Sadly, in our upside down society some of the most incompetent people that you can imagine end up running entire organizations, and if you are particularly corrupt and useless you may get to be a politician.
By now, you are probably thinking that I am going to talk about Joe Biden in this article, and you are right.
In this era of extreme incompetence, it somehow seems appropriate that sleepy Joe is presiding over our "idiocracy".
Barack Obama knew that this could happen. According to Politico, he once said that nobody should "underestimate Joe's ability to **** things up".
Everything that Biden touches seems to turn into a failure. Just look at the crisis on the border. It is the worst that it has ever been in our entire history, and we are being told that "morale is in the toilet" among our Border Patrol agents...
"Morale is in the toilet," Jon Anfinsen, a spokesman for the Border Patrol's union, told the Washington Examiner. "Morale is low because agents aren't allowed to do their job โ if our job is to be out patrolling the border in between the ports of entry and actively searching for people who have crossed illegally, but we're not allowed to go do that job, it basically creates this defeated feeling in everyone."Thanks to Biden's wonderful new policies, our Border Patrol agents have their hands tied and are not able to do their jobs, and as a result many of them show up to work "sort of downtrodden, almost dead inside"...
"Everyone shows up to work sort of downtrodden, almost dead inside, for lack of a better term," Anfinsen stated. "They're not allowed to [do] the job, and they know that people are getting away every single day, every hour."Of course it isn't just on the border where Biden is completely and utterly failing.
He is doing such a "great job" with the economy that the term "Bidenflation" has been coined less than a year into his presidency.
And his response to the COVID pandemic has been a nightmare of historic proportions. If I were to tell you how I really feel about the decisions that he has been making during this pandemic, I would get censored into oblivion by the social media companies.
Right now, what everyone is talking about is how incompetent the Biden administration has been in handling the situation in Afghanistan.
The fall of Saigon in 1975 and the Iranian hostage crisis during the Carter administration both made America look really weak, but we have never seen anything like the debacle at the airport in Kabul.
The "terrorists" that we went it to destroy in 2001 now have us surrounded and cornered in half an airport, and there are still countless numbers of people that can't get to the evacuation planes.
In fact, staff members that worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul feel like they have been completely betrayed by our government at this point...
Local staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are "deeply disheartened" by U.S. evacuation efforts and have expressed a sense of betrayal and distrust in the U.S. government, according to a State Department diplomatic cable obtained by NBC News.When staffers went to the airport in response to that cable, they quickly found themselves in the middle of a nightmare...
The cable, which was sent Saturday, said memos were sent Wednesday inviting Afghan staff members at the embassy to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. It told them to take food and to prepare for difficult conditions.
Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at by Taliban fighters at checkpoints near the airport, it said, adding that criminals were taking advantage of the chaos while the U.S. military tried to maintain order "in an extremely physical situation."British forces have been leaving the airport and bringing back people that need to be evacuated, but for some reason the U.S. hasn't done the same thing.
Some staff members reported that they were almost separated from their children, while others collapsed in a crush of people and had to be taken to hospitals with injuries, the cable said. Others said they had collapsed on the road because of heat exhaustion, it said.
There are still thousands of Americans inside the country, and time is running out, because the Taliban won't move the August 31 deadline...
The White House repeatedly refused to address the Taliban's August 31 deadline to get US troops out of Afghanistan on Monday, dodging questions on the subject and snapping at reporters who asked how the government planned to save the remaining Americans stuck in Kabul.Biden should immediately resign, but he will never do that.
The Taliban's spokesman issued the sternest threat yet to Biden on Monday morning, saying there will be 'consequences' if US troops - who are holed up at the airport in Kabul evacuating tens of thousands of people and fending off an increasingly desperate crowd - don't leave in the next eight days.
Of course there are others that also should share in the blame.
Just like much of the rest of our society, the brass at the Pentagon has been getting increasingly incompetent over the years, but up until recently it hasn't been talked about too much.
But now that our failures in Afghanistan have been exposed for the whole world to see, the mainstream media is having a field day mocking them. For example, the following comes from the New York Post...
To the surprise of only the Biden administration and its top brass, the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last week after 20 years of frivolous American adventurism. It was a spectacular failure of American diplomacy, statecraft, intelligence and, most of all, military capability. In short, mission very much not accomplished.So why don't any of our top military officials ever get fired?
But that's pretty much standard operating procedure for the nearly useless behemoth called the Pentagon, which hasn't won a war since the kinder, gentler American government changed its name from the War Department to the Defense Department shortly after World War II.
As Darren Beattie has pointed out, NFL head coaches are held to a much higher standard than our generals and admirals are...
