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Patriot Post - It's as Easy as ABC (Anybody But China)
2020-03-17
[Patriot Post] In 1942, America began the Manhattan Project. It was driven by the fear that Nazi scientists were developing an atomic bomb and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it. Today, America needs a new Manhattan Project to respond to the reality that China ‐ an enemy every bit as determined to rule the world as the Nazis were ‐ controls the supply of 80% to 90% of U.S. antibiotics. And for those Americans who think the word "enemy" is too strong, the Chinese Communist Party’s media mouthpiece has boasted about that nation’s ability to impose pharmaceutical export controls that would push America into "the mighty sea of coronavirus."

That media mouthpiece is a state-run agency known as Xinhua. It is now casting China as heroic for containing the virus as long as it did. "We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you," an editorial stated. That would be the same China that blatantly lied about when the outbreak began, ignored offers of outside help for weeks, and arrested whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, forcing him to sign a letter saying he spread "untrue speech" about the danger. Li subsequently succumbed to the virus.

In America, succumbing to communist thugs, to the point where loyalty and patriotism have been completely supplanted by the globalist agenda, has now reached catastrophic levels. It’s a catastrophe enabled by a self-anointed "New World Order" elitist class that no longer hides its contempt for ordinary Americans who’ve seen their cities and towns decimated by outsourcing leading to despair, homelessness, massive drug abuse, and now a communicable disease that threatens our entire way of life ‐ even as they are told globalism is a "net benefit" for the nation.

Net benefit? Ordinary Americans were supposed to be mollified by cheap consumer goods, while elitists amassed historically unprecedented levels of wealth. Moreover, those same elitists lectured us about how the nationalist agenda of the Trump administration was akin to Nazism, and that any hesitation to embrace globalism was xenophobic. Even now, despite this being the second virus originating in China (SARs emerged in 2003), our own media insists that referring to COVID-19 as "Wuhan virus," the "Wuhan coronavirus," or the "Chinese coronavirus" is racist.

In the midst of a pandemic, it doesn’t get more intellectually or morally bankrupt than that. The hypocrisy is astounding: Many of the same media sources now browbeating Americans for their racism initially used precisely the same terms to describe the virus.

So what changed? Politics.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  ^ "you" = Dr K
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-17 10:36  

#5  worse for you & your Associates, you mean
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-17 10:35  

#4  November 2019 memory hole:

Fallout from US-China trade conflict could be ‘even worse’ than WWI, Kissinger says

Prediction, or warning.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-17 10:31  

#3  The elitists could also go to their cocktail parties and congratulate each other for "eliminating those messy polluting big factories with their nasty smokestacks from the cities (and upwind of their condos)." All of those workers could now "Learn How to Code!" or find a job as a government drone...
Posted by: magpie   2020-03-17 10:20  

#2  Ordinary Americans were supposed to be mollified by cheap consumer goods, while elitists amassed historically unprecedented levels of wealth.

The origins of our current challenge go back a few years.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-17 09:37  

#1  "We were always at war with Eastasia".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-17 09:20  

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