Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[froot loops]

Not surprising on Roger Stone's post, that is a call to arms for MAGA Nation.

[froot loops]

ATTN: Kris Koback and The Geezer

[WingsFan]

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[Kapture1]

Not surprising on Roger Stone's post, that is a call to arms for MAGA Nation.

more bigotry towards MAGA Nation from the hoaxster party

hint... they've learned nothing from the past 24 hours. not one god damn thing.

[hack]

Look how that shit gets people talking -- about something other that people in DC are doing. Or, increasingly these days, Atlanta.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Some might call the central theme of this article extreme - holds in contempt the rules for competition generally adhered by among advanced Western nations. It more severely limits imports of products it can make domestically, refuses to honor intellectual property rights, and promotes exports through a wide range of aggressive subsidies.

As well, the author postulates that China's aggressive trade policies are a national security threat especially to the US and also Western democracies of significant consequence. It might be a little over the top but these central themes provide a macro contextual view that should illuminate the Trump administration's approach to trade negotiations with China.

Imbued with the ideas of the liberal press of a friendly world where we all work together as a village, many liberals, progressives and even moderate conservatives on the sidelines tend to forget that China is a Communist country seeking military dominance and hegemonic goals that go well beyond Asia.

I'm not entirely certain we have enough information to identify the Trump administration's end game with China - it's not going to be out there in the open press as it might apply to the the macro context I mention above. But, what we do know about it - what many criticize as an overly aggressive stance on trade with China - tells me that hardball is the game to play with Xi and his administration.

The one issue I worry about and seems to me that the true objectives of them are difficult to discern is that Trump's actions on the international stage with NK, Russia and China seem to be directed at some level of detente with them. If there is an underlying effort to secure America's national security interests in the areas of super computing, space exploration and artificial intelligence they're not clear to me.

The bottom line, though, is that observers need to be supportive of a tough stance on US trade negotiations with China. If the administration is unable to get concessions from China on issues central to protecting emerging western intellectual property and preventing it's theft by the Chicoms, we might want to ignore all the hand wringing from various quarters that the press is reporting on about what the impact of the imposition of additional tariffs might have on western economies. It may be a price that has to be paid ..... or a price that is grossly exaggerated by Trump's political opponents.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/th...teid=rss&rss=1

[crashcourse]

Kapture posted about this at least a week ago. Guess what? It's bullshit.

Amazing how you claim to not follow the conspiracy crowd yet you're constantly linking to Infowars style trash.

How much have you donated to poor Roger Stone, since you're utterly convinced he's being framed and wronged? Nothing?

seriously DSL you still truly believe CNN and only CNN sat outside stones house that night and just happened to be in perfect position to capture 27 agents hitting his house at 6 am in the morning

yeah youre probably right about the indictments being leaked but cnn was tipped on the raid

[crashcourse]

yeah the jessee Smollett crap or anything with AOC would have been pure gold jerry gold on snl

be interesting to see if there follow through and charge him with a felony--hell even charge him with anything

amazing roger stone gets multiple swat teams at his house for lying while McCabe gets a book deal and becomes the media darling after being fired for lying to the IG

joins the list of lies regarding Covington, Houston shooting of that girl, cavanuagh accusers,

and have you noticed how quickly the Virginia top 3 dems has been banished to the back pages.

[hack]

I think anyone who wants to know what Trump wants from China and how it will inform US policy should consider Trump family businesses that are seeking trademarks and other intellectual-property rights there. Ivanka won her trademarks when Trump said he'd go to bat for ZTE.

[Kapture1]

word is he could be in trouble for lying to the FBI as they handle threats sent through the mail, and a week before his fake attack, he was sent threatening hate mail with a white powder that turned out to be crushed up Advil. Police also recovered a cut up magazine from the brothers apartment, the reason for the fake attack was because the mail thread didn't get much attention.

[crashcourse]

far as the source of that story sara carter on stone--pretty much everything she and Solomon have been reporting all along regarding the whole deep state attempt to elect hjillary and now unelect trump --your boy McCabe essentially is squawking like a parakeet verifying everything.

[iam416]

Crash:

SNL will get to Jussie Smollett -- maybe. He's going to get mostly shamed for embarrassing the media. Palin-Cortez, though, is untouchable.

BTW, this is my favorite Jusse Smollet rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec12...o&pbjreload=10) -- it comes at about 7 minutes -- but it's Ellen Page on Colbert -- who gives her a platform without an ounce of pushback. She blames Pence for the attack on Smollet with the genius Progressive Socialist substitute for facts -- "connect the dots". When you can't actually support what you're saying, that's tried and true and Page really sticks the landing. Of course, some of her "dots" turned out to farcical, but that's another story.

These people created this narrative and the bigness of the story. This is what they wanted. Desperately. Now it's important make them live up to the "bigness" of the story they willfully and ignorantly created.

[Ghengis Jon]

Bernie Sanders has officially thrown his hat into the ring. Jesus, what a circus. Looks like the dems are borrowing the little yellow VW clown car the GOP used in 2016.

Will some adult please step up?

[Jeff Buchanan]

I think anyone who wants to know what Trump wants from China and how it will inform US policy should consider Trump family businesses that are seeking trademarks and other intellectual-property rights there. Ivanka won her trademarks when Trump said he'd go to bat for ZTE.

I agree with your take ..... in part. Trump's business interests are probably a driving slice of the whole pie with regard to trade negotiations with China. However, if I've seen anything from Trump in the last 8 or so months, it's been he's listening to his national security and defense people. His reversal of his plans for sweeping troop pull outs in the ME including Syria are an example. I also think he's pulled back a bit on removing a US military presence in Afghanistan. Is he going to raid the defense budget to build his wall? We'll see - I think a lot of this is political drama for the public stage.

I also think he trusts Mnuchin and Ross. Some may consider them collaborators with Trump's business interests. I think that severely underestimates the intellect of these two and the collective intellect of the people they have hired in their respective departments. Libs tend to over-focus on Trump's public persona and the idiot he often appears to be. I don't discount his idiocy but I also want to believe there are smart people who know what they are doing or would like the US to do with respect to trade and commerce and he is listening to them.

[hack]

I don't know if Mnuchin has active bits of policy for sale, but Ross has his own conglomerate of conflicts of interests and is a policy-for-sale figure. With China in particular, unless he sold that Navigator holding.

I think this Smollet stuff is just part of the playbook these days. People like perhaps him, or James O'Keefe, or whomever -- whatever can be done to fool anybody and for whatever goal. That's public discourse for you these days.