My latest in PJ Media:
Those who helped us out during our long military misadventure in Afghanistan only to be left behind in Kabul know that Joe Biden’s handlers are not the most reliable people in the world, but there is one thing they can always be counted on to be, and that is tone deaf. And so on Sunday morning, Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked out on what he had wrought. He saw China emboldened, Afghanistan lost, and Iran more aggressive than ever, and he took to Twitter to give us the perfect response to all the fires he and his colleagues have started or made rage hotter than ever. He tweeted: “Humbled to reach one million Twitter followers as Secretary of State — and especially so because it means that I can share the outstanding work of our @StateDept team with so many at home and around the world. It’s a privilege. Thank you.”
The “outstanding work” of our State Department? You have to admire the man’s chutzpah. To head the State Department during Joe Biden’s dumpster fire regency for Kamala Harris, with the Taliban enjoying billions of dollars’ worth of American military equipment, and China sending increasingly threatening signals about invading Taiwan, and the Islamic Republic of Iran growing more belligerent by the day, and to claim in the face of all that and more that the department is doing “outstanding work,” takes an oddly audacious dishonesty, or a resolute determination to deny the evidence of one’s senses, or both.
Even the fact that Blinken thinks that gaining one million Twitter followers is some kind of affirmation is ridiculous in itself and raises inevitable questions about the man’s priorities. Most of his Twitter feed gives the impression that he is simply a glorified goodwill ambassador; in another tweet on Sunday, Blinken wrote: “Such a pleasure chatting with Senegalese fashion industry icons Xalil and Milcos, who are both @StateIVLP alumni. They are doing dynamic work in Dakar and exemplify the important role artisans and entrepreneurs can play in growing their economies and increasing prosperity.” I’m sure Xalil and Milcos do wonderful work, but this is the Secretary of State of the United States; you’d think he would be embarrassed to be reduced to tweeting about something as world-historical as Senegalese fashion icons. But one of the many things that are beyond the capabilities of Biden’s handlers is embarrassment.
When Blinken does tweet about more pressing matters, he only underscores his own impotence. On November 19, he tweeted, “I condemn the Houthis’ detention of our staff and breach of the compound used by our Embassy in Sana’a prior to our 2015 suspension of operations. The Houthis must immediately release our staff unharmed and vacate the compound immediately.” This was over a week after the Houthis stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a and even longer after they took hostages from among its staff. Why did it take Blinken so long to respond? What did he do beyond take to Twitter to issue this empty condemnation?
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Wellington says
Blinken is an utter disgrace. He is part of the rot which is the Swamp in DC and I for one am exceedingly tired of the plethora of turd-types (examples being Comey, Strzok, Page, Brennan, McCabe, Wray, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, Swalwell, the handlers of the idiot Biden and so many others, including many RINOs) who continue to control the American government to no good end.
The American Revolution was a great event in man’s quest for freedom and limited government. It is now being betrayed all over the West, never more so than in present America. A curse on all these rubes whether complicit or “merely” ignorant.
To not despise Leftism, Islam and a bevy full of cowardly RINO types is to be on the side of such lesser people. One knows this or should know it. Alas, so many still don’t and, even worse, so many do and are thus complicit with actually desiring the eradication of liberty,
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent post, my compliments.
In my humble opinion:
At least the Democrats are readily identifiable – and we know what were dealing with.
The cowardly RINOs are perhaps even more despicable for their “bait and switch”, “wolves in sheep’s clothing”, etc.
Wellington says
Thanks, James. And yes, I look upon RINOs as more menacing because the enemy behind you ready to stab you in the back (could be called “pulling a Romney”) is actually more of a danger than the enemy you know who is directly in front of you.
sidney penny says
“Secretary of State Blinken Finds Something to Celebrate”
Wonderful heading. We are all curious cats!