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Catherine Kasparian's avatar

Return the solar panels and the student spies back to China

tzed's avatar

We travelled through southwest Maryland on the Delmarva and saw two huge solar farm projects in the middle of prime farming country. It used to be developers would buy up that land for housing projects or shopping malls. Now it’s solar and winds farms. What a waste.

Reddog's avatar

Just wait until there is not enough food on the shelves. Then watch the recrimination and accusations start.

Jeremy R's avatar

The plan is to kill most of us off before then.

Reddog's avatar

Might be far easier than actually fixing this mess. Both pol parties are the same. They just say different things to their bases. We have a spending problem and a congress problem. Spending is the way congress stops us from tar and feathering the whole bunch. But this spending problem is going to get fixed, one way or the other. Congress lets this rogue media of ours divert our attention from the real problem: congress. Just wait until the farmers in this country can't make a living anymore and stop. Who is going to grow the crops and feed the world then, Peru, Argentina, Mexico? There will be no warning when this starts to happen either. Think your grocery bill is high now, just wait. Congress needs to get off their political butts and stop foreign entities from buying our farming community before they do as you suggest, just starve the problem away.

dancingtime's avatar

Tiny correction: The Delmarva Peninsula is the Eastern Shore...unless you mean the SW side of the peninsula.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Thanks, I had no idea what "the Delmarva" was.

dancingtime's avatar

Delmarva stands for Delaware/Maryland/Virginia. If you look at the map of the peninsula, all three states are on it...yup...Virginia starts at the tip...but it is the Eastern Shore for Maryland....east of the Chesapeake Bay...

tzed's avatar

I did mean the SW side of the peninsula.

Jeremy R's avatar

We shouldn't have to foot the entire bill, drop them off half way between Hawaii and Taiwan. Make sure they are tethered to an anchor so they don't float away.

Brian LeMay's avatar

Crowding wouldn't be a problem !

Jeremy R's avatar

It would give a new meaning to anchor babies.

Alice Ball's avatar

Half of Democrats are communists, Rosie in a big way, although the purple haired congressman is shockingly ugly, and Democrat houses, 100%. Biggest bunch of hypocrites on the face of the Earth. Thanks Don for the three polls!

William Coulter's avatar

I have a friend in Connecticut and she is his Congressman. He says she gets re-elected because she brings more money into the district than they pay out. He has spoken with her at length and says she and a box of rocks are in a neck and neck race.

David Thompson's avatar

The things people do for money continue to disappoint me. The love of money truly is the root of all manner of evil.

Jeremy R's avatar

The rocks win by a mile.

Alice Ball's avatar

Any older adult woman who goes around looking like that is definitely in the box of rocks level!

EODMom's avatar

There is the always-perplexing aspect of human nature that keeps those willing to be used as puppets from awareness that they are being used. PurpleHair thinks she’ll be one of the Elect when the Revolution is Won. But she will be thrown into the slave quarters just like the rest of the population. It’s the Alligator and the Scorpion all over again. Totalitarians gotta totalitarian every single time.

Retirednottired's avatar

Useful idiots get lined up against the wall. She will be no exception.

No's avatar

And the other half are Nazis.

dancingtime's avatar

Actually, when we brought the nazis over at the ending of WWII, they infiltrated the fringe of the Republican Party, which remains a small fringe. When we brought the commies over at the dissolution of the USSR, they infiltrated the fringe of the Democrat Party which can no longer be considered as "fringe". But the fact of the matter is that the two fascist groups, nazis and communists, decided between themselves whether they were either right or left....but they have basically the same, not quibbling about details.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

One of the biggest lies successfully peddled by a political party was the notion that the Nazis were a far-right movement. They were not. For starters, their party's name included the term "socialist" -- and they meant it. But more importantly, they had way too much in common with Soviet communism to be on the right. Stalin had his Red Pioneers, Hitler the Hitler Youth, both compulsory. Then there were the Party parades and rallies, the mass-murders of disfavored minorities, the Secret Police, the concentration camps, the "purges" ... And while Hitler did not confiscate German industries outright as Stalin did in Russia, he controlled them totally. No wonder the two conspired to start WWII, because they were two peas in a pod. And FDR thought he could control "Uncle Joe", leaving it for Harry Truman to deal with the results of his disastrous naïveté. Sad.

Jeremy R's avatar

When someone says that Nazis are right wing, they mean they are so far to the left that even Stalin would be a right winger.

I'd like to add that if you look at FDR's actions and policies, he was well along the path to communism himself.

