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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,271 views  1,308 comments

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The shambolic unravelling of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan comes from a yet to be written textbook of "how to lose at everything". Warnings hadn't been heeded, intelligence was clearly totally inadequate, planning was lamentable, execution woeful.

Let's just focus in on one thing - although there are any number that are worthy of examination.
The withdrawal came during the "fighting season" - a phrase I have to say I have always found rather odd. But in Afghanistan there is a fighting season which starts in spring - and then in winter, when the country freezes over, there is a time when the Taliban go home to their tribal homelands. Did no-one think that it might have been better to have ordered the withdrawal for the dead of winter when Taliban forces weren't there, poised to fill the vacuum?

The end result might have been the same - a Taliban takeover - but it would have almost certainly led to a more orderly drawdown. Yet the Biden administration wanted an eye-catching date. They wanted the withdrawal completed by 11 September. Twenty years on from 9/11 - an artificial, self-imposed deadline.

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Biden's election campaign could be boiled down to three messages to distinguish himself from Donald Trump. First, he would be more empathetic. He would be more competent. And instead of "America First", it would be replaced by the mantra "America is back".
But in his address yesterday, there wasn't a whole lot of empathy towards the thousands of Afghans who've helped Americans these past 20 years. On competence, even his biggest cheerleaders would struggle to say the withdrawal of American troops has been anything other than shambolic.
And after the bewildering events of the past few days, how exactly is America back?

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But on the policy itself, Joe Biden is utterly defiant. He summoned up his inner Harry Truman and made clear in his speech that the buck stops with him. He was, however, happy to distribute blame in much the same way that a muck spreader disperses manure in all directions. The Afghan leadership weren't up to it, the Afghan armed forces had no fight in them; Donald Trump had negotiated a bad deal.

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A fascinating nugget from a briefing that's just been given by Joe Biden's National Security Adviser. Since the fall of Kabul, Jake Sullivan revealed, Biden hadn't spoken to another world leader. Wasn't that just a bit surprising, given that there were a lot of other nations - including Britain - who'd committed vast resources to Afghanistan?

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When the G7 gathered in Cornwall and the Nato nations met in Brussels the sense of relief was palpable among the prime ministers and presidents that a more outward looking American president was in charge. But given what has unfolded - how America has been humiliated, how Joe Biden embarked on a policy he was cautioned against by these leaders - there is now a good deal more wariness.
And who will feel they have gained most from America's departure - apart from the Taliban, of course? Why, three countries near Afghanistan - Russia, Iran and China. I'm not sure that is what Joe Biden had in mind when he said after his inauguration that "America is back".



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748   Patrick   2023 Apr 24, 10:56am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/big-lies-and-bigger-lies/


Today, The New York Times says “Joe Biden” is revving up to run for president again in 2024. Is that so? One DNC strategist, Maria Cardona, was quoted saying, “Democrats complain that he might be too old. But then, when they’re asked, ‘Well, who?’ There is no one else.”

There you have the sucking chest wound at the center of the Democratic Party, a malodorous vacuum where, as they like to say, democracy dies in darkness. You understand, this is exactly what you get when all you do is tell lies, always and everywhere, about everything.

Now I will tell you the truth: “Joe Biden” will not be running for president ever again. “Joe Biden” will either be impeached for real high crimes and misdemeanors, or he will be bum-rushed out of the White House on some medical pretext before Independence Day. “Joe Biden’s” crimes have finally caught up with him. He sold out his country.

The facts have been out in plain sight since before a coalition of rogues and frauds stuffed him into the Oval Office, January, 2021. As vice-president under Mr. Obama, “JB” was allowed to run a global grifting operation that netted his family tens of millions. (Mr. Obama received plenty of his own sanitized grift in the form of absurdly large book deals and TV contracts, enough swag to lead the deluxe life of a senior panjandrum. His job, post-presidency, was to feed the Woke hustle with an occasional speech and otherwise shut up.)

