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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: Repealthe17thAmendment
He's made EVERYTHING worse! Everything he's touched has gone to S***!

Look on the bright side...

He only has 3-1/2 more YEARS to go.

41 posted on 08/16/2021 9:23:59 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything,


Unsubstantiated b.s. Nothing but a partisan screed. Unreadable after first part of first sentence.

This article is only useful for keeping up with what the enemy is saying.

42 posted on 08/16/2021 9:26:38 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (.A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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To: Magnatron
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything,...

Yes.
Energy independent
Southern Border Controlled
ISIS defeated in Iraq and Syria
Peace treaties in the Middle East
Confronting the threat from China
Inflation at thirty year Low
Record levels of employment of Blacks and Hispanics
MSM credibility at an all time low...... 0h sorry not that one, its just been surpassed.

43 posted on 08/16/2021 9:26:58 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: tatown
Joe Biden to Andrew Cuomo: “Hold my beer”

Understatement of the year.

44 posted on 08/16/2021 9:27:16 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Magnatron
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence

Fuck you, Chris!

45 posted on 08/16/2021 9:27:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Army Air Corps

I can’t remember who said it, but I remember someone commenting that Biden has been on the wrong side of every political issue since he first gained office.

As I recall he was also responsible for stopping aid to South Vietnam early in his career.


46 posted on 08/16/2021 9:27:59 AM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: RummyChick

> Biden trying to figure out a way to pin it on Harris. <

That would be most entertaining. And then maybe Harris might storm into the stage, swearing at Joe. I’d watch that even if it were on pay-per-view.


47 posted on 08/16/2021 9:28:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dfwgator

Sorry, couldn’t help it. But right now I’m so angry with anyone who was against the greatest President in our lifetime.


48 posted on 08/16/2021 9:28:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 4yearlurker

The families of any American military or civilians who die in this debacle are gonna make the Democrats wish they had stuck to their day jobs as ambulance chasing lawyers or gay hookers.


49 posted on 08/16/2021 9:28:30 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: Magnatron

50 posted on 08/16/2021 9:28:47 AM PDT by Bobalu (The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see his ass.)
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To: patriotspride

If he were a dog, he would have been euthanized by now.


51 posted on 08/16/2021 9:29:47 AM PDT by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying)
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To: Magnatron

Cillizza just had to add the first sentence preface.

Will CNN actually implode before Slow Joe ?

Stay tuned ( as Limpsey Graham likes to say ).


52 posted on 08/16/2021 9:30:35 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Magnatron

And in the on deck circle, Willie Brown’s mattress.

“You can’t pin this shit on me.” - K. Harris

5.56mm


53 posted on 08/16/2021 9:31:54 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: rdl6989
I stopped at the first sentence.

Me too.

54 posted on 08/16/2021 9:32:39 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Magnatron

Afghanistan wouldn’t fall to the Taliban he said. It was a lie. He knew it would. Knowing that why didn’t he provide safe exit for the embassy.

Incompetence.

They used him to get rid of the guy who was stopping their damn agendas, Trump.

Now they’ve got this pos in their and they have to handle him like a mustang who is not broken in, well not anything as glorious as a mustang but I’ve just woken up and trying to think of good facsimiles while having my morning coffee is not something I’m concerned with.

The damn Democrats. Why don’t their people see through their agendas?

Maybe if they put Harris in place then she will be a better puppet for Pelosi. Maybe that’s the plan. Who knows.

God help us.


55 posted on 08/16/2021 9:32:47 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Magnatron

These people might realize that Biden was put into the White House by the powers that be as a best bad idea fake president Trump replacement

It was never going to work in favor of the US

It does favor certain people

That might become more obvious to the public


56 posted on 08/16/2021 9:33:28 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Magnatron

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

Wow.

Chris is bound, gagged, whipped and liking it.


57 posted on 08/16/2021 9:33:49 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules)
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To: Magnatron

58 posted on 08/16/2021 9:34:18 AM PDT by Bobalu (The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see his ass.)
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To: Magnatron
After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything

Cilizza, a born Democrat butt-kisser, is able to fill the article with examples of Biden's incompetence, because they've become too obvious even for him to ignore. But he carefully manages to avoid detailing any example of Trump's "incompetence" and simply assumes his CNN readers will nod their heads in uncomprehending, ignorant agreement.
59 posted on 08/16/2021 9:34:40 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Army Air Corps

Joe Biden has been in a “Crisis of Competence” his entire political career. The only difference is that he is WORSE now than he was when he first entered political office.


Nailed it. Here is the scary part: Harris makes him look like a master statesman, and unless she meets with some fatal accident, she’s going to be our president very soon. Possibly by next weekend at the rate this is unfolding.

Be prepared.


60 posted on 08/16/2021 9:35:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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