Tuesday, September 22, 2020

At U.N., President Trump demands action against China over virus, Xi urges cooperation

 

September 22, 2020

By Michelle Nichols and Steve Holland

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump used the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to attack China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the world body “must hold China accountable” for its actions related to the outbreak.

By contrast, China’s President Xi Jinping struck a conciliatory tone in his pre-recorded virtual address to the General Assembly, calling for enhanced cooperation over the pandemic and stressing that China had no intention of fighting “either a Cold War or a hot one” with any other country.

The leaders of the world’s two largest economies laid out their competing visions as relations have plunged to their worst level in decades against the backdrop of the pandemic, with coronavirus tensions aggravating trade and technology disputes.

Trump, facing a November re-election battle with the United States dealing with the world’s highest official number of deaths and infections from the coronavirus, focused his speech on attacking China.

Trump accused Beijing of allowing people to leave China in the early stages of the outbreak to infect the world while shutting down domestic travel.

“We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world, China,” he said in remarks taped on Monday at the White House and delivered remotely to the General Assembly due to the pandemic.

 

 

“The Chinese government, and the World Health Organization – which is virtually controlled by China – falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission,” he said.

“Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease … The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions.”

The president promised to distribute a vaccine and said: “We will defeat the virus, and we will end the pandemic.”

In introducing Xi’s remarks, China’s U.N. ambassador Zhang Jun said China “resolutely rejects the baseless accusations against China.”

“The world is at a crossroads. At this moment, the world needs more solidarity and cooperation, but not confrontation,” he said.

 

 

‘GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER’

In his address, in what appeared to be an implicit rebuke to Trump, Xi called for a global response to the coronavirus and giving a leading role to the World Health Organization, which the U.S. president has announced plans to leave.

“Facing the virus, we should enhance solidarity and get through this together,” he said. “We should follow the guidance of science, give full play to the leading role of the World Health Organization and launch a joint international response to beat this pandemic. Any attempt of politicizing the issue, or stigmatization, must be rejected.”

The death toll from the spread of the coronavirus in the United States surpassed 200,000 on Monday, by far the highest official number of any country.

Trump also attacked China’s record on the environment, but leveled no direct criticism at Beijing over human rights.

The president, a frequent critic of the United Nations, said that if it was to be effective, it must focus on “the real problems of the world” like “terrorism, the oppression of women, forced labor, drug trafficking, human and sex trafficking, religious persecution, and the ethnic cleansing of religious minorities.”

Earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was “moving in a very dangerous direction” with U.S.-China tensions.

 

 

“We must do everything to avoid a new Cold War,” he told the assembly. “Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a Great Fracture — each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence capacities.

“A technological and economic divide risks inevitably turning into a geo-strategic and military divide. We must avoid this at all costs.”

 


 

https://www.oann.com/at-u-n-trump-demands-action-against-china-over-virus-xi-urges-cooperation/ 

Vatican officials defend accord with China after Pompeo criticism

 

September 22, 2020

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Vatican officials have defended their intention to renew an accord with Beijing that gives the pope say over the appointment of Chinese bishops, following a highly unusual public call from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to abandon it.

In a series of Tweets and an editorial in a conservative U.S. Catholic journal published on Saturday, Pompeo said the Vatican should not renew the agreement, which was signed two years ago and expires next month.

“The Vatican endangers its moral authority, should it renew the deal,” Pompeo Tweeted.

Three senior Vatican officials who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity said the Holy See was taken aback by the comments by Pompeo, who is due to visit the Vatican at the end of this month.

Pope Francis has signed off on a two-year extension of the agreement with Beijing, which allows the pope final say over the appointment of bishops in China and also permits Chinese Catholics to recognise him as leader of the universal Church.

Before the deal, the state-backed official Catholic Church in China was barred from recognising the authority of Rome, while an underground, unofficial Church continued to do so.

Some conservative critics have condemned the deal as a sell-out to the communist government. President Donald Trump, who faces re-election in November, has campaigned on his willingness to take a tough line with China, and also has support among conservative Christians who have clashed with the pope.

