THE BIGGEST LOSER

The entire world knows that the U.S. suffered a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Our influence there is completely gone. Russian and China have already moved into the vacuum. It is impossible to overstate the horror now faced by the people in Afghanistan who foolishly believed the U.S. was a trustworthy ally. We can be certain that thousands if not millions of people in Afghanistan are desperately trying to destroy any evidence that they even knew the U.S. existed. Unfortunately, the Taliban will hunt these people down and the results will be beyond horrible.

Most people are aware of the holocaust and the number of people murdered. But few realize that some estimate up to 30 million people were killed after we left Southeast Asia in a similar fashion. Recall that the last time the Taliban took over they even destroyed some Afghanistan’s ancient treasures including Buddhist statutes. They executed people, cut off limbs and stoned people to death. They will immediately enact Sharia law and enforce it relentlessly.

It will not end there. This is far and away the most humiliating defeat in American history. The damage has been magnified by the performance, or should I say, lack of performance by Joe Biden. He just now returned from Camp David. Over the weekend the White House released a picture of Joe Biden, sitting alone all by himself, at a huge conference table, with TV screens on the opposite wall. It was unclear he was even looking at the screens. Incredibly someone pointed out that the dates on the TV screens were wrong because they reflected Great Britain being on daylight savings time, which ended in March. Perhaps those screens were photoshopped, to prevent anyone from seeing what was actually shown, but they still show the faces of people who would not want to be exposed, such as the CIA station head in Kabul and DOHA station in Qatar. If this is the best the White House could do, then one has to wonder why? The only possible answer is that putting Joe Biden in front of a Television Camera, even for a recorded statement, would have been worse, much worse. This is unprecedented. At a minimum Joe Biden should have issued a statement saying something. Instead, he did nothing.

Today, Jen Psaki is taking the week off. Few people are even trying to pretend this is acceptable. At best, they are trying to pin some of the blame on Donald Trump. Trump did make the decision to withdraw, but if that was a mistake, Biden doubled down on stupid. Biden is taking serious heat from all sides. Yet even though this is unbelievably bad, no one is suggesting Joe step aside and let Kamala Harris take over. No one is discussing her at all. Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect that the double secret probation committee of the establishment in both parties is coming to grips with the enormity of this problem. Some of them are almost certainly saying that “overturning the results of the 2020 election is not the worst case scenario.” The worst case scenario, ironically, is not even Joe Biden remaining President. It is replacing him with Kamala Harris.

We have never seen a constitutional crisis like this before. Democrats are deserting Biden in droves, but like the people in Afghanistan even if they make it to the airport, there is no room for them on the plane. People are rushing in panic toward the only exit. An exit that is increasingly incapable of letting anyone escape. Soon and very soon the people who somehow manage to survive this will be angrier at the United States and Joe Biden than they are at the Taliban. Ultimately everyone is going to ask the same question: “who let this happen on their watch.” No amount of spin is going to save Joe Biden from this self-inflicted crisis. In addition, this completely destroys his credibility as a leader regarding any subject, including COVID.

I cannot possibly predict what comes next. I sure would not want to be living on Taiwan. The entire world is already paying a huge price for the United States choosing Joe Biden to be President. If more evidence comes out that this was the result of systemic fraud, then we will soon learn that the fury of a woman scorned pales in comparison to a nation subjected to this level of incompetence because of a rigged election.

First people will look at this with shock and denial. They will find it hard to imagine that we could muck things up this bad. Then that will turn to anger. How could this happen. Then it will turn to depression, this loss is impossible to ignore. Finally, it will turn to a nationwide movement to fix this.

In early May 1940, Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of Great Britain, and few imagined that would ever change. Winston Churchill, reluctantly appointed by Chamberlain to be First Lord of the Admiralty was considered by the British establishment, to be the worst possible choice for Prime Minister. But things changed rapidly during the first week of May when the British were humiliated in Norway and Hitler ordered the invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. On May 10th Winston Churchill went from being the worst possible choice for Prime Minister to being the only possible choice for Prime Minister.

We have never seen anything like this before. Anything is possible.

TDM