Is the head coach always the problem with a bad NFL team? Obviously not. But a head coach is the highly-compensated captain of a $200 million operation, and his job is to win. Coaches who don't win get fired, because being a perpetual, complacent loser is unacceptable.If we were to start holding military officials accountable for their performance, firing Mark Milley would be a really good start.
The ongoing collapse of the U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan is the geopolitical equivalent of an NFL team going 0-16 twenty seasons in a row. Perhaps it's worse than that, in fact. The Afghanistan disaster is the equivalent of an NFL All-Pro team taking on a Division III liberal arts college, being shut out, and then crashing the team bus into a ditch.
I have absolutely no idea how someone like that got to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Personally, I would not even trust him to mop the floors of the local Dairy Queen.
What is even more tragic is that millions upon millions of Americans unquestionably accept whatever our incompetent leaders tell them to believe without taking the time and effort to think for themselves and come to their own conclusions.
The blind are truly leading the blind, and we are steamrolling down a highway that doesn't lead anywhere good.
Every great society throughout history has crumbled eventually, and now our society is crumbling too.
I suppose that it was probably inevitable, but do we really have to look so completely and utterly incompetent in the process?
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This greedy, bloodsucking class of hyenas and vampires are the ignorant, incompetent people that are making a laughingstock and a shameful catastrophe of the United States and its foreign policy, and, if they keep on the way they have done, may very well get us into a nuclear war with Russia and / or China.
So yes, the Empire is collapsing, and for the same reason empires always collapse - the oligarchs start running the show, and telling the experts who SHOULD be running it what to say, what to do, and how high to jump when commanded to do so.
It is NOT going to change. It is far too late to even try. The oligarchs are far too rich, and do not want to give up even one kopeck of their wealth for the benefit of the Empire. They will continue as they have been for the past 120 years, sucking the empire dry, until it all collapses around their ears. Then, in the eternal manner of psychopaths, they will blame everyone but themselves.
Notice the one eyed smiley face and other related symbolism.
Lookalikes have been used for a long time.... Check his right ear lobe ... possibly someone has altered old photos .... but still?
It is the end of 2022. China has just sunk a US destroyer in the South China Sea and the US Navy has not dared to shoot back. The dollar has collapsed, and 50 million people have lost all their savings. Bread is $10.00 a loaf. Eggs are $20.00 a dozen. Milk is $15.00 a gallon. Gas is $30.00 a gallon at the pump. (When you can even find those items in the stores.) There are 20 million homeless people wandering the streets and living in tents or under bridges. Five million people who took the COVID vaccines are dead from COVID infection. The sense of betrayal of the people has solidified into a boiling rage against every organ of local and national government. One million police officers have quit. The cities are on fire.
The military and remaining police are called on to shoot their fellow Americans who dare to steal or loot to feed their starving children. Many of them do so. Eventually, they are disgusted with what they are called on to do, and they refuse to shoot hungry and homeless mothers and children.
Instead, they turn their guns on the politicians, the judges, the mayors, the City Councils, the rich - many oligarchs and bankers who will not be named here so that I do not get arrested for incitement. All those who can, pile into their private jets and depart for Paraguay, Aruba, Argentina, or wherever they have purchased a refuge for themselves. Those who cannot flee are arrested by the military and put into prison camps. Those who resist or try to escape are shot. The military rules by fiat and martial law.
Two years go by, and the military appoints commissions to write a new Constitution. The property of the the wealthy above a certain maximum has been confiscated by the State. Eventually, elections are held under military supervision, and true representatives of the people - not the Jews, the bankers, and the corporations - are elected to office. Should they be found to be looting the Treasury, they are shot without trial.
Three more years go by, and after the military has established that the new system is working, they step down and become what they were supposed to be. All overseas bases have been closed. The remaining US Navy patrols the Atlantic and the Pacific as far as Hawaii, which has become an independent State which leases Pearl Harbor to the US.
The above is one possibility. Another is that, after all the deaths from COVID, the homelessness, the starvation, and the economic collapse, the USA breaks into three countries, Pacifica, Altantica, and Centralia. Each has its own military to keep law and order, each has its own federal government, and each issues its own citizenship papers to those who decide to migrate from where they are to another grouping of states. 50 million people become migrants, and those groupings which have natural resources, educated citizens, and can preserve law and order, will recover and prosper, after 2030. Those which do not have those things will become banana republics.
Imagine it.
- LG
they say one can not see the stars until it's dark outside. your words above sparkle with hope, thank you.
In terms of the plan, incompetence fits right in.