Thread by @ThyConsigliori

20 July 2021 #MAGAanalysis

China’s Trade

The always amazing and informative @JackPosobiec posted this image for us. It couldn't be more important. Let's discuss it thoughtfully.

2) We'll start with a quick bit of background. For the full story, we'd have to go back to Nixon, Kissinger, and Carter. But for our purposes, the story can commence with Bush 41, and include Clinton and Bush 43. The key is the WTO.

3) Tiananmen Square was a moment. Bush 41 could have led the world to condemn it, and scorn China's evil CCP. Instead, he granted them the right to oppress their people. He rejected Democracy's principles of freedom when it came to China. The shame echoes on to this day.

4) We have to linger on that. Our Declaration states that ALL men are created equal. This says NOTHING about American men. Every person in China is created equal, no differently than we are here in America. No, their freedom is not our problem. It's theirs.

5) But what we bless and what we oppose matters. I say that Bush 41 must NEVER be forgiven for his heinous blessing of Tiananmen Square's oppression. It was a moment in our history over which we must be horrifically ashamed. I am ashamed. You should be too.

6) Read my lips. With new taxes in place, Bush 41 handed the keys to the kingdom to Clinton, and passed on the budding relationship to China. We need only mention Al Gore's sale of top secrets to China to complete the essentials of the Clinton China policy.

7) Entry into the WTO was the baton pass from Clinton to Bush 43. That, plus Most Favored Nation trading rights. You remember NAFTA? Every right that was granted to Mexico and Canada was also granted to China. That's how it works.

8) There's a myth for us to bust. The myth is that China's trade advantage comes from cheap - not to mention slavery-free - labor. Yes, that is an advantage on the global market. But it is NOT the basis of their true edge. Oh no!

9) Their true edge comes from two policies.

1) We subsidize their shipping costs. It is cheaper to FedEx an envelope from Beijing to Chicago, than from Seattle to Chicago. Subsidies cover the cost.

2) Taxes. Not to mention EPA policies!

10) Okay, let's cover the EPA. It regulates American business. It does NOT regulate Chinese business. Every environmental cost imposed on American business is a cost advantage to China. Imagine that.

11) Back to taxes. American businesses are taxed over their revenue. That's Tax 1. Then, American wholesalers are taxed over their revenue, Tax 2. Chinese businesses suffer neither. Please meditate on that. Seriously. Taxes favor China over America. Taxes.

12) Most Favored Nation trading rights at the WTO, no EPA, no OSHA, no manufacturing taxation, no wholesaling taxation and shipping subsidies to boot. What does this mean in reality? WalMart and Costco, Home Depot and Lowe's, they sell us stuff from China. That's what it means.

13) Go a step further. Shelf space. Is it high quality, middle, or low quality? No matter. Once a box retailer owns our business, it can decide what it puts in front of us. It makes more money off Chinese imports than American manufactures. What will you see? Made in China.

14) And what's the reality on the ground? We close up American shops. Try to go find a piece of furniture made in America. You'll fail. Our entire furniture factory base died. It all went to China. There are no more American furniture makers. They're extinct.

15) Over and over again, our government has favored other nation's businesses over our own. The policy as been NOT America second, oh no. It has been America last. Work through the logic of wealth with me.

16) Wealth is NOT patriotic. It is merely a set of numbers. Higher here, lower there, no matter, of course we chose the higher number. It's just numbers. Bush 41 sees China as the place for his personal investments. As POTUS, he makes it all work out. Billions upon billions.

17) How did Bill Clinton become a billionaire? China is the answer. And Bush 43? He ushered China both into the WTO and ensured its Most Favored Nation trading status. There's more billions for the Bush family. Boom.

18) Communism? China is the last man standing. But it isn't actually even Communism. It's merely dictatorship. The Chinese economy is absolutely Capitalistic. That's their genius. Call themselves Communists, they're actually National Capitalists.

19) Honor must be given where it is due. China invented Capitalism. Hold on to that. Communism is a soporific to the masses. Oh yeah, we're for you. We'll give you a chicken in every pot, a Chrysler in every garage. Hogwash. But it sells. It always sells.

20) Here's what you have to hold onto. China's trade growth, as represented by Jack's two charts, was paid for by America. YOU paid for it. Every factory town that lost its economy paid for it. American shoes? Gone. There are no American made TVs. All gone.

21) Every tax dollar you've paid in the last 20 years has been invested into the Chinese economy. Why? That's where the Swamp, the DC Swamp holds its money. That's why.

22) It's not complex. It's not complicated. China pays the best dollars for our Congressmen's votes. Better than we pay them. Congress couldn't care less about American democracy, or the American republic. Not a moment's care. Not one.

23) How did China's trade grow to surpass America's? It grew due to our laws. It grew due to our lawmakers and their direct, even obvious benefit. It grew due to the hellacious abuse of government power for personal gain.

24) Here's what you need to know. We paid for it. America paid to enrich China, the world's last Communist holdout. It was us. We did it. We made them rich. We did it for personal reasons of wealth. The Bush clan did it.

25) There is a philosophy behind all this. The group is good. The individual? Not so much. Communism is built upon the group, the group over the individual. American history is built another way. We have four rights that inhere to the individual, NOT the group.

26) Our rights are...

* Life
* Liberty
* The Pursuit of Happiness
* Property

27) Focus on the last of the four great rights, property. What if you held NO right of property over the food you eat? If so, you would starve, and rapidly.

28) Here's what we have missed. Our Declaration empowers every person. Simply work the logic through. Life is ended by death. When the state, or anyone else causes that death, the right of life has been abridged.

29) Trump's presidency began the process of redrawing these maps. There was no way that he could reverse them completely in just four years, facing internal opposition from his Republican "allies." But he began the change, anyway.

30) We must remember that Communism always sucks up the wealth of Capitalism. We can stop this trend and rebuild our position of dominance. We simply have to decide to stop giving China our real wealth. If we fail to do so, we will actually fail.

Thread ends at #30.

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