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    this thread? a gallery ...

    State Representative Cynthia Johnson







    State Representative Cynthia Johnson on Social Media last night

    Her message:

    “So this is just a warning to Trumpers. Be Careful. Walk Lightly. We Ain’t playing with you. Enough of the Shenanigans…. Enough …. Enough is enough.

    And for those of you who are soldiers?

    You know how to do it

    Do it right

    Be in order

    Make them pay


    **UPDATE **


    it didn't end ~ tirade continued ~ leaving James Woods to ask:

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    Oh my goodness! That was truly over the top.
    "Make them pay"
    Wth? Have they truly gone insane?
    "We're all bozos on this bus"

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    ERIC SWALWELL










    Axios did an article and explains:

    "Why it matters: The alleged operation offers a rare window into how Beijing has tried to gain access to and influence U.S. political circles.

    While this suspected operative’s activities appear to have ended during the Obama administration, concerns about Beijing's influence operations have spanned President Trump’s time in office and will continue to be a core focus for U.S. counterintelligence during the Biden administration."

    again, noted:

    "Among the most significant targets of Fang's efforts was Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)."

    source:
    https://www.axios.com/china-spy-cali...ec0daf589.html

    until, now what stood out mostly for me in regards to Eric Swalwell was his comment and very casual attitude about murdering American Citizens

    in some interview where he was commenting about gun control, his reaction to American citizens refusing to surrender their weapons was

    (paraphrasing)
    Quote . He made a remark to a citizen about them having puny guns and the government having nukes and not afraid to use them if the citizens don’t comply with his wishes. Has a bit of a history of bullying those with views other his
    i find this comment sorely lacking both in humor and basic human decency ...

    the Youtube interview also notes

    Quote we’ve known the strategy of the Chinese for a very long time.... I think more needs to be done, and we need to be clear about how the Chinese talk glowingly about Joe Biden and other Democrats.

    Jayke Sullivan who Is National Security Advisor to Joe Biden has REALLY had VERY troublesome statements about China, about the rise of China, about managing and working with China that is going to be a dominant power.

    things that make you go hmmm

    and here's a bone to visitors and those of the "D" persuasion ...

    "we've know about 'the strategy of the Chinese for a very long time..?'"

    translation ... years .. years and years ... the rope that has been handed to everyone ? was by design ...

    rats are curious creatures ... sometimes they have to be "smoked" out ...

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    **UPDATE**

    ERIC SWALWELL


    Has been removed from House Intel Committee




    But the Daily Mail reports:

    Eric Swalwell refuses to admit wrongdoing over 'top secret' friendship with Chinese spy Fang Fang and demands probe into who leaked story - as he refuses to say if he slept with her (and she's STILL Facebook friends with his dad and brother)
    • Eric Swalwell said Wednesday he wants a probe into who leaked information regarding his relationship with Chinese honeytrap spy 'Christine' Fang Fang
    • He claims the timing of the leak is questionable as it was in 2019 when he was working on impeachment against President Donald Trump'
    • 'I hope it is investigated into who leaked this information,' he told CNN
    • Fang is still friends with Swalwell's father, Eric, and brother, Joshua, on Facebook
    • Swalwell said he cut off ties with Fang in 2015 when he was briefed by the intelligence community on concerns over Fang's behavior with California politics
    • Fang liked a video posted by Joshua Swalwell featuring Eric in November 2016
    • Swalwell refuses to say whether he had a sexual relationship with Fang
    • The lawmaker was unmarried at the time he knew Fang from 2012-2015
    • The California congressman is just one of a group of Democrats targeted by the Chinese spy
    • Fang is known to have had sexual relationships with two midwestern mayors

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    source:
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    maybe if truth isn't your operational style?... you might want to "tidy things up a bit" ... like social media ... including family .... speaking of family, Joe Biden regards Swalwell as a "son" ... and Democrats widely regarded him as their next Presidential Candidate ...



    a pattern is very CLEAR:

    Trumps biggest and most vocal critics all have one thing in common
    ....close ties to the CCP.
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    last one ... Woods cracks me up ... he'll be on my Hall of Fame Thread along with John Voight


    and who knew Ted's been "cruising" in the world of comedy?


    in all seriousness .. there is supposed to be much more to this that he is actively fighting to prevent being released ...

