Posted on 09/29/2021 1:29:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
Biden’s most recently revealed Afghanistan lie is just the latest in a string of outright falsehoods and deceptions the White House is resorting to in the face of failure.
Hardly a day passes anymore that resident Joe Biden or members of his administration do not stand before the American people and lie through their teeth.
The latest lie to be exposed came Tuesday, when Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he advised Biden to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and that withdrawing them “would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually, the Afghan government.” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley said he told Biden the same thing.
The generals’ testimony flatly contradicts Biden’s claim in an August 19 interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that none of his military advisors told him to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, or ever warned him that withdrawing those troops would trigger the collapse of the Afghan military and government. Here is how the exchange went:
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told — your military advisors did not tell you, ‘No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that’?
BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.
So either Biden was lying or he simply cannot remember what his top military advisors told him about one of the most important decisions of his presidency. Admittedly, the president is slipping in his old age and often seems confused, but the most straightforward explanation here is that he was deliberately lying to Stephanopoulos about what his generals advised.
During the Trump administration, the corporate press embraced the idea that Trump was always lying about everything, that he could not string together two sentences without inserting some falsehood or deception. Media coverage of Trump was premised on this assumption, even for serious matters like the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.
But Trump’s dishonesty now seems quaint compared to Biden’s. Under Biden, lies have become so commonplace and casual, they constitute a mode of governance for an administration that has proven to be hopelessly out of its depth on every major issue and profoundly incompetent in the face of every crisis. If the stakes were not so high, the abject lying — and the media’s willingness to go along with it — would be comical.
Often, the lies are obvious, like when Biden said last week that mounted Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, were “running over” Haitians migrants and “strapping” or whipping them with their reins, a false claim that was repeated over and over by the press and administration officials after photos of a horse patrol confronting illegal immigrants appeared on social media.
Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border:
"To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It's outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay." pic.twitter.com/Jx79KoYTy9
Before Biden even repeated this smear, along with a vile threat that the Border Patrol agents involved “will pay,” the whole story had been proven to be a complete fiction. The agents did not whip or strike anyone. In fact, they did exactly as they are trained to do, using their reins to control the horses and maintain a safe distance between horse and pedestrian.
The photographer who took the viral photos later confirmed he never saw the mounted Border Patrol agents strike anyone, and subsequent video footage of the incident should have settled the matter definitively. Instead of slandering and threatening the agents, the president should have come out and apologized to them profusely.
Sorting through my footage from the border. I was in the river during the viral incident between a Haitian migrant and mounted CBP agent. It's shaky – but here's what I captured. pic.twitter.com/fnvxSU83tO
— Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) September 24, 2021
But Biden appears to be incapable of not lying all the time, even when his abject dishonesty is an insult to the intelligence of every American. It is simply pervasive.
Consider the idiotic lie Biden was peddling last week, that his $3.5 trillion climate change and welfare bill would actually cost zero dollars. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who is terrible at her job in part because she’s such a clumsy and unconvincing liar, went on to repeat the “zero dollars” false claim on Monday.
What all these lies obscure is rank incompetence on the part of the Biden administration. From the southwest border to Afghanistan to the pandemic response, every crisis that comes along has been bungled by this White House, and in every case the default response of Biden’s team is to lie about what is happening and why.
That is how you get hundreds of Americans left behind in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan after the Biden administration spent weeks claiming it would not leave until every American who wanted to leave was safely evacuated. Specifically, Biden said on August 18 that if there were still U.S. citizens in Afghanistan on the Aug. 31 deadline who wanted to leave, “We’re gonna stay to get them all out.”
We did not, and it seems clear in retrospect that Biden had no intention of leaving any U.S. troops in Afghanistan after Aug. 31, no matter how many Americans would be stranded behind enemy lines as a result.
What we can conclude from this pattern of deception is simply that Biden does not feel the need to give straight answers about any decision he makes or policy he enacts. He will not be honest about what his advisors tell him or about what he intends to do on any given issue.
Above all, Biden has made it clear, through an unrelenting fusillade of lies, that he does not consider himself to be the least bit accountable to the American people, does not think ordinary rules and norms apply to his administration, and does not think he owes anyone an honest word about anything that happens on his watch.
He has decided, that is, to govern by lies. The least we can do, at this point, is be honest about that.
I like the headline, though that was not your intent!
Biden has made it clear, through an unrelenting fusillade of lies:
that he does not consider himself to be the least bit accountable to the American people,
does not think ordinary rules and norms apply to his administration,
and does not think he owes anyone an honest word about anything that happens on his watch.
Just so. Biden, the generals, the a—holes at State, the cabinet; they all just say what they want, do what they want, and there is no accountability from the press, the courts, or anyone else. We are in new and dangerous territory as far as governance goes.
So what will happen? We will get Obama’s skirt-puppet.
Anyone seen Hunter Biden lately, Bag-man for the addled Big Guy?
“.....I can’t recall.”
Let’s face it, Biden can’t recall what he had for breakfast!
Isn’t it grand to see Army generals throw (the resident) under the bus. Milley is a sad excuse for a military leader.
How was he ever promoted from 2nd LT to 1st LT?
(one needs to be only warm and ambulatory!)
The ribbons are the give-away for Milley. He is a faker.
And he will not resign. Not an ounce of Honor in his body.
<>But Trump’s dishonesty now seems quaint compared to Biden’s.<>
WTF? WHAT DISHONESTY? Did he lie when he said Xiden was in China’s pocket?
So why do they keep saying the persons making less than $400K will not see a tax raise? Is this the one item of truth? I think not.
Biden is the best faker there is! He beats Hollywierd, he beats Obama, he beats them all... You watch TV and you see veteran actors pale in comparison with Biden’s dementia role playing. Biden is a master of the art of acting and lying. That and being a real crook has got him into the White House. The “BIG GUY” is NO feeble dementia Joe. His handlers are doing everything on cue to give us the impression that he is “LOCO” “CRAZY” “Ill” but you’re being horned-swoggled.
Remember the subtle hints that Harris will take over? It’s just bait, just bait that you bite when being played and reeled in. The whole BIDEN edifice and administration is based on LIES.____L__I__E__S__!!!____ They all lie now with impunity, reckless abandon and WHIM. Why? Because they can — there are no consequences.
So JOE is the LIAR in Chief. Everything is a lie... even the dementia horseshit. It’s all acting. It’s all from the Tommy Twosome Newsom School of Hollywood acting. It would be nice to think that the lying is really just a product of incompetence. But that doesn’t do it justice... The lying is a way of life. It is a WAY OF LIFE as propaganda is a way of life in communist countries. Everything is phony.
That is Joe Biden... Phony as the day is long, phony as a three dollar bill, phony as a phony, pony soldier. He is like Judy Garland on the set of “The Wizard of Oz” play-acting it’s all REAL. But it’s all make believe. The real WIZARD is somebody like Soros. But Biden is a paid actor. He is not the real President of the United States. He’s a real faker for the really fake news, fake times we live in.
BIDEN IS THE MAN FROM L.I.A.R.
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