In pursuit of zero COVID, China starves
its citizens

China is evil and it is being supported by American corporations, American athletes, and the American entertainment industry. Worst of all, many in the political class eagerly support this vile secretive nation. China is moving forward with its plan to become THE superpower in the world and far too many Americans profit from Chinese largesse while ignoring the genocide that is happening there. One thing the Chinese have learned is they can buy American support regardless of the atrocities committed on their own people. A government that will not protect its own citizens is not to be trusted. Unfortunately, we are very much like China in that regard.

Don't give Obiden any ideas.

No matter how bad things have been in the entire history of the U.S., even during the Civil War, I have not read of mass starvation and death between our shores. I’m reasonably optimistic that this country can ride out any food shortages. I’m talking about wholesale famines as happened in Ukraine in the 1930’s where vast numbers of people died.

Historically pagan country, pagan government, and pagan policies.

Nancy Pelosi might as well be the one saying it. "We have rules to keep you safe. Follow them or we will kill you."

Weekly meetings with people in Shanghai that we've come to know very well. They are all under house arrest and being able to get food delivered is a day-by-day effort. They are often hungry and always worried. I described that as "unimaginable here". They asked so I explained that our Constitution doesn't allow our government that level of control over us... and, we have guns. They found that "unimaginable".

The Chinese government does not value life as other countries do. Given their huge population, they assume millions can die for the greater good.

When you have a country that has 1.5 billion people and a government that doesn't really care about them all that much, losing 26 million or 260 million isn't a big deal. For those in control, it's fewer people who can cause trouble and fewer people to feed.

Dr. Fauci no doubt approves.

Canada, Australia, the EU and the US are taking careful notes, salivating all the while.

FTA: "China continued to expand its reach with the Belt and Road initiative, building and seizing seaports and airports in poor countries around the world, and its man-made islands allowing it to push further into the South China Sea." And this "initiative" has more than 70 countries officially signed on (including Panama and much of South and Latin America), and others who are playing along without signing the dotted line (Mexico, for example). The Chinese peg their financial investments and contractual cooperation for '21 in 144 countries at about US$59.5 billion. That's chump change, less than our left-behinds in Afghanistan. And that "initiative" doesn't include troops or bombs to bring the locals into submission to establish "democracy". This could have been a very worthwhile path for the "Leader of the Free World" to pursue, had the USA had a foreign policy and tamed its "Cold War" tendencies. What could the USA have accomplished with its economic power that military power hasn't and cannot deliver?

Widberg gets Sen. Marshal's state wrong, it is KS, not KY. He's from Kansas, and at best a mediocre, quiet, "follows Deep State orders" kind of a useless mess. He got put in place because the Dems and Deep State Repubs paid a couple of nobodies a lot of money in the senate Repub primary to split the votes, denying Kris Kobach, a strong, outspoken, real conservative, the win in the primary. A eastern Kansas plumber with a large business and lots of ads on the radio for years for his plumbing company with a nice little singing jingle with his name in it was one and the other was another person who had never been in any politics before. And, amazingly, (not) they had very well funded campaigns with LOTS of ads touting their "conservative ideas"....and managed to peel off enough uneducated votes from Kobach to give the win to Marshal in the primary. It was a foregone conclusion that the Dem would lose in the general election, so the real election was the poorly attended Republican primary, where these two 'fake' conservatives were almost certainly paid to split the conservative vote and elect another 'blank slate' Senator who will do has he is told.

When will people realize that China lies? They lie with such a straight face that even when they tell the truth, nobody believes them. They have been starving their citizens for a very long time, and unfortunately, American interests from athletics to Hollywood have been bowing to the Chinese Dragon for decades now. China is a horror show, and they are in such bad shape economically right now, no wonder they have greedy eyes on Taiwan. Personally, I think there is a new disease of some kind in Shanghai running amok right now. But per usual behavior of Beijing officials, they will never admit to it or its existence.