    DJT Jr re-tweeted this ..

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    Quote Posted by iota (here)
    last one ... Woods cracks me up ... he'll be on my Hall of Fame Thread along with John Voight


    in all seriousness .. there is supposed to be much more to this that he is actively fighting to prevent being released ...

    DJT Jr re-tweeted this ..

    this is one of the primary goals of DE-maculating masculinity. with out self respect and honor men become slaves to their urges, when exasperated by communal shunning (ME TOO/RAPE CULTURE/MAKEMENBAD) we become easily manipulated tools. but then, why did we ever try to force rolls instead of letting it be organically defined at the family level (oh yea... the 10 planks of communism )
    Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.
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    Such a complex interplay of personalities, and factional 'intersectionality': how are we mere mortals supposed to untangle all of these strands, and nuanced relationships?
    The answer is, we cannot.
    We can only cling to the values which are declared, and manifested through actions; the American political theater is a huge complexity to me!
    I also cling to the simple truth that Trump is the only choice open to 'the public sphere' which offers any genuine hope of salvaging freedom, and genuine capitalist liberalism.
    Neither of these political principles are a perfect direction, but look at what is being offered on the 'other side'!
    Sorry if this appears simplistic, I think identifying the simple elements, and foundational truth allows me to keep making sense of what is unfolding: the macro outcome is what we are all focusing on.
    Are we witnessing Trump's final death blow to the Biden President-Elect fable, how does Swalwell as a Congressman fit into this puzzle, is his obvious CCP alliance one more 'straw' which will break this disgusting Camel's back?

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    Quote Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
    The answer is, we cannot.
    I disagree, we can forge relationships individually and freshly with each new experience; as it always was before the last 150 years..........

    We can decentralize again (as we have ALL always desired, city living, dense population is like a drug, at first it's infatuating; then it quickly becomes oppressive and detrimental) if nothing else Covid has shown us how a large portion of companies (especially the very large ones that survived and flourished during the "epidemic") can have remote workers and large dense city populations are not mandatory...

    This alone will greatly change society and this has been known since the 60's
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    the faces that belong here are many ...

    but some have no face that is known

    these are hidden from our sight

    though communicate with us they do

    in riddles ...

    complex lot...

    The Military Industrial Complex

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    our state of affairs could not have been so without the complicit cooperation of the media in concerted UNION. Effectively promulgating a cohesive Social Narrative and effectively silencing ALL voices of dissent

    how they were able to achieve this level of deception without liability has been explained.

    It USED to be illegal to do "propaganda" to the American public (LIE) because of the the Smith-Mundt act of 1948.

    that was until we were conned into electing a Marxist sympathizer AND disciple (we'll profile him later, it will take a while) Barack Hussein Obama II

    Hussein, decided we didn't need it (the Smith-Mundt act of 1948) (acted subversively against the American people who had elected him and placed their trust in him undeservedly)

    therefore, he replaced it with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was inserted in that year's NDAA, and gleefully signed by Hussein

    it made legal what once was not ~ deception ~ outright to American citizens...

    now here's the million dollar question:

    "Who are the Puppet Masters pulling the strings?"

    the names that jumped to mind are most likely NOT "it"

    here is a possibility as yet unconsidered:

    "Could the media be reporting propaganda at the direction of the military?"


    Or should we believe that:

    OUR government ALLOWED propaganda to American Citizens
    so that Foreign Powers could control it instead?

    something to consider ....

    as is the possibility ... nay probability that ...

    we are being played ...
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    Quote Posted by iota (here)
    the faces that belong here are many ...

    now here's the million dollar question:

    "Who are the Puppet Masters pulling the strings?"

    the names that jumped to mind are most likely NOT "it"

    here is a possibility as yet unconsidered:

    "Could the media be reporting propaganda at the direction of the military?"


