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2020-03-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-31 02:48|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 It was Western elites who enabled China. With Clinton winning the 1996 election with Chinese campaign contributions, they needed to be paid back. They were admitted to the WTO, and that was the death knell for the American working class.

None of them cared, though; they made a mint from trade with China. No more troublesome workers with their unions and their OSHA complaints. Slave labor, just like they like it.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-31 04:52|| 2020-03-31 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Communism never would have gone anywhere near as far as it has in fomenting worldwide human misery without useful idiots.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 07:45|| 2020-03-31 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 But the enemy he is fighting is the ~~Chinese Communist Party~~US national media.

That's more like it...

Posted by Raj 2020-03-31 10:37|| 2020-03-31 10:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The “Long March “ through the institutions of education and the media has produced a sizable part of our own citizens who believe that holding opinions like those above represent the political extreme of the right, not the truth. Unless we repair the fault-lines in our body politic and our culture we are facing a return to our colonial past, with far more ruthless overlords than George the Third. Perhaps Covid 19 can thwart this path if we can navigate the economic malestrom and our own domestic cancers of the MSM/Democrat fellow travelers.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-03-31 12:14|| 2020-03-31 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Chinese communists can afford to lose a few people and don't give a rat's ass if they do. Odds are 50-50 they did this with malicious intent.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-31 14:34|| 2020-03-31 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #5: Odds are 50-50 they did this with malicious intent.

"Malicious intent" certainly did abound following discovery, and continues today. Not present for duty, any form of contrition or sharing of critical data or information.

It is what it is.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-31 14:42|| 2020-03-31 14:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, Herb, our elites have indeed sold us down the river. They think they have a deal with the Chicoms.

At the outset of WWII, Stalin thought he had a deal with Hitler, a formal treaty called the Ribbentrop pact in which the two dictators agreed to divvy up Poland. From what I've read, Stalin had an extremely tough time with himself when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union anyway. He cowered in a closet for up to three weeks, fearing for his life. When the rest of the Politburo members finally drove out to his dacha to ask him what his plan was, he was certain they were there to arrest him because he figured that's what he deserved for being such a fool. But if they feared anyone more than Hitler it was Stalin and they managed to bring him back to his old self.

I think there are those in our country who will soon feel like Stalin when they learn how badly they've been betrayed by their bogus ally. Then we'll find out whose side they're really on. Maybe they already know.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-31 15:14|| 2020-03-31 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 China has not been reporting up to third of the positive tests

China to include symptom-free coronavirus carriers in national figures

Posted by Beavis 2020-03-31 15:33|| 2020-03-31 15:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Looking back, the road to China collusion for our elites was paved by their panic and distress over Japanese, also South Korean etc economic competition. They made the blithe assumption that China would never pose a political and military threat.

Apparently these morons never paused to consider that JON and SKOR are allies bound by treaties and that China is an implacable enemy trying to avenge centuries of national humiliation.

F---ing idiots.

Does no one in this country study history any more? I mean not identity politics fables but real history, the traditional study of states and of nations and their leaders?

Posted by Lex 2020-03-31 16:26|| 2020-03-31 16:26|| Front Page Top

#10 China has not been reporting up to third of the positive tests

Weren’t 80% of the test kits they sold to the Czech republic and another European country faulty? It makes one wonder if 80% of their own test results are wrong, too — of the tests that they bothered to run.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-31 21:16|| 2020-03-31 21:16|| Front Page Top

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