My latest in PJ Media:
As U.S.-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and Taliban leaders posed for pictures inside the presidential palace in Kabul, Old Joe Biden’s handlers published a photo of their own. The White House Twitter account posted a photo of Old Joe sitting alone at a massive conference table at Camp David, with the caption: “This morning, the President and Vice President met with their national security team and senior officials to hear updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan, evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies, and the ongoing security situation in Kabul.”
Joe was posed looking pensively at a huge screen on the wall, where various participants in a Zoom meeting could be seen: the vice president as promised, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, various officials of the CIA, the DNI, and other agencies, plus — significantly — “Doha Station.” Biden has been receiving harsh criticism for being AWOL while Afghanistan fell more quickly than anyone in his administration expected, and the photo was apparently issued to fool the rubes into thinking that the great statesman was actually hard at work, ever-vigilant to preserve, protect, and defend the United States of America and its citizens.
The White House’s photo and caption, however, inadvertently only put a spotlight on the fact that the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been catastrophically mishandled. As the Taliban held a press conference from the presidential palace in Kabul just five weeks after Old Joe denied that “a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan” was “now inevitable” and insisted that it was “not true” that the Afghan government would “likely collapse,” the White House spoke blandly about Biden and Harris hearing “updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan.”
It’s not a “draw down,” it’s a rout, and everyone knows it – everyone, that is, with the possible exception of Old Joe, sitting alone at his huge conference table, pretending to be briefed about this disaster and simultaneously pretending that it isn’t a disaster.
The photo also highlighted how useless Biden really is. It was supposed to show how he is still in charge of the situation even while “vacationing” at Camp David, but the fact that it is all that we have seen of him while the Taliban rapidly overran all of Afghanistan that was not already under its control only highlights the fact that where Biden is and what he is doing really doesn’t matter much in terms of the direction of United States foreign (or domestic) policy. The people who are running this administration continue to run it whether he is in Washington or Wilmington or Camp David. They bring him out for a press conference in which he takes only carefully scripted questions, or pose him for a photo-op now and again, but it’s all just for appearances.
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Emilie Green says
Joe mindlessly passes the time in front of the boob tube waiting for General Milley to bring him a dish of ice cream.
Remember, this man is the putative Leader of the Free World.
mortimer says
Old Joe-mentia doesn’t tie his own shoes. He will be voted the undoubted worst president by historians. He makes no decisions. He is a yes-man manipulated by bad people who have led a coup d’état against the American people with the help of Big Tech and China. This cabal is amoral. They have no respect for law or due process.
Uma says
You are very true Sir,
Without bringing back the American citizens at Afghani, clearing the Military forces shows his intellectual caliber, proves him as the undoubted worst president by historians, beyond any doubt of doubts.
Vito says
Only fitting no one is around table! It’s quite sad & pathetic!
maria says
He must go and Harris and Pelosi too otherwise there will be WW and the whole world will be destroyed.
Only the real America with President Trump and all the real American can stop and save the world
gravenimage says
As Kabul Falls, Joe Biden Poses for a Photo-Op
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This is actually a terribly sad photo. One would assume this was a candid shot, and not something official.
Wellington says
Arguably, gravenimage, the best the rubes running Dementia Joe have. Beyond pathetic in any case but it does say a lot.
And may I extend a special thank you to all the fools out there who ACTUALLY voted for this nothing.
Infidel says
You mean all those extra ballot boxes provided by Facebook as a ‘public service’?
Wellington says
No, Infidel, those are some of the ADDITIONAL and PHONY votes. I was referencing the idiots who really did vote for Biden.
gravenimage says
Sadly, Wellington, I know a number of these people.
Infidel says
I saw his press conference this afternoon. Actually, I agreed w/ much of what he said. Yeah, he was wrong in saying that he inherited a plan from Trump, when in fact, he moved the withdrawal date from May to September. If he was gonna do that, he could have set a winter withdrawal so that since winter wasn’t the fighting season, the Taliban wouldn’t have advanced as quickly
But he was absolutely spot on in calling the Afghans cowards, and stating that if they’re not willing to fight for their country, then it can’t be our job. He pointed out how the Taliban doesn’t have an airforce but the Afghan government did, and yet, they folded. He was also right in saying that it’s not our job to nation-build. One could well have asked why the Obama administration didn’t start withdrawing in 2012, once Osama was killed, but I do credit Biden here w/ continuing Trump’s policy, as opposed to reverting to Obama’s, as he’s done w/ so many other policies
This photo above was pretty bizarre, as is much about Biden. Yeah, it would have been nice if he had postponed his vacation, and if Jen Pisssssssaki had also been available, as opposed to leaving an out-of-office autoreply in her email
CogitoErgoSum says
I watched Biden’s speech too. I was surprised by the smoothness of his delivery – very few flubs. But what impressed me the most was how quickly he moved in getting away from the podium without looking back to answer a single one of the questions being yelled at him by reporters. Real cool, Joe, real cool. His new nickname should be Joe Cool.
maria says
That he spoke “smoothly” doesn´t mean that he knows what to say. there are teleprompters and there can always be help if he has a “hearing apparatus” in his ears that tell him what to say
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and being well rested after his week-long vacation surely helped …. but apparently not enough to make him feel confident enough to improvise coherent answers to questions from the press – so he scurried away as quickly as he could.
John says
Joe cool – the Camel. You nailed that one. Symbolic of the casual/dismissive nature of people who think they are unaccountable.
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Unless I’m very wrong…
I believe that Pres. Trump would have listened to his in-theater military commanders in order to prevent a complete takeover by the Taliban.
Phased troop withdrawal would have been tied to conditions on the ground – and strategic assets and forces would have been kept nearby…
John says
Photo-op to portray the allusion of control is what this is. So well planned out that it’s flawless….another flawless demonstration of run for your lives! If this is the hope and change that Democrats bring to the world…..God help us because we are going to need some salvation is all I can say.
Crusades Were Right says
“Change the channel, Kamala! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…” lol
Infidel says
Speaking of which, where’s Kamala?
Crusades Were Right says
@Infidel:
Now I have a picture in my head that needs to be washed away with the assistance of a large quantity of beer. lol
Harry says
It’s perfectly obvious what happened in Afghanistan.
The Taliban were hiding in full view in the Afghan army, getting trained up and weapons provided.
No wonder the Afghan Army collapsed when the enemy was among them ready to spring into action.
OLD GUY says
America is fighting Muslims/islam, China, Russia, a Migration Invasion, and major economic problems and our leaders don’t have a clue. The enemies of America have our country in turmoil and know they can do what ever they choose too.
Chinas Covid attack on America has worked beyond their dreams and the American and world leaders are afraid to even talk about it. We are in deep shit folks.
“Come On Man” just keep looking the other way until the CHINA train runs us over.
China effected the re-election of Trump.
Took a lot of our FREEDOM away.
Destroyed our economy.
Thank God it wasn’t Russia, we’d be living through another four years of million dollar investigations.
We need a third political party that represents the people and the democracy that our forefathers started, not just the wealthy and Corporations.