Social War Room Lounge V217 If there's any justice in the world she'll be destitute and in jail first.

Do any Trumps do jail time

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PolishHeadlock2 said:
So Biden has tapped PA Secretary of Health Rachel Levine to be in his administration as the Assistant Secretary of Health.

She's a Trans so this should make for some interesting commentary.

For what it's worth I think Levine and Wolf have done a pretty good job in PA.
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PolishHeadlock2 said:
So Biden has tapped PA Secretary of Health Rachel Levine to be in his administration as the Assistant Secretary of Health.

She's a Trans so this should make for some interesting commentary.

For what it's worth I think Levine and Wolf have done a pretty good job in PA.
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She could personally cure covid with her tears, and it won't stop the usuals.
 
Andy Capp said:
[Edit: I was running short of time and the post ran off the rails a bit, but here goes FWIW]

Oh hey. That reminds me. Have you ever heard of the Epoch Times? It appears to be some woman's sole mission in life to fill a newspaper with anti-Chinese rhetoric and tie it to political leaders in the counties in which she publishes it. We got a free copy in the mail. Apparently, there was even an effort to stop it being distributed in Canada,
Federal government says Canada Post must deliver Epoch Times despite union objection
"Union rep asked minister to halt delivery of coronavirus issue over carrier concerns it could stoke hate"

On one hand, it blames China for the pandemic and alluded to suggestions it was deliberate. So, that's caused a big controversy as you would expect. The thing is, that will draw the attention of people sympathetic to that suggestion.

On the other hand, it several pages of stories in addition to that. Now, I didn't bother to read them because I would have no idea how much of it is true and how much is anti-China propaganda, but I was wondering if you might care to case your better-educated eye on what this woman, Cindy Gu, is up to. According to this other news story, she chose to distribute it in "specific neighbourhoods."

Interestingly, in response to the CBC's reporting, I just found a letter the Epoch Times sent to them,
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6879884-Gu-Response-1.html

Perfectly reasonable, and if true, something I can agree with wholeheartedly. I can't disagree with this, for example,
4) Some people may have erroneously conflated criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with
criticism of the Chinese people. The Chinese Communist Party does not represent the Chinese
people or China. Understanding the difference is vital and will eliminate racial tension, as
people come to understand that the criticism of the handling of the virus is of the CCP, not the Chinese
people.

I have used the same reasoning in reference to criticism of Netanyahu and his government as opposed to criticism of Jews as a people.

But then, they say,
5) Regarding the Wuhan lab, it is a small part of our reporting on the coronavirus. China silenced early
whistleblowers, destroyed samples, and falsified data. We simply asked questions like many others....

That, taken together with the fact that it's still a newspaper that is filled front to back with negative stories about China, mean a lot of people will miss or ignore the subtlety of number 4, don't you think? Sorry for the long post, didn't start out that way. I guess what I am getting at is can you peruse it and see if there are more cases of "just asking questions" suggesting things that are probably not true?
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Epoch Times is overkill and actually also became a pro-Trump propaganda machine over the last couple of years. I was on the "China Virus" train for a very short time in the heat of the moment but I've deliberately steered well clear once I saw the effect Trump's political theater was causing and you were actually posting in the same thread last Spring when I realized, "You know, this isn't really the direction we want to go". It's also an area where Nancy Pelosi - the most staunchly anti-CCP politician in American history - strongly diverges from Trump's leadership style and rhetoric, she'd never stoke xenophobia.

And yes the tension is strictly with the CCP, not China nor the Chinese people. I find the ethnonationalism and implicit Han supremacy at the core of their ideology dangerous and gross; I'm keenly opposed to the human rights abuses perpetrated on myriad minority groups within the country in addition to the hostility towards Hong Kong, Taiwan and regional neighbors. I find their tactics on international trade, IP theft and industrial espionage borderline enraging. That's only a short summary but it's more than enough to view the ruling party with a degree of fixed hostility and skepticism at best.
 
Stop Being Greedy said:
7 years clean motherfuckers. 7 years ago today I was waking up in a jail cell after getting pulled over while driving drunk to go buy crack. Decided I was done with booze and hard drugs forever that day.
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Damn, I can't even give up henn for a week, you're going on 7 years. I'm impressed.
 
Legendary Van Halen front-man David Lee Roth has shared a new piece of original artwork which was apparently inspired by the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this month. It is of course not good.
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Impressive though is his dedication to the theme in that he is transitioning to Abraham Lincoln and doing a damn fine job.
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Deorum said:
Epoch Times is overkill and actually also became a pro-Trump propaganda machine over the last couple of years. I was on the "China Virus" train for a very short time in the heat of the moment but I've deliberately steered well clear once I saw the effect Trump's political theater was causing and you were actually posting in the same thread last Spring when I realized, "You know, this isn't really the direction we want to go". It's also an area where Nancy Pelosi - the most staunchly anti-CCP politician in American history - strongly diverges from Trump's leadership style and rhetoric, she'd never stoke xenophobia.

And yes the tension is strictly with the CCP, not China nor the Chinese people. I find the ethnonationalism and implicit Han supremacy at the core of their ideology dangerous and gross; I'm keenly opposed to the human rights abuses perpetrated on myriad minority groups within the country in addition to the hostility towards Hong Kong, Taiwan and regional neighbors. I find their tactics on international trade, IP theft and industrial espionage borderline enraging. That's only a short summary but it's more than enough to view the ruling party with a degree of fixed hostility and skepticism at best.
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That's about what I thought would be the case and I am glad my instincts were good but I don't like to make unfounded assumptions and criticize them for legitimate journalism so I thought it good to double-check. I was pretty suspicious though, when I saw a story on the front page praising Pompeo and another inside criticizing this guy, Naheed Nenshi, first Muslim mayor of a large North American city, according to Wikipedia.
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He's very well liked and you have to have some sort of agenda to try to link him with CCP shittyness. Alberta is like Texas North and Calgary is its Dallas perhaps, and this guy still got elected mayor.
 
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