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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/opinion/biden-failed-afghanistan.html
So even the idiotic NY Times is unhappy with Biden?
clambo saysSo even the idiotic NY Times is unhappy with Biden?
This is the real significance of that article.
The NY Times is a mouthpiece for the corporations running the government.
This shows that those corporations have lost faith in Biden to run the country on their behalf.
Their problem is not that he's evil. He proved that he is with the mandates. The problem is that he is incompetent at implementing their evil.
Biden is not living up to his promises
(CNN)Joe Biden's presidential campaign was built on two pillars -- "I'm going to shut down the virus" and I am not Donald Trump. He is failing on both promises, as Covid rages and Biden's behavior more and more mirrors his predecessor's.
Biden's message to the country on Thursday, in which he outlined his new six-point strategy to handle the Covid-19 pandemic, was (another) tirade from a president who promised to unify the country in his inaugural address, but has devolved into an angry, lecturing partisan as his administration drowns in criticism from the public over Afghanistan, the economy, and a surge in coronavirus cases nationwide.
When you are the president, you have two primary ways to move people to your point of view: inspiration or coercion. It was said that Biden would employ the former, but he has resorted to the latter via a series of executive mandates and scolding speeches as he seeks higher vaccination rates. Gone is the soaring rhetoric of Biden's campaign, replaced with the kind of bile and disdain many Americans hated about "the former guy," as Biden would say.
It is doubtful this will work. In fact, it may backfire as many unvaccinated Americans recoil against being told what to do when it comes to their own health care, if you believe recent polling. Heck, the same day Biden was rolling out his plan directing the Labor Department to require all employers with more than 100 workers to require either the vaccine or regular testing, Vice President Kamala Harris was making videos supporting abortion rights using the my body, my choice arguments common on the left.
Which is it, guys?
Perhaps one of the Biden administration's biggest failures handling the pandemic has been these kinds of mixed messages. Harris early on was one of the worst offenders, stating in a debate that she would take the vaccine when health officials said it was ready, but not if President Donald Trump said so. I suspect this is a similar feeling some of the unvaccinated have at being told to take a vaccine by President Joe Biden. Health experts overwhelmingly agree the vaccine should be taken, but the reflexive partisan instinct to reject advice from politicians you hate isn't confined to one party, even as Democrats have memory-holed their own part in causing vaccine hesitancy.
After taking office, the mixed messages from Biden and Harris continued. In April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration abruptly paused use of the Johnson & Johnson one-dose Covid-19 vaccine after extremely rare reports of blood clots. White House officials didn't immediately brief the President and the news seemed to have caught the administration off guard. The handling of the situation soon turned messy and officials worried it could erode the public's trust in the vaccine. (The pause was ultimately lifted, but the damage was already done.)
In August, CNN reported, "Top health officials in the Biden administration have added to the confusion with a series of contradictory messages on everything from masks to mandates." And more recently, on booster shots, the Financial Times reported that "Biden's Covid booster shot plan" was "mired in confusion amid regulatory hold-ups." Two weeks ago, two senior leaders in the FDA's vaccine review office announced they're stepping down this fall, further depleting an agency with an eroded morale due to the workload and that still doesn't have a permanent head eight months into Biden's term.
And during his speech Thursday, Biden said his new plan was necessary to "protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers." If you believe in the efficacy of the vaccines, why do the vaccinated need protection? Yes, there have been some breakthrough infections, but they are extremely rare and mild. If you were already skeptical of whether you needed a vaccine, there's a strong chance you would interpret Biden's words and actions as a total lack of confidence that these shots work.
Time and again, when given a chance to inspire and unify, Biden and his team have confused and hectored the very unvaccinated Americans he needs to reach the most. It was just in July that his CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that there would be no national vaccination mandates. Now we have mandates and an angry president who has given up on his supposed legendary empathy in favor of the kind of dictatorial style that Democrats once hammered Trump for.
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Here's another one from CNN:
Means the same thing: the oligarchy has decided he's just too incompetent.
Eric Holder saysHere's another one from CNN:
Exactly, another global corporation shill rag dissing Biden.
Means the same thing: the oligarchy has decided he's just too incompetent.
We're lucky to have an complete fucking asshole as our president who wasn't elected who is destroying the credibility of our establishment.
Misc saysCorporate taxes going up????
Can't make public their real complaint.
Ah, that could be it.
Patrick saysMisc saysCorporate taxes going up????
Can't make public their real complaint.
Ah, that could be it.
Raising corporates taxes is just Biden doing the bidding of his Chinese handlers. Higher taxes here means more companies move off shore. Notice how Biden removed Trump's tariffs and has completely taken tariffs off the table.
Eric Holder saysHere's another one from CNN:
Exactly, another global corporation shill rag dissing Biden.
Means the same thing: the oligarchy has decided he's just too incompetent.
When Lyndon Johnson launched his war on poverty, its associated legislationThe impulses that led to The Great Society social engineering schemes were the same that propelled us into the Vietnam war--it was even given a name: Guns and Butter. The federal government can solve every problem of human existence by funding and staffing a federal agency--no local solutions allowed. The US with its mighty military can beat any enemy in the world, until it couldn't even beat an enemy from the stone age after deploying half a million soldiers and killing 10% of them. Ten years later, both were a disaster with loss in Vietnam and in 1975 the 3rd year of the worst recession in the Postwar era with double digit inflation and unemployment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/opinion/biden-failed-afghanistan.html