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Opinion: The 10 worst things Biden did in 2021
washington post ^ | 12/30/2021 | marc Thiessen

Posted on 01/01/2022 5:40:08 AM PST by bitt

In my last column, I listed the 10 best things President Biden did in his first year in office. Here are the 10 worst (winnowing this list down to just 10 entries was extremely difficult):

10. He canceled Operation Legend amid a record crime wave in U.S. cities. At least 12 major cities broke annual homicide records in 2021. Yet Biden ended the Trump Justice Department’s Operation Legend, which deployed federal officers to aid local law enforcement and helped arrest more than 6,000 criminals. Now, with Chicago suffering the most violent year in a quarter-century, its mayor is requesting federal help to fight violent crime — help that Biden withdrew when he took office.

9. He weaponized the FBI to intimidate parents who show up at school board meetings. Parents are furious about pandemic closures and schools indoctrinating their kids with extremist ideologies. Biden treated them like domestic terrorists.

8. In the midst of a historic labor shortage, he pushed vaccine mandates. Forcing employers with more than 100 employees to fire unvaccinated workers — even if they have natural immunity from previous infection — or impose onerous weekly testing requirements would drive more Americans out of the labor force, at a time when businesses can’t find workers and there are more than 11 million unfilled jobs.

7. His war on fossil fuels helped drive domestic production down and gasoline prices through the roof. Then he begged the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — a foreign oil cartel — to produce more oil, which will result in the same emissions as domestically produced oil. It’s like the 1970s all over again.

6. He greenlighted Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany. Then Biden inappropriately pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russian energy dominance over his country. Democrats impeached

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2021; biden; bidenepicfail; bidenforeignpolicy
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1 posted on 01/01/2022 5:40:08 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/01/2022 5:40:45 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Paywalled, please summarize.


3 posted on 01/01/2022 5:43:50 AM PST by null and void (Unvaccinated=control group, vaccinated=controlLED group...)
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To: bitt
...{Biden} weaponized the FBI to intimidate parents who show up at school board meetings. Parents are furious about pandemic closures and schools indoctrinating their kids with extremist ideologies. Biden treated them like domestic terrorists.

This one was not just bad it was an attack on the people of the United States... a pattern Biden's Pentagon thug are picking on.

4 posted on 01/01/2022 5:44:52 AM PST by GOPJ (Biden and his commie thugs don’t want us vaccinated - - they want us hated...)
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To: bitt

1. Did not croak over in 2020
2. Repeat 9 times


5 posted on 01/01/2022 5:46:00 AM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: bitt

Stayed alive.


6 posted on 01/01/2022 5:46:16 AM PST by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins.)
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To: stockpirate
Stayed alive.

I was going to say, he woke up in the morning, so I guess that’s close enough. 😀🤗👍

7 posted on 01/01/2022 5:50:18 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: null and void

not paywalled here.

6. He greenlighted Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany. Then Biden inappropriately pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russian energy dominance over his country. Democrats impeached President Donald Trump for far less.

5. He showed weakness in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine. It’s no coincidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening Ukraine just months after Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and his capitulation on Nord Stream 2. Then, channeling his inner Neville Chamberlain, Biden offered to hold talks to discuss Russia’s concerns on NATO and the possibility of “accommodations.” Pushing Ukraine to “accommodate” Moscow under threat of invasion would reward Putin’s aggression — and invite more of it.

4. He unleashed the worst border crisis in U.S. history. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 1.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border, nearly four times the number the year before, the highest annual total on record — including 378,000 who were not from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala. Seizures of deadly fentanyl more than doubled in 2021, and the drug is closely connected to a surge in overdose deaths, which reached a historic high.

3. His $1.9 trillion in social spending disguised as “covid-19 relief” helped unleash inflation and extreme labor shortages. This was the worst fiscal policy mistake in decades, passed with Democratic votes alone. And despite all that “covid” spending, shortages of test kits and treatments persisted as the omicron variant arrived.

2. He failed to deliver on his promise to put his “whole soul” into uniting the country. Biden threatened to veto his own bipartisan infrastructure bill, then went to Capitol Hill and urged members of his own party to take it hostage as leverage to pass Build Back Better. He failed to pass any other major pieces of bipartisan legislation, allowing himself to be captured by his party’s radical left wing.

