When an enemy nation attacks an enemy domestic politician, it’s hard to know who to support. The CCP is evil and against pretty much everything we conservatives stand for…but, then again, so is the left.
So, sometimes it’s best to just sit and laugh, with now being one of those times, as Red China utterly humiliated Nancy Pelosi with a single tweet in early 2022 in what might have been one of that year’s best moments. Pelosi began the fight, posting a bland, anti-China tweet, likely in the hope of convincing voters that Democrats aren’t pro-China. In it, she said:
Right now, the Chinese government’s unfair, inhumane, anti-free market trade practices rig the global economy against American workers. With #AmericaCOMPETES, we’re taking strong action to combat unfair trade practices and support American workers & domestic manufacturing.
Well, China wasn’t going to just sit and take it; tame as the tweet might seem to us, any criticism of Red China is seen by that state as a threat to its authority, especially if left unaddressed.
So, a Chinese state media personality said:
It’s totally unfair for a House Speaker to profit bigly from stock trading. Totally Criminal Parasite.
Yes, he really said that. Check it out:
It’s totally unfair for a House Speaker to profit bigly from stock trading. Totally Criminal Parasite.
— Chen Weihua （陈卫华） (@chenweihua) January 31, 2022
Wow! What a savage reply. The use of “bigly” is particularly funny, as it’s a term Trump would use.
What’s terrible is that Chen has a point here; though the Chinese state’s response to criticism is normally so fake it makes you cringe, here they have a point.
That point is this: when we criticize China, one major accusation brought against it is that the leaders are corrupt and enrich themselves, using the labor of the people to build their personal fortunes.
That might be true, and in fact almost certainly is true, but it leaves out one particularly important fact: America’s elites do the same thing.
Has Xi profited from his position? Probably, he seems to live quite comfortably. On that note, Putin has too; his fortune was built out of the Russian state’s coffers. His magnificent, $1 billion palace that leaked shows that he’s sucked some money out of state coffers and knows how to spend it.
But, thing is. America’s leadership class is hardly a shining light on the hill showing resistance to corruption. When you look at the finances of certain politicians, it’s hard not to see that certain ones made some astronomical stock returns (many of them Republicans, Crenshaw is toward the top of the list).
The only difference is that the Chinese and Russians get competent governance in exchange for the corruption of their elites. Russia gets a low debt to GDP ratio, rumors of a return to the gold standard, and a return to tradition with 90% of Russians identifying as Orthodox Christian. China gets a growing economy that’s gradually overtaking the US. We, on the other hand, get trillions in debt, incompetent oligarchs, and leftist apparatchiks trying to trans the kids. Oh, and we keep declining and millions of migrants are streaming unchecked across our borders.
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