Archive for March 23, 2021

Foreign follies

Posted: March 23, 2021 by chrisharper in Uncomfortable Truths
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By Christopher Harper

Joe Biden’s foreign policy is shaping up as a real mess.

China, the West’s most powerful adversary, obviously sees weakness in the Biden administration. China’s director of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi, noted what he called the superiority of “Chinese-style democracy” and listed “America’s sins.” The latter included a reference to Black Lives Matter, human-rights problems, and that the U.S. “has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony.”

Yang added: “We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world. Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.”

Instead of giving Yang the verbal back of his hand, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken seemed like a kid who’d been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Blinken responded that the U.S. “acknowledges our imperfections, acknowledges that we’re not perfect, we make mistakes, we have reversals, we take steps back.” But then the United States makes progress again.

Round One to the Chinese.

Although I realize Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t a nice guy, it seems pretty silly for Biden to call him “a killer” and expect the two to conduct a way to conduct business and at least some diplomatic niceties.

Responding to the comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “these are very bad statements by the president of the United States. He definitely does not want to improve relations with us, and we will continue to proceed from this,” Peskov said.

Vlad the Bad offered Joe a chance to calm down in a meeting sometime soon.

Round Two to the Russians.

But there’s more. The Biden team has managed to anger Saudi Arabia by temporarily halting the sale of weapons to the kingdom, mainly because of its role in the death of a Saudi journalist and the ongoing war in South Yemen. Let’s face it: Saudi Arabia has been a key ally in the Middle East, particularly in halting Iranian moves in the region.

At least Biden finally got around to speaking with Israeli leaders. In a telephone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden reaffirmed the relationship with the Jewish state.

The two leaders were described as speaking for about an hour and having a “very warm and friendly” call, touching on their personal ties and saying they’d work together to “continue strengthening the steadfast alliance” between the two countries, according to the Israeli reports.

Biden also said he hoped to strengthen the partnership, including on “defense cooperation,” according to the White House. The president said it was important for the two nations to work together on “regional security issues” such as Iran.

Nevertheless, one out of four isn’t particularly good when it comes to such critical elements of U.S. foreign policy.

Oh THAT Deshawn Watson, Modernists in the Catholic Church, Liberals discover Asians, To Mask or no and Gov Noem & the DaneGeld under the Fedora

Posted: March 23, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I listen to sports radio regularly and after a week of hearing little or nothing of it the story of Deshawn Watson being accused by over a dozen women of sexual misconduct finally broke through tonight.

Until today his accusers were as invisible to the press as Tara Reade. I wonder what changed? Did somebody claim he is a secret Donald Trump supporter or something?

On Yes Prime Minister episode The Bishop’s Gambit they talked about bishops being “modernists” which was a code word for “unbeliever”.

That’s all I could think of when I saw James Martin lament what the Vatican’s statement on Gay Marriage does to young gay people and the reactions of Bishops like Johan Bonny and Blaze Cupish, who are more worried about people’s feelings than people’s eternal souls.

Modernists all.

I wanted to say something about the sudden discovery of hate crimes against Asians but I can’t do better than this:

Plus: Dear White Liberals, We Asians Aren’t Your Pawns. “My brother replied that there were over 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian violence last year, yet you didn’t check on us. The friend said he didn’t know. My brother said, of course not—because no one besides us Asians cared. But now that you see a perp is a white male from the South, you start to care. You have to make this about YOU making a political statement rather than really caring about us, the Asian Americans. . . . My brother told his ‘friend,’ or his ‘ally,’ to snap out of trying to be the white savior.”

Want to prove to someone “White supremacy” is BS? Show them white liberals.

We are starting to see the battle of the masks at restaurants where mask bans are lifted. Some restaurants insisting that one must still be masked and others not.

I don’t mind that myself. Let those who are still afraid go someplace with masks and let those who are not go without, that’s freedom.

But I must say one of the saddest sights I’ve ever seen was two kids of twelve or so walking outside in a wooded area both masked.

South Dakota Gov Noem is now hedging on the bill to protect woman’s sports from the Transgender insanity suddenly deciding that it shouldn’t apply on the college level.

Powerline suspects she is bowing to threats from the NCAA but point out that said hedging is not winning her friends in the left.

Someone needs to tell her that once you pay the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane.