Category: Foreign Affairs

Not The Time To Give Up

Elections, Foreign Affairs, Politics

Kurt Schlichter does a number on the RINO and GOPe supporters, as well as those idiots who think that $4/gallon gas is a bigger problem for the U.S. than the Communists and locally-bred jihadists taking over the levers of power again.

One by one, he picks the fruits of Donald Trump’s foreign policy:

  • Panama Canal taken away from China
  • Venezuela’s 65 billion barrels of oil reserves under U.S. control instead of China’s
  • USAID defunded, and a less Communist South America
  • Greenland under U.S. control, with the concomitant defense benefits thereof
  • the strangulation of the Iranian theocracy, meaning a nuke-free nation of Islamist lunatics
  • the foreseeable end of Cuba and Nicaragua’s Communist governments
  • all the other benefits of clear-eyed, America-first foreign policy instead of the infantile accomodationism of Obama / Biden.

Kurt forgot to mention:

  • this year’s riot-free summer (thanks to the muzzling of ActBlue, USAID, SPLC and similar insurrectionist supporters), but I guess that was lost amidst the plethora of all those good things
  • the continuing repatriation / expulsion of thousands of criminals and foreign agents welcomed into the country by Obama and Biden.
  • how all the fraud and corruption in the U.S. government and government-funded organizations has become at least exposed for all to see, with (one hopes) some actual prosecutions to follow soon
  • reducing all those economy-killing Green regulations and petty government interference
  • the growth of the economy, the strengthening of incomes, and the virtual disappearance of unemployment.

I’m going to sum this up, because Kurt didn’t.

All the above actions — every single one — can and will be overturned and reversed if the Communist/jihadist alliance of Obama/Biden is returned to power following this November’s elections.

And the only way these assholes can win is if we American conservatives don’t show up to vote or (perish the thought) vote for the assholes “in protest” because we don’t agree with every single thing the Trump administration has done, or feel aggrieved for the things it hasn’t done (e.g. closing the Dept. of Education and removal of the ATF).

And let’s not forget the expensive fuel ($4/gal compared to $6 under Biden, and the Obama crowd’s stated desire to make gasoline as expensive as it is in Europe).  Yeah, that’s a really good reason to bring the Communists back into power.

Look: we’ve seen what happened in the U.K.when the populace, tired of the pathetic Conservative Party, voted Labour (or just didn’t vote at all).  Anyone want to live in today’s Britain?  No?  Then why the hell would we indulge in the same idiocy Over Here?

I don’t know if I can put it any plainer than that.

Keep the Communists, jihadists and loonies away from government.

Get out and vote Republican next month (and every month thereafter).

More Reasons

Foreign Affairs, Marxists

Following yesterday’s post about China (and Xi), I see that I’m not the only one who considers them the enemy, for a different reason:

Even if Chinese technological theft is less frequent in Europe than in the United States —there is far less technology to steal from Europe than from the US — it is nevertheless all too present.

The practice follows what the current director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, long ago called the business model of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): “Rob, Replicate, Replace.” They steal the technology and know-how for a product, copy it, then flood it back into the marketplace at a far lower price, thereby putting the product’s original manufacturers out of business. When the CCP believes its hold on the market share has been consolidated into something resembling a monopoly, the prices go back up.

And there it is:  implacably hostile, amoral, brutal and intent on spreading Marxism (and their control) over the entire world.

As New Wife would put it:  Not our kind, dear.  Even their “Three Rs” aren’t the same as ours.

False Expectations

Foreign Affairs, Politics

I saw this headline a couple-three days ago:

What to Expect from Trump’s Summit with Xi

…and I have to say, I think there’s little point in actually meeting with anyone from CommieChina, let alone with this little egomaniacal dictator.

I mean, seriously:  whatever Xi says, it’s going to be non-committal at best, but mostly it’s going to be a series of outright lies, or else some promises that he has not the slightest intention of keeping.

So what’s the point?  I know:  “Jaw-jaw is better than war-war” (W.S. Churchill).  Didn’t really achieve much with his predecessor at Munich in 1938, and I have the feeling that were Xi to say that the Spratley Islands are his last territorial demand (cf. our friend Adolf re: the Sudetenland), his promise would have about the same degree of credibility.

Ditto any reassurances from Xi that his regime will stop meddling in our internal politics (i.e. our elections, funding subversive organizations and so on).  He might say something acceptable, but will it stop?  Of course not.

I don’t have any good ideas about what to do with this asshole regime, other than waiting for Xi and his cronies to overstep — let him invade his Poland, so to speak — and then unleash hell on his ass.

The only problem, however, is that most of our brimstone has been emptied into Iran — not that this is necessarily a Bad Thing, mind you — but it does mean that any threats or bluster coming from Trump would be pointless.

We’re not even capable of waging economic warfare on China, mostly because our Treasury is not only empty, but in debt.

Like I said, I’m all out of ideas.  But having some kind of meaningless “summit” is a bad one.

