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On China, Biden Is an Empty Suit We desperately need to beef up our China policy. by Steve Postal

https://spectator.org/category/politics/asia/

The Biden administration continues to show itself to be an empty suit on foreign policy. In the wake of the crisis, er, challenges on the southern border, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez called Biden “the migrant president.” After President Biden confirmed in an interview that yes, Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “killer,” Putin wished Biden good health and challenged Biden to a “basically live … open, direct discussion.”

Add China to the list of countries making us a laughingstock. The opening remarks of last week’s meeting between the Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan with China’s foreign policy chief Yang Jiechi and State Councilor Wang Yi in Alaska clearly reveal that the Biden administration lacks a credible, substantive China policy. There were several key takeaways from that meeting.

China does not believe the Biden administration will ever confront China, because Biden told them so.

Director Yang revealed that China is not at all threatened by the Biden administration, as “during the phone call between the presidents [of China and the United States], President Biden himself also talked about the importance of having no conflict or confrontation between our two countries.” Add to this President Biden’s past remarks seeming to sanitize the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghurs as a Chinese “cultural … norm,” the Biden administration has not given the CCP a reason to expect a hands-on approach from the United States.

The Biden team speaks of allies, but has no plan to leverage those allies.

Secretary Blinken was quick to mention that he had visited Japan and South Korea and that our two allies were “very interested in the discussions” that the U.S. and China are having, but he failed to articulate any policy from our alliances that would counter CCP aggression.

In response to what were essentially empty words from Team USA, the Chinese delegation discussed Japan and South Korea much more substantively. Director Yang replied,

Has Joe Biden Sold America Out to the Mexican Drug Cartels? Drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy. Wayne Allyn Root

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/has-joe-biden-sold-america-out-mexican-drug-wayne-allyn-root/

“Now I ask you — use your common sense: Why is this happening? Why would any sane president or political party want to encourage an invasion that will overwhelm our country and risk disease and death — let alone in the middle of a pandemic? This is insanity.”

I told you so. It’s become crystal clear I was right on the money. I’ve said for two years now on my national radio show that the best thing that could ever happen for the Mexican drug cartels would be a Democratic presidential victory.

Mexican drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy. They must be singing, dancing and toasting champagne right now, because President Joe Biden is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon the Mexican cartels.

Experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the cartels at around $500 billion a year. That’s half a trillion dollars a year — “trillion” with a T.

Who quotes that figure? Republican senators. See what Georgia Sen. David Purdue said in 2019: “At half a trillion dollars — $500 billion — that makes the cartel business and the drug traffic just in Mexico alone coming across to the United States bigger than Walmart, to put it in perspective. So this is larger than our largest companies.”

But that figure is bipartisan. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein quotes a figure in a similar range: “The illicit drug trade is a business, valued at anywhere between $426 and $652 billion.”

Manchin’s Mendacious Filibuster Position David Catron

https://spectator.org/joe-manchin-filibuster/

Manchin has claimed since the beginning of the year that he wouldn’t support eliminating the filibuster and even shouted at one reporter who asked him if there were any potential circumstances under which he would alter his position: “Never! Jesus Christ, what don’t you understand about ‘never’?” Lately, however, his position has indeed been “evolving.” Recently, for example, he reiterated his resolve to protect the filibuster on NBC’s Meet the Press, but he added a new caveat on Fox News the same day: “Maybe it has to be more painful, maybe you have to stand there. There’s things we can talk about.” Manchin appeared to be suggesting a return to the hoary “talking filibuster.”

Until the 1960s, if a senator who wished to use the filibuster to stop a vote on a particular bill, he was required to stand and speak without yielding the floor. A group of senators willing to tag-team could extend the filibuster for weeks by rotating speakers. The longest filibuster on record involved a cadre of Democratic senators opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Because the filibuster halted all other Senate business, these Democrats brought the Senate to a standstill for 60 days. Senate rules have since changed so a bill can be “filibustered” without shutting down the upper chamber. A particularly pernicious piece of legislation can be killed if it lacks the 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster.

As it happens, just such a bill has been introduced in the Senate. On January 19, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that the first Democratic bill in the new Congress will be the “For the People Act.” S 1 is virtually identical to HR 1, which passed in the House on March 3. For the Democratic leadership of both houses, this is the Holy Grail, and they fully intend to ram it down America’s throat even if they must kill the filibuster. This is why Joe Manchin is getting so much attention: he and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are the only Senate Democrats who claim to support the filibuster.

