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Peter Schweizer Explains How China Purchased U.S. Congress as a Trade Strategy

Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:24 pm
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
118823 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:24 pm
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A timely book by Peter Schweizer, “Secret Empires”, explains how Chinese companies purchased U.S. politicians to gain trade advantages. When you understand this process, you better understand why those same politicians today are against the Trump trade policy that is antithetical to their purchased interests.

Video.

Reminder: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is warning President Trump not to take any trade action against China or he will unleash his purchased control agents within congress and financial media to destroy his presidency.

Allow me to re-emphasize:

All opposition to President Trump stems from the underlying financial and economic policy. All opposition is about money!

When you ask the “why” question five times you end up discovering the financial motive for all opposition. It doesn’t matter who the group is; the opposition is ultimately about money. There are trillions at stake.


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Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
20277 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:52 pm to
I can’t wait till Crazy Uncle Joe has to explain how his son received a billion dollar contract after his visit to China
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
67950 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 10:55 pm to
Shouldn't the MSM be all up in this?

I mean they keep on, and on, and on, about how concerned they are with the involvement of foreign governments in our politics.

Where are they?
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
84896 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:00 pm to
quote:

All opposition to President Trump stems from the underlying financial and economic policy. All opposition is about money!



Of course. Trump's trade policies will cost Americans more money.

He's done a few things well, no doubt, but this isn't one of them.
Posted by starsandstripes
Georgia
Member since Nov 2017
11897 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:02 pm to
At what point do we demand people like Biden and McConnell just vanish?
Posted by Remote Controlled
Member since Apr 2013
6859 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:07 pm to
So, these are your marching orders now?

Don’t lie, they are.

We get ours too.

Honestly, this little game of tit for tat is tiring.

How do we actually start to get our parties to govern again?

Because honestly, I think they’ve both forgotten what their job is, it’s not my ideology vs. your ideology.

It’s how can we fricking get these guys to stop having pissing contests and actually get back to the governing table.

Real talk.

Everyone needs to stop listening to the subterfuge and realize we’re being taken for the long walk to pasture.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35239 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:46 pm to
I think it was great that people were able to easily detect the deciet and dishonesty of Michael Wolff in Fire and Fury who had already been known as someone who treats facts as convenience when they can support his opinion.

Unless he somehow changed his ways, I wonder if those same people can detect the deciet and dishonesty of Peter Schweizer who is already known as someone who treats facts as convenience when they can support his opinion.

And I wonder if those who mock the use of unnamed sources, and when to as far as say they don't exist, will somehow ignore that he's believed to have made made up sources.

It's unfortunate that there are people who do great investigative journalism. Unfortunately, those aren't usually as tantalizing nor do they perfectly confirm our most emotionally-driven beliefs since reality is usually a bit more boring and rarely confirms those emotionally driven beliefs.

So instead we choose those with questionable credibility whose work almost always ends up tantalizing and confirming pit emotionally driven beliefs. Then we turn around and are outraged and/or flabbergasted when the other side does the same.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35239 posts
Posted on 3/21/18 at 11:48 pm to
quote:

and actually get back to the governing table.
More often than not, we should want them as far away from that governing table as possible, unless they're trying to downsize the table.

I mean Obama was a great president, from the tee box on 1 to the green on 18. I wish he would have invited all the other politicians so they could have been great too.
Posted by Remote Controlled
Member since Apr 2013
6859 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:08 am to
This is why we can’t have nice things.

Whatever man.

I could just as easily piss all over your guy.

And trust me, your comment alone could take me down that road.

But, you know what? I care more about my country than your opinion.

I’d just like to see the folks we elected, on both sides, start worrying more about their standing with us, the people, than where the next check is cut from.

We’re being played daily. We’re the pawns, the ruses, the fricking mark in their long con.

It’s disgusting.

Posted by AbuTheMonkey
Chicago, IL
Member since May 2014
8004 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:14 am to
You mean virtually all economic and statistical evidence from every conservative and liberal economist shows that free trade in almost any form is a net positive for a country's economy?

