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.
Not it’s not his own fault. He is the first (that we know of) unelected president of the United States. He was forced into that position by both parties in order to get his predecessor out. He didn’t campaign. He had no desire to win. Or govern. He is not even present. But here he is relaying commands from whoever is commanding him. How is that his fault ? He barely even exists.
“No it’s not his fault. It’s the idiots who voted for him. “
A lot of truth in that. I also with Trump had been less abrasive.
“It’s a circle of incompetents.”
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I wish that were so. This is the deep state agenda playing out. They know what they are doing, and it’s not good for us.
Nope , this is President Nancy’s disaster
Utter total complete incompetence. All of them.
Joe will come out all upbeat, we’re finally freed from the military incompetency of Bush and Trump that got us into this mess, but it’s all in the past now, and here’s good news about vaccination, plus Joe’s intense monitoring of Hurricane Ida made it a lot less damaging than when Bush botched Katrina.
Not Biden’s fault!
It is the well-deserved fault of the american sheeple...
They got what they deserved...
Agree on the disaster, but it’s not all his fault.
Blame the corrupt swamp, which includes republicans unfortunately, the Obama retreads, the media, the universities, and last, but most definitely,
the idiots that voted for this democrat, all 60 million of them.
(The other 20 million don’t exist.)
Time will tell. This episode is just too huge to be simple stupidity. Leaving billions in military equipment behind?
And SHOUTING is only going to make it worse.
We can hear you, Joe. It’s just that we hate what you’re saying.
No it has all the hallmarks of stupidity. Just start with the proposition that anything that Trump would have done they will not do and they will do anything else instead, so they could get full credit for their genius. Well it wasn’t genius but they do get full credit.
Of course they would say that. I’m mot suprised either.
don’t forget the dead people that voted for him. Especially the one that died over 151 years ago.
Trump said it best at his last rally in Alabama, “everything that goes woke turns to SH%$#÷T!”
Anyone , especially talk show hosts, that say that are morons and delusional.
Clay Travis says “data shows suburban women “ didn’t like his tweets and bragging. REALLY?
What data? Composed by whom? How? How many in the fake poll?
It’s all about covering up the election steal. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton were HORRIBLE choices to replace Rush. Katherine should be ashamed.
Clay lives in my city. He’s a media whore. I’ll eventually run into him somewhere and I’m going to ask him to produce his “data”.
Besides, aren’t these the soccer moms from the 90s?
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