 

 

In a Tweet, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, criticised Pompeo’s comments as an “attempt to pressgang the Holy See into a questionable domestic political/electoral agenda playing itself out on the international stage.”

Pompeo said that since the Vatican’s deal with Beijing was reached, the conditions for Christians in China had worsened.

“Now, more than ever, the Chinese people need the Vatican’s moral witness and authority in support of China’s religious believers,” he said in an editorial in First Things journal.

In a clear comparison between Francis and Pope John Paul II, a hero to conservatives, Pompeo said the Church had inspired movements in Communist Eastern Europe that helped bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.

“That same power of moral witness should be deployed today with respect to the Chinese Communist Party.”

NOT NORMAL DIPLOMACY

One of the senior Vatican sources said the Holy See was “surprised” about Pompeo’s intervention, given his coming visit.

“This is not a normal way to go about setting an agenda. Normally between ministries you have confidential exchanges to determine what is going to be on the agenda.”

The Vatican had spoken to U.S. officials about the comments but was not planning to make a public comment about it, one of the sources said.

 

 

The journal in which the editorial appeared has been highly critical of Pope Francis. Last year, its editor wrote a long commentary titled “A Failing Papacy”.

The three Vatican officials said the China deal was not perfect but gives the Vatican a direct channel for dialogue with Beijing after a break of nearly 70 years.

“Maintaining dialogue is one of the few, if not the only, tool of maintaining direct relations with China,” one said.

In response to Pompeo’s suggestion that the Vatican should take a tougher line, another one of the officials said: “We can make grandiose statements, but there is no indication that it will have any effect, except possibly making the situation worse for our Catholics on the ground.”

 


 

https://www.oann.com/vatican-officials-defend-accord-with-china-after-pompeo-criticism/ 

Dark web drugs raid leads to 179 arrests

 Police forces around the world have seized more than $6.5m (£5m) in cash and virtual currencies, as well as drugs and guns in a co-ordinated raid on dark web marketplaces.

 
Some 179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500kg (1,102lb) of drugs and 64 guns confiscated.
It ends the "golden age" of these underground marketplaces, Europol said.
"The hidden internet is no longer hidden", said Edvardas Sileris, head of Europol's cyber-crime centre.
The operation, known as DisrupTor, was a joint effort between the Department of Justice and Europol. It is believed that the criminals engaged in tens of thousands of sales of illicit goods and services across the US and Europe.
Drugs seized including fentanyl, oxycodone, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and MDMA.
Of those arrested 119 were based in the US, two in Canada, 42 in Germany, eight in the Netherlands, four in the UK, three in Austria and one in Sweden.
Police are getting better at targeting operations on the dark web - a part of the internet that is accessible only through specialised tools. This latest raid follows the takedown of the Wall Street market last year, which was then thought to be the second-largest illegal online market on the dark web.
 
 
Mr Sileris said: "Law enforcement is most effective when working together, and today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden and your anonymous activity is not anonymous."
"With the spike in opioid-related overdose deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, we recognise that today's announcement is important and timely," said FBI director Christopher Wray.
Kacey Clark, a researcher at dark web monitoring specialist Digital Shadows said: "This is another further blow to organised cybercrime. The operation which took down the AlphaBay and Hansa marketplaces three years ago spooked cyber criminals, since it resulted in many follow up prosecutions as law enforcement pieced evidence together - often many months later.
"Wall Street market emerged from these ashes and was the most significant one in existence at the time. It would appear that law enforcement has followed the same pattern and that is why we are seeing arrests today."
 

 
Will this truly herald the "end of the golden era of dark web marketplaces"?
In the short-term there could big impact as not only this operation but other recent incidents have shaken trust in dark web stores.
Last month another popular marketplace called Empire came to an abrupt close after a suspected 'exit scam'.
It's thought the administrators made off with members' funds, leaving customers' wallets empty and vendors needing to rebuild their shops somewhere else.
Three other major sites have also been linked to exit scams in the last 12 months - so the police operation comes at a time when many people may already be questioning their shopping habits.
However, as we've seen in the past with big takedowns like AlphaBay, the lure of buying drugs and other illegal items on the internet means there is always be a market for it.
Other sites will be trying to boost their security and anonymity and it's likely more marketplaces will sprout up, potentially offering even more innovative systems to make it harder for law enforcement to find them. 
 
