China & Still More Calamities
The Chinese Communists are so vile it is easy to think the worst about them, no matter how lacking in truth a rumor might be.
The Chinese Communists are so vile it is easy to think the worst about them, no matter how lacking in truth a rumor might be. So, is it possible that they spent weeks concealing the truth about the coronavirus from the rest of the world? Of course it’s possible, even likely. Is it possible that the virus didn’t simply spring up out of nowhere and that it had been developed and accidentally escaped from China’s biological warfare center in Wuhan province? Of course it’s possible.
In China’s attempt to overtake the United States in every conceivable way, it is naïve to think there is anything they wouldn’t be willing to do in order to achieve that goal.
With a population hovering around 1.3 billion people, if a pandemic broke out worldwide that cost them a million people, it would be a small price to pay if it also harmed their foes in the West.
Speaking of the West, the U.S. in particular, our elitists keep proving that there isn’t anything they won’t do so long as there is cash on the table.
We have already seen the NBA and the titans of the Silicon Valley grovel to remain on the good side of the Communist tyrants. Facebook, Google and the others, have done everything demanded of them, from refusing to divulge information to the U.S. government to creating electronic recognition systems that make it easier for Xi Jinping and his thuggish cronies to identify potential threats to their power. Or in other words, help them spot those seeking freedom before the gangsters have to deal with an uprising of the sort they faced in Tiananmen Square, in 1989.
Weeks ago, the dean of Harvard’s Chemistry department was arrested for spying on behalf of China. A Chinese grad student was also arrested.
Our pharmaceutical companies, faced with being undersold by the Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are owned by their government, simply handed over the production of antibiotics, penicillin and generic drugs, to China
The other day, it was announced on Tucker Carlson’s show that a Chinese man named Yu Ben Mong whose job it is to oversee the California public pension fund for state employees has invested $3.1 billion in Chinese companies, including those manufacturing weapons.
I used to think it was unwise to place people named Mohammad, Ahmad and Barack, in positions of influence and power, but now I’m thinking it might be an even worse idea to trust someone named Yu Ben Mong.
Apparently in certain circles, the fear of contagion posed by the coronavirus is so great that people are no longer risking shaking hands or even high-fives. Instead, they’re engaging in elbow bumps, which are exactly what they sound like.
Personally, I think an air kiss might be preferable. I may be overthinking it, but I would worry that someone is going to strike my funny bone and not in a good way. Or what if they miss the elbow entirely and crack a rib?
It’s not just the pain, either, it’s the embarrassment of explaining to the medic how you received the injury. “Well, see, doc, my friend and I were bumping elbows, as friends will do, and he missed.”
It occurred to me the other day that Ronald Reagan and I aren’t the only people who started out as Democrats and came to see the error of our ways.
Others are or were Whitaker Chambers, Andrew Breitbart, David Horowitz, Orson Bean and Clarence Thomas. And some of these guys weren’t just run of the mill Democrats but were left-wing radicals.
I’ve been trying to think of people who started out Republicans and converted, and I can’t come up with anyone. Some people might consider Mitt Romney one, but I don’t see him as anything but an opportunist. In 2012, he ran as a RINO, which is probably why he lost. In 2018, he ran as a Republican, knowing that Utah wasn’t about to send a Democrat to the Senate. Since arriving in Washington, he has been a Brutus-like Republican in name only.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love everything that Trump has been doing for the past three years. I mean aside from the fact that he’s made a habit of appointing a lot of inferior people to important positions. People like Rex Tillerson, Christopher Wray, Alexander Vindman, Omarosa, Reince Priebus, Anthony Scaramucci, Steve Bannon, Fiona Hill and John Bolton, should never have gotten within a mile of the White House.
If Trump had done an equally lousy job of vetting employees when he was overseeing his real estate empire, he might have wound up sleeping in a cardboard box in the Bronx.
His other weakness is to tweet way too often and quite often when he should be catching up on his sleep.
When he tweeted about the unfairness of a partisan Justice Department suggesting that Roger Stone should be locked up for as much as nine years, he cut the legs off Attorney General William Barr, who was right to complain that the President was making it impossible for him to do his job.
It wouldn’t have killed Trump to let the whole thing play out. If in spite of the fact that the foreperson on the jury was a woman who was a devout Never-Trumper who concealed that fact during voir dire, thus committing perjury, the judge had still gone ahead and imposed an overly harsh sentence on Stone, Trump had the constitutional authority to pardon his friend or at least shorten the length of his imprisonment.
Some people in his defense said that Trump has the same right as any American to voice an opinion, but he isn’t just any American. It was my honest opinion, for instance, that Iranian general Soleimani had lived far too long, but it was that other American, the fellow in the Oval Office, who had the power to send in a drone and get it done.
Michael Bloomberg may find that even two or three billion dollars isn’t enough to buy the Democratic nomination. At least not so long as the other contenders can keep coming up with videos of the man insulting massive numbers of voters.
He had already pissed off black and Latino voters by defending his Stop & Frisk policy when he was the mayor of New York.
Now opposition research has come up with a video of this billionaire elitist insulting America’s farmers in 2016 by summing up their efforts with “you dig a hole, you place a seed in it, you put a little dirt over it and up comes corn.”
He neglected to mention the important part played by manure in the process, which he could readily supply to the farmers of Iowa and Kansas if they would just follow him around with a shovel and a wheelbarrow.
He should at least have said “and up pops corn,” which might have suggested he was just kidding about how easy he thinks it is to be a farmer. It’s really far easier to be a politician if you lack even the rumor of a principle to dictate your agenda and will say anything and spend any amount if you think it will land you in the Oval Office. Of course once Bloomberg got there, he would still have to have the legs on Trump’s chair whittled down so that his feet wouldn’t dangle comically in the air.
I was once again caught off-guard, not realizing that this is the time of year when those aggressive little Girl Scouts cluster around supermarkets making you walk the gauntlet coming and going, basically daring you not to buy their cookies.
I’m sure that if I was made of what Tom Wolfe referred to as the right stuff, I might be able to make my way through them once, but never twice. Clearly, I’m not cut out to be an astronaut.
The fact is, I’m such a pushover for those adorable little tykes, I’m just grateful they’re just selling over-priced cookies and not used cars.
