Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. PATRICIA McCARTHY
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Who Shall Rescue Us from Joe Biden?
With placeholder president-in-name-only Joe Biden’s horrifying, juvenescent, and callow surrender of Afghanistan, the Dems’ and Never-Trumpers’ grand succession plan après Donald Trump has now utterly collapsed.
President Joe Biden is officially a disgrace to the office, the nation, and its citizens. Ruined by his native low IQ arrogance, malicious incompetence, and aging mental health infirmities, and shunned by our allies, Joe Biden has no standing.
Relegating serious Afghan retrograde decisions to a collection of woke fools, and duplicitous useless technocrats would never be forgivable even if Biden were a completely innocent incapacitated bystander. Yet in his increasingly rare coherent nano-moments, Biden will not admit to having allowed -- indeed steered -- his handlers to orchestrate a colossal geopolitical wreck, easily avoidable, a predictable and ignoble coda to his mendacious, dishonorable, and mediocre career.
Vacant VP Kamala Harris, having neither an ounce of political smarts nor a tincture of governance leadership chops, let alone self-awareness or likeability, makes a mannequin look statesmanlike. Her abrupt departure from DC -- after having been AWOL on the political scene for weeks -- for an implausible and optically asinine diplomatic mission to Hanoi (of all places) in the midst of her boss’s Afghan catastrophe, has confirmed and enshrined all of her defects, foreclosing any possible redemption, most certainly “presumptive president in-waiting.”
And so, following the Dems’ fleeting triumphant toppling of all things Trumpian -- through hubris, lies, and cheating a gullible electorate, enabled by aligned media hyenas -- they now inherit serial disasters, a contorting political vacuum, with rampant buyer’s remorse from erstwhile sycophants. Anger and calls for retribution, and resignation to sidestep impeachment are filling the airwaves and blogosphere from all political spectra.
Biden’s disreputable and “imbecilic” (per former UK PM Tony Blair) cowardly Afghan retreat is the final double-cross following a stench-filled array of assaults on regular Marys and Joes, namely engineering an invasion of disease-ridden illegal migrants, rampant crime in Democrat-run cities all across America, 1970s style hyperinflation, and tyrannical Covid virus mandated shutdowns of First Amendment liberties.
What now? The Constitution has no proviso for the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris catastrophe, except for a series of impeachments, 25th Amendment removal, and waiting it out until 2024.
A disabled Biden won’t be removed unless his cabinet says so… and Biden’s cabinet are happy to have a crash dummy wherein they can romp without any guiderails. Impeachment is breath-wasting banter as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would never assemble let alone schedule a vote on articles to impeach Joe Biden.
But assuming both Biden and Harris are impeached, who would replace them? Pelosi and then Dem Senator and Senate President Pro-Tem Patrick Leahy are next in line.
Can the Republicans arrange an omnibus impeachment to eliminate all of the toxic or incompetent successors? Rhetorical speculations of that sort are unserious click bait.
Would the House and Senate Republicans, as a unified bloc, stymie and neutralize any Democrat agendas? Uh, no. A three-year stalemate seems impossible; after all, Gen Ulysses Grant’s civil war stalemate and war of attrition in the Wilderness and Petersburg gave us a blood soaked exhausting two years.
All but a handful of Republicans are cowards and too unserious to wage a necessary political cleansing.
How many useful Republicans remain who didn’t 1) vote to convict on Trump’s second impeachment 2) didn’t vote for the so-called infrastructure boondoggle, and 3) haven’t acceded to nearly all of the radical Joe Biden nominees for executive branch appointments and US district and appellate court jurist nominations? You can count them using only fingers, no toes needed.
And who shall rescue us from the parade of incompetents at the State Department and Pentagon?
From sinking-chest Gilbert & Sullivan medals-laden General Mark Milley, to four-star affirmative action figure Sec of Defense Lloyd Austin, to prostrate novitiate priest Sec of State Tony Blinken, we have not seen such a collection of misfits since Moe, Larry, and Curley chuck chucked the 5 cent shorts in the 1930s and early 40s. Delivering ice, “An Ache In Every Stake”, the Stooges set the script for Biden’s buffoons, too dumb to be malicious by design.
But a dysfunctional federal government is not slapstick. It is a deadly serious conundrum as China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are measuring the drapes to adorn a takeover of Taiwan, the Philippines, the Middle East, while persistently tormenting South Korea, Japan, Australia, and yes eyeing an occupation of what remains in the only exceptional constitutional republic the world has ever seen.
We are blessed with a few resolute Republican governors, pirate-style talk radio shows, a few unmolested daily blogs, and a handful of noble statesmen, yet still isolated and having no more effect than intermittent stray voltage, or as Grand Banks dorymen would say “pissing into a gale”.
