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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   162,582 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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1285   Patrick   2024 Jul 19, 2:00pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/united-friday-july-19-2024-c-and


So … if Biden isn’t getting out, then what’s the story? The story is they are trying to push Biden down the short stairs, and fast. But Biden is acting like an elderly relative who can no longer be trusted to drive safely but refuses to hand over the car keys. It’s a problem.

Thus behold the democrats’ sneaky campaign of lying leaks and ugly whispers from anonymous sources to corporate media’s eager ears. It is nothing short of a Stalinist party purge of all Bidenites. The headlines ramped up the poisonous vitriol, and it was nearly impossible to find a single supportive headline.

All the Dems’ favorite tools of character assassination came out of the rhetorical Swiss Army Knife yesterday, beginning with appeals to authority. The Washington Post deployed Democrats’ favorite former president, running the headline, "Obama tells allies Biden’s path to winning reelection has greatly diminished.” The New Yorker invoked experts to do its dirty work: “Doctors Are Increasingly Worried About Biden.” ...

But the Democrats face an intractable problem. Joe Biden continues to publicly and loudly insist he is not dropping out and he’s going to keep driving as much as he wants. After all, Joe won fifty state primaries fair and square. What about democracy?

Like relatives who hate conflict and wonder what’s the harm of letting them keep driving, since they only go to bingo and the store, many rank-and-file democrats who just voted for Biden, and have been repeatedly reassured by experts that he remains “sharp as a tack,” are now baffled by the sudden, treacherous plot to boil President Cabbage. They smell a corporate media rat.

I checked in on some comments and discovered lots of regular voter sentiments like this one:




Now, that’s real unity! We’ve been trying to warn them that the corporate media monster they created would one day be turned on them.
1287   Patrick   2024 Jul 19, 5:23pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-would-like-to-remind-you-that-he-nominated-the-black-man-as-the-secretary-of-defense-or-maybe-to-the-supreme-court-not-sure


Folks, this is Joe Biden doing his best during an interview with Black Entertainment Television:

And so, it's all about — it's all about treating people with dignity. And it's about making sure that we're coming — for example, look at the heat I'm getting because I named, a, uh, the, uh, secretary of defense, the black man — I named Ketanji Brown, I mean, because of the people I've named.
1288   Patrick   2024 Jul 19, 5:37pm  

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/slowly-then-all-at-once


As the sun sets on “Joe Biden’s” career, what’s left of his campaign runs an ad in which he promises “to finish the job.” Sounds kind of sinister now, doesn’t it, like something a crime boss might tell his caporegimes? And for sure the country is suffering from this three-year-plus reign-of-terror against common sense and common decency. The wreckage is everywhere, all over this land. “Defending our Democracy,” my ass.

The party big dawgs have paid their terminal visit to the old grifter bringing the sad news that it’s over. Of course, this excites several new headaches for them. Foremost: how can “JB” bow out of the election on account of mental infirmity but still remain president? Even if they call it something else, make some other excuse, the whole world knows now that the president is gone in the head. There are six months remaining to the end of his term and a lot of urgent issues requiring a president’s attention. ...

But then there’s always HRC. She’s been laying back alertly, waiting for an opening to swoop in on her leathery wings and cast a fresh spell over the batshit-crazy women who, in recent times, comprise the party’s base. At one point, not many years ago, the party was broke and had to be bailed-out by the Clinton Foundation. To what extent does that entity still own the DNC, and especially its cargo of super-delegates? I guess we’re going to find out.
1296   Patrick   2024 Jul 22, 6:36am  

https://x.com/0rf/status/1758118600676884898

Biden is trying his breast. Here's the teal


Hilarious!
1299   Patrick   2024 Jul 24, 8:39am  

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-bidens-mandates-were-his-downfall


How Biden's Mandates Were His Downfall ...

When I first saw Biden’s speech, I was shocked by the audacity of his lies (e.g., many of his justifications for the mandates, such as the vaccines “preventing” transmission, went against the known science at the time), the irrational contradictions between them (e.g., how can the vaccines “work” if you can’t be around the unvaccinated) and the absolute certainty he had in his positions alongside his gross contempt for those who disagreed with him.

Put differently, the Biden I saw was no different from one of the many difficult older men I know who listen to CNN or MSNBC all day, have absolute certainty in the beliefs they get from the mainstream media, angrily will insist abhorrent policies are justified on the basis of their beliefs and have a specific type of ego which under no circumstances will be willing to acknowledge its beliefs were incorrect.
Note: I suspect many of you have people like this in your life too.

This mentality in turn helps to explain some of Biden’s other notorious actions during his presidency such as:

•Accusing social media companies of “killing people” because they did not make a sufficiently aggressive effort to censor vaccine misinformation (which in turn his administration used to censor free speech and violate the First Amendment).

•(Erroneously) forecasting a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.

