While everybody discusses Biden's mistakes nobody seems to have taken notice that the Germans transported a 27 ton rock from Afghanistan to Germany (by air!) which reminds of the 59 fallen German soldiers.
When this was reported on German TV (May 27th 2021) they also said, that they took no Afghani helpers along!
Talk about setting priorities.

I could not find anything about this in English, which quiet amazes me. Knowing people want a second source to me, here is a link in German.

If you look at many world leaders today, they often do not act irate and like a bomb waiting to go off at any moment. There's nothing wrong with a politician being in control of his emotions and / or not treating their presidency like a reality television show.

Someone doesn't have to behave like a tyrant or a dictator or have a "celebrity-like personality" to be a good leader. In fact, one of the things I appreciate about Biden is that he's focusing more on the job itself than on the attention it brings him.

Reuters

HTH

Not only the US, today the Australians issued 100 visas to their Afghan helpers but how they will reach the airport to be evacuated is not known.

Oh for sure. Why do I have to think of Helsinki now?

Your comment about Nato needs some explanation.

Trump signed the withdrawal agreement in February 2020, then on April 14, 2021 — saying it is “time to end the forever war,” Biden announces that all troops will be removed from Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
So it was not a secret from NATO.

Nato withdrew all their troops before the US so it is hard to believe they did not know what the plan was and presumably, they did not evacuate any Afghan helpers then?

No doubt. Nonetheless that doesn't absolve him. "the buck stops here".

Biden couldn't boast too much about "his" vaccination success. He just as much inherited the covid vaccines, the distribution and application plans, from Trump as he inherited the situation in Afghanistan.
In between the number had fallen to zero or something very close to that. You know that, ignoring that makes your statement a lie by omission.

To be fair, it seems how the guy doesn't even know on which planet he is otherwise he would've continued doing the catwalk and "charm-talk" just as he and barak did for years before.

Vaccines were purchased under the previous administration. Rollout largely on s state basis afaik. Biden then set a target (100M doses in 100 days) that was truly unmissable. Not sure what he deserves credit for on that front.

Corporation tax is gimmick that won't work. On the contrary, removal of DSTs will probably create even more loopholes.

I am no expert on this, but there seemed to be consensus among public health experts that the delivery side of vaccines was severly underdeveloped in the Trump org.

Corp min tax is something I agree is difficult to put together. In my view, the positives are two things: (1) it could (if it works) reduce an unfair benefit to multinationals that smaller business do not have and therefore be positive for competition and (2) it could revive a multinational problem solution process that is missing on so many other fronts.

Also please add subjects where you feel the Biden admin is failing. I have no strong views, but can't see it as bad as you seem to.

- reintroduced CRT indoctrination of federal employees.
- tried to introduce CRT teachings at schools by making subsidies conditional on them teaching CRT.

- allows the continued discrimination of and racism against Asians and Whites at Yale, and by colleges and universities at large. The DOJ was suing Yale for the practice, Biden ordered the DOJ to withdraw/drop the case.

Hyper inflation anyone? Border crisis/Covid crisis as unvaccinated illegals enter and proliferate? And now the Afghanistan debacle? And it is only been 7-8 months since Biden took office?

Biden is now bringing up analogies to "Jimmy Carter on steroids"...Not a good look. And his press conferences reveal a man addled with dementia. He is confused and I frankly feel sorry for him.

I don't see how he can continue as President frankly. Watch this you tube video and enlighten me if you can discern any stutter previous to his 2020 Presidential campaign?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBEHMxCg8w

So sad; he should never have been elected to this role. But what choice did we have as Americans? Two octogenarians running for office... A narcissist and one saddled with dementia. Ughh!

I don't know what the answer is. But I don't think Kamala is the remedy...

I always like Tulsi Gabbard; she was a democrat centrist and extremely bright/articulate. But, I think she threatened the military establishment/Pentagon...sad but true.

One of the other striking things is Biden's "deer in the headlights" look when he speaks. He used to blink and have expressive eyes, as in the video. Now... I don't know if it's the face/eye lifts (he is not far from Pelosi-obvious in that, as increasingly typical for US politicians), or perhaps medication?

It's interesting, the ways people try to self-validate their dislike of Biden. I feel sorry for anyone out there over the age of of 70 who is accused of having dementia if they don't speak fast or anytime they mispronounce something, etc. Apparently, Biden is now also not blinking enough. I also feel sorry for anyone else out there who is accused of having dementia due to their speech disorder.

I'm repeatedly noticing that most people who are so critical of Biden's handling of the situation in Afghanistan have not offered any viable, alternative solutions and are choosing to ignore the fact that Biden and his administration are doing everything possible to safely evacuate Americans and refugees and according to a specific deadline that was extended as part of a deal that he did not even originally make. Even US commercial airliners are now being used to assist in the evacuations, and thousands of people are being evacuated daily.

But hey, I guess it's much easier to blame Biden for a mess that's been 20 years in the making and to assume that any other US president would be somehow automatically able to make this situation less messy or that much less complex than it currently is.

Play the ball, not the man

I have to date not met one person who could convincingly explain to me what CRT is or does.

It seems like an artificial shitstorm accelerator to me, on both sides.

Most people on this forum don't have an intelligence service or an army

First, look up what hyperinflation means.

Then, we see inflation coming back everywhere. This has started in 2020 with commodity prices recovering, now in 2021 they have taken off. There is also continued stress on supply chains and worker availability due to structural changes brought by Covid. All this is accelerated by asset inflation supported by ultra-lax central bank policies.

The one factor that the Biden administration contributed here was the stupid helicopter money give away. Which, again, was supported by the majority of the GOP because all politicians love to literally hand money to people.

The Fed and some other central banks have now started to send some, still very mild signals that they will reduce asset purchases. Hopefully they will manage to turn this around softly without disturbing the markets and the real economy too much.

Or any original thoughts.

Its a Marxist 'theory' which frames everything in racial terms.