 
 

 

Dear GOP Senate: Get This Right!

The GOP Senate has been a big disappointment to the Republican base during Trump’s first term. Can they end with a bang and show they deserve to try again?

Julie Kelly for American Greatness

Dear Leader McConnell and Members of the Republican Senate:

As Jack Nicholson said in “Terms of Endearment,” you were just inches from a clean getaway.

Armed with a wholly unimpressive list of accomplishments from the past four years, with the exception of confirming hundreds of federal judges, you were prepared to return home to defend your paltry record with little more than the argument that the other side is much, much worse. Which, lucky for you, is true.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the campaign trail: Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Reliable news outlets reported that in her final days, the Clinton-appointed Supreme Court justice dictated a statement to her granddaughter indicating she wanted the “new president” to appoint her replacement, the latest in a series of Trump-fixated dying requests. 

Fortunately, many constitutional scholars have assured us that no “Election Year Death-Bed Wish” provision exists. Nor does a “Feelings of Jeff Flake” clause or “MSNBC Meltdown” disclaimer. Subsequent case law does not affirm that the random rantings of bartenders-turned-congresspersons should in any way guide such a venerated process.

All of which means you have a big decision to make. And this could be the chance to redeem yourselves for a multitude of egregious mistakes made during Trump’s first term, conduct that many voters in the Republican base consider an unforgivable abdication of power.

Your success in defending the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh amid one of the most despicable character assassinations in modern political history notwithstanding, Senate Republicans have done nothing to confront the Left’s nonstop assault against the president, his family, his administration, and by default, his supporters.

Check that. It’s not that you failed because saying you failed would suggest that you even tried to defend the president of your own party. In too many instances, Senate Republicans acted as accomplices in the Left’s reckless anti-Trump crusade.

The appointment of Robert Mueller, Barack Obama’s longtime FBI director, to investigate the imaginary crime of Russian election collusion will go down in Republican Party history as one of the worst political mistakes of all time. You knew full well by the time Mueller was appointed in May 2017 that Trump-Russia “collusion” was a total falsehood fabricated by the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign operatives.

But you demanded a special counsel after the president fired the treacherous James Comey as director of the FBI. When the Justice Department tasked Mueller with continuing the charade, a charade you knew would cripple the president for months if not years, you swooned.

Leader McConnell, you repeatedly lauded Mueller and his work. Senator Ben Sasse, who has remained silent on the real scandal—how Obama’s White House weaponized the most powerful government agencies in the world against Donald Trump—called Mueller an “exceptional public servant” and applauded his “record, character, and trustworthiness.” Senator John Cornyn, you assured us that Mueller is a “well-respected law enforcement professional.”

Senator Susan Collins, remember how you insisted Mueller “has sterling credentials and is above reproach?” You had no qualms back then about the appointment of an unelected, unchecked, and extra-constitutional partisan prosecutor, but now that you’re up for reelection the idea of filling a legitimate vacancy on the nation’s highest court based on clear constitutional guidance and precedent gives you the heebie-jeebies? What gives?

While Andrew Weismann, er, Robert Mueller (wink, wink) spent millions of our tax dollars and concocted bogus charges against Trump associates, you protected him. Remember when the president and others raised legit concerns about Team Mueller’s conduct? Some of you collaborated with Senate Democrats to author a bill that ensured Mueller would be permitted to “conduct fair and impartial investigations” without fear he would be fired by the president. 

For all we know, without the involvement of William Barr in the spring of 2019, Mueller would still be conducting early morning raids on senior citizens to the delight of CNN viewers and you guys would still be paying the bills.

At the same time, you’ve been completely impotent in exposing Obamagate or holding anyone accountable. Letter after letter went unanswered. Deadlines expired without any repercussions. Promised public reckonings never happened; subpoenas for Obamagate perpetrators are still threatened as the clock runs out and public interest wanes.

That’s only one part of your collective dereliction of duty. After the president tried to curb record numbers of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the country, 12 of you sided with Democrats and voted to overturn his emergency declaration to defend the southern border.

