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Locked. No further comments permitted.Let's Keep Kissing China's Ass
May 6 2021 05:07PM more by jazz51
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China�s emissions of greenhouse gases have more than tripled over the last three decades and now, for the first time, exceed those of all developed countries combined, according to new research released Thursday.

We are going to crush the United State's economy while China keeps growing its economy and little is done to rein them in......

They will take over the world, while the rest of us try to save the planet.






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May 6 2021 05:32PM     link to this

Australia May go to war with China soon.
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May 6 2021 06:36PM     link to this

Been to China 6 times on business trips
Dongguan & shenzen area
It’s pretty gross, only remember seeing blue sky twice

Its.All.Good
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May 6 2021 09:35PM     link to this

We are supposed to care so much about the Environment when China doesn't give a Fuck! I remember what they did to Hide it during the Olympics in Beijing! 🙄
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May 6 2021 09:37PM     link to this

We haven't even recovered from their virus and now we have to be concerned with their out-of-control rocket too.

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May 7 2021 12:04AM     link to this

BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT. Anything made in China

UNDERSTAND ?
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May 7 2021 06:44AM     link to this

Good luck with that.

Might as well start holding your breathe because Chinese people breathe air, too.
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May 7 2021 06:47AM     link to this

Einstein was right about the Chinese
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May 7 2021 08:11AM     link to this

You act like the two are related. A country doesnt need to be the worst polluter in order to have a strong economy. Good thing trade wars are good and easy to win.
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May 7 2021 09:49AM     link to this

China is building at least SIXTY coal fired power plants, throughout Asia, they LIE about there emission controls. Meanwhile the US has the strictest emission controls on the planet and people like Elon Musk says the technology could be even better especially wiht natural gas.

This country is eliminating manufacturing and heavy industry, which pay very well (can we say living wage) but NO lets make burger flippers a living wage. Oh well lets keep buying Chinese junk and keep building those landfills....
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May 7 2021 10:07AM     link to this

The Paris Climate Accord is so much bullshit.

We have strict controls and China gets a 'pass' since they are a "developing nation" like India.

What fucking idiots gave them that pass? Oh, that's right, Obama wanted that accord so much....

Everybody plays by the same rules or we don't play at all.

If the entire free world stopped buying Chinese cheap shit, their economy would be in big trouble.
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May 7 2021 11:55AM     link to this

I used to laugh (and cry a bit inside) when the left spewed their hatred for all things Trump, especially when it came to trade wars with China.

As the saying goes, If not now, when? (Hiller the Elder)

Biden won't confront China, he's too busy taxing business and throwing money away on destructive endeavors.

I can understand the dislike for Trump, but given China, is, well, China - you can't confront them by playing nice, they will steamroll you.

China will look after her own self interest first, with no considerations for any kind of "western" morals.

Unless this nation grows a backbone & forces China to abide by the standards that most the rest of the world agree to (as we have with other nations), we will become their bitch.
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May 7 2021 12:00PM     link to this

In other news, China just became President of the U.N. Security Council. This has historically been a ceremonial post. As China has repeatedly shown, the CCP is going to take full advantage to push its own self-interest. CCP considers diplomacy a joke, they only believe in balance of power.
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May 7 2021 12:41PM     link to this

THe US has been eliminating manufacturing since the 80's. It was the beginning of the change over to a consumer based economy. Must have been all those strict environmental protection laws Reagan passed.
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May 7 2021 01:10PM     link to this

^^^^

Might want to clarify.....manufacturing as a proportion of GDP has NOT declined.....Employment from manufacturing has declined, much due to automation.
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May 7 2021 01:34PM     link to this

Just what fucking morals do we have in the west?

We are an imperialistic nation. We will not allow anyone to remotely step close or even give the appearance of challenging us. Look at France, Japan, and now China. WE will find reasons to hammer them even if we are the ones committing the same offenses.

Do I like that? Absolutely. That's the only way to ensure we get to live in the type of quality lives that we do. Can you imagine having to really compete against the Chinese in a real fair and balance world? We are the ones making up all the rules and when we don't like the rules that we made up benefiting China over us, we raise tariffs and put up trump up charges against them by labeling it as national security risk.

Really? Tiktok was a national security risk? Huawei's phones are security risks? They were willing to put the data in a neutral nation like Singapore. That wasn't enough? Do we keep our data oversea in China? No we don't. So if we don't do that, why would the Chinese allow their data to be stored in US?

