by Mustang
An ancient Chinese philosopher once advised, “Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”
A good battlefield commander will choose the time and place of the fight, but long before he arrives at that decision, he must know his own strengths and weaknesses and know his opponent. What are the enemy’s goals? How does he intend to achieve them? For what purpose?
America — do you know who you are and what you stand for?
We have known the enemy’s goals for 174 years. Many of us have first-or-second-hand knowledge of the enemy’s intentions. We, our parents, or our grandparents fought the enemy for at least 72-years … and we witnessed the enemy’s defeat. The enemy then was communism. Its proponents were the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The fight necessitated giving up thousands of our loved ones. It was a hard-fought battle that resulted in well over 100-million deaths.
The fight was started by two men who died long before any of us was born. Karl Marx (1818-1883) — a self-loathing Jew, was raised in an upper-middle-class family, wealthy enough to send Karl to the University to study law, where he whiled away his time drinking, dallying, failing, and then taking up philosophy. Marx’s partner, Fredrich Engels (1820-1895), was the scion of a wealthy industrialist. Of the two, perhaps Engels had the most significant input to the Communist Manifesto (1847), and Engels may have been the more radical of the two. Both men, while raised as protestants, later professed atheism. Their atheism makes perfect sense because these two men produced the world’s wickedest ideology. Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels laid the foundation for humanity’s worst suffering; it continues today.
Marx and Engels
Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 or China’s adoption of communism’s lighter side, its threat remains. Russia and China today remain adversaries. The leaders of these two countries have softened their approach, but many of their philosophical strategies and tactics remain unchanged.
The timetable for achieving worldwide domination has shifted, however. After the fall of the Soviet Union, communist leaders realized that it would take them much longer to achieve their goals. The delay involves a process of retooling — starting over, as it were, to convince younger generations that the murder and suffering of tens of millions of people never actually happened.
The conversation has already shifted. We no longer talk about communism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, or Maoism. We instead refer to these communist-inspired philosophies as human progress. Progressivism is less objectionable. A progressive-minded person, they argue, is admirable, worthy, caring, and humane. The success of this argument is readily apparent by the number of modern nations (having repudiated national socialism in the mid-20th century) today embrace democratic socialism: the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the United States of America.
The purpose of socialism is communism.
It does not matter how well you dress up a pig; it’s still a pig. Whether you choose to use the word “Marxism” or “Progressivism,” this scheme only works by dividing human beings into classes and then setting them against one another. Divide et impera.
The language used by Marxists tells us who they are. In the early 20th century, the communists urged and fully expected the down-trodden workers to “Rise! Seize the means of production” and “overthrow the capitalists!” Rise. Seize. Overthrow. The problem for the Bolsheviks was that there was no popular uprising of workers — not in Russia, not in China, and certainly not in the United States. There was no prevalent abandonment of life in Russia; the Russian Revolution was nothing more than a well-orchestrated coup d’état.
Nor was there a widespread abandonment of Chinese culture in 1949. Communism came to China as a combination of two things: another coup d’état combined with a general weariness of government corruption by Chang Kai-shek, the nationalist leader at the time.
And yet, the result of both revolutions was similar: unfathomable human suffering in labor camps, public show trials that served as warnings to dissidents, retribution directed toward the families of dissidents, murder on an unbelievable scale, mass starvations … and in the end, more than 100-million dead. What, then, recommends communism to anyone?
Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels were the authors of the world’s darkest days — and one would think that the world had had enough of it. Why, then, has it reemerged in the 21st century? Why, of all places, in the United States?
Communism was never compatible with American society. The only classes in the United States were those devised by pseudo-intellectual academicians and government bureaucrats to push forward their various agendas. No matter the circumstances of their birth, every American has always had the opportunity to rise above that station and pursue happiness and fulfillment as they, themselves, envisioned it. Some of us made good decisions, some of us didn’t. Some of us benefitted from education, hard work, and good citizenship, while some suffered the effects of laziness of mind and spirit, which consigned them to poverty and bitterness. Others became victims of the Democratic party’s efforts to discriminate against them because of the color of their skin.
American society has never been a utopia — and the United States’ enlightened government never claimed a utopian goal. Still, most Americans (not all, sadly) firmly believe in the American dream. This uniquely American vision is the reason so many millions came to America.
