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1 posted on 02/20/2022 9:33:53 AM PST by Beave Meister
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More data on why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed


2 posted on 02/20/2022 9:35:42 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: Beave Meister
allegedly?

When daily we watch them vote against the interests of the US and the wishes of their constituents and in a manner consistent with the interests of China there is no allegedly about it.

3 posted on 02/20/2022 9:36:55 AM PST by AndyJackson
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How does he stay alive writing these books?


4 posted on 02/20/2022 9:41:54 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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WTF DO WE ALWAYS GO AFTER REPUBLICANS....FIRST!! GO AFTER DEMOCRATS FIRST!!


5 posted on 02/20/2022 9:43:10 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.be)
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WTF DO WE ALWAYS GO AFTER REPUBLICANS....FIRST!! GO AFTER DEMOCRATS FIRST!! THEN GET THE PUBBIES!


6 posted on 02/20/2022 9:43:54 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.be)
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I’m sure you’re right and if we knew how many members of Congre$$ had financial holdings in China we would probably be shocked.


12 posted on 02/20/2022 9:59:13 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Beave Meister

As I have been posting for some time, the Trump presidency cost people on both sides of the aisle a crap load of money. For that they hate him and are actively working to destroy him.


13 posted on 02/20/2022 10:02:33 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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Great book!

In 2019, Neil Bush, son of one American president and brother of another, took the stage at an event in Hong Kong. Tensions were rising as people in Hong Kong were protesting the increasing restrictions on their rights by Chinese government authorities. Bush had stern words—not for Beijing, but for politicians back in Washington. “I’d advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China,” he declared. Bush went on with a bizarre claim that the dictatorial regime would be restricted when it came to repression. “If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within,” he claimed, without offering any evidence. “Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.”

Neil Bush, who has a cluster of financial ties to Chinese political elites in Beijing, is a frequent voice on Chinese state television. He has nice things to say about the government—just not politicians in Washington. In 2019, when the U.S. Congress passed the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act,” calling out Beijing for a massive and violent crackdown in the city, Bush shot back that those who voted for the bill were not “well enough informed” about the true state of “freedom and democracy.”


In Canada, perhaps the most prominent political dynasty in modern times are the Trudeaus. Pierre Trudeau was a flamboyant and passionate labor lawyer who went on to serve as prime minister of Canada for more than a decade. He was philosophically attracted to Communist China and would later cash in on the relationship he enjoyed with the Beijing ruling elite. The torch in the family would be passed to his sons, one of whom, Justin, would enter parliament in 2008 and later ascend to the prime minister’s office. As we will see, the family’s warm ties to China and China-linked entities play an essential role in their personal fortunes and influence how they govern.

Before the story is told, it is important to note that it is impossible to know the full extent of the Trudeau family’s commercial and other ties with Beijing because in 2019 it was revealed that Canada’s top spy agency had destroyed its files on Pierre Trudeau thirty years earlier. Trudeau died in 2000, and the documents had been expected to be released in 2020. The move was audacious and denounced by historians as both “outrageous” and a “crime against Canadian history.”50

Pierre Trudeau was a French Canadian with a “lifelong fixation on China.”51 The interest was initially about ideology. Trudeau was influenced in his early years by socialism. “The party of the people—socialism, communism—will eventually come out the winner,” he wrote as a young man.52

He first visited China in 1949, as the country was engulfed in the revolutionary violence between the communist forces led by Mao and the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek.53 He traveled again in 1960 with his friend Jacques Hébert, this time at the request of the communist government. The invitation was unusual; few Westerners were invited to visit the country and Trudeau was hardly a prominent figure at the time. He had yet to enter parliament.54


Biden

sources of information also provide even more evidence that this is a story about not just Hunter Biden, but Joe Biden himself. To some degree, for the period our research covers, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had intertwined finances. Hunter Biden privately complained to family members about paying his father’s bills. “I love all of you,” he wrote to his daughter Naomi on January 3, 2019. “But I don’t receive any respect and thats fine I guess -works for you apparently. I Hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family Fro 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”8

Other correspondence confirms that the vice president of the United States, signified by the initials “JRB” for Joseph Robinette Biden, was mentioned in emails discussing payments or financial opportunities.9

The idea that his father might be participating in Hunter Biden’s dealings was potentially realized when Hunter Biden or his business partner, Eric Schwerin, arranged for private phone lines for the vice president, at a cost ranging from $190 to several hundred dollars a month.10 This would allow for a non-official channel of communication. It is neither legal for the vice president of the United States to accept gifts from a company, nor clear why the vice president of the United States needs an undisclosed means of communication.11 According to Hunter, he (or Rosemont Seneca Partners) had been paying for multiple phone lines for his father for eleven years—all while he was in office as a senator or vice president. Using the lowest number of payments for “JRB,” we found that for the cost of Joe’s phone line(s) ($190), that amounts to over $25,000. Interestingly, in February 2017, Hunter moved to put at least one phone number back under Joe Biden’s name after he left office because, “he wants to start paying it.”12


21 posted on 02/20/2022 10:35:03 AM PST by consult
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McConnell’s ties to China “mostly stem from” his step-father’s “massive shipping business

Step-father? Are they talking about his father-in-law?

23 posted on 02/20/2022 10:45:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Swamp traitors - bump for later...


30 posted on 02/20/2022 12:03:17 PM PST by indthkr
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From the article:

“Schweizer’s book also lists connections between China and

former House Speaker John Boehner,
former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott,
former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour,
former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad,
former Sens. David Vitter, Normal Coleman, William Cohen, Tim Hutchinson,
former Reps. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Ed Royce, Jeff Dehman, Lee Terry, Jack Kingston, Cliff Stearns, Charles Boustany, Connie Mack IV, Jon Christensen.

...“If you look at Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, you look at Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican of Kentucky, in both instances, their families, their extended families have received hundreds of millions of dollars in deals from Beijing.”

But just as there are sellouts on both sides of the political aisle, there too are Republicans and Democrats willing to fight back.

“Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio have been consistently tough, as have Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, Chris Coons and Joe Manchin,” Schweizer reportedly writes in his book.”


31 posted on 02/20/2022 12:06:16 PM PST by BeauBo
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