In a sort of bizarre extension of yesterday's news stories, the US Congress---which is supposedly controlled by the Republicans---mercifully ended its session early after rubber-stamping the Junta's budget proposal. At least they won't they won't be creating any more national embarrassments until after Thanksgiving. No sooner had the Budget passed, though, than some rather awkward details about Pentagon and Homeland Security projects were quietly slipped under the Media radar-screen.
Biden, however, managed to make a fool of himself for the second time at the APEC Summit. There were, however, a few positive developments: China agreed to start answering the Defense Department's phone calls again, which they stopped doing after Pelosi's Taiwan visit last year. The Junta agreed to set up a joint commission to address China's concern about repeated US Military infractions of their territorial waters. It's difficult to say whether that one will amount to much: Trump ordered the Navy to stop these provocations at one time, but the Pentagon ignored him. There were some token agreements on climate change and fighting the drug war too; but Xi no doubt is planning a quiet week in the Chinese countryside to recover his strength after the mentally exhausting ordeal of meeting with US politicians, CEOs, and the streets of San Francisco in general.
Just as we predicted yesterday too, the Corporate shills RNC 'experts' were dropping their prepared statements accusing Biden of being a sellout and a major weenie on China. The stand-up team of Thayer and Fanell---a pair of worthies of whom we've spoken before---stated that our Head-of-State's gaffes and diplomatic blunders are "worse than appeasement." An assertion in their article's opening paragraph is more instructive than it is informative:
"Ironically, the risks should be all on Xi’s side as his increasing paranoia and purging of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has warped the Party and government, coupled with the collapse of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economy and other major social, demographic problems that place Xi in a uniquely vulnerable position."
This is instructive because it illustrates two fundamental problems with the Neocon narrative in general.
1. It's a complete lie. Xi is not paranoid; there no Party purges going on; China's economy is currently stronger than ours; and there is no demographic crisis going on there---other than those occasionally fomented by outside religious cults like the Soros-backed Wahhabi Jihadists and Lamaist Tibetans, or the Koch-backed Moonies and Falun Gong cults, etc.
2. It's complete Projection. Our leadership is the one characterized by paranoia, purges and political witch-hunts, a collapsing economy (at least for the bottom 80%), and deliberately engineered racial and gender divisions.
This is a fairly typical outline of what passes for 'Conservative Opposition' position-papers these days. Accuse everyone else of doing what we do; blame everything on the Democrats, immigrants, or the Chinese; hold your noses and vote for the Neocons; and if you object that makes you a defeatist, a sellout, an unrealistic idealist, etc.
The Congressional hiatus and the winding-down of the APEC debacle have, however, given the Republican Establishment time to promote its new-found wokeness on the Abortion issue. There was a good article at LifeSite News today giving a run-down of some of the characters involved. The only critique that I would have of this article is its assumption that leading Conservatives are 'sellouts.' The fact that no one in the GOP leadership has done a thing to stop the murder of the unborn since the Ford Administration, all the while profiting off fetal-tissue trafficking and other abortion-racket scams and doing very little since Roe was overturned, should indicate that the GOP's solid Pro-Life position was nothing but marketing angle and a sales-pitch all along.
The article starts with our President-In-Exile who is leading polls in a quixotic attempt to regain the White House. While I firmly believe that Trump was deposed in an illegal coup in 2020, I must confess that I have had legitimate concerns that our dispossessed Chief Executive has suffered some kind of nervous breakdown since the Putsch. Aside from his position on Abortion, Trump has refused to disavow the disastrous Operation Warp Speed and made some dangerous and really borderline-psychotic policy statements on more than one occasion recently.
Trump's remarks came in response to Ron DeSantis' allegedly hardline Pro-Life statements, although Ronnie-the-RINO himself hasn't been especially aggressive about outlawing the safe and legal procedure in his own state, Whacko Left histrionics to the contrary.
Kari Lake---who like DeSantis thrives on Publicity Stunts---and Neocon frauds Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have shown their true colors as well. Though they weren't mentioned in the article, WEF Young Global Leaders and GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are taking the pro-life but not judgemental about personal choices approach. Ramaswamy hasn't made a detailed position yet, but his ties to Big Pharma and the Abortion Racketeers is self-explanatory. Chris Christie, like DeSantis, is generally fine with a so-called '15 week law' which still kills babies and keeps profits flowing to Big Pharma and the Biochemical Cartels, but can be sold as 'Pro-Life.'
Unfortunately, human life has become another commodity in the United States. Babies can't vote or donate to political lobbies while narcissistic women and opportunistic men can and do; so we know whose interests the Political Class is going to support. The Crown of Motherhood and the Miracle of Birth are not marketable concepts these days. If anyone doubts this, it would instructive to see a typical contract issued by any one of the major Insurance Cartels. There's plenty of coverage for Abortion Clinics---Fertility Clinics, not so much. Given the Cartels' influence in the Beltway, that's not liable to change any time soon.
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