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Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence
CNN Fake News ^ | 16 August 2021 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 08/16/2021 9:09:28 AM PDT by Magnatron

After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller -- someone who had been there and done that. Someone who didn't need training to do the job. Someone who was exactly the opposite of the guy currently in office.

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Seven months into his first term, however, Biden is faced with nothing short of a crisis of that competence, beset on a number of fronts with developments that it appears all of his experience and know-how didn't prevent.

The glaring example is, of course, the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in the wake of Biden's decision to pull American troops out of the country.

In announcing the end of the American military commitment in Afghanistan just over a month ago, Biden had proclaimed that "there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States in Afghanistan." Except that over the weekend, images were beamed back to the United States of helicopters airlifting people from the parking lot of the US Embassy in Kabul. And on Monday morning came even more devastating images: Afghans clinging to an American plane as it took off from the country.

The overwhelming message? The situation was totally and completely out of control -- and neither Biden nor his top foreign policy advisers could stop it. While the crisis in Afghanistan is front and center in this reexamining of Biden's competence argument, it's far from the only data point in that conversation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; incompetence; incontinence
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Because it likley wouldn’t pass !
Not passing it would be more politcally damaging then not doing it. After 2022 it maybe be a different story.


21 posted on 08/16/2021 9:17:25 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

So far, Chairman Zho has made Jimmy Carter look like a solid leader.


22 posted on 08/16/2021 9:18:05 AM PDT by Howie66 (TRUMP WON!)
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To: Magnatron

I don’t think Cillizza’s characterization of Trump as incompetent in everything is going to age very well. It was Biden’s team, and they alone, who decided to renege on the Trump agreement. That agreement was certainly more competent than anything Biden offered and far more competent than what has actually happened.


23 posted on 08/16/2021 9:18:18 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: kjam22

Heard on the radio that Kammie was put in charge of the withdrawal on April 25,2021.(Can anyone verify?)
They’re throwing her under the bus, I see.


24 posted on 08/16/2021 9:19:13 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Magnatron

In fact, I’ve been saying on Twitter that Biden may not last till the end of this week. When the Establishment Media wants him out....


25 posted on 08/16/2021 9:19:26 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Col Frank Slade

John McCain used to say if you want to clear a room bring Joe


26 posted on 08/16/2021 9:19:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Magnatron

They managed to attack Donald Trump in the first paragraph so the censors allowed the rest of the article...


27 posted on 08/16/2021 9:20:16 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: rdl6989
I stopped at the first sentence.

It really set the stage, didn't it? I read a couple more, while seething. They just won't quit.

28 posted on 08/16/2021 9:20:18 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Magnatron

Oh man! When CNN gets frosty you are toast.


29 posted on 08/16/2021 9:20:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Magnatron

30 posted on 08/16/2021 9:21:21 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Magnatron

“After four years of Donald Trump’s incompetence in, well, everything”

CNN no longer wants to be considered a news organization?


31 posted on 08/16/2021 9:21:31 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Jimmah Carter is smiling; he’s no longer “the worst”.


32 posted on 08/16/2021 9:22:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: rdl6989

So did I. Nothing is more incompetent doing a job than CNN.


33 posted on 08/16/2021 9:22:30 AM PDT by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
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To: Magnatron

This “facing a crisis of competence” bologna has been going on since the 1950’s.


34 posted on 08/16/2021 9:22:34 AM PDT by albie
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To: Magnatron
I was saying to the Mrs. this morning that Plugs Biden may not recover from this colossal F-up. Also if any American troops die or are held hostage. How can anyone keep on covering for this crispy old pedophile?! I know some will though.
35 posted on 08/16/2021 9:22:46 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
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To: RayChuang88

Joe Biden to Andrew Cuomo: “Hold my beer”


36 posted on 08/16/2021 9:22:56 AM PDT by tatown
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Chris Cillizza lied about Trump and Russia for four years. He’s not a journalist.


37 posted on 08/16/2021 9:23:13 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: butlerweave

> It’s more like an attack on Trump again <

Yeah, they couldn’t resist writing that first sentence. Trump has NOTHING to do with whether or not Biden is competent. But they just couldn’t resist taking a swipe at the Donald. It’s in their DNA.


38 posted on 08/16/2021 9:23:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Liz
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39 posted on 08/16/2021 9:23:41 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

because they are on his side.


40 posted on 08/16/2021 9:23:56 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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