Oppression By Bureaucracy

Anti-Gun Nannies, Foreign Affairs, Rights, Shootin' Time, The Gun Thing

It’s not often I get an email that creates both sadness and almost-ungovernable rage, but Reader Bruce sent me this:

Last week, on one of the saddest days of my life, I went to a local police station and handed over my three rifles for destruction by the “Commissioner of Police”.

They were nothing special: a B/A Savage 320D in .22 Hornet; an Anschutz .22RF 1451 Sporter (with custom fibreglass stock); a Savage Model 12 .223 Varmint heavy barrel (in a custom fibreglass stock). But they were MINE! to me, they represented something: that society had accepted me as a responsible human being. I obsessively hand loaded for the Hornet and .223, seeking the best performance each was capable of.

So why did I do the unthinkable?

Firstly, my wife and I “downsized”. We moved from a suburban 4 x 2 on a huge lot into a 3 x 2 apartment close to the river. And then came the first cruncher. By law, my firearms had to be kept in an approved gun safe, bolted into brick or concrete on two surfaces. And the only place for that in our new abode was in the lock-up roller door garage. Uh-uh … the law says it has to “be under the main roof” … and it isn’t. My safe was “grandfathered” anyway. Had I bought another firearm or had one of mine rebarrelled, I would have been compelled to buy a new “approved” and vastly more expensive safe. So I had nowhere to store my guns (or ammo, for that matter).

Secondly, I have been a competitive target shooter for 51 years, from air pistol to pistol to full-bore to rimfire. I am nationally qualified as a Range Officer. I was, until I let it lapse, a qualified Commonwealth Shooting Coach. I have been able to use my rifles competitively and for hunting, quite legally. Not so now. If I want to use them competitively, I have to get “another” licence category for them, and compete a regulated number of times per year. Once they are so classified, I can no longer use them for hunting or vermin control. The reason? Our the Minister for Police declared that target firearms are likely to have lightened triggers and are not “safe” to use off a range.

My dilemma. Give up plinking or bunny busting or fox shooting, or give up competition. OK, so I’ll just use them for the former and forego competition. Problem. I can only shoot on “approved” properties. My friend has a farm. I can shoot there, provided he registers me every year on an internet portal with the police department. If his neighbour wants me to shoot a few foxes on his property, I am not allowed to unless he also registers me electronically. Oh, and calibres are limited by the size of the property you have permission to shoot on.

And so I handed them in. I have owned a firearm (or more than one) since 1967. I’m pleased to say I’ve never done anything dangerous or even vaguely illegal with any of them. And to now be told that I can’t have them unless I jump through bureaucratic hoops hurts. Deeply.

My point? DON’T GIVE YOURS UP! Fight the bastards until you can fight no longer.

Note that gun ownership can be ended simply by incremental “reasonable” gun control regulation — e.g. guns must be stored in a safe —–> safes must be encased in brick walls (an almost impossible condition to meet for most people, which is the point of such bastardy).

Bruce, my friend:  if you ever make it to Texas, I’ll organize a Schutzenfest for you with some of my fellow Texans, at a place where we can bang away all day without fear or apprehension.  As for guns… let’s just say you’d be overwhelmed by choice.

Hidden Motive, Hidden Enemy

Foreign Affairs

Over among the Big Brains at American Thinker, John DiLeo has a take on the current trade blowup with Canuckistan that I hadn’t considered:

A more important fact to remember, though, is that Canada is far more dependent upon American goods than the USA is on Canadian goods. The USA is the origin of somewhere between a third and a half of Canada’s global imports. Canada cannot win a trade war with the USA. By having a trade war with us at all, Canada loses, no matter what.

So the question would seem to be, why did Carney start this?

We know where Carney is getting his advice. A longtime central banker who was not in electoral politics before being selected as Canada’s PM last year, he has hired American Democrat activists (yes, that’s USA Democrats) as key advisors, including as his chief of staff, to assist him in planning policies that will hurt President Trump and the Republican party in the midterms this fall.

That much, I’d figured out already.  Then this:

In his first year and a half on the job, Carney has signed new deals with Mainland China, committing to increase Canada’s already considerable linkage with the CCP economy. He’s basically committing Canada to be a willing vassal in China’s notorious “Belt and Road Initiative.”

So the old law-and-order question comes:  “Cui bono?”  (who benefits) from this rather unnecessary trade war?  Why would “the Canadians walk away from a trade agreement to which their negotiators had already agreed, when Prime Minister Mark Carney recalled them specifically to create a fight”?

DiLeo spells it out:

Trump Administration trade negotiations are designed not just to get more manufacturing here in the USA, but also to get more manufacturing in Canada, and more in Mexico, and more in the UK, and more in the EU.

As we watch these battles, we see that the governments of some of those countries are kicking and screaming at the prospect. Amazingly, they don’t want to protect the jobs of their own citizens; they want to leave the status quo in place, watching their own manufacturing sectors continue to be hollowed out, watching China continue to fill the vacuum.

And:

The Chinese remain what they have been for decades: a dishonest partner, practicing every trade crime from Uyghur slave labor to currency manipulation, from material dumping to intellectual property theft.

Yup.  China is asshoe, and worse:  they’ve become our sworn enemy, just as much as the Soviet Union was during the Cold War.

And they have more allies in the West than we do.