The apparent incompetence of the Democrats running our government is so extreme as to beggar belief. Biden couldn’t get his shoes on the right feet without assistance, but are the people who installed him in power and do his thinking for him really as inept as recent events suggest? Alarmingly, maybe not.

Lara Logan makes the case that the disastrous outcome in Afghanistan — complete with thousands of Americans left behind for the Taliban to take hostage — must have been intended:

“The United States government could change this even today. And they don’t do it.”

Why not? Logan doesn’t exactly have the answer, but her insightful questions might put curious journalists on the right track:

Incompetence or treason? Take them to Democrat extremes and they become nearly indistinguishable.

The Trump Administration had a plan in place to evacuate our people and our military equipment in the event of a sudden collapse into Taliban rule. The Biden Administration canceled it. Consequently, Americans are in extreme peril with no help on the way and a massive quantity of US military equipment has fallen into terrorist hands. This argues for deliberate malice over incompetence. It is inconceivable that no one in the White House knew this would happen.

As Andrea Widburg puts it,

It appears that [the USA] is being led by an incompetent moron, but it’s probably worse than that: she is led by people who wish to “fundamentally transform” America and place purported global goals above American well-being, and who don’t care how many people die to achieve their goals.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and Varla.

Meanwhile, as Biden’s moonbat handlers messily return al Qaeda’s 9/11 base to Taliban terrorist hands in a replay of Saigon 1975, they remind us that if we don’t like their pointlessly tyrannical Covid dictates, or if we don’t pretend not to notice that the 2020 election was hardly on the up and up, we are the ones who are terrorists:

The Democrat Party platform known as NBC Nightly News elaborates, via Not the Bee:

DHS says this new terrorism advisory is not based on any actual threats or plots, but it says there’s a rise in antigovernment rhetoric. Some of it is opposition to Covid public health rules like mask and vaccine measures. Some calls for violent action are based on claims of election fraud, or a belief that Donald Trump can be reinstated. And DHS says the coming 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and religious holidays later this year could be catalysts for violence. The last terror advisory was issued in May. It expired today. This new one says domestic extremism remains a threat priority.

Americans patriotic enough not to support the Democrat Party are more a terror threat than the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies.

Maybe that’s because Biden has a strategy to deal with the implacable terrorists who just defeated the USA — beg for mercy and offer bribes:

American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group takes over the country’s government and ever wants to receive foreign aid, three American officials said.

Even now these idiots think they can bribe Islamic terrorists into not making them look bad by butchering Americans. As Daniel Greenfield notes, it didn’t work in Benghazi and it won’t work here.

The next 9/11 will arrive soon, brought to you by Joe Biden and those who voted for him.

If one headline is most emblematic of Biden and the ignominious decline he personifies, this is it:

Global embarrassment will continue to escalate until Democrats have been pried loose from power.

On tips from R F, Anonymous, and Mr. Freemarket.

Joe Biden and/or his handlers didn’t settle for crippling the energy industry, with a predictable effect on gas prices. They are also restricting our access to lumber to build housing and even minerals required for their precious electric cars.

Regarding the minerals,

Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed to placate environmentalists, two administration officials with direct knowledge told Reuters.

Don’t worry that being forbidden from using our own resources will drive up prices by limiting supply. Biden’s handlers can just print some more money.

Speaking of rising prices, lumber has skyrocketed, lifting the cost of housing along with it through the stratosphere. The Biden Administration response to this crisis has been to make it even worse by more than doubling the tariffs on Canadian lumber from 8.99% to 18.32%:

The move to increase tariffs on Canadian lumber suppliers comes as lumber prices have risen over 275% since last April alone. Canada’s share of the US lumber market sits at around 25% as well, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Chuck Fowke, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, can hardly believe it:

“At a time when soaring lumber prices have added nearly $36,000 to the price of a new home and priced millions of middle-class households out of the housing market, the Biden administration’s preliminary finding on Friday to double the tariffs on Canadian lumber shipments into the U.S. shows the White House does not care about the plight of American home buyers and renters who have been forced to pay much higher costs for housing,” Fowke wrote.

Canada has been pushed in the direction of selling its lumber to our ChiCom adversaries instead.

In case a pattern hasn’t emerged yet, consider that Biden is releasing several Gitmo terrorists, including Saifullah Paracha, who planned to smuggle in shipping containers full of C4 for the purpose of blowing up Americans, and Ammar al-Baluchi, who helped prepare the 9/11 hijackers. Both were involved in planning to obtain “chemical or biological agents” from China to use in future terror attacks. Paracha and al-Baluchi also discussed obtaining “radiological or nuclear items” for a big al Qaeda project in the USA.

We are ruled by people who — to put it mildly — do not have our best interests at heart. If the Obama Administration represented the “managed decline” of America, the Biden Administration represents its abruptly induced decline. This would be consistent with the ideology of the radicalized Democratic Party, according to which the USA is a systemically racist and excessively Caucasian font of evil.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and SafeSpace47.

The Biden Administration is hostile to the country it rules. How else to explain its plans to share the fortunes it has been looting from us with our enemies?

Via Daily Caller:

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy urged President Joe Biden’s administration against proceeding with a plan to allocate $650 billion to foreign countries, many of which are hostile to the U.S.

The plan is essentially a multibillion-dollar transfer from taxpayers to the Chinese, Russian and Iranian governments, all of which are hostile to the U.S., Kennedy warned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a letter Tuesday. The Treasury Department plans to allocate the funds through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the form of special drawing rights (SDR) loans without congressional approval.

Who needs congressional approval? The purpose of the Legislative Branch is to pass multi-$trillion blowout spending bonanzas every few months. The Executive Branch can see to everything else. As for the Judicial Branch, that will soon be an extension of the Executive, compliments of court packing.

Our rulers don’t hide their hostility. They rub it our faces. For example:

Biden is expected to announce Tuesday or Wednesday that he is setting Sept. 11, 2021 as the new deadline for a total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to senior administration officials.

Note the date. The troops are there in the first place due to the foolish decision following September 11 to attempt nation-building rather that going after Tora Bora with enough firepower to kill anything within 100 miles. That is, the troops are a reaction to September 11. They should have been withdrawn many years ago, but to set that particular date unnecessarily emphasizes defeat at the hands of Al Qaeda’s Taliban facilitators.

It should be noted that the Taliban repeatedly violated the peace accord brokered by the United States…

That doesn’t matter. Everyone knows that Taliban terrorists will not abide by agreements. They won, so they don’t have to.

Equally alarming is the administration’s support for the Islamic terrorists running Iran. These are America’s most dedicated enemies, even if Biden’s ChiCom benefactors pose a more formidable threat.

On a tip from Varla.