Posted on 10/01/2021 4:57:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
There's always press coverage about Republican mismanagement or Republicans getting into trouble governing as ideologues, but you don't hear much about the reverse. There's a lot to critique about Republicans, but for mismanagement and for blindly putting ideology above all else, resident Joe Biden may be the all-time champ.
Biden campaigned as a pragmatist who could bring stability and national unification. His inaugural address was all about these themes. America needs some level of national healing more than anything else. Americans can't go on at each other's throats. The country is falling apart.
Biden deserved praise for starting his presidency with a message of healing. I did an entire column to compliment him for it.
Since taking office, however, Biden has not made any effort to back up his pledge. He has governed not just as a wild-eyed ideologue but as an incompetent one, too. America is paying the price. If any Republican president tried to implement such an extremist agenda, the press would hammer it daily. The press likes Biden's left-wing policies, so they downplay the radical nature of what we are going through and cover the incompetence with a light touch, if at all.
On Afghanistan, pretty much all of America wanted out. What most Americans wanted, though, was a safe exit that considered America's long-term security needs. Biden's agenda was driven by the desire to have everything finished by the 20-year anniversary of 9/11. It's hard to imagine that symbolism drove the entire agenda for such an important matter, but looking at the facts, that's all you can conclude. Biden risked countless American lives and harmed long-term security, essentially for a photo op.
There's always press coverage about Republican mismanagement or Republicans getting into trouble governing as ideologues, but you don't hear much about the reverse. There's a lot to critique about Republicans, but for mismanagement and for blindly putting ideology above all else, resident Joe Biden may be the all-time champ.
Biden campaigned as a pragmatist who could bring stability and national unification. His inaugural address was all about these themes. America needs some level of national healing more than anything else. Americans can't go on at each other's throats. The country is falling apart.
Biden deserved praise for starting his presidency with a message of healing. I did an entire column to compliment him for it.
Since taking office, however, Biden has not made any effort to back up his pledge. He has governed not just as a wild-eyed ideologue but as an incompetent one, too. America is paying the price. If any Republican president tried to implement such an extremist agenda, the press would hammer it daily. The press likes Biden's left-wing policies, so they downplay the radical nature of what we are going through and cover the incompetence with a light touch, if at all.
On Afghanistan, pretty much all of America wanted out. What most Americans wanted, though, was a safe exit that considered America's long-term security needs. Biden's agenda was driven by the desire to have everything finished by the 20-year anniversary of 9/11. It's hard to imagine that symbolism drove the entire agenda for such an important matter, but looking at the facts, that's all you can conclude. Biden risked countless American lives and harmed long-term security, essentially for a photo op.
Trump responded to this crisis with a few policies that worked. Most prominent is the "Remain in Mexico" program, launched in January 2019, which required that asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for the entire duration of their immigration court proceedings. This policy eliminated the possibility of "catch and release," where migrants are able to escape into the interior of our country after claiming asylum. After implementing "Remain in Mexico" and a few other innovative policies, border enforcement operations dropped over 70% from their peak of 144,000 in May 2019. It wasn't perfect, but some form of order was restored at our southern border.
Biden came in and rescinded all these Trump policies. He did so on purely ideological grounds. That's his right as president, but he did it with no plan in place of his own. The results have been a complete mess. After dropping to a low of 17,000 monthly encounters under Trump, Border Patrol is back up to a record 200,000-plus border encounters per month under Biden.
To be clear, the U.S. government has no idea how many people are successfully crossing the border. That number has to be in the millions. The government only knows for sure how many people their agents deal with per month.
At the levels today, it's fair to say that the United States effectively has an open southern border. This means it's open season for gangs, terrorists and drug dealers to cross almost at will. The deadly fentanyl pouring into America is just one side effect of this insanity. Another side effect is average Americans are now more anti-immigrant than ever before. There are thousands of immigrants with amazing skills who want to come here. They can't. The legal immigration system is broken. Skilled immigrants can only come if indentured to an American company, and even then, our system is so difficult that many choose Canada or other places who vie for their skills. There is no appetite in America to fix this broken system because the insane border policies have driven many Americans to just want to say no to all of it.
It's not clear if Biden is too out of it to manage America effectively or if his staff is too ideological to make sound decisions or both. What is clear is America is suffering through amazing levels of self-inflicted crises on Joe Biden's watch.
Yes. From 2008-2016.
He’s not incompetent. He’s executing the plan precisely.
Incompetent def:
Lacking qualities necessary for effective conduct or action.
Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application.
Not functioning properly in the body.
Joe’s job is to transform/dismantle the United States. At that he is highly competent.
No mention of dementia?
No mention of two surgeries to remove parts of his brain?
Joe is just the patsy. They know exactly what they're doing: destroying the United States of America. And they're getting away with it.
So far.
No. Any more questions?
On the other hand there are senior citizen who are 100 years old, or older that are sharp as can be.
He’s both. He’s a lifelong teat sucking Washington bureaucrat because he’s too incompetent to be anything else. He’s a lifelong plagiarist and serial liar because that’s as good as it gets for him. He’s a pedophile, as well. It’s as if you went to the kiddie pool and chose the dirty old man staring at the prepubescent girls to be the president of the United States
I think it’s intentional. The plan is to bring down the U.S. economically, militarily, culturally, and spiritually. Then we will be controllable, our wealth will have been redistributed, and the people at the top will have made a fortune before the fall.
There’s not even a close second.
There may be a more incompetent person in the US government.
That might be debatable.
There can not possibly be a person in the US government that is more despicable.
That us unquestionable.
We’re the 100 year olds heavy beer drinkers ? Asking for a friend.
He is demented and incompetent, yes, but moreover venal.
It’s not incompetence, it’s intentional. Most Republicans are too naive to realize this.
Yes, precisely. People are stuck on the words idiot, incompetence, moron, etc. He was put in to finish off America. That’s what they are doing using the Cloward-Piven strategy. The commies are in charge.
Between immigration, Afghanistan, the Keystone pipeline, the Russian pipeline, Chinese appeasement, runaway spending, Covid dictatorship, weaponization of the already biased FBI and DOJ, appointment of marxists to senior administration positions, embarrassing incoherence in very public appearance …
No he doesn't, he was just doing what Dems do: LYING IN ORDER TO FOOL THE STUPID!! (like the guy who wrote this article!)
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