BIDEN’S SELLOUT TO THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL

https://www.creators.com/read/daily-editorials/03/21/has-joe-biden-sold-america-out-to-the-mexican-drug-cartels-f3261#increaseFont

I told you so. It’s become crystal clear I was right on the money. I’ve said for two years now on my national radio show that the best thing that could ever happen for the Mexican drug cartels would be a Democratic presidential victory.

Mexican drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy. They must be singing, dancing and toasting champagne right now, because President Joe Biden is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon the Mexican cartels.

Experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the cartels at around $500 billion a year. That’s half a trillion dollars a year — “trillion” with a T.

Who quotes that figure? Republican senators. See what Georgia Sen. David Purdue said in 2019: “At half a trillion dollars — $500 billion — that makes the cartel business and the drug traffic just in Mexico alone coming across to the United States bigger than Walmart, to put it in perspective. So this is larger than our largest companies.”

But that figure is bipartisan. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein quotes a figure in a similar range: “The illicit drug trade is a business, valued at anywhere between $426 and $652 billion.”

That was all before Joe Biden’s lax open-borders policies.

Biden’s Malarkey and Malaise Jed Babbin

https://spectator.org/biden-speech-malaise/

Joe Biden’s campaign bus had a sign on it promising “No Malarkey,” but malarkey was a primary feature of his campaign. It’s not entirely correct to say that Biden’s Thursday evening speech was the equivalent of Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech, but it was a pretty thick mixture of malaise and malarkey.

Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “malaise” speech was delivered almost 10 years to the day after we put a man on the moon. In those 10 years, we had gone from energy independence to dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Inflation was rampant, political unrest was almost the norm, and we hadn’t yet recovered from losing the Vietnam War. The country was at peace (five months later, Iranians seized American diplomats and held them until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated), but it was stalled, discouraged, and growing poor.

The energy crisis slowed our economy, and Carter’s speech was about why we weren’t able to solve it. He blamed it on a crisis of Americans’ confidence in solving problems. According to Carter, we had a crisis of confidence in our government, the media, ourselves, and the nation. The solutions he proposed had nothing to do with recovering our confidence and had almost no effect on the energy crisis that existed in his day.

Biden’s speech paralleled Carter’s in so many ways that it could have been written by a Carter speechwriter.

Biden began with a dose of falsehood by taking credit for what Trump had done. He bashed Trump — without mentioning his name — for letting the virus spread with months of delays, denials, and silence. That was a a Big Lie. On January 31, after the first few cases of COVID were detected in the U.S., Trump imposed a ban on anyone entering the country who had been in China in the past 14 days. (Biden denigrated that sort of travel ban as “xenophobic.”)

 SHOCK REPORT! FBI Sends in Armored Vehicle with Turret, 2 Vans, 6 FBI Vehicles, 3 Local Police Vehicles to Arrest Young Father Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally – – Please Help…Jim Hoft

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/shock-report-fbi-sends-military-vehicle-turret-2-vans-6-fbi-vehicles-3-local-police-vehicles-arrest-young-father-attended-jan-6-rally-unbelievable-interview/

Joshua James was arrested this week and is being charged in connection to the violent events of January 6th in Washington D.C.

Joshua James is an Iraq War veteran. He was wounded in a bomb blast in Iraq. And Joshua is being held by the FBI without bail.

Joshua is the breadwinner in his family. He receives retirement pay from the military. He has three young children including a 3-year-old. 

His wife is a commission-based part-time realtor.  She tells us she brings in little income.

The FBI lured him out of his home in Alabama by pretending to be a customer needing a pressure washing.

Then an Army armored vehicle with a turret on top, 2 FBI vans, 6 FBI vehicles, 3 local police and sheriff’s vehicles pulled up and ransacked their home.

Audrey James, his wife, was forced to sit outside for 8 hours with her 3-year-old while the FBI searched their home and broke a light fixture.

Joshua James is a war hero, a veteran, a Godly man, a provider, and a business owner. Joshua James DID NOT commit any violent crime. He attended the January 6th speech by President Trump at the Ellipse along with a million other Americans.  He volunteered to work security with other members of the Oath Keepers.

The State of the Union J.R. Dieckmann

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If you think the democrats $1.9 billion Covid relief bill now signed into law by Joke Bitem is a major problem for the nation, that’s only part of it. It wasn’t enough that the cure for Covid imposed by democrat governors was worse than the virus itself, but at the same time we have the crisis at the southern border with hundreds of thousands of people from Mexico, Central America, and other unknown origins illegally being allowed to cross into the United States under this administration after President Donald J. Trump had all but stopped the mass migration from the south. Then his reelection was stolen away by democrat voter fraud and election tampering and the DOJ will have nothing to do with the crimes.

