Current Events > CNN: Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence

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At the heart of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign was a single word: competence.

After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller -- someone who had been there and done that. Someone who didn't need training to do the job. Someone who was exactly the opposite of the guy currently in office.

And it worked. Rather than see Biden's age -- he's 78 -- as a negative, plenty of voters believed his decades of experience were what the country needed in the post-Trump era. Knowing how the federal bureaucracy worked mattered. So did having good relationships with world leaders. And having seen everything there was to see on both the domestic and foreign policy fronts.

Seven months into his first term, however, Biden is faced with nothing short of a crisis of that competence, beset on a number of fronts with developments that it appears all of his experience and know-how didn't prevent.

The glaring example is, of course, the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in the wake of Biden's decision to pull American troops out of the country.
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Remember back in May, Biden announced that the CDC had said vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks indoors -- a development he described as a "great milestone?" Just two months later, however, Biden was forced to reverse himself amid a surge in cases caused by the Delta variant.

Then there is the border. Arrests of those attempting to cross illegally at the US's southern border hit a two-decade high last month. Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, admitted late last week that the US is facing a "serious challenge" at the border.

Biden's promise to the American people was that his years in public life had best prepared him to avoid the chaos that defined the Trump era. But at the moment, chaos is winning over competence. And that is a major problem for Biden and his administration.

For more, read here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/politics/joe-biden-afghanistan-border-masks-covid-19/index.html

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Its gotten so bad that even CNN is turning on Biden.

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Whatever gets ratings

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IdiotMachine posted...

Its gotten so bad that even CNN is turning on Biden.

I'd rather take this than Moron Insurrection

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Meh, I don't judge any president based on just the first year.

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Everyone knew he was incompetent. They were just desperate to get rid of Trump.

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Chris Cilizza is a very stupid person. His brain has been warped by viewing politics through the horserace lens without any consideration without any consideration for what it produces.

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should have just stayed another century in afganistan!

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CNN is like the "enlightened centrist" of the big news networks.

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To be clear: The rise of the Delta variant -- fueled by the still-unvaccinated and by many Republican governors refusing to follow guidance to mitigate the continued spread -- can't be laid entirely (or even mostly) at Biden's feet.

While Mayorkas blamed at least part of the crisis on the Trump administration, which, he said "dismantled our asylum system,"

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told yall

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Still better than Trump

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All of these are problems that he inherited though.
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Everyone always knew he was an incompetent shitheel, but bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo.
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It's wild how people think CNN and MSNBC just suck Biden off. Nah, they just despise the right and cannot shut up about Trump because of ratings. So them shitting on Trump is hardly surprising.

It is Fox News that worships Trump and doesn't even bother with any pretense of being fair. Just play to their base.

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CNN is facing a crisis of viewers.

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The so-called "liberal" main stream news outlets like CNN carry so much water for Republicans. It's the same thing over and over again.

The Republicans get power and fuck everything up.

Democrats get some power, and try to fix them but have Republicans obstructing them at every turn.

CNN: "Did we make a mistake giving power to Democrats? Look how slow they are at fixing all the bad stuff Republicans did!"

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Southernfatman posted...

CNN is like the "enlightened centrist" of the big news networks.

But I was told they were Far-Left and censored anything left of Super Marx

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20 years arming and training the Afghan security forces and they couldn't even hold the country a week.

The incompetence here is not Biden's.

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CNN thinks presidents are supposed to start wars, not get out of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCM3TM2Iq4k

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It certainly seems like people voted "not Trump" moreso than "Biden".

I don't have the faintest idea of who's going to be running in 2024 for either party.

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I just have no appetite for all these war-mongering hot-takes on Afghanistan. Pulling out of this forever-war was one of the only decisions I agreed with Donald Trump on, and Biden did the right thing in following through.

It could have been done better, but it had to be done. And the human tragedy was always going to be bad, even if both presidents had managed to commit no mistakes along the way.

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FL81 posted...

It certainly seems like people voted "not Trump" moreso than "Biden".

I don't have the faintest idea of who's going to be running in 2024 for either party.

Trump is running again.

Who knows about on the Dems side.

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I thought CNN was fake news?

Are they suddenly a reliable source?

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