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1 posted on 09/07/2020 5:49:02 PM PDT by familyop
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Oh My!


2 posted on 09/07/2020 5:51:12 PM PDT by jonsie
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Sounds like Xi Jinping has contracted the latest of the escaped from the laboratory diseases known as “crackpotium”.


3 posted on 09/07/2020 5:52:32 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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China has a surprise coming.


4 posted on 09/07/2020 5:52:39 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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Sounds like they are fascists, Jim.


5 posted on 09/07/2020 5:52:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Gee China, let’s see.....how would you like your population reduced by at least half in, oh...say, 40 minutes time?

Because we can do that.


6 posted on 09/07/2020 5:56:51 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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We must cut China off completely. Keep their slave-labor garbage out of our country, and keep our stuff out of theirs. Choke their economy. Build up our allies’ military strength.


7 posted on 09/07/2020 5:57:12 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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I thought that was what Cov19 V0 was supposed to do....


8 posted on 09/07/2020 5:57:47 PM PDT by indthkr
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Who should they be “configuring” it to kill?

Epoch Times is Falun Gong cult.


9 posted on 09/07/2020 5:58:30 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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Well they were tweaking a virus to damage and kill a bunch of folks.


11 posted on 09/07/2020 6:01:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Print this up and get this out there in your precincts

There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which would prevent Trump get reelected. Letting that happen will create problems we don’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved.

Get News about corruption spiked by MSM Presented and sourced in Free Republic. com/ An all sides news collecting site by volunteers with no ads or fees which uses donations below just a sample Punch up link for http://www/freerepublic.com/

Besides corruption here is just some of the million$ that the Biden are involved in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3820191/posts also Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3881585/posts
The CCP’s (China Communist Party) newspaper The Global Times has endorsed Biden Claiming he would be the easiest to work with.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3876187/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8

Kamala Harris Sponsored Bill to FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...

24News ^ | 08-12-2020 |
Samantha Foster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. . In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls,..Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

HERE’S HOW THEY TREAT CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DON’T SUPPORT STUFF LIKE THIS CRAP KAMALA PUSHES

And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress an example is Illinois 3rd district

Todays Democrats weren’t happy with his funding votes against abortion and on being the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports.
Those who live in Chicago already voted at their local public library. But in the reshaped 3rd Congressional district Daniel Lipinski lost because of redistricting. Of a district which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd.

That was a district where those city wards were predominatly composed of traditional value family oriented Catholic/Christian communities opposed to funding such things as abortion and LGBT activities rather that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway. Those Wards were reliable William O Lipinski supporters of Dan’s father. But since most had areas with hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to the Gutieriez’s district. Those results are posted below which actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.In some of those wards areas of city blocks which were zoned exclusively for single family dwellings residents suddenly found their neighborhood having houses torn down and being replaced with multiple apartments with the units not required to furnish parking facilities and many renters were illegals. Much of which fit the plans for the suburbs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881650/posts


12 posted on 09/07/2020 6:01:57 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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Boy the asians as a groups sure have some real god complex problems when it comes to ruling the world.

I would rather Christ come back and rule the world.


14 posted on 09/07/2020 6:03:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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“China has a mandate of heaven”

But their state policy is atheism?


15 posted on 09/07/2020 6:07:24 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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We need to start treating them like the USSR of old. Unfortunately, the Pols are unwilling to do so.


17 posted on 09/07/2020 6:10:00 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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We need to start treating them like the USSR of old. Unfortunately, the Pols are unwilling to do so.


18 posted on 09/07/2020 6:10:18 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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[President] Xi Jinping has been talking increasingly about this notion that China has a mandate of heaven to rule the world,


Interesting. I thought the Commies did not believe in G-d or religion.


20 posted on 09/07/2020 6:12:54 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Gordon G. Chang is the author of “The Coming Collapse of China.”


22 posted on 09/07/2020 6:14:38 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Evil.


28 posted on 09/07/2020 6:22:21 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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Xi Jinping had to wait his turn at the reins of power. Now that he is enthroned, and free to cut loose, he is finally looking to put his name in neon lights.His goal is to eclipse prior Chinese rulers by, at long last, gaining territory beyond what any Chinese emperor had acquired in the past. Why the hurry? Because, first and foremost, like anyone else, *everyone*, ranging from athletes to scientists, wants *personal* fame. At 68, Xi is getting started late in the game. He needs to get moving if he is to achieve his goals before old age makes simultaneously venturing abroad and fending off his domestic (intra- and extra-Party) rivals becomes unmanageable.

China is like every other powerful non-Western* civilization (including Russia) - its very long-term goal is a single country on Earth ruled from its capital. China itself is an accumulation of lands and peoples acquired at swordpoint over thousands of years.

That policy of gradualism is not because Chinese rulers are long-term thinkers. Multiple dynasties have crumbled in that interval, and no ruler hedged his bets to make things easier for the next one. The problem was economic and political constraints.