Jim Nelson's avatar

Wim, your analysis is spot on regarding the minimal difference between Nazis and Communists. As Hitler's power grew, he went after the Communists in Germany because they were his main rival for power and appealed to the same basic demographic. Dachau, the first labor camp was filled with Communists that he rounded up. I think Hitler won that battle because the Communists were in league with Soviet Russia and he portrayed his faction as the populist/pro-German saviors who would regain the stature Germany had before WWI.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Yes, I also remember reading that Hitler ordered the Party to give priority to Communists who wanted to join. So it's clear that they were competitors for the same crowd, not ideological opponents. But again, it's deplorable that the Left has succeeded in forever classifying the Nazis as conservatives, when they were anything but.

Lawsy0's avatar

I'm a war-baby (January 1942). I intend to figure it all out before breathing my last. I knew the part about the smart Germans coming to the US to ply their science stuff. I also knew that Russia was an "ally" during that war. But by the time Stalin died in 1953 and my daddy hollered "Hallelujah!" about his death--I got totally confused. Fourth graders are often confused, but if they can avoid taking ritalin, they'll turn out OK.

No's avatar

The only reason the democrats turned to demonizing NAZIS, and the KKK, for that matter, is because their version of socialism failed.

Reddog's avatar

Always made me laugh when I heard a pol talk about the “good part of socialism”. Bernie Sanders is always trying to push the parts he likes. In my view, there are no good parts. Socialism is just how they sell an ideology that eventually leads to communism. Most of them know it. Far too often, a country gets socialism because they become corrupt and can no longer solve or fix problems and it’s easier to adopt socialism rather than fix the corruption. Think Mexico in that regard. They are well on the way.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Vladimir Lenin himself said, "Communism is the ideology; Socialism is the form of government." So they really are one and the same, i.e., synonyms.

Reddog's avatar

Correct. Most of the roads to a communist style of governing start with socialism until the money and personal initiative are exhausted. There are so many similarities between Lenin and Marx and Stalin and Castro and what is going on in our own country and others today it is chilling. Even Canada is far down that road as well. I don't think I understood how communism took over Russia so completely until visiting there a number of years ago. All of the stories related by the senior folks my age were similar on how it happened. Likewise, stories from folks who lived behind the wall in East Berlin cannot be unheard once you hear them. We are a country that is arrogant and ignorant when it comes to saying it can't happen here. It all starts harmlessly in people's eyes. Things like federally funded and run healthcare for example. Look at the UK for one. They have had it for a long time, and it is a disaster or mediocrity. I pray the younger generation can put their hate for Trump and MAGA aside and stop chasing the shiny objects that lead to a hole we cannot recover from. It has to start in the public education system and parents need to stop making everything about personal politics and make their kids understand that we as a country are a grand experiment with the final chapter yet to be written.

Jeremy R's avatar

A socialist is merely a communist without a spine.

LuAnn's avatar

There is no upside to socialism ever. We all know that here.

PM's avatar

Add old age to that, LuAnn

Brian LeMay's avatar

Socialism and communism are both myths for evil to hide behind . There was no difference between Stalin and Hitler .

Reddog's avatar

Don't understand your comment. I wasn't endorsing it not preaching, merely relaying that I always find it humorous.

Lawsy0's avatar

You are credited with my first coffee spurt! My mama'nem called ugly people, "unfortunate looking."

Adorable Deplorable's avatar

My mom called it... "facially challenged".

Jeremy R's avatar

Democrats are never facially challenged, most of them have two.

Jeremy R's avatar

Everyone has different tastes in appearance. I've known women I considered butt ugly who were adored by their husbands. Many men would consider my first wife to be ugly. Personality wise, she was and still is.

Heck, even big Mike landed Barry. Sure she had to settle for an effeminate guy.

There is also HiLlARy, the wicked witch of Arkansas. She is rumored to have had more partners than Epstein's clients.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

My information is that the "purple haired congressman" is a woman. But whatever he/she/it is, she would do great in a remake of The Wizard of Oz, playing the worst of the witches.

Suzie's avatar

I lay 90-99% of the problems we have in this country at the feet of the Congress.

They have been vested by the Constitution with the most power of all three branches, the power of the purse strings and the power to write our laws. They have abdicated the largest portion of their Constitutional duties and obligations to an unelected bureaucracy and presidential EO’s, all of which can change on a dime, without any say-so from the electorate.

Sooooooooo many issues and problems could be averted or rectified were they to ever actually do their job.

They could eradicate the entire district court system with the stroke of a pen, they could change the census to reflect only actual citizens, and on and on and on - the list is LONG.

If we had a true Constitutional Speaker he could create an agenda that would have them writing and pushing through laws and bills from sun up to sundown, 24/7, 365 days of the year to shift this country back onto its tracks, but we don’t -don’t know if we ever have had such a Speaker.

