do not regret my decision to end America’s war-fighting in Afghanistan and maintain a laser focus on our counterterrorism missions.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
President Biden ends his speech: “May God protect our troops, our diplomats, and all brave Americans serving in harm’s way.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
The Biden admin plans to announce the biggest long-term increase in food stamp benefits in the program’s history.
Average benefits in October will go up by more than 25% from pre-pandemic levels for the 42 million people in the program.https://t.co/eF4W2NTJCt
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
STATE DEPT. SPOKEPERSON NED PRICE
State Dept. Spokesperson Ned Price:
“We can confirm that the safe evacuation of all Embassy personnel is now complete. All Embassy personnel are located on the premises of Hamid Karzai International Airport, whose perimeter is secured by the U.S. Military.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
PENTAGON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon: US sending another battalion to secure Kabul airport; American troops killed two armed individuals.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
JAKE SULLIVAN
Jake Sullivan to ABC: “The question facing the president back in April, and again as we’ve gone forward, is should U.S. men and women be put into the middle of another country’s civil war when their own army won’t fight to defend them? And his answer to that question was no.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
Jake Sullivan to NBC: “All U.S. diplomats and civilian personnel have been removed from [the U.S. Embassy in Kabul] and we’re down to a very small civilian presence at the airport that’s organizing an effort to … get out remaining American citizens, as well as Afghans at risk.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
NIH DIR. COLLINS
NIH Dir. Collins tells Fox: Claims that undocumented immigrants have played a major role in spreading COVID are a “distraction.”
“We’ve got enough of a problem with our own citizens who have refused to roll up their sleeves, so maybe that would be a better thing to focus on.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
TORI COOPER
Tori Cooper is the 1st Black trans woman on the presidential HIV council.
“One of many priorities I have is certainly to be a voice for trans people, gender-nonbinary people and gender-expansive people, making sure that our voices are heard.” https://t.co/1bvFrLzOMw
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
NAOMI OSAKA
Naomi Osaka promised to donate her earnings from the U.S. Open warm-up tournament next week to help earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, the country her father is from. https://t.co/gpL1ucC6er
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
RON DESANTIS
In the first six months of this year, Florida Republican Ron DeSantis had scheduled more meetings with Sean Hannity than with his lieutenant governor and the state’s top public health official — combined. https://t.co/F31DxAPVp1
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
TEXAS
The Dallas ISD superintendent says the school district will continue with its mask mandate despite the Texas Supreme Court decision.https://t.co/AjCW4mB3ju
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
CANADA
Canada will require all air travelers to be vaccinated.
It will be enacted “as soon as possible in the fall and no later than the end of October.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
TRUMP
“Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do,” Trump said in April of this year. “I planned to withdraw on May 1st, and we should keep as close to that schedule as possible.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
Trump on Afghanistan, June 26, 2021:
“I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process. 21 years is enough. Don’t we think? 21 years. [The Biden admin] couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 16, 2021
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