We banned the Chinese for participated in our Space and NASA projects. We went so far to even ban their VISAs to come in to get an award. When they got to the Dark side of the Moon and landed and collected samples, we demanded they give some to us. Like hell they would.

Look at our foodstuff prices and durable goods product prices in just the past 6 months. A rise of more than 40%. And the fucking gov't is saying there is no inflation.

Look at Trump's failed China policy. Our deficit GREW year after year during Trump's 4 years. And now Bidone is president, our March deficit against China went to HISTORIC HIGH!!!!

All you mother fuckers are saying China is shit, crap, whatevers. But yet numbers and data is showing our reliance upon them has been growing even when we slapped a 25% tariff against them in most products.

What does that tell you? Its all politics and media propaganda. We MUST find some enemy to go against and China is the perfect fall guy. But they are not only economically strong but also socially and militarily strong. And their people are a united one. Their minorities get treated much better than ours if they follow their rules. Ours get discriminated institutionally and by race and color even for the so called model minorities who do way better than everyone else as a whole.

We are only strong because we never had a land war within our borders. Its the leftovers from our predecessors that we are reaping on. That advantage is going to run out soon.

And some moron talked about Australis going to war against China. LOL. One is a nuclear power, the other had 20 million in its entire population scattered on 2 extreme coasts. That war will last about a second. Australia should know its place in the world. They are a white race nation being a minority in the Asian Pacific Realm. They are the minority there. They should act like New Zealand and just STFU and try to survive this or its all over for them. Almost all of their agricultural products are in direct competition against us. Being allied to us is probably the worst decision they can ever make economically.
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May 7 2021 01:50PM     link to this

Oh and to Kayman, I have been to China dozens of times.

Shenzhen does have blue sky since they have transformed from a manufacturing hub to a tech hub. SZ is more like silicone valley these days.

When the hell was the last time you were in Shenzhen? the 90s? Almost half of SZ's plants are dark plants that are automated. Only the middle size factories still use human base resources.

Beijing is different, weather, desert and the surrounding areas are all heavy industries.

Don't just look at the news, a shit ton of them use filter lenses to make China looking like all gloomy and depressed.

I suggest some of the youtube travel sites that are updated in 2021. Look at those city tours one. That's the real China. Not some fucked up place that stupid morons and biased media want you to believe. Most national Chinese in America wanted to go back to China from US during covid. That tells you how fucking bad we have it here.

Freedom and democracy is only good when you have rational citizens. When you have a bunch of fucking morons fucking each other's cousins to procreate and all look like 300 lbs pigs walking on 2 hooves. You gotta do some serious self reflection instead of blaming others.
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May 7 2021 02:39PM     link to this

Didn't have blue sky in 2018 when I was there last, but it's a pretty big place
My visa is good until 2025, I might go back if I want a good dose of depression

I think the job transfer to china has more to do with their acceptance into the WTO with special exemption....brokered by joe biden, ya know author of the 1994 crime bill

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May 7 2021 02:48PM     link to this

"All you mother fuckers are saying China is shit, crap, whatevers. But yet numbers and data is showing our reliance upon them has been growing even when we slapped a 25% tariff against them in most products."


American CEO's have been selling this country down the river for 40 years. This is the result. Profit over anything else.

I don't like this situation at all, but this is the world I was born into. You would think people would get a wake up call when the WuFlu first started and China was playing fuckery with the supply chain. But no. Profits must be made!

I just love the thought of my medication being manufactured in a country whose government is hostile to the US. Great job American industry!

Currently the CCP is doing things that compare to Nazi Germany. But they get a pass because, reasons.


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May 7 2021 04:22PM     link to this

"Currently the CCP is doing things that compare to Nazi Germany. But they get a pass because, reasons."

I totally agree with that statement. But I also dont like how the CCP appears to have the bulk of the Democrat party and a few Rhinos in their back pockets.

This administration gives China a pass on far too much and constantly sounds the "Russia Russia" alert on GOP representatives to divert attention from the Lefts hipocracy and failed policy decisions.

We were in far better hands from a leadership standpoint up until 4 months ago.