And so, who would not trade our post-republic Dante’s inferno for a few mean tweets? Just another rhetorical tease, with no resolution in sight.
Or how about electing a Republican House in 2022, installing Donald Trump as Majority leader, then impeaching both Biden and Harris? Ah, dreamers awake!
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Biden throws a tantrum
Our hapless president’s speech on Tuesday was not a speech at all. It was a full-blown childish tantrum. While he was ostensibly celebrating his massive “airlift” of thousands of mostly-Afghan refugees, from the beginning it was clear he is extremely angry. He almost shouted his claim that his catastrophic misadventure in Afghanistan has been a smashing success. This is a huge lie and everyone knows it, even those trying to spin this debacle as a win.
In fact, Biden’s surrender has probably set a genocide in motion just as our betrayal of the South Vietnamese gave birth to the killing fields. Women and girls are sure to be brutalized.
Biden had promised for days that no American would be left behind but of course hundreds, perhaps even thousands, have been left behind. Some even made it to the airport and were then denied flights home by US forces on the ground there. Thousands of those who escaped were rescued not by Biden’s forces but by retired vets and private organizations who set out to do what the government would not.
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. His seething, wretched defense of this massive failure will haunt this nation for decades to come. He has single-handedly created a fully-armed terrorist state, a state surrounded by enemies of the US – China, Iran and Pakistan. Those countries now have access to the $90b worth of American weapons, military vehicles and aircraft, not to mention Bagram Air Base.
Our NATO allies will no longer trust us. Biden will be forever known as the most destructive, the weakest and most gullible president in US history. A better man would resign but Biden is not even a decent man. As his mad rant on Tuesday proved, he will never take responsibility for his fatal errors in judgment.
Biden blamed President Trump, whose actual plan had stabilized the country and would have worked if implemented, and he blamed the Afghan army whom he betrayed by withdrawing their air support and their financial support. Of course, they fled. Biden betrayed them as cruelly as any leader in history has abandoned his troops and allies. He can claim his decision to withdraw as he did was successful from now to kingdom come, but it was the most egregious foreign policy error in American history.
The deaths of those thirteen young soldiers who died last Thursday is entirely his responsibility and yet he could not even bring himself to salute at their dignified transfer as their coffins passed by; he just kept checking his watch as if he had somewhere more important to be. The man is without heart and soul. The few parents who spoke with him were shocked that he only talked about his deceased son Beau. That’s his go-to default reply to anyone else’s loss; he makes it all about him.
As the months of his administration slip by, it becomes clearer and clearer that he is something of a sociopath. Nick Arama agrees. He is congenitally unable to care. As for Americans still stranded in Afghanistan, he blamed them – for not getting to the airport, for being “dual citizens” as if that makes them less worthy of rescue.
Of course, it is not just Biden that is to blame. Those military clowns, the ones who just weeks ago were telling us that Covid was the gravest threat we face (Austin) or that ‘white rage” is worth investigating (Milley) are to blame as well. Whoever was giving the orders on the ground in Kabul should also be fired.
Who thought it was a good idea to have those young soldiers do crowd control in a sea of panicked Afghans? Who decided those busloads of Americans had to be turned back in favor of unvetted refugees? Whose decision was it to let the highly trained military dogs who were brought safely to the airport be left behind, turned loose to face certain death on the streets of that benighted city?
Every leader who participated in this ill-timed, fateful attempt at withdrawal should resign or be fired. As many observers have noted, a high schooler could have managed it all better. But then maybe it was all by design, engineered by Biden’s paymaster, China. Biden has been bought and paid by a long list of influence purchasers for nearly all his years in Congress. “Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.” (Bill Watterson). Biden sold us out long ago.
Nancy Pelosi, a horrid woman equally as without heart and soul, on Tuesday refused to have the names of the thirteen soldiers killed in Kabul read out on the floor of the House. That should permanently indict her for being the wicked witch she is. She is more devious, more calculating than the irresponsible Biden but every bit as beyond redemption as he is. She will do anything to try to convince the American people, for whom she has only contempt, that whatever she and her party do is righteous no matter how loathsome and totalitarian.
Like the schoolyard thug he is, Biden will defend to the death the treacherous plan he put into motion so he could make a grand speech on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. He ignored the advice of some advisers, wanted Ghani to lie about the Taliban’s success in July (transcript here), all to mount a bit of theater with him in the starring role. No matter what he says, things did not go as he envisioned so like a spoiled child, he threw a tantrum from the podium at the White House. Shame on him a thousand times.
