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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   163,665 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".



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58252174?source=patrick.net

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711   richwicks   2023 Mar 28, 5:14pm  

Patrick says






Based on the belt configuration, he would have to be driving the crank clockwise.
712   HeadSet   2023 Mar 28, 7:45pm  

richwicks says


Based on the belt configuration, he would have to be driving the crank clockwise.

If the toe of the boot is the point of impact, that would be counter-clockwise. The crossover of the drive belt makes the rear wheel turn the opposite of the front wheel.
714   Patrick   2023 Mar 29, 2:12pm  

https://bm.ge/en/article/saudi-arabia-takes-step-to-join-china-led-security-bloc/130466


29 Mar 2023
SAUDI ARABIA TAKES STEP TO JOIN CHINA-LED SECURITY BLOC




Saudi Arabia’s cabinet approved a decision to join a China-led security bloc, strengthening Riyadh’s eastern ties in a further step away from U.S. interests.

The state-owned Saudi Press Agency said that, in a session presided by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi cabinet on Tuesday approved a memorandum awarding Riyadh the status of dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — a political, security and trade alliance that lists China, Russia, India, Pakistan and four other central Asian nations as full members.


I don't like Saudi Arabia, but this is still very bad news for the US. There seems to be no limit to fuck-up Biden's ability to harm the US.
715   richwicks   2023 Mar 29, 4:11pm  

Patrick says

I don't like Saudi Arabia, but this is still very bad news for the US. There seems to be no limit to fuck-up Biden's ability to harm the US.


Pfft, Biden isn't doing this. The guy is practically brain dead.

The people doing this are the same people that puppeteered George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He's just the face on these people.
716   Patrick   2023 Mar 30, 10:22pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-laughs-and-cracks-a-joke-when-asked-if-he-thinks-christians-were-targeted-in-nashville-shooting


Biden cracks a joke and laughs when asked if he thinks Christians were targeted in Nashville school shooting

Under what circumstances could that be considered even remotely appropriate? Three little kids and three adults were slaughtered in a Christian school by a deranged trans person, and when asked if he thinks Christians were targeted, he jokes and laughs?

Obviously Christians were targeted. Christian children were targeted. Not only will Joe not say it, he's making light of it!

Wholly inappropriate behavior from the president.
718   Patrick   2023 Apr 2, 10:47am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-disappointed-to-learn-biden-presidency-still-not-an-april-fools-prank


U.S. - Americans were deeply disappointed upon learning today that the Biden presidency was not, in fact, an elaborate April Fool's joke.

"I was still holding out hope this was all a sick, twisted prank," said South Carolina man Denny Kingsley. "What a bummer."

Though a seemingly improbable hoax, Biden's unparalleled level of absurdity and incompetence began to make millions of Americans suspicious. "It just feels like it has to be a joke," said Ohio native Richard Adamson. "I mean, what else do you do with a president coming out to talk about a mass shooting, and saying he's just there for the ice cream? He can't form sentences, gets lost at his own house, and waves at dead people. How is this real??"

As another April first came and went, Americans resigned themselves to the reality of Joe Biden actually being president. "We scoured the nation for the man most fit to lead America - the most powerful country on earth - and we came up with Joe Biden," said Mr. Kingsley. "It's so hard to wrap my mind around that. Oh, well. Maybe next year we'll find out the truth."

At publishing time, Americans were dealt another blow as Netflix acquiring the rights to Narnia was also discovered to be a true story.
721   Patrick   2023 Apr 4, 6:32am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/10-silver-linings-of-bidens-presidency


Here are 10 upsides we see in Biden's Presidency:

The straight male patriarchy continues another 4 years: An over 200-year streak if you don't count James Buchanan!
It's pretty funny watching him fall every time he tries to use stairs: Slapstick comedy at its best!
People chant your name, providing a warm feeling of encouragement and affirmation: (Only applies to people named Brandon)
He's not Hillary: Thank God for small mercies.
A finished border wall would have marred the lovely view across the Rio Grande: We must preserve our landmarks.
No large crowds when the President comes to town: Who wants all that pesky traffic?
You can rest assured that the current president will never be indicted for his crimes: Peace of mind!
He's not Kamala: (shudder)
No more distressing media coverage of immigrant kids in cages: They're still in there, but at least we don't have to think about it all the time.
The confidence boost you feel knowing that no matter how badly you mess up you're still more competent than the President of the United States: Hey, you're not doin' too bad, kid!
723   Patrick   2023 Apr 7, 1:36pm  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-heros-journey/


More proof — as if you needed more — that we live in a mentally ill society is the apparently broad acceptance of the idea that “Joe Biden” will run for president again. It’s so obviously preposterous that you have to wonder whether mRNA “vaccines” really do (as rumored) switch off activity in the frontal lobes. Did you happen to see this degenerate catspaw step up to the White House microphone to deliver scripted remarks on the Nashville school shooting only to drift into several minutes of unscripted badinage about how he came downstairs looking for chocolate chip ice cream? There’s your current Leader of the Free World.

We need not belabor the trail of destruction “Joe Biden’s” regime has cut through our country in just over two years. But you must sense nervously that we’re about to reap what this cabal has sown. America is falling apart. “JB” has allowed a rogue bureaucracy to make us a viciously un-free country. Our sleazy Ukraine project is wrecking Western Civ. The rest of the world has noticed and is fast dissociating from us, especially from using our dollar for trade and investment.

“JB’s” Party of Chaos is engineering an economic smash-up worse than the Great Depression. They’ve torpedoed the rule of law. The Woke Marxist social nuttery they’ve unleashed has disordered millions of young minds. They work overtime to destroy language so that we don’t know what we’re talking about. Their race and gender hustles have transformed us a clown nation. The worst of us is valorized and the best cancelled. They’ve perverted the election process. And it’s increasingly clear that they’ve disabled and killed at least a million people with their medical tyranny.
730   Patrick   2023 Apr 12, 9:20am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/historic-intel-leak-traced-back-to-biden-hitting-reply-all-on-email




U.S. — An unprecedented leak of top-secret U.S. intelligence on the war in Ukraine, military assets, and vital diversity training materials has been traced to its shocking source: an email chain in which President Biden clicked "reply all."

"This email chain included CCP officials, Russian oligarchs, North Korean party members, and other world leaders," said a spokesperson from the Pentagon. "They normally use it to share funny memes with each other, but at some point, Biden had found thousands of classified files on his son's laptop and accidentally attached them in a reply to the entire email chain. It could've happened to anyone."

Sources say that after the President realized what he had done, he desperately sent another email begging everyone to not read the contents, but it was too late.

Biden has assured the country that the leak was not that damaging as his son Hunter had already sold most of the documents to the CCP years ago.
733   Patrick   2023 Apr 13, 11:50pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/war-gainz-wednesday-april-12-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=114313455&isFreemail=true


While it is telling that Russia is selling record amounts of oil to Europe and Africa, defying Joe Biden’s worldwide sanctions threats, it is even more interesting that Russia is accomplishing this miraculous feat by laundering its oil through its brand-new ally Saudi Arabia, which right up until Joe Biden fist-bumped the Saudi Prince used to be OUR ALLY. ...

Maybe the Saudis are mad at Biden and think their best bet is hanging with the Chinese and the Russians. But maybe they’re also sick of hearing about Tony Blinken’s perverted atypical sexual preferences that are abhorrent to Muslims and deserve the death penalty under Saudi law:




Needless to say, Saudi Arabia is a massive oil EXPORTER. They don’t need to buy oil. They’re only buying Russian oil to help Russia, knowing full well that the budding new relationship will make the deep state jealous and angry.

According to the World Bank, China — who was in tenth place in 1992, will surpass the US as the world’s largest economy next year. ...

Israeli officials have also expressed concern that US military assets that have historically been stationed in Israel — ostensibly for its defense — have been sent to Ukraine or otherwise withdrawn to help the Proxy War, leaving Israel exposed. Furthermore, new American weapons and ordinance may be hard to get, what with US military inventories depleted by Zelensky, and with new production already earmarked for the Eastern European war theater.

For some reason, the Israelis fret that Joe Biden would not exactly spring into action if a coordinated assault against the Jewish nation begins. ...

Meanwhile, not that you’d have noticed from watching our inept corporate media, China has completely surrounded Taiwan with sea-going military assets in what the communist superpower called another “drill.” ...

Specifically, Macron told reporters "Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan.” He also said that Europe should reduce its dependency on the dollar, and should aspire to becoming an independent superpower, presumably instead of being a bootlicking American vassal state. ...

The gist is that the leaked Minecraft Papers included some pretty bleak assessments of Ukraine’s much ballyhooed Spring Offensive, which the Biden Administration and its compliant corporate media have been trumpeting as the unstoppable military initiative that will give Putin a spanking he won’t soon forget, for real this time, just you wait. ...


It is hard to image a worse fuck-up than corrupt, senile, pedo Joe.
734   Patrick   2023 Apr 15, 11:19am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trans-vampires-saturday-april-15?publication_id=463409&post_id=114987593&isFreemail=true


Asian ally South Korea wasn’t too happy to find out from the Minecraft Papers that the U.S. has been spying on them. The New York Times ran a story earlier this week headlined, “Leaked Documents and Accusations of U.S. Spying Spark Outrage in Seoul.”

“If it is true that they have spied on us, it is a very disappointing act that undermines the South Korea-U.S. alliance, which is based on mutual trust,” Lee Jae-myung, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, told foreign media reporters on Tuesday. If true, he added, Washington should apologize to the South Korean people.

Don’t hold your breath.
735   WookieMan   2023 Apr 15, 11:54am  

Patrick says

Biden is not just a pedophile, but an incestuous pedophile.

Likely is, so not defending him. I've hugged my aunt with one arm and accidentally got the fake tits. Awkward to say the least. Unintentional. I think that was my only accidental slip up.

I'm a crazy person playing volleyball so I will run into females and hit their chest in a coed league. My motto is don't let the fucking ball hit the ground or you're not trying. I will dive or run for anything to not lose a point even if it injures me or others. Wife is the same way. Probably why we connect. Age is catching up though.

We'll see how this year goes. We're the "Spiked Drinks." Designing a shirt with Cosby on it. lol... Might have doxxed myself there. No one look it up. I trust you guys, plus that's a common search term so I'm probably fine.
746   Patrick   2023 Apr 22, 3:43pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/brics-de-dollarization-push-gathers-momentum/


The push for de-dollarization led by the BRICS group is continuing to gather momentum as Indonesia moves to shift away from the U.S. dollar for trade and financial transactions.

The Indonesian central bank announced that it has updated its policy to shift away from the U.S. dollar and is following the lead of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) economic bloc.


The Deep State has really fucked itself via their massive election fraud in 2020.

Karma, I suppose, but this will hurt a lot of innocent Americans as well.

If Trump's obvious win had not been negated by FBI/CIA/Facebook/Google treason, the dollar would not be having these problems now.
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.

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