Thread by @MsAmyMacPherson

Too bad overgrown children like @TristinHopper are blocking adults so they don't have to read/produce actual journalism at @nationalpost

Below is the educated response to far-right's continued racist Wuhan Virus conspiracy theory

#CDNpoli @ChinaEmbOttawa
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2/9 For the record, to accept @JoeBiden's recent 'revelation', you'd have to believe the US State Dept is staffed by entirely new people since Trump & that they obtained new info Trump never had by magically going back in time to locate a smoking gun @WHO & #USpoli never found

3/9 Moreover, #CDNmedia is forgetting (or neglecting to verify anything whatsoever) that both #CDNpoli & #USpoli govt scientists were working in China as official partners to set up the Wuhan lab, that everything done there was under our watchful eye, management & safety controls

4/9 Given the renewed push to penalize #CDNpoli exports, it also speaks to the fact that @JoeBiden has no control over his MAGA-run State Dept & that they're attempting to reassert far-right domination over the Democrat administration to undermine its diplomatic relationships

5/9 It was a similarly compromised State Dept that fabricated Weapons of Mass Destruction to spark a war in Iraq. They're attempting the same play with China now, because China is overtaking the #USpoli economy through emergence of its middle class + China owns/controls US debt

6/9 Of interest, some of the same people who fabricated WoMD in Iraq AND the illegitimate Vietnam War regained their US State Dept influence under Trump, such as Henry Kissinger. Kissinger is further aching to reignite battle in South Asia to rehabilitate his embarrassing legacy

7/9 @SecBlinken was criticized as an inappropriate choice for @POTUS & this goes to show that he's caving to pressure from a MAGA-politicized State Dept, by letting the Kissinger/Goldwater/Trump gang run roughshod over facts & diplomacy. They're flexing to control @JoeBiden

8/9 America can't afford a war with China so it needs to be justified somehow, especially to hide the fact that #COVID19 roots were in #USpoli years before the Wuhan outbreak, RNA sequenced to #Thailand's bat guano fertilizer that remains unregulated & widely exported to the West

9/9 To fall for the far-right propaganda RE the weaponization of #COVID19, you'd also need to suspend logic to believe that not only did #USpoli & #CDNpoli scientists let it happen, but that it didn't cost China economically & diplomatically. Fine for Qanon, but not media & govts

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