80 year old Pelosi arrives in Taiwan. Balls of steel.

[moon]

80 year old Pelosi arrives in Taiwan. Balls of steel.

Brain of mush, heart of Benjamins.

[RB 60]

America sends a senile 80 old lady to Taiwan. China laughs.

[anonymoose]

The Pentagon opposes Pelosi's provocation. Biden opposes Pelosi's provocation. You waving your dick at somebody else's backyard is folly.

Indeed. WTF does that old bimbo think she is? President? Secretary of State? She’s getting involved in something in which she has no business . And like Brandon she’s too old to understand what her actions are doing.

[dukkha]

Indeed. WTF does that old bimbo think she is? President? Secretary of State? She’s getting involved in something in which she has no business . And like Brandon she’s too old to understand what her actions are doing.

she had to go once she said she as planning to go
she really is clueless, but her title demands she carry out her promise to go

[dukkha]

America sends a senile 80 old lady to Taiwan. China laughs.

doesnt mater in the long run. China is going to do what China wants to do in regards to taiwan

[dukkha]

Incredibly stupid.

From todays NYT - Thomas Friedman

Biden’s national security team made clear to Pelosi, a longtime advocate for human rights in China, why she should not go to Taiwan now.

It is a measure of our political dysfunction that a Democratic president cannot deter a Democratic House speaker from engaging in a diplomatic maneuver that his entire national security team — from the C.I.A. director to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs — deemed unwise.

Friedman is an idiot.
agreed none of this should have played out in public. Biden should have "no comment" when asked.
instead he said
"the military doesnt want her to go" -this from the commander in chief? cant he speak as such?

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Chiina wants an excuse to invade taiwan and they paid pelosi to give them one. THINK

[RB 60]

doesnt mater in the long run. China is going to do what China wants to do in regards to taiwan

Yeah, it's not like we have a strong leader...

[dukkha]

Yeah, it's not like we have a strong leader...

well China has been ramping it up. after Afghanistan it looks like Brandon is clueless
(i mean droning al-Zawahiri was great, but the withdrawal was an absolute disaster)..
But this is really China's play - nothing going to happen over the Pelosi visit.

Beijing has been saying they want "reunification" by 2027

[anonymoose]

doesnt mater in the long run. China is going to do what China wants to do in regards to taiwan

In the end I think you’re right. Xi isn’t going to make a decision about anything based on something as trivial as an old bimbo’s travel plans who has little to no say in foreign policy.

[anonymoose]

Friedman is an idiot.

Sure you don’t have him confused with Paul Krugman?
I don’t always agree with Friedman but he had a very well thought out opinion piece in today’s NYT over this visit. And you’d definitely agree with what he had to say about Ukraine in it. I’ll post excerpts for you.

[moon]

Senate Republicans show support for Pelosi’s visit
A group of 26 Senate Republicans have issued statement saying in support of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.

The group includes Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveb...-on-high-alert

[anonymoose]

Friedman is an idiot.

Sure about that?
In today’s NYT:

Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine — considerably more than has been reported.

And there is funny business going on in Kyiv. On July 17, Zelensky fired his country’s prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency — the most significant shake-up in his government since the Russian invasion in February. It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I have still not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kyiv for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there.
NYT - Friedman 8-2-22

[ThatOwlWoman]

why is the Speaker of the House dealing with foreign policy

McConnell leads Senate GOP delegation in trip to Kyiv to meet Zelensky

[anonymoose]

Senate Republicans show support for Pelosi’s visit
A group of 26 Senate Republicans have issued statement saying in support of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.

The group includes Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveb...-on-high-alert

Fuck them. I thought the neocons were done. I guess not.