This included you, Senator Lisa Murkowski; you solemnly lectured us about your deep regard for the separation of powers. “This is about making sure that we respect the lines and the lanes of the authorities that are laid out in the Constitution,” Murkowsi preached way back in February 2019.

But oddly those lanes and lines have disappeared as Senator Murkowski plans to abdicate her constitutional duties by refusing to consider President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. Apparently there is some “not before Election Day” lane in the Constitution that only Senator Murkowski knows about.

After the president was impeached on the thinnest of grounds in a successful attempt to bury bad news about the Biden family’s overseas grift, Senator Mitt Romney earned his long-desired place in the history books as the first senator to vote to convict a president of his own party. What was his intra-party punishment for that betrayal? Nothing.

Now we await yet another lecture from the two-time presidential loser about why he plans to “follow his conscience” and refuse to vote for Trump’s candidate before the election.

Senator Romney’s conscience, however, has been MIA since declaring his support for Black Lives Matter. While BLM thugs harass innocent people at restaurants and roadways, steal their way to reparations, and promise more violence until they’re satisfied, Romney is uncharacteristically quiet. Where are you, Pierre Delecto? Saving your fire for the Bad Orange Man instead of the perpetrators of the country’s race war?

Which reminds me that most of you have played along with the BLM movement in one way or another; bending the proverbial knee to agitators who despise everything you claim to honor. Some of you, including Leader McConnell, offered emotional tributes to George Floyd from the Senate floor last June and bolstered the Left’s mantra about “systemic racism.”

Senators Ron Johnson and James Lankford, remember when you suggested replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth Day after Senator Johnson worked with his far-left colleague from Massachusetts to invent a new national holiday? That did wonders for racial comity since BLM vandals and ambushers have really settled down since then.

LOL.


For Biden Family, a History of Tax Problems

Alana Goodman reporting for Free Beacon

Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income. Last year, he told the court judge in his paternity case that he was broke and unemployed.

The younger Biden owed $238,562.76 in state income taxes from 2017 and $215,328.16 in state income taxes from 2018, according to records from the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue. The District of Columbia filed a $453,890 lien against him on July 9.

The lien is the latest in a series of substantial tax problems members of the Biden family have faced over the years, from Joe's brother James’s six-figure tax debt in 2015 to multiple liens filed against Joe's sister Valerie and her husband. It also raises new questions about Hunter Biden’s finances, which have been scrutinized during the election cycle. The lien follows controversy over Hunter's high-paying consulting work for companies in Ukraine and China, and a high-profile child support case in which the younger Biden claimed he was in "significant debt" and refused to turn over court-ordered financial records.

A spokesman for D.C.'s Office of the Chief Financial Officer confirmed that Hunter Biden’s lien was released on July 15 after the "tax issue was resolved." The office declined to say whether Biden had paid off the debt.

Harvey Bezozi, a tax expert who specializes in large-scale tax debt negotiations, said the only way to get a lien released is to pay the settlement in full—often through a payment plan, penalty abatement, or other compromise with the government—or to prove the lien was filed in error. He said liens can take months or years to resolve.

"It drags on," he said. "Six days had to be some kind of expeditious kind of process for this."

Bezozi said the government rarely files liens in error. "Generally the lien filing process is a very stringent and reviewed approach because it’s a serious thing when you file a lien. It’s public record," he said.

The Biden campaign did not respond to questions about how Hunter Biden settled the debt in less than a week and whether he has found gainful employment.

The Biden family has been hit with several tax liens over the past few decades.

James Biden has had at least five tax liens filed against him between 1995 and 2015, including one for $589,095 filed in 2015 and released one year later. Frank Biden, another brother of the presidential candidate, has had at least three liens for unpaid income taxes. He said in 2011 that a $32,500 lien in Kentucky stemmed from his struggle with alcohol addiction and was being paid off through a monthly plan, according to the Broward Palm Beach New Times. Joe Biden’s sister Valerie and her husband John Owens have faced at least five tax liens, including one for $229,749 in 1990.

This is also not the first time Hunter Biden has been accused of owing back taxes. In 2018, the federal government filed a $112,805 tax lien against him. He resolved that matter in March, according to records.

