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@Duluth said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
Could it be that this the threat of China wasn't pushed before because Trump isn't owned by Wall Street but Obama, Bush etc. were in bed with them ???????????????
Romney pushed it hard in 2012
But would Chamber of Commerce Mitt have actually done anything about it ??
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Saw this on another forum ....
**A nation that doesn't even know what it wants to be on the world stage has no business telling other nations what to do.
You're worried about extreme economic disparity? Wait till you get a load of the hours that Chinese people work and the amount they're paid. They're truly corporate serfs and the government is totally complicit in this because they are the corporations.
You're worried about government surveillance? Enjoy being gulag'd for having opinions that aren't harmonious.
It's ironic given that this forum is full of skeptics when it comes to things like the Western intellectual/Military Supremacy, The Holocaust and Racism but they blindly believe:
- China is absolutely going to surpass the West despite a lot of evidence to the contrary
- China and Russia are totally gonna team-up
- China not saying anything about the tariffs is evidence that the tariffs don't matter
- This one belt, one road thing is totally gonna work
- Somehow China will be a force for global good simply because they're not us.
Where do you think these ideas of Chinese exceptionalism come from? Chinese propaganda. They have a rather dedicated international apparatus that seeks to undermine Western values while trumpeting the greatness of China. They try to do this in Western universities through things like the Confucius Institute. Beware any overly optimistic predictions you get about any country, especially China.
They're currently going HAM on capital controls because they're so obsessed with keeping money inside and keeping their best and brightest from siphoning off their wealth and getting passports to other countries. Does this sound like the move of an economically secure country? They want to spread Chinese influence and wealth, but they don't even let their own people take money out of the country to actually go be a shining example to the rest of the world. Not to mention, they create insecurity (through currency manipulation) in the populace which causes them to find ways to siphon off their wealth in an ever-escalating financial arms race within their own country.**
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Mods - should I make a separate "Spygate" thread???
Various Obama intel officials are pointing fingers at one another, because they have come to realize that their prior criminality may not be rewarded but rather prosecuted.
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Comey, Brennan and Clapper are accusing one another as to who insisted in the unverified dossier be included in the presidential intelligence assessment.
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McCabe says Comey authorized him to leak, Comey denies it.
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McCabe testified the dossier was the anchoring evidence that the FBI presented to the FISA court. Comey denies it.
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McCabe says Rosenstein was serious about wearing a wire to record the President. Rosenstein says that is a lie.
Expect more and more contradictions to surface.
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Did sumbuddy really say “all” their “sexual fantasies involve handcuffs”...?
Folk-hero and savior of the Republic is about to have his dreams come true... awwwwww.
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"IC leaders aren’t used to being held to account by the Justice Department, and their oversight by Congress generally is mild. Theirs is a comfortable world, obfuscated and kept mysterious by the liberal use of their classified-information shield. The demonization of Attorney General Barr has begun — a sign that he is probably on the right track. And the IC leaders are on notice."
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice
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Take a seat, put your feet up and get ready to have a big ol' drink of cray-cray.
You can see why the AOC satire account had to be banned on twitter..satire and the real thing are literally indistinguishable. Let her explain how gardens are racist all the while making the argument for gardening which has historically led to mass starvation.
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@Rembrandt Meh, I'd still do her.
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(Two-thirds... ??!! “Only a sea sponge would believe...”)
Most Democrats Believe AOC’s Claim That We Have 12 Years to Save the Planet
Two-thirds of Democrats, including many high-ranking elected officials and presidential contenders, believe Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) claim that “the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change” — an assertion that Ocasio-Cortez now says only a “sea sponge” would swallow.
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted May 20 and 21 asked respondents the following question: “A prominent politician says the United States has only 12 years to aggressively fight climate change or else there will be disastrous and irreparable damage to the country and the world. Do you agree or disagree?”
A whopping 67 percent of likely Democrat voters said they agree with the unnamed politician’s statement. [...]
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Full transparency is now a cover-up. Tucker dissects the “grotesque” absurdity.
Worth watching to the the very end.
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It's interesting to me how the former intelligence heads all positioned themselves after they retired from their positions. None went softly into the night.
John Brennan and FBI General Counsel James Baker went to MSNBC.
Brennan has been there for over two years promulgating theories of how Trump is an agent of Putin. (imagine if the head of the Russian secret service then went on to be a chief analyst on Russian TV - Pravda much???)James Clapper is on CNN.
Andrew McCabe and James Comey have been on book tours and writing op-eds for the Wash. Post and NY Times.
On the one hand they are obviously doing it for some money and their Trump hate is in high demand.
There is another purpose. ............Attempting to control the narrative.
They are now united in saying declassification/transparency would be bad.
There is the intriguing possibility that MSNBC and CNN have aligned themselves with criminals. - especially MSNBC and BrennanThis video came out yesterday.
Brennan seems panicked.
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