Posted on 02/13/2021 8:55:17 AM PST by Rummyfan
The key to our elites’ (hate the word but using it for convenience) riches and power is access to the giant Chinese market no matter how the CCP behaves.
This began with Kissinger and Nixon. The theory then, or the rationalization, was that if we opened to China, they would become like us.
Consequently, in the decades since, the U. S. government more or less looked away, doing little more than raising its eyebrows in UN conference rooms, as the CCP oppressed its minorities (If you can call millions of people minorities) in the Tibetan, Uyghur, Falun Gong, and Christian communities and simultaneously jailed, tortured and/or made life impossible for dissidents who evinced the slightest interest in democracy.
Even the horrors of Tiananmen were no more than a bump in the road. Just twelve years later China was welcomed into the World Trade Organization.
Only the uncouth orange-haired man dared to step in to stem this inevitable slide cum boondoggle for the elite. What a killjoy. Even Apple had to reconsider having all its iPhones made in China, at least for a while.
No wonder he has to be impeached—twice. And a third time if that becomes necessary. It’s not such a joke.
And you can be sure the same treatment will be given to Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida who appears to be a more sophisticated version of Trump who may know how to walk the walk more subtlety and successfully than the now former president.
In fact DeSantis already is being targeted, as our new administration is threatening to ban travel to Florida when his state—without lockdowns—fared far better against COVID than those that did like New York and New Jersey. Again—how very CCP.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
What probably goes on somewhere in the head of the average liberal who once—it seems like decades ago—so ardently embraced civil liberties and the Bill of Rights is that the way of Communist China is the inevitable way of the future. As the digital empire grows and robots take over the work force, competing parties in a democratic republic will seem so old fashioned and just stand in the way of progress (read: getting rich).
Human freedom and liberty are passé 18th century ideas, the kind of thing that gets you banned on Twitter. Who needs it when the microchip in your sunglasses is telling you the right thing to do, what’s required of a “good citizen.”
When that infantile group of dumbbells invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6—calling that an “insurrection” was ludicrous; if you really wanted to overthrow the U. S. government you would do something that could have an effect, like bringing down the power grid—it was seized upon as an opportunity not only to smash Trump but to open the floodgates to a one-party system.
So what has happened to Nixon and Kissinger’s theory that the Chinese would become like us?
The reverse: We have become like them!
all the “mess” seen around us socially is a product of CCP manipulation of our institutions.
They are MASTERS at this-its how essentially the same ruling families/cohort/oligarcghy have ruled China for nearly 5 millenia.
Controlling a nation of 330 million is peanuts to them; they have to keep a short lease on at least 1.3 billion-4x as many
Part of the process is enlisting our oligarchs and investing them in the CCP processes. PDJT was one oligarch who refused.
They support how the CCP behaves. Along with the wealth, they envy the unrestrained power the CCP has over the unworthy masses.
They used to call it fly over country. Now, they’ve tied us to Trump in an effort to dehumanize and control us.
Term limits.
Kissinger talked openly of his envy of the ChiCom dictatorial power.
In the 70’s we were fed propaganda, with Hollywood actresses as the face, about how China, New China, was at the forefront of human progress.
In the 90’s our computer tech began implementing the big brother system in China for the ChiComs.
It’s been beta tested and implemented there over 20 years.
It’s being rolled out here now in full force.
The Democrats don’t like tyrants and dictators because they can carry through their policies without debate.
The Democrats like tyrants and dictators because
IT IS EASIER FOR THEM TO STEAL MONEY.
Because they have little, tiny CCPs.
But they’ll come down on Eastern European countries like a ton of bricks for trying to keep sodomite marriage out of their societies. They’ll even get restless about African nations doing so, and normally, African nations can do no wrong (no matter how many voodoo-cult thieving dictators they have). Heck, they loved Russia when it was the Soviet Union, but not when Russia decided to bar pervert propaganda from being taught to children.
They do look more like us. And we look more like them.
I'm not so sure.
According to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), Florida had 1,814,422 Covid-19 cases and 28,565 deaths as of this morning. That makes Florida the third highest state for cases and fourth highest for deaths. The death rate in Florida is 1.574%, slightly lower than the national average death rate of 1.749%. One in every 11.9 people, or 8.3%, in Florida caught Covid-19, which is almost identical to the number of people nationwide who have caught it (1 in 12, or 8.3%).
The author should have checked his facts more carefully before writing this.
I'm afraid that when I see that someone doesn't fact-check one item carefully, everything they write becomes suspect. And, by extension, the Epoch Times also becomes suspect because their editors did not do due diligence to make sure to fact check before this was published. Too bad, I had thought the Epoch Times was a reliable source.
Good insight.
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LOL!
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