TREASON AT DINNER IN SAN FRANCISO
Three Cheers for Shi Jin Ping!
In another forum I participate in, there has been an ongoing discussion about tariffs - taxes nations impose upon imports from foreign countries. During his first term, Donald Trump employed tariffs, primarily against China.
The focus of the discussion was whether tariffs are good or bad for the domestic economy. Trump-haters want to argue that Trump’s tariffs hurt the economy, while his supporters point out that the economy under Trump was never better. I believe both sides of this argument miss the point.
The real question, the basic question, is not what is the domestic economic impact of tariffs but, first, what is the basic purpose of tariffs. Why are they employed? Why should they be employed? You can blow a lot of smoke and get lost in the weeds unless you ask that question.
In my view, tariffs are primarily a device to protect the strategic interests and viability of the nation from destructive or predatory foreign interests. For example, a country might employ tariffs to protect its domestic arms industries rather than risk those industries being exported offshore in pursuit of lower costs. In the event of war, a country would not want to be dependent on foreign sources for its essential defense, as Britain and the Soviet Union were dependent on the US in WWII. If American had not been on hand to supply the needed war materiel, the outcome of that war would have been entirely different.
That, I think, is the traditional intent and understanding of tariffs. Any other consideration runs a distant second.
This view of tariffs, of course, presupposes an understanding of and commitment to the nation's strategic security interests and a willingness to pay the necessary price for it, which might mean higher prices for some things and less profit for some commercial enterprises.
However, if there is no understanding of or concern about national security, as is true of leftist/Democrat globalists in today’s America, tariffs become something else entirely. By reducing the advantages of low-cost offshore sourcing, tariffs militate against the interests of those whose supreme goal is profit.
Tragically, in mindless pursuit of profits, heedless of the strategic national security interest, the commercial and governmental powers that be in America have long turned a blind eye to the threat posed by China. They have been bought off. (See Pat Buchannon's prescient "Suicide of a Superpower".)
Two glaring examples immediately jump to mind - one, America's and the world's overwhelming strategic dependence on Taiwan as virtually their sole source - 90% - of cutting-edge computer chips. In a high-tech, AI age, everything important runs on such chips, especially the military. China, as everyone knows, has sworn to “reunite” Taiwan with China and bring that vibrant democracy under the jackboot of the CCP dictatorship. The US/China conflict that might result is one of America’s major security concerns.
Though, in recognition of this vulnerability, some effort is belatedly being made to establish some comparable chip production in America, if China took Taiwan in the near future - and they have every incentive to do so while the do-nothing, bought-and-paid-for bribee and traitor Biden remains in office - they will have essentially all their adversaries, as the Brits like to put it, "by the short hairs". The initiative to move high-end chip production to the US - something that would take years to accomplish - only increases China’s incentive to take Taiwan as soon as possible.
The second is China's worldwide dominance of and the attendant international dependence on that country for pharmaceuticals. The overwhelming proportion - 80% - of the active ingredients in pharmaceutical drugs worldwide is sourced from China. At least in the short-term - say the time it might take to fight a war - this gives China life-and-death control over much of the world. Unnumbered millions of people - I am one - would be dead in a short time if China - say as a strategic move in their "unrestricted warfare" against the US - or, if a hot war breaks out between the US and China - turned off the pharmaceutical spigot, which they would almost certainly do in the event of war. In my case, I'd be dead in less than a year without my China-sourced medication.
Anyone who thinks the Chinese would not strategically use their monopoly control of such resources as a tactic in a military conflict is smoking something. Look at what they have already done to us in the Covid-19 biowarfare attack (if you believe that was an accident, a "lab leak", you just don’t understand the bigger strategic picture). Look at what they have done and continue to do to us by supplying the chemical ingredients to the drug cartels who manufacture the fentanyl that is killing something like 70,000 Americans every year. You think this is an accident? You think China, supplying the raw materials, doesn't know exactly what's happening, doesn't know their Mexican business partners are killing tens of thousands of Americans year after year? You think they are not cheering it on? You think they give a damn about American lives? They are murders of Americans, and they don't think twice about it. All part of Sun Dze's strategy set out 2500 years ago in his treatise, "The Art of War" - or how to defeat your enemy without firing a shot.
There are other examples of this kind of treason - Biden's decapitating of America's previously booming oil industry immediately after taking office, reducing America from an exporter to an importer of energy, and his radical draw-down of the nation's strategic petroleum reserve - a reserve intended to sustain America in a crisis, such as a war, not used, as Biden treasonously used it, to reduce artificially the price of gas so as to buy votes leading up to an election. Both these initiatives had and are having direct negative impact on our national security and readiness and thus are treasonous in nature.
Who is responsible for bringing the country to its knees, vulnerable to our adversaries like never before?
Money before country.
Nothing could be more illustrative of the unpatriotic, treasonous, money-grubbing corruption that permeates the US commercial segment - the people who dictate to a subservient federal government - than the multiple standing ovations some 400 of our country's most important business leaders gave China's dictator and America's chief enemy, Shi Jin Ping, at a dinner in San Francisco not too long ago.
These are the very people who hate Donald Trump with a frenzied passion. He is the great disturber of their kingdom. He has confronted China before and, they fear, will likely do it again. He understands that country for the threat to us it really is, and will have the power, if he is reelected, to bring to a screeching halt the security-threatening gravy train of America's pro-China business contingent. These people are whores who are happy to sell out their country for money. They are more than happy to see America come under the bootheel of China as long as they can continue to make a buck out of the deal.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless…
No accounting for taste… Oh, wait, there is!
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada