Posted on 08/31/2021 7:42:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
resident Biden is not being swept along by the currents of history, he is turning every challenge he faces into crisis and disaster.
The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy.
And now Afghanistan, where the Taliban are now reportedly hanging people by the neck from U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopters, and the U.S. withdrawal has left behind hundreds of Americans and perhaps thousands of Green Card holders in what now amounts to the largest hostage crisis in American history.
The administration is stumbling from one disaster to the next, with no end in sight and public opinion plummeting on nearly every major issue. In each case, the disaster has been entirely of the Biden administration’s own making. Events are not overtaking Biden, his own rank incompetency is.
(Just about the only disaster facing Biden right now that’s not a result of his administration’s policies is the hurricane slamming into the Gulf Coast. But there’s a decent chance he might well botch that, too.)
The events now unfolding in Afghanistan, where the Taliban now control $83 billion worth of U.S. military equipment, are by far the most dramatic and disturbing display of incompetency and horrible policy from the Biden administration, which recent polling reflects. But the Afghanistan disaster follows a train of incompetence that left the station on day one of this presidency.
As soon as Biden came into office, he signed executive orders that guaranteed we would have a migrant crisis on our southwest border. By reversing a raft of Trump-era policies that had managed to control illegal immigration amid a worsening pandemic, Biden sent the message to would-be asylum seekers that if they could manage to get across the Rio Grande with at least one child in tow, they could stay—and if they sent their child alone, he or she would definitely stay.
The results were predictable: a 20-year record surge in illegal border crossings that continues to worsen by the month. Corporate media has largely stopped covering the border crisis, but July was the worst month for illegal immigration since March of 2000. We’re on track to arrest more than 1.6 million people at the southwest border this year, more than we ever have before.
This historic migrant surge wasn’t inevitable. It was a direct result of Biden’s policies, which played out in an entirely predictable manner.
The same goes for the administration’s COVID-19 response. Biden campaigned on having a plan to “shut down” the virus and end the pandemic, but so far there seems to be no plan at all — or even a coordinated and consistent message from the White House. Contradictory and ever-shifting policies and recommendations on everything from school closures to mask and vaccine mandates have sown confusion and mistrust among Americans desperate to get back to work and school.
Meanwhile, the pandemic seems to be getting worse, not better. Monday marked five consecutive days in which COVID-19 deaths exceeded the number of deaths on those dates a year ago under President Trump. Under Biden, the Centers for Disease Control has become lawless, attempting to impose an unconstitutional eviction moratorium on landlords, which the Supreme Court struck down last week, and announcing that it will be pushing for gun control in the name of public health.
Other pandemic policies from Biden’s team have made economic recovery from last year’s lockdowns well-nigh impossible. Federal unemployment benefits, which the Biden administration has extended to millions of Americans for months now, have exacerbated a worker shortage that’s hobbling the recovery.
And then there’s Afghanistan. The Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal will be the subject of many op-eds and think pieces and, eventually, history books. For now, it suffices to say that each passing day we learn something new about how Biden and the Pentagon botched the job.
Over the weekend, for example, we learned from a report in the Washington Post that on the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political wing, gave U.S. Gen. Kenneth Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, a choice: either American troops secure Kabul, or the Taliban would. McKenzie told Baradar that he only needed the airport. “On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S. officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city.”
Of course, as we now know, the Taliban couldn’t control the city, and last week 13 U.S. soldiers, along with hundreds of Afghans, were killed by a suicide bomber in a pair of coordinated attacks near the airport.
The corporate press, keenly aware that things are not going well for this White House, will soon back away from their critical tone on Afghanistan and resume their usual routine of running cover for Biden. In the coming days we’ll almost certainly see outlandish polls showing that, aside from Afghanistan, Biden is doing pretty well, actually, considering all the crises his young administration has had to face.
But don’t buy this line. Biden has not been overtaken by events, he is not a hapless victim of history or coincidence. Every problem his White House has encountered, it has made worse. Every crisis his administration has faced has been of its own making. And as bad as things have been thus far, they are going to get even worse.
It’s not Biden’s fault. He’s a tottering old sock puppet for the left. The people who VOTED FOR this jerk and any other DEMOCRAT is at fault here. Biden doesn’t know what he’s doing half the time, but most Democrats would vote for him again. Place the blame where it belongs.
Yep. the disater is far from total. We aren't even CLOSE to the bottom, even though the government has been steering us that direction for decades, with brief respite during Reagan and Trump presidencies.
The government is on a path to join a "new world order." Nothing can stop it. US standard of living has to drop.
Way better than mean tweets
I mostly am as well.
I’m also willing to do laborious work for a period of time.
I’m not materialistic, but I love travel/experiences.
Since almost everywhere I want to go is “closed”, I don’t have many expenses.
Not exactly. We all know that Biden is a puppet - he is a declining, corrupt old fool, put in place by a soft coup of the DNC and the deep state.
So that means there are people behind him - probably many people, with different wants, different politics, representing many different bureaucracies.
What that means is rule by huge committee, and lowest-common-denominator policies and planning.
Such is inherently unstable, and its a recipe for disaster.
It’s not his fault. It’s the fault of the globalists for whom the Obama clique (among others) are working. They wanted a puppet, and what better than a decrepit old man in the middle stages of dementia. Nothing he’s done has been his own idea.
No, Biden is only a symptom of the problem.
It’s the fault of the people who voted for Biden in the Primary and General elections.
It also the fault of the state election officials that stole the election for Biden.
And our fault for letting them steal the election.
That is why I don't listen to them, or watch them.
How many “failures” can happen before it becomes apparent that they are not failures?
Exactly. It’s not his fault. He’s pathetic and incompetent.
Someone else is making these decisions - and they don’t care about him, or the USA.
The fact is that those of us in our 70s and 80s have little control over what happens now...It’s younger folks who have the power, physical energy and ability to get things done...
It doesn’t look very good for the United States as we know it...
If we ever get treason convictions. I think the helicopter hanging wiuld be a popcorn worthy event, including willing participants in the fraud. Hate to give credit to the Talibanis for an idea though
It’s not all his own fault. He has a team of experienced professional screw-ups to help him. It’s a circle of incompetents.
Also the fault of his puppetmaster(s).
maybe so....but they did purge all improper pronouns from government paperwork..
“It doesn’t look very good for the United States as we know it...”
We let them take over the public schools. They indoctrinated the masses. There are daily examples of Americans, living lives others would kill for, expressing hate and contempt for America.
I’m saddened at what is going to happen to these people, but I’m powerless to change anything. I’m glad I’m rounding third and headed for home.
I’m right there with you...
“Campus Reform” has videos that show exactly where the young are today...Pitiful...
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