Despite the 600,000 Americans who died in the quest to free all men from the filth of slavery, and even though these freedmen overwhelmingly supported republicanism for over 70 years, American blacks were fooled by a massive shift in political strategy within the Democratic Party. It began around 1933 but went into full swing in the 1960s.
When Democrats realized black Americans would not be intimidated by the terror of white supremacist organizations, they found a new way to put the Negro in his place. Rather than relegating Jim Crow to inferior status through segregation laws, Democrats offered him “free” benefits. All Mr. Crow had to do to receive those benefits was to vote for Democratic politicians and accept their premise that blacks were in every way inferior to whites. The Democrat’s success in this effort has been overwhelming — and there are few better examples of Marxism at work inside the United States than this.
If we wanted to understand why adults behave the way we do, look no further than their family structure and how they were raised. When children grow into adulthood, their behavior reflects that of their parents. What, then, do children learn from disorganized homes? They know, and pass on to their children, all the undesirable characteristics of a stressed society: the relegation of women to roles of dependency, abandonment of children to one-parent enclaves within black-only tenements, rejection of education as a pathway to success, lack of self-respect or sense of self-worth, reliance on or addiction to harmful substances, and acceptance of the greatest discriminator of all — low expectation. Our black communities have not yet tired of this horrendous treatment; in fact, they continue to embrace it.
Beginning in the late 1960s, radical sociologists and communist agitators Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven (at Columbia University) developed a strategy guaranteed to keep blacks enslaved to the good graces of the Democratic Party. Remember, in 1966, Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. There is no better description of their intent to create racial division and destroy American society than in their own words:
“Conservative Republicans are always ready to declaim the evils of public welfare, and they would probably be the first to raise a hue and cry. But deeper and politically more telling conflicts would take place within the Democratic coalition … Whites – both working-class ethnic groups and many in the middle class – would be aroused against the ghetto poor, while liberal groups, which until recently have been comforted by the notion that the poor are few … would probably support the movement. Group conflict, spelling political crisis for the local party apparatus, would thus become acute as welfare rolls mounted and the strains on local budgets became more severe.”
The preceding, then, was a reformulation of Marxist theory as it applied to life in the United States. Since there was no class struggle in America, Cloward-Piven created one. Gone was the original struggle between labor and capitalist industrialists, replaced with the beginning of identity (racial) politics. This work continues today, redefined as progressive ideology and democratic socialism, along with an even more recent buzz phrase: Critical Race Theory (CRT).
This new invention first appeared in the early 1990s. Initially viewed as just another academia/progressive “dingbat” theory, CRT has since become the default ideology of all of America’s institutions — from federal and state government agencies, public school systems, teacher’s colleges, and even within corporate board rooms. It’s easy enough to recognize. Since the truth of it is bothersome to most Americans, as neo-Marxism, CRT proponents instead refer to it as diversity training, inclusion training, equity training, and social justice awareness programs. Equity, for example, sounds sensible and is easily confused with the traditional American concept of equality.
There is no correlation between the two. As proclaimed in the founding documents and civil war amendments, equality demands that we afford every citizen with the same opportunities. It is the reason we have public schools, for example, and civil and voting rights legislation. CRT advocates reject this notion, however. To them, equal opportunity simply means white supremacy and the oppression of racial and ethnic minorities. Something more is needed, they argue.
Equity demands the suspension of property rights, seizing wealth from those who earned it, and distributing that wealth to people of color. One such advocate of this proposal is Cheryl Harris, a UCLA law professor; another is Boston University’s Ibram X. Kendi. These morons demand the creation of a new federal agency called the Department of Anti-Racism — an independent agency with the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law, including our Constitutional guarantees of free speech, expression, association, religion, the right to bear arms, or any behavior deemed by the department as insufficiently anti-racist. According to Kendi, “In order to be sufficiently anti-racist, you also have to be anti-capitalist.”
Equity programs would end private property, end federalism, and subject earned income and investments to redistribution to those who just happen to have darker skin color than the rest of us. So, what have the CRT advocates done so far? Their behaviors so far have been mostly confined to brainwashing and propaganda. The Federal Bureau of Investigation began conducting workshops on intersectional theory. The Department of Homeland Security informed its white employees that they were guilty of mico-inequity and determined to re-socialize them into less “oppressive” behaviors. The Treasury Department wanted its employees to know that their whiteness contributed to racism. At the nuclear facility at Sandia Labs, white male executives were forced to attend a re-education camp where they learned that “white male culture” was comparable to the Klu Klux Klan — an institution formed, manned, and maintained by the Democratic Party.