Hunter Biden’s finances have come under scrutiny due to work the younger Biden did for foreign entities while his father was vice president. He has fought to keep his financial information out of the public record, defying a court order to turn over his full 2017 and 2018 tax returns and arguing that his financial records should be subject to a nondisclosure agreement and encrypted during a paternity lawsuit last year.

Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden's two-year-old child, sued Biden for child support payments in Arkansas in 2019. Biden, a former lobbyist, claimed in a court filing related to that case that he was deeply in debt and had no source of income for more than six months.

"I attest that I am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019," said Biden in a Nov. 27, 2019, affidavit. "I currently have significant debts (in part as a result of obligations arising from my divorce which was final in April 2017)."

Although Biden claimed that he was broke, he was living in a $12,000-per-month Hollywood Hills rental home and spotted driving a $129,000 Porsche Panamera in Beverly Hills. After a judge ordered Biden to turn over his financial records and travel to Arkansas for a deposition, the former lobbyist agreed to settle the case with Roberts.

Biden has held lucrative positions at foreign companies. He was reportedly paid up to $50,000 a month to sit on the board of directors for Ukrainian energy giant Burisma between 2014 and last year and served on the board of BHR Partners, the $1.5 billion international private equity arm of Chinese investment fund Bohai Capital.

Biden stepped down from both boards last year, according to his lawyer. He told the New Yorker last summer that as part of his 2017 divorce agreement he had offered to pay his ex-wife Kathleen $37,000 per month for a decade. He said he was living on about $4,000 per month and was forced to max out his credit cards, which the magazine described as an "adjustment."

Biden’s ex-wife said in a 2017 divorce filing that Hunter Biden had left the family in massive debt after blowing their money on "drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations."

"Mr. Biden has created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests … while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills," said Kathleen Biden in the court filing.

She said the family’s debts were "shocking and overwhelming," including a $313,000 tax delinquency, maxed out credit cards, unpaid medical bills, and bounced checks to housekeepers.


H.R. McMaster Admits There’s a Cabal in the Administration Working Against Trump

 Nick Arama reporting for RedState

I’m not a conspiracy theorist and I don’t like words that smack of conspiracy theories.

So I have to admit to having a dislike for the term “deep state” since it seems to have that feel to it.

Yet, that said, it’s been clear since the start of President Donald Trump’s presidency, if not even before his inauguration that there were people within the administration that were working against him, call them what you will. That there were hold-overs or folks embedded in departments working against him rather than trying to support and help him achieve success not just for his administration but for the country. That’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s simple fact as we have seen it unroll over the last four years.

So with that in mind, listen to what former Trump administration National Security Advisor from 2017-2018, H.R. McMaster, told “60 Minutes.”




Sure sounds like he’s acknowledging an effort against the president, doesn’t it?

He details three groups: those who are there trying to help the president and serve the country, those who are there instead of “providing options to the elected president” they really want to serve their own narrow agendas, and then finally there’s one group “who cast themselves in the role of saving the country and maybe the world from the president.”

The acknowledgement of both the second and third groups of people are troubling since there’s only supposed to be the first group. The fact he thinks the third group is normal/in every administration is also troubling. Those in the second and third group are not supposed to be serving their own ends or replacing their judgment for that of Trump, whether they think they are right or not. If they can’t properly serve, they should resign. Meanwhile the first group needs to root out the other two groups and boot them, to prevent them from doing any more damage.



'I'm withholding my tax ESCROW account relief Law"

 

More Than Half Of All SC Justices Were Confirmed In 45 Days Or Less

 Jordan Davidson reporting for The Federalist

With only 43 days until this year’s presidential election, many Democrats and some Republicans have said President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate cannot confirm a new Supreme Court justice by Nov. 3.  Yet history shows it is possible and even common for justices to be confirmed within 45 days of their formal nomination, including in the court’s modern era.

Of the 163 nominations in U.S. history to the highest court in the nation, more than half were formally nominated and confirmed within 45 days. Some of the justices were even nominated and confirmed on the same day. 

