Posted on 08/08/2022 5:30:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Chinese have done and will do a great deal of damage to America, but not nearly as much as we have done to ourselves.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sin was not in going to Taiwan per se. Rather, after announcing her destination, the California Democrat then sorta kinda hesitated in deer-in-the-headlights fashion under threat from the Chinese.
So, by her back-and-forth media announcements, she added to the endemic strategic confusion at the White House and Pentagon that opposed her visit. Pelosi never gave a reason why she was going to Taiwan, except to note after the fact that as a child, she used to like China and at the beach would dig in the sand to reach Beijing.
In other words, in her eight decades since infancy, Pelosi has not yet learned the difference between Chinese Taiwan and the Chinese Communist mainland and has come up with no greater affinity with the Chinese than remembering as a child vainly digging in the sand to reach them.
The internal administration discord reminded the Chinese that the Biden Administration can still become even more inept than it has been since its inaugural humiliation in Anchorage, Alaska.
And lastly, Pelosi showboated with loud freedom rhetoric while carrying a mere twig.
So, yes, ostensibly, it was silly for Nancy Pelosi to freelance in foreign policy by going to Taiwan. She has no record of any foreign policy accomplishment.
Ever since her first speakership 15 years ago, Pelosi has always seen foreign policy as an arena to embarrass her political opponents. We remember her dishonest post-9/11 public reversals about enhanced interrogations, and her all-but-rooting-for the surge in Iraq to fail.
Do we remember her lunatic visit and glad-handing with the murderous, children-killing Assad government in Syria
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The left instinctively sides with evil.
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Yes, we have children at the wheel.
Pelousy so wants to be POTUS.
She was trying out to be Jao’s replacement.
Newsom is her proxy, she's too old.
She’d like step in for the rest of BiXiden’s term.
Ruled by evil greedy clowns.
I want Hanson to be president.
I don’t know who has the worse case of dementia. Jo Jo or Queen Nanzi.
So, by her back-and-forth media announcements, she added to the endemic strategic confusion at the White House and Pentagon that opposed her visit. Pelosi never gave a reason why she was going to Taiwan, except to note after the fact that as a child, she used to like China and at the beach would dig in the sand to reach Beijing.
In other words, in her eight decades since infancy, Pelosi has not yet learned the difference between Chinese Taiwan and the Chinese Communist mainland and has come up with no greater affinity with the Chinese than remembering as a child vainly digging in the sand to reach them.
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The Pelosi visit was not diplomacy.
The Pelosi visit was a pure act of vanity by one who is about to leave the stage.
Nancy says things that she thinks are Brilliant, LOL
Liberals have THE most naive and radical approach to governing... and to problem solving of every kind (which is what government actually IS, if done properly). Instead, all essential protocols and established traditions are renounced in favor of the immediate, the temporary and material.
They’re too immature and selfish to recognize the long standing and traditional ‘style’ of politics in the US. They approach every issue with their laughably insurmountable lack of political understanding. Every policy and every view is based wholly on ‘emotion’.
In your entire life … what decision you ever made based on emotion was correct, moral, reasoned, or successful???
It does seem like Biden and his administration are childlike doesn’t it?
I suspect Nanzi's "Childlike Diplomacy" was really that of the Biden Regime, despite their denials. Nanzi carried it out to allow plausible deniability for the already despised Imbecile in the White House.
“Liberals have THE most naive and radical approach to governing.”
To liberals, it is all about the optics. Substance? That is so...racist; misogynist; xenophobic; homophobic; etc.
“Childlike” implies innocence. “Childish” is a far better fit.
true
“Substance? That is so...racist; misogynist; xenophobic; homophobic; etc.”
True, because ‘...where there is emotion there is NO substance!’
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