To a real American, CRT is a bad omen for the future of American democracy, but it gets even worse in public schools, where children are systematically brainwashed to lament their own race — an indoctrination not unlike that which encourages young children to despise their natural sex. In Philadelphia, a middle school forced its fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism.” In Seattle, Washington, one teacher in-service program informed teachers that they are guilty of black children’s spiritual “murder.”
“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Recognizing CRT for what it is, President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting CRT training within the federal government. Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s order on his very first day in office. Beyond President Trump’s actions, is anyone else in government pushing back against this new communist assault upon the American Republic? The official answer is, for the most part, no. I do not doubt that the good Americans subjected to this form of brainwashing will retain their core beliefs while avoiding any discussion on the merits (or lack of them) of CRT. But maintaining core values while remaining silent about this new assault on American freedom simply will not do. Not among officials, and not among everyday Americans, either.
Where is the repudiation of CRT? Are these communist morons making genuine headway toward transforming our country into a new Soviet state? While most Americans today, even conservatives, hesitate to speak openly about social, political, or racial issues, proponents of CRT have free reign to espouse their view without fear of any contradiction. Have most Americans become intimidated, or have they simply dismissed the CRT argument as hogwash? One pundit claims that the CRT bunch has constructed a rat trap argument: anyone who disagrees with CRT becomes evidence of white oppression. It is a clever strategy, but will “normal” America let it proceed unchallenged? My hope is that real Americans will loudly repudiate every notion that our nation was founded on racism and then renounce even louder every attempt to mount yet another communist coup d’état against our Constitutional form of government.
To defeat this “enemy,” — and that specific characterization of modern-day communists is accurate and proper, we must know the enemy, know their intents, and recognize their strategies for what they are. To those who would suggest that Marxism is simply another political point of view, stop and realize that America’s repudiation of communism encompasses traditional precedents. We real Americans renounce communism because of its harm to the entire world. One-hundred million dead and still counting. Fellow Americans — we are at war. There can be little question that these CRT buffoons follow the same path as Stalin, Beria, Khrushchev, Mao, and Pol Pot.
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[1] There are several similar statements in this vein attributed to Vladimir Lenin. The most popular of these is “Give me a child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevist forever.” According to Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George at Oxford (1989), the attribution originated with J. Edgar Hoover in his testimony before Congress on 4 March 1966. Boller/George believe that “it is doubtful” Lenin ever made this statement because, since it was attributed to him in 1923, several strokes during that year incapacitated him to the point where he did no serious writing. Lenin, of course, died in January 1924. The pronouncement “It is doubtful” doesn’t discount the statement, only questions whether he made it, possibly misattributed to 1923. Since the source of the quote is J. Edgar Hoover, there is always room for doubt.
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Don’t believe your lying eyes.. The Hill flashed this headline on Friday with the MSM following including some to the Sunday talkies. Friday, April 16, 2021.
A majority of Americans — 59 percent — approve of President Biden‘s handling of his job as he approaches 100 days in office, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Friday. One big problem. Of the 5,109 polled, 1,706 were GOP leaning and 3,253 were Dem leaning. That Factoid was missing from The Hill post. Let’s follow the script.
The poll found Biden’s job approval is up 5 percentage points from 54 percent in March, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of his work thus far.
Biden’s 59 percent approval rating is 20 percentage points higher than that of former President Trump‘s in a Pew poll from April 2017 and is similar to the approval ratings of former Presidents Obama and George W. Bush in April of their first terms.
Biden has been buoyed by support for his tone and rhetoric, as well as his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Pew poll found 72 percent of Americans believe the Biden administration has done an excellent or good job managing vaccine production and distribution
Forty-six percent said they like how Biden conducts himself in the job, compared to 27 percent who don’t, and 44 percent of respondents said they believe Biden has changed the tone of political debate for the better, compared to 29 percent who said he’s made it worse.
So let’s take a look at who was polled!
The Pew poll surveyed 5,109 adults from April 5 to 11, which was days before the Biden administration recommended pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The poll has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.
