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He Is Not Fit To Command
The “He” in the title is President Biden. He is not alone. There are mayors, and prosecutors in the United States that are not fit for the offices they hold.
Political rallies in Portland that took place recently featured two gunfights. The failure to deal with violence, and prosecute criminals over the past year is destroying Portland. The failure to allow police officers to enforce the law, and the failure to prosecute criminal behavior is not just leading to disaster, it is a disaster.
The Bagram air base is about 31.5 miles from Kabul. Fortified, two runways, and the infrastructure to support troops as well as military air support. The second runway could have been used to evacuate Americans, as well as our European, and Afghan allies. The decision was made to close Bagram and to funnel everyone into a one runway airport inside Kabul. An airport that has now become a terrorist kill zone.
There is no court-martial remedy for the removal of President Biden, there is impeachment as a first step to remove him from office. I doubt that will happen. Congressional and Senate leaders ignored multiple requests from the Capitol Hill police to take steps to protect the Capitol before January 6. These leaders could not bring themselves to protect one building, so it should come as no surprise that they cannot protect a nation.
Published in General
As I could not get into this source, may I inquire as to the basis of the questioning of this statement in Rumsfeld’s book? I ask as some friends and I have had a running discussion about this and after finding it was mentioned in the book, I assumed (I know, I know-big mistake to assume ANYthing these days!) it was legitimate. Thanks in advance, Jim
Well we won’t be able to get an answer from Donald Rumsfeld. He passed away on June 29, 2021.
Well, a quick check of voting records suggests that Biden actually voted for most of those bills that he seemingly would have had to vote against – or just filibuster or whatever – for what “Rummy” said to have been true.
Those records don’t show what Biden might have been saying behind the scenes, or even in front of TV cameras. But his actual voting doesn’t seem to have been the problem. Unless it’s one of those cases where he can vote “yes” to one part and then “no” to another part that actually does the funding or whatever, so then he can claim to have “supported” it when he actually didn’t.
They are going to pay off the Taliban, surely Joe can pay off Milley to fall on his sword. China will front the money.
If you give them money, what you get is more terrorism.
But maybe Joe will get a two-fer out of this. Not that he’s smart enough to have planned it that way, but he can count on the media to spin it for him. He’ll be the “hero” for “getting us out of Afghanistan,” and then he’ll be ANOTHER “hero” for getting us back IN.
Vengeance is the Lord’s. He is better at it than we are, and has all eternity to enact it. I suspect many in positions of power will experience the Lord’s wrath.
Not soon enough to suit me.
And, that’s for FINAL/ULTIMATE vengeance. No reason not to have some vengeance in the here and now. After all, that’s why criminals go to prison, rather than waiting for the afterlife.
Aw, go for it. CoC be d*mned…
We are not a nation of laws, we are a nation of political will. – Steve Deace
Courage doesn’t seem to be a requirement for general officer rank these days.
I’m not sure this is true, as I’m not sure he’s been competent in any public office he’s held.
On meth.
…. on a bed with a hooker.
…. and a selfie stick.
Harris is better than Biden right now. Having said that, it’s unfortunate that she didn’t realize she was lucky to be senator and she should just hide out in a legislative position instead of trying to be a heavy duty government executive.
Seriously, what policy topic is she good at, or what executive skill has she ever showed? Every person with narcissistic traits is lazy and no account about something and the scope of her issues in the sense are pretty bad.
In her case, I’ll break a personal rule and say that it’s more than just a trait with her.
Her biography is really bad in that sense. The reason magazine article about her was something else. People with NPD don’t have what people would recognize as a normal conscious very often. That is a really bad recipe for the justice system and power in general.
Therein is the problem: It seems a law of American politics that fitness for command is inversely proportional to careerist ambition.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Kamala Harris doesn’t really have ANY qualifications of consequence. She owes her whole career, such as it is, to Willie Brown and his brown willy.
It was in the deep state’s interest. January 6th is the new RussiaGate.
It doesn’t take Alex Jones to draw a straight line through ACORN, OFA, Ferguson, Occupy, BLM, and Antifa with the same violence, cover, and concessions occuring at every stage. This is all Alinsky, it’s all the Big Lie, and it’s working as intended.
… in a lewd photo on his brother’s widow’s cell phone. And Tucker called off the dogs.
There may be Democrat members of both houses who would vote to impeach. That may be why Pelosi hasn’t convened an emergency session. (hat tip to my son who suggested this strong possibility)
I suspect that it’s more likely they aren’t done creating disasters to pile on him before they get their impeachment absolution. For one, they still haven;t been able to seize the property from landlords who are just beginning to crack under the government’s “receive no rent but get no breaks” approach. Which is intentional, and law be damned, it will work.
When it comes, *all* of the democrats will vote to impeach. It’s why he’s there to begin with. He’s a creature of the deep state because he has no mind left, and Harris is of course a creature of the deep state because without this chicanery, she would be that one lady who ran once and got zero percent.
Our government has been captured by its supposedly subordinate agencies, which are all run by Alinskyites.
Would never happen. The same could have been said about Obama, but our Republican establishment types called for Trump to be impeached, removed, and barred from future office.
I’m tellin’ ya’. There’s a spiritual blindness bug going around and it shows no favorites.
Yeah, I was always under the impression it was Ted Kennedy who was responsible for the betrayal of South Vietnam.
Kedavis: “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Kamala Harris doesn’t really have ANY qualifications of consequence. She owes her whole career, such as it is, to Willie Brown and his brown willy.”
Waddayamean! She possessed obvious political skills as a mistress to sleep her way to the top and get all those lucrative jobs. Now that’s a negotiator Democrat Style!
Randy: Courage doesn’t seem to be a requirement for general officer rank these days.
Well ya, but Woke Cowardice is. Obama found a way to seemingly staff the entire top rank of our military with Woke Cowards and boy are we paying for it now!
On the day the terrorist attack occurred my wife said we need to display our flag, so we did. We are not displaying our flag as a political statement. It is being displayed to honor the loss of the Marines, Soldiers, and Navy Corpsman, as well as the members of our Armed Forces that are still on duty in Kabul.
I know there are current, as well as former service members that have served that are experiencing grief, rage, and sorrow. One Marine Battalion Commander spoke out knowing that there would consequences. I respect him for speaking out, and his loyalty to his Marines.
As a former police officer loyalty, not the misplaced loyalty of trying to protect malfeasance, the loyalty of coming to the aid of my fellow officers, as well as coming to the aid of citizens is still important to me.
Our flag is on display today, and will be until the last service member is out of Afghanistan.