The coalition of rogues and frauds, a.k.a. the permanent bureaucracy or the Deep State, had committed so many crimes since 2016 that its sole agenda turned to driving the one-man wrecking-crew called Donald Trump out of office and making sure he never got close to a lever of power again, by any means necessary. That is still all that animates this gang. They managed to roll enough of the American public in the process to maintain power and influence over them via control of the news, censorship, and use of their captive legal system to harass and punish their enemies. And now it’s all falling apart.

How many Americans with the capacity to pay attention actually doubted the veracity of Hunter Biden’s laptop? Very few, I’d guess, deep down, thought millions pretended it was not for-real because the contents were so obviously incriminating. So, they had to lie to themselves. But then, what’s wrong with lying to yourself when all the authority figures in your society set the example of lying to you about everything, always, and everywhere? Do you see where this habit of lying gets you? ...

By the way, this is why the “Joe Biden” regime sent out a pack of drag queens to perform for the cameras the past two years. They needed a device so insulting to the sensibilities of people equipped with a normal moral compass that it would create a distraction from much greater insults such as stealing elections and concocting a lab-engineered pandemic to deploy deadly vaccines — these matters in themselves entailing giant matrices of lies.

Even with the stolen 2022 midterm elections in Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, the Republican Party managed to squeak into a House majority, and now a non-captive faction of that party is methodically taking steps to reveal the giant scaffold of lies America has lived under for years. One rather significant event was the prank now unspooling about the fifty-one “folks” (“JB” called them) from the Intel Community who branded Hunter’s laptop a Russian disinfo operation. Those “folks” included five living former CIA directors, wouldn’t you know? It was an obvious lie at the time, but now it’s a certified lie, since one of the five, Michael Morell, spilled the beans testifying under oath to the House Judiciary Committee that he rounded up the other fifty at the direction of “Joe Biden’s” campaign advisor, Tony Blinken, now Secretary of State.

On another side of the Biden family mischief, there is the emergence of the IRS whistleblower (as yet unnamed), who complained through formal agency channels that the IRS and the DOJ were mishandling various cases emanating out of Hunter’s laptop. A “high government official” unmasked as Attorney General Garland is accused of lying to Congress. He apparently has been leaning on the US attorney in Delaware, David Weiss, to hold off prosecuting a case that Mr. Weiss’s office finished investigating a year ago. ...

These various dodges to lessen the impact of Biden family criminal culpability are likely to fail. The Bidens are caught and “Joe Biden” is about to go down, one way or another. Looks to me like a lot of this adds up to impeachable offenses, which I doubt the party will allow “JB” to go through. Today’s announcement about running for president again in 2024 is just another ruse to hold-the-line, but it won’t work either. They’ve lost control of the narrative — and the action itself. Mr. Blinken and Mr. AG Garland also look like they’ll be squeezed out of power like a couple of watermelon seeds between your fingers.

What happens when “Joe Biden” creeps off into the sunset? Use your imagination about the dark place that leaves our country, and the flavor of further shenanigans ahead.
749   Patrick   2023 Apr 25, 9:48am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/creepy-old-man-says-he-thinks-of-your-kids-as-his-own




WASHINGTON, D.C. — Authorities have been dispatched to the White House lawn after reports of a creepy old man shouting to people that he thinks of everyone's kids as his own.

"There's no such thing as someone else's child!" shouted the demented geriatric. "They're all mine! Not a joke! Give them to me!" He then reached out and tried to grab a passing baby out of his stroller before his mother shrieked and ran away.

"Your kids aren't yours! They're all mine! Lemme smell your kids!" the confused senior was heard shouting at a nearby statue of Andrew Jackson before several aides tackled him and dragged him to safety.

"You know, this guy is making a ton of sense," said Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers. "All kids should belong to the State and to suggest otherwise is white supremacy."

At publishing time, the deranged old man had claimed to be running for President of the United States.


