Unbearable Truths About Our Current
Political Moment
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/11/2020 9:22:56 AM
Sometimes the truth is like mythical kryptonite. It radiates power and yet promises great destruction.(Snip)
Take the Chinese genesis of the COVID-19 epidemic. We started in February with the usual Chinese deceptions about their role in the birth, transmission, and worldwide spread of the virus.
(Snip)
All that gobbledygook talk of a Chinese wet market, of patient-zero bats, snakes, pangolins and such, were likely ruses to deflect attention from a conveniently nearby level-4 Chinese virology lab.
We are beginning to learn that Chinese scientists were conducting research on—surprise, surprise—coronaviruses in general, and in particular, methods to enhance their lethality
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/11/2020 9:28:20 AM (No. 407740)
OP comment should have covered Hanson’s other points, fully developed in this essay. Other unbearable truths. American weakness where China is concerned. The Democrat hypocrisy on #MeToo. The Biden dementia. Obama. Unbearable truths. We’ll never hear the truth from the media… or the elites who avert their eyes and make excuses.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/11/2020 10:17:31 AM (No. 407797)
When tallying up the over 80,000 dead, the trillions in destroyed market equity and GDP, and, most importantly, the likely larger human toll from suicides, family and substance abuse, lapsed medical procedures and tests, and wrecked businesses and lives from the lockdown...let's not just credit the Chinese, but the American medical and political elite who played right along, stampeded along with the public by false models based on false data churning out false projections that were readily accepted by our "leaders" from the town hall to the White House. And now politically there is no way out - setting near impossible standards to re-open. Chinese didn't do that...America's bi-partisan leadership did.
More trillions are soon on their way...one wonders if there is any connection.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/11/2020 10:55:12 AM (No. 407835)
No matter the intentions, we fought certain evils in our past which resulted in the emergence of greater evils. We fought and defeated Nazi Germany, then came Russian communism, a worse evil in scale and ambition. We fought and defeated Imperial Japan, and now came Chinese communism, which now threatens our very existence as a sovereign nation. No matter what we do to counteract our enemies’ threats, both foreign and domestic, the evil is unrelenting and inexorable. Yes, we have Islam too, and we’re not doing a very good job containing its global ambition, here and elsewhere. What we’re facing is so diabolical and so overwhelming, that we alone, cannot fight it any longer. Only God can deliver us from this evil and all we can do is be patient and pray for our redemption.
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Lawsy0 5/11/2020 10:58:25 AM (No. 407836)
Ordinarily, I learn so much from Dr. Hanson's essays and today is no exception. However, today's lesson is bitter-sweet, and as sharp a razor blade fresh from the package. One bleeds a little bit just from handling it. That said, I thank him for his insight into the China virus, the US handling of it on our shores, the MeToo infestation, Biden's DNC election dilema and of course, the clean and articulate Obama. It will take a generation to climb over this garbage pile
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 5/11/2020 11:13:42 AM (No. 407844)
It's becoming increasingly apparent that obama was up to his neck in the political coup. But was obama the head or, like Robert Mueller, only a figure head for someone else? As Mueller proved when he was unable to confirm even the smallest details in the investigation and report supposedly run by and named after him, obama was a weak president held up by Valerie Jarrett and heads of his many agencies. Was Valerie the one orchestrating all this or was she only pulling the strings for someone else? We will find out, eventually. Tick Tock. Tick Tock.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bgarrett 5/11/2020 11:46:24 AM (No. 407891)
Chinese flu, 1957, Hong Kong flu 1969, SARS, MERS, coronavirus All chinese diseases. China wants to take over the world even if it takes 300 years. they are in no hurry
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/11/2020 12:18:32 PM (No. 407930)
Chinese flu in 1957...So that’s what made me sick in 5th grade!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 5/11/2020 1:25:10 PM (No. 407989)
#Obamagate trending is all well and good, but it won't be justice until that Muslim infiltrator/POS is perp walked into a courtroom, tried and CONVICTED of treason, and then has his guts sprayed all over a brick wall as a death sentence. Yes, I said it. Its the only way to prove that the Rule of Law means something in America.
#LetsShowThemWhatHappensToTraitors
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/11/2020 1:40:23 PM (No. 408002)
Yes, all truths that the dems/media/Left cannot face and want to go away. They will try to ignore them.
Yet, here we are talking about them. Documents were just released that placed BO in the know of the illegal takedown of Flynn and in the spying process that was going on to support it. Some of the Left not belonging to the establishment are talking about Biden's mental lapses and the most ardent of #MeToo are saying that the dems shouldn't make the same mistakes they made with supporting BJ Clintoon. Trump has alrady made China an issue and is pointing out their lies about the virus release.
A united and organized dem party/media/Left might have had a better chance against letting these truths into the wild. However, these groups are NOT united or organized. Their leadership is caught up in the same scandals and their incompetence is glaring. They no longer have control of the narrative. The Progressives are a loud but ineffective force.
The question is, will Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Trump has pretty good instincts and vision but he still has to work with Congress and Nasty Pelousy is bordering on delusional. There will be no big changes until after the election. The urgency of the virus is fading. Dems plan absurd payouts to already failed dem states. Republicans may cave to those demands if we are not careful. Payments to people are possible. Payments to bail out union pensions are not. We would be better to walk away than to give in to dems over these things. How the restart goes will steer some of the reaction and we really have no certainty how it will go.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Yuban 5/11/2020 4:18:38 PM (No. 408114)
Posting and voting might make you feel better but it will not change a thing. We have a GOP Senate, POTUS and SC and only a Leftist House and yet, here we are. For a time under Bush we even had the House as well, and yet, here we are. Folks, the GOP is in charge and yet, here we are. The Right refuses to put the criminal Left in prison, thus stopping others from the Left continuing their corruption, so of course here we are.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/11/2020 4:37:07 PM (No. 408130)
FTA: "How could the media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the bureaucratic state, academia, and entertainment ever process that reality: that a deity was likely the most corrupt president in a generation?"
You can dispense with the "in a generation" qualifier. Nixon was a choirboy compared to LBJ and Clinton, let alone Obama.
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