    Or should we believe that:

    OUR government ALLOWED propaganda to American Citizens
    so that Foreign Powers could control it instead?

    something to consider ....

    ok ... i'm going to HAVE to take a stand here ..

    i believe THEY ARE pulling the strings ... and actually would be completely inept if they were NOT and had at ANY point allowed a foreign interest to contaminate the sanctity of our country!

    What in God's name would they have been thinking? or could have been MORE important?

    so ... i don't care

    maybe it's because my daddy served in the military

    or perhaps because HIS father was a police officer who died in the line of duty ...

    BUT my heart still skips a beat to see our military in all its glory defending our freedom

    THIS ....moves me:


    THESE are what i consider an ideals worth fighting for:



    if i have to put my trust in someone? take a stand and align with someone?

    it is our President and the military that protect him AND our Freedom ...

    God Bless America
    and those that defend it

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    Who is the man that U S. District Court Judge William Osteen on Sept. 30 shot down an effort by North Carolina to drastically change state election law by no longer requiring a witness signature for absentee ballots and extending the allowable receipt of absentee ballots to nine days after the Nov. 3 election?

    ROY COOPER


    Governor of North Carolina


    Confucius Say:
    Investigative Report Reveals Roy Cooper
    is Quite Cozy with The ChiComs


    "RALEIGH – There has been a lot of talk about foreign interference in elections, but not as much honest discussion about foreign influence on our already elected officials. When it comes to the amount of focused effort being put behind that foreign influence, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a stand out.

    And guess what? It appears the CCP influence and propaganda peddling machine is running all out in North Carolina. Specifically, Governor Roy Cooper seems to be quite cozy with Chinese nationals that have extensive ties to the Communists in Beijing.

    Actually, according to a report from National File, one of Cooper’s ‘key allies and appointees’ turns out to be a Chinese national that boasts about his relationship with Chinese President (for life) Xi Jinping"

    Meet his Chinese Handler ... i mean apointee and right hand man:

    John Wei advised North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper to extract blood from all 50,000 RNC attendees

    [

    The advice this person gives Governor Roy Cooper is alarming. From National File:

    “A key ally and appointee of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, with close ties to Communist Chinese officials and influence groups, advised the Governor to extract blood from all 50,000 of the 2020 RNC’s planned attendees before allowing President Trump’s nomination to take place in Charlotte.


    This astonishing revelation was recently disclosed to National File in a copy of a letter written by John “Gaorong” Wei (who also goes by the name of Lao Wei) addressed to Governor Cooper and North Carolina DHHS head Mandy Cohen.
    Wei’s plan, discovered on a Chinese language website, called for the blood of all 50,000 RNC delegates to be drawn and mixed together in groups of up to 100 before being tested for COVID-19.,

    If the blood of any group members triggered a positive test, the entire group would be quarantined and barred from the convention.

    The plan could even be used on citizens statewide Wei wrote, telling the Governor that using group blood samples to determine who would be allowed to return to work would “speed up our North Carolina Phase III reopening.”

    read full article here:
    https://firstinfreedomdaily.com/conf...h-the-chicoms/

    More Interesting Red Facts:
    • It appears that Chinese Money Fuel North Carolina Democrat Roy Cooper’s Gubernatorial Race
    • Since 2004, the Pamlico Tar River Foundation — now called Sound Rivers — has received nearly $400,000 in grants from the attorney general’s office. It is a member of the North Carolina Environmental Partnership, which spent $1.6 million on TV ads opposing McCrory (his Republican opponent) in this election
    • Additionally, Shuanghui International Holdings purchased Smithfield in 2013. That means the money going toward the grants could be of Chinese origin. If that is true and the grant money is being used for the North Carolina Environmental Partnership’s attack campaign, as Civitas suggests, the grants would violate laws making it illegal for foreign money to influence U.S. elections.

