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Overstock Founder Patrick Byrne: China is taking us out from within: They Studied Us and Saw That Corruption Was Our Weakest Point
Epoch Times ^ | 12/30/2020 | Li Hai

Posted on 12/30/2020 8:08:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock, said that China is “taking us out from within” during an interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi on Monday.

“The greatest way to fight a war, in the Chinese way of thinking, is not to have to fight at all. That’s what they’ve done here,” Byrne said.

Byrne studied Chinese history at Beijing Normal University from 1983 to 1984. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese studies from Dartmouth College.

“Though we spend a trillion dollars a year between our military and our intelligence, national security circles … that trillion dollars we have and we’ve built, you know, things that can stop all their planes and their missiles and all kinds of things. But we missed the one they use, which is not a fight at all, not firing a bullet or missile at all, but taking us out from within. And that’s what’s going on.”

Byrne pointed out that the Chinese regime is engaged in “a slow coup.”

“It’s a revolution. The stages of such a revolution are very well mapped out. We understand this. It’s demoralization, disorientation, crisis, then normalization: those four steps.”

“The demoralization is what happened this year with COVID,” Byrne continued.

“The disorientation is this kookiness we’ve been seeing for about six months,” Byrne said, referring to Antifa, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other things, such as buildings and police stations being lit on fire, and people being harassed for their political views while out dining.

“That’s all to disorient you. It’s to tell you, ‘You are not living in the America you thought you were living in,’” he said.

“The crisis is, clearly an imposter president has been stood up,” Byrne added in reference to the contested election results.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beltandroad; bribery; china; coercion; corruption; patrickbyrne
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1 posted on 12/30/2020 8:08:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t take a mastermind to figure that one out. The small numbers of Americans that pay attention, and are outraged, are also powerless.

School age kids would do well to learn Chinese, along with learning to love socialism, and the 57, (and counting), genders.


2 posted on 12/30/2020 8:11:53 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmm.....

Maybe if everyone smoked some medicine.


3 posted on 12/30/2020 8:13:14 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SeekAndFind

My cousin’s son is a math major at Duke. He said that a math degree there automatically comes with a minor in Chinese.


4 posted on 12/30/2020 8:18:53 AM PST by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: brownsfan

As a wise guest on CNBC once said...

China has central planning by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and the US has central planning by lawyers.

Neither one is good, but by definition they win.


5 posted on 12/30/2020 8:23:46 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: brownsfan

“...Doesn’t take a mastermind to figure that one out....”

True.

But every once in a while it DOES take someone to point it out to folks not aware of the threat.

At the very least, he stood up and pointed it out to people, some of whom will take notice.

Is it enough, at this point? That’s the real question...


6 posted on 12/30/2020 8:24:58 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

“Is it enough, at this point? That’s the real question...”

Do phones have fast internet? Can you view tik tok and snapchat? Yes?

Then the answer to the real question is No.


7 posted on 12/30/2020 8:26:30 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just like Jugartha verses the Romans. Rome had become corrupt and could be bought. The good news is Jugartha became too aggressive and was destroyed.


8 posted on 12/30/2020 8:27:26 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: brownsfan

You are probably correct.


9 posted on 12/30/2020 8:29:20 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: brownsfan
China is taking us out from within: They Studied Us and Saw That Corruption Was Our Weakest Point

'Diversity' is weakness and will be our undoing.
10 posted on 12/30/2020 8:31:48 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: SeekAndFind

They had to study for that? Geeze the the history of American politics is the history of corruption.


11 posted on 12/30/2020 8:33:03 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: SeekAndFind; All
The problem is, in an open society, our politicians can be bought much more easily than their politicians can be bought.

In addition, our information infrastructure had already bought into the idea the USA needed to be destroyed for a new world order, while the Chinese Communist Party keeps tight control of their information infrastructure.

The stupid globalists think their Chinese overlords will not destroy them.

12 posted on 12/30/2020 8:35:12 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: nascarnation

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13 posted on 12/30/2020 8:35:25 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s 100% correct!!!


14 posted on 12/30/2020 8:36:09 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Our GOP politicians, especially here in Georgia, are prime examples of this corruption.

We may as well be voting for communism when we vote in Georgia. Georgia’s Brian Kemp, David Ralston, Brad Raffensperger and Geoff Duncan have sold out to China’s communist party.


15 posted on 12/30/2020 8:38:19 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: KevinB

yes and don’t forget the push for exotic languages in our public school systems-
Mandarin & Arabic


16 posted on 12/30/2020 8:39:37 AM PST by magna carta (TX all you have to do is send an email to principal with a witness included on the communication.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump is not corrupt.


17 posted on 12/30/2020 8:40:56 AM PST by stanne
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To: farming pharmer

“’Diversity’ is weakness and will be our undoing.”

It’s a complex thing. Diversity can be an asset, as long as you also have assimilation, (the melting pot). Diversity as an objective leads to division, and ultimately balkanization.

The Marxists have pushed us down the path to the later.


18 posted on 12/30/2020 8:45:54 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My wife bristles when I say this is one of, if not the, most corrupt countries on earth. We just make it look legal and genteel not crass and ugly like in so many of the other 32 countries I have worked in.

Our politicians get all indignant about corruption to hide their own.


19 posted on 12/30/2020 8:47:35 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: Sequoyah101

The problem is the money in DC...before 1950 they had little money.then we got all these departments that regulate are lives and we do not know it..


20 posted on 12/30/2020 9:00:41 AM PST by Hojczyk ( )
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