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May 7 2021 08:35PM     link to this

Why is it always trumptards talking about politics on a site about getting your dick wet. Get the fuck out of here with this bullshit.
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May 7 2021 09:49PM     link to this

^ it will never stop
You should kill yourself now
Dum dum

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May 7 2021 10:34PM     link to this

Yeah cuz everything is outsourced there. Not to mention per capita wise, they actually doing not bad. Better than America.
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May 7 2021 11:04PM     link to this

Does this include Military adventurisms? If not, then this is even worse. Military actions are one of largest causes for pollution. China has not even been in war in over 40 years, while America can’t even hold off on dropping a bomb for a single year.
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May 8 2021 12:50AM     link to this

Love the Beijing spin out of ol' cgem.
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May 8 2021 12:58AM     link to this

Why the fuck do you guys come to this website to talk about this shit? Do you not know what this website is? It ain’t fucking Facebook. How pathetic are your lives that you come to a pussy website to discuss politics and world events?
Night-Rider
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May 8 2021 01:03AM     link to this

And what does cgem have to say about a virus that may have come out of a Wuhan laboratory?

Where gain of function experimentation was allowed in far too lax conditions?

Where the Chinese government did their utmost to cover up this possible tragedy and China's responsibility for it?

Of course, he will somehow spin this so that virologists around the world and the US NIH gets the brunt of the blame.

As he will spin other bullshit like the genocide of those pesky terrorist Uyghurs!

Three things, buddy cgem, courtesy of GBD:

1. China has an aging population problem. Not a good sign for a country that wants to be top.
2. China has a $52 billion real estate bubble problem. Again not a good sign.
3. Like the US, China also has an outstanding debt problem.

Good luck.

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May 8 2021 01:05AM     link to this

LOL BigDukeSix with an account from 2009 and only one lady networked to it!
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May 8 2021 02:30AM     link to this

I would caution associating China’s problems that the US would have trouble fixing... They are a top down controlled economy, not a free market economy. This is a country that was one of the poorest nations not long ago and have boosted themselves to #2 in such a short time span. Such medium issues already have numerous steps planned out to be tackled. These people are light years ahead compared to BLM, Antifa, MAGA...
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Remember the last guy...who said trade wars were easy? You know...the guy who has factories in China along with his daughter? You know...the guy who made the situation with China worse with his idiotic isolationism and his tariffs. How did the tariffs work out? Well, the farming industry lost tens of billions per year, most of it permanently, cost American taxpayers more, and didn't do all that much to China. They can still send cheap products through Vietnam or what have you. Biden has been in office 120 days and you are wondering why he hasnt solved every problem there is. Most Americans dont care about China. It wouldnt be in there top 5. It is important to you. But Covid is more important to most Americans. Biden got that under control. The economy is more important, stimulus packages delivered to the little guy and not Trump's buddies. Infrastructure is more important...he's working on it.

You will disagree with me...but there is a reason he is killing it in the polls, and alt right media is attacking him with culture wars, Snow White!!!! Dr Seuss!!!...cancel culture (as they themselves cancel anyone who doesnt buy the lie that that the election was somehow rigged for 9 million votes)....and pretending he isnt in charge. Back to sleepy boring Joe with a radical scary agenda.

The Republicans are currently kicking anyone from there party who doesnt agree with whatever batshit thing Trump says. McConnell has gone back to obstruction at all cost. Anyone who tries to compromise is punished. How does that work long term? It either fails and we have the end of the Republican party....or it succeeds and we have the end of democracy as Republican led legislatures decide the voting for their constituents. We should just split into two countries. Everyone who loves Trump can just move to Trumpistan. DJT will be supreme leader. Don Jr will be Vice President. Ivanka will be first lady. I'm sure that will go well.
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May 8 2021 04:40AM     link to this

dtresden, Your posts are actually more lame than nr's... Congrats.
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May 8 2021 04:41AM     link to this

Hey nr, seems you and BigDukeSix have things in common.
Why you hating on him for his network?
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May 8 2021 07:52AM     link to this

"CCP considers diplomacy a joke, they only believe in balance of power."

^^ This. They made fools of Blinken's team; thought he was gonna cry in Alaska for a second there. And this week Blinken said the US is not pursuing any containment strategy.

That'll work really well when shit goes hot. Taiwan is next up.
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May 8 2021 08:27AM     link to this

We are over a year into the pandemic and there is only
one origin theory with any evidence behind it...lab leak

The WHO has been complicit in chinas cover up efforts as they are its main benefactor
& the NIH has promoted and partially funded the wuhan, as well as stateside, labs
research of bat corona viruses

Best of all, it all comes back to one man...gain of function fauci
Who restarted this research secretly, without approval & plans on expanding it in the future

This is the biggest story of the decade & the worst indictment of the US intelligence
community as we have zero intel on what China was up to

Now go get that miracle vaccine and keep your mask on for perpetuity

Oops...I mean masks




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May 8 2021 02:19PM     link to this

The Who being complicit in covering up China's actions related to COVID breakout response is true.