    • Cooper won the election by more than 10,000 votes, about 0.2 percent of the ballots cast.
    • he pushed for an “Clean Energy Plan” the plan is widely regarded as actually harming the environment, it DOES, however, GREATLY benefit China
    • Instrumental in bringing Chinese tire manufacturing company Triangle Tyre (Triangle), in its First Manufacturing Facility Outside of China ~ to North Carolina. They of course got agreements to receive grants. (1) $20.1 million and (2) $16 million. (with the possibility that has existed in funds to go to Chinese entities, being traced back to politicians the paper trail of this would be fascinating )

    • there is a Carolina-China Council NO kidding ... they do things like this:
    • May 21, 2019: Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province and Charlotte, North Carolina Sign Agreement to Become Friendship Cities
    • and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaims September 29-October 5, 2019 as Carolina China Council and China Arts Festival tenth anniversary week. (the list is quite long, website #4 below)

    Photo Courtesy of China Daily Cooper in Chinese Drone Helicopter

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    Pictured above in a helicopter made by Chinese drone manufacturer EHang is expanding its presence in the global urban air mobility industry, as its autonomous aerial vehicles.


    Sources:

    https://www.worldtribune.com/report-...lection-rules/

    https://spectator.org/roy-cooper-dem...ernor-mccrory/

    https://firstinfreedomdaily.com/conf...h-the-chicoms/

    https://www.johnlocke.org/update/gov...helping-china/

    http://carolina-chinacouncil.org

    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2020...21727b7f9.html
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    there is no more deserving medium deserving of VIP Status in the Gallery than the Media, their treachery has known no bounds and has brought our country to its knees ... setting us against them, the vehement attack our President endured, the systematic take over of our country and its election process and the narrative of ALL of these ...

    it is important to know our enemy, the read is revealing and essential knowledge

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    A Rundown Of Major U.S. Corporate Media’s Business Ties To China


    Below is a breakdown of financial ties between major U.S. media organizations and the CCP:

    The New York Times

    Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim owns 17.4 percent of The New York Times through the company’s Class A shares. As the largest shareholder, his investment allows him to vote for approximately one-third of the company’s board.

    In 2009, Slim loaned $250 million to The New York Times Company, the parent company of the New York Times. That same year, Slim purchased 15.9 million Class A shares of the company.

    Slim has regularly conducted business with Chinese companies with overt ties to the CCP. In 2017, Slim’s Giant Motors joined ventures with China’s JAC Motors and began manufacturing cars in Mexico to sell in the Latin America Market. According to Forbes, the goal of selling to Latin America was to circumvent the Trump administration’s trade policies aimed at protecting American jobs — a move that benefited the Beijing in the Chinese-American trade wars.

    According to Bloomberg Law, Slim’s company America Movil is teaming up with CCP telecommunication giant Huawei Technologies to pitch a 5G pilot project to the Colombian government this year. Huawei is actively working to undermine American security interests by overturning legislation in the United States that bans the use of Huawei’s 5G network.

    “Huawei seeks to overturn U.S. legislation that prohibits our federal government from using its equipment. This is a blatant attempt by an allegedly vital cog in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intelligence apparatus to avail itself of rights China would never confer on U.S. corporations––let alone its own citizens––in a bid to thwart America’s national security interests,” writes The Federalist’s Ben Weingarten.

    Slim is making all kinds of lucrative business deals with the Chinese government while influencing the business side of The New York Times. He may not sit in on editorial meetings, but all the paper’s leaders certainly know who is funding their salaries.

    The Washington Post

    In 2013, Amazon CEO and billionaire Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post for $250 million cash. In January 2016, Bezos laid out a new business plan for the Post aimed at incorporating more technology.

    Bezos has direct ties to the Chinese business market, which is regulated by the CCP. The production of Amazon’s most popular products—including the Amazon Echo and Kindle e-reader— take place almost exclusively in Chinese factories. According to Newsweek, Amazon’s products are produced by Chinese laborers who work long hours with low pay and little safety training.

