Posted on 03/19/2020 8:06:18 AM PDT by RideForever
Hillary can’t help it.
The woman still smoldering with resentment over her upset in the 2016 presidential election sparked a new round of recriminations on Wednesday with a Twitter post accusing President Donald Trump of racism for accurately labeling the coronavirus plaguing the country as “Chinese” in origin.
Stoking divisiveness when the United States needs a unified front against a dangerous enemy is a classic Democrat desperation tactic – whether it’s taking the side of terrorists in the years after 9/11 with incessant, exaggerated complaints about the prison at Guantanamo Bay (still open even after eight years of a Barack Obama presidency and its closure being part of the party’s official platform for the 2016 election), or opposing Trump’s efforts to bring the murderous mullahs of Iran to heel.
And when all else fails, of course, just accusing Republicans of “racism” is standard.
Clinton’s problem at this point, though, is that not only is she a known liar – with literally decades of statements on the public record that were deliberately deceptive – but her argument doesn’t even pass the low bar of being remotely logical.
Just for the record, here’s Hillary’s tweet.
“The president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis,” Clinton wrote. “Don’t let your friends and family fall for it.” Do you think Americans see through Hillary's "racism" accusation? Yes No Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
As Trump made clear in his news conference Wednesday, he was not only accurately describing the origin of the COVID-19 virus — in the very Chinese city of Wuhan — he was also semantically reminding the communist government that the United States isn’t going to be bullied.
The Chinese government has been throwing its considerable weight around to avoid being pegged with responsibility for the virus it inflicted on the world.
As National Review senior writer David Harsanyi pointed out in an insightful – and grimly hilarious – piece on Tuesday, the Chinese government has pressured authorities like the World Health Organization to avoid attaching a geographic origin to the current pandemic that’s causing death and disruption around the globe.
While the WHO might be spineless enough to go along (despite its name, “World Health,” is clearly not as important to the organization as being accommodating to the Beijing dictatorship), Trump is not ready to oblige.
China has even floated the rumor that the virus originated with the American military, which somehow planted it in the capital of China’s Hubei province.
To his eternal credit, Trump explained at the news conference that he chose to call the virus “Chinese” in part to make the point that the disease did originate in the Middle Kingdom and partly to show China it would not be allowed to shirk the blame.
“China was putting out information, which was false, that our military gave this to them. That was false,” Trump said.
“Rather than having an argument, I said, ‘I have to call it where it came from,’ and it did come from China. So I think it’s a very accurate term.
“But, no, I didn’t appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them. Our military did not give it to anybody.”
When asked if the term created a “stigma,” Trump was equally logical.
“I think that saying our military gave it to them creates a stigma.”
Beyond geographic accuracy regarding the origin of the virus, and beyond the geopolitical importance of letting the Chinese know they won’t be able to get away with a defamatory lie, there’s the simple fact that the Chinese media outlets referred to the outbreak as the “Wuhan flu” before it became an issue of global concern.
Screenshots posted by freelance journalist Mary Hui show Chinese news organizations had no problem using that term until the Chinese Communist Party (meaning President Xi Jinping or his immediate minions) had decided to send it down the memory hole.
So, to recap:
Logic dictates that there is literally nothing “racist” about calling a virus that originated in China a “Chinese” virus. (There is, however, a good deal of Chinese government propaganda interest — and American Democratic Party interest — in spreading that idea around.)
Political considerations – in the form of letting the increasingly belligerent Beijing government know that the United States won’t be bullied – helped dictate Trump’s decision, not “racist” considerations.
And recent history shows that Chinese news outlets themselves saw nothing “racist” in referring to the virus by its point of origin.
But Hillary Clinton still can’t help it.
Her own husband’s administration was rife with scandal related to the Chinese government: “Chinagate” it was called, for those who don’t remember or might have been too young in the 1990s.
The American Spectator published a handy reminder of it all back in October 2016, when it still looked for all the world like Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States.
Her political party’s current hopes of winning back the presidency are riding on the faltering shoulders of former Vice President Joe Biden and the unspoken-in-public hope that the coronavirus does so much damage to the American life that voters will actually dump Trump for a man who couldn’t win the presidency the first two times he tried and is manifestly incapable of doing the job more than 20 years down the road.
And after some early missteps, the Trump administration is marshaling the might of the American government to keep the country safe from a potential disaster.
