The Presstitutes of Communist China

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• KCK March 28, 2022, 7:36 PM

  China minders? pffffft. Ours are inside our phones and refrigerators; gas meters and Facebook. We have: robo minders.

  Style points for China’s invention of social credit scores, though. That shit is based.

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  • gwbnyc March 29, 2022, 8:18 AM

    withdrew, but it was just a test run. she’ll be back-

    Saule Omarova was nominated by President Joe Biden on Sept. 23 to supervise the country’s largest banks and federal savings associations, as the comptroller of the currency. She is a U.S.S.R.-born and educated professor who praised the former Soviet Union’s pay policies. She recently called for ending banking “as we know it” by moving people’s accounts from private banks to the Federal Reserve.

    “Biden’s nominee to regulate banks really, really hates…banks,” says the Wall Street Journal. Her “radical ideas might make even Bernie Sanders blush. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. Thirty years later, she still believes the Soviet economic system was superior, and that U.S. banking should be remade in the Gosbank’s image.”

    In a recent paper “The People’s Ledger,” she proposed that the Federal Reserve take over consumer bank deposits, “effectively ‘end banking,’ as we know it,” and become “the ultimate public platform for generating, modulating, and allocating financial resources in a modern economy.” She’d also like the U.S. to create a central bank digital currency—as Venezuela and China are doing—to “redesign our financial system & turn Fed’s balance sheet into a true ‘People’s Ledger.’”

    The Journal says “Ms. Omarova believes capital and credit should be directed by an unaccountable bureaucracy,” a “National Investment Authority.” As comptroller, Ms. Omarova would oversee 1,200 banks and savings institutions. The Journal says “she would have sweeping powers to punish banks that don’t follow her diktats. Recall how financial regulators during the Obama Presidency pressured banks to cut off credit to pay-day lenders.”

    Omarova prefers Soviet-era centralized pay scales.

    “Until I came to the U.S., I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old U.S.S.R., there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best,’” she said in 2019.

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has expressed “strong opposition” to Omarova. “Her pursuit of policy proposals expressed in her academic writings are outside the mainstream of either major political party and, if implemented, would lead to a near complete government takeover of banking,” said the Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Vice President.

    Omarova’s outlook is shared by increasing numbers of progressives. A 2018 Gallup survey found that most Democrats have a positive view of socialism, but not capitalism. In 2019, the California Democratic Convention booed former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), when he said “Socialism is not the answer.” In 2018 and 2020, Democratic primary voters replaced several Democratic legislators with avowed socialists in safe Democratic seats. One example is the self-described “Democratic Socialist” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

    Socialist policies would cost taxpayers a lot. The progressive website Vox estimated in 2018 that the “Democratic Socialism” agenda would cost more than $42 trillion over ten years. That’s more than $10 trillion larger than the size of America’s existing national debt.

    Even so, that massive figure is almost certainly an underestimate. The $42 trillion calculation doesn’t include the cost of the Green New Deal, which has been endorsed by Democratic Socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris. Sanders, who chairs the Senate’s Budget Committee, is very popular and influential among Democrats — he narrowly lost the 2016 Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton, and came in second in the 2020 Democratic Primary.

    Researchers say the Green New Deal would cost at least $50 trillion, and perhaps more than $90 trillion — four times the size of the entire U.S. economy, and more than three times the size of America’s national debt. Key elements of the Green New Deal could actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to energy experts like Michael Shellenberger and Thomas J. Pyle, by paying for unnecessary construction that results in pollution, and by shutting down power plants that don’t even emit carbon dioxide but are needed for the stability of the power grid.

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• TrangBang68 March 28, 2022, 8:05 PM

  Of all the new fake Orwellian lingo out there, the word “influencer” literally turns my stomach

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  • Auntie Analogue March 28, 2022, 8:11 PM

    My dear TrangBang68, “influencer” is a euphemism for shill.

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    • gwbnyc March 29, 2022, 8:21 AM

      code for a Maynard Krebs “WORK??!!!”

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• Jack March 29, 2022, 6:45 AM

  Indeed! That twat should do the US and China a favor and move to China. He’s a useful idiot in both locales and a damned fine one, too.

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• Mike Austin March 29, 2022, 6:57 AM

  Nothing really new here. Since her murderous inception in 1949 everything put out by Communist China—and those who claim that “China is no longer communist” don’t know a damn thing about China or communism—has been a lie. In those 73 years 100,000,000 Chinese were put to death by their own government. That’s 1,400,000 a year or almost 4000 every day. Of course they monitor foreigners, especially those simpleton YouTube “influencers” and their sub-IQ fanbois.

  These drooling idiots know as much about China as I do about Alpha Centauri. They are the same fools and knaves that today rave about Ukraine and who have transformed its Globohomo sodomite weirdo and nude pole dancing “president” into some sort of Hercules.

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• Dirk March 29, 2022, 8:20 AM

  When you speak the language of your enemy, you have become, one of them!

  This new hip slang is the language of my enemy. Their meanings are entirely different than my childhood understanding of basic communications.

  “ Their” Words mostly do not mean the same as we were taught. Their hip words are in fact a coded message.

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• Dirk March 29, 2022, 10:15 AM

  Our abusers sold us out for chump change. They ALL profited left and right.

  And the shit show “Ukraines” still on, expert analysis, from the finest prostitutes money can buy.

  I’d almost rather listen to blog daddies and their special insider knowledge.

  Do you not see the likeness?

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• Gordon Scott March 29, 2022, 4:03 PM

  I’ve followed this video maker for a while. He and his friend lived and worked in China for years. But it was made increasingly clear that they would not be allowed to produce videos that the CCP didn’t like, so they left.

  “Influencers.” Yeah, pretty much. And they will do anything, promote any message, for a plane ticket and a hotel room. It kind of reminds me of how Sean Hannity, among others, was invited on a press junket to Israel. Of course they were toured to all of the famous sites, but they were also wined and dined by the PM, Netanyahu.

  I haven’t listened to Hannity in years, but I’m sure he’s still babbling on about His Close Personal Friend Bibi.

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• ErisGuy April 2, 2022, 2:58 AM

  How much longer until we learn for sure who is right and who is wrong?

  Either the government can spend one hundred trillion dollars or it can’t.
  Either an unaccountable government bureaucracy (in the EU or DC) can micromanage all of life, of it can’t.
  Either a society of 40%, 50% LGBTQP+ can thrive, or it can’t.

  I’m sure two thousand years ago, people wondered if the world could survive without Jupiter (not the planet). They were wrong.

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