Joe Biden Discussion

[The Green Barbarian]

Biden admits that he is told which reporters he should be calling on. Like we didn't already know this.

[The Green Barbarian]

This Is Where Joe Biden’s Great Empathy Has Landed Us: 13 US Servicemen Are Dead

On the pandemic as a 2020 election issue, Joe Biden was the media’s preferred candidate for president, not so much because he screamed confidence that he could stop people from dying. (He was literally underground for most of his public appearances.) But because he properly showed that he cared people were dying.

He had a soft voice and manner that soothed cable news anchors and brought comfort to reporters who find no greater arousal than in a man who cries in public.

The trick has earned Biden a lot of stock with the media, which then assured the public that he is the staid, competent leader this country needed after four years of Donald Trump.

He tried it again Thursday during a highly anticipated press conference to address the ISIS suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, that left 13 U.S. service members dead and more than a dozen others injured.

“They were part of the bravest, most capable, and the most selfless military on the face of the Earth,” Biden said. “And they were part of, simply, what I call the ‘backbone of America.’ They’re the spine of America, the best the country has to offer. Jill and I — our hearts ache, like I’m sure all of you do as well, for all those Afghan families who have lost loved ones, including small children, or been wounded in this vicious attack. And we’re outraged as well as heartbroken.”

Later in the conference, Biden bowed his head in what I assume was anguish ™ or maybe frustration ™ while a reporter asked him about his responsibility in the fallout.

The problem with the performance, though, is that the dead didn’t lose their lives because of a freak virus that the entire world is grappling with. They died because under Biden’s command, our military did not secure the perimeter of the Kabul airport that Americans are using to exit. And it has been under his command that the administration is scurrying against the clock to evacuate as many Americans as possible, lest we further tick off the new Taliban government that Biden has allowed to call the shots.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/th ... -are-dead/

[The Green Barbarian]

And in Afghanistan, inexplicably, President Biden and his entourage determined to leave Afghanistan practically as quickly as aircraft could remove American military personnel, without consultation with NATO allies who had three quarters of the international forces in Afghanistan, without a thought for the many thousands of American civilians in the country, and without any regard for the tens of thousands of Afghans who had worked with the Americans and are in mortal danger with the Taliban in power. As the operations swiftly degenerated into a cowardly fiasco and the American president was for the first time depicted by the British Parliament as a figure of shame, Biden and his principal colleagues lied to the public, contradicted each other, and magnified America’s monstrous humiliation at the hands of a bunch of primitive and barbarous, flea bitten, terrorists.

There is open discussion of trying to reconstruct the Western alliance without American leadership. Biden’s own partisans are silent as his standing in the eyes of his countrymen crumbles. Is there any sane person who in the dark and quiet of their bedroom in the dead, vast, and middle of the night would not prefer Trump with his gaucheries to this horrifying immolation of American national credibility and of the unbroken right of the West over 2500 years to be the preeminent influence in the world? Possibly, but they are no longer numerous or outspoken.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/co ... d=msedgntp

[plast63]

Really bad decision to remove troops ahead of civilians. Seems to me this President can't control anything.

[GenesisGT]

I don't know why Biden doesn't use his Presidential powers and with a marker and a map, move that hurricane IDA so it doesn't hit New Orleans again like Katrina did.

[PoplarSoul]

Really bad decision to remove troops ahead of civilians. Seems to me this President can't control anything.

No one could have predicted that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his military would abandoned the Afghan people.
Civilians had plenty of warning of the USA military withdrawal.
Doha Agreement has been in the works for over a year.
Up to them to control their own lives and leave the country prior.

[The Green Barbarian]

No one could have predicted that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his military would abandoned the Afghan people.

This is total nonsense. Of course they could have predicted it. Without air cover, he had no chance. Biden and his team were totally asleep at the wheel here, more concerned with rooting out false white supremacists than retreating properly from Afghanistan.

Civilians had plenty of warning of the USA military withdrawal.

And yet, without paperwork, they couldn't leave. This is such apologist nonsense. Biden just plain sucks.

[Necro]

A picture says a thousand words.

[Necro]

A picture says a thousand words.

(btw he checked his watch 6 times)

[foenix]

*removed*

[Rjamer]

Ann Coulter sided with Biden on Afghanistan over withdrawal, calling Trump a 'wuss' who broke his promise ... https://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-side ... 48250.html

[rustled]

A picture says a thousand words.

(btw he checked his watch 6 times)

The people who want us to believe he doesn't have dementia may need to take his watch away.

[normaM]

when I saw that in my News feed I was totally disappointed in Biden
so disrepectful
He won't last the full term

[foenix]

The people who want us to believe he doesn't have dementia may need to take his watch away.

So someone checking out a watch is a sign of dementia now? That's a desperate gasp at nothing.

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[rustled]

when I saw that in my News feed I was totally disappointed in Biden
so disrepectful
He won't last the full term

I think the people who put him in place were hoping he'd last to the 2022 elections, though.