Rulers who went a war too far found themselves beset by peasant rebellions as well as elite mutinies, due to the huge financial expenditures required, which caused both taxation and inflation to go through the roof. Outsized human costs were also a factor. 2200 years ago, China's Spartacus was a peasant rebel - mounting one of many draft revolts - who founded a dynasty that lasted 400 years. Peasant rebels have founded 3 dynasties lasting 1/3 of China's 2200 year history since the First Emperor's creation of a unitary Chinese state. Elite mutinies have created the basis for most of the other dynasties.

There's a portion of the Oscar-winning (for visuals) movie "Hero" that I found startling, but may illuminate the Chinese viewpoint. (Spoiler alert) The hero desists from assassinating the First Emperor, who created the first (less than 1/4 the current) unified Chinese state because the emperor says to him that peace on earth can only be achieved when someone rules "all under heaven":

Translation of "Tianxia"

There has been some criticism of the film for its American-release translation of one of the central ideas in the film: Tiānxià (天下) which literally means "Under heaven", and is a phrase to mean "the World". For its release in Belgium, two years before the U.S. release, the subtitled translation was "all under heaven". The version shown in American cinemas was localized as the two-word phrase "our land" instead, which seems to denote just the nation of China rather than the whole world. Whether Zhang Yimou intended the film to also have meaning with regard to the world and world unity was at that time difficult to say. Zhang Yimou was asked about the change at a screening in Massachusetts and said it was a problem of translation: "If you ask me if 'Our land' is a good translation, I can't tell you. All translations are handicapped. Every word has different meanings in different cultures."[14] In Cause: The Birth of Hero – a documentary on the making of Hero – Zhang mentions that he hopes the film will have some contemporary relevance, and that, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks (which took place just before the movie was filmed) the themes of universal brotherhood and "peace under heaven" may indeed be interpreted more globally, and taken to refer to peace in "the world."[15][16] The phrase was later changed in television-release versions of the film.

In reality, this proclaimed yearning for peace was basically the emperor's excuse for raising his personal prestige. He succeeded. However, he failed in the most fundamental sense - like Alexander and Muhammad, he had no issue - they were exterminated when his dynasty crumbled immediately after his death.

I’ve never subscribed to the theory that national leaders acquire land by force because of political or economic necessity. Publicly, they’ll justify these efforts that way, because the soldiers risking their lives and the loved ones they leave behind don’t want to hear that the war is being waged so their leaders can become famous for posterity. An Olympic athlete or a mountain climber can straightforwardly own up to his personal ambition because all that’s at risk is his personal investment in the task he has set for himself. A national leader cannot, for obvious reasons.

In fact, how do you distinguish between desperation and simple ambition? I don’t think you can. IMHO, Xi believes China has finally become strong enough to make these ventures the kind of bet a gambling man might take odds on. The shibboleth of our time is that war is hell, and no leader ever embarks on it except out of desperation. It’s, however, contrary to most of what we know about history. Leaders go to war for the same reason athletes compete in the Olympics - for personal fame and glory.

Kings go to war not because they need to, but because they want to. What they’re after is to make a name for themselves that will stand the test of time. By a country mile, the most famous Greek is Alexander, just as the most famous Roman is Caesar. That’s no accident. For better or for worse, conquerors will always have a special place in the history books. War is like a large scale hunt in which the guy who organized it and brought home a lot of trophies puts his name in neon lights for posterity.

Heck, even the losers become famous in ways nobody expected. Without his disastrous loss at Carrhae, just how well-known would the richest man in Rome, Crassus, be?

People who go on about Xi Jinping needing a distraction from domestic problems are ignoring everything we know about history. Chinese leaders are made in the mold of the leaders of powerful countries since probably the dawn of time - they did not sign up for their jobs to become glorified administrators/security people for accountants and financiers. They are building this wealth so they can construct an army to acquire fame for themselves. Alexander and Caesar accumulated wealth to fight wars. They didn’t fight wars to accumulate wealth. The end game was, first and foremost, eternal fame, or infamy, if they failed.

Saddam Hussein had all the money he needed. What he wanted was to be mentioned in the same breath as Saladin. Even in failure, he has placed his name in a more prominent position than any of his Arab contemporaries, with the exception of bin Laden. And bin Laden started his miniature war, his jihad, to become famous, just like all the rest. Despite the manner of his demise, he is famous beyond any Arab or Muslim of the past century.

* Until WWI and WWII, the Western powers were perennially in a horse race with respect to territorial competition. That may yet resume, despite a period of post-WWII decadence.

33 posted on 09/07/2020 6:33:45 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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This from a country that has to back off from India because of fist fights

Pearl clutchers here won’t sleep tonight or for many years


37 posted on 09/07/2020 6:45:10 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?? ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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He is beginning to think and dream more and more like Hitler.


40 posted on 09/07/2020 7:01:12 PM PDT by libh8er
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