Now, this falsely labeled new $1.9 billion socialist law called the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act” authorizing just $190 billion for Covid relief and  $1.71 Trillion going to democrat causes and financial supporters is an absolute outrage. It also legalizes the kind of voter fraud and the other crimes committed by democrat election officials and workers in 2020 and many other issues benefitting only democrats.

Additionally, a significant portion of that relief money will be going to convicted felons along with handouts and support to all the illegals crossing the border. Need I remind you that this is not the government’s money, it is the taxpayers’ money being taken from hard working Americans and future generations of Americans. I personally don’t think this now over $28 Trillion national debt will ever be paid back, how could it be? The US treasury will continue to print more dollars causing massive inflation and our dollars will become nearly worthless. But then that is exactly what the democrats want, isn’t it?

It’s all in their playbook by Saul Alinsky but more to the point is the Cloward-Piven Strategy designed to overwhelm the system of government spending and drive the nation into poverty, causing a demand for more socialism by the many millions of people in poverty that they created, resulting in the transformation of our free capitalist system into a communist dictatorship. Isn’t that exactly what we are now seeing with this new utterly contemptable and unamerican administration and congress? In just two months we have gone from a great and prosperous nation into a scrapheap of misery and abuse.

The Devastating Price  of Ineffective Lockdowns Lockdowns are the “biggest public  health mistake we’ve ever made.” by Mark Alexander

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/78377-the-devastating-price-of-ineffective-lockdowns-2021-03-12

The waxy automaton Joe Biden read a prepared national address last night on the one-year anniversary of the ChiCom World Health Organization’s declaration of the ChiCom Virus pandemic. His handlers chose this date for Biden to insist he saved the nation, despite the fact that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was conspiring with Red China dictator Xi Jinping to conceal the outbreak — until China was in a position to maximize the damage to the U.S. economy.

By extension, of course, China maximized the devastation not just to American lives and livelihoods but to those of other nations.

Last year, we published a link to the Great Barrington Declaration, a prophetic condemnation of the current lockdown strategies being mandated by many U.S. state governors and leaders around the world.

The authors, infectious disease epidemiologists, and scientists, noted, “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”

The Declaration concluded: “Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. 

Sidney Powell Provides Updates on Judicial Challenges: “Constitutional Crisis”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/11/sidney-powell-provides-updates-on-judicial-challenges-constitutional-crisis/

Attorney Sidney Powell continues working with her team to coordinate legal challenges while providing evidence of corrupt election systems and processes.  In this interview with Pete Santilli, Powell discusses the current state of her efforts and the groups she is working with in state legislative offices.

The future of voting against the UniParty begins with first securing the processes of elections: paper ballots, limited election days, limited and controlled absentee ballots, no computer systems for electronic manipulation, voter ID requirements, and one citizen – one vote.

Dan Gelernter :Cancel Culture’s Newest Victims Cultural power is shifting, decentralizing—one might say diversifying. And it is actual, meaningful diversity—that is, diversity of thought rather than diversity of appearance.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/09/cancel-cultures-newest-victims/

Ebay will no longer list certain Dr. Seuss books, and the Dr. Seuss Foundation has decided to “recall” six titles. The reporting on the subject, even in the Wall Street Journal, was too cowardly to tell us exactly what in these six books was offensive, but we are given to understand that they contained anti-wokeness.

Following hard on the heels of this courageous cancellation, Turner Classic Movies has decided to “reexamine” 18 “troubling and problematic” films of the past, including “My Fair Lady,” “Gone with the Wind,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and “Psycho,” all of which are now considered deeply sexist or racist or both. (This despite the fact that “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” for example, is explicitly and aggressively antiracist.)

That TCM’s list contains just 18 movies shows how little the woke brigade knows about movies. I grew up watching classic films almost exclusively, and can think off the top of my head of more than 200 movies that the modern Left would find offensive for one reason or another: Women in traditional roles (sometimes even happy about it), other cultures being mocked (and mocking us back), blackface routines (like Fred Astaire’s extraordinary homage to the African American dancer Bill Robinson), and more besides.

It’s hard to think of a single film from more than a couple of decades ago that wouldn’t upset the Left in some way. These films are products of their times, and often great masterpieces. They can’t be blamed for reflecting prevailing prejudices any more than you could blame someone for believing in a geocentric solar system before Galileo came along.