If you dig really deep and review the poll, on page 7 you will find this little surprise. It took me 30 minutes to find it even though I know it was suppose to be there so I doubt too many followed the bread crumbs. Pages of mumbo jumbo on the so called “Methodology.” Here is the bottom line:
The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish. The panel is being managed by Ipsos.
This brought back memories of the Gallup polling company. According to Rasmussen:
Now that Gallup has quit the field, Rasmussen Reports is the only nationally recognized public opinion firm that still tracks President Biden’s job approval ratings on a daily basis.
A post I did back in 2013.
October 11, 2013 — bunkerville
(I will give you the post in its entirety.)
I was happily moving along last night, getting my post ready with the good news polls that reflected that things were moving our way, when out of nowhere I hear O’Reilly on the tube. Puffed up and preening how the Gallup poll out today demonstrates his acumen that the Right Wingers were crashing the GOP and he of course had foretold all of this.
Republican approval rating falls to lowest point in Gallup poll history Houston Chronicle (blog) - 5 hours ago
First the good news from two polls:
AP Poll: Obama Approval Plummets to 37 – this from the AP no less.
Breitbart: Poll: Democrats Lose Lead in Congressional Generic Ballot
In another edition of the polls the media won’t cover, between September 29 and October 6, Democrats have lost a four point lead in Rasmussen’s generic ballot that asks voters if they would vote for a Democrat or Republican in the upcoming midterm elections. That poll is now tied at 40% – 40%. At the end of last month, Democrats led 42% – 38%.
Now from an earlier post. Keep in mind this was at a time when the Presidential race was in full swing. Obama was behind Romney.
What Axelrod and his co-conspirators are really worried about are Gallup’s jobless numbers.
First, I was surprised to learn that they have a number of polling contracts with the government. How can one remain independent with this nefarious regime? How can they do Presidential political polls and yet retain their “objectivity”. Here we go:
Twice this summer, Gallup has published a report calling into question discrepancies between its unadjusted research and what is being tallied in the adjusted Official statistics. In reporting in its latest jobless numbers — in a commentary titled August Unemployment Not Looking Good — Gallup noted (emphases added):
Regardless, barring heroic adjustments or a sharp change in direction, Gallup data suggest the seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate for August will increase — possibly substantially — when announced in early September.
In other words, Gallup said the only way unemployment numbers don’t go up next month is if someone in Obamaland puts a finger on the scale.
Within days of the Gallup Organization issuing, essentially, a veiled warning to the Obama gang about tinkering with unemployment numbers, Obama’s DOJ jumped, jackboots first, into a multi-million dollar legal action against Gallup, in a case initiated by a former Obama operative. (Ed: David Axelrod. Anyone surprised?)
A few days later, Eric Holder dropped the fifty-pound sledgehammer on Gallup, joining in a “whistleblower” action. The original complaint alleges that the Gallup organization inflated the number of hours required to do polling projects for the U.S. Mint, the State Department, and other federal agencies. (Why federal agencies even think they need to do polling is another subject for another time.)
Full story at Atlas Shrugs
Comments from Trapshooters thread:
Date: Sat, Sep 08, 2012 – 07:36 PM ET Website Address:
Anyone else noticed the sudden shift in Gallup’s poll results?
From: Brian in Oregon Email: Date: Sat, Sep 08, 2012 – 10:46 PM ET Website Address:
Note the improved poll numbers, click on the link for the numbers:
“Got my mind set right, boss. See? Obama’s numbers are up, boss, way up”, Cool Hand Gallup.
After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama’s Department of Justice hit it with an unrelated lawsuit that appears damning on its face. …
Gallup has been a thorn in Obama’s re-election efforts since it began to publish polling numbers showing Romney leading the incumbent Democrat. The polling organization has also, according to the American Thinker blog, published employment data which, unlike numbers from Obama’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, does not set aside statistics which are not politically helpful to the president.
Many of the above links are now dead, but the Got my mind set right, boss. See? Obama’s numbers are up, boss, way up”, Cool Hand Gallup. is still live. One can speculate:
Each seven-day rolling average is based on telephone interviews with approximately 3,050 registered voters; Margin of error is ±2 percentage points. Results from April 15 through May 6 are based on five-day rolling averages with approximately 2,200 registered voters each; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points. Editorial note: Due to a technical issue, the May 1-5 data point is not displayed at this time.
Those darn data points.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)
That is the best the swamp offers today.
