Posted on 05/08/2020 11:47:40 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
President Obama's ambassador to China and former Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) said President Trump's rhetoric is so "over the top" against China. In an interview with CNN, Baucus accused the president of "red-baiting" like Joe McCarthy and lamented that if anyone says "anything reasonable about China" they feel that their head is going to be chopped off (emphasis mine). The former ambassador went on to liken Trump's anti-China rhetoric to Hitler in the 1930s.
"There are a lot of very responsible people in America who know that this China bashing is irresponsible, and we're going to pay a price, the more it continues," he warned. "That's what I'm saying. But they're afraid to speak up." "The administration's rhetoric is so strong against China," Baucus said. "It's over the top. We're entering a kind of an era which is similar to Joe McCarthy back when he was red-baiting the State Department, attacking communists."
"A little bit like Hitler in the '30s. A lot of people knew what was going on was wrong. They knew it was wrong, but they didn't stand up and say anything about it. They felt intimidated. Now in the United States, if anyone says anything reasonable about China, he or she feels intimidated, afraid his head is going to be chopped off," Baucus stated.
Baucus called "China bashing" irresponsible and if it continues "we're going to pay a price."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
It’s not like the Chinese are communists or anything......./s
These arse-wholes really need to study history.
I know the simple minded Reducto-Ad-Hitlerum has been a tool of the left since G.W.Bush, but it used to get used more by the fringes and not the supposed professionals who are supposed to know WTF they are talking about.
There’s nothing “reasonable” about the Chinese communists.
I will say something reasonable about China.
They are murderous communists who hate America. China must be stopped.
Every time THEY bring out Hitler in the 30s, it shows the depth (how little it is) and derpness of their argument.
Every. Single. Time.
He should consider registering his payments from the CCP.
Do they pay him in yuan or dollars?
So Baucus has no understanding of 20th century history either.
Gee, China creates a virus, sends it all over the world ON PURPOSE..but they want to pretend they are the victims..unbelievable, and what’s so unfortunate that because so many countries bend over and kiss China’s behind, they will do whatever China wants..China is truly evil, their Govt, not their people, their people were the first victims of all this
Communism — it’s just another life style. Who are WE to judge the life styles of others?
Let’s be nice to a government that disappears its journalists and doctors, and, oh yeah, kills its citizens who protest.
Would Baucus be particularly sensitive in this area for some reason? Say the Chinese are his friends or partners? Baucus has communist sympathies for some other reason? I really don’t know much about Baucus, but in these perilous times, those questions come to mind.
Well,now we know that *Max* got the memo!
There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which would prevent Trump get reelected. Letting that happen will create problems we don’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved.
Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.
The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CCWV (Chinese Communist Wuhan Virus) breakout occurred in Wuhan the politburo closed off Wuhan but did not warn the Italian Socialist government or the Pope with whom the Chinese government had good relations with.
But certainly violated that understanding when the socialists should have been informed and allowed to deny those Chinese workers who replaced Italians in those factories taken over by the Chinese travel to and from China particularly for their New Year while this was occurring.Where they seem to have done almost the same here with Smithfield Pork processing after the Chinese were hit with swine flu which destroyed their pork industry by their takeover of Smithfield Pork processing. When learning of the Wuhan shutdown Trump cut off China air travel with the exception of only allowing American citizens returning..But was immediately attacked by CNN and the alphabet media outlets as a racist Republican action.
To stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who’s family members are making millions from China through their political connections will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its rapid transmission
Obama’s China Ambassador. Enough said.
Phuk China and the horse you rode in on...
Baucus sounds like a California Democrat, not a Montana Democrat.
Like many others among us, he prolly has taken the Red Yuan
in return for some of our resources and liberties.
Precisely what the British were doing to China in the 1800’s BTW
Max, you’re in the party of Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer, so how dare you compare any Republican to Hitler!
Sounds like a sycophant arguing for “The Enabling Act”
On behalf of whom, I wonder...
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