The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden
By: Karol Markowicz
The regime is a total failure. It is getting everything wrong on every issue. There is not one thing that this President has done that is the right thing for America.
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The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden
Last week was another bad one for the continually disappearing Biden administration.
As Americans took to social media to post pictures of bare Dunkin’ Donuts shelves, sold-out milk at big-box stores and other signs of an America in trouble, we learned that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on paternity leave since August.
Buttigieg was always going to be a lightweight transportation chief. He got the job as a reward for dropping out of the presidential race and throwing his support to Joe Biden — and also because he said he likes trains, having gotten engaged at a train station.
My 5-year-old likes trains, too. Yet just because he can say “Choo choo!” with enthusiasm doesn’t mean he can oversee the country’s transportation system. When the country is having supply-chain problems, the transportation secretary’s skills and experience, let alone availability, become rather, uh, indispensable.
Buttigieg can take a two-month paternity leave, but the guy who runs the pizza shop down the block can’t just disappear for two months without putting someone else in charge. Someone has to make the calzone.
Team Biden’s continued mishandling of ships waiting to dock has caused prices of US goods to skyrocket for the first time since 2008. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
The public didn’t even learn about Buttigieg’s break at the start, but only after transportation-related problems exploded around us. Who’s running the shop? Anyone?
This is all in keeping with the way a distracted, carefree, ideological Biden administration has operated the whole time. In September, the president took a weekend beach trip as the disaster on our southern border blew up and 14,000 Haitian migrants camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. As the US pullout from Afghanistan turned into an unmitigated disaster, the president disappeared — surfacing later to claim it was an enormous “success.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been reportedly on paternity leave since August as the supply chain problem grows. CNN
Now, as Americans start to worry about stocking their cupboards and buying Christmas presents, Biden goes more than a week refusing to take any questions. Sorry, but this is unacceptable, no matter who’s president.
Maybe we should’ve known: After all, Biden hid in his basement for much of his presidential campaign, and his aides routinely called early “lids,” telling the press the candidate would be unavailable for the day.
According to economists, the lack of goods being able to arrive at port has been feeding inflation, which is already very high. Mario Tama/Getty Images
But he wasn’t president then; now he is.
Nor are those of his surrogates not on paternity leave offering more reassurance. Last week, Biden chief of staff Ron Klain retweeted a tone-deaf reference to the supply-chain issues as “high-class problems.” Really? It sure doesn’t feel that high-class when people are worrying about getting staples for their home. We all remember the toilet paper shortages during the pandemic last year; did that feel “high-class”?
Asked if holiday gifts would arrive on time, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was positively arrogant: “We’re not the Postal Service,” she huffed.
Prices of goods have been up well over 5 percent over last year for the past several months; the nation hasn’t seen spikes so sharp since 2008. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo/File Photo
Thanks for your concern, Madam Press Secretary.
The supply nightmare has also helped feed inflation: When you manage to find milk on the shelf, a gallon can cost over $8.
What’s Psaki’s answer? “The American people are not looking at cost-to-cost comparisons from this year to two years ago.” Huh? Prices have been up well over 5 percent over last year for the past several months; the nation hasn’t seen spikes so sharp in 13 years.
And why wouldn’t we make comparisons? Biden made lavish promises as a candidate for president about how everything would run super well when he was elected. The country had been wrecked by Orange Man, and Biden would bring normalcy, sanity back to fix it all. Why shouldn’t Americans expect that? Instead, they’re getting just the opposite.
“Look, folks,” Uncle Joe vowed last year, “we’re going to bring the Republicans and Democrats together and deliver economic relief for working families and schools and businesses.” No mention of struggling to find and buy cereal. No mention of administration officials who’d openly sneer at the problems of regular Americans.
No, Jen Psaki, you’re not the Postal Service. You’re worse at your job.
Biden & Co. never stop claiming they “inherited” all their problems from the previous administration. Yes, Joe Biden ran and won on not being Donald Trump. Someone needs to tell the president he can’t govern on that.
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Nothing like a little bit of Quid Pro Quo. (Wasn't that one of the hoaxes thrown at the last administration?)
Governing like that is all he's done for the past 9 months. Not Trump means failing on so many different levels. He's lived up to that every minute. Even his most die hard supporters cannot list a single success since January 6th.
There is no regime.
Quite simply when the pandemic struck, people stopped buying unnecessary products almost in step with each surge.
The back up in the supply chain is world wide and should back ordered product miraculously appear in stores near you
there will still be dampened demand.
We could import a million drivers from China and there still won't be space to store the overstock.
But you can't deny Biden has been a total failure
I can't agree either.
From 11/032020 to 01/20/2021 my portfolio gained 20%
From 01/20 to today I gained another 8%.
Wife and I both collect and both work as hard as we feel like.
Life is great.
How has Biden affected you personally?
How about I speak for myself
and you speak for yourself?
Is that clear enough for YOU?
Split, there is no overstock. The consumer is already buying everything in sight- that is the reason there are shortages. Companies cannot get their product on the shelves fast enough.
Why do you think the big box chains are chartering their own vessels with nothing but their product on it? Companies like Walmart have their own fleet of drivers. They are doing what is necessary to get the goods they need out of the port and onto the store shelves. Why? Because people have money burning a hole in their pockets- and if Walmart is the only place that has the merchandise consumers want they can name their own price!
Think the US automakers don't want their goods off of those vessels? GM had several plants shut down for months because they couldn't get the parts they needed from China. They have vehicles sitting in lots waiting on semi conductors that they cannot move. The cost for a new or even used vehicles is sky rocketing. Think that GM wouldn't love to get their vehicles off the lot, and stop paying storage and taxes on them, and sold to customers?
The whole supply chain problem is far more complicated than people make it out to be. We would be having this problem even w/o Covid 19.
No matter who was president they were going to face this situation. I don't fault Biden for things he has not control over. What I do fault Biden over is lack of workers. Paying people never ending unemployment, rent moratoriums, and continuous stimulus has made it so they don't have to work. Throw in the vaccine mandate and you have an upside down high unemployment with millions of jobs at every level needing to be filled.
What have now is unsustainable. The system is heading for total collapse. Throw in millions of illegals putting further strain on resources and infrastructure and all of the makings for a total economic collapse are there. This one will be much bigger than the housing and stock market collapse; and will take much longer to recover from.
Sure there is, it just happens to be in containers in port and containers on boats. You may call it something else
but it's just semantics /s
Well which fucking version of Biden is destroying the nation does that notion fit into? ( Don;t tell XX ) /s
Can you hold while I get a temperature check from Hell?
Biden was crucified for letting the Federal unemployment benefit of 300 a week expire 09/04/21.
That was roughly 6 weeks ago, what are all of those people living on?
The $600 Trump stimulus checks or the $1,200 Trump Checks or the Biden $1,400 stimulus check in March?
Biden says no more stim checks and no more UEI benefits.
More likely that hard headed people don't want to get vaccinated or be forced to wear masks at work
There ya go, doom & gloom with Illegals for icing.
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If he's right then explain how Biden destroyed anything.
Are you pants aflame with money?
Really, who gets a new job then skips out for two months? It’s not like his body’s been frazzled for the last year.
Everyone in congress?
It would be funny if the guy wasn’t a stick in the eye of women who actually struggle with consequences.