If you are in need of a chill out, this respite should help. Titled “The Ocean”, it gives us a chance to visit our fellow travelers under the oceans. Unfortunately the creator did not include the title nor composer. Setting that aside, I enjoy the wonderful photography and music that accompanied the work. I suggest watching it in full screen.
Twitter was on the fritz off and on yesterday. If you missed my Saturday post, here is a link. It seems most of the links are up.
Wishing you a wonderful day with much peace.
Let’s see what mischief our fellow earthlings have gotten themselves into this week. It’s Saturday and time for a break and maybe a smile or two.
Animals rule this week.
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That is all folks. Have a great day.
Something to brighten the day. The Jester who has been running our country gets knocked around a bit finally.
During a House hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Rep. Steve Scalise asked if the detention practices on the southern border conformed to proper COVID-19 protocols.
Bonus time. Coming to your town soon. Apparently on our way here in mine.
Illegal Migrant Children from El Paso, Texas Arrive in Erie,PA – More Children are Expected to Follow
The children — 146 girls — arrived at the Erie International Airport around 9 p.m. on a direct, 3-hour flight from El Paso, Texas.
The Boeing 737 — a government-contracted flight — taxied to nearby North Coast Air, where the children deboarded onto three buses bound for a dormitory at the Pennsylvania International Academy in Summit Township.
Trish Danner, spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services said that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may eventually contract local teachers to instruct English, geography, and math for the children.
The very best of the swamp.
Just the beginning as to what the Democrats have in mind ultimately. Let’s see how easy the medicine goes down. Of course let’s start with the ammo and gun magazines.
A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and the Senate on Wednesday introduced gun control legislation that would ban the sale, manufacturing, transfer, possession or importation of magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds.
The bill comes after President Biden last week called on Congress to ban “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines.
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Reps. Diana DeGette of Colorado, Ted Deutch of Florida, and Dina Titus of Nevada, rolled out the legislation Wednesday, known as the Keep Americans Safe Act.
Magazines holding more than 10 rounds were banned for 10 years under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. “We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence,” the Department of Justice-funded study concluded in 2004. “Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”
The legislation would also authorize a “high-capacity” magazine buyback program; require any “high-capacity” magazines manufactured after the bill is enacted to have a “conspicuous serial number” and date of manufacture printed on it, so that it can be identified by law enforcement; and ensure law enforcement agencies have the authority to “seize and destroy high-capacity magazines possessed illegally.”
More at Fox News
Recall this? Biden learned from the master.
Note Obama used the“National emergency powers” he believed he had.
According to a Presidential Executive Order issued Wednesday, the importation of AKs manufactured by the Kalashnikov Concern in Izhmash, Russia has been banned.
This includes the popular “Saiga” line of rifles and shotguns.
Other than that all is well in the swamp.
Daunte Wright is dead, killed by a police officer. Let’s see if we can follow the response of the government officials. Keep in mind it was the police officer who did the shooting. Now for the scapegoats who must put their career necks on the block as if that will change anything. Rather the city descends into administrative chaos.
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon and Police Officer Kim Potter resigned from their positions April 13, Mayor Mike Elliott announced at a press conference.
Tony Gruenig, commander of the department’s patrol division, was appointed acting chief of the department.
“As of this morning, we have received a resignation letter from officer Kim Potter and in addition to that, we have also received a letter of resignation from the police chief,” Elliott said.
The council fired former City Manger Curt Boganey April 12 and gave Elliott command powers over the police department. Fired for his remark regarding Due Process would be given to the police officer.
“I am in charge (of the police department) ultimately,” Elliott said. “Obviously the acting city manager has day-to-day responsibilities over the department, so that is the chain of command.” From Home Town Source
This should work out swell. Then we have Jesse Waters giving us some inconvenient facts.
I will conclude with this… more truth than fiction I do believe.
Babylon Bee: Media Thrilled To Be Covering Good Kind Of Riots Again…
U.S.—Media organizations across the country announced today they are relieved to be covering the good kind of riots again, now that people are looting Targets for justice again instead of protesting their government.
“It was pretty rough there for a while,” said Rachel Maddow. “We had to cover the dark days of the violent insurrection. But now that people are stealing Nikes to protest racial injustice, we can return to feel-good reporting about the good riots that are happening.”
“It’s just the Spring of Love around here!” she added happily.
The best of the swamp today.