    Bezos has long tried to expand Amazon in the Chinese market as well, saying “Amazon is well-positioned to serve [China.]” Bezos also backed a treaty between the United States and China allowed technology companies to increase business with China and provided a framework for U.S. tech companies to invest more in the Chinese economy.

    After years of business in the Chinese market, Bezo’s ties with China are now evident in the Washington Post’s “advertisement” section.

    When you purchase a Washington Post subscription, it comes with an advertising supplement called “China Watch.” According to Mark Hemingway at The Federalist, the Post’s “China Watch” supplement is courtesy of China Daily, a Chinese state-run media organization. The Washington Post openly accepts money for advertisements from the CCP and distributes Chinese propaganda.

    CNN

    CNN is owned and operated by WarnerMedia, which has significant financial and institutional ties to the CCP. In June 2013, WarnerMedia announced it had forged a partnership with a Chinese investment fund to the tune of $50 million. The funding would directly invest in the China Media Capital (CMC), a media company with oversight from the CCP, meaning it is subject to censorship and other demands to push Chinese propaganda.

    WarnerMedia considers China a “partner” in their economic and cinematic ventures.

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    “Increasing our global presence is one of Time Warner’s strategic priorities and China is one of the most attractive territories in which we operate, but it’s complex. This alliance will give all our businesses a savvy and accomplished partner,” said WarnerMedia Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes.

    According to Raleigh, when American companies work with organizations such as CMC, they are subject to China’s use of its laws to advance its global objectives, including their cyber security law. This includes forced technology transfers, leaving companies and data subject to random searches from the CCP. Companies are also forced to build data centers in China, where the CCP can observe the data directly. All of this poses a national security risk for the United States.

    CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker also has a connection with China. According to CNN, Zucker works internally with Turner Sports and is responsible for programming acquisitions, production, marketing, league relations, and sports advertisement sales. Turner Sports works directly with the NBA to broadcast games in China, meaning Zucker has ample business in the Middle Kingdom, where American businessmen seek to keep the CCP happy so the money keeps rolling.

    A Fox News “Tucker Carlson Tonight” clip shows CNN singing praise for China over the coronavirus pandemic. In the clip, CNN anchors praise China for sending ventilators and masks to Europe while blaming the Trump administration for alleged poor leadership over the pandemic — the pandemic China allowed to spread worldwide.

    Last week, CNN published a story praising China’s “model of control.” The Federalist’s Kylee Zempel writes that CNN is “parroting Chinese media’s duplicitous claims that the country sufficiently control of the virus, while downplaying the CCP’s role in spreading COVID-19 to the rest of the world.”

    MSNBC & NBC

    Both MSNBC and NBC News are operated by NBC Universal, a company with extensive financial ties to the CCP. In November 2010, NBC signed an agreement with China’s state-run media organization, Xinhua, to establish a business cooperation in international broadcast news. This was the latest market expansion by the CCP into American media.

    Since the signing of the business deal, the U.S. State Department identified Xinhua and five other Chinese state-run media organizations as “foreign missions.” They have been identified as direct CCP operations and do not function as independent news outlets.

    In 2015, NBC Universal agreed to license the Chinese tech company Baidu’s new video network platform iQIYI, which is listed on the NASDAQ and, thanks to NBC, advertises in Times Square in New York City.

    Finally, CMC Capital Partners—a Beijing investment group with financial and technological oversight from the CCP—acquired full ownership of NBC Universal’s Oriental DreamWorks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. NBC Universal gained a 45 percent stake for a steep $3.8 billion.

    ABC

    The most obvious business ties between the American Broadcast Company (ABC) and China are through their ventures with Walt Disney and ESPN. Both companies have deep-rooted financial stakes in the Chinese economy controlled by the CCP.

    In November 2009, the Chinese government approved plans to create a Disney World theme park in Shanghai. The project cost approximately $3.6 trillion, with financial help from several large Chinese state-owned enterprises. After construction was completed, Disney only retained 43 percent of the property, while the Communist Party-controlled Shanghai Shendi Group took the remaining 57 percent.

    ESPN, another entity of ABC, was caught doing the bidding of the Chinese government in October 2019. When the NBA controversially refused to denounce the CCP for financial benefit, ESPN stood with the NBA to keep financial revenue on track for the 2019 fiscal year. ESPN bowed to the Chinese government for profit motives when the network’s senior news director reportedly instructed staff to avoid discussing Chinese politics if they were asked about Chinese politics or Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong tweet.

    According to Raleigh, American companies establish these financial ties with Chinese companies to gain access to China’s massive consumer market of 1.4 billion people. ABC subsidiaries such as ESPN and ABC News need to appease the CCP, whether it be via positive news coverage or complying with cyber security laws, to keep their programs on Chinese screens and thus make money in the Chinese market.

    Per Emily Jashinsky at The Federalist, ABC’s cozy relationship with China also translates to the way China is portrayed in the American box office. This is best exemplified by Disney’s relatively new release of “Mulan.” To maintain access to the Chinese market, where profits are huge, American film companies like Disney censor their work, before or after production, to appease the CCP.

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced legislation which cuts off Department of Defense assistance to any U.S. movie studio that allows China to censor their content. The bill is called the “Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies,” Act.

    Hollywood films commonly work with the Pentagon and Defense Department to use American assets for props such as jets, tanks, and naval bases. Cruz’s SCRIPT legislation would only allow the Defense Department to contract with companies that do not allow China to censor their content.

    These same organizations work directly with ABC News abroad. According to veteran ABC correspondent David Wright, ABC and its affiliates are inextricably linked. In an investigative report by Project Veritas, Wright admitted ABC was a profit center, not a beacon of truthful journalism.

    “[ABC] became a profit center, a promotion center. Like now, you can’t watch ‘Good Morning America’ without there being a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger appearing. It’s all self-promotional and promotion of the company,” Wright said.

    What benefits ABC’s company is bending a knee to the CCP in exchange for more money, despite the price it puts on journalist’s ability to report truth and hold those in power to account.

    Bloomberg

    Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his company Bloomberg LP are heavily invested in China. Bloomberg LP sells terminals to their website through the Chinese market and helps finance Chinese companies by sending billions of dollars from U.S. investors to the Chinese bond market.

    Bloomberg LP supported 364 Chinese firms and directed approximately $150 billion into their bond offerings. Of these companies, 159 were controlled directly by the CCP.

    An newly released exposé from NPR shows the depths Bloombergs News dove to appease the the CCP. In 2014, Bloomberg killed an investigation into the wealth of CCP elites. The company used a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to not only silence the Beijing-based reporter, but also his wife, who never worked for Bloomberg.

    Correspondent Mike Forsythe focused on exposing Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ties to the country’s richest man, Wang Jianlin. When the story was ready for publication, founding editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler told Forsythe he was crushing the story to avoid angering the CCP.

    “It is for sure going to, you know, invite the Communist Party to, you know, completely shut us down and kick us out of the country. So, I just don’t see that as a story that is justified,” Winkler said.

    After the story was squashed, the company threatened to sue Forsythe and his wife if they spoke out about Winkler killing the story.

    Mike Bloomberg himself has been a CCP apologist. He’s personally lobbied against President Trump’s trade negotiations with China and applauds the CCP. Bloomberg claims Xi Jinping is not a dictator.

    “The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China and they listen to the public,” Bloomberg said. “Xi Jinping is not a dictator. He has to satisfy his constituents or he’s not going to survive.”

    According to a new Department of Homeland Security report obtained by the Associated Press, Beijing hid the severity of the coronavirus to hoard protective medical supplies in early January and February. Yet, corporate media are bending over backwards to avoid negative press coverage of China during the coronavirus pandemic.

    Examining these financial ties may explain why China is receiving such glowing coverage during a pandemic of their own making.

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