They have become nothing more than a sewer of weakness, pomposity, corruption, fecklessness, criminality and cowardice.

They will have much to answer for, if not in this world, then in the next.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Well, I know I sound like a broken record, but MAGA needs to go further in taking over the state Party apparatuses.

Jake's avatar

But they're great stock traders.....

Lawsy0's avatar

And they aspire to the plutocracy and/or kleptocracy.

Reddog's avatar

You are over the target. We elect people who have an agenda but lie to get elected and then they no longer work for us, they work for the party. People don’t understand that fact. It is always about what is best for the party, not the voter.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I'm sorry Suzie, but how can they do these things without a solid majority in both House and Senate? This is the downside of the Founders' design, that purposely made it hard to enact drastic measures ...

Suzie's avatar

I’ll settle for common sense laws within their originally intended Constitutional guardrails.

But then again, I suppose that’s considered “drastic measures” these days.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

By the opposition, yes, always. That's why enacting stuff is difficult, and often requires horse-trading and compromise.

Cheech's avatar

We need to start looking behind the bright, shiny objects. The 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese nationalists are more than part-time spies stealing our research and resultant technology; they are a rotating roster of activists who are waiting for the signal from Beloved Leader. The signal has yet to arrive, since the time I was in college a half-century ago.

Read up on the Lazerium Fungus that has been transported here from China since 2022 when it was first found in the footwear of Chinese nationals. Last week's find of more of the agroterrorism fungus directed to a Chinese CCP-member researcher should have headlines of the hugest font size ever created. Our authorities have seized a considerable amount, the same authorities, of course, cannot say how much slipped through, nor where it is.

Sorry for such a lengthy post, but by my math COVID 19 + Lazerium = act of war.

NNTX's avatar

Cheech, Did you notice that the apprehension occurred in 2024 but charges only brought now in 2025? (Unless this was a typo in the, iirc, AP story I read)

If true, another example of the treacherous Biden DOJ.

Cheech's avatar

Thank you. I don't know why, for sure, but it might be that the Feds were trying to ensnare the entire circle of comrades connected to the post-doctoral researcher. Note that she readily admitted her guilt, perhaps trying to stave off a continuing and thorough investigation.

Jeremy R's avatar

"Students is a code word for spies"

The students are actually Red Chinese Army Junior Officers. Spies? Yup, spies.

We've got a lot of them at K-state. Why? We are close to Ft Riley and soldiers like to hang out where the college girls are. What better way to glean information than pillow talk.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

Swaiiwell could write a book on that topic.

Lawsy0's avatar

He could write an entire chapter on flatulence, the mental kind AND the physical kind. And speaking of Jeffery Tubin, oh nevermind. End of report.

Shoveltusker's avatar

Are you referring to Lubin' Toobin, the Zoomin' monkeyspanker?

Lawsy0's avatar

Yep, and I'm afraid to ask what the other words mean. :)

dancingtime's avatar

My position has long been that the Chinese come here for either freedom or to spy....and, especially if they still have family there, both.

Reddog's avatar

China is where they are today because every companies mission statement includes the word “steal”.

Jeremy R's avatar

A company here made a part for the 777. Boeing decided to get it from China instead. Chinese part failed so they were going to restart production here only to learn that China had received an international patent for it even though a US patent existed long before. If a 777 with the US part landed anywhere outside the US, the plane could be impounded for not having the Chinese patented part.

They had to redesign the part and get an international patent which delayed the 777 for several months. It also caused sales problems.

Reddog's avatar

The role of theft while speaking of the Chinese industrial base is vastly under reported. I do not understand why we take intellectual property rights so casually. When an American company takes their product to China to manufacture, every single product is evaluated for cloning in their factories. American companies in some regards are the most ignorant ones on earth. They are paving the way for their own destruction, and we have seen it come to fruition.

Jeremy R's avatar

You're-a-peon countries have been doing it as well. Off shoring production in the name of green science. Yup, all the greenbacks flowing to China.

It has enabled them to build their military and emboldened them to violate human rights.

MLR's avatar

Let’s look at the big picture. FJB has allowed somewhere between 11-20 million illegal aliens to invade this country. There will be no way in this kritarchy to deport all these criminals. As a consequence of the way the census counts population the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party will gain Congressional seats. Even if non citizens actually don’t vote illegally the evil party has won!

What can be done about this catastrophe? Somehow pass legislation changing the census to only count citizens. That will be impossible to do without 60 actual Republican Senators. Don, I’m open to suggestions.

Epstein Did Not Kill Himself's avatar

60 actual Republican Senators? I don't think we have 30 ACTUAL (as in real) Republican Senators.

