Posted on 04/03/2020 4:07:44 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Question of the day. – Why hasn’t President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to force the New York Times and Washington Post to convert their facilities to produce toilet paper? It would be a very minimal conversion process.
“Never again…” – Peter Navarro, the director of trade and manufacturing policy, national Defense Production Act policy coordinator and just general all-around White House badass, made a statement at Thursday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing that didn’t get a lot of attention from our clueless, corrupt news media. But it should have, because Peter Navarro doesn’t just say stuff to hear himself talk.
Here’s what he said, as quoted by the Washington Examiner:
“One of the things that this crisis has taught us is that we are dangerously overdependent on a global supply chain. For our medicines like penicillin, our medical supplies, masks, and our medical equipment like ventilators.
“Never again should we rely on the rest of the world for our essential medicines and countermeasures.”
The Food and Drug Administration, Navarro said, would have to greenlight medical manufacturing so that the U.S. can “leapfrog” other countries, “so we don’t have to compete against cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations, different tax regimes, and massive subsidies of foreign governments.”
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Navarro’s pointed comments were a clear signal to the communist Chinese government and the rest of the world that the Trump Administration will be taking aggressive steps going forward to further de-link the U.S. economy from the Red Dragon with which Trump’s four predecessors worked so hard to entangle it. The clear significance of this flies right over the heads of our corrupt national news media because it does not fit neatly into their coordinated narrative with the Democrat Party.
The same was true of the incredible significance of Wednesday’s Task Force update, when President Trump brought in pretty much the nation’s entire senior military leadership to roll out the Administration’s plan to deploy U.S. military resources in fighting the war against drug imports into the United States from Mexico and South American destinations.
The few media outlets that bothered to file reports on this bit of news – CNN was too busy focusing on Fredo Cuomo’s imaginary fight against coronavirus, which is nothing more than a pathetic publicity stunt – characterized it as a fight against the “drug cartels.”
Here’s how the buffoons at the Associated Press led their story:
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro.
The president’s announcement was a break from the daily White House press briefing to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, which has left much of the country in lock-down and which the government warns could cause 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.
The mission involves sending additional Navy warships, surveillance aircraft and special forces teams to nearly double the U.S. counter-narcotics capacity in the Western Hemisphere, with forces operating both in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Esper said the mission would be supported by 22 partner nations.
“As governments and nations focus on the coronavirus there is a growing threat that cartels, criminals, terrorists and other malign actors will try to exploit the situation for their own gain,” said Trump. “We must not let that happen.”
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So, it’s just another beefing-up in the fight against those nasty Latin-American cartels. Yawn. Nothing to see here – move along to Adam Schiff trying to mount another impeachment effort in the middle of a national crisis. That’s more fun, and fits our narrative of the day.
Look, what’s the major problem with imported drugs killing Americans today? If you said illegal imports of fentanyl, you win the prize. And while these drug cartels do serve as the conduit for most of that fentanyl, where does most of the supply of it originate?
Oh. That would be China. See, illegal drugs have a long supply chain just like the legal drugs. The Administration obviously has information that China is planning to coordinate with its allies in Latin America to ramp up the illegal drug trade and further weaken the U.S. during this time of crisis.
Folks, we are at war with China, and have been for quite some time. It was just a year ago that U.S. agents interdicted an illegal shipment of enough Chinese fentanyl to kill 57 million Americans. That was just one of many similar busts that have been made in recent years. The ChiCom government does pretty much nothing to stop these illegal shipments which have already addicted and/or killed millions of Americans, yet our major corporations just continue to ramp up their business entanglements with that country. Students of history will know that many, many major U.S. corporations in the 1930s had similar entanglements with Nazi Germany before World War II ended all of that.
Now we have an increasing body of evidence that the Wuhan Virus not only originated in China, but that the ChiCom government and World Health Organization coordinated with one another in a cover up while it was spread across the globe during November through January. That virus has already killed more than 5,000 Americans and promises to kill many thousands more.
When Mr. Navarro says, “Never again should we rely on the rest of the world for our essential medicines and countermeasures,” what he really means is that we should never again rely on China.
Again, your corrupt news media is too dimwitted to figure that out and report it accurately. Thus, expect them to all be shocked and surprised when the Trump Administration starts taking major actions to force the disentanglement of the U.S. economy from China’s in the coming months.
That is all.
I think it’s almost WWII all over again — we have the Fascist Globalists in control of Europe and we need to beat them. Meanwhile, there is an Asian Empire across the Pacific that is causing us a bunch of pain. We will not retain our freedom unless both China and the EU collapse.
We need a really high tariff on ALL imports to bring manufacturing back home. Do it now!!!!
“so we don’t have to compete against cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations, different tax regimes, and massive subsidies of foreign governments.”
I stood up and cheered when he said that.