Branding Trump a “racist” is all Hillary & Co. have now, so she can’t help but use it. Divisiveness is really all the Democrats have.
If the American electorate retains its sanity, though, it’s not going to help Democrats at all.
She was then-VP Joe Biden's Senior Adviser....... now Symone Sanders (think Stacey Abrams times two), regurgitated
that point of view on Fox News. "It's something that's offensive to Chinese Americans," Sanders claimed.
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Joe Biden and the Democrat Party’s Incestuous Relationship with China
American Thinker.com ^ | March 17, 2020 | Steve McCann / FR Posted on 3/17/2020, 12:01:42 PM by Kaslin
Desperation has set in among the Politburo in China as their deliberate mishandling and obfuscation of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak has threatened, and in all likelihood derailed, their grandiose plans for global hegemony.
In what can only be described as one of the most ham-handed propaganda efforts in recent memory, China is now trying to deflect blame onto the United States for the Coronavirus outbreak that has been recently categorized as a global pandemic. Further, they are unabashedly claiming that any criticism of their “valiant” efforts to stem the spread of the virus or using the nomenclature of Wuhan Virus or Chinese Coronavirus is racist and xenophobic.
While their attempt to implicate the United States may appear on the surface to be absurd, the reality is that much of it will fall on fertile ground previously tilled and seeded over the past 25 years with vast amounts of money and investments. An end-product of China’s infiltration of the American media and education establishment is the almost immediate regurgitation of China’s racist and xenophobic argument by the American mainstream media and the predominantly left-wing professional class.
Hollywood and the entertainment cabal, already awash in Chinese capital and desperate for access to the Chinese market, has refused to criticize China’s handling of the Coronavirus focusing instead on President Trump.
It is almost a certainty that when the pandemic recedes there will be nothing produced that is even remotely critical of China. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This pc crap is petty and the American people see it as that, especially in the light of current events. They do this at their own peril. Keep it up libs...and see what happens.
What about the Spanish flu, the German measles, and many other diseases named for their places of origin?
when i heard President Trump FIRST refer to the WuFlu as the “chinese virus”, i knew right then and there that, as usual, he was trolling the leftist media, KNOWING that they would attack him for being “xenophobic” and “racist”, and that, as usual it would backfire on the leftist media, PARTICULARLY during a time which ALL Americans are having to make tremendous sacrifices in an attempt to help keep each other from getting sick and some even dying ...
it’s absolutely despicable that while everyone else is trying to pull together, that the leftist media continues to try to drive us apart with propaganda, lies, and bullshit ...
i can only hope and pray that more and more folks wake up to the evil, anti-American nature of the fake stream enemedia and finally say to themselves, “WTF?” ...
This evil creature needs to be gagged and locked up for the duration of the pandemic!
Actually, most are not named for where they came from but from where they were properly identified.
Spanish flu, for instance, also came from China.
Remember the West Mississippi Virus. I mean, west Nile virus....
https://www.prisonplanet.com/video-trump-defends-calling-covid19-the-chinese-virus.html
Virtue signaling; to violence signaling. It’s just a shot away...
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os&list=RDAMVMRbmS3tQJ7Os
She is a scumbag loser who thinks she was robbed of the presidency and her place in history as the Woman Who Saved the World. It has to kill her that she can’t be at the center of attention these days. LOL!
Would somebody PLEASE toss a bucket of water on that Old Beotch?
You mean the Kansas flu?
Are we going to rename the Spanish Flu to something else? The Black Death to something else?
The Libyan War Princess has always been about Divide & Control deplorables, vast right-wing conspirators.
We came, we saw, he died. LET that joyful POWER STATEMENT be a lesson.
R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Wood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI
Either way, they're linked to a place.
Start responding to all of this by stating “President Xi approves this message.”
When I hear a Democrat talking about 'bringing us together' I become nauseated. When I watch Schumer (goyem) or Pelousy speak I run to the toilet to puke! There is NO WAY those who call themselves Conservatives want to be united with these Constitution shredders. They are all traitors to their oaths.
Like New York Liberalism ... the deadliest disease to our nation from the late 19th and early 20th century.
White paper. Top left, “C”. Noted. FF were very smart. If it comes to this...we have the tools.
That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
They all say what China tells them to say
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