While many Democrats have expressed disdain for the anticipated nominee and insisted it would be undemocratic for elected senators to perform their constitutional duties in a timely manner, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) also noted on Sunday that in every one of the 29 times there has been a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, the president has nominated a person to fill the vacancy.

“There’s a big difference in the Senate, with whether the Senate is of the same party of the president or a different party than the president,” Cruz explained. “If the parties are the same, the Senate confirms the nominee.”

Trump recently announced that he will name a replacement for the vacancy created by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on either Friday or Saturday of this week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has also promised a vote from the Senate, saying the GOP wants to “support [Trump’s] agenda…particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.”

“President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate,” he stated.

Here’s a comprehensive list of every Supreme Court justice who has been formally nominated and confirmed within 45 days. The list includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O’Connor, John Paul Stevens, Warren Burger, William Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Quincy Adams, and John Marshall.


If America was so BAD, open source examples added

 


If America was so BAD, 

open source examples added

Liberals, Progressives, Communists....
and all other abnormals  have convinced the easily convinced that America IS SO BAD....
that it's in fact illegitimate.


I'm so tired of hearing this fallacy designed to discourage Patriotism.....

I think it is time to lay out some real example of just how bad America would be if, in fact, WE WERE as bad as the abnormals parrot day in and day out...so ...

In an open source participatory exercise...I'm asking those who wish to add, to what will be a very complete blog ...of just America WOULD look like if we were so bad.

I will start.

If America was so bad,...
Slavery would STILL exist ...in all 50 states.

If America was so bad/as evil as the Marxist left claim, Jim Crow would not have been abolished.  (lackofknowledgeproductions @gab.com)

If America was so bad...
There would be no native american's left to RUN, OWN and Profit the Casino's that take $$ away from our tax base...

If America was so bad...
there would BE no UNITED Nations in America.....

If America was so bad,
you would never see a liberal black dominated ANYTHING.

If America was so bad\
We would colonize every country in the world....by FORCE....(how many nukes to "you' have?")

If America was so bad,
you would see indefinite sentences jailing any and all that disagree with Patriotic America..

If America was so bad
Would there be any women anywhere IN CHARGE of anything.

If America was so bad...
You would see a cleansing of those unwanteds

If America was so bad
North Korea would be toast and we would be occupiers

If America was so bad
freedom of speech would be given ONLY to the dominant class, party, race, etc....

If America was so bad,
a college education would be limited only to Patriots whose actions prove their patriotism

If America was so bad....
we'd have the family unit that would qualify for advanced tax considerations....

If America was so bad....
Homosexual would be forced to be reEducated or forced to live in camps for the abnormals...

If America was so bad,
there would be only one God allowed to be worshiped.

If America was so bad,
that equal justice under the law would be guaranteed only to the dominant class....

If America was so bad,
No other countries would not be allowed to defend itself....we would occupy every country...in the world

If America was SO bad....I guarantee you we would have no REAL Problems from "being bad."
If we were as bad as evil liberals suggest...wouldn't we just continue to CONQUER the world...?

We gave the Panama Canal to people who didn't build it...BAD us...
We gave INDIAN Casino's take free, nation status,,...BAD us
WE allowed slavery to END at the cost of hundreds of thousands WHITE lives fighting to allow such...bad us...
We allowed those defeated in WAR to KEEP THEIR STUFF...bad us...
WE allow countries to charge more to us to trade than we do them...bad us


Instead we give billions around the whole dam world to people who ...diss us....not for long....Trump's name is tucker, NOT sucker

Victor Davis Hanson: America does not have to be perfect to be good

 (despite what radical progressives tell us)



    The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States.
The San Francisco Board of Education recently voted to paint over, and thus destroy, a 1,600-square-foot mural of George Washington’s life in San Francisco’s George Washington High School.
   Victor Arnautoff, a communist Russian-American artist and Stanford University art professor, had painted “Life of Washington” in 1936, commissioned by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration. A community task force appointed by the school district had recommended that the board address student and parent objections to the 83-year-old mural, which some viewed as racist for its depiction of black slaves and Native Americans.



https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-america-does-not-have-be-perfect-to-be-good-despite-what-radical-progressives-tell-us