Pedo Biden did say:

https://jellyfish.news/biden-says-kids-belong-to-their-teachers/


President Joe Biden, who told a gathering of teachers and union bigwigs on April 27 that the kids are “yours when they’re in the classroom.” That wasn’t just a Biden stumble. He repeated it for emphasis: “They are all our children … They are not somebody else’s children.”
754   Patrick   2023 Apr 25, 12:37pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/democrats-refuse-hold-debates-2024-bidens-challengers-outraged/


The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has announced that there will not be any debates for the 2024 Democrat primary, despite President Joe Biden already having challengers for the nomination.




Maybe they're worried that sane people will ask the corrupt senile pedo some hard questions about his corruption, senility, and pedophilia.
755   richwicks   2023 Apr 25, 1:13pm  

Patrick says

Maybe they're worried that sane people will ask the corrupt senile pedo some hard questions about his corruption, senility, and pedophilia.


No. The DNC is stacked, whoever the DNC wants to give the nomination to will get it. Primaries of the DNC are anything but democratic.
756   Patrick   2023 Apr 26, 9:38am  

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/dnc-aborts-primary-debates-but-elections


DNC Aborts Primary Debates, But Elections Are Still Officially Not AT ALL Rigged...

The totalitarian organ known as the DNC has out-done itself yet again. I am new to the news that they have now stated they will not host any primary debates.

I have to say that this latest assault on us all actually scares me.

It just has that super ultra creepy abnormal quality, very high shock level.

I feel again that I am stuck on a hijacked airliner.

I notice that I stop breathing in the presence of everything I learn the DNC does.

So, it’s done, then, I suppose. Even the pretense of “democracy” is packed and gone. Why do our minds refuse to fully accept it? Mine anyway.

We all wondered: “How will he be able to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?”

Now we know. He simply won’t.
757   Ceffer   2023 Apr 26, 9:49am  

The Biden Actor hasn't changed in years. NOT senility, an intermittent act by the actor stable, depending on winds of distraction. They can keep foisting this actor stable forever, because HE NEVER CHANGES, doesn't even undergo an aging process, much less his so-called 'senility' deteriorating as it would if it were real. Biden has been dead for years. Once they successfully foisted the fraud of fag Obama and tranny Michael, the gloves were off on virtual candidates.

If they can keep foisting this actor fraud show forever, why wouldn't they?
762   Patrick   2023 Apr 28, 9:49am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/on-war-and-wars/


You understand, “Joe Biden” is only pretending to run for president again, in the same way that he only pretended to be president the past two years. Are we to believe, for instance, that the old zombie has become a fervent Maoist? Or that he follows any known structured political philosophy at all, other than cashing checks that favor-seekers from all nations send his way? “Joe Biden” is pretending to run — no matter how preposterous it seems — because his handlers know that only a titanic pretense of political strength can stave off the reveal of his family’s awesome criminality and the fall of everyone hitched to that wagon.
772   Patrick   2023 May 9, 7:16pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-admin-may-freeze-bank-withdrawals-currency-fears-soar-expert-warns/


A top economic expert has warned that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration may be planning to freeze all U.S. bank withdrawals.

The warning comes as fears over the banking crisis and the stability of the economy continue to soar.

According to macroeconomics guru Hugh Hendry, the Biden admin could literally ban withdrawals from the banking system.

The move would see Americans’ checking accounts locked down in an effort to prevent widespread bank runs.

And while such a move sounds more like the actions of a far-left communist dictatorship, it would follow suit with other Biden admin policies.

Under Biden, the federal government has already moved to force Americans to buy expensive electric cars, limited the kinds of appliances you can buy, and censored the questions you can raise about fair elections and much more.

More importantly, Biden has also moved to eliminate America’s traditional dollar and replace it with “digital cash.”

Now the next step could be to seize control of your bank account, according to Hendry.
773   HeadSet   2023 May 9, 7:55pm  

Patrick says





Hey, even a cat converter thief works from home!

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