Mike Davis
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Instead of giving infrastructure and ports and data centers and all that, we've been giving really weird, woke cultural programming.
Eric Swalwell, what do we have?
But I also think the point, too, is that...
in the midst of the entire news cycle of USAID being attacked and collapsed, all the ways they framed it, they could have had so many people go on cable news.
They could have had so many case studies of how effective the work that they were doing was.
And OK, sure, did they find a couple Trump haters to go on there, go on 60 Minutes?
I think we uncovered one of them as being a Democrat donor or something like that.
But I never really saw any wonderful stories like, oh, the poor children.
It's like, well, that's what I mean.
Make the case.
They can't.
Well, let's call it maybe rendition number two of the piece we were talking about just a few days ago having to do with U.S.
tax dollars flowing to China's kind of premier rare earth laboratories.
Well, trigger warning.
But that fits perfectly in Chinese military code, right?
Strangling you with your own systems, subduing the enemy with what we have going on here, winning the war without firing a shot, right?
That's what they did.
And it always goes back to the four-year interregnum between both Trump terms, where they shored up all the shortages that they viewed that they had from phase one of negotiations.
So I guess we've got to really square up the rare stuff.
You can see they consolidated basically all their state-owned rare earth and magnet companies into one, the China Rare Earth Group in 2021.