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In case you missed is, The New York Times and the Washington Post are putting out toilet paper. They just call it “news”. President Trump calls it “fake news, but it is really toilet paper.
You should try it, nicely crumpled up.
“...We need a really high tariff ...”
About 800% on ALL Chinese imports, specifically.
Break their economy.
By accident or on purpose, Pandemic World War One has already started. Even if we don’t know it yet.
If it was on purpose, then naval vessels and some small, isolated ChiCom commando / spetznaz bases become big force multipliers, because they can be kept Coronavirus “pure” for later attacks when their Western enemy forces are all infected and not battle ready.
(Even if PWW1 was not begun on purpose, getting a head start on quarantining key military assets becomes a big factor.)
China is only strong because we LET them grow strong, due to our stupidity and greed for cheap shit. That’s OVER. Now China HAS to make it’s big move FAST, or it is like a hot-house flower factory after the greenhouse glass is all smashed and the hail is coming down instead of sunshine.
The CCP has 1.5 billion mouths to feed, and they can’t feed themselves on their own. Impossible. When the rest of the world dials down their imports from China as a survival move, big strong China as we know it DIES. So it HAS to make its big move RIGHT NOW, while we are nearly on our backs.
If the CCP/Chinese Communist-Nazi Party waits for Uncle Sam to recover, they are DONE. Then all we have to do is boycott them as nasty dirty lying cheating bio-war-spreading bastards, and they will STARVE. Famine, revolution and the end of the CCP follows. (And we should NEVER forget the American and Western Quisling traitors who profited massively by setting us up for this inevitable PWW1)
Then, only after China (the sick man of Asia) has its begging bowl out to the the world again, then MAYBE, they can be slowly welcomed back into global citizenship good standing. IF they can prove they are not still lying, filthy, bat-eating bio-weapon-spreading bastards. Hanging every member of the Chinese Communist Nazi Party would be a necessary start on that process.
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No no no no. Tariffs need to be on product classes and not against specific countries. If you tariff countries then the greedy Free Traitors™ will just move to the next 3rd world country.
... and I don’t discount the culpability of American companies in using overseas sweatshops to make EVERYTHING. For decades, they’ve sold out their own country in the name of the almighty dollar, and they should be made to pay for it.
Boycott China and anyone who uses it.
You would have to shut down everything, including the federal and state governments because the pervasiveness of ChiCom products are everywhere, in computers, in internet modems, in instrumentation, in vehicles, in prescription drugs, in almost everything.
Travis, I repeat here a post I made earlier on another thread.
When there is great economic upheaval war soon follows behind.
When people lose all they have the desperation soon turns to anger.
The massive reaction to this pandemic that is being whipped up beyond the reality of it (which is truly bad enough) will lead to world war unless Trump is wise enough to captain the ship through the storm. (pray for Trump)
The finger pointing and calls for reparations have begun, the move to restrict trade will soon appear.
If China cannot feed itself 100 million young Chinese males will be on the street...such cannot be contained.
I was a child during the Cuban missile crisis and was untroubled by it, I am troubled by this mess we face today.
Absolutely Correct!
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Evil Doer.
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Hat tip to “W”
China plans to win this pandemic world war. Now that they have totally sealed their borders to inward travel (without strictly scrutinized visas, and a very harsh 2+ week quarantine under CCP control, at the traveler’s expense), they have little to worry about from a new phase of the pandemic being launched in the West.
In this scenario, China can be ready to release an even worse “Covid-20” which they will plausibly say is a mutation that sprang up in the West. Then they sit back while America and Europe are destroyed as powers, and Africa (and many other 3rd world cities and nations) lay open for colonization.
For example: Guayaquil, Ecuador is one of about 3 major ports on the west coast of South America, and it has the best location. It touts itself as the main port city and gateway to the Pacific Rim. Coronavirus is breaking out in Guayaquil at about the same pace it did in Milan a month ago, but Guayaquil does not have a fraction of Milan’s medical capacity to deal with it. In a month, Guyaquil may be a total basket case, and America is in no position to send help. One more example: the USNS Mercy is already deployed to Los Angeles.
If Pandemic World War One goes in China’s favor, their plans would include sending “rescue and relief” ships which would be the basis and beachhead of colonization. A similar pattern would emerge across Africa. America and Europe would be too weak to oppose these Chinese “rescue missions.” The president of the Philippines has already announced he is eager to be “rescued” by China.
See 15.
“You should try it, nicely crumpled up.”
Just don’t use the comics.
rwood
OK so the FDA tests new drugs and signs off on them to say they are safe, effective, and ready for use by the public. What does the FDA have to do on where those approved drugs are manufactured? We're always going to be competing against "cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations, different tax regimes, and massive subsidies of foreign governments” and corporations are going to go to those countries because that helps them maximize profits. How do you fight that?
Tariffs.
That's not an FDA decision and Navarro was blaming the FDA for the problem.
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