TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Today’s Trump-inspired “America First” faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain antiwar in the future.
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar

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Unexpected: Studies Suggest That Rather Than Killing Jobs, AI Could Revive The Middle Class + More

May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

We’ve certainly been talking a lot about the “AI Doomers” who insist that AI is all too likely to destroy humanity. However, even people who aren’t fully on board with the existential threat of AI do often say that, at the very least, it’s going to destroy jobs for most people, potentially creating huge problems. For years now, people have been arguing for universal basic income, in large part, because they think that automation and AI will take away everyone’s jobs. I mean, it was a core plank of Andrew Yang’s silly run for President.
Studies Suggest That Rather Than Killing Jobs, AI Could Revive The Middle Class

David Autor believes both these things to be true: one, that Donald Trump’s diagnosis of trade with China as the source of woe for countless American workers was both accurate and a crucial part of his appeal on his march to the White House. And two, that Trump’s plan to help those workers by cracking down on trade is likely to backfire.

How much did Trump-era tariffs on China cost Americans? New US findings confirm ‘self-inflicted harm’

How the Bipartisan War Party Fostered Fiscal Ruin

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

When big spending Barrack Obama left the White House the national security budget properly measured totaled a staggering $822 billion. That included $600 billion for defense, $46 billion for security assistance and international operations and $177 billion for veterans compensation and services, which reflects the deferred cost of prior wars.
How the Bipartisan War Party Fostered Fiscal Ruin

Railroad worker eviscerates Biden for pushing Middle East railway project: ‘Slap in our face’

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Railroad worker eviscerates Biden for pushing Middle East railway project: ‘Slap in our face’

Ron DeSantis Is A ‘Knight of Malta’

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

No matter how much everyone’s gushing for DeSantis, we cannot erase the following facts from his background.
Ron DeSantis Is A ‘Knight of Malta’

The US is fine with China’s economic success, as long as it’s on Washington’s terms

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Treasury Secretary Yellen says engagement with Beijing is possible, as long as American ‘leadership’ is preserved
The US is fine with China’s economic success, as long as it’s on Washington’s terms

Jordan issues subpoena to FBI director for documents over withdrawn memo on Catholic Churches

April 12, 2023April 12, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday for documents as House Republicans investigate the circumstances surrounding a since-withdrawn memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office that focused on extremism in the Catholic Church.
Jordan issues subpoena to FBI director for documents over withdrawn memo on Catholic churches

H/T: Kim Iversen

The Tragedy of US Diplomacy Pushing for War, But Never Peace

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In a brilliant op-ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help from Iraq, was able to mediate and resolve the deeply-rooted conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, whereas the United States was in no position to do so after siding with the Saudi kingdom against Iran for decades. The title of Parsi’s article, “The U.S. Is Not an Indispensable Peacemaker,” refers to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s use of the term “indispensable nation” to describe the U.S. role in the post-Cold War world.
The Tragedy of US Diplomacy Pushing for War, But Never Peace

At CPAC, China is the new big bad

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

At CPAC, China is the new big bad

Roy Liu had not come to CPAC to hear Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville accuse leftists of wanting “one gender,” or to buy a “Biden-Fetterman 2024: It’s a No-Brainer” T-shirt. He, and dozens of other activists with the New Federal State of China, wanted to build support for destroying the Chinese Communist Party.

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At CPAC, those kinds of familiar riffs were supplemented by media and lobbying groups that support regime change in Beijing, and have never been more visible.

The Epoch Times, a newspaper associated with the Falun Gong religious movement suppressed by Xi’s government, had a sprawling presence at the conference, including the screening of “The Shadow State,” billed as “the first documentary about ESG” — another target of conservatives, both at CPAC and on the Hill.

And the New Federal State of China, “declared” three years ago by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, made its first CPAC appearance with a $75,000 sponsorship, and two high-tech booths where volunteers handed out leaflets and explained why the battle to destroy the CCP had to be won in America.