Let's be honest here: some people, probably correctly, believe that free trade inadvertently hurts a minority of workers. There are ways to deal with that other than to inflame the greatest trading power in world history in a trade war.
Posted by texridder
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Oct 2017
14214 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:38 am to
Relying on Schweizer's book as a source is no better than relying on Michael Wolff's Fire and Furry book.

Schweizer is a Breitbart/Infowars kook.

Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35239 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:39 am to
quote:

I could just as easily piss all over your guy.
Whose my guy because I don't like the one in office. I actually thought that he was your guy thought and you were being facetious previously so that's why I used Obama instead.
quote:

I care more about my country than your opinion.
Well I would sure hope everyone does.
quote:

I’d just like to see the folks we elected, on both sides, start worrying more about their standing with us, the people, than where the next check is cut from.
O me too. After the stupid death penalty for drugs dealers ideas was proposed. I was just telling others that Rand and Bernie had cosponsored criminal justice reform before. And this is something that both the Koch Brothers and George Soros seem to share views:

Yet, the legislation be ever seems to get brought through and instead we get "lets execute drug dealers instead."

So I actually agree with you about working together; I just usually think it should be about things that limit our government like criminal justice reform:
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35239 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 12:45 am to
quote:

All opposition is about money!
As if it's not about money on the other side either. It is about trade afterall so it would be illogical for it lot to be about money either way.

Of course leave it to CTH to somehow argue that the whole basis of the policy debate for all sides of it, is somehow only a morally bankrupt basis for the other side.
Posted by 90proofprofessional
Member since Mar 2004
24445 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 5:57 am to
quote:

Donohue takes-in hundreds of millions in payments from multinational corporations who hold a vested interest in keeping the U.S. manufacturing economy subservient to China. The U.S. CoC then turns those corporate funds into lobbyist payments to DC politicians for legislative action that benefits their Chinese trade deals. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the #1 lobbyist in DC; there are trillions at stake.

The vacuous paragraph I quoted above is the closest thing to an "explanation" that I saw there.

Note that there is no actual explanation of how "China" "purchased" anything. Not so much as a single example of a member of Congress being "purchased". But my favorite is the scary-sounding but meaningless statement that "there are trillions at stake".

I wish this Sundance post contained an actual prediction so I could bump it later. But it was fun anyway.

Posted by Folsom
Folsom
Member since Mar 2006
3306 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 6:00 am to
quote:

Schweizer is a Breitbart/Infowars kook.


I listened to Schweizer Tuesday. He's brilliant. His knowledge of the deep state corruption democrat/republican is amazing.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
118823 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:29 am to
quote:

So, these are your marching orders now?

Don’t lie, they are.

We get ours too.

Honestly, this little game of tit for tat is tiring.

How do we actually start to get our parties to govern again?

Because honestly, I think they’ve both forgotten what their job is, it’s not my ideology vs. your ideology.

It’s how can we fricking get these guys to stop having pissing contests and actually get back to the governing table.

Real talk.

Everyone needs to stop listening to the subterfuge and realize we’re being taken for the long walk to pasture.


Umm, if you take a moment and read the OP you’d understand this corruption is bipartisan.

Now, will you now please help oust Mitch McConnell from the senate for selling out the US to the Chinese?
Posted by PUB
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2017
18232 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:44 am to
Tell Mr. on the take corrupt Donohoe to bring it the f00k on
Next step - Trump tweet says Buy AMERICAN not CHINA JUNK and then tells Donohoe to resign because he is a corrupt fraud destroying the US Economy
Posted by PsychTiger
Member since Jul 2004
99052 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:44 am to
quote:

So, these are your marching orders now?

Don’t lie, they are.

We get ours too.


Posted by Gojira
Member since Mar 2018
16 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:48 am to
It would be funny to see them try and explain as to why Obama has made so much money off of trade deals with China. Corrupt politicians around every corner.
Posted by MrCarton
Paradise Valley, MT
Member since Dec 2009
20231 posts
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:02 am to
quote:

More often than not, we should want them as far away from that governing table as possible, unless they're trying to downsize the table.

I mean Obama was a great president, from the tee box on 1 to the green on 18. I wish he would have invited all the other politicians so they could have been great too.


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