“Distrust and Verify”: A New Era of US-China Relations?
So according to Pompeo, the Chinese Communist Party is less trustworthy than the Soviet Union?
—Chris
Pompeo: "Distrust and Verify:" A New Era of US China Relations? (YouTube)
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I don't think either China or Russian governments can or should be trusted.
Should Taiwan have a 2nd Amendment, so that if China invades, the PLA would have a harder time?
Love the hat!
Does being Han Chinese offer more protection from the CCP than being a minority?
The question hat looks real dapper on you Chris. Did it per chance shout to you, Shelley and Matt when you first put it on? Did it say Gryffindor, Slytherin, MSM, independent media, or something else? How did it start out? Also, what's the timeline on merch, and will the store front eventually offer magic, talking top hats for your subscribers?
Chris, Matt, and Shelley, how has the CCP virus affected the show? As a long time subscriber, I see the number of views and subscribers have grown significantly. Have your waistlines grown proportionally as well?
I like this question better than the one I just posted. I somehow got the sense that earlier in the year things may have been touch and go for a while, with youtube censorship ramping up and significantly cutting off revenue. Then everyone got pissed off with the CCP, and subscribers started making the gap up. I think there's an interesting story there having to do with trials, questions about the future, sticking it out and eventually finding the balance that made the decision to stick it out worth it. Maybe, I'm just a sucker for stories like that, but it'd be interesting to know whether the subscriber count more than makes up for the loss of ad revenue, when that transition occurred, and how the team felt before and after they realized that Patreon was sustainable, and would become the shows primary revenue source. I follow a few other media organizations which had also been targeted because their views do not necessarily reflect the main stream. Certain vested groups had successfully reached out to their advertisers to stop funding their platforms. That in turn just fueled independent donations by folks tired of same ridiculous narratives propagated by the MSM. Given the preponderance of similar stories, I feel we may be in a new media renaissance, where instead of larger organizations, it is trustworthy individuals and smaller independent groups who are rewarded and patronized. Most of my news feeds today are basically smaller groups and personalities that I trust and have a known track record.
The Chinese need us worse than we need them. We did it to OPEC we can do it to the Chinese. One thing we need to do is encourage Japan to go down the road to dumping the General Douglas MacArthur constitution and remove the self defense provisions in it so Japan can build the force projection Navy it needs to deal with China. Japan already has the 2nd most powerful navy on earth. Japan has made it clear to China if they try to invade Taiwan the gloves come off.
Trust the CCP is like trusting someone who has been convicted of stealing a hundred thousand times, so you decide to make him the manager of your store. Big surprise half the store is empty the next day. Do yall agree?
I believe that sentiment was uniquely elucidated by a wise politician and brilliant mathematician in the following words: "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!" Where the "..." in "Fool me..." represents the variable x, and x represents the natural naivety of the American people. Some people have suggested that with respect to China, x represents a unit of time corresponding to ~50 years.