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Steve Bannon Blasts Elites for Making the Deplorables Underwrite Their Own Destruction
The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 29, 2021 at 7:00pm | Joe Hoft

Posted on 05/31/2021 7:02:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon made some excellent points this morning on his War Room Pandemic. Bannon notes that China is building its military and the US is paying for it and Biden is making it ten times worse.

Here are Bannon’s excellent points in the short clip below:

  1. China is building a huge military force. It is big and growing in numbers and in sophistication.
  2. China purchases bonds sold by the US which is necessary for the US to issue because the US is spending like drunken sailors now under Biden.
  3. The US pays interest on these bonds purchased by China.
  4. The amount of money the US pays in interest payments alone on the debt pays for China’s military.
  5. The elites don’t care – they just want more and they have no allegiance to the US.

These were profound observations by Bannon.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; bonds; china; military

The amount of money the US pays in interest payments alone on the debt pays for China's military.


1 posted on 05/31/2021 7:02:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 05/31/2021 7:05:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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When can we impeach China’s Biden?


3 posted on 05/31/2021 7:07:54 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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>>The elites don’t care – they just want more and they have no allegiance to the US.<<

Monumental Fiscal Mismanagement.
Just pisses me off.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/


4 posted on 05/31/2021 7:09:12 PM PDT by servantboy777
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They want our guns because they know they are going to do stuff to us that will make us want to use them.


5 posted on 05/31/2021 7:11:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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They will get eaten,maybe last. But they will be eaten.


6 posted on 05/31/2021 7:12:35 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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we’re left holding those receipts.


7 posted on 05/31/2021 7:17:26 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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I always find it amusing to see the “spend money like drunken sailor” quote. Drunken sailors spent their own money!

Plus if we had honest leaders, we would sue the pants off the Chinese for the Covid and they not only would lose any money we owe them now, but would owe us a lot more.


8 posted on 05/31/2021 7:31:13 PM PDT by Finnwolf (It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two and those who have not swords can still die upon them. )
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The elites don’t care – they just want more and they have no allegiance to the US.


Very true.


9 posted on 05/31/2021 7:33:41 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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The US has been spending like drunken sailors for decades.


10 posted on 05/31/2021 8:28:39 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jane Long; Finnwolf; proust; E. Pluribus Unum; servantboy777
Just when I think American Thinker is the worst conservative "news" outlet, GP comes along to reclaim the title.

Bannon may have misspoke, but a little fact-checking could have clarified matters.

China owns $1.1t of Federal Debt. The total outstanding debt in April 2020 was about $25t and interest payments totaled $479bn. That means on a pro rata basis, the US govt pays China about $21bn in interest.

China's 2021 military budget is USD209bn though many think China's unfaked military outlays may be double that amount.

Thus, to be clear, the US federal interest payment to China covers 10% of their defense budget. That's not great, but it's not as sensational as the 100% intimation in GP's crafted syntax - The amount of money the US pays in interest payments alone on the debt pays for China’s military.

A simple email to Bannon could have clarified his intent, or some simple fact-checking could have revealed what I found out. But given GP's sloppy fact-checking etc that would likely be viewed as getting in the way of clicks.

It's almost as if GP is a cloaked lib outfit trying to make conservative look stupid.

11 posted on 05/31/2021 8:48:37 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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I hope we all realize that the interest rate on Treasuries is in all probability less than the real inflation rate.

China is actually subsidizing the US Government. If this is the raod to destruction, lets have some more of it.


12 posted on 05/31/2021 9:57:45 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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The Deplorables were cheated out of a country and then an entire election. Bannon is a big believer in the Fourth Turning, as am I. When the Fourth Turning happens (we’re not quite there yet) there will be a bill to pay and the Deplorables will be collecting it.


13 posted on 05/31/2021 10:10:17 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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bump


14 posted on 05/31/2021 10:58:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (God’s will is no concern of this Congress. —Jerry Nadler, 2021)
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“Elites.”

KMA


15 posted on 05/31/2021 10:59:18 PM PDT by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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