Joe Biden: From hero to zero in just seven months
Imagine a celebrated running quarterback playing the last -- and most significant -- game of his career. At a critical moment he fumbles and drops the ball. Suddenly it’s all over for him and his team. Well, that’s what Joe Biden now seems to have achieved in his political career. And we are all going to suffer for it.
The composite president of the U.S. known as Joe Biden has managed to do what most people in the Western world formerly thought impossible.
In his first few months in office he has destroyed America's global reputation as leader of the free world. The fiasco of the sudden unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has made this much clear. In so doing, he has turned personal failure at home into a political catastrophe of global dimensions.
The catastrophe now unfolding in Kabul is being shown on T.V. screens the world over, and the implications are unavoidable. The rest of the world no longer sees America as the world's leading superpower, protecting freedom and democracy and keeping a lid on the putrefying cesspool of international terrorism. U.S. forces have been shown on the defensive, penned in by an undisciplined rabble wielding AK-47s and grenade-launchers, but -- because of political weakness at the highest levels in Washington D.C. -- are unable to act assertively to extract all the American citizens under threat from these same terrorists. Will America's collaborators in the fight against global terrorism now see it as a weak and unreliable ally, lacking the resolve to stand up and protect even its own interests? If they do, one can hardly blame them.
In the U.K. -- until now America’s staunchest foreign ally -- the House of Commons has already condemned Biden’s actions.
Even the New York Times -- normally an uncritical cheerleader for Biden -- felt compelled to report that Biden’s Afghanistan policy was upsetting America’s closest ally.
And now that the disaster he has precipitated is too obvious for even him to ignore, Joe Biden’s demeanor is slowly unravelling before our eyes.
His face has gone puffy of late, but in all other respects he appears to be shrinking, physically, mentally, and morally. The latest manifestation of this regression was his obvious failed attempt to deal with his own inability to cope with the enormity of the tragic events he has unleashed. At a recent White House press conference he suddenly went silent, closed his eyes, bowed his head, and shrunk his shoulders whilst raising both hands as if to assume a fetal position whilst still standing at the podium. It was a gesture that can only be interpreted as one of abject humiliation and total defeat. This is a president who is in office but not actually in control of anything.
The video clip was soon transmitted all over the world, showing the man occupying the most powerful political position in the world apparently lost for words, crumbling under the burden of responsibility on his shoulders, closing his eyes to reality and losing his dignity as a result.
Joe Biden has disappointed almost everyone in America -- except, in a certain way, his political opponents. He promised to bring Americans together, and in a way, he certainly has. He's now the best recruiting sergeant his political opponents could hope for, alienating many of those who voted for him. And in the rest of the free world there can only be sadness that this man who claimed to be so much better than Donald Trump has turned out to be so much worse. Biden is rapidly becoming a serious contender for the title of America's worst president.
In his first months in office he focused mainly on undoing the good that Trump had done in the previous four years. This destructive urge appears to have been motivated by spite accompanied by a lack of commitment to doing what is best for America instead of himself.
Whatever Joe Biden does now, his presidency will be marked by his bad judgment over Afghanistan, an unforced error that cannot be blamed on Trump's deal with the Taliban. Trump's deal had pre-conditions and the Taliban had already broke them. And in any case, Obama started the drawdown of U.S. forces on his watch, leaving Trump a poisoned chalice.
In 2016, Trump campaigned on lowering America’s military presence overseas, and threatened the Taliban with terrible consequences if they broke their peace agreement with him. But when Biden entered the White House, he simply shrugged his shoulders and in effect said to them: game over, you won, winner take all. This one’s all down to Biden.
Comparisons between the US pull-out from Afghanistan and the abandonment of the U.S. embassy in Saigon in 1975 do not capture the full enormity of what has just happened.
A serving U.S. president suddenly walked away from a war, with a shambolic pullout, catching his allies in the field by surprise. The result has been chaos and tragedy, leaving the enemy with a moral victory and many tens of billions of dollars of the most modern military hardware, supplied to them for free by America via the defeated Afghan military. There are indications that some of this hardware has already been re-activated by the Taliban. And 13 brave servicemen lie dead.
What happens next in Afghanistan will, I suspect, be far worse than what happened in Vietnam in the years after 1975. What the terrorists in Afghanistan now do to harm U.S. interests around the world should come as no surprise.
Joe Biden, a mumbling, shuffling, confused and, at times, incoherent old man, has gone in a few months from personal failure at home to causing a political catastrophe of global dimensions, the consequences of which will soon be unleashed upon us in the form of renewed terrorist attacks on the West.
Wen Wryte is the pseudonym of a retired teacher of philosophy.
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