Over and over again, the cluelessness of the Biden administration has people's heads shaking, hitting desks, or simply thrown back in disgusted astonishment.

TELL ME HE DIDN'T SAY THAT

Their complete inability to grasp any given situation was on display again yesterday as our diffident and generally incompetent Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, wandered out to a podium to mumble a few words on the state of the insurgency that had just conquered Syria.

I don't know what I was expecting from this misbegotten spore off the old White House mushroom, but it most assuredly wasn't what came out of this idiot's mouth.

TELL ME HE DIDN'T SAY THAT

Oh, but he did.

This take is going to age badly

— Not Simo Häyhä (@h2av8tor) December 10, 2024

God bless America. How many days are left...?

What sort of deluded fool tells the world that the United States thinks it's a wonderful thing to should be celebrated that, however gratifying it is to see a vile, barbarous dictator meet an ignominious end, that having a radical Islamic terrorist group doing the usurping is somehow 'better'? 

How could he know what these people are and say THIS with a straight face?!

"...After 14 years of conflict and decades of brutal repression under the Assad regime, Syrians finally feel hope for their future. The overwhelming majority of people in Syria have only known life under the iron fist of the Assads.

Now, they will know something else..."

Yeah, pal. You bet your bippy Syrians are going to "know something else" and none of it good. It's just a different, maybe even worse, shade of Schlitzy.

And just how swell DO you think that's going to be in a fundamentalist ISLAMIC regime? Of course, Blinken helped engineer the Taliban's return, and Afghanistan is now a veritable paradise. So much better than it was.

Does Blinken not know these barbarians already have a track record?

Does Blinken not know they were already scooping up women on their way in?

Kurdish women, a religious minority in Syria, have been taken captive by the Islamists who have taken control of Syria.pic.twitter.com/QcFrZWPlpf

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) December 8, 2024

The videos of what Al-Qaeda offshoot group HTS (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham is a coalition of northern Syria-based Sunni Islamist insurgent groups that evolved from Jabhat al-Nusrah, or “Nusrah Front,” al-Qa'ida's former branch in Syria) has been doing as they've taken over Syria are horrifying. Hangings, torture, etc - all the hallmarks of barbarism that Blinken lauds as over because Assad's prison is now open are being perpetrated by an offshoot of the same people who took down the Trade Center.

The American secretary of state just told them, "You go, guys."

Did Blinken not check his own counterterrorism guide to see if these savages were on the list before touting how wonderful it was for Syria to have them in now charge?

Only the Biden administration could look at a resume like HTS leader al-Jolani's and say to themselves, "Ya know. I think we got someone we can work with here. Let's suck up some. See what happens."

CNN must have felt the same because they're worried about offending him by not using an Islamist's pronouns.

CNN put a Salafi Jihadist’s gender pronouns on the screen 🤣 pic.twitter.com/mMiqKKk1KU

— Daddy Milagro (@cupidgeneral) December 10, 2024

Dear Secretary OMG-how-clueless-are-you Blinken - the new bosses are the same, if not worse, than the old boss. Al-Jolani has more boxes ticked than a tourist at a Las Vegas free buffet - al-Qaeda, ISIS, he started his own Islamic fanatic fan club, and now he's the titular head of the 'Syrian' government.

...But, on cue, the neocons crawled out of the woodwork to gloat, finding some solace in the bloodshed and mayhem after their recent electoral drubbing. In a little over 24 hours, they proved that they’ve learned nothing from over two decades of disastrous American meddling in the Middle East.

...Given the makeup of the Syrian rebel coalition (al-Qaida and ISIS ties abound), a “potentially Islamist-flavored” seems like a rosy, even willfully naive, prediction. In reality, Syria will most likely become the Baskin Robbins of the Middle East, with a full 31 flavors of Islamic extremism.

Just look at the warlord who currently controls Damascus, the Syrian capital, and leads the largest group in the rebel coalition. Muhammad al-Jawlani has the resume of a lifelong jihadi. Inspired by the 9/11 terror attack, he got his start fighting U.S. troops for al-Qaida in Iraq in 2003. He then crossed over into Syria in 2011 to help lead the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s affiliate in the country. In 2017, he split with al-Qaida to lead Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a terrorist organization that preaches “popular jihad” and “a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.”

After he became the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the State Department offered a $10 million reward for information that would lead to al-Jawlani’s capture.

The US State Department had its own bounty on this guy's head - how does Blinken ignore that?

But Blinken and happy neo-con warmongers are all "Yaysers - new boss!"

Maybe it's because they saved themselves $10M in cool terrorist reward cha-ching payouts? 

God only knows.

God help everyone involved.

Why is the world a Schlitz sammich?

DIS GUY BLINKEN AND HIS VEGETABLE-BRAINED BOSS

You can bet Syria's gonna get to know "something" else, and real soon. Something so awful that the old boss might not look so bad by comparison.

Contrary to rosy-eyed wish casting, the new boss is gonna suck.

...There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

~ Pete Townshend

The fools were fooled again.