•Pressuring the FDA to rapidly approve questionable COVID vaccinations, to the point its chief (and very pro-vaccine) vaccine scientists did not feel what the White House was requesting was appropriate—which ultimately resulted in those scientists being forced out of the approval process so the vaccines could be approved. Given that Biden had specifically promised during this mandate speech that he would not pressure the FDA to approve the COVID vaccines (to assure us we could “trust” the science), these recent revelations are particularly important, and parallel how Biden repeatedly promised he could not mandate the vaccines, but nonetheless did.

In short, because of these false beliefs, Biden both had no issue with encouraging the country to demonize those who were unwilling to vaccinate (along with the politicians supporting them) or enacting draconian policies to persecute those wishing to avoid a potentially lethal injection. I had never seen any other president do something like this so as I watched this speech, and knowing the actual science on the vaccines, I (who had been a Democrat for most of my life) became convinced Biden would eventually go down as one of the worst presidents in US history and that I needed to do whatever I could to help get him out of office. ...

Most importantly, the rapid cognitive decline we saw with Biden was very similar to what many of us (e.g., my social circle or commenters here) have observed in cognitively impaired elders (e.g., our parents) who received the COVID vaccine. For example, as I documented here, many of my friends have relatives who suddenly developed “Alzheimer’s” after the vaccine and then passed. Likewise, my colleagues and I find that cognitive impairment (e.g., brain fog) is the most common COVID vaccine injury symptom. Because of this, in the previous article, I focused on explaining how the COVID vaccines cause cognitive impairment and the continually increasing evidence that this is happening on a large scale...

Another key issue with the COVID vaccines is that rather than preventing the infection, they actually increase ones likelihood of getting it—something I believe is due to both the immunological suppressing effects of the vaccine (e.g., so much spike protein is produced in the body, the immune system is forced to develop a tolerance to it) and the fact that it locks the immune system onto responding the vaccine strain of COVID-19, creating an evolutionary pressure that rapidly selects for circulating virus strains that dodge the vaccine and the vaccinated can’t mount a proper immune response to (due to them being locked onto the old strain).

Many of us in turn observed individuals who had received the vaccine were catching COVID-19 over and over again regardless of how many boosters they got (e.g., Igor Chudov compiled many posts from frustrated posters on Reddit who kept on being bed-ridden from COVID-19 infections regardless of how much they did to “protect” themselves.
1300   Patrick   2024 Jul 26, 9:33am  

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/saving-our-democracy


What “Joe Biden” actually accomplished in office was the near-total wrecking of the USA. He torpedoed the authority and legitimacy of just about every federal agency, turned the Department of Justice into a Gestapo, seeded the federal court benches with Woke lunatics, allowed an invasion of perhaps 20-million border-jumpers (including many thousands of professional terrorists), coerced injections of an ineffective and injurious vaccine into millions of citizens afraid of losing their livelihoods, promoted gross medical experiments on sexually troubled children, invited drag queens and mentally-ill degenerates to cavort in the White House, spent borrowed money at a rate that propelled the national debt past the event horizon into a black hole, made the seeking of incompetence the number one priority of the Pentagon, provoked a war in Ukraine that now teeters on the hazard of a nuclear exchange, and allowed the CIA to complete its takeover of the US government. “Joe Biden” will go down in history as the worst of all 46 US presidents.

And, of course, in the rush of cascading events the past several weeks came the attempted assassination of the Democratic Party’s nemesis, Mr. Trump, an operation festooned with loose threads, suspicious agency failures, and intimations of Deep State blob engineering. You’ll have to stand by on any of that resolving soon. But many Democrats expressed disappointment that Mr. Trump was not killed, since that would be saving our democracy.
1305   Ceffer   2024 Aug 14, 5:48pm  

Patrick says


What “Joe Biden” actually accomplished in office was the near-total wrecking of the USA.

That was his job as a Jesuit trained Irish mobster under the tutelage of Royal agency and the Globalistas. Of course, t'warn't him but his death mask, but same thing, that was the job description and the Shadow Government and the SES executed it to best of their abilities. Trump gave them their best shot, now it's his turn again.
1307   Patrick   2024 Sep 4, 7:09am  

https://modernity.news/2024/09/04/biden-sits-at-tiny-fake-white-house-desk/






Joe Biden hasn’t been the person running the country for his entire presidency. He just came back from a two week beach nap.

Nothing sums this up better than having Biden sit on a fake White House set at a tiny fake desk to deliver a speech of no significance whatsoever.

What the hell is this?

Can you imagine Putin putting up with this?

Thankfully someone got him to put in his big boy pants.

The press were all forced out of the room the second he finished reading the script and he answered zero questions.

They took him back to the home afterwards.

Why isn’t he in the actual White House?

What’s the point in this anymore?
1308   HeadSet   2024 Sep 4, 8:01am  

Patrick says

Nothing sums this up better than having Biden sit on a fake White House set at a tiny fake desk to deliver a speech of no significance whatsoever.

Yes, they are rubbing our nose in it.

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