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   From: j_carlson@gmx.com   
      
   On 2/22/2021 7:55 PM, Mattb wrote:   
   > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:33:16 -0800, Rudy Canoza    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2/22/2021 2:48 PM, Mattb wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:25:57 -0800, Rudy Canoza    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Opinion by Max Boot   
   >>>> Columnist   
   >>>> Feb. 22, 2021 at 11:07 a.m. PST   
   >>>>   
   >>>> President Donald Trump’s appointees served in the worst administration   
   in   
   >>>> history — one that culminated in 400,000 covid-19 deaths and the   
   storming of the   
   >>>> Capitol. Their record in foreign policy wasn’t quite as cataclysmic,   
   but it was   
   >>>> bad enough. America’s standing in the world fell to new lows. Our   
   allies were   
   >>>> disheartened, while our enemies and competitors — China, Russia, Iran,   
   North   
   >>>> Korea, the Taliban — were strengthened.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Now would be a good opportunity for Trump’s aides and enablers to favor   
   us with   
   >>>> their silence as President Biden tries to clean up the messes he   
   inherited.   
   >>>> Instead, many of Trump’s supporters are trying to undermine the new   
   president   
   >>>> from the start.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Last week, the right-wing attack machine accused Biden of being an   
   apologist for   
   >>>> China’s horrific abuse of the Uighurs. “Biden dismisses Uighur   
   genocide as part   
   >>>> of China’s ‘different norms,’” blared the New York Post. Former   
   secretary of   
   >>>> state Mike Pompeo said Biden was echoing the “Chinese propaganda   
   line.” Former   
   >>>> national security adviser H.R. McMaster accused Biden of “bigotry   
   masquerading   
   >>>> as cultural sensitivity.”   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This was a gross distortion of Biden’s remarks during a CNN town hall.   
   Biden did   
   >>>> explain Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rationale for his inhumane   
   policies —   
   >>>> “that there must be a united, tightly controlled China.” But he also   
   said he   
   >>>> told Xi that the norm in the United States was for the president to speak   
   up   
   >>>> about human rights abuses. Biden made clear that China would face   
   >>>> “repercussions” for what Xi is “doing in Hong Kong, what he’s   
   doing with the   
   >>>> Uighurs.”   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In short, Biden was not excusing Chinese human rights violations — as   
   Trump   
   >>>> himself did so often. Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote   
   in his   
   >>>> memoir that Trump even told Xi that building concentration camps for the   
   Uighurs   
   >>>> “was exactly the right thing to do.”   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/22/if-you-s   
   rved-trump-you-have-no-standing-criticize-biden/   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you served in the Trump regime, you have no standing to participate in   
   civic   
   >>>> life in any way.   
   >>>   
   >>>     Define served?   
   >>   
   >> The question mark is wrong and evidence of illiteracy.   
   >>   
   >>> Is that people who worked for him?   
   >>   
   >> No one worked "for" Trump.  They worked for the American people and the   
   country,   
   >> although they did a shit job of it.   
   >   
   > [sic] Notice you did not answer the question.   
      
   I answered the question.  You, being *willfully* and aggressively stupid, and   
   illiterate, couldn't understand it.   
      
   Why did you use a question mark when you weren't posing a question?  Answer:   
   because you are illiterate.   
      
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