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originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: uncommitted
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: uncommitted
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: uncommitted
I don't like lobbyists. They pervert the system that was put in place. Money corrupts and I see that as a problem. Now if you feel differently, as I stated, please discuss that. When you come to a thread and just look for small parts of a conversation you can pick apart and complain about it's trolling. I think most of us do it at times. But it's not something you can do, then pretend you didn't. it's in print and forever.
Do you have any opinions on what the OP was written about?
Why is it a small part of the conversation? You seemed keen to make comments about it.
As for the OP, which governments are owned by China? It seems as though you were trying to suggest that China is an enemy of America and that if it wasn't for Trump, America would be 'owned' by them. The reality is that Trump decided to indulge in a trade war, guessing that China would crumble and that he would be all powerful (i.e., he would 'own' China).
That didn't work, just added hefty tariffs to both parties and left both sides not wanting to lose face.
Now, could you list all of the governments that are owned by China?
Do you know of a guy named Eric Swalwell?
If you feel his recent issues aren't a real problem for National Security, I'd like to understand why.
We are on a conspiracy site and you seriously don't think America does similar, regularly to gain influence in other countries? If you really think not then a) you are very naïve and b) you're on the wrong site.
America has toppled multiple governments when they don't map to what they want, sheesh, they intensify conflict when the country in question doesn't follow its own ideology - isn't that all about trying to own them?
So due to that, our leaders need not be loyal to the United States, national security isn't really a "thing" and we should allow other nations to have our secrets because it's only fair?
it that's not what you are saying, I suggest you re-read what you wrote and try to clarify it a bit.
originally posted by: Krahzeef
a reply to: network dude
It's ATS!!!!!
Deny ignorance is the motto.
I refuse to believe I'm wrong in support of the mantra.
originally posted by: Krahzeef
a reply to: network dude
Maybe you are wrong.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: Krahzeef
a reply to: network dude
Maybe you are wrong.
maybe so. and if you can show me where, I will have grown as a person.
Do you get a prize if I admit to being wrong?
Fang helped raise funds for Swalwell’s 2014 House re-election campaign, and had an intern hired to Swalwell’s Congressional office after receiving her recommendation.
Fang reportedly continued work as a “bundler” for Swalwell, convincing high-money donors to write big checks for the campaign, before unexpectedly leaving the U.S. in mid-2015 after living in the country for four years, amid an ongoing U.S. intelligence investigation into her activities.
Swalwell cut all his ties to Fang after he was alerted by the FBI to the investigation, according to Axios, and there is no publicly available evidence Swalwell knew or suspected Fang was working for Beijing, nor is there evidence Fang broke any laws through her fundraising.
According to our source, the intrigue started years earlier when the staffer took a trip to Asia to visit relatives and was befriended by someone who continued to stay in touch with him on subsequent visits.
That someone was connected with the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security.
“He didn’t even know what was happening — that he was being recruited,” says our source. “He just thought it was some friend.”
The FBI apparently concluded the driver hadn’t revealed anything of substance.
“They interviewed him, and Dianne forced him to retire, and that was the end of it,” says our source.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: TerryMcGuire
Well Terry, you did much better than most.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
... if there's anything there, we will see it.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Gryphon66
Trump has been the most powerful president in our history. You tell it well.