Back to Chinese Checkers
by Mustang
A few interesting developments among the so-called China watchers. There is nothing for you to do about this, of course, but I thought it would provide at least some amusement. So, there is this fellow named Sandeep Dhawan who writes advice to the US State Department suggesting what they ought to do about China. I’m sure the State Department appreciates this advice — the Lord knows if anyone needed advice, it’s the US State Department. Sandeep’s bona fides include the fact that he’s a former commander in the Indian navy. I found this curious, so I did a few minutes of G-searching and could not find one single incident where the Indian Navy ever distinguished itself in a combat role at sea. Well, it may not matter.
Russia India and China
Sandeep is concerned because, as the United States withdraws from its foreign outposts, China is moving in to “fill up the vacuum.” Moreover, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s latest visit to the Middle East seems to indicate (to Sandeep) that China is definitely “moving in.” Now, maybe it’s just me, but … so what? Yi’s vow to “work with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, UAE, Bahrain, and Oman to “help protect their core interests against foreign interference” doesn’t bother me in the least. More to the point, if Iran invaded Saudi Arabia tonight at midnight, I couldn’t care less. Remember, I have long advocated that the solution to the petty tyrants in the Middle East is to convince the Saudis that the Iranians are good to eat. Sorry, my friends, but I don’t care if China spends all of its silver taels on Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Eritrea, or on Huey, Dewey, and Louie. In fact, I think China should spend all their money in the Middle East. We American taxpayers need a break.
Note: I wonder if China realizes that all those countries hate each other almost as much as they hate us?
What does concern me, however, is that given America’s hunger for Chinese-made plastic bowls, it will be OUR spending at Wal-Mart that will actually fund China’s mischief in the Middle East. Painfully, we all know that the average female shopper at Wal-Mart would trade in her first born son for a set of eight plastic storage bowls if they come in multiple colors. Yeah, patriotism is important, so long as it doesn’t interfere in plastic storage ware.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi are forming a mutual support arrangement. They didn’t do this when Trump was president, of course … they know what a war hungry maniac Trump was. But now that Joe Biden’s in the White House … well, off come the gloves. Truly, this IS the danger of electing a nitwit to the presidency, and a former prostitute as his Vice … do you think anyone in the old country will respect America’s leadership, or will they take advantage of the opportunities handed to them by the American voter?
Note: I don’t know for a fact that Kamala Harris ever was a prostitute, but that’s what Peter, who comments here, said — and it may all boil down to how one defines prostitution, but for the record I trust Peter, and this should go a long way toward reducing what I owe him.
But let’s be optimistic … even assuming that China and Russia “divide the world” among them, so what? At some point in the future, the American dim-bulbs who voted for Biden will be called away and we’ll end up with a president with cajones. After this new president nukes everyone one who is friends with China or Russia, the world will belong to us. Then we can start fighting among ourselves, which is what we like to do almost better than anything (except Wal-Mart shopping).
Mustang’s take on the post Chinese checkers in the Middle East: Play or Perish
The government could require you to hand over your passport to tech companies before posting online in a move that’s been slammed by experts.
The Australian government is mulling a proposal which would require citizens to provide at least two forms of identification if they want to use social media, under the guise of ‘battling online bullying and more easily report users to authorities.
I thought the Aussies had more sense. But then again they were more than happy to give up their guns.
“Are we turning into North Korea? This is Orwellian,” one user wrote on Twitter after reading the recommendation.
Under the guise of preventing online bullying, the Morrison government’s plan would require ‘100 points of identification’ in order to use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram – and online dating platforms such as Tinder, according to news.com.au. To satisfy the ‘100 points’ requirement, citizens would need to combine ‘Category 1’ methods of identification (birth certificate, passport, citizenship papers) with ‘Category 2’ ID (Valid government-issued license, public employee photo ID, doctor’s note).
Hard to believe:
H/T: Zero Hedge
We already have had the experience with Parler. Recall?
We thought that by wandering over to Parler we could breathe easy with our comments. After all we thought we would not be censored for the most part and it appeared it was going to be live and let live. No data mining. (Chuckle time)
We are in for a nasty shock.
We could fire off a comment feeling free as a twitter bird..
Now we find that all of our comments and videos are identifiable to us, most including our location, have been harvested from Parler.
Coming to our swamp soon.
Paul Revere Award
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BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades! 