Lawsy0's avatar

Muchas gracias for teaching me a new word today! Learn a new word today by using it in every way! kritarchy

William Coulter's avatar

Maybe don’t hire illegals and they won’t raid your business? Makes sense to me.

Maybe come to Florida and check all the roofing companies here.

Reddog's avatar

Same here in Northern VA. It’s all ignored because people want cheap landscapers, painters and house cleaners. Most are just too damn lazy or busy to do their own work. The kids? Oh no, can’t have their sweet little offspring doing manual labor. They might actually decide on a career using their hands instead of becoming another worthless lawyer. How would that look! /sarc

dancingtime's avatar

They do not do themselves a favor by continuing to speak in public or on the job in their native language. No one would notice them if they spoke English.

These companies should force the issue...learn English if you want to work....and that includes McDonalds...English only on the job.

NNTX's avatar

I saw a proposal that would cancel deductibility for salaries paid to illegal aliens.

Unlikely to pass the hopelessly divided Congress, but a great idea.

Danimal28's avatar

"Foreign students pay the full tuition. Harvard gets the money, Red China gets its spies in."

Key. Every.Single.Country. that hates us is doing this and their ops are turning our own kids into mush that hates themselves. Push back as my own kids did in school.

Liz LaSorte's avatar

We should amend Title 8 Section 1325 to include that deportations will be billed to illegal aliens and assuming they took no federal or state funds while here illegally, then when they apply legally to come back, they would still have to pay that bill with their application.

For anyone who is opposed to deporting illegal aliens - who are criminals from the day they crossed our border illegally - we should ask, why are you against legal immigration?

John Swindall's avatar

Arrest and charge the frog gobbling swamp creature Hakeem for threatening the safety of our immigration enforcement personnel and their families. Enough!

Any and all who are blocking the efforts to enforce the law and put their lives in danger need to be charged with criminal endangerment and obstruction of justice.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

It is shocking that Hakeem Jeffries is the Minority Leader in the House. He advanced "under the radar" and is a very dangerous person to have within half an inch of being Speaker of the House.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Oops, you are completely correct. I edited.

In a way, it is a Freudian slip. I fear him becoming Majority Leader and Speaker--3rd in line for the Presidency. And makes the current President and VP positions more dangerous.

John Wiles's avatar

Regarding anyone opposed to deporting illegal aliens, criminal or otherwise, "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Get them out, all of them, and, if they really want to come here, then have them enter legally and know where they are and what they are doing. If we can track a calf half way around the country, we can track immigrants, who, if they are here legally, don't really have anything to worry about, do they? To all our ICE agents, National Guard, and local police who support what the President and most Americans want, I say, "Doing what's right isn't always easy, but it's always RIGHT."

Tmitsss's avatar

I put this in yesterday’s comment but it fits better today. It’s just shocking.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/03/ice-operation-results-more-70-illegal-alien-arrests-cartel-run-night-club-near

Lawsy0's avatar

Glad you repeated it! Thnx

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Rather telling when Jeffries is ok with antifa and hamashole protesters wearing masks but not ICE.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes, colossal hypocrisy.

No's avatar

I've been a (heavily) taxpaying ciizen here for 76 years, my family has been here 400 years. My blue sanctuary state is going to repeal the Second Amendment today and the SCOTUS recently stated they don't give a damn.

I find myself quite fearful of interacting with law enforcement. The state will defy any law to protect the invaders.

Wonder if I could get deported somewhere decent or will they just beat down my door in the night and kill me. Oh, to be a protected, privileged criminal invader!

Alan's avatar

Ukraine, Gaza, the Big Beautiful Bill are huge issues, but they pale in comparison to the millions of illegal aliens and open borders. If the Ukraine/Russia war ends, crime in America won't drop. If there is a lasting peace in the Middle East, it won't reform our courts. If the budget is balanced, it won't reform academia.

Closing the borders and deporting every single illegal alien may not solve everything, but it puts America on a path to give us the chance. Crime drops, laws are respected, corrupt judges are exposed, universities refocus on education, NGOs lose their funding, drug trafficking plummets, sex trafficking plummets, gang activity plummets.

The amazing reality is that the polling for closed borders and deportation consistently has the support of over 80% of Americans. For every ten people I may interact with on a daily basis, eight of them probably agree with me on this issue. Rarely has a moment in history like this given a nation the chance to neuter the evil from within.

MissippiPolok's avatar

Re: your above "...a moment in history..." statement...

I like pithy lil adages & quotes; so much knowledge in a compact little bite.

Today's quote (attributed to Victor Hugo):

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come".

Kevin C.'s avatar

Three polls and another excellent column … YAHTZEE!