Judicial Watch obtained through freedom of information emails from WHO to Fauci to spin a "positive" story to the Trump administration and the US related to Cina's responses.

Trump wasnt fooled, but was criticized for not bowing to Fauci's every word. Fauci is just a minister of BS with ZERO credibility at this stage.

And look at what we have now with China having launched a rocket and there is space trash "accidentally" falling out of orbit in an uncontrolled manner.

Going to hit somewhere on earth this weekend. Yet again a total FUCK UP by the CCP with lives at risk... or is it really an accident?

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Goodbye Africa
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May 8 2021 08:40PM     link to this

Guess why that is though? China shutdown Wuhan and prevented people from leaving their houses until the virus passed. Meanwhile you hypocrites pretend to want the economy to open up but refuse to get vaccinated or wear masks. But you want to blame everyone else for it.
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May 8 2021 09:01PM     link to this

China suppressed information for months. Don't believe anything the CCP says about anything.


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May 8 2021 10:39PM     link to this

Biden has the country running again and you trumps have to find something to complain about. Good is NOT up 40%. You just pull this out of your ass. Lumber and gas are up because of the Free market. When the sawmill start cutting more lumber, the price will go down. Gas will stay about here for a long time because cracking becomes profitable again at 60 bucks a barrel. The Orang is gone. Enjoy !
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May 9 2021 12:39AM     link to this

...and the drums of war beat ever on. Slow, relentless, incessant and timeless. Powered by greed, hate and revenge...until the last drop of blood soaks back into the earth by a species soon forgotten.
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May 9 2021 07:40AM     link to this

"Lumber and gas are up because of the Free market..."

That's takes some real special sh*t for brains analysis

Price is up because supply is squeezed by Biden's new anti-energy sector policies. This stupidity will continue. We used to be in the unique position of "energy independence" but that apparently doesnt sit well with some billionaire somewhere.

I just filled my tank 5 minutes ago... $4.29/gal for regular... a new high.

Keep drinking the MSM lemonade.
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May 9 2021 10:45AM     link to this

Detroit keep your thoughts in Canada.

This economy is going because red state Governors have opened up their states and they are generating revenue. Their unemployment is down, but not down as much as it should be due to stupid extensions of unemployment subsidies.

The Biden administration is paying people more money to stay home than if they go to work.

I have dozens of clients who can't find people to work even at $15.00 an hour or more, since those people can make almost that amount or even more by sitting at home doing nothing. Why work when the government will pay you to do nothing....DUH!!!!
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May 9 2021 11:28AM     link to this

I am back in my california house until june.
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May 9 2021 11:57AM     link to this

Good, this state can suck some money from you in exorbitant gas prices, get you with our #1 sales tax and all of the other ways CA decimates its citizens....
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May 9 2021 07:29PM     link to this

BTW. The official story being put out there is that gas prices will sky rocket across the country this year not because there is any shortage of oil but because the oil companies can't get enough truckers to deliver the gas to gas stations. Supposedly it takes 6 months to train a new truck driver to be qualified to drive a truck containing flammable and explosive materials (Probably True).

The generous additional unemployment benefits have caused a lot of employees to want to just collect benefits rather than work. However supposedly a trucker hauling gasoline to gas stations averages around $80,000 a year. I doubt one of these truckers that got laid off during the pandemic was able to find another job with his skill set that pays $80,000 a year and certainly even with enhanced unemployment someone would be further ahead making the $80K. This whole story doesn't make sense.
InsearchofStarfish
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May 9 2021 07:45PM     link to this

they think the downed pipeline in the upper east will help push gas prices up a buck

Zeros
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May 9 2021 07:46PM     link to this

California unemployment is $450/wk, paid every 2 weeks.

The bump was an additional $300 = $1200 a month.

That is not an adequate replacement income for me, someone that makes over $100k/yr.



source: I collected $24k of unemployment last year for 8 months.

Also bonus: the EDD payments were not taxed.

I'm actually getting a $13 refund from the state this year. First time in 15 years I ever got a refund. (due to income being down last year)


idk what the current bump is or if there is one anymore as my furlough ended in February.


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May 9 2021 09:08PM     link to this

Fuck the CCP!
I like the Chinks, though.
Great Kung Flu movies!

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