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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: BipolarBob

+1


61 posted on 08/16/2021 9:36:12 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Magnatron

I doubt he has another full week.


62 posted on 08/16/2021 9:36:36 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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To: Liz

63 posted on 08/16/2021 9:36:44 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump was the best president in my life time of 81 years and counting..)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“My fellow Americans. Today I speak to you on the ongoing crisis in...in...you know, the thing...Afghanistan. They gave me a map and a globe at Camp David this weekend and I found out that Afghanistan is right next to Pakistan! And also Turkmenistan. Lots of Stans in that part of the world, haha. But anyway, I got on the phone and called that Taliban leader and told him if you burn down our embassy, you’re not getting the billion dollars. Forget it! And we’re going to have an orderly evacuation, not like that Saigon thing under a previous GOP administration. If a couple of desperate people want to hang on to our military jets, that’s their problem. Too bad. Come on, man! People need to get in line and wait their turn!

So here’s the deal. We’re ready to work with the Taliban. The Republicans aren’t, they’re beholden to Trump. We’re taking the high ground here! So on that note, enjoy the rest of your August vacations before the kids have to go back to school all masked up. Get vaccinated, and if necessary get additional boosters. We’re all in this together!”


64 posted on 08/16/2021 9:38:03 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: RummyChick

“Biden trying to figure out a way to pin it on Harris.”

A rumor earlier said the tried to push Harris to address the country and she was screaming they can’t put that shite on her.

Is it true? No idea but it sounds like Mistress Kamala.


65 posted on 08/16/2021 9:39:42 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! đź‘ą)
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To: Deo volente

There will be a Live Thread here when Pedo Joe does address the nation.

I’m going to propose a drinking game. Every time Xoe Biden blames Trump - take a drink.

And see if we all don’t get blotto in 5 minutes.


66 posted on 08/16/2021 9:42:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: RummyChick

Blame the Black Chick


67 posted on 08/16/2021 9:43:28 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Magnatron
Biden’s promise to the American people was that his years in public life had best prepared him to avoid the chaos that defined the Trump era. But at the moment, chaos is winning over competence. And that is a major problem for Biden and his administration.

Is CNN talking about the 'chaos' caused by riots in blue state cities run by democrat mayors who wanted the chaos to be blamed on Trump? CNN is getting a small clue about Biden - but it's overshadowed by their usual knee jerk blindness... Really CNN, the BLM,Antifa riots were staged and funded by the left.

68 posted on 08/16/2021 9:45:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: RayChuang88

Pelosi to Biden hold my gin and designer ice cream cone


69 posted on 08/16/2021 9:46:40 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: romanesq

If they want Harris to address the nation then Biden is in really bad shape

OR

Trying to pin fallout on her

Or both


70 posted on 08/16/2021 9:50:06 AM PDT by RummyChick (R.I.P. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974843/posts?q=1&;page=1)
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To: Magnatron

After 4 years of peace breaking out in the middle east the complex need their fix.


71 posted on 08/16/2021 9:54:38 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bidet may want to spread the blame around a little—if he goes “the b*&^ set me up” that is worth two drinks!


72 posted on 08/16/2021 9:58:28 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: butlerweave
It’s more like an attack on Trump again

Orange Man very bad. Demented old geezer Biden kind of bad too.

73 posted on 08/16/2021 9:59:09 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The Swiss beach volleyball team was inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team. )
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To: Responsibility2nd
unless it's a resignation speech, it's still all


74 posted on 08/16/2021 10:07:57 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Magnatron

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


Would this be the incompetence that brought us record low unemployment, particularly among black Americans and women, vaccines against Wuhan, curbing North Korea, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, the Abraham Accords, and putting America First—that ‘incompetence’?

And to compare that to Biden’s ‘steady hand on the tiller’ is verging on the absurd.


75 posted on 08/16/2021 10:09:46 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Vision

The opening sentence was 100% snark and devoid of factual basis.


76 posted on 08/16/2021 10:13:24 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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*


77 posted on 08/16/2021 10:20:02 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Biden thinks with his hair plugs.


78 posted on 08/16/2021 10:21:03 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Magnatron

Biden’s Afghanistan


79 posted on 08/16/2021 10:23:33 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Magnatron

WRONG!

A crisis goes away.

Joe’s incompetence is permanent.


80 posted on 08/16/2021 10:28:46 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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