1. His withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most shameful foreign policy calamity in my lifetime. Biden left hundreds of U.S. citizens and as many as 62,000 of our Afghan allies behind enemy lines, and forced NATO allies to abandon their citizens and allies as well. He put the safety of U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in the hands of the Taliban and Haqqani network, a decision that led to the deaths of 13 Americans in a suicide attack. His “over the horizon” drone strike killed no terrorists but took the lives of 10 innocent people. And he repeatedly lied about the unfolding disaster — declaring that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan; that no Americans were having trouble getting to the airport; that no allies were questioning the United States’ credibility; that none of his military advisers had recommended leaving a residual force; and that his Afghan debacle was an “extraordinary success.”


8 posted on 01/01/2022 5:51:38 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: bitt
Amazon Compost? Ten Worst Things?

How about "Failed to accuse Trump of personally causing AOC's PTSD"

Or: "Failed to issue Hunter a blanket Presidential Pardon for any and all crimes he may have committed"

Or: "Failed to describe Willie Brown as Commie Harris' brave and selfless mentor".

9 posted on 01/01/2022 5:53:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: bitt

Once again, a masterpiece of misdirection.

“Biden” did nothing, good or bad, in 2021.


10 posted on 01/01/2022 5:53:11 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: null and void
5. . He showed weakness in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine. It’s no coincidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening Ukraine just months after Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan and his capitulation on Nord Stream 2. Then, channeling his inner Neville Chamberlain, Biden offered to hold talks to discuss Russia’s concerns on NATO and the possibility of “accommodations.” Pushing Ukraine to “accommodate” Moscow under threat of invasion would reward Putin’s aggression — and invite more of it.

4. He unleashed the worst border crisis in U.S. history. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 1.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border, nearly four times the number the year before, the highest annual total on record — including 378,000 who were not from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala. Seizures of deadly fentanyl more than doubled in 2021, and the drug is closely connected to a surge in overdose deaths, which reached a historic high.

3. His $1.9 trillion in social spending disguised as “covid-19 relief” helped unleash inflation and extreme labor shortages. This was the worst fiscal policy mistake in decades, passed with Democratic votes alone. And despite all that “covid” spending, shortages of test kits and treatments persisted as the omicron variant arrived.

2. He failed to deliver on his promise to put his “whole soul” into uniting the country. Biden threatened to veto his own bipartisan infrastructure bill, then went to Capitol Hill and urged members of his own party to take it hostage as leverage to pass Build Back Better. He failed to pass any other major pieces of bipartisan legislation, allowing himself to be captured by his party’s radical left wing.

1. His withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most shameful foreign policy calamity in my lifetime. Biden left hundreds of U.S. citizens and as many as 62,000 of our Afghan allies behind enemy lines, and forced NATO allies to abandon their citizens and allies as well. He put the safety of U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in the hands of the Taliban and Haqqani network, a decision that led to the deaths of 13 Americans in a suicide attack. His “over the horizon” drone strike killed no terrorists but took the lives of 10 innocent people. And he repeatedly lied about the unfolding disaster — declaring that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan; that no Americans were having trouble getting to the airport; that no allies were questioning the United States’ credibility; that none of his military advisers had recommended leaving a residual force; and that his Afghan debacle was an “extraordinary success.”

11 posted on 01/01/2022 5:53:26 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Diogenesis

Thanks!


12 posted on 01/01/2022 5:54:49 AM PST by null and void (Unvaccinated=control group, vaccinated=controlLED group...)
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To: palmer

And thanks!


13 posted on 01/01/2022 5:55:14 AM PST by null and void (Unvaccinated=control group, vaccinated=controlLED group...)
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To: bitt

I have not read the 10 best list for FJB but I cannot think of one good thing this pos did. NOTHING!!!


14 posted on 01/01/2022 5:57:44 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: bitt

Is this really from the Washington Compost?


15 posted on 01/01/2022 5:59:58 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( "The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell.)
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To: bitt

Failed to deliver by failing to publicize FDA EUA approved monoclonal antibody treatments to thousands of sick Americans because he hated those people and was grimly pleased to see them die.


16 posted on 01/01/2022 6:01:08 AM PST by sopo
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To: bitt

Failed to deliver by failing to publicize FDA EUA approved monoclonal antibody treatments to thousands of sick Americans because he hated those people and was grimly pleased to see them die.


17 posted on 01/01/2022 6:01:08 AM PST by sopo
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To: bitt
Has he done anything good? Can't think of a single thing.

He could have been the second best best president in history by just leaving all the Trump policies intact.

18 posted on 01/01/2022 6:15:46 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s an op ed from a guy with the American enterprise institute with is a right leaning think tank


19 posted on 01/01/2022 6:28:04 AM PST by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” - The Taliban)
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To: bitt

Here are his ten successes during 2021:
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20 posted on 01/01/2022 6:31:03 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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