jimnyc
10-01-2021, 11:20 AM
Many saw this coming throughout his horror story of a campaign. He was already shuffling and bumbling around, having trouble talking and at times not making sense. He avoided the media like they all had the plague. Stayed in his basement for the majority of his campaign.
Now he's president and shuffling and mumbling even more, and worse. Losing lines and entire subjects while speaking. Still avoids the media, and most of the time reads and refuses to answer questions. Screwed up our border worse than ever before, overnight and almost instant. Tossed out EO's and even those that were successful. The border has never been worse. People coming through and zero tests for covid - and yet treat Americans like prisoners over the vaccine and testing. Then spends our money that will put us in debt for the next 500 years or so.
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Between Afghanistan and Immigration, Have We Ever Had a Less Competent President?
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, President 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.
In the wake of the catastrophe, and after innocent Americans lost their lives, Biden said he was following his military leadership's advice. This week, his military leaders testified to Congress. For very good reasons, they aren't allowed to say it directly, but the clear message of the testimony is that the president is lying about what advice he received. Military leaders wanted to leave more troops behind to secure a safe exit. Military leaders would have secured the Bagram Air Base we fought so hard to build up and defend. Of course they would have. Abandoning Bagram and having no one at all to keep track of the terrorists on the ground is moronic. But that's just what the president ordered.
The second completely self-generated Biden crisis is immigration. As with many other issues, it's now apparent that more than anything else, Biden's goal was to undo what former President Donald Trump had done on immigration. The dominant far-left activist wing of his party had campaigned on open borders. This is not a concept that sane people find comforting. Countries need borders. Biden claims to understand this, but his actions to date have destroyed the border security measures in place when he took office.
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/01/between_afghanistan_and_immigration_have_we_ever_h ad_a_less_competent_president_146498.html
Now he's president and shuffling and mumbling even more, and worse. Losing lines and entire subjects while speaking. Still avoids the media, and most of the time reads and refuses to answer questions. Screwed up our border worse than ever before, overnight and almost instant. Tossed out EO's and even those that were successful. The border has never been worse. People coming through and zero tests for covid - and yet treat Americans like prisoners over the vaccine and testing. Then spends our money that will put us in debt for the next 500 years or so.
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Between Afghanistan and Immigration, Have We Ever Had a Less Competent President?
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, President 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.
In the wake of the catastrophe, and after innocent Americans lost their lives, Biden said he was following his military leadership's advice. This week, his military leaders testified to Congress. For very good reasons, they aren't allowed to say it directly, but the clear message of the testimony is that the president is lying about what advice he received. Military leaders wanted to leave more troops behind to secure a safe exit. Military leaders would have secured the Bagram Air Base we fought so hard to build up and defend. Of course they would have. Abandoning Bagram and having no one at all to keep track of the terrorists on the ground is moronic. But that's just what the president ordered.
The second completely self-generated Biden crisis is immigration. As with many other issues, it's now apparent that more than anything else, Biden's goal was to undo what former President Donald Trump had done on immigration. The dominant far-left activist wing of his party had campaigned on open borders. This is not a concept that sane people find comforting. Countries need borders. Biden claims to understand this, but his actions to date have destroyed the border security measures in place when he took office.
Rest - https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/01/between_afghanistan_and_immigration_have_we_ever_h ad_a_less_competent_president_146498.html