Posted on 11/15/2017 11:00:19 AM PST by EBH
The pretty, twinkling lights on houses and trees were assembled by Chinese convicts.
Thanks for ruining Christmas for me.
I think that it is unfortunate that President Trump decided to intervene in the basketball players’ situation. They should have had to face justice in China with several years in a Chinese prison. That would have sent a much better message than walking away free.
Now all athletes think that they are more invulnerable than they felt before.
Most foreign prisons are wise to avoid. Learn what to do & not do before going to a foreign country for a visit. Reducing the likelihood of landing in one. American prisons are like hotels compared to the majority of foreign prisons.
Politically he had to get them out. Or it would have been used against him next election. I can see the campaign commercials already...Trump visiting the family of Otto Warmbier fading to three black basketball players who are rotting in jail.
So the fella went to some foreign hell hole and something bad happened to him? Who’d a thunk?
Yes, I know that he HAD to do it. It is still unfortunate.
Sorry...didn’t mean to ruin your Christmas.
Was thinking more about those UCLA players...
...lights on houses and trees were assembled by Chinese convicts.
Thanks for ruining Christmas for me.
I put up lights on the house this time of year, but this time, I’m going to be thinking of what amounts to the slave labor that made them. And now I know why strings fail every year—slave labor and quality control don’t usually go together.
Actually, the fact that Christmas lights “made in China” are assembled by forced labor of prisoners has been known for some time. This is another good reason not to buy things made in (Communist) China.
The trouble with Christmas Lights is that there appear to be no American manufacturers of them anymore.
There may be other places than China that make them, though.
Gulag labor will often sabotage their own product as a cry for help, and to deny profits to their captors.
I think the Nazis had a similar problem—at least with their war production.
This story is strange.
But a kid who spent time in the clink when he was a baby ? I’m surprised the bacteria and virii didn’t get him before his 1st birthday.
He may have even lost the votes of those that feel he shouldn't have intervened.
“Suffering from a serious head injury after a collision with a bus, and while in a dreamlike state, I took a large sum of money from a colleague”
yea, right. I don’t think that excuse would fly over here, let alone in China. Like President Trump said, they do not play games.
We used to intervene for any American anywhere and this is why it was taboo to abuse or kill Americans around the world. The apologizer in chief (obama) hurt that status. Trump is bringing it back.
The thieves got kicked out of basketball and college. That’s punishment.
Bump for later.
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